Robert Woolley
Going Once: A Memoir of Art, Society, and Charity
En Anglais – A legend in the field of auctioneering describes his career at Sotheby’s, giving a backstage look at the world of privilege and art, and explains how AIDS has changed his life.
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The new italians
En Anglais – Italy has seduced generations with its sunshine, landscapes, art treasures and the warmth and vitality of its people, devoted to style, sensuality and the pleasures of life. The reality is less rosy. Italy is as exasperating as it is enchanting. Appalling public services, a rotten political class, the creeping tentacles of the Mafia, the all-forgiving Mother Church and infinitely indulgent ‘mamma’ have long prevented Italians facing up to their collective failings. In ‘The New Italians’, journalist Charles Richards paints a compelling group portrait of the country and people, spanning football to Freemansonry, kickbacks to kidnappings. He concludes that however much things change, the Italians will remain essentially the same, and pull through with their customary ‘brio’.
The smell of apples
En Anglais – – Set in the bitter twilight of apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s, The Smell of Apples is a haunting story narrated by eleven-year-old Marnus Erasmus, who records the social turmoil and racial oppression that are destroying his own land. Using his family as a microcosm of the corroding society at large, Marnus tells a troubling tale of a childhood corrupted, of unexpected sexual defilements, and of an innocence gone astray.
Les Gaulois sont-ils nos ancêtres? Ou plutôt, sommes-nous leurs descendants? Nos pays ont connu bien des bouleversements depuis l’époque celte, et pourtant… En lisant ces légendes et récits, en découvrant une sensibilité proche de la nature, un goût du fantastique et un sens du réel étroitement mêlés, nous nous sen-tons en effet de la même famille. Les Gaulois ne nous ont pas laissé d’écrits. Certaines de leurs histoires, certains de leurs exploits ont cependant traversé les siècles… et sont arrivés jusqu’à nous. A la fin de ce poche, vous trouverez un mini-dossier illustré, pour mieux connaître l’histoire et la vie quotidienne des personnages rencontrés dans ces récits, contes et légendes.