At the nearby Place du Grand Sablon, a square filled with galleries and an upmarket weekend books-and-antiques market, you can gawk at the Gothic majesty of the Notre Dame du Sablon church, before having coffee and truffles at an outdoor cafe.
Enjoy the weekend, Book Benchers: may all your days be sunny and all your books written by women.
Fares range from $195 for a three-day weekend booked in advance to $818.
Initially, he made a living with a weekend book stall in Petticoat Lane market in east London, and building work.
When newspaper budgets become tight, book reviewers and the editors of weekend book sections are finding that their work -- the coverage of ideas -- is also at risk.
If you feel a thrill when you see "new" and "art" in the same phrase, you should consider a large chunk of this weekend booked.
BFI Southbank, SE1, 8.30pm, £8.60, concs available, call 020-7928 3232 or visit bfi.org.uk Grasmere - Weekend Book Festival Lectures, workshops and talks on Wordsworth, Milton, Kurt Schwitters and Robert Burns.
For a decadent start to the weekend, book yourself on to one of Harvey Nichols' Saturday morning Cocktail Master Classes (0161-828 8898, harveynichols.com; £25 per person, £40 with lunch), where they'll teach you how to mix and shake like a pro.
PAGE C10 This Weekend BOOK REVIEW "A desperate search is under way these days among authors for the epic sports event," David Margolick writes in his review of "Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World," by David Maraniss.
PAGE A21 'The D.C. Sniper's Wife' wife A25 Messiaen the Organist arch A24 This Weekend BOOK REVIEW As anyone who's ever been stranded in an airport can attest, the interminable wait in the seating area becomes its own kind of drably carpeted existential purgatory.
Whether you are a weekend book reviewer or a corporate speech writer, your readers will certainly recognize your hard work and quality writing.
