Set in South Africa, this is the story of Vera Stark, a lawyer and an independent mother of two, who works for the Legal Foundation representing blacks trying to reclaim land that was once theirs. As her country lurches towards majority rule, so...
In Noonday, Pat Barker — the Man Booker-winning author of the definitive WWI trilogy, Regeneration — turns for the first time to WWII. 'Afterwards, it was the horses she remembered, galloping towards them out of the orange-streaked darkness,...
Céline au milieu de l'Allemagne en flammes. Avec ses compagnons d'infortune, — sa femme Lili, l'acteur Le Vigan, et le chat Bébert —, le voici à Baden-Baden dans un étrange palace où le caviar, la bouillabaisse et le champagne comptent...
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In the dead of night the U-616 – a Type VIIB U-Boat patrolling the British mainland in the early years of World War II – rescues a solitary survivor from a sunken ship. His story is so outlandish as to be unbelievable:...
Nos gloires secrètes - Un meurtrier anonyme, un poète vengeur, un parfumeur amoureux, un antiquaire combattant, un enfant silencieux, un milliardaire misanthrope.
Les personnages de ces six histoires ont un...
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Nostromo (1904), a story of revolution, politics, and financial manipulation in a South American republic, centres, for all its close-packed incidents, upon one idea—the corruption of the characters by the ambitions that they set before...
Not After Midnight is a collection of short stories by Daphne du Maurier, all with different characters and themes but similar in that they touch on the supernatural or strange events.
"Don't Look Now" — this novella features John and Laura...