Graham Robb

A narrative of exploration - full of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitants - that explains the enduring fascination of France. While Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris, large parts of France were still terra incognita....

Two years ago, Graham Robb moved to a lonely house on the very edge of England, near the southern boundary of the legendary Debatable Land. The oldest detectable territorial division in Great Britain, the Debatable Land served as a buffer between Scotland and England....

Beginning with the Roman army's first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending in the era of Emmanuel Macron, France takes listeners on an endlessly entertaining journey through French history....

This is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of astonishing true narratives, all stranger than fiction....

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

Illuminating, engrossing and full of surprises, The Discovery of France is a literary exploration of a country few will recognize....

Taking the listener on a time-travelling adventure around the ‘spindly, sea-wracked islands’ we call home, The Discovery of Britain is panoramic and intimate, poignant and shocking, seriously funny, and enlightening in the most surprising way.

Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Graham Robb's Parisians is at once an audiobook to lose yourself in....

The Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist between Scotland and England. At the height of its notoriety, it was the bloodiest region in Great Britain....

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