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Stephen Clarke (born 15 October 1958) is a British author. He writes mainly about France. He published six novels featuring a British protagonist named Paul West. Career Before writing books, Clarke wrote comedy sketches for BBC Radio 4 and comic-book stories for the U.S. cartoonist and comics artist Gilbert Shelton. Having graduated from Oxford University he spent several years working in Glasgow as a bilingual lexicographer for the dictionary firm HarperCollins. He then moved to work for a French press group. Works On 1 April 2004 Clarke successfully self-published A Year in the Merde It found attention in France too. Later Clarke sold the rights to Transworld in the UK, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United States, Penguin in Canada and Random House in Australia. It was eventually published in altogether about 20 languages. The sequel Merde Actually appeared in 2005, and was followed by a non-fiction book (Talk to the Snail, a humorous guide to the French language and the French) in 2006. The third novel about Paul West was published in July 2007 in Great Britain and one year later in the USA: Merde Happens, This time Englishman Paul West explores the United States instead of France. Clarke's fourth novel Dial M for Merde played again in France (this time South of France) and was published in the UK on 10 September 2008. The fifth novel The Merde Factor about Paul West returning to Paris was published on 13 September 2012. Stephen Clarke's second non-fiction offering, 1000 Years of Annoying the French, was published in the United Kingdom on 18 March 2010. It concentrates on conflicts between the French and the English over the past ten centuries, In Amazon.co.uk's bestseller lists, at one point the book was simultaneously at number 4 in the history chart and number one in humour. Bibliography Fiction The 'Merde' Series A Year in the Merde European Countries (2004) Merde Actually (2005) - Known as In the Merde for Love in the USA. Merde Happens A roadtrip across Americas (2007) Dial M for Merde Based in the South of France (2008) The Merde Factor Paul West's Parisian update (2012) Merde in Europe Paul West's is One Brit in Brussels (2016) Stand-alone A Brief History of the Future (2011) What if teleportation was really possible? Englishman Richie Fisher is about to find out... Non-fiction Talk to the Snail (2006) An ironical survival guide to the French way of life. 1000 Years of Annoying the French (2010) A satirical version of British-French history. Paris Revealed - The Secret Life of a City (2011) A behind the scenes look of Paris. Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France (2014) A biography of Edward VII How the French Won Waterloo (or think they did) (2016) A look at the French attitude to Waterloo The French Revolution and What Went Wrong (2018) References External links Stephen Clarke's official website. Lanie Goodman: "Merde Turns to Gold", The Guardian (29 June 2004). The first newspaper article about Stephen in the British national press. Stephen Clarke Interview: 1,000 years of annoying the French Stephen Clarke Interview: Paris Revealed - The Secret Life of a City. Discover the Stephen Clarke popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Stephen Clarke books.
Best Seller Stephen Clarke Books of 2024
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Die Medusa-Chroniken
Stephen Baxter & Alastair ReynoldsAufbruch zum JupiterBei einem schrecklichen Unfall verlor Commander Howard Falcon einst beinahe sein Leben, nur die hochentwickelte Technologie seiner Zeit konnte ihn damals retten...
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The Hard SF Renaissance
David G. Hartwell & Kathryn CramerA major anthology of the "hard SF" subgenrearguing that it's not only the genre's core, but also its future.Something exciting has been happening in modern science fiction. After ...
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Starlight 3
Patrick Nielsen HaydenStarlight 3 is third volume of in Patrick Nielsen Haden's original anthology series, which includes short stories from Susanna Clarke, Cory Doctrow, Stephen Baxter, Maureen F. McHu...
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A Girl I love
Stephen ClarkeA true story about how I found love in the strangest of places. What kind of hookup was this? Find out where I meet this lovely girl. Do we live the happy ever after I always wante...
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The Medusa Chronicles
Stephen Baxter & Alastair ReynoldsA sequel to Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s Nebula Award–winning novella “A Meeting with Medusa,” this novel continues the thrilling adventure of astronaut Howard Falcon, humanity’s first e...
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Explorers
Gardner DozoisDistant planets, galaxies, alien racesthe universe is vast and filled with an almost unimaginable range of possibilities. But imagine it we can. Here are more than twenty stories f...
