Publishing Newsbiology / book-covers / female orgasm / France / gender / History / Penguin Classics4 Comments
The Fascinating, Complicated Art of Designing a Book Cover – An interview with Penguin Classics’ Creative Director Paul Buckley, in which he discusses different aspects of the cover design process. I’ve always loved the Penguin Classic covers, and Buckley notes that the challenge with those books is to refigure a book ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsactress / autobiography / France / Historical / non-fiction / Paris7 Comments
Back in print for the first time in decades, the delectable escapades of Hollywood legend Olivia de Havilland, who fell in love with a Frenchman—and then became a Parisian In 1953, Olivia de Havilland—already an Academy Award-winning actress for her roles in To Each His Own and The Heiress—became the ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews17th-century / Biography / France / marriage / mistress / ParisComments Off on REVIEW: The Hurlyburly’s Husband by Jean Teule
A man, his wife – and the King that came between them. The Marquis de Montespan and his new wife, Athenais, are a true love-match – a rarity amongst the nobility of seventeenth-century France. But love is not enough to maintain their hedonistic lifestyle. When Madame de Montespan is offered ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews1930s / class-difference / estranged family / family relationships / France / Historical / older heroine and hero / pre-WWII4 Comments
TRIGGER WARNING – One derogatory reference likening someone who is cheap to being like Jews. Set in 1930s France, Margery Sharp’s witty, warm-hearted novel tells the story of a free-spirited mother who is reunited with her very proper daughter after sixteen years, when her daughter asks her to inspect her ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsbookseller / coma patient / Contemporary / France / hidden identity / Paris4 Comments
Heroic bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street. There’s nothing in the bag to indicate who it belongs to, although there’s all sorts of other things in it. Laurent feels a strong impulse to find the owner and tries to puzzle together who she might ... more >
D ReviewsCathars / Contemporary / dual-timeline / France / Historical / Knights Templar / medieval / mystery / reincarnation / time slip12 Comments
Historian Lia Carrer has finally returned to southern France, determined to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. But instead of finding solace in the region’s quiet hills and medieval ruins, she falls in love with Raoul, a man whose very existence challenges everything she knows about life–and ... more >
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