I fell in love with wild, beautiful Cévennes in south-central France Award-winning US poet Zaro Weil on why this remote part of France is a major inspiration for her work
Interview: Guillaume Musso, the top-selling French author inspired by Agatha Christie Bestselling author talks about genre-defying page turners and what makes his readers keep coming back for more
‘Book about life with my dog touched so many people’ We speak to Cédric Sapin-Defour, author of the surprise bestseller which describes in lyrical language the relationship between him and his dog, Ubac
magazine Six books to read about moving to France for a new life You should be able to empathise with their experiences
How reading Annie Ernaux will help you understand France The French author has just been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, having been commended for the unflinching gaze with which she beholds French society
Ken Follett visits Brittany cathedral he is helping to restore The Welsh author used book royalties to help fund renovations at the building whose name pays reference to a monk from Cardiff
Jules Verne: the hidden story of France’s first science fiction writer Family turmoil, ill health and hurtful rejection by literary peers plagued a life that was still full of travel and adventure
‘The richness of this French life is always in my books’ International journalist Martin Walker speaks about how life in rural France is as interesting as times spent in capital cities with world leaders
‘I knew I would be an actress but writing was my private ambition’ She was well-known as an actress before making her name as an author, but Carol Drinkwater says writing was always her first love
UK author Ken Follett donates €150,000 to Brittany cathedral The writer of The Pillars of the Earth has sold the copyright to his novel Notre-Dame , to contribute to a €2.4 million restoration project of a key gothic cathedral in France
New Chocolat book + interview with author The fourth novel in Joanne Harris’s Chocolat series has just come out in paperback. The writer spoke to Jane Hanks about her writing, her French/British background and the influence of France and her French family on her work.
Enjoy Languedoc Trilogy author talk Popular novelist, Kate Mosse is the guest in this Friday’s online series of talks with authors organised for the confinement period by the Franco-British literary festival, Festilitt.
Petit Prince writer’s château bought by French region The childhood château of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, author of much-loved French book Le Petit Prince , has been bought by the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, for a €30 million project.
French cultural life - September 2018 A round-up of news, and those creating ‘le buzz’ in French cultural life
Peter Mayle, author of A Year in Provence, dies age 78 Peter Mayle, the British author of the much-loved bestseller A Year in Provence , has died near his home in the South of France, aged 78, after a short illness.
Author brings comic clarity to serious science Marion Montaigne uses comic books to address weighty matters for her teenage readership
Art de vivre that freed Meades Jessica Knipe leaves no cultural box unticked with writer Jonathan Meades in Marseille
Festilitt: The little literary festival that could Girl with a Pearl Earring author Tracy Chevalier will head a list of writers at a Franco-British literary festival in October.
Real-life romcom, complete with Provençal happy ending Author Kristin Espinasse's journey from Arizona to Provence has all the ingredients of a hit chick-lit novel
The accidental novelist Award-winning journalist Fiona Barton reveals she planned to put writing on the backburner when she and her husband moved to France
From Russia to the Périgord with love Rarely has a Brit been so well integrated into French society as Martin Walker , author of the Bruno, Chief of Police series. Jessica Knipe visits him at home in Le Bugue to talk Brexit, basset hounds and truffled brie
