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Un homme rêve de retrouver une femme qu'il a aimée. Un maître espion cherche à recruter une taupe. Leurs chemins se croisent. Cela s'est passé au XXe siècle.

The Road to Lichfield is the Booker Prize shortlisted first novel by Penelope Lively.

If one theme unifies the 11 tales collected here, it is that of longing.

'This novel is a jewel ... one of those books that enters the soul, which it is impossible not to be conquered by. It is a masterpiece like few others' —Huffington Post.

Lose yourself in ancient civilizations in these three historical novellas by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies. Even when he leapt from the parapet he talked.

Do you worry that you drink too much? Or perhaps you fear that your dependence on drugs, food, sex, or some other vice is spiraling out of control and taking your quality of life with it?

"Honest and insightful, a testament to Japanese Canadian resilience." —Kerri Sakamoto, author of Floating City.

Partie en Allemagne comme jeune fille au pair, Laura, à dix-sept ans, découvre tout d’abord qu’elle ne connaît pas si bien la langue de ce pays étranger.

Described by one surgeon as “soul-crushing, diamond-making stress,” surgery on congenital heart defects is arguably the most difficult of all surgical specialties.

The first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid crisis. In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white "new face" of the US opioid crisis abounded.

A rediscovered classic from the author of For Two Thousand Years, this remarkable novel presents nuanced snapshots of love in the early twentieth century.

"Louis a demandé quand ce serait la fin du monde. J'ai dit : il n'y aura pas de fin du monde, mon chéri.

A finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. An epic story that takes place on the dusty, remorseless Oklahoma frontier, where two brothers are deadlocked in a furious rivalry.

"Coyote is an important literary voice, blending a keen sense of gay identity and community with a refreshing appreciation for the goodness at the heart of some straight people."—Out.

'The Mersey Sound is an attempt to introduce contemporary poetry to the general reader by publishing representative work by each of three modern poets in a single volume, in each case the sele