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A la veille de la Première Guerre mondiale, Jeronimo Franck, fils bohème et idéaliste d'une famille de banquiers salzbourgeois, vient s'établir sur une petite île de l'Adriatique aussi pauvre qu'oubliée du monde. Surnommé le Poète, il n'en est pas moins un commerçant prospère : il redonne vie à " L'Européen ", un grand magasin abandonné vingt ans plus tôt par son propriétaire après que son fastueux mariage avec Marta, la plus belle des insulaires, s'est achevé en tragédie. Jeronimo a lui aussi décidé d'épouser la plus belle fille de l'île, et d'offrir pour l'occasion une fête grandiose à la grande joie des habitants. Mais plusieurs menaces se profilent à l'horizon. L'île - sous domination austro-hongroise - a d'ancestrales aspirations indépendantistes, et un petit contingent de soldats impériaux, venu estimer combien de garçons vigoureux seraient mobilisables pour la Grande Guerre, a été proprement égorgé. Des représailles sont à craindre. Enfin et surtout, une funeste superstition pèse sur la perspective d'épousailles entre le propriétaire de L'Européen et la jeune beauté locale... La noce du poète, néanmoins, se prépare dans la fièvre d'un peuple, truculent, courageux et matois, polisson et candide. Cette histoire d'amour et de légende, noire, poétique et savoureuse, nourrie de suspense et d'humour, offre une vision satirique et lucide des folies guerrières préludant à l'explosion de 1914. Que le ton soit lyrique, cruel, cocasse, allégorique, on ne peut qu'admirer la virtuosité de ce roman baroque et délectable.

Le destin d'un apprenti tailleur dans la France d'après-guerre. Dans le Cantal, au début des années cinquante. Le petit Jacques est depuis toujours fasciné par le tailleur de son village. Après le certificat d'étude, il entre auprès de lui en apprentissage. Un choix audacieux car tous ses camarades se moquent de lui, considérant que la couture est un métier pour les filles. Mais Jacques n'en a cure, il travaille avec acharnement, résistant aux tentations de l'adolescence.
Son coeur est mis à rude épreuve par les vacancières venues de la ville, attirées par ce campagnard un peu artiste. À force d'application, de passion, grâce, surtout, à la bienveillance de son mentor, Jacques apprend à maîtriser à la perfection les grands ciseaux d'argent de son patron. Jusqu'au jour où il a une terrible décision à prendre : rester auprès de ce maître auquel il doit tout ou partir se forger ailleurs son propre destin.

Dans les années 1830, au sein des volcans d'Auvergne, les hasards de la vie mènent vers la médecine le jeune Sylvain Sahut, fils d'un tailleur de lave à Volvic. Après des études à Clermont-Ferrand, Sylvain devient officier de santé au Mont-Dore, puis ouvre un cabinet médical dans un bourg des Combrailles, Saint-Gervais. Mais c'est compter sans la concurrence des rebouteux, qui associent volontiers la médecine à la religion, à la superstition ou à la sorcellerie. Pourtant, le dévouement, la prudence et les compétences de Sylvain Sahut lui valent peu à peu l'estime d'une clientèle fidèle. Mais les années passent et avec elles l'envie de fonder un foyer... jusqu'au jour où il rencontre une artiste peintre qui change le cours de son existence. C'est avec toujours autant de talent que Jean Anglade dresse le portrait d'un homme volontaire et passionné, dans une campagne auvergnate attachante qui vit au XIXe siècle les balbutiements de la médecine.

Huge American bestselling novel that tells of identical twins: a paranoid schizophrenic and his brother whose life is dominated by his resentment of and love for his damaged twin

Dominick Birdsey’s whole existence is coloured by the knowledge that his twin brother can never be fully responsible for his frightening behaviour, while he himself has beaten the biochemical odds to remain sane. But at what cost?

This powerful, heartwrenching drama draws on the deepest human emotions: the need to know oneself, responsibility to family, the influence of hidden history. The result is a highly acclaimed novel of survival, written with great sensitivity.

Fall deeper under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the captivating second volume of the No.1 internationally bestselling ALL SOULS trilogy, following A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES.

In a world of witches, daemons and vampires the fragile balance of peace is unravelling. Diana and Matthew's forbidden love has broken the laws dividing creatures. To discover the manuscript which holds their hope for the future, they must now travel back to the past.

