A lifetime’s reading of Proust’s masterpiece: A highly entertaining book that takes in such disparate Proustian obsessions as insomnia, food and digestion, colour, addiction, memory, breath and breathing, breasts, snobbism, music, and humour.
Septembers, Chris Prendergast’s first novel, is a simmering tale of burning monuments, bad decisions and growing anger.
This study centres on the hypothesis that, as first claimed by historian Louis Chevalier, Eugene Sue's "Les Mysteres de Paris", through pressure from Sue's reader-correspondents as he wrote and published the novel in serial form, was a collective production.