Carol - Libros y biografía

Carol Ann Duffy's outstanding first collection, Standing Female Nude, introduced readers to all they would come to love about her poetry. From lovers to wives to war photographers, the poems it contains...

Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time, and Rapture is essential reading for the broken-hearted of all ages' - Rose TremainThe effortless virtuosity, directness, drama and...

In Politics, Carol Ann Duffy, one of the English language’s best-loved living poets presents from her own archives, in chronological order, her favourites among her poems on the theme of politics and...

One of the English language’s best-loved living poets, in Nature Carol Ann Duffy presents us with her favourites among her poems on the natural world. Drawing on work written over four decades and arranged...

‘Beautiful and moving poetry for the real world’ Jeanette Winterson, Guardian ‘Wonderful . . . a poet alert to every sound and shape of language’ Sunday Telegraph The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy’s first collection...

Beginning with the King's Cook, who is preparing a sumptuous Christmas Pie, Wenceslas takes us to a medieval feast. The lords and ladies are at their places, the wine is in full flow, the musicians are...

Maple syrup and maple candy—sunbursts on the tongue, gifts from nature. In this lyrical account, Hauser tells the story of sugaring—why the sap can be harvested only in the Midwest, New York, New England,...

This Is Mexico is a collection of essays on the often magical and mysterious—and sometimes heartrending—workings of everyday life in Mexico, written from the perspective of an American expatriate. By...

In Love, Carol Ann Duffy, one of the English language’s best-loved living poets presents from her own archives, in chronological order, her favourites among her poems on the theme of love, drawing on...

Carol Ann Duffy's beautiful anthology features an eclectic mix of poems that chart human fascination with the moon across the centuries and around the world.Carol Ann Duffy on To the Moon:'Editing Answering...

In trying to reunite with her mother, Winston discovers the many meanings of family and finds friendship in an unexpected place in this “warm, humorous, and poignant story” (Publishers Weekly) from the...

À la fin du xixe siècle, au manoir de Glen Mawr situé dans la ville de Winterthurn à l’est des États-Unis, vit l’étrange famille Kilgarvan, composée de trois filles : Georgina, l’aînée, appelée la « nonne...

Il pose bien un peu problème à son professeur de père, et à sa mère – qui l’adore – mais ni l’un ni l’autre ne croient une seconde à l’accusation d’agression sexuelle sur un mineur dont il est l’objet.Il...

Jamais Tristram Heade, vieux garçon introverti, n'aurait osé penser que l'aventure, un jour, s'immiscerait dans sa vie qui, depuis trente-cinq ans, ronronnait dans le cocon douillet d'une imagination...

When a ferocious storm hits their ship, young Mary and Jean become stranded on a deserted island. They’re not the only survivors; with them are four babies. Immediately the sisters set out to make the...

Un récit poignant et teinté d'humour. Elle, c'est Ursula. Parce qu'elle est trop grande et mal dans sa peau, Ursula se surnomme elle-même la Nulle. Lui, c'est Matt. Doué, drôle, il aime faire le malin....

Her final collection as Poet Laureate, a frank, disarming and deeply moving exploration of loss and remembrance in their many forms. Presented in a beautiful, foiled package, this will be the poetry book...

From PEN Award–winning author Carol Lynch Williams comes a “haunting read” (Booklist) in this coming-of-age tale about a girl who can talk to the dead—even if she would rather not.Evie Messenger knows...

When Carol Walsh pulled her fiancé from the bottom of a diving well—dead from a massive heart attack—her life was turned upside down. Even though she was a psychotherapist working with clients suffering...

Après Bellefleur, voici le deuxième tome de la trilogie gothique de Joyce Carol Oates.Pensylvannie. 1789. Cinq soeurs entre seize et vingt-deux ans. La narratrice : une vierge amère. Tout commence quand...

A tribute to the parts we can live without... or can we?This book sheds light on human body parts once considered extraneous but now – with modern medicine and modern medical paraphernalia – shown to...

A young lesbian girl grows beyond fear to fearlessness as she comes of age in the ’60s amid religious, social, and legal barriers. Carol Anderson grows up in a fundamentalist Christian home in the ’60s,...

Ever wondered whether it’s okay to touch your pet turtle? Share a bed with your pet boa constrictor? Or kiss your adorable cat? Have no fear. No longer will you have to delete your Internet history because...

Acclaimed crime writer Carol Anne Davis explores the minds of sadistic killers: their childhoods, their growing pathology and horrific crimes. Knowing what some of these killers endured doesn’t even begin...

All of these men and women were in good professions… and all of them were hiding dark secrets. Why do outwardly normal people commit horrendous crimes? In this collection of incisive profiles, veteran...

‘Carol Ann Duffy is the most humane and accessible poet of our time’ - GuardianIn this stunning anthology of ninety nine modern and classic poems, Carol Ann Duffy delves into the powerful and unique bond...

The Sunday Times bestseller and the definitive story behind the ITV factual drama White House Farm, about the horrific killings that took place in 1985. On 7 August 1985, Nevill and June Bamber, their...

Haunting and heart-wrenching, Tell the Wolves I'm Home is a tender story of love lost and found.1987, New York City. There's only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus,...

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and her friends across the country offer poems in praise of the magic of reading. In Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has...

Décidément, Regan Reilly ne reste jamais bien longtemps à l'abri de nouvelles péripéties... Même lors d'une virée shopping à West Hollywood ! Elle y tombe nez à nez avec Zelda, une amie connue il y a...