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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Every secret thing
En anglais – A passionate witness to the colossal upheaval that has transformed her native South Africa, Gillian Slovo has written a memoir that is far more than a story of her own life. For she is the daughter of Joe Slovo and Ruth First, South Africa’s pioneering anti-apartheid white activists, a daughter who always had to come second to political commitment. Whilst recalling the extraordinary events which surrounded her family’s persecution and exile, and reconstructing the truth of her parents’ relationship and her own turbulent childhood, Gillian Slovo has also created an astonishing portrait of a courageous mother and a father of integrity and stoicism.
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.
La Veuve
Meurtrière ou pas ? Tout en scrutant la jeune veuve, Connor Maguire s’interroge : cette beauté diaphane au regard perdu a-t-elle assassiné son vieux mari, Aristide Pompasse, le plus célèbre peintre de son temps ? Même si nul ne parle encore de crime, lui, Maguire, ancien reporter, sait reconnaître un meurtre. Et le cadavre du peintre ne l’a pas trompé. Si Maguire a commencé à s’intéresser au peintre peu avant sa mort, c’est pour des raisons bassement mercantiles. Mais le voici maintenant poussé par la curiosité, n’hésitant pas à se faire passer pour un assureur et à enquêter discrètement dans la superbe résidence toscane du défunt. Une résidence où Charlie, l’épouse légitime qui a quitté le foyer conjugal plusieurs années auparavant, est revenue pour régler la succession. Entouré des « femmes » du peintre – la vieille favorite, la dernière maîtresse, Charlie -, Maguire cherche à résoudre le mystère de cette mort. Et dans la clarté chaude et ambrée de la campagne toscane, il est prêt à tout pour arriver à ses fins. A tout, y compris à séduire Charlie.