Before the Wind - Prijzen

La fille qui lisait dans le metro

Juliette prend le métro tous les jours à la même heure. La ligne 6, c'est chez elle. Elle aime y observer ceux qui lisent : la vieille dame, le collectionneur d'éditions rares, la jeune fille qui pleu...

Life Death Prizes

Shortlisted for the 2012 COSTA Novel Award Billy's Mum is dead. He knows - because he reads about it in magazines - that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic and stupid than...

Post Office Girl

It's the 1930s. Christine, A young Austrian woman whose family has been impoverished by the war, toils away in a provincial post office. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from an American aunt she's...

The Universe in Miniature in Miniature

In this genre-busting book from award-winning novelist Patrick Somerville characters, stories, and stray thoughts revolve around the The Machine of Understanding Other People, the story of a Chicago...

Never Love a Stranger

Foreign Affairs

Vinnie Miller, a professor of children's literature, and Fred Turner, an assistant professor at the same American university, pursue their separate affairs in London during the same six-month period

Montana Sky

To inherit part of their father's estate, three very different sisters--each unknown to the others and the children of three separate marriages--must put aside their mutual bitterness and live togethe...

Rosina

Three Women In A Mirror

Anne lives in Flanders in the 16th century and she cannot understand the need for religious rituals. Yet her ideas run against the temper of the times. It is the age of the Inquisition and she is trag...

The Things We Never Said

*** From the acclaimed author of The Flight of Cornelia Blackwood *** Everyone can change their life. But what happens when it hides a secret that changes everything? In 1964, Maggie wakes to...

Orientalism Versus Occidentalism

This book highlights the role of cultural representations and perceptions, such as when Iran is represented in the French media as a rogue state obsessed with its nuclear programme, and when France is...

Cage Of Eden 8

Akira and his classmates are on a plane heading back home after a school trip abroad. Suddenly the plane crashes on a mysterious island - Akira is somehow still alive despite the crash, yet he soon fi...