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De tous les carrefours importants, le visage à la moustache noire vous fixait du regard. Il y en avait un sur le mur d'en face. BIG BROTHER VOUS REGARDE, répétait la légende, tandis que le regard des yeux noirs pénétrait les yeux de WINSTON... Au loin, un hélicoptère glissa entre les toits, plana un moment, telle une mouche bleue, puis repartit comme une flèche, dans un vol courbe. C'était une patrouille qui venait mettre le nez aux fenêtres des gens. Mais les patrouilles n'avaient pas d'importance. Seule comptait la Police de la Pensée.

Le passé - tel qu'il était peut-être - fait surgir sur le miroir l'ombre d'un présent - différent de ce qu'il fut. Un événement éditorial sans précédent. Une oeuvre hypnotique et troublante, un roman d'aventures, une histoire d'amour, deux êtres unis par un pacte secret. Dans le monde bien réel de 1984 et dans celui dangereusement séduisant de 1Q84 va se nouer le destin de Tengo et d'Aomamé...

In a rambling house, failed poet Toby Dobbs has created a refuge for people who need one. But when a quiet tragedy and an unwelcome letter interrupt Toby's sedate existence, he needs his housemates to find some direction in their lives. Leah Pilgrim has watched the tenants of the house over the road for several years, and when the owner of 31 Silversmith Road asks her for advice, he opens the door not only to the eccentric building across the street - but to five lives in various stages of turmoil. Can Toby and Leah help these misfits to grow up, move on and move out? And in doing so, can they make their own dreams come true?

A curmudgeon hides a terrible personal loss beneath a cranky and short-tempered exterior while clashing with new neighbors, a boisterous family whose chattiness and habits lead to unexpected friendship

The night before it all begins, Jude has the dream again . . . Can dreams be passed down through families? As a child Jude suffered a recurrent nightmare: running through a dark forest, crying for her mother. Now her six-year-old niece, Summer, is having the same dream, and Jude is frightened for her. A successful auctioneer, Jude is struggling to come to terms with the death of her husband. When she's asked to value a collection of scientific instruments and manuscripts belonging to Anthony Wickham, a lonely 18th century astronomer, she leaps at the chance to escape London for the untamed beauty of Norfolk, where she grew up. As Jude untangles Wickham's tragic story, she discovers threatening links to the present. What have Summer's nightmares to do with Starbrough folly, the eerie crumbling tower in the forest from which Wickham and his adopted daughter Esther once viewed the night sky? With the help of Euan, a local naturalist, Jude searches for answers in the wild, haunting splendour of the Norfolk woods.

Steffi has been a selective mute for most of her life – she's been silent for so long that she feels completely invisible. But Rhys, the new boy at school, sees her. He's deaf, and her knowledge of basic sign language means that she's assigned to look after him. To Rhys it doesn't matter that Steffi doesn't talk and, as they find ways to communicate, Steffi finds that she does have a voice, and that she's falling in love with the one person who makes her feel brave enough to use it.

Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory things go disastrously wrong, and what appears to be "a simple tale" proves to involve politicians, policemen, foreign diplomats, and London's fashionable society in the darkest and most surprising interrelations. Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a full and up-to-date bibliography, a comprehensive chronology and a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a "monstrous town," a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and savage butchery. It also discusses contemporary anarchist activity in the UK, imperialism, and Conrad's narrative techniques.

« Un portrait exubérant de sénilité, de luxure et d'avidité... un petit bijou ! »The Economist Quand leur père Nikolaï, veuf depuis peu, leur annonce qu'il compte se remarier avec Valentina, Vera et Nadezhda comprennent qu'il va leur falloir oublier leurs vieilles rivalités pour voler à son secours. Car Valentina a cinquante ans de moins que lui, des ogives nucléaires en guise de poitrine, et un certain penchant pour les plats surgelés ! Mais surtout, elle est prête à tout pour assouvir sa quête du luxe à l'occidentale. Tandis que Nikolaï poursuit tant bien que mal son chef-d'ouvre - une grande histoire du tracteur et de son rôle dans le progrès de l'humanité - les deux sours passent à l'action. Commence alors une bataille épique pour déloger l'intruse aux dessous de satin vert, sur fond de secrets de famille

