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La 4e de couv. indique : "Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia, an existence made even more hellish by her status as an outcast among her fellow Africans. And she is approaching womanhood, where greater pain and danger awaits. So when Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, Cora takes the momentous decision to acompany him on his escape to the North."

An acclaimed collection of stories from the internationally bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and the White

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Dejima, comptoir de la Compagnie néerlandaise des Indes orientales, ou la promesse d'une fortune facile. Jeune clerc, Jacob de Zoet débarque sur l'île en 1799, bercé par l'espoir d'un mariage à son retour. Là, il est comme envoûté par Mlle Aibagawa, douce sage-femme au visage étrangement brûlé. Or la demoiselle est enlevée sous ses yeux par le diabolique Enomoto et conduite sur le mont Shiranui...

Soit un groupe d'enfants, de six à treize ans, que l'on isole sur une île déserte. Qu'advient-il d'eux après quelques mois ? William Golding tente l'expérience. Après les excitantes excursions et parties de baignade, il faut s'organiser pour survivre. C'est au moins la réflexion de Ralph, celui qui fut élu chef au temps heureux des commencements, et du fidèle Piggy. Mais c'est ce que refusent de comprendre Jack, le second aspirant au "trône", et les siens. Cette première division clanique n'est pas loin de reproduire un schéma social ancestral. S'ensuivent des comportements qui boudent peu à peu la civilisation et à travers lesquels les rituels immémoriaux le disputent à une sauvagerie d'une violence sans limite. Dès Sa Majesté des Mouches (1954), porté à l'écran par Peter Brook (1963), apparaît l'obsession de William Golding : l'homme est foncièrement mauvais. Le monde est porteur d'une cruauté sans faille dans laquelle chacun se fourvoie et finit par périr, comme il l'illustre plus tard dans Les Héritiers ou Parade sauvage. L'écrivain reçut le prix Nobel de littérature en 1983. --Laure Anciel

Jeo and Mikal, foster-brothers from a small Pakistani city, secretly enter Afghanistan: not to fight with the Taliban, but to help and care for wounded civilians. But it soon becomes apparent that good intentions can't keep them out of harm's way...

Rick Martin loved music and the music loved him. He could pick up a tune so quickly that it didn’t matter to the Cotton Club boss that he was underage, or to the guys in the band that he was just a white kid. He started out in the slums of LA with nothing, and he ended up on top of the game in the speakeasies and nightclubs of New York. But while talent and drive are all you need to make it in music, they aren’t enough to make it through a life. Dorothy Baker’s Young Man with a Horn is widely regarded as the first jazz novel, and it pulses with the music that defined an era. Baker took her inspiration from the artistry—though not the life—of legendary horn player Bix Beiderbecke, and the novel went on to be adapted into a successful movie starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and Doris Day.

Yearning to escape her life of prostitution in 1870s London, Sugar finds her fate entangled in the complicated family life of patron William, an egotistical perfume magnate.

Il romanzo comincia nello stesso anno dell'Iliade con il litigio fra Achillee Agamennone. L'ambientazione è quella mitologica, ma nelle vicende narrate da Omero, l'autore inserisce una trama inventata che vede protagonista un giovane ragazzo, Leonte, recatosi a Troia per ritrovare il padre disperso da anni. Sullo sfondo delle battaglie omeriche si svolgono le avventure del giovane, che saranno anche avventure amorose, poiché Leonte si innamorerà di Ekto, una fanciulla che ha le fattezze e il fascino di Elena.

"Manically ingenious ... EAch fresh product of Mitchell's soaring imagination functions as an echo chamber for both his previous ideas and his oeuvre to come." (Liz Jensen, Guardian)

Metaphysical thriller, meditation on mortality and chronicle of our self-devouring times, this is the kaleidoscopic new novel from the author of Cloud Atlas. SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS UK AUTHOR OF THE YEAR 2014 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 LONGLISTED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE 2015 One drowsy summer's day in 1984, teenage runaway Holly Sykes encounters a strange woman who offers a small kindness in exchange for 'asylum'. Decades will pass before Holly understands exactly what sort of asylum the woman was seeking . . . The Bone Clocks follows the twists and turns of Holly's life from a scarred adolescence in Gravesend to old age on Ireland's Atlantic coast as Europe's oil supply dries up - a life not so far out of the ordinary, yet punctuated by flashes of precognition, visits from people who emerge from thin air and brief lapses in the laws of reality. For Holly Sykes - daughter, sister, mother, guardian - is also an unwitting player in a murderous feud played out in the shadows and margins of our world, and may prove to be its decisive weapon.

