Are you in Paris and looking for a place for cooling down – and I am not talking of an ice cream parlour – then look no further. I have found such a place for you. It is 23 kms (14 miles) south-east of Paris and the RER D train will get you there […]
In our day and age with crime on the up and more and more prisons being constructed, a prison here in Paris has actually closed. It is La Santé – Maison d’arrêt de la Santé – last of Paris’s intra-muros jails. And along with Fresnes and Fleury-Mérogis one of Paris and its region largests. […]
My book DIE IN PARIS is now in the library of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. They described the book to me as constituting “an important contribution to our library”. I look on this as a great honour. Die in Paris is already in the research sector of Paris’s Shoah Memorial Museum. This too […]
If you are to visit Paris this summer you will see a high stone edifice in a small park in the very centre of the city. You will think there ought to be some more of it – it ought to be part of something – yet it will stand there all alone: […]
In a nutshell: The 2014 race consists of : 22 teams / 9 cyclists per team = 198 cyclists The teams are: Sky (English) AG2R-La Mondiale (French) FDJ (French) Cofidis (French) Bretagne-Séché (French) Europcar (French) Garmin (American) BMC (American) Trek (American) Movistar (Spanish) Katusha (Russian) Tinkoff (Russian) Astana (Kazakhstani) Belkin (Dutch) Cannondale (Italian) Lampre (Italian) […]
In 2011 I wrote about the ‘#Kalinka #Bamberski Case’ for the US-based true-crime site, #crimemagazine.com. I start the article as follows: In the early hours of the morning little happens in the town of Mulhouse. Mulhouse, of slightly over 110,000 inhabitants, is geographically in eastern France, in the region of Alsace, but it is often […]
Hélène Pastor ? Wojciech Janowski ? Monaco? Who among us ‘9 to 5’ folk working to have food on our table have ever heard these names? Monaco, yes, we have all heard of Monaco: the 0.78 sq miles (2.02 sq km) tax-free paradise nestling between France and the Mediterranean. Yes indeed we have heard of […]
-0- DIE IN PARIS – (True crime) – the story of Dr Marcel Petiot, WW 2 French serial killer. BELLA … A FRENCH LIFE – a novel set in Paris and the beautiful Normandy coast of France. BELLA … A FRENCH LIFE – THE COOKBOOK – recipes of the food the characters in the novel […]
I am sure that with every profession there are days when one has thoughts of not continuing. Perhaps this happens more often to writers because writing is a lone and lonely thing to do. Today I have had a wonderful review for my newest novel – For the Love of a Poet. The kind of review that […]
There is no escaping the fact that in three days – on June 6 – here in France the world (I suppose I can say ‘world’?) will be commemorating D-Day of 1944 when the Allied nations landed on France’s Normandy coast and chased the Germans from French soil which signalled the beginning of the end […]
It is impossible not to be aware that on Friday, June 6 this year (2014) we here in France, and Europe with us, will be commemorating the June 6, 1944 Allied landings on France’s Normandy coast. I will be writing more about D-Day 1944 in another piece, but today I want to speak of […]
Compliment a baker and his wife on their bread and cake and their faces will tell you how much your words mean to them. Compliment a writer on what he or she has written and you will make their day. My novel ‘For the Love of a Poet’ has had another wonderful review on Amazon. […]
The first review for my new novel ‘FOR THE LOVE OF A POET’ is on Amazon. Susan Keefe, one of Amazon’s top reviewers writes: Tanya Brodovskaya, had been infatuated with the poet Boris Petrovich Beretzkoy, for a long time, however, on that day, when he took her hands in his, their lives were about to […]
You have heard of the outrageous prices being asked for property in France? Yes, indeed, this is so, but the above house can be yours for €142,000. If you think in US$ it will be $194,000, and in UK£ it will be £115,000 – plus some dust. The property, a small holding is close to […]
Above is the cover of my new novel – For the Love of a Poet – which is set in the Soviet Union of the 1930s when Josef Stalin was in charge. The novel’s narrator –Tanya – is a young copy editor on PRAVDA in Moscow when she meets a dissident poet – Beretzkoy – […]
