Diane Johnson

Diana Johns

Diana Ruth Johnson is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hull North since 2005; she was the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State with responsibility for Schools in the...

Diane Johns

Diane Johnson is an American-born novelist and essayist whose satirical novels often feature American heroines living abroad in contemporary France.

Flyover Lives: A Memoir

“Smart . . . perceptive . . .Flyover Livesis a memoir of the Midwest sure to charm readers.”—Maureen Corrigan, NPRFrom theNew York Timesbestselling author ofLe Divorce, a dazzling meditation on the mysteries of the “wispy but material” family ghosts who shape usGrowing up in the small river town of ...

Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light

“Beautifully written and refreshingly original… makes us see [Paris] in a different light.” -- San Francisco Chronicle Book ReviewSwapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions. Curio...

Persian Nights

Chloe Fowler is the most unliberated woman she knows: disarmingly delicate and pretty, and not averse to putting either attribute to its best use, married, young, and satisfied with her normal American life as wife and mother. Yet Chloe is about to be liberated from everything she has ever known—in ...

Lying Low (William Abrahams Book)

A National Book Award finalist, this novel relates the events of four crucial days in the lives of four people sharing a rambling Victorian house, "lying low" and harboring secrets not meant to be shared. Theo Wait, a middle-aged former ballet dancer, and her brother, Anton, have taken in two boarde...

Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light

“Beautifully written and refreshingly original… makes us see [Paris] in a different light.” -- San Francisco Chronicle Book ReviewSwapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions. Curio...

The Shadow Knows (William Abrahams Book)

The anonymous heroine, N, is a young woman who has broken free of a constricting marriage and is struggling to raise four children alone in a housing project. Coming home one day N finds her door hacked with an ax and smeared with what appears to be a mixture of blood and crankcase oil. A few days l...

Le Divorce (William Abrahams Book)

In Le Divorce, Diane Johnson delightfully recounts the adventures of two sisters from California who make a modern pilgrimage to the City of Light.Pregnant and abandoned by her French husband, Roxeanne Walker de Persand turns to her younger sister, Isabel, for support, while the powerful Persand fam...

Le Mariage

From the author of the acclaimed bestseller and 1997 National Book Award finalist, Le Divorce, comes a sparkling comedy of manners once again set in the world of Americans in Paris. Anne-Sophie is a young Frenchwoman engaged to Tim Nolinger, an American journalist hot on the trail of a breaking stor...

Mother's Love: In Praise of African-American Mothers

The Joy of Sharing

Burning

Bonjour Tristesse

Edwin Brown Fred: Scientist, Administrator, Gentleman

The Shadow Knows

Sylvia

The Big Sleep/Farewell, My Lovely/the High Window