Set in a 1970s Irish fishing village, the story revolves around a baby boy found on the beach, who captivates the local community. As he grows into a charismatic yet enigmatic young man named Brendan, the narrative explores the intertwined lives of his adoptive family and the village, revealing the impact of a changing global economy on their traditional way of life. The dynamic between Brendan and his brother Declan, alongside their father's struggles, highlights themes of family, community, and the complexities of identity in a shifting world.

Que se passerait-il outre Manche si Sa Majesté la Reine se découvrait une passion pour la lecture ? Si d'un coup, rien n'arrêtait son insatiable soif de livres, au point qu'elle en vienne à négliger ses engagements royaux ? C'est à cette drôle de fiction que nous invite Alan Bennett, le plus grinçant des comiques anglais. Henry James, les sœurs Brontë, Jean Genet et bien d'autres défilent sous l'œil implacable d'Elizabeth, cependant que le monde so British de Buckingham Palace s'inquiète. Du valet de chambre au prince Philip, tous grincent des dents tandis que la royale passion littéraire met sent dessus dessous l'implacable protocole de la maison Windsor. Un succès mondial a récompensé cette joyeuse farce qui, par-delà la drôlerie, est aussi une belle réflexion sur le pouvoir subversif de la lecture.

When Frances Shore moves to Saudi Arabia, she settles in a nondescript sublet, sure that common sense and an open mind will serve her well with her Muslim neighbors. But in the dim, airless flat, Frances spends lonely days writing in her diary, hearing the sounds of sobs through the pipes from the floor above, and seeing the flitting shadows of men on the stairwell. It's all in her imagination, she's told by her neighbors; the upstairs flat is empty, no one uses the roof. But Frances knows otherwise, and day by day, her sense of foreboding grows even as her sense of herself begins to disintegrate.

Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Rebellious and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a girl of the inner city tenements, dreaming of stardom in America. She has dozens of admirers but in the backstage of her life there is a secret. Her lover, John Synge, is a troubled genius, the son of a once prosperous landowning family, a poet of fiery language and tempestuous passions. Yet his life is hampered by convention and by the austere and God-fearing mother with whom he lives. Scarred by a childhood of loneliness and severity he has long been ill, but he loves to walk the wild places of Ireland. The affair, sternly opposed by friends and family, is turbulent, sometimes cruel, often tender. Many years later, an old woman makes her way across London on the morning after a hurricane. Christmas is coming. As she wanders past bombsites and through the city's forlorn beauty, a snowdrift of memories and lost desires seems to swirl. She has twice been married: once widowed, once divorced, but an unquenchable passion for life has kept her afloat as her dazzling career has faded. A story of love's commitment, of partings and reconciliations, of the courage involved in living on nobody else's terms, Ghost Light is a profoundly moving and ultimately uplifting novel.

Meilleur vendeur du Sunday Times 2021. Cornwall, 1972. Trois gardiens disparaissent d'un phare isolé, à des kilomètres de la côte. La porte d'entrée est verrouillée de l'intérieur. Les horloges se sont arrêtées. Le journal météorologique du gardien principal décrit une tempête violente, mais le ciel est clair depuis une semaine. Que sont devenus ces trois hommes, en haut de la tour ? La mer lourde murmure leurs noms. La marée change sous les vagues, noyant des fantômes. Leurs secrets peuvent-ils un jour être récupérés des flots ? Vingt ans plus tard, les femmes qu'ils ont laissées derrière elles peinent encore à avancer. Helen, Jenny et Michelle auraient dû être unies par la tragédie, mais celle-ci les a séparées. Puis un écrivain les approche. Il souhaite leur donner l'occasion de raconter leur version de l'histoire. Mais c'est seulement en affrontant leurs peurs les plus sombres que la vérité peut commencer à émerger. Inspiré par des événements réels, Les Gardiens du phare est un mystère enivrant et captivant, une histoire inoubliable d'amour et de chagrin qui explore la manière dont nos peurs brouillent la frontière entre le réel et l'imaginaire.

De verhouding van de Latijnse dichter Catullus met Clodia lijkt zich te herleven in die van een archeoloog die Clodia's villa opgraaft en zijn assistente.

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