Extraordinaire interprète de l'opéra de Puccini Madame Butterfly, la cantatrice Tamaki Miura donne ce soir un dernier récital bouleversant. Parmi les spectateurs, Kiyohara se remémore un autre...
In this perceptive and provocative look at everything from computer software that requires faster processors and more support staff to antibiotics that breed resistant strains of bacteria, Edward...
Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and...
'A sensual and intellectual pleasure from start to finish' - Deborah LevyWe are all dressed. But how often do we pause to think about the place of our clothes in our lives? What unconscious...
Zwei längere Erzählungen über das Schicksal zweier junger Frauen in schwierigen Lebens- und Familienverhältnissen. June, die eine der beiden, begeht auf einer einsamen pazifischen Insel einen...
Une jeune femme est assassinée après un rendez-vous pris sur un site de rencontres. Les violentes marques de morsures dans son cou laissent les enquêteurs sans voix. Deux jours plus tard, le corps...
Peintre, graveur, décorateur, Pierre Bonnard a travaillé sans relâche à simplifier la forme et à exalter la couleur, car, disait-il, "la couleur agit". Attentif à tous les mouvements...
In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the...
A poignant story of arranged marriage and forbidden love, set in rural China, which paints a vivid picture of a China which remains hidden to western eyes.
40 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDEHe's the best cop they've got. When a drug bust turns into a bloodbath it's up to Inspector Macbeth and his team to clean up the mess. He's also an...
Arguably America's greatest living poet, Sharon Olds enters her eightieth year with a book for our times: a book of fear, fragility and love of life.'At the time of have-not, I look at...
THE UNTOLD STORY OF BRITAIN'S MOST SECRETIVE SPECIAL FORCES UNITJune 1942. The shadow of the Third Reich falls across Europe. In desperation, Winston Churchill and his chief of staff form an...
Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the...
One of the country's most distinguished scholars presents a brilliantly original approach to the twin dilemmas of abortion and euthanasia, showing why they arouse such volcanic controversy and...
John Julius Norwich's A History of Venice has been dubbed "indispensable" aby none other than Jan Morris. Now, in his second book on the city once known as La Serenissima, Norwich...
In this inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories, Simon Sebag Montefiore--one of our pre-eminent historians and a prizewinning...