Description: Pierwsze wydanie Merde! Rok w Paryżu autor opublikował własnym sumptem w nakładzie zaledwie 200 egzemplarzy. Książka bardzo szybko stała się bestsellerem. Prawa do przekładu nabyły wydawnictwa z kilkunastu krajów.
Bohaterem Merde! Rok w Paryżu jest Paul West – typowy Brytyjczyk, skrzyżowanie Hugh Granta i Davida Beckhama, specjalista od marketingu. Przyjeżdża do Paryża, by na zlecenie francuskiej firmy stworzyć sieć herbaciarni. Na miejscu witają go nierozgarnięci współpracownicy oraz dwulicowy szef. Paul na własnej skórze odczuwa wady i zalety bycia cudzoziemcem we Francji. Uwodzi piękne kobiety, szuka domu na prowincji, uczy się, jak skutecznie zamawiać espresso w kawiarni, przyrządzać sos vinaigrette, poruszać po mieście, w którym najczęściej uprawianą dyscypliną sportową są strajki.

Description: Paul West is in deep financial merde. His only way out of debt is to accept a decidedly dodgy job that involves him touring America in a Mini, while pretending to be typically British. Also in the car is Paul's French girlfriend, Alexa, and his American poet friend, Jake, whose main aim in life is to sleep with a woman from every country in the world. Preferably in the back of Paul's Mini. But as the little car battles from New York to Miami, and then heads west, leg-room turns out to be the least of Paul's troubles. His work is being sabotaged, his tour plans are in tatters, and his love life becomes a Franco-American war zone. And as Paul knows better than anyone, when you mix love and war - merde happens...

Description: A year after arriving in France, Englishman Paul West is still struggling with some fundamental questions. What is the best way to scare a gendarme? Why do French job applicants put sexually transmitted diseases on their CVs? Why are there no public health warnings on French nudist beaches? And how do you cope with a plague of courgettes? Paul also mutates - temporarily - into a Parisian waiter; samples the pleasures of typically French hotel-room afternoons; and, on a return visit to the UK, sees the full horror of a British office party through Parisian eyes. Meanwhile, he continues his search for the perfect French mademoiselle. But will Paul find l'amour eternel, or will it all end in merde?

Description: Paul West arrives in Paris to start a new job - and finds out what the French are really like. They eat a lot of cheese, some of which smells like pigs' droppings. Going on strike is the second national participation sport after pétanque. And, yes, they do use suppositories. A Year in the Merde tells how to get served by grumpy Parisian waiters; how to make amour not war; and how not to buy a house in the French countryside...