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Ouvrages de la bibliothèque en indexation 823 (16)

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Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, friends and lovers, across the country and through the years.![]()
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Purple Hibiscus is a novel about the blurred lines between the old gods and the new, childhood and adulthood, love and hatred - the gray spaces in which truths are revealed and true living is begun.![]()
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Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn’t kep[...]![]()
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On a tennis holiday in Antigua, British university lecturer Peregrine "Perry" Makepiece and his lawyer girlfriend Gail Perkins meet mysterious Russian business oligarch Dmitri "Dima" Vladimirovich Krasnov and his family. Dima, who describes hims[...]![]()
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This is the story of Aman, as told in his own words – a boy from Afghanistan fleeing the horror of the Afghan war. When a western dog shows up outside the caves where Aman lives with his mother, Aman is initially repulsed – it is not customary f[...]![]()
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Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly mattered to two young men whose shared love of horses brought them together and whose whole lives lay ahead of them. Whe[...]![]()
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Karim Amir lives with his English mother and Indian father in the routine comfort of suburban London, enduring his teenage years with good humor, always on the lookout for adventure and sexual possibilities. Life gets more interesting, however, [...]![]()
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First published: London : Chapman & Hall, 1930. Vile Bodies is a 1930 novel by Evelyn Waugh satirising the Bright Young People: decadent young London society between World War I and World War II.![]()
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On New Year's Day 1975, an Englishman named Archie Jones, a 47-year-old man whose disturbed Italian wife has just walked out on him, is attempting to commit suicide by gassing himself in his car when a chance interruption causes him to change hi[...]![]()
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Bulter Jeeves'duty is to cure his master's raging hangover![]()
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Murray Bail | 1998En Australie, un homme, passionné de botanique, cherche à cultiver toutes les espèces d'eucalyptus. Comme dans un conte, sa fille Ellen se mariera avec l'homme, qui, comme lui, sera capable de reconnaître et de nommer chaque espèce d'eucalyptus...![]()
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It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose [...]![]()
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Black Beauty spends his youth in a loving home, surrounded by friends and cared for by his owners. But when circumstances change, he learns that not all humans are so kind. Passed from hand to hand, Black Beauty witnesses love and cruelty, wealt[...]![]()
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Full of suspense, humor, and symbolism, this magnificently crafted and magical novel replays biblical and medieval themes in contemporary London. An attempt by the sharp, feral, and uncommonly intelligent Lucas Graffe to murder his sensual and c[...]![]()
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Un curé riche, détaché du monde et généreux qui vit heureux en compagnie de sa femme et de ces 6 enfants... Mais la faillite, l'enlèvement d'une des fille, et l'emprisonnement du curé viennent perturber ce bonheur familiale.