12 Results to Category: Descomptes

  • SIGHT
    GREENGRASS, JESSIE
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2019'A stunning debut' GuardianIn Jessie Greengrass' superb debut novel, our unnamed narrator recounts her progress to motherhood, while remembering the death of her own mother ten years before, and the childhood summers she spent with her psychoanalyst grandmother.Woven among these persona...
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  • EVENING IN PARADISE: MORE STORIES
    BERLIN, LUCIA
    'The chance to join "the Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin"' New York Times'Raw, elliptical, devilishly funny tales' ObserverRanging from Texas, to Chile, to New Mexico and New York, in Evening in Paradise Berlin writes about the good, the bad and everything in between: struggling young mothers, husbands who pack their bags and leave in the middle of the night, wives looking ba...
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  • THE GLOVEMAKER
    WEISGARBER, ANN
    From the critically acclaimed author of The Personal History of Rachel DuPree comes The Glovemaker - a stunning historical novel for fans of Cold Mountain.For almost four years, men came to my cabin carrying trouble on their backs, each one haunted and looking over his shoulder . . . They showed up during the spring, they appeared in the summer and early fall. But never now, ne...
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  • CRY OF THE KALAHARI
    OWENS, DELIA
    'A remarkable story beautifully told... Among such classics as Goodall's In the Shadow of Man and Fossey's Gorillas in the Mist' Chicago TribuneCarrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a plane to Africa, bought a thirdhand Land Rover, and drove deep into the Kalahari Desert. There they lived for se...
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  • READY PLAYER TWO
    CLINE, ERNEST
    AN UNEXPECTED QUEST. TWO WORLDS AT STAKE. ARE YOU READY?Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything.Hidden within Halliday's vaults, waiting for his heir to find it, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous - and addictive - than ev...
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  • MANUEL D'EXIL
    COLIC, VELIBOR11
    «Fraîchement restauré, le foyer de demandeurs d'asile à Rennes me fait penser à mon lycée. Une grande porte vitrée, d'interminables couloirs, sauf qu'ici au lieu des salles de classe on a des chambres pour les réfugiés. Dans le hall central il y a une carte du monde avec les petits drapeaux du pays des résidents. La misère du monde s'est donné rendez-vous à Rennes en cette fin ...
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  • THE GUSTAVE SONATA
    TREMAIN, ROSE
    'It was a game of love and death. Neither of us will ever speak about it. It's locked inside us.'Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem distant. He adores his mother but she treats him with bitter severity, disapproving especially of his intense friendship with Anton, the Jewish boy at school. A gifted pianist, Anton...
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  • T.6. MILLENIUM ; LA FILLE QUI DEVAIT MOURIR
    LAGERCRANTZ, DAVID
    À Stockholm, un SDF est retrouvé mort dans un parc du centre-ville - certains de ses doigts et orteils amputés. Dans les semaines précédant sa mort, on l'avait entendu divaguer au sujet de Johannes Forsell, le ministre de la Défense suédois. S'agissait-il des délires d'un déséquilibré ou y avait-il un véritable lien entre ces deux hommes ? Michael Blomqvist a besoin de l'ai...
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  • P1. GAME OF THRONES 5 DANCE WITH DRAGONS
    R.R. MARTIN, GEORGE
    HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R.R. Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: DREAMS AND DUST is the first part of the fifth volume in the series.'Characters so venomous they could eat the Borgias' GuardianTyrion Lannister, having killed his father, and wrongfully...
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  • THE MISSING HUSBAND
    BROOKE, AMANDA
    Is not knowing worse than knowing the truth? The next stunning novel from Richard and Judy pick, Amanda BrookeHe has a secret...Jo is five months pregnant with the baby she always wanted, and on the surface she has the perfect marriage to David, the love of her life. The only thing marring her happiness is the secret she's hiding from her husband.She told a lie...Then David dis...
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  • ARCADIA
    PEARS, IAIN
    Henry Lytten - a spy turned academic and writer - sits at his desk in Oxford in 1962, dreaming of other worlds.He embarks on the story of Jay, an eleven-year-old boy who has grown up within the embrace of his family in a rural, peaceful world - a kind of Arcadia. But when a supernatural vision causes Jay to question the rules of his world, he is launched on a life-changing jour...
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  • LUSTER
    LEILANI, RAVEN
    'A book of pure fineness, exceptional.' - Diana Evans, Guardian'A taut, sharp, funny book about being young now. It's brutal-and brilliant.' - Zadie SmithWinner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2021Longlisted for the Women's Prize For Fiction 2021 Edie is just trying to survive. She's messing up in her dead-end admin job in her all-white office, is sleeping with all the wrong men, and...
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