SUMMARY: When an obnoxious former Nazi land-worker is murdered in the small English village of Comerford, Chad Wedderburn, classics master and hero of the Resistance in WWII, is accused of the murder. But none of his students believes he is guilty, including Dominic Felse, who discovered the body. Dominic resolves to discover the true murderer.<

SUMMARY: When a young woman, missing for five days, suddenly reappears insisting she was gone only two hours, Inspector Felse must investigate the bizarre claim<

No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta ("for fifteen years the biggest star in the history of the Indian movies") and Saladin Chamcha, a Bombay expatriate returning from his first visit to his homeland in 15 years, plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their jetliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations. Rushdie's powers of invention are astonishing in this Whitbread Prize winner.

Banned in India before publication, this immense novel by Booker Prize-winner Rushdie ( Midnight's Children ) pits Good against Evil in a whimsical and fantastic tale. Two actors from India, "prancing" Gibreel Farishta and "buttony, pursed" Saladin Chamcha, are flying across the English Channel when the first of many implausible events occurs: the jet explodes. As the two men plummet to the earth, "like titbits of tobacco from a broken old cigar," they argue, sing and are transformed. When they are found on an English beach, the only survivors of the blast, Gibreel has sprouted a halo while Saladin has developed hooves, hairy legs and the beginnings of what seem like horns. What follows is a series of allegorical tales that challenges assumptions about both human and divine nature. Rushdie's fanciful language is as concentrated and overwhelming as a paisley pattern. Angels are demonic and demons are angelic as we are propelled through one illuminating episode after another. The narrative is somewhat burdened by self-consciousness that borders on preciosity, but for Rushdie fans this is a splendid feast.

"A glittering novelist – one with startling imagination and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling." – V.S. Pritchett,

"Abundant in enchanting narratives and amazingly peopled, is both a philosophy and an Arabian nights entertainment. What wit, what real warmth in Rushdie’s thousand-eyed perceptions of the inferno within us and the vainglory of our aspirations! His ambitions are huge, and his creativity triumphantly matches them...A staggering achievement, brilliantly enjoyable." – Nadine Gordimer

"A masterpiece." – Bill Bruford,

"Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Voltaire's Candide, Sterne's Tristam Shandy.... Salman Rushdie, it seems to me, is very much a latter day member of their company." –

"Further evidence of Rushdie’s stature as one of the most original, imaginative, perplexing, and important writers of our time." –

"A novel of metamorphoses, hauntings, hallucinations, revelations, advertising jingles jokes… Rushdie has the power of description, and we succumb." – Victoria Glendinning,

"An exhilarating… populous, loquacious, sometimes hilarious, extraordinary contemporary novel… a roller coaster ride over a vast majority of the imagination" – Angela Carter,

"A truly original novel…sustained at headlong pace by the author whose powers of invention and construction, command of every variety of English and Anglo-Indian idiom, sense of desperate comedy, and within of intellectual reference have been well-exercised before, but neber on such a scale." – Hyam Maccoby,

SUMMARY: As a favour to his girlfriend Tossa's beautiful but erratic filmstar mother, Dominic Felse agrees to escort a teenage heiress to her father in India. But travelling with the spoilt, precocious Anjili is no sinecure and the task of delivering her back to her family proves less than easy. Dominic and Tossa find themselves embroiled in a mystery that swiftly and shockingly becomes a murder investigation. For behind the colourful, smiling mask of India that the tourist sees is another country remote, mysterious and often shatteringly brutal...<

To prawdziwe notatki dziewczyny, później kobiety, w których zamkniętych zostało piętnaście lat życia na krawędzi, we wciąż na nowo podejmowanej walce z nałogiem. Jej przejmujące, niejednokrotnie bardzo drastyczne świadectwo rodzi prawdę o piekle, jakim jest uzależnienie. Daty dzienne wyznczają tu czas szkoły, pracy i wakacji, ale przede wszystkim czas życia i śmierci.<

SUMMARY: An ingenious killer disposes of a strangled corpse on a battlefield. Brother Cadfael discovers the body, and must then piece together disparate clues--including a girl in boy's clothing, a missing treasure and a single flower--to expose a murderer's black heart.<

Książka wprowadza czytelnika w brutalny świat nałogu – świat rządzący się swoimi prawami, gdzie ciało staje się towarem, za który można kupić upragnioną działkę – świat pozbawiony miłości i zrozumienia.<

When someone pushes a troublesome newcomer from the steeple of St. Eata's church, Superintendent George Felse is charged with sifting through a long list of suspects to catch the killer.<

Zapis codziennych zmagań z życiem i próba rozrachunku z brutalną przeszłoscią kobiety chorej na schizofrenię. Poruszająca historia człowieka, którego cierpienie i choroba psychiczna popychają ku samobójstwu.<

SUMMARY: In her sixteenth chronicle of the medieval monk-detective Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters throws a variety of puzzles at her hero. In the summer of 1143, Brother Cadfael is torn from his herbarium to investigate the deaths of two visitors.<

