Blogs in January 2023

The Dead Have Lots To Say 24th January 2023

In Paris, a bunch of famous dead people from various eras come back to life to meddle with today’s Parisians. Victor Hugo has a heated argument about love, Jim Morrison mocks a tattooed vegan, Marquis de Sade seeks punishment...

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The Art of Traveling Strangers 10th January 2023

THE ART OF TRAVELING STRANGERS takes place in the 1980s and is about an art history professor named Claire who experiences a series of devastating losses, making her desperate to escape her shattered reality by taking a job as...

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The Lady of the Camellias 28th December 2022

The landmark novel that inspired Verdi’s opera La Traviata, in a sparkling new translation “One of the greatest love stories of all time,” according to Henry James, and the inspiration for Verdi’s opera La Traviata, the Oscar-winning musical Moulin Rouge!,...

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The Godmother 19th December 2022

WINNER: EUROPEAN CRIME FICTION PRIZE WINNER: GRAND PRIX DE LITTÉRATURE POLICIÈRE Meet Patience Portefeux – 53 years old, widowed mother of two, fluent Arabic speaker, upstanding French citizen… and soon to become The Godmother. For 25 years she has...

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The London Seance Society 14th December 2022

May mercy be upon the man who finds himself the enemy of a vengeful medium… 1873. At an abandoned château on the outskirts of Paris, a dark séance is about to take place, led by acclaimed spiritualist Vaudeline D’Allaire....

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