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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…

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s
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…

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s
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 13, 2016

Paris Street Tales edited by Helen Constantine

Reviewed by Harriet I live in rural France, and visit Paris from time to time, generally rather briefly. I’m beginning to get the hang…

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…

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