Avec Bêtes d’Angleterre, Adam Biles nous immerge dans l’univers de La Ferme des animaux en prolongeant l’histoire de la célèbre fable orwelienne. La ferme du Manoir, ancien bastion révolutionnaire, est désormais devenu une attraction touristique pour humains. La vie politique y est régie par la caste dominante des cochons, ambitieux et démagogues, qui se divisent entre « animalistes » progressistes et « jonesistes » nostalgiques.Si en apparence les idéaux de la Gr...

Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world’s most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it’s long been a meeting place for anglophone writers and readers.In that tradition, determined for the bookshop to remain a place of meaningful and transformative conversation, owner Sylvia Whitman and novelist and literary director Adam Biles have hosted several hundred interviews with writers, ranging from prize-winning novelists to v...

Les Chênes Verts n’est pas une maison de retraite comme les autres. Les personnes âgées qui y résident en sont certaines, les aides-soignants (ou amis-soignants, selon la dénomination en vigueur) ont tout organisé pour les priver de liberté et les couper du monde extérieur – ils seraient même prêts à les assassiner en cas d’entorse au règlement. Dorothy, lors de son arrivée, fait connaissance avec ceux qui partagent sa chambre, et notamment le Capitaine Ruggles qui s’est donné pour mission...

Adam Biles's anarchic return to Animal Farm is a warped fable; a state-of-the-farmyard novel about back-stabbers, truth-twisters and corrupt charlatans. Manor Farm has reinvented itself as the South of England's premium petting zoo. Now humans and beasts alike are invited (for a small fee) to come and stroke, fondle, and take rides on the farm's inhabitants. But life is not a bed of roses for the animals, in spite of what their leaders may want them to believe. Elections are murky, the com...

Chosen by The Observer as a Fiction Pick for 2016 and described as a 'scintillating novel of ideas', Feeding Time is a debut like no other: a blast of rage against the dying of the light.Dot is losing the will to live. Tristan is sick of emptying bedpans. Cornish spends entire days barricaded in his office. And Ruggles... well. Ruggles is damn well going to escape those Nazi villains and get back to active duty.The mix is all the more combustible since Dot, Tristan, Cornish...

Manor Farm has reinvented itself as the South of England’s premium petting zoo. Now, instead of a working farm, humans and beasts alike areinvited (for a small fee) to come and stroke, fondle, and take rides on the farm’s inhabitants.But life is not a bed of roses for the animals, in spite of what their leaders may want them to believe. Elections are rigged, the community is beset by factions, and sacred mottos are being constantly updated. The Farm is descending into chaos....

Uluslararası üne sahip sanatçı Behiç Ak, çocuklar için yazdığı öykü kitabında, günümüzün bazen çılgınlığa varan bazen de sahip olduklarımızın değerini tümüyle unutturan aşırı tüketim eğilimlerini anlatıyor. Kendine özgü mizahi üslubuyla kaleme aldığı öyküsünü, karikatür tadında renkli resimlerle destekliyor. Japonya’da on binlerce çocuk tarafından okunan, oyunları Avrupa da sergilenen, kitaplarıyla pek çok ülkede tanınan Behiç Ak’ın öyküsü, geçmişe saygı duyarak yenilenmenin ve değişebilme...