Télécharger le livre :  Blood Red, Sister Rose
The story of Joan of Arc has always held a special fascination for writers - among them Voltaire, Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw and Jean Anouilh. Here Thomas Keneally transforms the legend, presenting a Joan who is at once a tough radical, an instinctive soldier, a...

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Télécharger le livre :  A Family Madness
Inspired by a true incident, this powerful and disturbing novel focuses on Rudi Kabbel, a survivor of Nazi-occupied Belorussia, and Terry Delaney, a young Australian rugby player who falls in love with Kabbel's daughter. With the optimism and innocence of those...

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Télécharger le livre :  Bettany's Book
'A work of towering authority: large in scope; rich in detail; overflowing with ripe humanity . . . more than an engrossing novel: it is a stirring one.' Sunday TelegraphAn enthralling novel from Thomas Keneally, set in Australia and the Sudan, and spanning the 19th and...

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Parution : 2013-09-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Thirteen Moons
At the age of twelve, under the Wind Moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a...

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Parution : 2013-09-12
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Télécharger le livre :  The Maid's Version
In 1929, an explosion in a Missouri dance hall killed forty-two people. Who was to blame? Mobsters from St Louis? Embittered gypsies? The preacher who cursed the waltzing couples for their sins? Or could it just have been a colossal accident?Alma Dunahew, whose...

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Parution : 2013-08-15
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ship Of Fools
The characters on Norminton's purgatorial 'Ship of Fools' - a ship that's going nowhere fast - bicker and struggle for attention; telling tales that bounce off one another to form a compendium of interralated stories, running from lyrical romance to scabrous satire, by...

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Parution : 2013-08-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Ghost Portrait
This intimate and compelling historical novel deftly interweaves three periods in the life of 17th-century painter Nathaniel Deller: in 1650, just after Charles I's execution, the young Deller joins a political group too radical even for the Roundheads; ten years later,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Serious Things
In the early 1990s, at an old-fashioned boarding school, two boys form an intense friendship that will shape the course of their lives. Bruno Jackson, the shy and lonely son of British expats, is infatuated by the glamorous but troubled Anthony Blunden. Taken under the...

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Parution : 2013-08-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Arts and Wonders
ARTS AND WONDERS spans a glorious canvas, peopled by werewolves, thieves, emperors, travelling players and a forger dwarf who takes a lifetime to learn the danger of illusions.Tomasso Grilli, a dwarf gifted with an extraordinary capacity for artistic forgery (and...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Gallery of Vanished Husbands
At thirty a woman has a directness in her eye. Juliet Montague did anyhow. She knew exactly what she wanted. She wanted to buy a refrigerator.But in a rash moment, Juliet commissions a portrait of herself instead. She has been closeted by her conservative Jewish...

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Parution : 2013-08-01
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Télécharger le livre :  A Kind of Intimacy
Annie is obese, lonely and hopeful. Armed with self-help books, her cat and a collection of cow-shaped milk jugs, she moves into her new home and sets about getting to know the neighbours, especially the man next door. She ignores her neighbour's inconvenient...

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Parution : 2013-07-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Visitation Street
'A powerfully beautiful novel' New York Times'Intoxicating. . . . Imbued with mystery and danger' Emma Straub'Pochoda's premise is inspired, the novel that unfolds even more so. Rich characters, surprising shifts of plot and mood. I loved it.' Lionel ShriverAs the hot...

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Parution : 2013-07-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Professor of Poetry
Elizabeth Stone, a respected academic, has a new lease on life. In remission from cancer, she returns to the city where she was a student over thirty years ago to investigate some little-known papers by T. S. Eliot, which she believes contain the seeds of her...

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Parution : 2013-07-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism
The No. 1 Sunday Times and internationally bestselling account of life as a child with autism, now a documentary film Winner of Best Documentary and Best Sound in the British Independent Film Awards 2021.'It will stretch your vision of what it is to be human' Andrew...

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Parution : 2013-07-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Going East
London can be as pitiless as it is bountiful. No one knows that better than Mia Taylor. From a gilded life of privilege to a shabby alternative health centre in London's East End in the space of weeks. The violent tragedy that propels Mia east also pitches her...

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Parution : 2013-05-25
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Télécharger le livre :  The Book of Guilt
Charting the destruction and ultimate resurrection of a family, an anonymous 'Father-Confessor' figure relays the 'confessions' of the Goode family: Phineas (a one-time bookshop owner) and Maggie (an artist), their daughters Gwynne and Viviane, and Allie Finlay,...

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Parution : 2013-05-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Erskine's Box
Erskine Flesching, our unreliable narrator, admits that he's 40; that he returned three years ago to his childhood home by the sea to live with his mother, who he hasn't seen since he was 10; and that he has been a successful opera singer. What he won't spell out is...

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Parution : 2013-05-23
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Télécharger le livre :  The Why of Things
In the wake of a family tragedy, Joan and Anders Jacobs and their two daughters arrive for the summer at their holiday home in Massachusetts, only to find that a young man has drowned in the quarry on their land - was it an accident, suicide or murder? 15-year-old Eve...

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Parution : 2013-05-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Mafia Republic: Italy's Criminal Curse. Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta and Camorra from 1946 to the Present
In MAFIA REPUBLIC, John Dickie, Professor of Italian Studies at University College, London and author of the international bestsellers COSA NOSTRA and MAFIA BROTHERHOODS, shows how the Italian mafias have grown in power and become more and more interconnected, with...

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Parution : 2013-05-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Grace and Mary
By 'quite simply one of the best writers we have' (Sunday Telegraph), a profoundly moving story spanning three generations.'It is a gem' Independent'I loved it' Pat BarkerReaching from late 19th-century Cumbria to the present, this elegiac novel celebrates two spirited...

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