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David Vann dont j'ai lu le très sombre Sukkwan Island n'a pas l'air de proposer une ambiance bien plus légère avec Désolations mais cette fois c'est le couple qui est dans son viseur…tout comme dans celui de Jonathan Franzem avec Freedoom (800 pages tout de même et j'avoue que je n'ai jamais réussi à lire Les corrections); Room d'Emma Donoghue, huit clos d'une femme avec son fils de 5 ans qui s'inspire d'un fait réel mais visiblement jamais glauque; Les fantômes de Belfast de Stuart Neville, roman noir se déroulant à Belfast et présenté comme une ode à l'Irlande; Persécution d'Alessandro Piperno qui est un écrivain que je n'ai jamais lu mais j'ai été attirée par la couverture et l'histoire (cet homme accusé par une gamine de 12 ans d'avoir tenté de le séduire et qui, au lieu de se défendre, se laisse couler).

"But for the floors, and the sofa, and the porn, and the dead and missing, the flat was restored to order." An old friend asks you to look after his two cats and his apartment. What could go wrong? Care of Wooden Floors is about how a tiny oversight can trip off a disastrous and farcical (fatal, even) chain of consequences. It′s about a friendship between two men who don′t know each other very well. It′s about alienation and being alone in a foreign city. It′s about the quest for perfection and the struggle against entropy. And it is, a little, about how to take care of wooden floors. Oskar is a Mittel-European minimalist composer best known for a piece called Variations on Tram Timetables. He is married to a Californian art dealer named Laura and he lives with two cats, named after Russian composers, in an Eastern European city. But this book isn′t really about Oskar. Oskar is in Los Angeles, having his marriage to Laura dismantled by lawyers. He has entrusted an old university friend with the task of looking after his cats, and taking care of his perfect, beautiful apartment. Despite the fact that Oskar has left dozens of surreally detailed notes covering every aspect of looking after the flat, things do not go well. Dark, funny and compelling, this novel takes your breath away with its extraordinarily distinctive writing. The voice is unexpected, constantly, but consistently conveys a universal human experience that pulls the reader right into the world of the narrator.

The launch of a major new detective series set in modern-day Cairo - moving between its labyrinthine back streets, and its shining towerblock - featuring Makana, an exiled Sudanese private investigator, escaping his own troubled past... A lost child. A missing hero. A bitter rivalry. In Cairo the ghosts of the past are stirring... The ancient city of Cairo is a whirling mix of the old and the new, where fates collide and the super rich rub shoulders with the desperate and the dispossessed. It is a place where ambition and corruption go hand in hand, and where people can disappear in the blink of an eye. Makana is a former police inspector who fled for his life from his native Sudan seven years ago. Down on his luck and haunted by the past, he lives on a rickety Nile houseboat. When the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi hires him to track down a missing person Makana is in no position to refuse him. Hanafi, whose past is as shady as his fortune is glittering, is the owner of Cairo's star-studded football team. His most valuable player has just vanished and Adil Romario's disappearance threatens to bring down not only Hanafi's private empire, but the entire country. But why should the city's most powerful man hire its lowliest private detective? Thrust into a dangerous and glittering world Makana's investigation leads him into the treacherous underbelly of his adopted country - where he encounters Muslim extremists, Russian gangsters and a desperate mother hunting for her missing daughter - it becomes a trail that stirs up painful memories, leading him back into the sights of an old and dangerous enemy...

Over the span of his career, H P Lovecraft wrote just over sixty stories, many of which are regarded as landmarks of modern horror fiction Nearly half of these stories have been adapted for film and television productions featuring the work of some of Hollywood's most distinguished directors, actors, and actresses H P...

Sam, the ugly duckling who grew into a swan Now beautiful and wealthy, with a glittering career, no one can understand why she's still on her own When she meets a handsome stranger on holiday, things finally seem to be falling into place Meaghan, a true survivor...