Books by Graham Robb

The perfect holiday read (pre, post or during)

Winner of the Whitbread Biography Award 1997

An authoritative history of the French nation that can be read for novelistic pleasure, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Discovery of France and Parisians.

A perceptive, vivid and sometimes startling re-evaluation of homosexuality in the Victorian era.

An astute and engrossing biography from the author of Victor Hugo and Balzac.

Sunday Times top-ten bestselling author Graham Robb turns his attention on his homeland for the first time in this beautifully written and ground-breaking book.

"Published 2013 by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan ... under the title The ancient paths: discovering the lost map of Celtic Europe"--Title page verso.

Graham Robb's The Ancient Paths will change the way you see European civilization.Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became fascinated with the world of the Celts: their gods, their art, and, most of all, their sophisticated knowledge of science. His investigations gradually revealed something extraordinary: a lost map, of an empire constructed with precision and beauty across vast tracts of Europe. The map had been forgotten for almost two millennia and its implications were astonishing.Minutely researched and rich in revelations, The Ancient Paths brings to life centuries of our distant history and reinterprets pre-Roman Europe. Told with all of Robb's grace and verve, it is a dazzling, unforgettable book.

No one knows a city like the people who live there - so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Graham Robb's Parisians is at once a book to read from cover to cover, to lose yourself in, to dip in and out of at leisure, and a book to return to again and again - rather like the city itself, in fact.For this collection of true stories the City of Paris awarded Graham the Medal of the City of Paris. 'Quirky, amused and tres British' Julian Barnes, author of The Sense of an Ending.

A literary biography of the French novelist and playwright, Honore Balzac.