Christopher - Libros y biografía

Dans ce roman d’apprentissage, Isherwood raconte « l’éducation d’un écrivain » - la sienne. Dès le début des années 1920, à la public school, puis dans un college de Cambridge d’où il se fait renvoyer...

Roman traduit de l'anglais par : Léo Dilé Publié en anglais en 1976, Christopher et son monde couvre les dix années les plus mémorables de la vie de l'écrivain : de l'année 1929, lorsque Isherwood, parti...

Deux frères se retrouvent en Inde après une longue séparation. Oliver, le plus jeune, un idéaliste, s’apprête à renoncer à tout désir humain et à prononcer ses vœux de moine hindou. Patrick, un brillant...

Roman traduit de l'anglais par Léo Dilé Après avoir réédité, en 2010, Un homme au singulier à l'occasion de la sortie du film de Tom Ford, les éditions Fayard ont entrepris de rééditer les dix romans...

 Stephen Monk, un riche Anglo-Américain, découvre l’infidélité de sa femme Jane lors d’une surprise-party à Hollywood et part se réfugier chez sa mère adoptive. Là, cloué au lit à la suite d’un accident,...

Dans ce récit autobiographique, Christopher Isherwood rend hommage, avec humour et tendresse, à celui qui fut son maître spirituel pendant près de quarante ans : le prêtre hindou Swami Prabhavananda,...

Les quatre épisodes qui composent l’Ami de passage jalonnent le cours d’une vie, depuis la jeunesse jusqu’à la maturité. Ils sont liés par un narrateur, Christopher, qui n’est jamais le même, selon le...

Récit traduit de l'anglais par : Léo Dilé En 1933, Isherwood, rentrant d'un long séjour en Allemagne (raconté dans Mr Norris change de train et Adieu à Berlin), fut engagé à Londres par une société de...

"Kathleen" is a 1920 novel by Christopher Morley. It tells the story of a group of eight Oxford undergrads who call themselves "The Scorpions." One day, they find a letter that a certain Kathleen wrote...

"The Haunted Bookshop" is a so called "bibliomystery" (a mystery story set in the world of books) from 1919. It is the story of the eccentric owner of the Haunted Bookshop, Roger Mifflin, who some readers...

"Parnassus on Wheels" (1917) was Christopher Morley's first published novel. It tells the story of Roger Mifflin, who sells his travelling book business to 39-year-old Helen McGill. The latter is tired...

A practical guide to identifying and targeting toxins with the most appropriate and effective detox methods • Reveals the two main types of toxins: colloidal, which affect circulation and organ function,...

The fifth book in the Jack Parlabane series, from author Christopher Brookmyre.Do you believe in ghosts? Do we really live on in some conscious form after we die, and is that form capable of communicating...

The third book in the Angelique De Xavier series, from author Christopher Brookmyre.If society has the B-list celebrities it deserves, it now has a killer to match. Except that Simon Darcourt is a great...

The third novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe continues down a path that can only end in fire.Hadrian and his Red Company...

For centuries, Vatican sorcerers kept demons and monsters out of our world with the magic found in a grimoire called The Gospel of Shadows. Years ago, to save his people from madmen, Peter Octavian defeated...

Old houses are charming, but owning one can be a labor of love. Expert carpenter and house "doctor" Christopher Evers equates old homes with ailing patients, describing how you can successfully "treat"...

Quench your Thirst with the finale to the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Christopher Pike.Sita has lived for centuries. She has seen more than most people could ever imagine. She has loved...

The test of this kind of book is for the reader to be able to open it anywhere and be drawn into the argument; it's a test that Hitchens passes time and time again... He can be devilishly funny, but he...

In the 1980s, a small man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, SA, claiming to have been kidnapped as a baby. The Sergeant, whose job it is to sort the local people by colour, and thereby...

In this vitriolic polemic, Christopher Hitchens takes on the myth surrounding the most divisive political figures in American political history: Bill Clinton and Hilary Clinton.By far the best of all...

In the sunny jacaranda-leafed garden of his Johannesburg home, six year old Martin Donally is king of a small and perfect world. It is 1948 and life is full of childish rhymes and his colourful extended...

In god is Not Great Hitchens turned his formidable eloquence and rhetorical energy to the most controversial issue in the world: God and religion. The result is a devastating critique of religious faithgod...

David Mungo Booi is a descendant of the Bushmen who once lived in the distant African Karoo. Chosen by a conclave of elders, travelling on funds raised by public subscription, sponsored by the Society...

Christopher Hitchens' iconclastic collection is the perfect companion to US-UK relations by the greatest Anglo-American writer of his generation. Since the end of the Cold War so-called experts have...

It is the early fifties in Badminton, Johannesburg, where all the street-names recall British kings and queens and where retired soldiers relive the desert war in their dusty gardens. This small-town...

'Revisiting this selection of diaries and essay-reviews from the London Review of Books is restorative, an extended spa treatment that stretches tired brains and unkinks the usual habitual responses where...

Young Harry Moto has problems with fallen arches, crinkly hair that won't flatten down, a plump chest and, for a white man, unusually dark skin. Harry's appearance provokes mercilessly sarcastic taunting...

'A good liar must have a good memory: Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.' Christopher Hitchens Christopher Hitchens goes straight for the jugular in The Trial of Henry Kissinger....

Theodore Blanchaille is searching for the missing millions of the Boer leader Paul Kruger, and his lost city of gold. As a child he had heard tales of Kruger from a wayward priest; what follows is an...