Douglas Boyd
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.
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The messengers
Nick Bunick was confronted by angels. It will change your life forever… Prominent and successful Portland, Oregon, businessman Nick Bunick never considered himself a particularly religious person. But he knew in his heart that he had experienced something extraordinary in a past life. Anxious to share it, but convinced that his story would seem unbelievable to most people, he kept it to himself. Then, two years ago, angels intervened. Nick came to understand that angels were prevailing upon him to tell his story — a story that began 2,000 years ago when he lived as Paul the Apostle, and walked alongside Jesus. An inspiring chronicle of the angelic visitations that led Nick to finally share his memories, The Messengers also illuminates the events of his life as Paul. Rich with the wisdom and awe borne of Nick’s incredible encounter with Jesus, this magnificent book truly signals a return to the Age of Miracles.
Papon, un intrus dans la République
Maurice Papon, secrétaire général de la préfecture de la Gironde de 1942 à 1944, est le seul haut fonctionnaire de Vichy poursuivi devant une cour d’assise pour crimes contre l’humanité. Dans son ouvrage, Maurice Papon, un technocrate français dans la collaboration, Gérard Boulanger avait décrit le rôle de Papon dans la déportation des familles juives de Bordeaux. Dans Papon, un intrus dans la République, l’auteur raconte la reconversion instantanée d’un homme de Vichy en bras droit du commissaire de la République nommé par de Gaulle, puis son blanchiment. Il révèle comment, grâce à ses réseaux dans l’appareil d’État, à des certificats de complaisance, à des faux administratifs et au soutien gaulliste, par un véritable tour de passe-passe, Maurice Papon est baptisé « résistant ». Papon peut alors poursuivre une belle carrière sous la IVe et Ve République. Préfet de police de Paris pendant la guerre d’Algérie, il finit ministre de Giscard d’Estaing.
Boule de suif
Pendant l'hiver, 1870-71, durant la guerre franco-prussienne, la ville de Rouen (Normandie) est envahie par les Prussiens. Pour fuir l'occupation, dix personnes prennent la diligence de Dieppe : un couple de commerçants, un couple de bourgeois, un couple de nobles, deux religieuses, un démocrate et enfin la jeune Boule de suif.
Angela’s ashes, a memoir of a childhood
En Anglais – « When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. » So begins the Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank’s mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank’s father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy– exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling– does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father’s tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies ….