Some good writers learn to write shorter. "Lie with Me" (Scribner) is Philippe Besson's 18th book, written in 2016 in what one suspects was one of those seizures of composition that produce such ...

Lie With Me: By Philippe Besson, translated by Molly Ringwald, Penguin Books, 160 pages, £8.99 (around ₹780). Set in a suburb outside Bordeaux in the 1980s, the story revolves around the narrator, ...

Besson (In the Absence of Men) rehashes familiar tropes about secret teenage gay romance in this moving but unoriginal novel. Novelist Philippe, who shares many biographical details with the author, ...

Set in a small French village, it’s a tale of love and loss and how life moves on, told through 17-year-old boys who fall in love, are separated and almost reunited decades later. If you liked Call Me ...

“In the Absence of Men”by Philippe Besson disguises itself as a “Call Me by Your Name”-esque, trampling, coming-of-age, off-kilter love story, but in actuality, it expels as a backwards unrealistic ...

Philippe Besson (born 29 January 1967 in Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire, Charente) is a French writer. In 1999, Besson, a law graduate, was inspired to write his first novel, En l'absence des hommes while ...

Award-winning French writer Philippe Besson bares his soul at this year’s Tmuna Theater Festival Besson seems to have few qualms about airing intimate details of his life in public, through his books, ...

EMMANUEL Macron has been accused of cronyism after an author who wrote a favourable book about the French President landed a top diplomatic post. Mr Macron flatly rejected the claims after Philippe ...