Jonathan Buckley Livres

Naomi arrive chez sa sœur Kate avec l’intention de lui dire au revoir. Un au revoir aux curieux accents d’adieu. Elle quitte Londres pour se retirer au fin fond de l’Écosse en compagnie d’un certain Bernát qu’elle considère comme un visionnaire. À travers une série d’histoires et les méandres tortueux de la mémoire, Naomi révèle peu à peu l’insaisissable Bernát, imposteur ou génie. Entre illusions et réalité, plusieurs strates de récits se jettent dans le fleuve des jours et mènent à une fin obsédante et mystérieuse.

The Rough Guide to Venice and the Veneto is the definitive handbook to Europe''s most beautiful city and its hinterland. The guide includes detailed accounts of all Venice''s monuments and museums, from San Marco to the far-flung islands. There is vivid background on the city''s history and culture, with the lowdown on the Biennale, Carnevale and other special events. For every area, there are comprehensive reviews of restaurants, bars and accommodation in every price range. Finally, there is detailed coverage of Verona, Padua, Vicenza, Treviso and a host of other Veneto towns and sights.

Venice received around 3.16 million visitors in 2014 (Source: http: //blog.euromonitor.com), Easy to use, inspirational and pocket-sized, not to mention topical - includes features on the recent polls in favour of Veneto independence and the controversy surrounding the disastrous Canal Grande bridge designed by Santago Calatrava, With handy pull-out map, tailored itineraries and tips on how to escape the crowds, Rough Guides was the No.3 travel publisher in 2014, worth over £3 million (Nielsen Bookscan, 2014)

With reviews of the best places to eat, drink and stay, to suit all budgets, this guide has accounts of sights from hill-town frescos and churches to the sulphur baths of Bagno Vignoni and Carrarra's marble quarries. It has tips on activities from the Siena Palio to the Gubbio candle race.

Text and photographs portray the life of Ernest Hemingway from birth to death, with many photographs published here for the first time.

The new, full-colour Rough Guide to Tuscany and Umbria is the ultimate travel guide to some of Europe's most popular tourist destinations. Covering the region more comprehensively than any other guide, it's packed with up-to-date and expert information on all the attractions, from the great museums of Florence and Siena to the tiny rural hill-towns, as well as guiding you to the best of the beaches, forests, mountains and vineyard-clad hills. It also it gives you the lowdown on the best hotels and restaurants for all budgets, and illuminates the sights with background information on history, folklore, art, architecture and festivals. Dozens of photographs and easy-to-use colour maps complete a guide that has long been established as the best you can buy. Make the most of your time on Earth™ with The Rough Guide to Tuscany and Umbria.

A century ago the Continental traipse was an accepted rite of passage. Well, viva the European tour. It's as alluring as it ever was, but all the particulars have changed. With planes, trains, hovercrafts, and rental cars, visas, red tape, and political conflict, an up-to-date guide is a necessity. This one covers 30 countries--everything from Austria to Turkey--including Morocco, Estonia, and Greece. The guide is peppered with informative insights into the culture, history, and pulse of each country, city, and village, and there are 100 maps with eight color transportation guides bringing the Paris Metro, Greek ferry system, and London Underground to easily legible life. Add in nightlife, accommodations, sights to see, cafés to find, and festivals to attend, and the Rough Guide to Europe is a tremendous achievement.

Following in the wake of his highly praised first two books, Jonathan Buckley’s ‘Ghost MacIndoe’ is a bold and ambitious novel that focuses on the life of Alexander MacIndoe, a self-centred man who is characterised only by his physical beauty and a complete lack of will.Jonathan Buckley’s third novel opens with Alexander MacIndoe’s earliest a February morning in 1944, in the aftermath of the second wave of German air-raids. Set mainly in London and Brighton, Ghost MacIndoe is the story of the next fifty-four years of Alexander’s life. We meet his glamorous mother and his father, a pioneering plastic surgeon; a traumatised war veteran called Mr Beckwith with whom Alexander works for several years as a gardener and, most important of all, the orphaned Megan Beckwith, whose relationship with Alexander crystallises into a romance in the 1970s. In the wake of his highly praised first two novels, Jonathan Buckley’s third miraculously brings into being one simple life and the last sixty years of English history.

David's introspective journey begins after a solitary New Year's Eve, ignited by memories of his former lover, Imogen. As a curator at the quirky Sanderson-Perceval Museum, he finds beauty in the unconventional and forgotten. His journal, a tapestry of thoughts and reflections, defies linear storytelling, weaving together past relationships, musings on female saints, and the history of medicine. This narrative captures the essence of a man grappling with loss, nostalgia, and the allure of the nonutilitarian in a richly textured exploration of life.

A deeply resonant novel about mortality and love.