[Yolina]

I'm French and I've been in the UK for about 20 years and I think there's a quite difference in what people read in those countries. Yes, the Twilight and 50 shades type books sell well in France I'm sure, but I think that over there people do also tend to read more literary fiction (or at least these books are more readily available) than people do in the UK.

I do remember that I had a bit of a shock the first time I walked into a UK bookstore and saw what they had available (except places like the very large Waterstones on Piccadilly which has a lot of everything). I still buy plenty of French books too because 1) they don't get translated and make it to the UK and 2) I'm obviously not going to read a translation when I'm able to read it in the original language.
I've also noticed a few strange things with translations. For example, let's take one of my favourite authors, Ismail Kadare, who writes in Albanian. All of his books have been translated into French but only about half of them are available in English and the translation is from the French version rather than the original in Albanian. Now I'm not saying there's problems with the translation but to me, 2 layers just seems a bit "remote" shall we say.