Marina Lewycká Ordre des livres (chronologique)

After walking out on his wife to shack up with 'Brexit Brenda' next door, George Pantis thinks he's got it made - especially when he wins millions on a Kosovan lottery he barely remembers entering. Unfortunately, he can't access the money because he's forgotten his password. What is he meant to tell all the forceful people who keep appearing at his doorstep desperate to know his mother's maiden name? The situation is shadier than he thinks, and George is need of rescue. But will his dysfunctional family be able to save him, and in the process, can they save each other?

Hilarious new novel from the bestselling author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian . North London in the twenty-first century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to impersonate his dear departed mother, rather than lose the council flat. A time of golden job opportunities, though you might have to dress up as a coffee bean or work as an intern at an undertaker or put up with champagne and posh French dinners while your boss hits on you. A place rich in language - whether it's Romanian, Ukrainian, Russian, Swahili or buxom housing officers talking managementese. A place where husbands go absent without leave and councillors sacrifice cherry orchards at the altar of new builds. Marina Lewycka is back in this hilarious, farcical, tender novel of modern issues and manners.

Set half in Doncaster, half in London, this is a very funny riff on modern values, featuring hamsters, cockroaches, poodles, a chicken and multiplying rabbits, told by Marina Lewycka in her unique and brilliant combination of irony, farce and wit.

From bonding to bondage, from B&Q to Belarus, along with seven smelly cats, three useless handymen, two slimy estate agents, social workers, and a bonker lady, this is the story of a very unlikely friendship.

Co může mít společného Irina, mladá, krásná a vzdělaná Ukrajinka plná ideálů, Andrij, bývalý horník, sotva dospělý Malawijec Emanuel, polská ortodoxní katolička Jola, její praktická teta Marta, dvě čínské dívky a pes jménem Pes? Zdánlivě nic, snad jen místo, kde se potkávají. Na kraji jahodového pole uprostřed britského Kentu stojí dva karavany, jeden určený pro ženské sběračky jahod, druhý pro muže. Pojí je několik věcí: touha vydělat si a zajistit si tak lepší život, než jaký jim nabízí jejich rodné země a sny, naděje, touha.

In a Kent field, and around their caravans, a group of strawberry pickers celebrate a birthday. But what lies behind the buy-one-get-one-free offers at the supermarket and who picks the strawberries? The Ukrainians, the Poles, the Chinese? And although he can't pick strawberries, there's also the dog

Une brève histoire du tracteur en Ukraine raconte l'histoire hilarante de deux sœurs en conflit, Vera et Nadezhda, qui s'unissent contre la nouvelle petite amie intéressée de leur père. Deux ans après le décès de leur mère, leur père, âgé de quatre-vingt-quatre ans, tombe amoureux d'une séduisante divorcée ukrainienne de trente-six ans. Elle fait irruption dans leur vie comme une grenade rose, remuant des souvenirs enfouis et réveillant des fantômes familiaux. Les sœurs doivent mettre de côté des années de rivalité pour sauver leur père ingénieur émigré de Valentina, une femme déterminée à s'emparer de sa fortune. Avec son goût pour la lingerie en satin vert et sa cuisine rapide, elle ne reculera devant rien pour atteindre la richesse occidentale. Cependant, leur campagne pour chasser Valentina révèle des secrets de famille, dévoile cinquante ans de l'histoire la plus sombre de l'Europe et les ramène à des racines qu'elles auraient préféré oublier.