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French Literature encompasses works written in French, including novels, short stories, poetry and essays, that explore the ideas, culture and stylistic nuances distinctive to French and Francophone writing. From canonical figures to recent voices in autofiction, post colonial expression, and contemporary currents of existential or nihilistic thought shaping today’s narratives, French-language writers are still breaking the mould.

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Surface Olivier Norek Review

August 28, 2026 Guest Contributor 0
In Olivier Norek’s latest crime thriller, Surface, translated by Nick Caistor, the French author demonstrates the distinctive skill required to construct a top-notch police procedural. Genre writing demands a set pact with the reader that […]
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Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month

June 28, 2026 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month
This month’s Top 5 Books from around the world takes in five distinct voices embracing sun-baked Mediterranean islands, surreal, tech-fused futures and witchy woods among other places, as they go behind the masks we wear […]
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Angst Hélène Cixous Review

March 17, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off on Angst Hélène Cixous Review
Hélène Cixous is best known in the Anglophone world for her 1976 essay The Laugh of the Medusa (Le Rire de la Méduse) — published in English one year later — in which she laid […]
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Venice Requiem Khalid Lyamlahy Review

February 2, 2026 Guest Contributor Comments Off on Venice Requiem Khalid Lyamlahy Review
Khalid Lyamlahy’s Venice Requiem, out with HopeRoad’s imprint Small Axes in four days’ time,  impeccably translated by Ros Schwartz, is a novel based on the true story of Pateh Sabally, a twenty-two-year-old Gambian refugee. In […]
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Zombie Proust Jérôme Prieur Review

December 16, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Zombie Proust Jérôme Prieur Review
Marcel Proust may have died over a century ago, but his legacy endures. Readers are still captivated by the way À la recherche du Temps Perdu redefined modern literature; by how Proust shows the drama […]
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The Winter Warriors Olivier Norek Review

September 14, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on The Winter Warriors Olivier Norek Review
The Winter Warriors by Olivier Norek, beautifully translated by Nick Caistor, is based on the conflict between Finland and the Soviet Union known as the Winter War. Norek draws on genuine battles and hardships which […]
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Fractured France Andrew Hussey Review

September 8, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on Fractured France Andrew Hussey Review
Fractured France: A Journey Through a Divided Nation is Andrew Hussey’s latest exploration of French culture and history, published by Granta Books on 11 September. A patchwork of memoir, interviews, cultural references, historic context and […]
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Olivier Norek in conversation with Andrey Kurkov, French Institute UK, News & Events

August 28, 2025 Ben F Comments Off on Olivier Norek in conversation with Andrey Kurkov, French Institute UK, News & Events
We look forward to seeing you at the French Institute on 16 September, when Olivier Norek will be in conversation with Andrey Kurkov. We featured Andrey Kurkov’s Grey Bees at our first BookBlast book club […]

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