In Blithe Spirit, Charles Condomine receives a visit from his first wife, Elvira; unfortunately, Charles is now married to Ruth, and Elvira is a ghost. The bohemian protagonists of Hay Fever wreak...
Dans Folioplus classiques, le texte intégral, enrichi d'une lecture d'image, écho pictural de l'oeuvre, et suivi de sa mise en perspective organisée en six points: - Mouvement...
'Well, little people, what's the news?' You can meet the big, happy Bell family who live in the vicarage at St Marks. Father is a reverend, Mother is as kind as kind can be. Then...
**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**Set over three explosive days, this is compulsive, heart-pounding storytelling that will keep you on the edge of your seat. He thought she was safe. Then the past...
From one of Latin America's finest writers comes a mesmerizing novel about the legendary Eva Peron. Bigger than fiction, Eva Peron was the poor-trash girl who reinvented herself as a beauty,...
Winner of the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction A profound and profoundly important book--a moving personal detective story, an uncovering of secret pasts, and a book that explores the...
Often forgotten and overlooked, the U.S.-Mexican War featured false starts, atrocities, and daring back-channel negotiations as it divided the nation, paved the way for the Civil War a generation...
Can we truly know the one we love? In this book, the author looks straight into the green eye of every lover's jealous struggle, and also broods on why we are driven to try and possess one...
'There is no such thing as autobiography, there is only art and lies'. Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters, Handel, Picasso and Sappho, separately flee the...
This is a darkly glinting novel set on Ireland's Atlantic coast, The Green Road is a story of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion - a book about the gaps in the human heart and how...
Comment à force de bluff, de supposés miracles et de faux certificats délivrés par des médecins complaisants on parvient à fabriquer une ville d'eaux et à lotir au plus haut prix un paysage...
Jazz Age celebrity Idina Sackville dazzled men and women alike, and made a habit of marrying whenever she fell in love--five husbands in all and lovers without number. Hers was the age of bolters,...
Eine Reise um die Welt aus 26 Erzählungen, vom Canal de l'Ourcq bis nach Ostende, von Aubervilliers nach Nouméa (Neukaledonien), von La Rochelle nach Quebec und von Bordeaux zu den Antillen....
SELIN IS THE LUCKIEST PERSON IN HER FAMILY:The only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's her second year, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first...
*AS SEEN ON ITV'S THIS MORNING* - THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * The groundbreaking bestseller from Tim Spector, author of The Diet Myth and creator of the COVID Symptom Study app. 'A...
Richard Wright's memoir of his childhood as a young black boy in the American south of the 1920s and 30s is a stark depiction of African-American life and a powerful exploration of racial...
The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what...
Il suivait la Dieffenbachstrasse. Une averse tombait, une averse d'été dont la violence s'atténuait a mesure qu'il marchait en s'abritant sous les arbres. Longtemps, il avait pensé...
Reissue of his debut novel, set in Paris in 1968. Christopher and Toni are eager to challenge the constraints of suburbia, but middle age sees Chris settling into bourgeois contentment.
Set in the bleak Fen Country of East Anglia, and spanning some 240 years in the lives of its haunted narrator and his ancestors, Waterland is a book that takes in eels and incest, ale-making and...
National Bestseller "A beautifully written memoir about the life of a woman in science, a brilliant friendship, and the profundity of trees. Terrific." --Barack Obama, via Facebook Winner...