A whiff of death
En Anglais – Everyone knew that Ralph Neufeld was a careful young chemist, especially his professor, Lou Brade. That’s why Ralph’s accidental demise due to a confusion of chemicals struck Brade, as well as the police, as highly unlikely. Someone on campus had, somehow, switched bottles on poor Neufeld, and the result was as deadly as had been planned. The trouble was all the right suspects were in the wrong places when it happened…all the wrong suspects had the right motives…and the one person most qualified to solve the crime was already being considered the killer!
Messiah
En Anglais – A former reporter and a specialist in kidnap negotiations releases a debut serial killer novel that reveals the making of a mass murderer. Three bodies are found with their tongues cut out and replaced with silver spoons. The killer’s motives and methods are so elusive that talented investigator Red Metcalf must search the darkest corners of his own soul to stop the killings.
Winter house
En Anglais – In this riveting thriller from New York Times bestselling author Carol O’Connell, New York City officer Kathleen Mallory purges a woman of her mysterious past–and the flesh-and-blood ghosts of a violent family legacy. At first, NYPD detective Kathleen Mallory thinks the case is simple: a burglar caught in the act and stabbed with an ice pick by a vulnerable homeowner. Except that the dead man was not a burglar, but a hired killer. And the homeowner is the most famous missing child in NYPD history, believed kidnapped more than sixty years ago after the massacre of her entire family…by an ice pick. As Mallory investigates, an astonishing story emerges, one of murderous greed and family horror, abandonment and loss, revenge and twisted love–and a terrifying secret that has yet to claim its final victim.
Eminent Victorians
En Anglais – Eminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with skepticism and Strachey’s wit, iconoclasm, and narrative skill liberated the biographical enterprise. His portraits of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon changed perceptions of the Victorians for a generation. Lytton Strachey’s biographical essays on four “eminent Victorians” dropped an explosive charge on Victorian England when the book was published in 1918.
The virgin and the fool
En Anglais – Ukraine! The name of the country means on the edge! Living there has always been
hard. Now it’s highly dangerous too. When ex-university lecturer Tom Fielding goes on the run with Clive Ponsonby of MI6 – the man who put him in Longfield Open Prison for eight years – he has only hours in which to save several lives. Ponsonby’s former agent, Nosarenko, is now President of the the Ukraine. He is determined to silence Tom. Why? Because he was the sole witness of a gruesome murder in the 1980s which could destroy his political career.
Clive Ponsonby wants the half-million dollars that went missing during Tom’s mission in Russia.
The shadow man
En Anglais – In Berlin in 1943, he was known and dreaded as Der Schattenmann–a merciless “catcher” of Jews for the Nazis. Few saw his face and lived. In present-day Miami Beach, he has resurfaced–to silence forever the survivors who remember. Unless retired homicide detective Simon Winter can find him first.
Terre des oublis
Alors qu’elle rentre d’une journée en forêt, Miên, une jeune femme vietnamienne, se heurte à un attroupement : l’homme qu’elle avait épousé quatorze ans auparavant et qu’on croyait mort en héros est revenu. Entre-temps Miên s’est remariée avec un riche propriétaire terrien, Hoan, qu’elle aime et avec qui elle a un enfant. Mais Bôn, le vétéran communiste, réclame sa femme. Sous la pression de la communauté, Miên retourne vivre avec son premier mari. Au fil d’une narration éblouissante, l’auteur plonge dans le passé de ces trois personnages, victimes d’une société pétrie de principes moraux et politiques, tout en évoquant avec bonheur la vie quotidienne de son pays, ses sons, ses odeurs, ses couleurs… Terre des oublis, roman de l’après-guerre du Viêt-Nam, est un livre magistral.
Sam’s letters to Jennifer
En Anglais – Grief-stricken by a recent tragedy, Jennifer returns to the resort village where she grew up to help her beloved grandmother. There, Jennifer will discover new meaning in life and experience not one, but two of the most amazing love stories ever.
Martha Quest
En Anglais – Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood. She is a romantic idealistic in revolt against the puritan snobbery of her parents, trying to live to the full with every nerve, emotion, and instinct laid bare to experience. For her, this is a time of solitary reading daydreams, dancing — and the first disturbing encounters with sex. The first of Doris Lessing’s timeless Children of Violence novels, Martha Quest is an endearing masterpiece.