What happened to Emily? When her best friend, Emily, asks Stephanie to pick up her son from school she agrees happily. Their children are classmates and best friends. And five-year-olds love being together – just like she and Emily. As a widow and stay-at-home blogger mum living in suburban Connecticut, Stephanie was lonely until she met Emily, a glamorous and successful PR executive. The trouble is that Emily doesn't come back. No matter what the police say, Stephanie knows that she would never leave her son. Terrified, she reaches out to her fellow mummy bloggers. And she also reaches out to Emily's husband – just to offer her support. What Stephanie hasn't shared are the secrets buried in a murky past.

Sally Goodchild is everything you'd expect of a thirty-seven year old American journalist - independent, strong-willed and ambitious. That is until she meets Tony Hobbs, an English foreign correspondent, on assignment in Cairo. After a passionate but uneasy romance, Sally's life is turned upside down when she unexpectedly finds herself married, pregnant and living in London. Married life in a foreign place is a far bigger adjustment than Sally and Tony could ever have imagined - and as their lives shift from freedom and adventure to responsibility and hard work, everyday problems soon spiral into nightmares. After the birth of their son, Sally finds herself trapped in a downward spiral of post-natal depression over which she has little control, whilst Tony's life returns to relative normality. Filled with resentment and unable to cope with the cards life has dealt her, Sally is shocked when the man she trusted above all others turns against her. As her world begins to fall down around her, Sally quickly realises she must fight before she loses everything.

En cette année 1775, la France et l'Angleterre traversent une période de soulèvements sociaux. Les forces conduisant à la Révolution française se heurtent à un cercle de personnes vivant de l'autre côté de la Manche, si bien que leurs destinées respectives vont s'en trouver irrévocablement emmêlées.

Forcée d'épouser un homme de trente ans son aîné, Mariam ne parvient pas à lui donner un fils. Après dix-huit années de soumission à cet homme brutal, elle doit endurer une nouvelle épreuve : l'arrivée sous son propre toit de Laila, une petite voisine de quatorze ans. Enceinte, Laila met au monde une fille. D'abord rongée par la jalousie, Mariam va finir par trouver une alliée en sa rivale. Toutes deux victimes de la violence et de la misogynie de leur mari, elles vont unir leur courage pour tenter de fuir l'Afghanistan. Mais parviendront-elles jamais à s'arracher à cette terre afghane sacrifiée, et à leur ville, Kaboul, celle qui dissimulait autrefois derrière ses murs " mille soleils splendides " ?

"That isn't Charles ! Charles is gone !" Charles and Meg, and their friend Calvin, travel through a "wrinkle in time" in search of their missing father. But can they beat the evil forces they meet on their dangerous journey through time and space ?

A distraught young woman boards a train at King's Cross to return to her family in Scotland. Six hours later, she catches sight of something so terrible in a mirror at Waverley Station that she gets on the next train back to London. AFTER YOU'D GONE follows Alice's mental journey through her own past, after a traffic accident has left her in a coma. A love story that is also a story of absence, and of how our choices can reverberate through the generations, it slowly draws us closer to a dark secret at a family's heart.

Eine militante Wanderin, die ihr Ende im Feld des Erzfeindes findet - dieser Fall schreit förmlich nach einer Spürnase wie Agatha Raisin, meint Deborah, eine Freundin der Toten. Die geschmeichelte Agatha ist zwar gerade erst wieder in den Cotswolds angekommen, lässt sich aber nicht zweimal bitten. Ihr Plan: Sie und ihr Schwarm James schleusen sich als Ehepaar getarnt in den Wanderkreis des Opfers ein, um ungestört herumschnüffeln zu können. Gesagt, getan. Als kurze Zeit später ein weiteres Mitglied der Wandergruppe ermordet wird, schwant es den beiden, dass sie sich geradewegs in die Höhle des Löwen begeben haben...

