The Square and the Tower - Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
ISBN : 9780141984810
Most history is about the people at the top of the towers of power. But what if the real action is in the social networks down below, in the town squares ? Niall Ferguson brilliantly recasts past and present as an unending contest between hierarchies and networks.
The sheltering sky
ISBN : 9780141187778
Port and Kit Moresbury, a sophisticated American couple, are finding it more than a little difficult to live with each other. Endeavouring to escape this predicament, they set off for North Africa intending to travel through Algeria - uncertain of exactly where they are heading, but determined to leave the modern world behind.
Day of the Dead
ISBN : 9781405939140
She's caught in a killer's tangled web. He's coming for her. But there's nowhere to run... On a north London street, a runaway vehicle crashes. The driver was murdered a week earlier. On Hampstead Heath, a bonfire blazes : in the flames lies the next victim. Across London a serial killer runs amok, playing games with the police. But these aren't careless, random killings. Every victim spells out a message - for just one person, psychologist Frieda Klein. The message is very simple. She's next.
The Cut Out Girl - A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found
ISBN : 9780241978726
Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents in the Hague — she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in the provinces during the Nazi occupation, she survived the war only to find that her real parents had not. Much Later, she fell out with her foster family, and Bart van Es — the grandson of Lien's foster parents — knew he needed to find out why.
On Chesil Beach
ISBN : 9781784705565
It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night ton come and, unbeknownst ti them bost, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives.
The Heart's Invisible Furies
ISBN : 9781784161002
Cast out from her West Cork village, sixteen years old and pregnant, Catherine Goggin makes her way to Dublin to start afresh. She has no choice but to believe that the nun to whom she entrusts her child will find him a better life.The baby is named Cyril by his adoptive parents, Charles and Maude Avery, a well-to-do but deeply eccentric couple who treat him more like a curiosity than a son. You're not a real Avery, they tell him. And perhaps he isn't. But through them he meets Julian Woodbead who, even from childhood, seems destined for an infinitely more glamorous and dangerous life. And so begins one man's funny and moving search to find his place in a world that seems to delight in gently tormenting him at every turn. Buffeted by circumstance and, at times, the consequences of his own questionable judgement, Cyril must navigate his emotions and desires in a search for that most elemental human need, happiness.
A Prayer for Owen Meany
ISBN : 9780552993692
Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents ; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is both extraordinary and terrifying.
Warlight
ISBN : 9781784708351
It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his sister, Rachel, are apparently abandoned by their parents, left in the care of an enigmatic figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and grow both more convinced and less concerned as they get to know his eccentric crew of friends : men and women who all seem determined to protect Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be ? A dozen years later, Nathaniel journeys through recollection, reality and imagination to uncover all he didn't know or understand in that time, to piece together a story that feels something like the truth.
The Temptation of Forgiveness
ISBN : 9781787461109
Important information is leaking from inside the Venetian Questura, and Commissario Guido Brunetti is tasked with uncovering the culprit. But before Brunetti can begin his investigation, a friend of his wife's comes asking for his help, fearful that her son is using drugs. A few weeks later, the woman's husband is found unconscious at the foot of a bridge. Following various contradictory leads, Brunetti navigates his way through Venice's underworld in an attempt to understand who is responsible for the vicious attack. But as he gets closer to discovering what happened, Brunetti is faced with a difficult truth : sometimes, the best intentions lead to the darkest of consequences...
Le jeu du chat et de la souris
Il a tué sa camarade de classe avec un cran d'arrêt. Sans raison particulière, gratuitement. Trente-sept coups de couteaux et un cadavre dans le lave-linge. Il a méticuleusement préparé son geste, planifié sa fuite et organisé sa défense. Recherché par la police, devenu ennemi public, il a l'impression d'exister. Alors qu'il erre dans la Chine provinciale, il sent l'ennui le reprendre... Né en 1976 dans la province du Jiangxi, A Yi est un ancien policier. Il est auteur de nouvelles et d'un récit autobiographique. Le Jeu du chat et de la souris est son premier roman. " Chaque jour en me réveillant [...], je devais faire face à cette question lancinante : et maintenant, qu'est-ce que je vais bien pouvoir faire ? " " Un premier roman d'une cruauté glaçante. " Livres Hebdo Traduit du chinois par Mélie Chen
Un mariage poids moyen
ISBN : 9782020257770
Séverin Winter, professeur d'allemand et entraîneur de lutte de l'équipe universitaire, n'est pas homme à prendre la vie à la légère. Ses ébats amoureux, tout comme ses prouesses sportives, sont à ranger dans la catégorie poids lourd... Ce qui n'est pas pour déplaire à Utch, la robuste Viennoise dont le mari - narrateur de surcroît - est littéralement conquis par Edith, l'épouse poids plume de Séverin. En résultera un irrésistible ménage à quatre.