Earthly powers
En Anglais – Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, is regarded as one of the most original and daring writers in the English language. His work is illuminated by a dazzling imagination, by a gift for character and plot, by a talent for surprise. In Earthly Powers Burgess created his masterpiece. At its center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power—Kenneth Toomey, eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into honored, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety; and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. Through the lives of these two modern men Burgess explores the very essence of power. As each pursues his career—one to sainthood, one to wealthy exile—their relationship becomes the heart of a narrative that incorporates almost everyone of fame and distinction in the social, literary, and political life of America and Europe. This astonishing company is joined together by the art of a great novelist into an explosive and entertaining tour de force that will captivate fans of sweeping historic fiction.
Juliet, Naked
« Que fait-on lorsqu’on pense qu’on a gâché quinze ans de sa vie ? » C’est la question gênante que se posent tous les personnages du nouveau roman de Nick Hornby. Il y a Annie et Duncan, la quarantaine sonnante, dont le couple de quinze ans d’âge montre d’inquiétantes fissures. Rien d’étonnant, car à y regarder de près, on ne sait plus très bien pourquoi ils sont ensemble. Annie travaille au petit musée local de Gooleness, un job peu honorifique qui lui laisse assez de temps pour une visite hebdomadaire à son psy débutant… Mais le temps justement est devenu son pire ennemi …
En Anglais – Andrew Marshall has written an unforgettable adventure story, the wry account of two journeys into the untraveled heart of Burma. Part travelogue, part history, part reportage, The Trouser People recounts the story of George Scott, the eccentric British explorer, photographer, adventurer, and later Colonial Administrator of Burma, who introduced the Empire’s best game (soccer!) to Burmese natives and to the forbidden Wa state of headhunters, who were similarly enthusiastic about it. The second, contrasting journey is Marshall’s own, taking the same dangerous path one hundred years later in a country now devastated by colonial incompetence, war, and totalitarianism. Wonderfully observed, mordantly funny, and skillfully recounted, this is journalistic travel writing at its best.
En Anglais – “Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his fans know they are experiencing the game of essay writing at its best.”–John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review
Batavia’s graveyard
En Anglais – In 1628 the Dutch East India Company loaded the Batavia, the flagship of its fleet, with a king’s ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java; the ship itself was a tangible symbol of the world’s richest and most powerful monopoly. The company also sent along a new employee to guard its treasure. He was Jeronimus Corneliszoon, a disgraced and bankrupt man with great charisma and dangerously heretical ideas. With the help of a few disgruntled sailors, he hatched a plot to seize the ship and her riches. The mutiny might have succeeded, but in the dark morning hours of June 3, 1629, the Batavia smashed through a coral reef and ran aground on a small chain of islands near Australia. The captain and skipper escaped the wreck, and in a tiny lifeboat they set sail for Java—some 1,500 miles north—to summon help. More than 250 frightened survivors waded ashore, thankful to be alive. Unfortunately, Jeronimus and the mutineers had survived too, and the nightmare was only beginning.
Beautiful Thing
En Anglais – Sonia Faleiro was a reporter in search of a story when she met Leela, a beautiful and charismatic bar dancer with a story to tell. Leela introduced Sonia to the underworld of Bombay’s dance bars: a world of glamorous women, of fierce love, sex and violence, of customers and gangsters, of police, prostitutes and pimps. When an ambitious politician cashed in on a tide of false morality and had Bombay’s dance bars wiped out, Leela’s proud independence faced its greatest test. In a city where almost everyone is certain that someone, somewhere, is worse off than them, she fights to survive, and to win. Beautiful Thing, one of the most original works of non-fiction from India in years, is a vivid and intimate portrait of one reporter’s journey into the dark, pulsating and ultimately damaged soul of Bombay.
En Anglais – In the tradition of The Godfather, The Westies is a powerful tale spanning 60 years. A gang of Irish-Americans, the Westies patrolled Manhattan’s West Side throughout the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s. They ruled the tough blue-collar neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen, where bodies were known to literally fall from the sky.
An affair of sorcerers
En Anglais – Three apparently separate investigations involving the New York City occult underground of covens, warlocks, tarot readers, faith healers, and palm readers dovetail into a single, explosive climax.
