Tag: Françoise Sagan

• The best books of 2015

  

  My apologies for the mixture of photos in this post – I have lent out some of the books featured so wasn’t able to take a nice photo of them and had to find images of the covers online. Not ideal, but there you go…   Somehow 2015 is over, and I have naturally been […]

  Lizzi

  January 1, 2016

  Fiction, Non-Fiction, Reviews

  19th Century, 2015, 20th Century, Adam Nicolson, Alias Grace, Ben McIntyre, best books of the year, Bonjour Tristesse, Forgotten Fatherland, Françoise Sagan, GoodReads, Hangsaman, Homer, Margaret Atwood, Margot Mifflin, Robyn Davidson, Shirley Jackson, The Blue Tattoo, The Haunting of Hill House, The Mighty Dead, Tracks, Vicotrian, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

• Sagan, Paris 1954 by Anne Berest

  On the publisher’s website, Sagan, Paris 1954 is described as am “intimate narrative” and I think that is the best way to describe it. “Intimate” because it is a deeply personal book for the author, Anne Berest, and it explores her relationship with Francoise Sagan as a reader; and “narrative” because it tells a story. […]

  Lizzi

  December 15, 2015

  Non-Fiction, Reviews

  2015, 20th Century, Anne Berest, Françoise Sagan, Gallic Books, Non Fiction

• Sweet Francoise 

  I don’t remember the impetus behind my finally buying a copy of Bonjour Tristesse, but I’m glad I did. Honestly it sat on my shelf for a long time – there are too many new books! – but deciding to do TBR20 made me pick it up again. I have a beautiful PMC edition whose […]

  Lizzi

  March 29, 2015

  Fiction, Reviews

  20th Century, Bonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan, Penguin Modern Classics, PMC