Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony was first played in the city of its birth on 9 August, 1942. There has never been a first performance to match it. Pray God, there never will be again. Almost a year ea...
In a world where animals no longer exist, twelve-year-old Kester Jaynes sometimes feels like he hardly exists either. Locked away in a home for troubled children, he's told there's something wrong wit...
"MEET ENZO MACLEOD, AND BEGIN THE ADDICTIVE COLD-CASE SERIES FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND COFFIN ROAD. PARIS.
An old mystery.
As midnight strikes, a man desperately...
"IF YOU FLEE FATE...
When Detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on the remote Entry Island, 850 miles from the Canadian mainland, he leaves behind him a life of sleeplessness...
Three years ago the body of France's foremost wine critic was found strung up like a scarecrow in a Gaillac vineyard, dressed in the ceremonial robes of the Order of the Divine Bottle and pickled in w...
"The Blackhouse
A MURDER: A brutal killing has taken place on Scotland's most remote island. Detective Fin MacLeod is sent from Edinburgh to investigate. For Lewis-born MacLeod, the case represents a ...
"Comment s'imposer ' quand on a le malheur d'etre ne au confluent de Hugo et de Balzac ' ?Comment ecrire La Comedie humaine apres ce dernier ? Les tatonnements d'Emile Zola sont brefs. Therese Raquin,...
"Maupassant a ecrit plus de deux cent soixante contes et nouvelles et sept grands romans. Pierre et Jean, qui est un de ses chefs-d'?uvre, a toujours souffert de sa celebre preface ou l'auteur analyse...
"As dawn breaks over the Pont Neuf, and the cobbled alleyways of Paris come to life, Anna Trent is already awake and at work, mixing and stirring the finest, smoothest, richest chocolate, made entirely...
"In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle...
«Chaque fois que Vronski lui adressait la parole, un ?clair passait dans les yeux d'Anna, un sourire entrouvrait ses l?vres, et, si d?sireuse qu'elle par?t de la refouler, son all?gresse ?clatait en s...
"When two young girls go missing in rural Herefordshire, police constable and wizard-in-training Peter Grant is sent out of London to check that nothing supernatural is involved.
It's purely routine-Nightingale,...