Polar Star
En Anglais – In the long-awaited sequel to Gorky Park, Arkady Renko returns to Russia to work on the Polar Star, a huge fishing-factory ship. When a young girl is murdered, Renko is asked to investigate . . . and enters a case as chilling and gripping as his previous adventure.
Arènes Sénégalaises – Livre neuf
Livre bilingue français/anglais – Matar Ndour, photographe, montre ici les diverses facettes, aussi bien sportives que folkloriques, mystiques et populaires, qui se font jour dans un stade lors des grands combats.
Simb – Livre neuf
Dans ce livre de photographies, Laurent Gudin retrace les différentes vies du Simbkat, de son antre où il se pare des attributs du fauve, à son terrain de chasse-exhibition où il terrifie et fascine tout à la fois.
Mal de pierres
Au centre, l’héroïne: jeune Sarde étrange “aux longs cheveux noirs et aux yeux immenses”. Toujours en décalage, toujours à contretemps, toujours à côté de sa propre vie… A l’arrière-plan, les personnages secondaires, peints avec une touche d’une extraordinaire finesse: le mari, épousé par raison pendant la Seconde Guerre, sensuel taciturne à jamais mal connu; le Rescapé, brève rencontre sur le Continent, à l’empreinte indélébile; le fils, inespéré, et futur pianiste; enfin, la petite-fille, narratrice de cette histoire, la seule qui permettra à l’héroïne de se révéler dans sa vérité. Mais sait-on jamais tout de quelqu’un, aussi proche soit-il…
A crime so monstrous
En Anglais – To be a moral witness is perhaps the highest calling of journalism, and in this unforgettable, highly readable account of contemporary slavery, author Benjamin Skinner travels around the globe to personally tell stories that need to be told — and heard. As Samantha Power and Philip Gourevitch did for genocide, Skinner has now done for modern-day slavery. With years of reporting in such places as Haiti, Sudan, India, Eastern Europe, The Netherlands, and, yes, even suburban America, he has produced a vivid testament and moving reportage on one of the great evils of our time. There are more slaves in the world today than at any time in history. After spending four years visiting a dozen countries where slavery flourishes, Skinner tells the story, in gripping narrative style, of individuals who live in slavery, those who have escaped from bondage, those who own or traffic in slaves, and the mixed political motives of those who seek to combat the crime. Skinner infiltrates trafficking networks and slave sales on five continents, exposing a modern flesh trade never before portrayed in such proximity. From mega-harems in Dubai to illicit brothels in Bucharest, from slave quarries in India to child markets in Haiti, he explores the underside of a world we scarcely recognize as our own and lays bare a parallel universe where human beings are bought, sold, used, and discarded. He travels from the White House to war zones and immerses us in the political and flesh-and-blood battles on the front lines of the unheralded new abolitionist movement.
Du crime au bourreau
Les meurtres se succèdent à Daybreak, petit bourg d’Australie-Occidentale. Mais comment trouver le coupable sans mobile apparent ni preuve convaincante ? La police, bredouille, appelle l’inspecteur Napoléon Bonaparte à la rescousse. Homme à tout faire, barman, dresseur de chevaux… Bony n’aura jamais autant travaillé. Mais il n’oubliera pas son enquête et, patiemment, comme un chat guette une souris, il attendra que l’assassin commette une erreur. A l’opposé des détectives occidentaux, qui trouvent leurs marques au cœur des villes, Napoléon Bonaparte, lui, déchiffre ce qu’il appelle le “livre de la brousse”.
Homecomings
En Anglais – ‘Homecomings’ is the seventh in the ‘Strangers and Brothers’ series and sequel to ‘Time of Hope’. This complete story in its own right follows Lewis Eliot’s life through World War II. After his first wife’s death his work at the Ministry assumes a larger role. It is not until his second marriage that Eliot is able to commit himself emotionally.
