May 27, 2021 Reviewer’s Choice: Twentieth Century Paris (1900-1950) – A Literary Guide for Travellers by Marie-José Gransard While Shiny New Books concentrates on the new, occasionally, we give our reviewers room to share previously published – ie: ‘not Shiny New Books’…
August 23, 2018 City of Light by Rupert Christiansen Reviewed by Karen Langley The city of Paris exerts an eternal fascination; chic and glamorous, the haunt of revolutionaries and intellectuals, and stuffed with…
July 11, 2017 Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s by Anne Sebba Reviewed by Helen Parry Among the many people Anne Sebba interviewed for this book was the playwright Jean-Claude Grumberg. During the German occupation of…
May 17, 2017 Q&A with Anne Sebba, author of Les Parisiennes Helen: Hello Anne! Let me first say that I was bowled over by Les Parisiennes – it’s a real tour de force of narrative…
October 22, 2014 The Smile Revolution by Colin Jones Reviewed by Harriet I must admit I was initially drawn to this book by the lovely painting on the cover, a self-portrait by the…
