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#1954Club: She Who Was No More by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac

April 24, 2022April 24, 2022 BookerTalk 18 Comments French authors, Pierre Boileau, psychological thrillers, Thomas Narcejac

She Who Was No More was the first psychological thriller from the writing duo of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac

Fear by Gabriel Chevallier — indictment of “heroic” warfare

December 2, 2021December 2, 2021 BookerTalk 17 Comments Erich Maria Remarque, French authors, Gabriel Chevallier, World War 1

The decades following the end of World War 1 saw a boom in publication of war literature and memoirs as survivors

Maigret In Court by Georges Simenon – the essence of justice?

November 12, 2021December 24, 2021 BookerTalk 28 Comments crime fiction, French authors, Georges Simenon, Novellas in November

NovellasinNovember provided the perfect opportunity to renew my acquaintance with Georges Simenon’s pipe-smoking French detective, Commissaire Jules Maigret. First published

Pot Luck by Emile Zola — the stench of hypocrisy

July 31, 2021December 23, 2021 BookerTalk 17 Comments Emile Zola, French authors, Paris setting, Rougon-Macquet novels

Adulterers, hypocrites, snobs. Emile Zola’s Pot Luckreveals the secret world of the middle-class inhabitants of a Parisienne apartment block, showing

Woods at Ardennes, setting of Three Days and A Life by Pierre Lemaitre

Three Days And A Life by Pierre Lemaitre: a lifetime of guilt

April 16, 2021December 23, 2021 BookerTalk 13 Comments French authors, Pierre Lemaitre

Three Days And A Life was a book that almost left the house unread. I’d read a previous novel by

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