A conspiracy of paper
En Anglais Benjamin Weaver, a Jew and an ex-boxer, is an outsider in eighteenth-century London, tracking down debtors and felons for aristocratic clients. The son of a wealthy stock trader, he lives estranged from his family – until he is asked to investigate his father’s sudden death. Thus Weaver descends into the deceptive world of the English stock jobbers, gliding between coffee houses and gaming houses, drawing rooms and bordellos. The more Weaver uncovers, the darker the truth becomes, until he realizes that he is following too closely in his father’s footsteps – and they just might lead him to his own grave. An enthralling historical thriller, A Conspiracy of Paper will leave readers wondering just how much has changed in the stock market in the last three hundred years …
The Katanga run
En Anglais It was in the Congo, after the bitter battle for independance had been won and peace had collapsed into chaos, that the word “mercenary” first hit the headlines … To the Congo came idealists and adventurers, revolutionaries with dreams and opportunists with desires …..
Skin privilege
En Anglais In a stifling jail cell in a run-down Georgia town, detective Lena Adams sits in self-imposed silence, bruised, angry, and the only suspect in a horrific murder that left a woman incinerated beyond recognition. A hundred miles away, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver receives the call.
Nightlines
En Anglais McGahern began his career as a schoolteacher at Scoil Eoin Báiste (Belgrove) primary school in Clontarf, Ireland, where, for a period, he taught the eminent academic Declan Kiberd before turning to writing full-time. McGahern’s second novel ‘The Dark’ was banned in Ireland for its alleged pornographic content and implied clerical sexual abuse. In the controversy over this he was forced to resign his teaching post. He subsequently moved to England where he worked in a variety of jobs before returning to Ireland to live and work on a small farm in Fenagh in County Leitrim, located halfway between Ballinamore and Mohill. His third novel ‘Amongst Women’ was shortlisted for the 1990 Man Booker Prize.
He died from cancer in Dublin on March 30, 2006.
Hard news
En Anglais Gideon McCarthy is a disgraced reporter trying to work his way off the night cops beat. Scarred by personal tragedy, locked in a bitter custody battle for two young children, he believes his career is all but over. If he has any hope of redemption, he must solve a series of savage killings. Prentice LaFontaine is McCarthy’s best friend, gossip extraordinaire and the black’s
The pillars of the earth
En Anglais – Everything readers expect from Follett is here: intrigue, fast-paced action, and passionate romance. But what makes The Pillars of the Earth extraordinary is the time the twelfth century; the place feudal England; and the subject the building of a glorious cathedral. Follett has re-created the crude, flamboyant England of the Middle Ages in every detail. The vast forests, the walled towns, the castles, and the monasteries become a familiar landscape. Against this richly imagined and intricately interwoven backdrop, filled with the ravages of war and the rhythms of daily life, the master storyteller draws the reader irresistibly into the intertwined lives of his characters into their dreams, their labors, and their loves: Tom, the master builder; Aliena, the ravishingly beautiful noblewoman; Philip, the prior of Kingsbridge; Jack, the artist in stone; and Ellen, the woman of the forest who casts a terrifying curse. From humble stonemason to imperious monarch, each character is brought vividly to life. The building of the cathedral, with the almost eerie artistry of the unschooled stonemasons, is the center of the drama. Around the site of the construction, Follett weaves a story of betrayal, revenge, and love, which begins with the public hanging of an innocent man and ends with the humiliation of a king.
Pale saint – Dark homecoming
En Anglais – 2 volumes – Pale Satin : Eric Lustbader takes us to the cutting edge of technology with this unique novel of suspense. New York City Homicide Detective Jon Christopher has a perfect record bringing serial killers to justice, but now all that has changed: the genocidal maniac dubbed the Pale Saint has eluded him for 18 months. When Christopher’s best friend, assistant D.A. Bobby Austin becomes the Pale Saint’s latest victim, Christopher’s need to catch the killer becomes of matter of personal obsession. Forced to take desparate measures in order to track down the Pale Saint, Christopher enlists an unexpected partner, the great lost love of his life, Austin’s widow, Cassandra, a brilliant genetic engineer. Together they make a cataclysmic decision: they will create and train a clone of the Pale Saint, his mirror image, to become the human bullet that will bring the wily killer down. Eric Lustbader’s new novel is an intense, breathless chase to root out and destroy the ultimate evil. And in redefining the age-old mysteries of love and death, loyalty and betrayal, sin and redemption, Pale Saint forces us to confront the most profound questions of our time: What defines a human being? What constitutes a family? What right do scientists have to breach the barrier of the unknown? – Dark Homecoming : Lew Croaker is trying to mind his own business in Miami when he gets caught up with the sinister Bonita brothers. When his niece takes an overdose and needs a kidney transplant, Croaker has to make a terrifying decision – can he kill a friend to save his own flesh and blood?