Héroïne du premier roman, le Dr Kate Chesney se retrouve accusée d'une erreur médicale ayant entraîné la mort d'une patiente. Bien que tout la désigne comme la coupable, Kate, elle, sait qu'elle n'a commis aucune négligence. Ce n'est qu'en découvrant les liens qui unissaient la malade à deux autres membres de l'hôpital, assassinés quelque temps plus tôt, que la jeune femme pressent la machination diabolique dont elle est victime... Dans le second roman, Tess Gerritsen confronte cette fois une scientifique, Léa Fontaine, au mystérieux décès de son mari. Un décès survenu dans une chambre d'hôtel berlinoise, alors que le défunt était censé être à Londres pour affaires... En même temps que la douleur, une foule de questions assaille Léa. Que faisait son mari en Allemagne ? Quelle double vie lui a-t-il cachée ? Poussée par un besoin désespéré de comprendre, elle part alors en Europe sur les traces de cet homme qu'elle connaissait si peu...

El hispanista Gerald Brenan, harto de la rigidez anglosajona, llegó en 1920 a Yegen, pueblecito plácidamente recostado en una ladera alpujarreña. Allí, y hasta 1934, residió, alternando con viajes, más de seis años. Fascinado por la sencilla espontaneidad de sus gentes, su lenguaje y sus costumbres, Brenan, al tiempo que se documentaba, fue anotando minuciosamente cuanto veía, oía y vivía. El resultado es esta emocionante y valiosa monografía sobre la vida en La Alpujarra en esos años, en la que quiso dejar constancia de todos los aspectos que le atrajeron, desde los usos amorosos de los lugareños a la gastronomía de la zona, pasando por las canciones infantiles, los burdeles de Almería o las visitas, descritas en escenas memorables, que le hicieron personajes como Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf o Roger Fry. De los muchos trotamundos ingleses que, atraídos por la historia y la geografía españolas, han relatado sus aventuras por estas tierras, Brenan constituye sin duda un caso peculiar. 'Al sur de Granada', escrito en 1957, ofrece una original simbiosis de arqueología, historia, etnología y antropología, salpicada de sugestivas interpretaciones, que lo diferencia de todas las demás narraciones de viajeros.

A glamorous cruise on a luxurious ocean liner turns deadly in the latest mystery from ôQueen of Suspenseö and #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark. Fleeing a disastrous and humiliating arrest of her husband-to-be on the eve of their wedding, Celia Kilbride, a gems and jewelry expert, hopes to escape from public attention by lecturing on a brand-new cruise shipùthe Queen Charlotte. On board she meets eighty-six-year-old Lady Emily Haywood, ôLady Em,ö as she is known throughout the world. Immensely wealthy, Lady Em is the owner of a priceless emerald necklace that she intends to leave to the Smithsonian after the cruise. Three days out to sea Lady Em is found deadùand the necklace is missing. Is it the work of her apparently devoted assistant, Brenda Martin, or her lawyer-executor, Roger Pearson, and his wife, Yvonne, both of whom she had invited to join them on the cruise? Or is it Professor Henry Longworth, an acclaimed Shakespeare scholar who is lecturing on board? Or Alan Davidson, a guest on the ship who is planning to spread his wife’s ashes at sea? The list of suspects is large and growing. Celia, with the help of her new friends Willy and Alvirah Meehan, who are celebrating their forty-fifth wedding anniversary, sets out to find the killer, not realizing that she has put herself in mortal danger before the ship reaches its final destination. Never, in all her long career as a #1 bestselling suspense novelist, has Mary Higgins Clark been in better form.

It is a fire in a New Hampshire hotel that brings Nicholas Van Tassel and Etna Bliss together, a chance meeting that lights up a lifelong passion. But their life is not everything they could have imagined. Many years later, Nicholas recounts their courtship and their time together. And as the threads of the story begin to unravel, what is revealed is a patchwork of promises, truths, secrets and lies, and a man, madly in love, for whom his wife is all he ever wanted ...