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Courtes fictions écrites à quatre mains, qui vous transporteront dans des univers variés, explorant les relations humaines avec une sensibilité féminine d'un côté et l'humour noir au masculin de l'autre. De l'ancien criminel qui revient à ses vieilles habitudes pour mieux se sauver, de la dame dont le métier tranquille va se révéler plus dangereux qu'elle le pensait et même du monstre mythique qui a un regain de conscience, bienvenue dans mon monde, un monde riche en personnages pauvres... La nostalgie, la perte, les relations, la famille sont parmi des thèmes récurrents que j'explore.

A collection of short stories from the celebrated irish writer and dramatist: Oscar Wilde. Included within this collection are the stories: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime: Lady Windermere's pet palm-reader delivers a fearful oracle to Lord Arthur, but being a resolute gentlemen he knows just what to...

The complete short stories of Beryl Bainbridge, including the novella Filthy Lucre – written when the author was only 13 years old. Bainbridge's exquisite, devastating skill for skewering characters in all their pomposity, fallibilities, vulnerability and humour, not to mention their capability for cruelty, is fully on display in this collection, accompanied by classic Bainbridge backdrops of seedy hotel rooms, dusty theatres and the twilight zone of lodging houses.

May Morrigan is in her bookshop one morning when she—and everyone else in the shop—receives an anonymous text. It contains a reference to a Shakespeare quotation—and seems to be aimed at the vicar and his partner, Juan. The next morning, one of them is dead. As disturbing texts continue to arrive, the Blackheath residents are threatened with further revelations and titillations. Then Fletcher becomes the focus of the tormenting texter, and barely escapes an attempt on his life.

Confined to her apartment, a professor falls into an unlikely romance—with a pangolin. Ana, a literature professor, plans her remote classes while confined to her apartment during lockdown. Her lover, Alice, has died of Covid. In her place are a series of animals that demand Ana's care and...

Patrick est déterminé à faire de son beau-fils une star du hockey mineur, dans le but évident d’éclipser le père. Ça patine sur la bottine sur la glace, mais ça joue dur dans les estrades : rivalité, trahisons et violence.

Sina Jakobsen durchlebt einen Albtraum. Ihre beste Freundin Natalie kam unter mysteriösen Umständen ums Leben, und Sina geriet in Verdacht, deren Tod verursacht zu haben. Fünf Jahre sind seither vergangen. Dann stirbt eine weitere Frau in Sinas Umfeld. Manches erinnert an Natalies Tod. Doch es gibt auch eine Verbindung zu einem weit zurückliegenden Cold Case auf Sylt.

From the author of THE NIGHTMARE ROOM and SUCKERVILLE . . . Derek Stratton, a widowed storm chaser and huckster, is doing his best to support his daughter. Their lives take a dangerous turn when a colossal tornado releases a swarm of prehistoric bees from the Colorado soil, plunging them into a...

When Prince Harry sues Prince William for "wilful and malicious sibling rivalry," the sensational claims from Spare finally face their day in court. But as the proceedings unfold, it's not just the brothers on trial – suddenly the very suitability of Wills and Kate as Britain's future King and Queen is thrown into doubt. The timing couldn't be more disastrous. Charles and Camilla are preparing to abdicate for a blissful retirement in Mustique, leaving the throne dangerously exposed just as the monarchy becomes the centre of the most explosive trial of the century.

Crime writer Francis Meadowes has just been offered his first paid detective gig, which means going on the road with gender-fluid rock star JonniK, tagging along as the musician's entourage travels from Berlin to Brussels and beyond. Jonni's manager is already worried by a guitar tech's fatal overdose on a tour bus, but then the star himself is attacked on stage... Another shock comes as Jonni's lead guitarist is electrocuted by his own instrument in the middle of a gig.

Set during a doom-fated vacation to the Oregon coast, The Disappointment follows a couple trying to hold close to one another while a bent reality—warped by personal losses and an ever-increasing drift toward the surreal—threatens to unravel them It’s the night before a much-needed...

Bloomsbury presents Agnes Lives written and read by Hallie Elizabeth Newton "An astonishing debut as mesmerizing as it is unnerving." --Joyce Carol Oates A day-in-the-life debut novel about a fading socialite on the hunt for someone to kill her before her next SoulCycle class. "A tale of...

The long-anticipated, wildly inventive new novel by the Irish-Canadian writer whose previous work won the Amazon First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize (UK). “One of the most unique, most compelling voices in fiction.” —Toronto Star...

From the incendiary voice behind Your Driver is Waiting, a riotous novel following a family of Tamil refugees who fled civil war in Sri Lanka to pursue a better life, just for it to be up-ended by the schemes of a self-proclaimed day-trading savant, jeopardizing everything they’ve worked so...

Welcome back to Assassins Anonymous, where family is everything and danger lurks around every corner. Assassins Anonymous isn't just a weekly recovery meeting for reformed killers—it's also a family. So when Valencia needs to rush off to Los Angeles unexpectedly, she leaves her baby girl...

An addictive, unpredictable, darkly hilarious collection of stories from Danny McBride—the beloved creator and star of The Righteous Gemstones and Eastbound & Down. “These McBride men more than drink their own Kool-Aid, they swig it to survive. On fever quests to save face and make their...

Finalist for the Governor General's Literary AwardFinalist for the Toronto Book AwardFrom the bestselling author of The Boat People comes a page-turning moral drama about money, the dark side of philanthropy, and what happens when you try to change the world for all the wrong reasons. They have...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 GILLER PRIZE From award-winning, bestselling author Wayne Johnston comes a boisterous, sweeping tragicomic saga of faith, loyalty, and family secrets that refuse to stay buried At twenty-eight, Vivvy Holloway is nearly the same height as when she was five. Though she...

A wickedly funny coming-of-age novel about a misfit teenager in London determined to eliminate the one thing standing between her and a good life: her father “Hands down the funniest, most original novel I’ve read in ages.”—Grant Ginder, author of The People We Hate at the Wedding I...

“Keenly observant and wryly funny. . . . A vital, utterly unexpected novel, Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies is a fresh and riotous gift of fiction.” —Quill & Quire, *STARRED REVIEW!* A young woman signs her life away in the ancient Chinese tradition of corpse marriage in this...