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Lissa Oliver: “Chantilly Dawns”
Hi Lissa, could you please describe yourself in five words? Addicted and passionate for writing! What can you tell us about “Chantilly Dawns“? It was written as a psychological drama, exploring a...
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Hot on the shelves…
My latest novel, Métaphore du rapide, has just hit the shelves. I wrote this one in French, so it is only published in France for the moment. The story is based on a rafting expedition I took part in...
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Métaphore du rapide vient de sortir!
Mon dernier roman, Métaphore du rapide, vient d’etre publié par les Editions Velours. En Australie du Nord, une expédition de rafting est confrontée à une descente de rapides difficile et dangereuse,...
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Little White Lies
I recently asked a friend of mine if he wanted to go and see a French movie, and his answer was, “I’d love to, but to be honest I am not very keen on French movies. They have no plot.” I went to see...
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Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey
Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey, was nominated for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. It is loosely based on Alexis de Tocqueville‘s journey in America. Tocqueville was a French aristocrat who in...
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Ajaccio, Corsica, a jewel in the Mediterranean
I had been to Corsica before, but only to the Northern part of the island: Cap Corse, Calvi, Bastia, and the mountains inside the island, but never to the South. I spent a few hours in Ajaccio last...
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Flowers in Lorraine, France
It’s funny how sometimes you are so used to seeing things that your eyes just glaze over them. Going back to Lorraine in North East France last summer – which is where I grew up – I rode my bike...
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The Equation of Love and Death (李米的猜想)
I have decided that contemporary French and Chinese movies have quite a bit in common. This includes people smoking all the time and yelling at each other every five minutes or so. There’s also a fair...
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The Women on the 6th Floor
In the 60′s in Paris, a very conservative couple is faced with a group of Spanish maids who live on the 6th (and last) floor of the building owned by the very same couple. A new maid turns up to work...
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The Killer Koala, by Kenneth Cook
Kenneth Cook is an Australian writer who was fascinated by the bush and died in 1987. A friend of mine gave me the French edition of The Killer Koala, published one year before Cook’s passing. I...
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