Nicolas Bokov

In 1991, Nicolas Bokov’s return to Marburg (Germany) – “the city of his happiness and drama” – where, in 1982, the decisive “event” of his lifetime took place, revives this intensely powerfull experience for him. From Grande-Chartreuse via Switzerland, the Rhine plateau and Alsace, he wanders on...

Caroline Riegel

Bernard Ollivier

Bernard Ollivier reveals France to us as a land of adventure, both physical and human. He describes places that are near by, yet full of beauty, silence and danger. Ten years after his "Long March" trilogy (more than 300,000 copies sold), which described his foot journey along the Silk Road at the...

Sylvain Tesson

"Checking the Door Opposite" brings together two collections of Sylvain Tesson’s short stories, published by Phébus in 2002 and 2004, "Nouvelles de l’Est" (“News from the East”) and "Les jardins d’Allah" (“The Gardens of Allah”). In all twenty stories or so, whether he’s describing post-Soviet...

Collectif

Seventeen tales of crazy love, of passion lived out by twentieth-century artists right up to the present day, including the love story that lead to actress Marie Trintignant’s tragic end at the hands of rock singer Bertrand Cantat. The ravishment and ravages of a sentiment that united, inspired or...