Télécharger le livre :  Landfalls
For Ibn Batuttah of Tangier, being medieval didn't mean sitting at home waiting for renaissances, enlightenments and easyJet. It meant travelling the known world to its limits. Seven centuries on, Tim Mackintosh-Smith's passionate pursuit of the...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-08-19
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Télécharger le livre :  The End of the Monsoon
Michael Smith, at the US embassy in Cambodia, has an urgent assignment: do what it takes to help a US oil company secure its contract with the Cambodian government before upcoming elections strengthen a Chinese competitor. His affair with Zainab, the British charge's...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-08-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Something Sensational to Read in the Train
This is a diary packed with famous names and extraordinary stories. It is also rich in incidental detail and wonderful observation, providing both a compelling record of five remarkable decades and a revealing, often hilarious and sometimes moving account of Gyles...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-08-05
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Télécharger le livre :  The Captain's Wife
1762. Mary is desperate to escape her embittered mother. So when her marriage to a prosperous sea captain is arranged, she embraces the damp salt air, cramped conditions and bad food. She sets sail on the Isabella, away from the land of her childhood towards unseen...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-08-05
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Télécharger le livre :  In This Way I Was Saved
I pounded myself against the inside of his head, but it was useless. He couldn't hear me;I was trapped. So, like any other prisoner,I waited.I bided my time. Luke is six. He is a lonely child, but he has one friend, his best friend -- Daniel -- whom he met in the...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-07-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Hurricane
In the summer of 1940 the fate of Europe hung in the balance. Victory in the forthcoming air battle would mean national survival; defeat would establish German tyranny.The Luftwaffe greatly outnumbered the RAF, but during the Battle of Britain it was the RAF that...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-06-24
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Télécharger le livre :  The Art of Marriage
Joining your life with another person's, until death do you part, is perhaps the biggest decision you can take. But once the vows have been sworn, the cake has been cut, and the honeymoon is over, what are the secrets of a lasting marriage? The Art of Marriage explains...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-06-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Eating for Britain
'Who are these people? Look at what they eat.' Simon Majumdar travels the country to find out what British food -- from Arbroath Smokies to Welsh rarebit to chicken tikka masala -- reveals about British identity. Exploring the history of British food, he celebrates the...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-05-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The Children who Fought Hitler
Few people know that Ypres, centre of First World War remembrance, was once home to a thriving British community that played a heroic role in the Second World War. This expatriate outpost grew around the British ex-servicemen who cared for the war memorials and...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-05-13
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Télécharger le livre :  City of Lost Girls
In LA there's a killer on the loose. He kills young and rootless girls and he always kills in threes. Back in Dublin, Ed Loy, happy in a new relationship, is reunited with Jack Donovan, a film director friend from LA with a turbulent personal history. When the third...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-05-13
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Télécharger le livre :  All the Dead Voices
Ed Loy has made some changes. He has moved into an apartment in Dublin's city centre, leaving behind his family home: he wants to break free of the ghosts of his own past, to live in the teeming present. But if that's what he wants for his own life, it's not always what...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-05-13
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Télécharger le livre :  The Reluctant Bride
Will Lucy make it down the aisle? It's going to be an uphill struggle . . . The bride: A late starter in life, Lucy always swore she'd never get married. But now she has to find a caterer who doesn't charge a fortune for a cupcake, a dressmaker who doesn't make her cry...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-05-13
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Télécharger le livre :  The English Marriage
The story of the English marriage is unique and eccentric. Long after the rest of Europe and neighbouring Scotland had reformed their marriage laws, England clung to the chaotic and contradictory laws of the medieval Church, making it all too easy to enter into a...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-05-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Use Your Head
Ever wondered what goes on up there? Why do we think, feel and act in the way we do? What makes us happy or sad, angry or anxious? The Freeman brothers unravel the secrets of the mind and explain the scientific facts behind our behaviour. Armed with key psychological...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-05-08
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Télécharger le livre :  The Magnificent Spilsbury and the Case of the Brides in the Bath
Bessie Mundy, Alice Burnham and Margaret Lofty are three women with one thing in common. They are spinsters and are desperate to marry. Each woman meets a smooth-talking stranger who promises her a better life. She falls under his spell, and becomes his wife. But...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-04-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Say Goodbye to the Cuckoo
If we could see it as a whole, if they all arrived in a single flock, say, we would be truly amazed: sixteen million birds. Swallows, martins, swifts, warblers, wagtails, wheatears, cuckoos, chats, nightingales, nightjars, thrushes, pipits and flycatchers pouring into...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-03-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Cry Havoc
The arms race, on the run up to the Second World War, followed the faultless logic of paranoia. Before the First World War, the Great Powers measured the strength of their rivals by comparing the size of armies and navies, and the money spent on them. Afterwards, having...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-03-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Songwriter
New York, 1916. Monroe Simonov, a song-plugger from Brooklyn, is in love with a Ziegfeld Follies dancer who has left him for California. Inez Kennedy, a fashion model in a department store, has just one season remaining to find a wealthy husband before she must return...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-03-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Betjeman's England
For more than half a century Betjeman's writings have awakened readers to the intimacy of English places - from the smell of gaslight in suburban churches, to the hissing of backwash on a shingle beach. Betjeman is England's greatest topologist: whether he's talking...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-02-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile
CITYBOY is Geraint Anderson's bestselling exposé of life in the City of London.In this no-holds-barred, warts-and-all account of life in London's financial heartland, Cityboy breaks the Square Mile's code of silence, revealing tricks of the trade and the corrupt, murky...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2010-01-07
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