«Machines like me» by Ian McEwan. A story that mix up the novel on artificial intelligences with a dystopia built on a historical novel.
Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will […]
«La vie secrète des écrivains»: une lecture inoubliable. Un puzzle littéraire fascinant qui se révèle diabolique lorsque l’auteur y place sa dernière pièce.
En 1999, après avoir publié trois romans devenus cultes, le célèbre écrivain Nathan Fawles annonce qu’il arrête d’écrire. Et il se retire à Beaumont, une île sauvage et sublime au large des côtes […]
«Deux Soeurs»: Jusqu’où peut aller une femme trahie après avoir cru au bonheur? Récit d’une descente aux enfers.
Mathilde, la trentaine, forme avec Etienne un couple heureux. Elle est professeure de français dans un lycée. Elle adore son métier et ses élèves – à qui elle communique sa passion pour Flaubert et en particulier pour L’éducation sentimentale. […]
«Metropolis», a Bernie Gunther thriller by Philip Kerr: one of the greatest master storytellers in English
Berlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic shortly before Hitler and the Nazis came to power. It was a period of decadence and excess as Berliners – after the terrible slaughter of WWI and the hardships that followed […]
«Circle»: a creative and unique take on teaching about overcoming your fears.
Multi-award-winning, New York Times best-selling duo Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen deliver the final wry and resonant tale about Triangle, Square, and Circle.
This book is about Circle. This book is also about Circle’s friends, Triangle and Square.
Also it is about a rule that Circle makes. And how […]
«Square»: smart and funny… A book that reassures children about their own artistic development.
This book is about Square. He spends every day taking blocks from a pile below the ground to a pile above the ground.
This book is also about Square’s friend Circle. Circle thinks Square is an artistic genius. But is he really? With the […]
«Killing Commendatore»: The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84
In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a previously unseen painting in the attic, he unintentionally opens a […]
«Memories of the Future»: a book that makes you travel through the intricate web of the brain, memory and reality . Superlative.
As she listens to Lucy through the thin walls of her dilapidated building, S.H., aka “Minnesota,” transcribes her neighbor’s bizarre and increasingly ominous monologues in a notebook. Along with sundry other adventures. Until one frightening […]
«The Glovemaker»: Ann Weisberger combines the deep questions of faith, religion and spirituality with a thriller and mystery.
In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty-seven-year-old Deborah Tyler waits for her husband, Samuel, to return home from his travels as a wheelwright. It is now the depths of winter. Samuel is […]
«Gare à Lou»: Lou s’est découvert un pouvoir. Quand elle souhaite du mal à quelqu’un, ça se produit…
À 12 ans, Lou possède un don exceptionnel. Elle peut faire tomber les pires calamités sur la tête de ceux qui la contrarient. Voyant son potentiel et sous prétexte qu’elle pourrait mettre en échec des puissances ennemies de […]
