Fact in fiction: What’s that wine?
We’re polishing off the translation of Treachery in Bordeaux by Jean-Pièrre Alaux and Noël Balen right now and I thought it would be fun to share a wine-tasting scene. Here, our hero, the winemaker...
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Armchair travel: fiction, setting and France
With a name like Le French Book, you might imagine that setting is key in our choice of books to translate. It’s true that all our books take place in France or have some key connection to France, in...
View ArticleTreachery in Bordeaux available [UPDATED]
We can’t wait to make Treachery in Bordeaux, our new book by Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noël Balen, available for your Kindle, Nook or iPad. So we put it on today! Keep your eyes peeled to be the first to...
View ArticleThe Winemaker Detective’s Guide to Wining and Dining – Toulouse
In Treachery in Bordeaux by Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noël Balen, the hero, winemaker detective Benjamin Cooker, is a revered and feared wine critic, author of The Cooker Guide. For the launch of this...
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Winemaker Detective’s Guide to Wining and Dining 2 – A Wine from Bordeaux
Here is another wining and dining post from the winemaker detective Benjamin Cook, wine critic and hero of Treachery in Bordeaux by Jean-Pierre Alaux and Noël Balen. We got some exclusive material from...
View ArticleThe Winemaker Detective’s Guide to Wining and Dining 3 – Bordeaux
Once again, Benjamin Cooker, the winemaker detective hero of Treachery in Bordeaux gives us a restaurant recommendation, this time in Bordeaux itself (thanks to the authors Jean-Pierre and Noël). Le...
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The Winemaker Detective’s Guide to Wining and Dining 4 – A Parisian Market
We’re keeping with our Treachery in Bordeaux theme this week, adding another recommendation from that book’s hero Benjamin Cooker, wine critic and author of the Cooker Guide. Many thanks to the authors...
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The Winemaker Detective’s Guide to Wining and Dining: Alsace
Here is another recommendation from the Winemaker Detective, Benjamin Cooker, thanks to Noël Balen and Jean-Pierre Alaux. Welcome to Alsace. Yes, a future book in the series does take place there....
View ArticleThe journey through the pages is not to be rushed
In the winter print issue of ForeWord Reviews, one review begins: “Neither a murder mystery, nor a thriller, Treachery in Bordeaux is, as the name implies, about treachery.” And the reviewer, Tricia...
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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...
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