2016

 

December

The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café (No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency #15

Alexander McCall Smith

 

Even the arrival of her baby can't hold Mma Makutsi back from success in the workplace, and so no sooner than she becomes a full ... >>

Italian Neighbours: An Englishman in Verona

Tim Parks

 

In the bestselling Italian Neighbours, Tim Parks explores the idiosyncrasies and nuances of Italian culture. When Parks.. >>


Russie-Occident: une guerre de mille ans

Guy Mettan

 

We read French book.Why do the United States and Europe hate Russia so much? While Russia no longer represents a threat, its missiles are no longer on Berlin ... >>

 

November

The Lie Tree

by Frances Hardinge

 

Faith Sunderly leads a double life. To most people, she is reliable, dull, trustworthy - a proper young lady who knows her place as inferior to men. But inside .. >>

Enduring Cuba

by Zoe Bran

 

Intrigued by the many disparate views of Cuba, Zoe Bran visits this country of contradictions. Interweaving  .. >>

Puisque tout amour pend racine

by Noël Colombia

 

In the bestselling Italian Neighbours, Tim Parks explores the idiosyncrasies and nuances of Italian culture. When Parks.. >>

The Sellout

by Paul Beatty

 

In the bestselling Italian Neighbours, Tim Parks explores the idiosyncrasies and nuances of Italian culture. When Parks.. >>


 

October

A Gambler's Anatomy

by Jonathan Lethem

 

Handsome, impeccably tuxedoed Bruno Alexander travels the world winning large sums of money from amateur "whales" who think they can challenge his .. >>

Enduring Cuba

by Zoe Bran

 

Intrigued by the many disparate views of Cuba, Zoe Bran visits this country of contradictions. Interweaving  .. >>

La Voix des Vagues

by Jackie Copleton.

 

A poignant reflection on family and forgiveness ... >>

Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

by Irvin D. Yalom

 

Written in Irv Yalom's inimitable story-telling style, Staring at the Sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality. In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of work.. >>

The Round House

by Louise Erdrich

 

One of the most revered novelists of our time - a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life - Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The Round House, transporting readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. It is an exquisitely told story of a boy on .. >>


 

September

Thirteen Ways of Looking

by Colum McCann

 

Thirteen Ways of Looking is framed by two author’s notes, each dealing with the brutal attack the author suffered last year and strikes at the .. >>

Life Bites

by Karen McCusker

 

Life Bites is a collection of poems, short stories and essays written over the course of the last 40 plus years. It is simply a compilation of a variety of writing I engaged in  ... >>

Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

 

Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle ... >>

A Jew Must Die

by Jacques Chessex

 

A novel based on a true story. On April 16, 1942, a handful of Swiss Nazis in Payerne lure Arthur Bloch, a Jewish cattle merchant, into an empty stable and kill him with a crowbar. .. >>

Kitchen Confidential

by Anthony Bourdain

 

A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying.. >>

Books Read in Our languages

  • "L'Ours est un écrivain comme les autres" by William Kotzwinkle
  • Meursault contre-enquête" by Kamel Daoud

 

Clip Viwed

  • Beatles sing "Help" at Ed Sullivan show 1965.