Devil’s peak
En Anglais – From rising South African thriller writer Deon Meyer, a gripping suspense novel about revenge, forgiveness, and the race to catch a trained killer. A young woman makes a terrible confession to a priest. An honorable man takes his own revenge for an unspeakable tragedy. An aging inspector tries to get himself sober while taking on the most difficult case of his career. From this beginning, Deon Meyer weaves a story of astonishing complexity and suspense, as Inspector Benny Griessel faces off against a dangerous vigilante who has everything on his side, including public sympathy. A gruesome abuse case has hit the newsstands, and one man has taken it upon himself to stand up for the children of Cape Town. When the accused is found stabbed through the heart by spear, it’s only the beginning of a string of bloody murders – and of a dangerous dilemma for detective Griessel. The detective is always just one step behind as someone slays the city’s killers. But the paths of Griessel and the avenger collide when a young prostitute lures them both into a dangerous plan – and the two find themselves with a heart-stopping problem that no system of justice could ever make right.
Isabelle, petite sœur des années folles
C’est une histoire de terroir et d’enfance. Quelque chose de simple ; ou presque tout est inventé. C’est en fait une histoire d’amour entre des enfants que la vie puis la guerre s’amusent à séparer, et d’amour pour un terroir aussi. Le point de départ se situe “sur le chemin de l’école”, dans le village même où il a grandi. La Vienne restera le cadre des épisodes suivants. “Un été à la ferme” sera la 2ème partie, alors que la guerre plante le décor de leur adolescence. Le départ du garçon pour le maquis Joël, “la résistance”, sera la 3ème partie ; puis son retour enfin. On ne démélera pas le vrai de l’imaginaire dans cette prose simple et sensible. Son titre “Isabelle, petite sœur des années folles, entretient après tout le sytère d’une relation qu’on sent encore vivante.
Reading in the Dark
En Anglais – Hugely acclaimed in Great Britain, where it was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and short-listed for the Booker, Seamus Deane’s first novel is a mesmerizing story of childhood set against the violence of Northern Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. The boy narrator grows up haunted by a truth he both wants and does not want to discover. The matter: a deadly betrayal, unspoken and unspeakable, born of political enmity. As the boy listens through the silence that surrounds him, the truth spreads like a stain until it engulfs him and his family. And as he listens, and watches, the world of legend–the stone fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly–reveals its transfixing reality. Meanwhile the real world of adulthood unfolds its secrets like a collection of folktales: the dead sister walking again; the lost uncle, Eddie, present on every page; the family house “as cunning and articulate as a labyrinth, closely designed, with someone sobbing at the heart of it.” Seamus Deane has created a luminous tale about how childhood fear turns into fantasy and fantasy turns into fact. Breathtakingly sad but vibrant and unforgettable, Reading in the Dark is one of the finest books about growing up–in Ireland or anywhere–that has ever been written.
Les Plaideurs
Il s’est agi pour Racine de privilégier le langage et le mouvement, et surtout, le mouvement du langage. Les coups ont beau tomber sur le dos d’un faux sergent qui les réclame, le juge fou a beau ouvrir une audience sous les gouttières et tenter de la poursuivre depuis le soupirail de la cave au fond de laquelle il finit par se fracasser le crâne, il a beau s’endormir au milieu de la plaidoirie de l’Intimé et se réveiller brutalement pour condamner le chien « aux galères », ce n’est pas le comique de geste, de situation et de mouvement qui fait le sel de son travail : Les Plaideurs reposent avant tout sur la « grâce » d’un comique verbal exceptionnel.