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The Figure In The Distance
Otto De KatCambridge, Budapest, New York, Zurich, The Hague, Tel Aviv, the South Downs of England: the narrator has travelled everywhere. He has observed some of the major upheavals of the ce...
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Elizabeth II ou l humour souverain
Béatrice Taupeau & Stephen ClarkeEn bonne Anglaise qui se respecte, Elizabeth II n'est pas dénuée d'humour. Derrière la froideur du protocole se cache une femme pleine d'esprit, comme en témoignent ces authentique...
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The Taken
Alice Clark-PlattsA tense and powerful police procedural set in the city of Durham where a murdered preacher may be more monstrous than his own killer.There's the lost.There's the missing.And there'...
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For Better For Worse, For Richer For Poorer
Damian Horner & Siobhan HornerA hilarious, true story of lifechange, no going back, 40th birthdays and midlife crisis. Follow the adventures of a husband and wife (plus two small children) as they take a barge ...
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Whalefall
Daniel KrausA USA TODAY BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of 2023 by Book Riot, Shelf Awareness, and NPRThe Martian meets 127 Hours in this “astoundingly great” (Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times be...
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Selected Works
Earl Of Rochester & Frank H. EllisThe brightest star at the court of King Charles II, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (164780), lived a life of reckless debauchery and sexual adventuring that led to his death at the...
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The Chill Factor
Richard FalkirkIceland. In the winter it gets light at 10am and dark at 2pm. The daily announcement of the Chill Factor allows you to calculate how quickly you could die from exposure…Iceland is ...
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Dreams From My Mother
Dame Elizabeth AnionwuWhat a page turner of a book! Dame Elizabeth uncovers the layers of her life from a childhood defined by secrets, to discovering the identity of her father, to her political awaken...
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The Electric State
Simon StålenhagSoon to be a Netflix film starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt A teen girl and her robot embark on a crosscountry mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect ...
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Beyond the Fringe
Miles CameronReturn to the Universe of the ARCANA IMPERII with a collection of novellas from Miles Cameron.Following the events of ARTIFACT SPACE, the galaxy continues to change and expand. Fro...
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In the Wars
Dr Waheed ArianAS HEARD ON DESERT ISLAND DISCSAS SEEN ON THE CHANGEMAKERS, a Paramount+ docuseries profiling activists fighting for changeA WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR'A riveting story of l...
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Home Based Business
Stephen ClarkeA best–selling direct from British enterprise start–up expert Stephen Clarke. In the past, jobs supplied most every person with a dependable pay envelope and long variety security ...
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The Taker
Alma KatsuFrom the author of The Hungerhailed by Stephen King as “deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down”comes a hauntingly atmospheric tale filled with alchemy, lust, and betrayal.True...
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Deciding on a Business
Stephen ClarkeA best–selling guide from British enterprise start–up professional Stephen Clarke covering the most widespread grave error made in enterprise, not picking the right enterprise to s...
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Down to the Woods
M. J. ArlidgeIf you go down to the woods today, you better not go alone . . .FROM THE MILLIONCOPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR M.J. ARLIDGEThe last thing Tom Campbell remembers is camping in the New Fore...
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Remembrance
Ray BradburyIconic author of Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, and Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury believed that, someday, a collection of his letters could illuminate the ...
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The Reckoning
Alma KatsuIn this “rich, satisfying, and gorgeously written sequel” (Chapters) to her acclaimed debut novel, The Taker, Alma Katsu pairs a mysteriously alluring young woman with an ER doctor...
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Looking Up
Tim Rushby-SmithTim RushbySmith is six foot two and highly active, with a love of high places and the great outdoors. Three years ago, with a booming garden design and landscaping business and his...
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The Descent
Alma KatsuThe author of The Hunger delivers a “daring, soaring, and ultimately gutwrenching” (The New York Times) conclusion to her critically acclaimed Taker Trilogy, bringing Lanore McIlvr...
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Worldmakers
Gardner DozoisWhen mankind moves out to the stars, the colonists of the future will remake the worlds they inhabit in their image. Included here are twenty stories from the most imaginative writ...
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The Twisted Wire
Richard FalkirkThe 1970s Middle East conflict is the setting for this highoctane thriller by the author of The Chill Factor.A crossed telephone wire causes a call from the President of the United...