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Carnival of the Animals
25/09/2014

Carnival of the Animals

Camille Saint-Saëns’ masterpiece as conceived by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. The book you are about to read naturally has a tale to tell, but it is a tale which, rather than accompanying the mu...

Love’s Poison
24/09/2014

Love’s Poison

Four teenagers enter into a pact of eternal friendship and keep a diary of their impatience and their desires, their conquests and their dreams. How can they avoid the sentimental disasters evidenced ...

The Elixir of Love
04/04/2014

The Elixir of Love

Is love just a chemical process or is it a spiritual miracle? Is there an infallible way of making someone fall in love – like the potion that once united Tristan and Isolde – or, on the c...

Einstein’s Betrayal
20/12/2013

Einstein’s Betrayal

On the banks of a lake in New Jersey, two oddballs meet and strike up a friendship. One is Albert Einstein; the other, a vagrant and a drop-out.

25/09/2013

For 15 years in the inter-war period, the legendary couple formed by Sacha Guitry and Yvonne Printemps reigned unchallenged in Paris and throughout the world.

The Parrots of the Place d'Arezzo
03/08/2013

The Parrots of the Place d'Arezzo

"These words just to say I love you. Signed: you know who."

Un homme trop facile
05/12/2012

Un homme trop facile

Actor adored by the public, Alex, the pleasant and tolerant man, gets ready to come on stage for the "première" of Misanthrope when Alceste

Two Gentlemen of Brussels
17/10/2012

Two Gentlemen of Brussels

"In love, you think there are two of you, when in fact there are three." In the same vein as?Concerto to the Memory of an Angel, The Dreamer of Ostend and Odette Toulemonde..

Les dix enfants que madame Ming n'a jamais eus.
22/03/2012

Les dix enfants que madame Ming n'a jamais eus.

Part VI in the Cycle de l'Invisible. Out on 5th April 2012.Madam Ming likes to talk about her ten children, who live scattered across China's vast land mass. Is she making it up, in the country of th...

La femme au miroir.
13/07/2011

La femme au miroir.

The Woman in the Mirror.Event – Literary rentrée 2011In the bookshops 18 August 2011Three women. Three centuries. But is she the same one?

Quand je pense que Beethoven est mort alors que tant de crétins vivent.
16/09/2010

Quand je pense que Beethoven est mort alors que tant de crétins vivent.

Ulysses from Bagdad
13/09/2010

Ulysses from Bagdad

"My name is Saad Saad, which means Hope Hope in Arabic..."