Flea palace, the
ISBN : 9780241201909
Shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak's The Flea Palace is a moving and highly original novel about a group of individuals who live in the same building and who together become embroiled in a mystery. By turns comic and tragic, The Flea Palace is an outstandingly original novel driven by an overriding sense of social justice. Bonbon Palace was once a stately apartment block in Istanbul. Now it is a sadly dilapidated home to ten wildly different individuals and their families. There's a womanizing, hard-drinking academic with a penchant for philosophy; a 'clean freak' and her lice-ridden daughter; a lapsed Jew in search of true love; and a
The Trials of Apollo Tome 1
ISBN : 9780141363929
But that was before I was cast down from Olympus (a terrible misunderstanding) and woke up in a New York dumpster. I persuaded Percy Jackson to give me a lift to Camp Half-Blood. Bu the place is in chaos. Demigods are going missing and the all-seeing Oracles have fallen to a mysterious enemy known only as 'the Beast'. I figured that regaining Zeus's favour would involve a series of harrowing trials, and I was right (I usually am). My first task ? Protect the final Oracle, hidden away for millennia. If I fail, the Beast will control the future, but worse — I'll be stuck as a teenage boy, forever...
Et tu trouveras le trésor qui dort en toi
ISBN : 9782253071426
Alice, une jeune femme dynamique et audacieuse, retrouve son ami d'enfance, Jérémie. Devenu prêtre de campagne, il lui confie être accablé par le faible nombre de fidèles. Athée et conseillère en communication, Alice se met en tête de l'aider... à sa manière. Amenée par la force des choses à se plonger dans le monde de la spiritualité, du christianisme à l'hindouisme, du taoïsme au bouddhisme, elle va alors découvrir une vérité universelle. Une vérité concernant l'homme et la clé de son épanouissement, passée sous silence par les religieux, perdue au fil des siècles... Laurent Gounelle nous invite à découvrir ce qui permet à l'homme de s'élever dans une autre dimension, là où ses actes sont puissants et sa joie, un état durable. Une lecture surprenante et percutante qui ne manquera pas de réveiller nos consciences. Anne Ghesquière, FemininBio. Un roman palpitant. Noëlle Breham, France Inter.
The enormous crocodile
ISBN : 9780141365510
The Enormous Crocodile is planning what to have for his lunch. This foul fiend - the greediest croc in the whole river - wants to eat something juicy and delicious. His teeth sparkle like knives in the sun and he's getting hungrier and hungrier. But what can the greedy grumptious brute guzzle up? Beware - he's looking for someone . . . someone who looks a lot like YOU! Listen to THE ENORMOUS CROCODILE and other Roald Dahl audiobooks read by some very famous voices, including Kate Winslet, David Walliams and Steven Fry - plus there are added squelchy soundeffects from Pinewood Studios! Look out for new Roald Dahl apps in the App
The Complete Maus
ISBN : 9780141014081
'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust' (Wall Street Journal) 'A quiet triumph, moving and simple - impossible to describe accurately, and impossible to achieve in any medium but comics' (Washington Post) 'An epic story told in tiny pictures' (New York Times) 'A brutally moving work of art' (Boston Globe)
Limonov
ISBN : 9781846148217
TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014br>br>Limonov is not a fictional character, but he could have been. He''s lived a hundred lives. He was a hoodlum in Ukraine, an idol of the Soviet underground, punk-poet and valet to a billionaire in Manhattan, fashion writer in Paris, lost soldier in the Balkans, and now, in the chaos after the fall of communism a charismatic party leader of a gang of political desperados. Limonov sees himself as a hero, but he is also a bastard. Carrere suspends judgment. Carrere decided to write about Limonov because he thought "that his life, romantic and reckless, tells us something, not just about Limonov or Russia, but the story of all
On ne réveille pas un chien endormi
ISBN : 9782253086017
John Rebus est de retour officiellement à la Criminelle. Seul bémol : il a été rétrogradé sergent et doit travailler sous les ordres de son ancienne disciple Siobhan Clarke. Ils sont tous les deux en train d'enquêter sur une affaire a priori simple d'accident de voiture lorsqu'ils apprennent que le ministère public a décidé d'exhumer du passé de Rebus une histoire vieille de trente ans. A l'époque, l'équipe dont il faisait partie avait été accusée de falsification de preuves dans une affaire criminelle. Le service des plaintes, l'hypercorrect Malcolm Fox en tête, est saisi du dossier. Rebus est sur la corde raide. Il ne sait pas s'il peut faire confiance à Fox et, pourtant, il va avoir besoin de son aide. Quand on réveille un vieux chien aigri, il vaut mieux être bien préparé... Un grand Rebus sur fond de référendum à propos de l'indépendance de l'Ecosse.