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The extraordinary prize-winning debut from Andrew Miller. Winner of the IMPAC Award and James Tait Black Memorial Prize. At the dawn of the Enlightenment, James Dyer is born unable to feel pain. A source of wonder and scientific curiosity as a child, he rises through the ranks of Georgian...

Jeanne Fortier, gardienne dans une usine de Maison-Alfort, mère de Georges et Julie, vient de perdre son mari mécanicien. Elle repousse les avances du contremaître Jacques Garaud. Pour la conquérir, il lui écrit pour annoncer qu'il va faire fortune. En fait, il veut voler à l'ingénieur Jules Labroue son invention. Il incendie l'usine, tue Labroue qui l'a surpris, menace Jeanne, s'arrange pour lui faire endosser la culpabilité du crime, puis s'enfuit en Amérique sous le nom de Paul Harmant. Il passe pour mort.

Début XXe siècle, une saga au coeur du quotidien et des traditions des paysans cévenols. Un hommage au courage et au labeur de gens humbles mais dignes, un grand "classique" de Christian Laborie. Il est l'arbre à pain, l'arbre généreux dont le fruit est la ressource nourricière des plus démunis. Il est le châtaignier, celui qui donne son nom au mas isolé du Castanet, propriété d'une famille de paysans huguenots, dans cette région reculée des Cévennes. Les Monteil vivent là, enracinés sur le versant aride de la montagne schisteuse, la Vieille Morte.

Twelve-year-old Larry Blank fears he's as nondescript as his name. At his tony private school, where kids compete to claim links to oppression, his humdrum family history marks him so boring he's not even worth bullying. In the run-up to his bar mitzvah, he hits on the idea of spinning his ancestors' experiences into a saga harrowing enough to bestow on him the coveted status of underprivilege.

When Ellen Ripley finally returns to Earth, she learns that the planet LV-426 - now called Acheron - has been colonised. But LV-426 is where Ripley and the crew of the Nostromo found the original Xenomorph - the killing machine known as the Alien. Protected by the Colonial Marines, the colonists seek to terraform the storm-swept planet. Two such residents are Anne and Russell Jorden, seeking a fortune that eluded them on Earth.

每个人都应当知道生命的来处与孕育的艰辛，因为你每一毫米的前进，都是母亲的疼痛换来的……每個人都應當知道生命的來處與孕育的艱辛，因為你每一毫米的前進，都是母親的疼痛換來的……

In this volume our authors explore the terrors of the mind rather than the horrors of reality, although with their pens the difference makes little difference. We twist this way and that as their talents shape our path towards endings of the nerve-shredding kind.

The diary is that most intimate of journals, of records. Within its pages the writer records and gives expression to their thoughts, their feelings, their emotional state on all the things that make up and surround them in this world. With authors of the calibre of Bulgakov, Woolf, Tolstoy, Twain and many others this volume explores characters whose lives seem dominated by these diaries, and the events that unfold are both compelling and literary journeys into the very personal and intimate side of their characters’ lives.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. The zenith of Empire is bookended by two catastrophic wars that slaughter vast swathes of humanity. And yet authors manage to record and create fragile libraries of humanity, its talents, its dreams and increasingly its nightmares.

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

The Modern Age is one of information overload. Bombarded, surrounded, and battered by facts, figures, opinions and seemingly whatever else comes out of anyone’s head from all directions at all hours of the day and night. It’s exhausting. In the pens of such luminaries as Henry James, E M Delafield, C E Montague, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and many others we connect with old fashioned media from publishing and advertising to telegrams and radio and everything in between in ways that are surprising, enlightening but always entertaining.