Many see France as one of the best countries in the world – steeped in history and culture, with areas both rustic and modern, it’s likely that every expat will find something they’re looking for in France. Here are three of our favourite places. St Tropez Located in the much-admired southern area of […]
I’ve had guests who refused to drink water from my taps. I told them that they can safely do so: I’ve been doing so for scores of years, and I am still alive. But no, they would not. I know that when I arrived in France, I, too, asked whether one could safely drink […]
It is official … French men and woman take to sex as the nationals of other countries take to brushing their teeth. Therefore, to the French sex comes naturally, and it is necessary, and it is to be done every day and even more than once a day. And, the choice of toothbrush and […]
THE COVER OF MY NEXT BOOK — THE NOVEL ‘FOR THE LOVE OF A POET’
From the back cover: It is a spring night in Paris. The most beautiful city in the world is dark and silent. Uncertainty devils the air. As does normality: war time normality. The Nazis’ Swastika flutters from the Eiffel Tower. The Parisians are huddled indoors. Suddenly the night’s stillness is shattered by sirens and […]
I wish to draw your attention to an excellent piece about the shooting of Iraqi-born British national Saad Al-Hilli, his wife, his mother-in-law and Frenchman Sylvain Mollier. The Al-Hilli’s eldest daughter, just seven years old, was shot too but she had survived. You can read the piece here on the site BoomanTribune. Its writer, known […]
Read this wonderful review my novel, BELLA … A FRENCH LIFE, has received. (ebook - paperback) The scent of love and trust, February 15, 2014 By Layne flint – Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Bella…A French Life (Kindle Edition) This is a holiday book, that is to say, you do not need […]
Russia is in the news: bright lights and happy, smiling people. However, do you remember the Soviet Union, Arch Enemy No. 1? Do you remember the Cold War years? And the Iron Curtain so named by Winston Churchill? Do the names Lenin and Trotsky mean anything to you? The names Khrushchev and Brezhnev? What about […]
The book site askdavid.com is featuring my novel ‘Bella … A French Life’. You can view it here Beautiful Saint Michael’s Mount (Mont Saint Michel) where part of the novel takes place. And beautiful Paris … where the other part of the novel takes place. And then there is […]
It has never been a secret that the French find having sex as normal an activity as dunking their croissant in their morning bowl of coffee. And they have a croissant each morning with their first cup of petit noir – their espresso. So, here in France we have had a president die in the […]
Here follows an Amazon.com review of my true-crime Die in Paris. -0- Die in Paris by author Marilyn Z Tomlins Review by: Louise McDermott, Publishing Manager, Lingua Franca Publishers To read this book is a must for all true-crime readers. I highly recommend this true-crime. Why would I be […]
Once it was said that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Living in Paris in a high-rise apartment and therefore looking down on and into numerous apartments I know that it is not unusual for the man in the household to do the cooking here in France. Therefore, the way to […]
The publication of my next book, a cookbook, is imminent. The raison d’être of this little book is the dozens and dozens of emails my publisher Dave Lyons and I have received from readers of my novel Bella … A French Life published in the last days of 2013. Your novel is making me so […]
It is an ooh la la story! It’s been passing from mouth to ear to mouth for some months now, but the French edition of CLOSER magazine, in its No. 448 S of 11/24 January, 2014, has now told the people of this country what is being said. It is that President François Hollande, elected […]
It’s such a great feeling when a writer receives a good review, and right now I am experiencing that feeling. The reason: Top-ranking Amazon.com reviewer – Susan Keefe – has just reviewed my latest book, the novel ‘Bella … A French Life’. Do read what she has to say […]
