Left Bank Waltz: The Australian bookshop in Paris
Vintage, $27.95 pb, 342 pp
Memoir
Left Bank Waltz: The Australian bookshop in Paris by Elaine Lewis
by Carol Middleton •
Elaine Lewis established and ran the Australian Bookshop in Paris from 1996 to 1998. It acted as an outlet in France for Australian books, a nexus for travelling Australian writers and a cultural hub in the Parisian arts scene. This is the story of the bookshop in its heyday, before Lewis returned to Australia and the bookshop retired to an online existence.
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