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Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has published widely on French literature and history. His 2007 book The Discovery of France won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prizes. For Parisians the City of Paris awarded him the Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris. He lives on the English-Scottish border.

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Quirky, amused and très British. -- Julian Barnes, author of The Sense of an Ending
'A collection of true stories, culled from Robb's insatiable historical reading and lit by his imagination . . . So richly pleasurable that you feel it might emit a warm glow if you left it in a dark room. -- John Carey, Book of the Week * Sunday Times *
This book is the sort of triumph that we have no right to expect to come from anyone in the steady way that Robb's masterly books come from him. -- Philip Hensher * Daily Telegraph *
As Parisian and as bracing as a freshly mixed Pernod and water. * New York Times *

Parisians

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    A Paperback / softback by Graham Robb

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      Publisher Pan Macmillan
      Published 15 April 2011
      ISBN-13 9780330452458
      978-0330452458
      ISBN-10 0330452452
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      Biography True stories / true accounts of events Travel & Transport Places and peoples: general and pictorial works Travel writing

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has published widely on French literature and history. His 2007 book The Discovery of France won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prizes. For Parisians the City of Paris awarded him the Grande Médaille de la Ville de Paris. He lives on the English-Scottish border.

      Trade Review
      Quirky, amused and très British. -- Julian Barnes, author of The Sense of an Ending
      'A collection of true stories, culled from Robb's insatiable historical reading and lit by his imagination . . . So richly pleasurable that you feel it might emit a warm glow if you left it in a dark room. -- John Carey, Book of the Week * Sunday Times *
      This book is the sort of triumph that we have no right to expect to come from anyone in the steady way that Robb's masterly books come from him. -- Philip Hensher * Daily Telegraph *
      As Parisian and as bracing as a freshly mixed Pernod and water. * New York Times *

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