Merde at the Paris Olympics by Stephen Clarke

Merde at the Paris Olympics by Stephen Clarke

Some really excellent one-liners and a great story. Ian Moore, author, Death & Croissants.

This novel is hysterical Rebecca Leffler, writer and Creative Consultant on the Netflix TV series Emily in Paris, .

By the author of A Year in the Merde and 1000 Years of Annoying the French.

Englishman Paul West is living in Paris (where he arrived long before Emily, by the way) and he's gearing up for the 2024 Olympics.

Paul accepts a job with a French group who are campaigning to get p tanque adopted as an official Olympic event.

In Paul's opinion, throwing lumps of lead around while drinking pastis is barely a sport - it's more an excuse for Proven al men to avoid cooking dinner. But he needs the cash.

Meanwhile Paul falls in love with a French tech genius - who thinks he's an idiot (which, compared to her, he is) - and he tangles with his treacherous ex, Elodie.

Paul also applies for French nationality and has to embark on a war of attrition with France's Napoleonic bureaucrats.

In the background, Paul's friend Jake the grunge poet decides that the Olympics and Paralympics discriminate against lazy people, and invents the Nolympics.

Let the fun and games begin.

Stephen Clarke resides in Paris, where he spends his time writing and not writing. His Merde novels have become international blockbusters, notably in France. Speak to the Snail, an insider's guide to understanding the French; How the French Won Waterloo (or Believe They Did), an amusing look at France's continued infatuation with Napoleon; Dirty Bertie: An English King Created in France, a biography of Edward VII; and 1000 Years of Annoying the French, a number one bestseller in Britain. He has reappeared to question why current Parisians have forgotten some of the period's great democratic heroes in favor of idolizing certain maniacs. Follow Stephen on Twitter at @SClarkeWriter and visit his website at www.stephenclarkewriter.com.