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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L’homme fatal
Il s’appelle Steiner. Il se dit psy-chiatre. Lorsque Juliet Osborne, la quarantaine indépendante, le voit entrer, dans sa vie, elle est aussitôt partagée entre l’attirance et la peur. Elle découvrira peu à peu que Steiner n’est pas seulement un Don Juan, un collectionneur de femmes. Expert à jouer des fantasmes féminins, il choisit des victimes en apparence épanouies, mais fragilisées par le mythe de l’éternelle jeunesse. Et c’est ainsi qu’il les mène savamment, méthodiquement, vers leur perte.
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.
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?