Harry August se trouve sur son lit de mort. Une fois de plus.Chaque fois qu'il décède, il naît de nouveau, au lieu et à la date exacts auxquels il est venu au monde la première fois, possédant tous les souvenirs des vies qu'il a déjà vécues. Au crépuscule de sa onzième vie, une petite fille apparaît à son chevet. « J'ai bien failli vous rater, docteur August, dit-elle. Je dois vous transmettre un message, passé d'enfant à adulte, d'enfant à adulte, remontant de génération en généra...

Nerdy Nick's life takes an abrupt turn into surreal chaos when he returns to England to find the mysterious Ronnie Hazelbeach living in his late father's house.Ronnie has certainly lived an interesting life. He's been a wrestler, a sailor, a thief and a jailbird, a gambler, a husband, a conman, a salesman, a getaway driver, a cook, a priest and much more. James can learn a lot about life from him.Ronnie hatches a plan to help Nick get his ex-girlfriend back, while selling h...

"Maravilhoso e cativante." - The Guardian Harry August n?o e um homem normal. Porque os homens normais, quando a morte chega, n?o regressam novamente ao dia em que nasceram, para voltarem a viver a mesma vida mas mantendo todo o conhecimento das vidas anteriores. N?o interessa que feitos alcanca, decis?es toma ou erros comete, Harry ja sabe que quando morrer ira tudo voltar ao inicio. Mas se este acumular de experiencias e conhecimento podem fazer dele um quase semideus, algo continua a at...

A BBC Radio 4 drama looking at the impact on a divorcing couple of recent changes to British prenuptial law. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 21 January 2011. Two academics, British Paul (Sam Dale) and American Amy (Sally Orrock), have married in the US with a prenuptial agreement. They did so because Paul's previous marriage ended in a messy divorce, making him wary of future commitment. Paul loves Amy and was relieved to hear that, like him, she doesn't want children. Acce...

Wildly original, funny and moving, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August is an extraordinary story of a life lived again and again from World Fantasy Award-winning author Claire North.Harry August is on his deathbed. Again.No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes.Until ...

SAVAGE GRACE: The Architecture of AfterYou know the story that ends when she leaves. This is the story that begins there.For anyone who has ever watched someone they love disappear slowly inside a relationship — or lived that disappearance themselves — Savage Grace names what most books don't reach: not the crisis, but the years after it. The rebuilding. The legal proceedings that protect the body while the self finds its way back. The exhausting, ...

The movement of people in Southeast Asia is an issue of increasing importance. Countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are now the origin of 8 percent of the world's migrants. These countries host only 4 percent of the world's migrants but intra-regional migration has turned Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand into regional migration hubs that are home to 6.5 million ASEAN migrants. However, significant international and domestic labor mobility costs limit the ability of...

The movement of people in Southeast Asia is an issue of increasing importance. Countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are now the origin of 8 percent of the world's migrants. These countries host only 4 percent of the world's migrants but intra-regional migration has turned Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand into regional migration hubs that are home to 6.5 million ASEAN migrants. However, significant international and domestic labor mobility costs limit the ability...

Wildly original, funny and moving, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August is an extraordinary story of a life lived again and again from World Fantasy Award-winning author Claire North.Harry August is on his deathbed. Again.No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes.Until ...

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROOMPeter Johnson has everything a thirty-four-year-old man is supposed to want: a marriage to a woman more interesting than he deserves, a daughter just learning to walk, and the kind of journalism career that wins national awards. He also has a bar stool with his name on it, a notebook that counts drinks instead of days, and a wife who has started watching him the way you watch weather coming in from a long way off.When Peter is assi...

Build remarkable French speaking confidence with this meticulously structured audiocourse that guides you from basic greetings to flowing everyday conversations. You'll progress through carefully sequenced lessons that eliminate the intimidation factor commonly associated with speaking French, replacing anxiety with genuine confidence in your abilities.When traveling in French-speaking regions, you'll navigate interactions with ease—from ordering meals and securing accommodations to...

You already know the feeling.You signed something you should have read more carefully. You accepted less than you were owed because the cost of asking for more felt higher than the cost of the accepting. You showed up to the rooms that were required of you and said the things those rooms required you to say and smiled at the right moments and were, by every visible measure, exactly what was expected — and somewhere in the middle of all that perfect performance you lost track of whe...