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English Books Paris: New Arrivals at Bill & Rosa’s Book Room

Discover the Bill & Rosa's Book Room concept. Come visit us - it is a nice spot up and downstairs at FUSAC to Read, wRite and Relax and Buy, Donate and Borrow used English books Paris (and some French too, we are in France after all!). There is also the Power-of-the-Postcard desk and unique cards and postcards to write to family and friends, a jigsaw puzzle table, reading chairs. To discover our 4000+ titles visit our Click and Collect List. Near metro Porte de St Cloud. 42 rue du Chemin Vert 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt. Come over (Click for our opening hours) and find out why we call it Bill and Rosa's!

English Books Paris? Each week in the Book Room online, we recommend newly published English books we love. We also present some in French or bilingual, for kids or adults, fiction or non. Many are books about France of course, but there are many different subje…

BBI Boulogne-Billancourt Information talks about Bill & Rosa’s Book Room

BBI Boulogne-Billancourt Information - it's a pretty dull title for a magazine, but a really nice municipal publication just like Boulogne-billancourt is a really nice town. We read it every month to see what is going on in sports, culture, politics, business and best of all the history pages of our city. Julie Fagard, the journalist who interviewed us, clearly enjoys her job. She was lovely, interested and asked some great questions. She very much liked the concept we have put forth. The Book Room is rather unique in Boulogne as there are no English book shops and no used book shops in this town of nearly 110,000. The article has already brought in a dozen customers on the first day we were open after publication! I looks like we've hit a chord. We're happy to give back to Boulogne-Billancourt, the second largest city in Ile de France after Paris (and 30th largest in France), as it is a great place where people are friendly and smiling. There's great shopping on the vibra…

International Bookstores in Paris

The most recently opened of the bookstores in Paris is our own Bill & Rosa's Book Room is composed mainly of used English books (about 2500). We also have a certain number of French language books (about 500). And when we also received books in other languages Norweigian (30), Spanish, Portuguese and Polish we were reminded as to what a cosmopolitan city Paris is. In fact we read recently on the city of Paris' website in carefully inclusive French that the population of the city is composed of 22% Paris-born, someplace else we saw 26% foreign-born and the rest of Parisians are non Parisian French. The international community stems from 176 nationalities. And 3/4 of Parisians think the ideal city is multicultural. This got us to thinking that there must be bookshops that deal in other languages beyond English and French so we set out to see what we could find and composed this list. After the foreign language shops there's a list of English bookstores in Paris and a few…

Book Corner 2019

Every Thursday in the Book Corner, we recommend 3 books we love in French or English or bilingual, for kids or adults, fiction or non. Many are books about France of course, but there are many different subjects.

New this week:

Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely is a spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who helped build the foundations of the modern world. Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopédie into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shadows. Thrown into prison for his atheism in 1749, Diderot decided to reserve his best books for posterity--for us, in fact. In the astonishing cache of unpublished writings left behind after his death, Diderot challenged virtually all of his century's accepted truths, from the sanctity of monarchy, to the racial justification of the slave trade, to the norms of human sexuality. One of Didero…

Expat memoirs

Thinking of moving to France or just want a laugh? Expat memoirs are good for both. Learn from those who have gone before you and have lived through the trials and jubilations of expat life in France. You can learn from their mistakes and enjoy their anecdotes "right from the horse's mouth". Or just commiserate! There are a lot of English-speaking expats living in France, and many have written memoirs. Doing this is easier than ever now with self-publishing options. The currently trending expat memoir has been around for a long time though beginning it's upward climb as a genre with the still wonderful A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle published in 1989. French License by Joe Start Another book about adapting to life in France, but this time from the perspective of the Paris suburbs and through the trial of getting a driver's license. In fact the whole book is one long road trip. We are so relieved when after 262 pages, 10 years or mille bornes Joe finally gets his French li…

Book corner

Every Thursday in the Book Corner, we recommend 3 books we love in French or English, for kids or adults, fiction or non. Many are about France of course, but there are many different subjects. Here is the selection for the week of December 28th: Lors d'une de ses visites guidées, Cécile aperçoit dans les allées du musée du Louvre un petit chaton blanc qui semble écouter ses commentaires. Quand elle en parle à son collègue, celui-ci ne la croit pas. Monsieur Marcel est gardien de nuit depuis des années. Sa famille travaille au Louvre depuis des générations. Ce soir, il forme Patrick, une jeune recrue. Très vite, il s'éloigne du circuit habituel pour emprunter le chemin des combles. Là haut, Patrick découvre des chats. Marcel vient les nourrir et explique à son jeune collègue que ces chats ont toujours habité au Louvre. Ils étaient là déjà à l'époque où le Louvre n'était qu'un château. Une fois les gardiens partis, les chats se mettent à parler. Il y a Barbe-…