Tag: Books
Best literary sales: the great return of yesterday’s bestsellers
It’s amazing, how readers fuse on “safe” values. Not content with acclaiming the winners of the autumn grand prizes (Giuliano da Empoli, 270,000 copies sold of Kremlin Magethe live fast…
Pierre Lemaitre and Didier Decoin: books not to be missed
Silence and Anger By Pierre Lemaitre. Calmann-Lévy, 579 pages, €23.90. The rating of L’Express: 3/5 (in bookstores on January 10) Before resetting the counters, let’s recall a key figure from…
Literature: Rouda, the power of words and the strength of commitment
/ Podcasts / In person(s) Between Belleville and La Brousse, Ben is looking for his place. He goes through the 1990s, the upheavals of the world and the social struggles…
Andreï Makine, Véronique Ovaldé and Raphaël Haroche, books not to be missed
The Old Calendar of a Love By Andrei Makine. Grasset, 198 pages, €19.50. The rating of L’Express: 3/5 (in bookstores on January 11) If Andreï Makine abandons the Siberia of…
Dany Laferrière: “The African-American was not born in Africa, he may never even have been there”
There are delicate subjects, such as racism, an area where “a simple word can explode in your face like a grenade”. The Canadian-Haitian academician Dany Laferrière knows this well, so…
Portugal between past greatness and duty to remember
/ Podcasts / international book In 2024, Portugal will celebrate 50 years of the Carnation Revolution, which overthrew the authoritarian Salazarist regime and ushered the country into a democratic era.…
Best-selling novelist Françoise Bourdin has died
The successful novelist Françoise Bourdin, one of the most read in France with more than 15 million books sold, died Sunday at the age of 70, announced this Monday, December…
Elena Gianini Belotti, Italian pioneer of gender and intersectionality
She is remembered for a single book, On the side of the little girls, which was also his first, published in France in 1974 by Éditions des femmes, which printed…
Death of French novelist Françoise Bourdin at the age of 70
Best-selling novelist Françoise Bourdin, one of the most widely read authors in France with more than 15 million books sold, died on Sunday December 25. Françoise Bourdin, born in 1952…
Literacy Lambton gives away 3,787 books this Christmas
A project providing presents of books for children and youth in the Sarnia area at Christmas had another successful year. Literacy Lambton’s 2022 Give-a-Book campaign was able to deliver 3,787…