Top ten romans-fleuves

"Roman-fleuve sounds a very French sort of thing," writes Jeffrey Archer at the Guardian. "Britannica defines it as 'a series of novels, each one complete in itself, that deals with an era of national life, or successive generations of a family'."Archer, who is the author of his own five-book series, The Clifton Chronicles, named his top ten romans-fleuves, including:The Smiley trilogy by John le