Le secret des papes
David Ben Zion, le légendaire chef du Mossad, se lance dans la plus folle aventure de sa carrière : retrouver le chandelier à sept branches, pris par le général Titus en 70 de notre ère, lors de la destruction du Temple de Jérusalem. Personne n’a jamais revu ce trésor unique, fabriqué par Moïse sur les instructions de Dieu. En or massif et fait d’une seule pièce, le chandelier est le plus grand symbole du sacerdoce biblique. Son retour à Jérusalem annoncera l’arrivée du Messie. Ainsi sera évitée cette menace d’un nouveau genre qui pèse sur le peuple juif : l’assimilation et, par conséquent, sa disparition. Convaincu que le chandelier se trouve au Vatican, dans une cave enfouie à plusieurs mètres sous terre dont les papes seuls se transmettent le secret depuis des siècles, David Ben Zion monte une formidable opération clandestine au cœur de la Ville éternelle. Se croyant désormais investi d’une mission divine, il n’hésitera pas à utiliser toutes les ressources de l’espionnage pour réussir. De Rome à Jérusalem, de New York au mont Sinaï, c’est au péril de son âme que l’espion de Dieu se jette dans cette quête hors du commun qui va le laisser seul face aux mystères effrayants du monde invisible : Un thriller spirituel dont les véritables héros sont peut-être Dieu et le diable…
La ferme d’Eden
Tout est paisible, dans la ferme d’Eden, près de la vieille Donahue Highway, la route désaffectée qui mène à Mullia, à cent-vingt kilomètres et à Lumberry, à cent-soixante kilomètres. Dans ce Queensland australien rongé par un soleil implacable, au milieu de bush quasi desertique, vit pieusement la famille du R.P. Jason Fennymore. Il y a là l’ancêtre: ” Grandma”, gardienne des traditions calvinistes, Jason junior, Jeremiah et Charlotte, les enfants et Rebecca, la douce et belle Rebecca, la femme du pasteur. la vie quotidienne se déroule presqu’immuable, soumise aux rites qu’impose la parole biblique. Jusqu’au jour où… … Jusqu’au jour où surgit le trio infernal; le gang de Lou Davies. – Ici Jud Zermatt… Mullia Police… Vous m’entendez? Le gang Davies a attaqué la Commonwealth Bank, à Mount Isa… Huit innocents tués. Davies se dirige vers vous… L’arrivée des bandits va tout changer à la ferme d’Eden. Des envoyés du diable, à coup sûr.
A travers le mur
“Allez, c’est l’heure exquise où l’on choisit un fauteuil et où l’on s’offre une heure ailleurs. Du côté du polar. Pour ceux qui ont envie de douceur, aucune hésitation : Patricia Wentworth. Encore une Anglaise, maligne comme un chat, qui sait combiner remarquablement le five o’clock tea et le sang sur le tapis. C’est anodin, c’est gracieux, c’est parfois irremplaçable : car le monde apparaît alors comme délicieusement inoffensif. Les charmantes Anglaises, de Dorothy Sayers à Ngaio Marsh, sont une thérapeutique. L’espace d’une lecture, on est protégé. C’est précieux comme un conte de fées.”
L’empreinte du passé
Huis-clos au bord de la mer : perchée sur la falaise, une grande maison pleine de parents et d’amis réunis pour le temps des vacances. Mais le retour soudain d’Alan Field semble mettre les nerfs de chacun à dure épreuve. L’angoisse qui monte, irrépressible, s’achèvera par un meurtre dont tous seront suspects et soupçonnés… Silencieuse, Miss Silver observe chaque geste. Son air anodin de gouvernante absorbée par son tricot est pour elle un atout précieux, qui lui permettra de démasquer le criminel.
Le point de non-retour
Une demeure ancestrale, une jeune infirme, un bel inconnu égaré, la campagne anglaise… Ce décor serait banal si Maggie Bell n’en disparaissait soudain, comme par enchantement. Et Miss Silver, appelée à la rescousse, devra exploiter une fois de plus les ingénieuses ressources de son esprit, acéré comme une aiguille à tricoter, pour démêler un prodigieux écheveau de ragots et de faux bruits, et découvrir ainsi une vérité qui – comme toujours – se cache au fond du puits.
Le tombeau de Saqqarah
Retrouver le ” rouleau de Thot “, un papyrus rédigé de la main même du dieu qui confère le pouvoir sur la mort et la résurrection : tel est le rêve du prince Kâemouaset, fils de Ramsès II, érudit, médecin et magicien. Inlassablement, il fouille la nécropole de Saqqarah, violant les sépultures et troublant le repos des momies. Mais on ne cherche pas impunément à se hisser au rang des dieux, et la vengeance de Thot sera terrible. Fresque historique et conte magique, cette quête démesurée plonge le lecteur dans la mystérieuse et fascinante Egypte des pharaons, où chacun, paysan du Nil, scribe ou roi, vit de plain-pied avec le sacré et le surnaturel.
