“The Fate of Fausto”: A poingnant modern-day fable about greed and hubris.
There was once a man who believed he owned everything and set out to survey what was his.
“You are mine,” Fausto said to the flower, the sheep and the mountain, and they bowed before him. But they were not enough for Fausto, so he conquered […]
“Les victorieuses”: Des femmes en difficulté, des 4 coins du monde. Leur courage et leur solidarité qui apportent un supplément d’humanité à notre terre, avec les couleurs de l’espoir!
A 40 ans, Solène a tout sacrifié à sa carrière d’avocate : ses rêves, ses amis, ses amours. Un jour, elle craque, s’effondre. C’est la dépression, le burn-out. Tandis […]
“Girl”. Edna O’Brien’s hotly anticipated new novel, envisages the lives of the Boko Haram girls in a masterpiece of violence and tenderness.
I was a girl once, but not anymore.
So begins Girl, Edna O’Brien’s harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram.
Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of […]
“The Testaments”. In this brilliant sequel to “THE HANDMAID’S TALE”, Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades.
More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power. But there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At […]
“Quichotte” by Salman Rushdie. Brilliant, beautiful, an absolutely thrilling journey. A layered book about reality/unreality, filled with literary and modern references, love and heroic road trip, among many other concepts.
In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally […]
“Soif”: Amélie Nothomb ose explorer, à la première personne, les états d’âme de Jésus au temps de sa passion. L’occasion d’une belle méditation sur ce que veut dire avoir un corps.
Pour éprouver la soif, il faut être vivant.” Amélie Nothomb
“On n’apprend des vérités si fortes qu’en ayant soif, qu’en éprouvant l’amour et en mourant : trois […]
“The Flower Girls”: Phenomenal! A deep and clever exploration of a dark subject, by Alice Clark-Platts
In 1997, two little sisters aged 10 and 6 abducted and killed a two year old toddler. The older sister has been charged with the crime but the younger one, Rosie, was given a new identity and lived a happy […]
“On the Moon”: Usborne little board book. A sweet very first book about going to the Moon.
Zoom to the Moon and be back by bedtime with this exciting little board book. Combining illustrations by Benji Davies and real photographs of the Moon.
Young children can discover what it would be like to fly into outer space, walk […]
“I see the Moon: poems and rhymes for bedtime”. A beautifully illustrated collection of favourite night-time rhymes for little ones at bedtime.
A beautifully illustrated collection of favourite night-time rhymes for little ones at bedtime. Rosalind Beardshaw’s artwork features wonderful natural scenes, with adorable sleepy animals and babies ready to be lulled to sleep.
A sprinkling of silver […]
“From the Earth to the Moon”: or a cannon for peace. The beautiful text from Jules Vernes, retold by Antonis Papatheodoulou and illustrated by Iris Samartzi.
Impey Barbicane thought of making the greatest cannon of them all. A powerful cannon not for war, but for peace, made to shoot not the enemy, but the surface of […]
