New interview: WorldRadioParis

26/7/2018

Courtesy of Your American Friend in Paris, an interview about life in the Perigord, the quality of life in rural France, and my inspirations.

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21 Comments

Tim burt

15/8/2018 12:50:39 pm

Goood evening,

Is the Bruno series of books available in French??

Martin link

17/8/2018 01:26:59 am

They are, although the time needed to translate them means that the various foreign language editions (French included) tend to be one or two books behind the English version in terms of current release.

Jean Rasbridge

15/4/2019 01:36:10 pm

We love the stories and descriptions so much, we are going to follow much of your Bruno route in July, excepting Bordeaux. We would like a central base however, where would you suggest please? Also, yet another request (demande?) for an English language cookbook!

Alexander Menz

16/8/2018 04:38:24 am

When will there be a proper update of the site? And maybe a complete list of Bruno books?

Martin link

17/8/2018 01:25:47 am

The list of books can be found, in release order, under the 'Reviews' section of the website.

As for the updates, I do what I can to keep the website going in between writing a new Bruno each year, spending four months giving book tours, the summer hosting various journalists and production companies interested in featuring Bruno, and writing the articles and speeches that form the bulk of my 'day job'.

Michael S. link

22/9/2018 09:38:13 am

I'm really looking foreward to see Bruno on the screen. But PLEASE!!!!! don't let it get such a shallow farce like all the Donna Leon Series! I really like her Brunetti-novels but the screenplay is a No-Go. Please take care that the complex character of Bruno and the whole stories stay as they are!

Martin link

27/9/2018 05:32:20 am

I'm confident that Bruno is in safe hands! We're very much in pre-production, but nothing I've seen so far has given me any cause for concern in discussion.

I won't let them do an Inspector Lynley, where a character whose plain appearance was a frequent plot point in the novels became a glamazon for television...

Albert McKelvy

18/9/2018 02:37:50 am

Just finished the 'A Taste for Vengeance' and loved it. Some minor inaccuracies in detail which I would be delighted to discuss with you privately?

Harry

20/9/2018 02:31:23 pm

Mr. Walker -- just finished The Resistance Man (my first Bruno) and was delighted to find it centered around Bergerac. My father (a navigator on a B-17) was shot down near St. Nazaire on the 1st of May 1943. He escaped capture and traveled south on a bicycle. According to his post-escape debriefing, he skirted Bergerac only to blunder up to the gate of the German-occupied airport south of town. He calmly dismounted and walked his bike away from the sentry. A day or two later he reached Agen, where he holed up with a French family for two weeks before finally trekking over the Pyrenees into neutral Spain. He was the 44th allied airman to escape successfully.

JOAN HEYMONT

22/11/2018 08:41:21 am

Mr. Walker,
I love the series, and I'm glad that 1. The series will continue and 2. That there will be movie or TV (not sure which was being discussed). I just have one correction. In Resistance Man Jacqueline Morgan is described as being in the Worker Student Alliance of SDS. You describe it, the WSA, was being allied with the Weathermen. Not so. I was in the WSA, and we and the Weathermen were opposite on all issues and strategies. Many of us hated the Weathermen, they were self-focused and infantile. Much of their tactics arbitrarily attacked members of the working class, they were adventurist. I don't know what I expect you to do with this info, but there it is.
Thanks for great books overall.

Martin link

25/11/2018 07:46:51 am

You are, of course, right. There were bitter divisions, both in SDS and in the WSA, almost all of whom staunchly opposed the tactics pursued by the Weather People. But the character in the novel who makes this connection - "closely associated with the violent extremists..." is a French security official, most of whose information would have come from the FBI, and we know dubious many of their reports proved to be, particularly in the overheated atmosphere of the times, with the RAF in Germany, the Red Brigades in Italy, the Tupamaros and so on. As the role of Jacqueline develops in the novel, I hope it becomes clear that she is a respected scholar and historian, a radical activist and a fine woman. Perhaps I should have made this more explicit but I thought her character as it emerged spoke for itself. Thank you for our comment and I am delighted that you enjoy the Bruno novels. I greatly enjoy writing them, not least because they make a broad canvas in which I can explore many of my other interests, from archaeology to the French Resistance, from food and wine to Europe's recent history and politics.

Ann Tippitt link

19/1/2019 05:19:45 pm

Mr. Walker, A consistent follower of the Bruno series, I have now shared [some say infected] with my staff and our museum travel group - Schiele Explorers. We are planning a trip to Sarlat and environs. Do you work with tour companies? I am an anthropologist/archaeologist/museum director with strong interests in France. I appreciated from the beginning the fluid intergration of food, social ties, and the land.Best to you.

Jean rasbridge

15/4/2019 01:42:29 pm

I hope to read a reply! We are doing a canal trip in July followed by a few days in Brno country! We feel we know him!

Donald B McKenzie link

22/3/2019 12:37:21 pm

How come there are no references to Occitan in the Bruno novels, as it is spoken in the Dordogne? Or did I just miss them all?

Martin link

24/3/2019 08:41:43 pm

Thank you for your note. In 'Fatal Pursuit,' one of the racing drivers sings in Occitan. But you are right, I should make more of this distinctive feature of south-west France. Thank you for plucking my conscience.

Richard Judy link

5/4/2019 11:02:24 am

Здравствуйте, Мартин: около полдюжины ваших поклонников соберутся на вилле возле Английской библиотеки в конце сентября и начале октября. Посещение с нами, даже ломать хлеб, было бы недорогим местом для продвижения следующей книги Бруно. Если вам будет интересно, у вас есть мой адрес электронной почты. С наилучшими пожеланиями. Ричард

Martin link

9/4/2019 10:16:02 pm

Privyet. Richard y pozdravlayou vam na yazik. Ya vcyo zabil.
I hope we can make this work, but I have to leave for a German book tour on Sept 28.
After an internet and computer disaster, I don't have your email in current memory. Please send it to walker.martin@gmail.com.
Vcyevo dobrovo.

Wiley McCarthy

23/4/2019 11:31:15 am

WHEN WILL THERE BE AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE COOKBOOK? AND WHY WAS IT WRITTEN IN GERMAN TO BEGIN WITH?

Martin link

25/4/2019 02:28:02 am

Because it was commissioned by my German language publishers, who thought there would be legs in the concept. And they were right -- work on cookbook two (also in German) is well under way.

Sadly we've not been able to convince any of my English language publishers (UK or US) of the same -- they don't think there's enough of a market to make the job worthwhile, no matter how much we try and convince them otherwise.

Michael S. link

24/4/2019 12:56:05 am

Dear Martin,
where do I find actual dates for your book tour? Here on the webside I found only dates from 2014...

Martin link

25/4/2019 02:29:27 am

I'm afraid that's my fault -- I've been remiss at updating my webmaster, but shall do so now. Expect an updated list in the next day or two.

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