The dazzling new novel from bestselling, award-winning author Maggie O’Fareel. «This must be the place» crosses time zones and continents to reveal an extraordinary portrait of a marriage.
Meet Daniel Sullivan, a man with a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has children he never sees in California, a father […]
On retrouve dans «Des vie en mieux» le ton gavaldien si particulier qui capte l’air du temps dans des bulles de tendresse.
«Ici, ce ne sont pas vraiment des nouvelles. Les textes sont plus charnus. L’éditeur parle d’«histoires». Anna Gavalda connaît la chanson et applique ce qui a fait son succès. La bonhomie coquine, avec cette […]
Xerrada en anglès a càrrec de Vivien Greatorex.
«Llegir una novel·la de Penelope Fitzgerald és com pujar un cotxe lluent, i que a meitat del camí algú tiri el volant per la finestra» Sebastian Faulks
El dimecres 24 de maig a les 19.30 hores, Vivien Greatorex, professora de llengua anglesa al Servei de Llengües Modernes de la […]
The Child, the new book by the bestsellin author Fiona Barton!
As an old house is demolished in a gentrifying section of London, a workman discovers a tiny skeleton, buried for years. For journalist Kate Waters, it’s a story that deserves attention. She cobbles together a piece for her newspaper, but she can only pose a […]
Into the water, the new novel by Paula Hawkins!
A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters. But their deaths disturb the river and its […]
Dear Life, d’Alice Munro, guanyadora del Premi Nobel de Literatura al any 2013.
She has got a peerless ability to give us the essence of life in brief but spacious and timeless stories. Alice Munro illumines the moment a life is shaped, the moment a dream, or sex, or perhaps a simple twist of fate.
Munro’s clarity […]
Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore de Luigi Pirandello, guanyador del Premi Nobel de Literatura al any 1934.
Su un palcoscenico una compagnia di attori prova la commedia ‘Il giuoco delle parti’.
Irrompono sei individui, un Padre, una Madre, il Figlio, la Figliastra, il Giovinetto e la Bambina. Sono personaggi rifiutati dallo scrittore che li ha concepiti. Essi […]
«The Grapes of Wrath», escrit per John Steinbeck, guanyador del Premi Nobel de Literatura al any 1962.
It was first published in 1939, the Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles of the 1930s. It tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads. They are driven from their homestead and forced to […]
«The Golden Notebook» de Doris Lessing, guanyadora del Premi Nobel per la literatura al any 2007.
Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. The black cover one is the review of the African experience of her earlier year. In a red one she records her political life, her […]
The couple next door by Shari Lapena: the Sunday Times bestseller and the most talked-about thriller of the year.
Your neighbour told you that she didn’t want your six-month-old daughter at the dinner party. Nothing personal, she just couldn’t stand her crying. Your husband said it would be fine. After all, you only live next door. […]
