Anniversary tributes for Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources author April 18 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Marcel Pagnol’s death. Commemorations celebrating his life and work are taking place around the country
Six things that show the French love for books and reading To mark France’s national day for independent bookshops on April 15, we take a look at what helps foster the country’s love of literature
Books with a link to France November 2022 - The 20 minute review We read recent releases with a link to France. To be fair, each gets 20 minutes’ reading time Books with a link to France October 2022 - The 20 minute review How reading Annie Ernaux will help you understand France Jules Verne: the hidden story of France’s first science fiction writer
France buys Marquis de Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom manuscript The ‘national treasure’ and shocking work of 18th-century fiction, written on a 12-metre-long scroll, has been bought with corporate sponsorship for a public library in Paris
'I am the novelist I am because of Carcassonne' Novelist Kate Mosse speaks about Carcassonne and her second novel in a series set there during the Wars of Religion
Tracy Chevalier takes part in literary weekly talk Author of the popular “Girl with a Pearl Earring” novel, Tracy Chevalier, is to be a guest on the online Franco-British literary festival on Friday June 5.
Enjoy Languedoc Trilogy author talk Popular novelist, Kate Mosse is the guest in this Friday’s online series of talks with authors organised for the confinement period by the Franco-British literary festival, Festilitt.
Franco-British literary festival’s lockdown events A weekly literary treat open to all during the confinement period has been set up by the organisers of an acclaimed annual Franco-British literary festival.
Life and times of ‘world’s first’ radical feminist The Connexion celebrates one of France’s inspirational intellectual figures, who helped shape a global shift in political thinking in the Sixties and Seventies, but who is still defined by her relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre...
French food notes - June 2019 In our series providing a sideways look at French food, we examine the close ties between food and literature
‘British literati can look down at crime writing’ Scottish crime author Peter May briefly puts his pen down to speak to The Connexion about writing inspiration, the importance of research, British literary snobbery, and life in rural Lot...
Unorthodox literary heroine 19th-century France needed The extraordinary, liberated, freewheeling, cross-dressing, and affair-ridden life and times of noted novelist George Sand would have made a book in its own right. The Connexion finds out more... Vagabond poet who found his way with words Peter Mayle, author of A Year in Provence, dies age 78 Read Madame Bovary writer’s own letters
1817: a great year for... Macron appoints author as French language champion Victor Hugo’s ‘work of art’ on Guernsey to get revamp Festilitt: The little literary festival that could Labrador Tag Feed Labrador Tag Feed