Books by Jean Bonnin

Poetry as a beautiful and mysterious painting, where the stars and the moon hang happily on their invisible strings that cling onto the ceiling of the infinite universe. Autumn encourages reflection, as does a glass of wine, as does the half-caught sound of a distant tune... A beautiful collection.

This is one of the most fascinating books you are likely to encounter concerning the Nuremberg Trials. A personal account by an internationally respected historian who attended the Nuremberg Trials as a young French observing lawyer... Georges Bonnin recounts the Trials and how he was sitting only a couple of metres away from Goering, for example; he tells us of the conversations and intrigue in the corridors, about the restaurants and parties attended, and the gossip and the final judgements. In addition to this he tells us of his imprisonment by the Nazis in Toulouse towards the end of the war, and his experiences as a prisoner in occupied France. As both a historian and a lawyer Georges Bonnin provides us with an invaluable account of these times by someone who was there.

Wondrous poems that take us on a journey from the tree- lined streets of Paris, via moonlit bays and windy sea-splashed beaches to twenty-first century existential ennui. Jean Bonnin's Poetry is an amalgamation of the symbolist, romantic and Celtic poetic traditions; being based, as he is, 10 miles from where Dylan Thomas lived & wrote.

If Marcel Duchamp, Friedrich Nietzsche and Le Corbusier collaborated on a projectThe Cubist's House would be the result.A cross between The Prisoner and Tales of the Unexpected things aren't always quite how they appear. When English Literature lecturer and minor author Jethro Carmichaelreturns home to find his apartment ransacked and his partner gone missing he decides it's all getting too much for him and it's time for a change of scenery. Renney van der Stratten is an American pretending to be Dutch... His bigoted Bostonian mother, and his whisky-swilling father aren't helping his state of mind. Nor is the fact that his antique dealership appears to be going down the pan. Jethro takes a year's sabbatical and retreats to an unremarkable Adriatic island... And on discovering revolutionary 60s graffiti and extraordinary oil paintings in his basement, and having the feeling someone is out to kill him, Renney also decides to retreat to an unremarkable Adriatic island.But it is only when their paths cross that things begin to get really strange... Learning about the house designed by a Cubist architect; meeting the German woman in a cove; and overhearing the safari suit-wearing eccentric recounting stories about the Soviet Union; all result in Jethro beginning to write again. To write what could turn out to be his opus...

Being and Somethingness is a book of poems, aphorisms, texts and insights that represent a tangential way to see life afresh. It is also a quasi-mystical tome which presents an approach to seeing the universe and seeking enlightenment. It is illustrated. It is both metaphysical and existentialist, and in tandem with potentially life-changing wisdoms it is also humorous and endearing... If only for its title that is clearly aping Sartre's classic philosophical work - there is the potential for it to become a Cult and Student classic...