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"L'autre reine du crime", Le Monde. Londres, 1911. La famille Barnabas, à la tête d'une prestigieuse maison d'édition, subit un premier coup du sort lorsque l'un des neveux du fondateur, Tom Barnabas, s'évapore en pleine rue, sans laisser de trace. Vingt ans plus tard, c'est un autre neveu, Paul Brande, qui disparaît dans des circonstances tout aussi mystérieuses. Son corps est retrouvé peu de temps après dans la salle des archives de la maison. Les regards se tournent alors vers les cousins des victimes, les seuls à tirer profit de la mort de Paul.

"Margery Allingham possède une qualité d'ordinaire peu associée au roman policier, l'élégance." Agatha Christie Wyatt Petrie, jeune aristocrate, organise un week-end festif dans son château ancestral de Black Dudley. Mais, alors que ses invités décident de rejouer un rite initiatique autour d'une dague dans le manoir plongé dans l'obscurité, l'un des participants est retrouvé mort. Accident ? Assassinat ? Les convives, dont un mystérieux jeune homme répondant au nom d'Albert Campion, tentent de faire la lumière sur cette étrange affaire.

A gripping true story of child abuse, betrayal, and a mother's neglect. The fifth of Kate Skylark's co-written true child abuse stories. Like many little girls the world over, Amy didn't have the best start in life—living on a rough council estate with no dad and an alcoholic mother. But Amy is determined to do better. She works hard at school to make sure she succeeds in life. However, all Amy's careful plans, hopes, and dreams for the future are about to be smashed.

A New York Times bestseller. A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club YA Pick. Love & Gelato meets Don't Date Rosa Santos in this charming, heartfelt story following a Miami girl who unexpectedly finds love—and herself—in a small English town. For Lila Reyes, a summer in England was never part of the plan. The plan was: 1) take over her abuela's role as head baker at their panadería, 2) move in with her best friend after graduation, and 3) live happily ever after with her boyfriend. But then the Trifecta happened, and everything—including Lila herself—fell apart.

From the Booker Prize-winning author of Amsterdam, a brilliant new novel. On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, son of the Tallis’s cleaning lady, whose education has been subsidized by Cecilia’s and Briony’s father, and who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By day's end, their lives will be changed—irrevocably.

Les mille et unes facettes de Charlie Watts, batteur légendaire des Rolling Stones. 1962. Fraîchement formé, le groupe des Rolling Stones est à la recherche d'un batteur. Un jazzman londonien retient leur attention. Son nom : Charlie Watts. Une fois installé derrière ses cymbales, le musicien jouera sans faille jusqu'à la fin de sa vie.

“This funny and bighearted debut is an ode to queer friendship and chosen family. . . . A tender and generous novel about finding your people, getting vulnerable, and celebrating every joy—big or small.” —BuzzFeed. Could I one day inspire happiness in others, the same way he seemed to do in me? Harley is a young queer Black man struggling to find his way in nineties Britain. Returning home, having just dropped out of college, he is racked by feelings of failure and inadequacy.

Named one of the Best Romances of 2020 by Apple, Kirkus, PW, Washington Post, NPR, BookPage, OprahMag, EW, Insider, Buzzfeed, Bustle, and Amazon! USA Today bestselling author Talia Hibbert returns with another charming romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake date her friend after a video of him "rescuing" her from their office building goes viral. Danika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt.

A Reese's Book Club Pick. Instant New York Times bestseller. "Are you ready for the roller coaster ride that is The Club? . . . A beautifully written, densely plotted murder mystery that takes place at a private club off the coast of England. Read about a luxurious, celeb-only island during a weekend of partying and ultimately murder." —Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club March '22 Pick). From the author of People Like Her comes a smart and sinister murder mystery set in the secretive world of exclusive celebrity clubs. Everyone's dying to join...

New York Times and USA Today bestseller. He's been a bad, bad rake—and it takes a governess to teach him a lesson. The accidental governess: After her livelihood slips through her fingers, Alexandra Mountbatten takes on an impossible post: transforming a pair of wild orphans into proper young ladies. However, the girls don't need discipline. They need a loving home. Try telling that to their guardian, Chase Reynaud: duke's heir in the streets and devil in the sheets. The ladies of London have tried—and failed—to make him settle down.