Artemis Cooper, en la exhaustiva y a la vez cálida biografía sobre su figura, ha sabido captar perfectamente el espíritu apasionado y el magnético carácter del autor de obras magistrales como El tiempo...

Beevor y su esposa, Artemis Cooper, nos muestran el París de Beauvoir, de Camus y de Malraux, pero también de Hemingway, de Beckett, de Picasso y de García Márquez. Un libro excepcional a partir de documentos...

Elizabeth David was born into a upper-class family and pursued a rebellious and bohemian life as a student of art and then an actress in Paris, before running off with a married man to Greece and then...

Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his...

For troops in the desert, Cairo meant fleshpots or brass hats. For well-connected officers, it meant polo at the Gezira Club and drinks at Shepheard's. For the irregular warriors, Cairo was a city to...

Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her. She grew up yearning to...

80e ANNIVERSAIRE DE LA LIBÉRATIONCette histoire s’ouvre dans l’enthousiasme et le sang versé lors de la libération de Paris, à la fin du mois d’août 1944. Elle mêle les attentes des premiers « beaux jours...