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Londres, 1983. Lorsque le mari autoritaire de Cora Seaborne décède, elle plonge dans sa nouvelle vie de veuve avec davantage de soulagement que de tristesse. Accompagnée de son fils Francis - un garçon curieux et obsessionnel -, elle déménage pour l’Essex dans l’espoir d’y trouver le renouveau. En arrivant, elle entend dire que le mythique serpent de l’Essex, jadis connu pour roder dans les marécages, est de retour dans le comté voisin d’Aldwinter. Cora, naturaliste passionnée et ne se laissant pas si facilement impressionner par les racontars, est convaincue qu’il s’agit plutôt d’une espèce non encore découverte. Décidée à en avoir le coeur net, on lui présente William Ransome, vicaire d’Aldwinter, lui-même fort cartésien et contrarié par ces rumeurs qui détournent ses paroissiens des préceptes religieux. Bien que tout les sépare, Will et Cora démarrent alors une intense relation qui les bouleversa bien au-delà de ce qu’ils auraient imaginé.

In these ten stories, Nickolas Butler demonstrates his talent for portraying a place and its people with unparalleled tenderness, evoking an American landscape

Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkway on this freezing November morning is confident he's alone. As he sits on the metal bench at the far end of the platform it is clear his choice is strategic - he's as far away from the night staff as he can get. What the man doesn't realise is that he has company. Lisa Evans knows what he has decided. She knows what he is about to do as she tries and fails to stop him walking to the platform edge. Two deaths on Platform Seven. Two fatalities in eighteen months - surely they're connected? No one is more desperate to understand what connects them than Lisa Evans herself. After all, she was the first of the two to die.

Cristián Ferrar, a brilliant and handsome Spanish émigré, is a lawyer in the Paris office of a prestigious international law firm. Ferrar is approached by the embassy of the Spanish Republic and asked to help a clandestine agency trying desperately to supply weapons to the Republic’s beleaguered armyùan effort that puts his life at risk in the battle against fascism.

He is only in his early thirties, but now Quinn Colson is jobless - voted out of office as sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, thanks to the machinations of county kingpin Johnny Stagg. He has offers, in bigger and better places, but before he goes, he's got one more job to do - bring down Stagg's criminal operations for good.

It is the summer solstice, but in a faded Scottish cabin park the rain is unrelenting. Twelve people on holiday with their families look on as the skies remain resolutely grey. A woman goes running up the Ben as if fleeing; a teenage boy chances the dark waters of the loch in his kayak; a retired couple head out despite the downpour, driving too fast on the familiar bends. But there are newcomers too, and one particular family, a mother and daughter with the wrong clothes and the wrong manners, start to draw the attention of the others. Who are they? Where are they from? Should they be here at all? As darkness finally falls, something is unravelling .

The feverishly anticipated second novel from the young author of 2017's most acclaimed debut Conversations with Friends. Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years. This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a simple yet profound realisation that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel. It tells us how difficult it is to talk about how we feel and it tells us - blazingly - about cycles of domination, legitimacy and privilege. Alternating menace with overwhelming tenderness, Sally Rooney's second novel breathes fiction with new life

It starts as a game at a book group one night. Never Have I Ever... done something I shouldn't. But Amy Whey has done something she shouldn't. And Roux, the glamorous newcomer to Amy's suburban neighbourhood, knows exactly what that is. Roux promises she will go away - if Amy plays by her rules. But Amy isn't prepared to lose everything. She's going to fight back, and in this escalating game of cat and mouse, there can be only one winner.

It seemed, at times, an act of profound selfishness, to have a child so that I might become a parent; but selfish, too, to have a child and stay the same, or not to have one - unless the only honest choice would have been to try to become this kinder version of myself without the need to bring another into it . . .

The storm comes in like a finger snap . . . 1617. The sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vard is thrown into a vicious storm. A young woman, Maren, watches as the men of the island, out fishing, perish in an instant. Vard is now a place of women. Eighteen months later, a sinister figure arrives. Absalom Cornet has been summoned to bring the women of the island to heel. With him travels his young wife, Ursa. In her new home, and in Maren, Ursa encounters something she has never seen before: independent women. But where Ursa finds happiness, even love, Absalom sees only a place flooded with a terrible evil, one he must root out at all costs . . .

