Valerie Trierweiler, former partner of François Hollande

Novelist Nicholas Shakespeare’s biography of his aunt is a compelling look at everyday life in occupied France

'Ever since its creation in 1972 the Front National has baffled commentators. No one seems able to decide what the party stands for or where it came from'

Cruel Crossing charts the history of the escape routes in the Pyrenees used by Spanish republican, then French Jewish refugees. It is a thoughtful memorial to these brave and desperate people