When Diana Bishop, descended from a line of powerful witches, discovered a significant alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, she sparked a struggle in which she became bound to long-lived vampire Matthew Clairmont. Now the coexistence of witches, daemons, vampires and humans is dangerously threatened. Seeking safety, Diana and Matthew travel back in time to London, 1590. But they soon realise that the past may not provide a haven. Reclaiming his former identity as poet and spy for Queen Elizabeth, the vampire falls back in with a group of radicals known as the School of Night. Many are unruly daemons, the creative minds of the age, including playwright Christopher Marlowe and mathematician Thomas Harriot. Together Matthew and Diana scour Tudor London for the elusive manuscript Ashmole 782, and search for the witch who will teach Diana how to control her remarkable powers...

Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.

The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.

In an isolated farmhouse in the Jura, Claudine awaits her husband Renaud's return from a Swiss sanatorium. She distracts herself by encouraging her young friend Annie to recount salacious episodes from her love life. When Renaud's homosexual son Marcel arrives, Claudine sets about matchmaking, a fiasco she bitterly regrets. With Renaud's death, Claudine's ennui is transmuted into resigned suffering. But she gradually allows the rhythm and beauty of the natural world to reawaken her desire to live. Retreat From Love, first published in 1907, was the first of Colette's novels to be written without the collaboration of her husband 'Willy', from whom she had recently separated.

Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something slightly less savoury - a human hand.

The corpse, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so, wrapped in a purple cotton sheet. The post mortem can not reveal the precise cause of death. The only clue to solving this mysterious murder is a crack in one of the dead man's ribs.

Wexford knows it will be a difficult job to identify the dead body. Although it covers a relatively short period of time, the police computer stores a long list of missing persons. People disappear at an alarming rate - hundreds each day.

And then, only about twenty yards away from the woodland burial site, in the cellar of a disused cottage, another body is found.

The detection skills of Wexford, Burden and the other investigating officers of the Kingsmarkham Police Force are tested to the utmost to discover whether the murders are connected and to track down whoever is responsible.

Follows the life of Patrick Melrose, a member of an upper class English family, through his traumatic childhood with an abusive father, drug addiction, fatherhood, and the possible loss of his family home

When the gifted, beloved flautist Sir Manuel Camargue, now aged and retired but engaged to a woman fifty years younger, disappears, leaving only a glove on an ice-covered lake, Inspector Wexford alone suspects foul play

The fifteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford.

The thirteenth of May is famously the unluckiest day of the year. Sergeant Caleb Martin of Kingsmarkham CID had no idea just how terminally unlucky it would prove, as he embarked upon his last day on earth...

Ten months later, Wexford is confronted with a murder scene of horrific brutality. At first the bloodbath at Tancred House looks like the desperate work of a burglar panicked into murder. The sole survivor of the massacre, seventeen-year-old Daisy Flory, remembers the events imperfectly, and her confused account of the fatal night seems to confirm this theory. But more and more, Chief Inspector Wexford is convinced that the crime lies closer to home, and that it has sinister links to the murder of Sergeant Martin...

Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne Museum in Hampstead, and with its sinister murder room celebrating notorious crimes committed in the interwar years, when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the trustees. He soon discovers that the victim was seeking to close the museum against the wishes of both staff and fellow trustees. Everyone, it seems, has something to gain from the crime. When it becomes clear that the killer is prepared to kill again, inspired by the real-life crimes from the murder room, Dalgliesh knows that to solve this case he has to get into the mind of a ruthless killer.

Adam Dalgliesh is back. From the author of Original Sin and Death in Holy Orders comes The Murder Room, PD James' most enticing work.

"The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon" is an American epic of the old West for our own times -- a novel huge in its imaginative scope and daring in its themes. The narrator is Shed, or Duivichi-un-Dua, a half-breed bisexual boy who makes his living at the Indian Head Hotel in the little turn-of-the-century town of Excellent, Idaho. The imperious Ida Richilieu is Shed's employer, the town's mayor and the mistress, and the mistress and owner of this outrageously pink whorehouse. Together with the beautiful prostitute Alma Hatch, and the philosophical, green-eyed, half-crazy cowboy Dellwood Barker, this collection of misfits and outcasts make up the core of Shed's eccentric family. And although laced with the ugliness and cruelty of the frontier West -- Shed is raped by the same man who then murders the woman he thinks is his mother, and the Mormon townspeople bring a fiery end to Ida's raucous way of life -- the love and acceptance that tie this family together provide the true heart of this novel. "The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon" is a beautifully told, mythic tale that is as well a profound meditation on sexualty, race and man's relationship to himself and the natural world.

