Alan - Libros y biografía

Life is suddenly looking up for William Wooding. Thirty-five, overweight, sedately employed and unhappily married, he is given the chance to escape to a new life in South America. There he runs the English...

A satirical romp through the corridors of the Foreign Office as Patrick Stubbs is posted as third secretary in the British Embassy in Lower Africa. Mayhem awaits him - an absent-minded ambassador, a bullying...

Robert Stevens and Tim Albright are in their final term at Oxford. Their exams are looming larger and larger on the horizon. But more important to both of them is the production of the fierce Jacobean...

'Alan Judd's special magic is to mix contemporary events as they break over our heads with the codes and crafts of the secret world on whose special traits he is always uncannily up to date' Peter Hennessy'Plotting...

A beautifully written, highly emotional love story about an RAF pilot in WWII, from the acclaimed author of Legacy. Frank Foucham risks his life night after night flying raids over Germany. The war shows...

In April 1945 Hitler's bunker in Berlin was the last place Edith Mecklenburg wanted to be. But Edith had no choice: as secretary to Eva Braun, Hitler's mistress and -- for a few final, desperate hours...

From a prison cell, in which he has been held on suspicion of breaking the Official Secrets Act, Charles Thoroughgood awaits not only his bail, but also the reappearance of the woman whom all the major...

From the author of Legacy, now a major BBC Film, comes a brilliant new novel for fans of le Carre, Graham Greene and Charles Cumming. During a time of political disruption and rising anti-nuclear sentiment,...

From the author of Legacy, now a major BBC Film, comes a brilliant new historical crime novella for fans of Antonia Hodgson and CJ Sansom.‘To Mr Thomas Combe my sword.’  These six words in Shakespeare’s...

The groundbreaking account of the widespread misdiagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder—and how its unchecked growth has made ADHD one of the most controversial conditions in medicine, with...

Charles Thoroughgood is now the recently-appointed chief of a reconstituted MI6, married to his predecessor's widow and tasked with halting the increasingly disruptive cyber attacks on Britain, which...

The story behind the beloved film, Bugsy Malone, leaps off the page in this full colour original comic-strip graphic novel. In Prohibition-era New York City, Fat Sam runs one of the most popular...

Après «Janvier noir» et «L'Enfant de février, »roisième aventure de l'inspecteur Harry McCoy.Nous sommes toujours à Glasgow en 1973. En ce mois de juillet, Bobby March, héros local qui a réussi dans la...

Alan Parks nous replonge dans la Glasgow des années 70, et plus précisément entre le 12 et le 22 avril, période durant laquelle l’in specteur Harry McCoy va avoir fort à faire : des bombes artisanales...

Depuis quelques temps, l’inquiétude est vive au pays des Buggels Noz, situé dans la forêt de Brocéliande, en Armorique. On a en effet repéré de grandes excavations creusées sous la mer et le Grand Khoonseil,...

Au royaume de Lhyr, la guerre noire est imminente. Le Masque et ses horribles Mhorgs s'apprêtent à massacrer Diddles et Buggels Noz. La créature des ténèbres exige les Bois des Maîtres: les trois sceptres...

Aux commandes d'un antique Cessna, un jeune naturaliste téméraire et un pilote vétéran de la Seconde Guerre mondiale décident de suivre la migration d'un faucon pèlerin à travers l'Amérique.Ce périple...

If there’s a problem in school, there’s no substitute for the world-saving substitute teachers of the S.O.S.! This is the first book of this hilarious, highly illustrated early chapter book series. When...

Que se passerait-il outre-Manche si, par le plus grand des hasards, Sa Majesté la Reine se découvrait une passion pour la lecture ? Si, tout d'un coup, plus rien n'arrêtait son insatiable soif de livres,...

The classic account of the war on the Eastern Front between the Russians and the Germans - the greatest clash of arms the world has ever seen.Carefully researched and beautifully written, this book is...

Alan Titchmarsh has had a passion for gardening for as long as he can remember. Aged 8, he announced to friends that he was going to be the next Percy Thrower, although he thought it was no more than...

3 pays, 3 époques, 3 enfants de 12 ans que l'Histoire envoie sur les routes de l'exil.Joseph, qui fuit l'Allemagne nazie en 1938.Isabel, qui fuit la pauvreté à Cuba en 1994.Mahmoud, qui fuit la guerre...

“A terrific history…gossipy as hell…the writing is classic Shipnuck…he will never bore you.” —Golf Digest The New York Times bestselling author of Phil and “master of both the art and science of sports...

From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker and the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize-winning classic, The Owl Service The definitive collection...

Séduisante, indépendante et volontaire, Marian enchaîne les aventures sans lendemains. Hostile à l’amour qui étouffe, elle pense maîtriser parfaitement son existence. Mais sait-elle vraiment qui elle...

See the film Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song from Sony Pictures Classics This “thoughtful and illuminating” (The New York Times) work of music journalism is an unforgettable, fascinating,...

"Un classique pour tous les amoureux de la nature et des chevaux. Une magnifique histoire américaine, leçon exemplaire d’écologie et de sagesse."

The death of a young artist leaves Gently desperately piecing together the portrait of a murderer.When artist Shirley Johnson is murdered and her body dumped outside a provincial police headquarters,...

You'll find plenty of bodies stretched out on a summer beach - but they're not usually dead...In a British seaside holiday resort at the height of the season, you would expect to find a promenade and...

A modern classic, Einstein's Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is...