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Tag: France

Rise Tattoo goes to India

March 30, 2017April 6, 2017tom1 Comment on Rise Tattoo goes to India

                                                    The brand new edition(#46) of Rise Tattoo, available at all good newsagents in France at present, features 16 pages on India by Laure Siegel and myself. We look at […]

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Sacred Skin in Rise Tattoo Magazine

July 27, 2014September 6, 2016tomLeave a Comment on Sacred Skin in Rise Tattoo Magazine

I am interviewed in this month’s Rise Tattoo Magazine from France. Big thanks to Dom Pichard and Laure Siegel.

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Literary gangsterism in France

July 10, 2012July 10, 2012tomLeave a Comment on Literary gangsterism in France

Crime Fiction‘s alive and kicking in France.  50s pulp greats like Jim Thompson and Ross MacDonald are are currently being re-translated and some Noir classics are now out in two different editions. This is what I found out when I visited Libraririe Lignes Noires in Avignon, one of just a handful of crime fiction book […]

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French blog La Jupette de Jeanette on Sacred Skin

October 20, 2011October 20, 2011tom1 Comment on French blog La Jupette de Jeanette on Sacred Skin

French blog La Jupette de Jeanette offers a page on my new book Sacred Skin this week!

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From the Archives: Postcard from Provence

April 2, 2011July 23, 2011tom6 Comments on From the Archives: Postcard from Provence

I published the following story about Provence, a wine growing region in southern France a couple of years ago. At the time of writing, I was just getting to know the protagonists of the text.  I stayed in touch with all of them. Eric Bouletin continues to grow excellent wine and Junko Takase continues to […]

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Who owns the 21st Century?

February 22, 2011February 23, 2011tomLeave a Comment on Who owns the 21st Century?

Every day, we appear to be moving a little closer to a state of affairs where governments could become obsolete. Large parts of the world have always been ruled by people who don’t really qualify as governments, but in recent years, perfectly respectable rulers have also shown signs (not for the first time) that they […]

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