In 1983 William Parker moves from a small town in the mid-West to Manhattan, desperate to escape the provincialism he has endured his entire life. Unsophisticated and struggling with his sexuality, William is shy and insecure. Once in New York, however, he is surrounded by people who understand and accept his quirks. He is soon enveloped by a grand passion and, for the first time, falls in love. In the City of Shy Hunters is a vivid portrait of Manhattan's East Village and its demimonde of junkies and drag queens, just as AIDS is starting to decimate the gay population. As the novel closes amidst riots and near panic, William performs a breaktaking and unforgettable act of heroism.

Twenty years ago, Frances Mayes û widely published poet, gourmet cook and travel writer û introduced readers to a wondrous new world when she bought and restored an abandoned villa called Bramasole in the spectacular Tuscan countryside.

With glorious descriptions of the vibrant local markets, food, wine and the Italian landscape, Under the Tuscan Sun inspired generations to embark on their own journeys û whether that be flying to a foreign country in search of themselves, savouring one of the book’s dozens of delicious seasonal recipes, or simply being transported by Mayes’ signature evocative, sensory language. Now, with a new afterword from the Bard of Tuscany herself, the 20th anniversary edition of this timeless classic and international bestseller brings us up-to-date with the book’s most beloved characters.

The trampled grass led to the body of Margaret Parsons.

With no useful clues and a victim known only for her mundane life, Chief Inspector Wexford is baffled until he discovers Margaret's dark secret - a collection of rare books, each inscribed from a secret lover and signed only as 'Doon'.

Who is Doon? And could the answer hold the key to Wexford solving his first case?

The third book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford.

Passion can be lethal.

Anita Margolis has vanished. Dark and exquisite, Anita's character is as mysterious as her disappearance.

There was no body, no crime - nothing more concrete than an anonymous letter and the intriguing name of Smith. According to headquarters, it wasn't to be considered a murder enquiry at all.

With the letter providing them with only one questionable lead to follow, Wexford and his sidekick Inspector Burden are compelled to make enquiries. They soon discover Anita is wealthy, flighty, and thoroughly immoral. The straight-laced Burden has a very clear idea of what happened to her. But Wexford has his own suspicions...

When four bodies are discovered in the same underground sewer 12 years after the events of A Sight for Sore Eyes, former Chief Inspector Wexford is pulled out of retirement to follow a complex trail to the original murders only to have his life thrown into turmoil by a devastating personal tragedy.

In his new autobiography, written with characteristic humour and often outrageous candour, Graham shows that life is more than just a series of dates and it's really the things you love that make you who you are. From his beloved dogs to his rediscovered love of Ireland, the men Graham has loved and lost to his love affair with New York. It's been ten years since Graham last hit our shelves and being a decade older he has come to realise that what makes a life interesting is less what happens to you and more what inspires and drives you.

Graham Norton's career has spanned the last two decades, seeing him 'transition from risqué Channel 4 comedian to national treasure' (Evening Standard), and he has entertained an audience of millions in Father Ted, as the hilarious host of Eurovision, and on his primetime BBC1 TV and weekly BBC Radio 2 shows. He is loved across the nation for his delight in the peculiar for his ability to find humour and a common ground in all that life brings.

In The Life and Loves of a He Devil is Graham shows us it's really the things you love that make you who you are.

The world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James.

The year is 1803, and Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband Bingley live nearby and the orderly world of Pemberley seems unassailable. But all this is threatened when, on the eve of the annual autumn ball, the guests are preparing to retire for the night when a chaise appears, rocking down the path from Pemberley's wild woodland. As it pulls up, Lydia Wickham - Elizabeth Bennet's younger, unreliable sister - stumbles out screaming that her husband has been murdered.

Two great literary minds - master of suspense P.D. James and literary icon Jane Austen - come together in Death Comes to Pemberley, a bestselling historical crime fiction tribute to Pride and Prejudice. Conjuring the world of Elizabeth Bennet and Mark Darcy and combining the trappings of Regency British society with a classic murder mystery, James creates a delightful mash-up that will intrigue any Janeite.

From the bestselling author of The Murder Room, Children of Men and A Certain Justice, comes a wonderful mixture of the nation's greatest romance and best-loved crime fiction. In 2013, this novel was adapted as a miniseries by the BBC, starring Matthew Rhys as Darcy, Anna Maxwell Martin as Elizabeth Bennet and Jenna Coleman as Lydia Wickham.