Nous sommes à Berlin, en novembre 1949. HR, agent subalterne d'un service français de renseignement et d'interventions hors normes, arrive dans l'ancienne capitale en ruine, à laquelle il se croit lié par un souvenir confus, remontant par bouffées de sa très jeune enfance. Il y est aujourd'hui chargé d'une mission dont ses chefs n'ont pas cru bon de lui dévoiler la signification réelle, préférant n'en fournir que les éléments indispensables pour l'action qu'on attend de son aveugle fidélité. Mais les choses ne se passent pas comme prévu…

Ça fait des siècles qu'on vous rebat les oreilles avec le Nouveau Roman et Robbe-Grillet. Evidemment, vous avez eu le choix. Vous avez lu ou vous n'avez pas lu Robbe-Grillet. Dès lors, vous avez été classé définitivement. Si vous faites partie des lecteurs de Robbe-Grillet, je n'ai rien à vous apprendre, nous nous comprenons.

Si vous avez essayé La Jalousie en vain, si on vous a dit Dans le Labyrinthe, c'est pire, vous n'avez certainement pas dû avoir la moindre envie de lire La Reprise. D'autant que le Nouveau Roman n'est plus tendance depuis longtemps, et que son auteur, pensez-vous, doit frôler le gâtisme. Peut-être tout au plus les relents de souffre qui entourent ce roman ont-ils titillé votre libido, mais, c'est sûr, pas au point de le lire!

Pour vous, donc, cette critique. La Reprise est le point d'orgue du Nouveau Roman. Dans sa construction, on y sent la consécration d'un style qui, jusqu'à présent, semblait plus relever de l'expérimentation que de l'art. Le caractère froid, méthodique des romans précédents, leur obscurantisme volontaire ont cédé la place à une fluidité totale. Les inventions des romans de Robbe-Grillet trouvent ici tout naturellement leur place. Les effets de brouillage n'ont plus rien de gratuit, ils servent l'histoire de façon magistrale. Tous les autres romans de Robbe-Grillet semblent converger vers celui-ci, peut-être le dernier, qui du coup, justifie tout le Nouveau Roman.

La Reprise est certainement le point final, mais aussi, pour une nouvelle génération de lecteurs, le point d'entrée dans l'oeuvre de Robbe-Grillet.

SUMMARY: The year is 1142, and all England is in the iron grip of a civil war. And within the sheltered cloisters of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, there begins a chain of events no less momentous than the political upheavals of the outside world. First, there is the sad demise of Richard Ludel, Lord of Eyton, whose ten-year-old son and heir, also named Richard, is a pupil at the Abbey. Supported by Abbot Radulfus, the boy refuses to surrender his new powers to Dionysia, his furious, formidable grandmother. A stranger to the region is the hermit Cuthred, who enjoys the protection of Lady Dionysia, and whose young companion, Hyacinth, befriends Richard. Despite his reputation for holiness, Cuthred's arrival heralds a series of mishaps for the monks. When Richard disappears and a corpse is found in Eyton forest, Brother Cadfael is once more forced to leave the tranquillity of his herb garden and devote his knowledge of human nature to tracking down a ruthless murderer.<

SUMMARY: A famous singer wakes up in hospital after a car crash, haunted by the certainty that she has been responsible for a death at some time in the past. She hires an private investigator, who launches a hunt across Europe with the trail leading to Felse's wife, Bunty.<

Who says a wolf can’t make a pussycat purr?

Perfect timing has never been Lilly Prescott’s long suit. Seconds before a showdown with werewolf Dante Morgan, who owns a property that by rights should belong to her, she goes into heat. Not a simple event for a lynx shifter. No, she’s doomed to weeks of frustration that can only be soothed by frequent rolls in the hay—or her hand. Unfortunately, Dante accidentally witnesses the latter.

Left shaken and highly aroused in the snow, Dante can’t believe he’s attracted to the woman who drives him crazy, and not in a good way. Worse, his father has issued an ultimatum. Marry, or abdicate his place as pack leader. On the other hand, it’s the perfect leverage. Lilly will get her land…in exchange for a wedding ring and all the sexual satisfaction she can handle.

Marry Dante? No doubt he’s a poster boy for Hunks ’R’ Us, but he’s rude, arrogant and Lilly’s sworn enemy. Not to mention the thought of losing her independence is frightening as hell.

When they find themselves falling victim to their own charade, though, it’s anything but hell. It’s heaven, and the last thing either of them wants. The real thing.

Product Warnings: This book contains redneck werewolves, inconvenient hormones, and a whole new use for cat toys. Uncontrollable meowing may occur.

SUMMARY: The knocker hung on a very special door--heavy oak, with a late-Gothic arch, and apparently a late-Gothic curse. The door was moved from an old abbey to the village church, and legend held that sinners who seized the knocker had their hands burned. But Gerry Bracewell didn't die of burns . . .<