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Cobra
A riveting thriller from the acclaimed “King of South African crime” and the author of Blood Safari: “Deon Meyer is one of the unsung masters” (Michael Connelly). Deon Meyer is a world-class writer whose page-turning thrillers probe the social and racial complexities of his native country. In Cobra, a famous English mathematician is kidnapped and his two bodyguards are killed at a guesthouse in the beautiful wine country outside Cape Town. It’s clearly a professional hit, and the spent shell cases offer a chilling clue: each is engraved with the head of a spitting cobra. Meanwhile, in the city, a skilled thief is using his talents to put his sister through college. But he picks the...
Les Belles Étrangères
While translation history in Canada is well documented, the history of the translation of Canadian fiction outside the nation remains obscure. Les Belles Étrangères examines the translation of Canadian English-language fiction in France. This book considers the history of this practice, the reasons for the move away from Quebec translators as well as the process and perils involved in this detour. Within a theoretical framework and drawing on primary sources, this study considers the historical, theoretical, and concrete aspects of this practice through the study of the translations of authors such as Robertson Davies, Carol Shields, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Ann-Marie MacDonald, and Alistair MacLeod. The book also includes a comprehensive bibliography of English-language novels, poetry, and plays published and translated in France over the past 240 years.
Tragic Shores: A Memoir of Dark Travel
'I have come to thank dark places for the light they bring to life.' Thomas Cook has always been drawn to dark places, for the powerful emotions they evoke and for what we can learn from them. These lessons are often unexpected and sometimes profoundly intimate, but they are never straightforward. With his wife and daughter, Cook travels across the globe in search of darkness - from Lourdes to Ghana, from San Francisco to Verdun, from the monumental, mechanised horror of Auschwitz to the intimate personal grief of a shrine to dead infants in Kamukura, Japan. Along the way he reflects on what these sites may teach us, not only about human history, but about our own personal histories. During the course of a lifetime of traveling to some of earth's most tragic shores, from the leper colony on Molokai to ground zero at Hiroshima, he finds not darkness alone, but a light that can illuminate the darkness within each of us. Written in vivid prose, this is at once a personal memoir of exploration (both external and internal), and a strangely heartening look at the radiance that may be found at the very heart of darkness. 'A fascinating, troubling memoir from a fine writer' Mick Herron
Butcher
Detective-Sergeant Lou Perlman gets caught up in a gangland takeover in international bestselling author Campbell Armstrong’s electrifying thriller After stepping on too many of his bosses’ toes in public, Detective-Sergeant Lou Perlman is put on “extended sick leave” against his will. He is banned from the investigation of the bloodbath that is shaking Glasgow’s criminal underworld, where a bizarre, seriously violent man named Reuben Chuck has seized control. But a gruesome discovery in his own apartment launches Perlman back into the game. Soon a simple inquiry becomes fraught with danger and leads him into the terrain of Reuben Chuck. Glasgow is once again a constant presence in Campbell Armstrong’s twisting storyline, in which one wrong turn down a dark alley could change a detective’s life forever. Butcher is the 4th book in the Glasgow Novels, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Room Service
Jack Farrell, détective privé, découvre l'univers du film porno lorsque Archie Venice, producteur sur le retour, l'engage pour surveiller son fils de 28 ans, Larry. Un contrat pour trois mois, peinard et bien rémunéré. Jack s'installe donc pour planquer dans sa Cadillac, muni de canettes de thé glacé car il fait une chaleur infernale à New York, et observe les allées et venues de Larry. Celui-ci, que son père considère comme un abruti prêt à commettre les pires bêtises, s'est effectivement mis en tête de tourner au Congo un film porno promis à un avenir radieux. Le producteur en serait Bud Raven, ex-star du porno, défiguré à la suite d'un accident dont il rend Archie Venice responsable. Nous rencontrerons, au fil d'une action mouvementée dont le point culminant est un hold-up délirant, des personnages plus que pittoresques, voués à disparaître dans des circonstances tragi-comiques.
Borrowed Light
'There is no one writing better police procedurals today.' Daily Telegraph Four charred bodies. One killer. A race against time... DI Joe Faraday is convalescing after a serious injury - but four deaths in a suspicious fire drag him back to work before he's truly fit. His partner, meanwhile, wants to adopt a child who was badly burned in the hellhole of Gaza. Both privately and professionally, Faraday is under threat. Ex-cop Paul Winter is still drug lord Bazza Mackenzie's trusted lieutenant. But his growing doubts about his new life deepen when Bazza orders him to retrieve a stash of missing cocaine ... whatever the cost. Two investigations: one official, one definitely not. And three very ...
Conversations with Ron Rash
Since the publication of Serena in 2008 earned him a nomination for the PEN/Faulkner fiction prize, Ron Rash (b. 1953) has gained attention as one of the South's finest writers. Rash draws upon his family's history in Appalachia, where most members have worked with their hands as farmers or millworkers. In the Grit Lit or Rough South genre, Rash maintains a prominent place as a skilled craftsman and triple threat, publishing four collections of poetry, six short story collections, and six novels. Though best known as an Appalachian writer, Rash's reach has grown to extend well beyond Appalachia and the American South, spreading to an international audience. Conversations with Ron Rash collec...
À qui se fier ?
Carr, ex de la CIA, et sa bande s'apprêtent à délester d'une centaine de millions de dollars le banquier Curtis Prager, ancien gestionnaire de hedge funds devenu blanchisseur d'argent sale à grande échelle. De quoi se retirer paisiblement sous les palmiers des tropiques. Leur plan est impeccable, quoique fort tordu, et chacun est un as dans sa spécialité, ce n'est pas là que le bât blesse. Le vrai problème, c'est que Carr n'a aucune confiance en ses hommes, dont la fébrilité et l'indocilité annoncent des moments difficiles. Est-ce parce qu'ils ont la nostalgie de leur ancien chef, Declan, qui a trouvé la mort dans des circonstances mystérieuses lors de leur dernier coup? Comme...
Prussian Blue
'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD France, 1956. Bernie Gunther is on the run. If there's one thing he's learned, it's never to refuse a job from a high-ranking secret policeman. But this is exactly what he's just done. Now he's a marked man, with the East German Stasi on his tail. Fleeing across Europe, he remembers the last time he worked with his pursuer: in 1939, to solve a murder at the Berghof, Hitler's summer hideaway in the Bavarian Alps. Hitler is long dead, the Berghof now a ruined shell, and the bizarre time Bernie spent there should be no more than a distant memory. But as he pushes on to Berlin and safety, Bernie will find that no matter how far he thinks he has put Nazi Germany behind him, for him it will always be unfinished business. The Berghof is not done with Bernie yet. Perfect for fans of Raymond Chandler and John le Carré. ***************************** PRAISE FOR PHILIP KERR 'Kerr leads us through the facts of history and the vagaries of human nature' TOM HANKS 'One of the greatest master story-tellers in English' ALAN FURST 'One of the most memorable and original characters' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Bitterly, darkly funny' SUNDAY HERALD
