Touché - Why Britain and France Are So Different

Zusatztext Poirier skillfully fuses commentary and autobiography! and her writing -- smart! slightly bossy but also sometimes self-mocking -- is consistently engaging Informationen zum Autor Agnès Poirier is a Paris-born and London-educated journalist, writer, critic and broadcaster. She is the author of four essays about the different ways in which France and Britain do things, topics she tirelessly discusses on the BBC, Sky News and CNN and writes about in, among others, the Guardian, Observer and The Times. She has also taught at Sciences-Po in Paris, and pre-selects British films for the Cannes film festival. She loves cycling and the songs of Charles Trenet. She lives in Paris and London. Klappentext Why France and Britain are so different, and why they do things in opposite ways. Zusammenfassung Why France and Britain are so different, and why they do things in opposite ways.

Product details

• Authors: Agnes C Poirier, Agnès C. Poirier, Agnes Catherine Poirier, Agnès Catherine Poirier, Poirier Agnes Catherine
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 19.07.2007
• EAN: 9780753821701
• ISBN: 978-0-7538-2170-1
• No. of pages: 170
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, TRAVEL / Pictorials, TRAVEL / Europe / Great Britain, Places and peoples: general and pictorial works