The Sigla Blog

When Françoise Sagan failed to pass her Sorbonne exams in 1953, she decided to write a novel. At just 18 she wrote Bonjour Tristesse and the book is a remarkable achievement, not just due to her youth, but because it’s a total classic.
It follows one heady summer in the south of France where the precocious […]

John Connolly is an Irish Times journalist turned crime-writer whose books are bestsellers and have won him legions of fans. So these same fans might be surprised to learn that his new book Nocturnes turns (mainly) away from crime to focus on horror. Connolly himself has pointed out that in the US, crime books are […]