Reviews 

This is a lot easier than Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky; a quite light social comedy on the surface, although the central figure Bazarov...

Zola’s books can be hard work. This is no.3 in the Rougon series; another completely different set of characters. This is set in the...

The first in the huge cycle of novels about this family and their antecedents. Thematically, this is the end of republicanism and...

Possibly the best book I have read this year. Zola completely turns 19th century fiction on its head and writes a book in which the...