Penny Vincenzi
Windfall
Penny Vincenzi’s WINDFALL is a rich, absorbing tale of temptation, ambition and desire for any reader of Elizabeth Buchan, Harriet Evans or Jilly Cooper. ‘Reading her is an addictive experience’ Elizabeth Buchan Cassia Fallon has always been the perfect country doctor’s wife, performing each menial task with willingness and grace, even though her desire to become a doctor herself has been thwarted by lack of money. Then her godmother leaves her a fortune. With her new-found wealth, Cassia is finally free to do as she pleases, and resumes her own medical career as Dr Cassia Tallow with a passion. But it soon becomes clear that her legacy may not be such a blessing after all, for Cassia begins to question the strength of her marriage, her future and exactly where the money has come from. a rich, absorbing tale of temptation, ambition and desire.
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Biographie des regrets éternels
Empereurs, courtisanes, assassins, portefaix, jardiniers, amoureuses ou poètes sont les héros de ces vies romancées écrites en Chine depuis les premiers siècles de notre ère.
La biographie y était un genre littéraire qui ne semble pas avoir son équivalent en Europe, à quelques exceptions près comme les Vies des hommes illustres de Plutarque, les Vies imaginaires de Schwob ou les Excentriques anglais de Sitwell.
Au total, vingt-six biographies : vies exemplaires, portraits émouvants ou anecdotes célèbres qui animent pour nous l’histoire de la Chine avec la saveur poétique et le raffinement d’écriture des plus belles Fictions de Borges.
Reading in the Dark
En Anglais – Hugely acclaimed in Great Britain, where it was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and short-listed for the Booker, Seamus Deane’s first novel is a mesmerizing story of childhood set against the violence of Northern Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. The boy narrator grows up haunted by a truth he both wants and does not want to discover. The matter: a deadly betrayal, unspoken and unspeakable, born of political enmity. As the boy listens through the silence that surrounds him, the truth spreads like a stain until it engulfs him and his family. And as he listens, and watches, the world of legend–the stone fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly–reveals its transfixing reality. Meanwhile the real world of adulthood unfolds its secrets like a collection of folktales: the dead sister walking again; the lost uncle, Eddie, present on every page; the family house “as cunning and articulate as a labyrinth, closely designed, with someone sobbing at the heart of it.” Seamus Deane has created a luminous tale about how childhood fear turns into fantasy and fantasy turns into fact. Breathtakingly sad but vibrant and unforgettable, Reading in the Dark is one of the finest books about growing up–in Ireland or anywhere–that has ever been written.
Deux femmes
Une jeune femme est retrouvée assassinée dans une chambre d’hôtel de Nice, sans papiers, sans passé, sans rien… Une autre femme, l’épouse d’un procureur adjoint de la République, s’amuse à mener l’enquête. Ne lui faut-il pas tromper son ennui, sinon tromper son mari ? Entre l’insolente jeunesse d’Olga et la distinction vernissée de Blandine, il y a Jean-Louis, scénariste, romancier, célibataire par indolence plus que par conviction, qui se laisse trop facilement séduire par l’une puis par l’autre. Les femmes ne mènent-elles pas toujours le bal, ou l’aventure ? Après Charles et Camille et La Comédie de Terracina. Frédéric Vitoux nous offre un roman policier sur fond de mafia russe et de faux tableaux, une comédie sentimentale où un homme peut en cacher un autre, une chronique de l’été 95 dans sa torpeur estivale. La Provence, l’île Saint-Louis, l’Italie sont autant de décors chers à l’auteur, qui invitent à un vrai suspense et à cette légère ébriété romanesque sans laquelle il n’est pas de bonheur littéraire.