It’s 1852, and the ranks of the London poor have doubled. In the swollen shadow of the great St. Giles Rookery, fallen women attract perfumed dandies of the West End in a vicious circle of venality, vanity and vice.Edmund Whitty, correspondent for The Falcon, the city’s second-best sensational tabloid, writes whatever will stimulate the reader, delay his (increasingly physical) creditors, and supply him with the alcohol and opiates required to see him through the day. His ...

From award-winning author John MacLachlan Gray comes a mesmerizing novel of corruption and murder through the looking-glass of Victorian London.Edmund Whitty writes lurid articles for the London press. He’s investigating a quack psychic who has been murdered after revealing a scandal involving Whitty’s late brother. Whitty’s search for the truth takes him back to Oxford, where a brilliant and eccentric cleric who delights in playing croquet, telling children’s stories and taking li...

Freelance journalist Dorlores Gunn is a night crawler armed with a ruthless curiosity and a knack for self-preservation. With her drugged-out TV crew in tow, she scours the night city for saleable stories: violent death in the street is just a service industry providing her next clip, and every victim is a potential actor. Criss-crossing her path is Eli, a bike courier who travels with ease through the clogged arteries of the urban core and rides the periphery when the media pounces on a s...

The Phenomenal #1 New York Times BestsellerIn his classic guide to understanding the opposite sex, Dr. John Gray, provides a practical and proven way for men and women to improve their communication and relationships by acknowledging the fundamental gender differences between them.Once upon a time Martians and Venusians met, fell in love, and had happy relationships together because they respected and accepted their differences. Th...

On dirait parfois que les hommes et les femmes sont des êtres venant de planètes différentes. C’est en partant de cette constatation que le Dr. John Gray a mis au point sa méthode. Dans ce livre audio, l’auteur nous rappelle les relations conflictuelles qui ne cessent de miner la vie des couples depuis des temps immémoriaux et nous dévoile les différences qui caractérisent les deux sexes. Il nous introduit dans les méandres et les arcanes des relations amoureuses et nous enseigne la chimie...

Now available as an ebook for the first time, the legendary relationships guide that mothers recommend to their daughters, friends give as gifts and brothers steal from their sisters, MEN ARE FROM MARS AND WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS is inarguably the definitive book on having a happy relationship.‘A treasure’, ‘a bible’ and ‘an heirloom’ are some of the words used to describe the book that has saved countless relationships and improved innumerable others. Now repackaged to relate to a ne...

The author of Straw Dogs, famous for his provocative critiques of scientific hubris and the delusions of progress and humanism, turns his attention to cats—and what they reveal about humans' torturous relationship to the world and to themselves.The history of philosophy has been a predictably tragic or comical succession of palliatives for human disquiet. Thinkers from Spinoza to Berdyaev have pursued the perennial questions of how to be h...

L’usure du couple et l’érosion du désir ne sont pas des fatalités ! Cet ouvrage vous aidera à aborder cette aventure à deux avec optimisme. Que vous rencontriez des difficultés légères ou profondes, vous avez le pouvoir de changer les choses. Grâce aux judicieux conseils de John Gray, vous apprendrez à :• Mieux comprendre votre partenaire et le soutenir• Mieux vous connaître vous-même et vous améliorer• Désamorcer et éviter les conflits• Être capable de pardonne...

'Why can't a human be more like a cat? That is the question threaded through this vivid patchwork of philosophy, fiction, history and memoir ... a wonderful mixture of flippancy and profundity, astringency and tenderness, wit and lament' Jane O'Grady, Daily Telegraph'When I play with my cat, how do I know she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?' MontaigneThere is no real evidence that humans ever 'domesticated' cats. Rather...

En amour, il nous semble parfois que nos partenaires proviennent d’une planète opposée à la nôtre. Sous la couette, c’est une évidence, mais nous ne réalisons pas toujours ce qui distingue précisément nos différences. Dans cet enregistrement audio, John Gray, l’auteur du best-seller Les hommes viennent de Mars, les femmes viennent de Vénus, applique ses connaissances profondes du cœur humain à l’intimité des relations amoureuses. Lorsqu’il s’agit de l’amour, nous dit le docteur Gray, les h...

′An ideal text for challenging the thinking of those studying for NPQH… The conclusion by the authors suggests nine major points to consider if improvement for schools in extremely challenging circumstances is to happen and be sustained. These ′nine lesson for policy makers′ are very frank and pertinent points, let′s hope at least some of our policy makers read them!′ - ESCalate′Rarely does a book on education reform capture both the big and the small picture with such brilliant cl...

Que ce soit dans nos relations de couple, familiales (parents, enfants…), amicales ou professionnelles, nous répétons tous – sans en avoir conscience – des schémas comportementaux qui nous sont nuisibles. Ils sont l’héritage d’un conditionnement social ou de blessures affectives qui nous ont poussés à enterrer nos émotions négatives dans notre inconscient. Or, à force de réprimer nos émotions négatives, on finit aussi par perdre contact avec nos émotions positives, comme l’amour de soi et ...