Account
Orders
Advanced search
'Her Imagination was one of the most dazzling this century' MARINA WALKER, INDEPENDENT 'The way to Carter's visionary and lurid world' THE TIMES'The darting, lyrical pen of Angela Carter, mistress of the erotic picaresque' KIRKUS REVIEWS'I know nothing. I am a tabula...
'The boldest of English women writers' LORNA SAGE 'Her writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language' OBSERVER 'She can glide from ancient to modern, from darkness to luminosity, from depravity to comedy...
'Angela Carter's writing is pyrothechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language' OBSERVER'The boldest of English writers' LORNA SAGE'A great writer . . . A real one-off' SALMAN RUSHDIE'The scar drew her whole face...
Here is a wonderful collection of short stories by the writer known for 'the Mackay vision, suburban - as kitsch, as unexceptional, and yet as rich in history and wonder as a plain Victorian terrace house, its threshold radiant with tiling and stained-glass birds of...
In the short fiction of Angela Carter, the landmarks of reality disappear and give way to a landscape of riotous and uncensored sensibility. The city of Tokyo turns into a mirrored chamber reflecting the impossible longings of an exiled Englishwoman abandoned by her...
'Wicked, wayward or otherwise, Carter's classic collection is a very erudite expression of girl power' MINA HOLLAND, GUARDIAN 'One of the century's greatest writers' SUNDAY TIMES This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual...
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'Du Maurier created a scale by which modern women can measure their feelings' STEPHEN KING 'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'One of the most shocking plot twists in all of literature' GILLIAN FLYNNJohn and Laura...
BY THE AUTHOR OF THE HANDMAID'S TALE, THE TESTAMENTS AND ALIAS GRACE'Dark and witty tales from the gleefully inventive Margaret Atwood. Witty verve, imaginative inventiveness and verbal sizzle vivify every page' Sunday TimesA recently widowed fantasy writer is guided...
In What Treasure Did Next, Treasure is nearly fifteen - fond of luxury, friends, talking on the phone - anything but her mother.In this second rollercoaster volume of life on the wild side, Treasure goes on holiday (with Mum and dog), dyes her hair, falls in love,...
A teenage girl finds unexpected sexual freedom on a trip to Amsterdam.A woman trapped at a dinner party comes up against an ugly obsession. The stories in Free Love are about desire, memory, sexual ambiguity and the imagination. In the harsh light of dislocation, the...
There's Amy and there's Ash. There's ice and there's fire. There's England and there's Scotland. Ali Smith evokes the twin spirits of time and place in an extraordinarily powerful first novel, which teases out the connections between people, the attractions, the...
AN ODYSSEY OF ART AND POWER, BY THE CLASSIC QUEEN OF ANCIENT GREEK RETELLINGS'Mary Renault is an exceptional storyteller' CHARLOTTE MENDELSON'A song of praise, a work of love, a serene, deliberate book, full of wisdom, rich in character, incident and description' WALL...
THE ANCIENT GREEK STAGE BROUGHT THRILLINGLY TO LIFE BYTHE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION'Mary Renault has made the classical era alive' GORE VIDAL'Her books have stood the test of time' INDEPENDENTThe artist flows into the mask the poet offers him; only so will the god...
A VIVID, SWEEPING SAGA OF QUEER LOVE AND POLITICS IN ANCIENT GREECE, FROM THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION'Renault's eye for intimacy is amazing' DOUGLAS STUART'Arresting and beautiful and moving . . . decades ahead of its time' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKSYour love made me....
A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'Thrilling...sun-soaked, gin-fuelled...A totally absorbing and compelling read.' Richard & JudyThe author of The Paris Wife takes us to the heart of another true story: set in 1920s colonial Kenya, Circling the Sun is about an...
'As gripping as any thriller' Daily MailA grey dawn in 1943: on a street in Rome, two young women, complete strangers to each other, lock eyes for a single moment.One of the women, Chiara Ravello, is about to flee the occupied city for the safety of her grandparents'...
The First World War is over, despite victory England is struggling to come to terms with its aftermath and society can never be the same again. Another battle that has been won is by the suffragettes - women not only have the vote they can also stand for Parliament. ...
'To read Bolton's three novels in sequence is to relive the three major moments of the American half century' GORE VIDAL'Rapturous . . . a welcome revival' ANITA BROOKNER, SPECTATOR'Exquisitely stylish' GUARDIAN 'Bolton's writing about New York is immensely evocative,...
BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY, CAROL AND STRANGERS ON A TRAININTRODUCEDBY DENISE MINA'Highsmith probes to the very core of her heroine with a controlled ferocity and single-mindedness that illuminates every page of her novel' THE TIMES 'A work of...
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, A KIND OF MURDER, STARRING PATRICK WILSON AND JESSICA BIEL By the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train'Almost unputdownable. Miss Highsmith writes about men like a spider writing about flies'...
Les livres numériques peuvent être téléchargés depuis l'ebookstore Numilog ou directement depuis une tablette ou smartphone.
PDF : format reprenant la maquette originale du livre ; lecture recommandée sur ordinateur et tablette EPUB : format de texte repositionnable ; lecture sur tous supports (ordinateur, tablette, smartphone, liseuse)
DRM Adobe LCP
LCP DRM Adobe
Sign up to get our latest ebook recommendations and special offers