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On Translation: Sharing a New View

Le French Book is happy to welcome Jeffrey Zuckerman on board. He’ll be translating the third book in the Paris Homicide series. Yes, we are busy at work translating new stories about Chief of Police Nico Sirsky and his team of elite crime fighters keeping the streets of Paris safe. We can’t wait to get sequels to The 7th Woman out to readers. I asked Jeffrey to talk to us a little bit about translation. Here’s his post.

Jeffrey Zuckerman on Translation

Translation, I keep thinking, is the last...

Snapshot of the 2014 Winter French Publishing Season

The French have two main publishing seasons, or rentrées littéraires, one in fall and one in winter.With the winter 2014 French publishing season nearing, here’s a quick snapshot of what’s coming out in France, according to trade magazineLivres Hebdo.

French publishers are publishing 4% more books than last year.
547 new books will be published in France in January and February.
There will be 3% fewer translations in this batch.
The number of French novels in the batch increased by 8%.
There are 6...

French Mystery and Thriller Book Fairs

Here is a list of upcoming book fairs for anyone who wants to add another kind of experience to their time in France. The focus here, of course, is mysteries and thrillers.

December 7-8: Salon du livre du Perche in Soligny-La-Trappe, in the northwest. There will be 50 French writers of all kinds at this book fair.
December 7-8: Boulogne-Billancourt Book Fair. This town is right near Paris and you can get there on the metro. Pierre LeMaître is signing on Saturday.
February 8-9, 2014:Salon Polar-E...

More Consortium Thrillers in the Works

Top French thriller writer David Khara – ©Ouest-France

Following The Bleiberg Project by David Khara, we aretranslating two more thrillers in the Consortium series. The three titles are crammed with action and conspiracy inspired by World War II.The trilogy juggles with time and place in a potent mix constructed around flashbacks that allow readers to piece together key events. But chase scenes, gunfights and explosions are only one part of the story. “The main theme of the whole series is res...

How to Survive the Holidays

The holidays are here! And may they be happy for everyone.

Here’s our advice on how to survive them.

For holiday-goers snowed in at the airport, a whodunit from the Winemaker Detective series offers a perfect escape. Treachery in Bordeaux by Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noël Balen takes readers on a journey to French wine country with a lot of gourmet attitude.


Digesting turkey on the couch improves with an adrenaline-pumping read such as The Bleiberg Project by David Khara. It’s an action-packed ride...

New Book Covers

Some of you may have noticed. We just changed a couple of our book covers. Here’s a glimpse.

Treachery in Bordeaux

We changed this one to make it consistent with the two upcoming books in the Winemaker Detective series:Grand Cru Heist andNightmare in Burgundy.

The 7th Woman

We gave this police procedural a new cover to see what impact something lighter would have.

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Mega Blog Tour for The Greenland Breach

Find out more about our new release onThe Greenland Breach’s mega blog tour. There are nuggets of information about spying, climate change, writing, translating and much more. And don’t miss the giveaways.

Many thanks to the bloggers for spreading the word and sharing our enthusiasm, and thanks to France Book Tours for organizing a number of these stops. Please support them by visiting their blogs.

About spying and the book

At Thriller Central, Bernard Besson talks about business intelligence an...

The Greenland Breach Eco-Thriller Now Available

A cracking ice cap, rival multinationals, cutthroat espionage…

The Greenland Breach ebook is now available.

Bestselling thriller writer Jon Land says, “Bernard Besson takes the eco-thriller to a new level in his spectacular novel.” This stylish cli-fi spy novel has environmental catastrophe, geopolitical fallout, freelance spies and Bond-like action.

Read it now

Read excerpt

The Battle for Knowledge

Prizewinning thriller writer and former French intelligence officer Bernard Besson says, “Today, kee...

Bernard Besson on Global Warming

Bernard Besson, a prizewinning thriller writer and former top-level French intelligence officer, talks to us aboutThe Greenland Breach, a novel about the real consequences of global warming. It’s got a cracking ice cap, rival multinationals and cutthroat espionage. Available in translation next week.

Why did you write this global warming thriller?

I had questions about global warming and its consequences, just like my readers do, and I wanted to entertain readers with a good story.

What surprise...

Le French Book Inks Deal on Print Books

Now that our e-book program is running smoothly, it is time to get our books into print, and to do soLe French Book is partnering with Ingram Publisher Services for our print book program.

As our fans know, ourgoal is to expand a book’s reach, not choose between digital and paper. For us, e-books pave the way to all other formats.We are translating prizewinning, international bestsellers that are in English for the first time. They are great stories with pace and suspense and good writing, alo...