Paris, 1785. Une odeur pestilentielle s'est emparée du coeur de la capitale. Des caves avoisinantes aux étals des marchands, le cimetière des Saints-Innocents déborde, pourrit à ciel ouvert, contamine tout le quartier. À Versailles, on s'inquiète. Chargé de résoudre le problème, le jeune ingénieur ...
Tout oppose Maud et Tim. Fille unique de parents modestes, c'est une scientifique brillante et une femme pondérée. Issu d'une famille nombreuse aisée, il est musicien et un peu bohème. Elle est secrète, réticente à la vie, lui exprime ouvertement ses sentiments. Ils forment pourtant un couple dont l...
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free , by the Costa Award-winning author of PURE , is a stunning historical novel with the grip of a thriller, written in richly evocative, luminous prose. 'A writer of very rare and outstanding gifts' - Independent on Sunday One rainswept winter's night in 1809, a...
The author of the prize-winning, hugely acclaimed INGENIOUS PAIN returns to the 18th century with an enthralling tale set in pre-revolutionary Paris. ...
Sous les paillettes, Nick Platt écume les nuits moscovites et jouit de sa réputation d'avocat sans regarder de trop près les contrats douteux dont il s'occupe. Il est bien trop affairé à porter assistance à Masha, cette belle inconnue en détresse... Mais l'hiver russe est impitoyable et certains coe...
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A. D. Miller's Snowdrops is an intensely riveting psychological drama that unfolds over the course of one Moscow winter, as a young Englishman's moral compass is spun by the seductive opportunities revealed to him by a new Russia: a land of hedonism and desperation, corruption and kindness, magical ...
@2@@18@She is sailing. She is alone. Ahead of her is the world's curve and beyond that, everything else. The known, the imagined, the imagined known.@19@@3@@2@Who else has entered Tim's life the way Maud did? This girl who fell past him, lay seemingly dead on the ground, then stood and walked. That ...
Turn a betrayal inside out and you found its opposite, a secret and a bond. Perhaps that was what friendship came down to: a lifelong, affectionate mutual blackmail. Neil and Adam, two young men on the cusp of adulthood, meet one golden summer in California and, despite their different background...