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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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’.
Une mélodie de velours
Pour échapper à Lord Pagnell, Alyx se déguise en garçon et s’enfuit à travers les bois. Elle decient écuyer dans la bande de hors-la-loi du renégat Raine Montgomery qui a remarqué la jolie femme sous le déguisement. Entre eux commence alors un jeu de séduction.
L'histoire diplomatique et secrète des relations et des conflits entre les papes (de Benoît XV à Jean-Paul II) et les chefs du Kremlin ainsi que les apparatchiks des anciennes démocraties populaires.
Once were warriors
En Anglais – The Hekes are a family in turmoil. A tyrannical, alcoholic, violent patriarch, an alcoholic, ever-trying-to-reform mother, and three degenerate children. Can the draw Maori ritual and tradition pull them back from the brink?