Jane Rogoyska

Jane Rogoyska
Paris in the Shadow of War
with Gavin Mortimer

In the 1930s, the Hotel Lutetia on Paris’s Left Bank hosted exiled Germans. But when war broke out, it became the headquarters of the German military intelligence service. In 1945, It was requisitioned as a reception centre for deportees returning from concentration camps.

Hotel Exile is about what happens on the edges of a war. At its heart are three groups of people connected to a place, to one another, and to the dark ideology which dictates the course of their lives.
Hotel Exile was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 2026.