Jo Tatchell
A diamond in the desert
Barely forty years ago, Abu Dhabi was a fishing village on the Arabian Gulf. Now the capital of the United Arab Emirates, its citizens are each worth $17 million, it holds major stakes in Western economies, and has money to burn. In this timely, revealing and evocative portrait of a global player, Jo Tatchell traces the emirate’s dramatic development and the sometimes ruinous effect of extreme wealth on its people and their desert culture. And as its rulers fund another giant leap forward, she probes behind the official facade to examine whether this secretive and controlled society can realise its breathtaking plans to transform relations between East and West.
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Printemps 1987, la France découvre Vanessa Paradis, une jeune lolita accompagnée de son célèbre taxi jaune. Sa carrière débute avec un immense tube qui aura la primeur d’être numéro 1 dans tous les pays d’Europe. Si le public se passionne pour cette jeune vedette, ce fantastique succès ne plaît pas à tout le monde. Mais la jeune star n’est pas du genre à se laisser impressionner. Au contraire, ces attaques feront sa force. L’auteur décrypte ici une personnalité complète et attachante qui a su gagner sur tous les fronts, et devenir l’incarnation glamour et chic du rock français.
The bodies left behind
En anglais – When a night-time call to 911 from a secluded Wisconsin vacation house is cut short, offduty deputy Brynn McKenzie leaves her husband and son at the dinner table and drives up to Lake Mondac to investigate. Was it a misdial or an aborted crime report ? Brynn stumbles onto a scene of true horror and narrowly escapes from two professional criminals. She and a terrified visitor to the weekend house, Michelle, flee into the woods in a race for their lives. As different as night and day, and stripped of modern-day resources, Brynn, a tough deputy with a difficult past, and Michelle, a pampered city girl, must overcome their natural reluctance to trust each other and learn to use their wits and courage to survive the relentless pursuit. The deputy’s disappearance spurs both her troubled son and her new husband into action, while the incident sets in motion Brynn’s loyal fellow deputies and elements from Milwaukee’s underside. These various forces race along inexorably toward the novel’s gritty and stunning conclusion.
We need to talk about Ross
En anglais – Ross O’Carroll-Kelly is many things to many people. But ten years after he lifted the Leinster Schools Senior Cup, Ireland’s most beloved rogue remains one of its most misunderstood figures. His accomplishments on the rugby field – and in the bedroom – remain the stuff of legend, but the truth about him remains hidden by the accretion of myth. Now, for the first time, the lid is lifted on the enigma that is South Dublin’s most eligible married man. In more than a hundred interviews with his family and friends – those who’ve loved him, hated him and slept with him – the first ever composite portrait of the Celtic Tiger’s most famous cub emerges. From the mother who didn’t want him to the father who wanted him too much, from the friends who shared his misadventures to the women who shared his bed – or, failing that, a back alley or bus shelter – this searingly honest biography fills in all the blanks in the life of the self-styled Cock of Foxrock.
Les tribulations d’une caissière
Elle s’appelle Anna, elle a vingt-huit ans, un diplôme universitaire de littérature et huit ans d’expérience derrière une caisse de supermarché. Un métier peu propice aux échanges, ponctué de gestes automatiques… Anna aurait pu se sentir devenir un robot si elle n’avait eu l’idée de raconter son travail, jour après jour. Elle vous a vu passer à la caisse. Vous avez été des clients faciles ou des emmerdeurs, riches ou pauvres, complexés de la consommation ou frimeurs. Vous l’avez confondue avec une plante verte ou vous lui avez dit bonjour, vous avez trépigné à l’ouverture du magasin ou avez été l’habitué nonchalant des fermetures. Anna, vous l’avez draguée, méprisée, insultée. Il ne se passe rien dans la vie d’une caissière ? Maintenant, prenez votre chariot et suivez Anna jusqu’à sa caisse.