Merde at the Paris Olympics

<p><span>"Some really excellent one-liners and a great story." Ian Moore, author, Death & Croissants.</span></p><p><span>"This novel is hysterical!" Rebecca Leffler, writer and Creative Consultant on the Netflix TV series Emily in Paris,.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span>By the author of A Year in the Merde and 1000 Years of Annoying the French.</span></p><p><span>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.</span></p><p><span>Paul accepts a job with a French group who are campaigning to get </span><em>pétanque</em><span> adopted as an official Olympic event. </span></p><p><span>In Paul's opinion, throwing lumps of lead around while drinking pastis is barely a sport - it's more an excuse for Provençal men to avoid cooking dinner. But he needs the cash.</span></p><p>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.</p><p>Paul also applies for French nationality and has to embark on a war of attrition with France's Napoleonic bureaucrats.</p><p>In the background, Paul's friend Jake the grunge poet decides that the Olympics and Paralympics discriminate against lazy people, and invents the "Nolympics".</p><p>Let the fun and games begin.</p>