Spring, 1919. James 'Max' Maxted, former Great War flying ace, returns to the trail of murder, treachery and half-buried secrets he set out on in The Ways of the World. He left Paris after avenging the murder of his father, Sir Henry Maxted, a senior member of the British delegation to the post-war peace conference. But he was convinced there was more - much more - to be discovered about what Sir Henry had been trying to accomplish. And he suspected elusive German spymaster Fritz Lemmer knew the truth of it.

In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colours of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother- who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than just tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past, and a disregard for the rules that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. When old family friends attempt to adopt a Chinese-American baby, a custody battle erupts that dramatically divides the town - and puts Mia and Elena on opposing sides. Suspicious of Mia and her motives, Elena is determined to uncover the secrets in Mia's past. But her obsession will come at an unexpected and devastating cost...

Après avoir passé 30 ans au lycée de St Oswald, dans le Yorkshire, le professeur de latin Roy Straitley a déjà vu toute une palette d’élèves passer devant ses yeux : les pitres, les rebelles, les bouc-émissaires, et ceux qu’il appelle ses « Brodie boys ». Mais de temps à autre, il y a un garçon qui ne rentre pas dans les cases. Un fauteur de trouble. Un garçon capable de renverser la table. Un garçon empli de zones d’ombre. L’école se trouvant au bord de la faillite scolaire et académique, un vent de modernité va souffler dans ses voiles : voilà qu’arrivent les Powerpoint, les habits décontractés, et même quelques filles dans les couloirs. Mais tandis que Straitley fait de son mieux pour résister au changement, voilà qu’une vieille histoire va revenir en plein jour. L’histoire d’un garçon qui, même au bout de 20 ans, continue de hanter les nuits de son professeur. L’histoire d’un fauteur de trouble.

Stella Carey exists in a world of night. Married to an ex-soldier, she leaves the house every evening as Vincent locks himself away, along with the scars and the secrets he carries. During her nursing shifts, Stella writes letters for her patients to their loved ones - some full of humour, love and practical advice, others steeped in regret or pain û and promises to post these messages after their deaths. Until one night Stella writes the letter that could give her patient one last chance at redemption, if she delivers it in timeà

Alors qu'elle a presque douze ans, Anna Kerrigan accompagne son père chez Dexter Styles, un homme qui, comprend-elle, est crucial pour la survie de sa famille. Derrière sa maison, elle aperçoit l'océan, qui l'émerveille autant que le mystère pesant qui lie les deux hommes. Des années plus tard, son père a disparu, et le pays est en guerre. Anna travaille au chantier naval de Brooklyn, où les femmes effectuent des tâches autrefois réservées aux hommes, désormais au front. Elle devient la première femme scaphandrier ; sa mission essentielle, des plus dangereuses, consiste à réparer les navires qui aideront les états- Unis à remporter la guerre. Un soir, dans un club, elle croise de nouveau le chemin de Dexter Styles, et commence à comprendre la complexité de la vie de son père, ainsi que les possibles raisons de sa disparition.

Dublin, 1918. At the end fo the First World War, Lilly Bere and her sweetheart Tadg are forced to flee Ireland for America. They plan to marry and forge a new life together, in the hope that their past will not catch up with them. Seven decades later, Lilly,mourning the loss of her grandson, tries to make sense of her own life and the lives of the people she has loved.

Who would you be, if you hadn't turned out to be the person you are now? Dawn is a death doula, and spends her life helping people make the final transition peacefully. But when the plane she's on plummets, she finds herself thinking not of the perfect life she has, but the life she was forced to abandon fifteen years ago - when she left behind a career in Egyptology, and a man she loved. Against the odds, she survives, and the airline offers her a ticket to wherever she needs to get to - but the answer to that question suddenly seems uncertain. As the path of her life forks in two very different directions, Dawn must confront questions she's never truly asked: What does a well-lived life look like? What do we leave behind when we go? And do we make our choices, or do our choices make us? Two possible futures. One impossible choice.