Dr Tony Shaw

Brantwood, Coniston, Cumbria. Not the most brilliant photo of an author's home I've ever taken, but there we are. The original bu...

Temple Sowerby Manor, Cumbria. O riginally called Acorn Bank, t his building dates from around 1600 but was much renovated in about 1745 ...

After a drunken and near-fatal fall from a building, the writer Sylvain Tesson spent four months recovering. He chose an unconventional f...

It hardly seems possible to mention Guy Mazeline's Les Loups  without also mentioning the fact that Mazeline triumphed in the 1932 Go...

Following L'Ombre, le fleuve, lété (1983), Michel Host's second novel Valet de nuit (1986) won the Goncourt in the year of pub...

Didier Decoin's apocalyptic, Goncourt-winning  John l'Enfer is set in a New York of stark contrasts in fortune, now a faded glor...

Creezy –  obviously a distortion of the English word 'crazy', and the same title of which was used in the English translation – i...

Georges Conchon wrote the 1964 Goncourt-winning novel L'État sauvage – translated into English as The Savage State – after he had b...

Jean Rouaud's Les Champs d'honneur  was his first novel, and he won the Goncourt with it. Reading back over the immensely enthusi...

Marie Redonnet's Mobie-Diq , particularly with its hyphenation, obviously calls to mind Herman Melville's Moby-Dick , as well as...

Hill Top, Near Sawrey (Sawrey consisting of the hamlets Near Sawrey and Far Sawrey). This is the farm the very successful Beatrix Potter ...