The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley in Linguae Girona
1883. Thaniel Steepleton returns home to his tiny London apartment to find a gold pocket watch on his pillow. Six months later, the mysterious timepiece saves his life, drawing him away from a blast that destroys Scotland Yard. At last, he goes in search of […]
«Ce que je sais de Vera Candida». Le livre qui a gagné le Grand Prix des lectrices Elle en 2010, le Prix France télévisions et le Prix Renaudot des Lycéens en 2009.
Quelque part dans une Amérique du Sud imaginaire, trois femmes d’une même lignée semblent promises au même destin. Enfanter une fille et ne pouvoir […]
I almost forgot about you the new book by Terry McMillan.
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting To Exhale is back. With the inspiring story of a woman who shakes things up in her life to find greater meaning
In «I Almost Forgot About You», Dr. Georgia Young’s wonderful life–great friends, family, and […]
The Handmaid’s Tale: the bestseller book from Margaret Atwood.
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead.
She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on […]
«Je voudrais que quelqu’un m’attende quelque part», recueil de douze nouvelles d’ Anna Gavalda.
Anna Gavalda croque 12 tranches de vie qui se lisent d’une traite. On y retrouve avec plaisir l’auteure, son style, ses portraits de quotidiens ordinaires. De gens ordinaires qu’elles emmènent vers des presque riens qui fondent le début d’une histoire, animent les personnages et […]
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler: Brilliant, funny, sad and sensitive.
Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is grounded by loneliness and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts. Till he meets Muriel, a deliciously peculiar dog-obedience trainer who up-ends Macon’s insular worl. And thrusts […]
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski: he brought everyone down to earth, even the angels.
In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled […]
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri: The Number One New York Times Bestseller.
These eight short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri are quiet, penetrating, and meticulously written. The first five stories are distinct, while the last three are interrelated. Lahiri’s prose seems so clean and precise that it is very easy to turn page after page. Each story […]
The Muse, by Jessie Burton: A picture hides thousand words.
On a hot July day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the stone steps of the Skelton gallery in London, knowing that her life is about to change forever. Having struggled to find her place in the city since she arrived from Trinidad five years ago, she […]
La première gorgée de bière et autres plaisirs minuscules de Philippe Delerm. Ce sont les petits riens qui font toujours du bien.
On dit que la vie n’est pas simple et que le bonheur est rare. Pour Philippe Delerm, il tient en trente-quatre «plaisirs minuscules». Il évoque ici tour à tour, sous forme de petites séquences, […]
