We are Not Afraid: 2017
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Devastated by the series of terrorist attacks that killed 130 people - the deadliest attacks on...
Roland Barthes
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Roland Barthes (1915-1980) is one of France's most important writers and theorists of the second...
The Astronomer Jules Janssen
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A physicist and an inventor, Jules Janssen (1824-1907) devoted his life to astronomical research. He...
Casanova the Irresistible
Phillippe Sollers and Armine Kotin Mortimer
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His is a name synonymous with seduction. His was a life lived without limits. Giacomo Casanova left...
Catherine the Great
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The daughter of an impoverished aristocrat, Catherine was married aged 16 to Grand Duke Peter, heir...
David Mitchell: Back Story
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David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show except Never...
Dead Now of Course
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'My future mother-in-law burst into tears when she heard her son was to marry an actress. There's...
Eric Rohmer: A Biography
Antoine de Baecque, Noel Herpe, Steven Rendall and Lisa Neal
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The director of twenty-five films, including My Night at Maud's (1969), which was nominated for a...
Facing Unpleasant Facts: 1937-1939
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These years saw the publication of The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia, and Coming Up for...
Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
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Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Observer, The...