Mateo Lemoine est un prodige du football. A dix-huit ans, il surprend son entourage et ses fans en s'inscrivant a la fac de Vernet, la petite ville ou il vit avec sa mere, pour conquérir le titre universitaire que son pere, entraîneur de talent disparu prématurément, était sur le point de remporter avant sa mort. Malgré son niveau, ou a cause de lui, Mateo peine a trouver sa place au sein de...

A day without laughter is a day wasted.' It is Christmas Day when Charlie Chaplin receives a visit from Death. The great actor is 82 years old, but not yet ready to face the final curtain. Desperate to see his teenage son grow up, the actor strikes a deal: if he manages to make Death laugh, he will win an extra year of life.

The State We're In is the first new collection in a decade from the writer that John Updike credited with creating 'an entirely different kind of short story'. Cool, ironic and witty, these stories are sharply observed, but underpinned with a quiet tenderness. Told through the voices of vivid and engaging women of all ages, The State We're In explores their doubts and desires and reveals the...

jPod Prenez six programmateurs un tantinet autistes, dont Ethan Jarlewski. Enfermez-les dans jPod, un studio de jeux vidéo a Vancouver. Torturez-les a coups d'idées marketing absurdes, comme intégrer une tortue dans un jeu de skateboard. Ils se rebelleront, c'est sur. Et si en plus la famille un brin timbrée d'Ethan s'en mele, c'est la chance de se voir embarqué dans un rodéo...

In general, when we think about media, and especially mass media, we seldom associate them with economy. Meanwhile, the freedom of communication is closely related to the fi nancing sources. The Americans say: “he who pays the piper calls the tune.” In the modern world, it is diffi cult to establish who pays and what they actually pay with. Very few of us realize that the currency we pay...

Charlie Barnes is a father, small-business owner, con-man, and failure. At sixty-eight and on his fifth marriage, he is facing the end of his life - which is good a time as any for a reckoning. It's down to Charlie's son, Jake Barnes, to write his father's story. What have his father's desperate dreams amounted to? If Charlie's life was a series of fantasies, then how is it possible for his son...

The Breakfast Club meets The Silver Linings Playbook in this powerful, provocative, and heartfelt novel about twelve strangers who come together to make the most of their final days, from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski. Mark Antonelli, a failed young writer looking down the barrel at thirty, is planning a cross-country road trip. He...

Podczas gdy jego ojciec przebywa w podróży Oktaw, syn Arganta, zakochuje się i żeni z Hiacyntą, młodą, biedną dziewczyną nieznanego pochodzenia. Tymczasem Argant zamierza ożenić syna z córką Geronta z Tarentu. Również pod nieobecność swego ojca Leander, syn Geronta i przyjaciel Oktawa, zakochuje się w Zerbinecie, młodej Cygance. W obliczu niespodziewanego powrotu Arganta, Oktaw,...

En Auvergne, dans la petite station thermale d’Enval, la découverte d’une nouvelle source suscite toutes les convoitises : des paysans roublards, un banquier spéculateur et des médecins charlatans s’affrontent. Dans ce roman au vitriol, " on dirait vraiment que les sources ne sont pas minéralisées, mais ensorcelées " !

Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wildest landscapes. It begins between the Creation and Noah’s Flood, follows the footsteps of the earliest generation of giants from an age when the children of Cain and the progeny of fallen angels walked the earth, to the founding of Britain, England, Wales and Scotland, the birth of Christ, the...

Günter Habicht, 63 und ehemaliger Busfahrer, wacht über die Nachbarschaft. Unsachgemäß getrennter Abfall, falsch geparkte E-Roller: Nichts entgeht seinem scharfen Auge. Günters Frau Brigitte bringt das auf die Palme. Aber Günter hilft auch, wo er kann! Mit Vorliebe im Baumarkt – dort sogar besser als jeder Mitarbeiter. Und natürlich geht er auch mit Brigitte zu IKEA. Solange dort nicht auch...

Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award ‘What a remarkable book this is; tender, funny, brave, heartfelt, radiant with love and life. It brought me often to laughter and – several times – to tears. It sings with joy and kindness’ Robert Macfarlane From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Your Life in My Hands comes this vibrant, tender and deeply personal...

The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic narratives of love, obsession and betrayal to lively comic tales, and from satirical epistolary tales to imaginative historical fiction. This volume includes all Pushkin's prose in brilliant new translations, including his masterpieces 'The Queen of...

Je me suis redressée brusquement et une goutte de sueur s'est échappée derriere mon oreille. Elle a suivi un moment la ligne de ma mâchoire, a glissé le long de mon cou pour trouver son chemin entre mes seins. Aujourd'hui encore, je la sens, cette trace premiere qui m'a marquée jusqu'au creux de mon ventre. Je regardais en silence ce garçon qui se tenait devant moi et tout ce que je sentais,...

‘The best novel I’ve encountered this year, brilliant and funny and profound, producing some of the most complex, fascinating characters I’ve ever known. As far as I’m concerned, the novel is an instant classic’ Jaroslav Kalfar, author of Spaceman of Bohemia ‘This is art of the highest order, a masterpiece of restraint, insight and style’ Matthew Thomas, author of We Are Not Ourselves 9th...

America. In the twilight of the Gold Rush, two siblings cross a landscape with a gun in their hands and the body of their father on their backs . . . Ba dies in the night, Ma is already gone. Lucy and Sam, twelve and eleven, are suddenly alone and on the run. With their father’s body on their backs, they roam an unforgiving landscape dotted with giant buffalo bones and tiger paw prints,...

Rose Gold Watts believed she was sick for eighteen years. She thought she needed the feeding tube, the surgeries, the wheelchair . . . Turns out her mother is a really good liar. After five years in prison, Patty Watts is finally free. All she wants is to put old grievances behind her, reconcile with the daughter who testified against her - and care for her new infant grandson. When Rose...

Complete and unabridged, this title comes with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, "Ulysses", tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the...

For fans of Hannah Grace and Lauren Asher, CROSS THE LINE by Simone Soltani is an unmissable sweet and spicy, brother's-best-friend, Formula 1 sports romance. Formula 1 driver Dev Anderson’s career is on the line. After a social media disaster leaves him with an angry team and sponsors threatening to jump ship, he needs someone to help save his image. At a party in Monaco, he bumps into the...

Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young writer, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the most influential and significant philosophical attitudes of modern times - existentialism. The book chronicles his struggle with the realization that he is an entirely free agent in a world devoid of meaning; a world in which he must find his own purpose and then take total...