The problem with first love is that it's almost always followed quickly by first heartbreak. While it's true that some high-school romances endure for decades, for the most part, today's teenager in ...

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, ...

Don’t be fooled by the fact that this book, about a 1980s high-school romance, has been translated from French by Molly Ringwald, star of The Breakfast Club. Dubbed the French Brokeback Mountain, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beautiful, tragic, nostalgic; these are the three adjectives I attribute to Arrête avec tes mensonges (Lie With Me), a novel by Philippe Besson. On each page, elaborate, moving descriptions of ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...