Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of lifeWilliam Burroughs, legendary drug addict, founder member of the Beats a...
Fruit d'une alliance barbare et d'un grand amour déçu, Ludovic, enfant hai par sa trop jeune mere - Nicole - et ses grands-parents, vit ses premieres années caché dans u...
Dédicacé au «grand ami Flaubert, en haine du gout», L'Assommoir, parce qu'il peignait sans complaisance la condition ouvriere, la folie née de la misere et de l'alc...
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's ...
In the first of a mesmerizing trilogy, Alexandra Ivy, author of the Guardians of Eternity series, introduces the Immortal Rogues--three vampires duty-bound to protect their own kind even as they fa...
Le premier roman d'un écrivain mort a vingt ans et l'un des plus beaux rôles de Gérard Philipe. En 1918, un lycéen, François, s'éprend d'une jeune femme, Ma...
A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld.'In the early 80s, Gregory David Roberts, a...
The next day Jack is summoned to an apartment where two men claim Seth has disappeared, gone to ground with funds for a vital intelligence operation. Jack's oldest friend has turned, they insist, l...
Is Moses Herzog – philosopher, suffering romantic and cuckhold – losing his mind? His formidable wife Madeleine has left him for his best friend and he is left alone with his whirling t...
Michael Beard a atteint une cinquantaine plus que mure. Il est chauve, rondouillard, dénué de toute séduction et, au moral, il ne vaut guere mieux. Mais il a dans le temps obte...
Detective Michael Bennett is coming home to New York. And a world of unimaginable evil awaits.Having brought an end to the vengeful mission of the ruthless crime lord who forced the Ben...
IT BEGINS IN FIRE AND DEATHIn 1902 a volcanic eruption devastates the island of Martinique. Many die - including a scientist on the verge of an astonishing breakthrough.A DARK LEG...
1326: While King Edward II is furious about the queen's adulterous relationship, whispers of rebellion throw England into bloody turmoil. When news of a French invasion fleet is received at the pal...
Dans une petite ville du Berry, écrasée par la chaleur de l'été, en 1919, un héros de la guerre est retenu prisonnier au fond d'une caserne déserte. ...
Is Moses Herzog – philosopher, suffering romantic and cuckhold – losing his mind? His formidable wife Madeleine has left him for his best friend and he is left alone with his whirling t...
Set in a crumbling Spanish mansion, this gloriously comic and gothic novel follows the fortunes of an innocent young priest as he enters a world of moral decadence, sexual intrigue and corruption.<...
A small southern town in the 1960s. A musician found dead on the highway. It's no surprise when white detectives arrest a black man for the murder. What is a surprise is that the black man - Virgil...
In a comic masterpiece following the misadventures of a simple but hugely ambitious waiter in pre-World War II Prague, who rises to wealth only to lose everything with the onset of Communism, Bohum...
François pensa : si elle commande un déca, je me leve et je m’en vais. C’est la boisson la moins conviviale qui soit. Un thé, ce n’est guere mieux. On sent qu...
In the heart of summer, in the dead of night, something wakes you. The house is quiet. The children are sleeping. The kitchen is empty. Except for the body on the floor. A series of brutal home inv...