Falling Angels
En Anglais – In her New York Times bestselling follow-up, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters. Told through a variety of shifting perspectives- wives and husbands, friends and lovers, masters and their servants, and a gravedigger’s son-Falling Angels follows the fortunes of two families in the emerging years of the twentieth century.
Au bout de la nuit
Déclarée morte après une noyade et attendant d’être autopsiée, une inconnue se réveille brusquement à la morgue. Désormais bien en vie, la jeune femme abat un garde avant de prendre plusieurs personnes en otage dans l’hôpital. Parmi elles, Jane Rizzoli, inspectrice de la criminelle enceinte de neuf mois. Qui est cette inconnue ? et que veut-elle ? Jane se promet de résoudre ce mystère, encore faut-il qu’elle survive à cette longue nuit…
L’ermite de la forêt d’Eyton
Un tout jeune garçon, une formidable grand-mère qui souhaite le marier, un ermite qui mène la danse (ou le sabbat ?) au fond des forêts, et, bien sûr, ce fin limier de frère Cadfael flairant le crime passé ou à venir, tels sont les ingrédients du suspense d'Ellis Peters. Le sang coule, les cœurs battent plus vite peut-être qu'aujourd'hui. Mais il suffit d'ouvrir le livre pour être au diapason de ce Moyen Âge si violent et si chaleureux. C'était hier, en 1142, quelque part en Grande-Bretagne…
Une partie du tout
Stupéfiant d’imagination, de drôlerie et de profondeur, un premier roman époustouflant, finaliste du prestigieux Man Booker Prize. Porté par une véritable dynamite verbale, un mélange détonant entre roman d’aventures, farce jubilatoire et conte philosophique. Une flamboyante odyssée familiale, du bush australien au Paris bohème et à la jungle thaïlandaise, des années 1960 à nos jours. Toute sa vie, Jasper Dean a hésité entre détester, plaindre, adorer et assassiner son père, Martin. Maintenant que Martin est mort, Jasper peut revenir à loisir sur le cas de ce philosophe autodidacte, génie méconnu et féroce misanthrope qui s’est brûlé les ailes à vouloir sortir de l’ombre de son frère Terry, Robin des bois moderne adulé des foules en Australie. De dépressions passagères en illuminations foudroyantes, d’amours contrariées en atroces trahisons, de clubs de strip-tease en paquebots clandestins, père et fils vont se retrouver embarqués dans une aventure qui les dépasse.
Le murmure des pierres
Dans les méandres de la fascinante ville de Bath, un roman passionnant, impossible à lâcher. Atmosphère troublante, tension constante, révélations explosives, une intrigue palpitante soutenue par une construction virtuose. Ingénieur réputée, Kit Parry a passé la moitié de sa vie à tenter d’oublier le drame survenu lors de cet étouffant été de ses quatorze ans. Pourtant, au fond d’elle-même, elle sait qu’en acceptant cette mission dans les carrières de sa ville natale, elle risque de se retrouver face à des secrets qu’elle croyait profondément enfouis… En attendant, Kit a d’autres chats à fouetter : son ex-mari lui réclame de l’argent, sa nouvelle équipe ne lui réserve pas le meilleur accueil et une voix anonyme lui fait clairement comprendre qu’elle aurait intérêt à quitter la ville au plus vite…
Souvenez-vous de moi
En attendant de devenir célèbre, Eric Cash gère un restaurant dans le Lower East Side, un quartier à double visage avec ses lieux branchés pour bobos et ses vieux immeubles où cohabitent dealers et immigrés. Deux mondes qui entrent en collision quand Eric et un de ses barmans se font braquer un soir de bringue… Avec Clockers, Ville noire, ville blanche, Le Samaritain et Les Seigneurs, tous publiés aux Presses de la Cité, Richard Price s’est imposé comme l’un des plus grands romanciers de l’Amérique urbaine. Dialoguiste étincelant, Richard Price a signé le scénario de La couleur de l’argent, réalisé par Martin Scorsese, et est actuellement coscénariste de la série The Wire.