It is wartime, and Jean Leslie has had to leave school – not something that she regrets for one moment.But will Jean have to sell one of her beloved ponies? Wartime means animal feed is expensive and hard to find. Jean's father has joined the Army, and the family don't have as much money. Two ponies are more than they can afford.After a chance encounter with a child who has been bought a pony she can’t ride, Jean finds herself with a pupil. And so, as more children...

Jean, 40 ans, marié, deux enfants, a une vie bien rangée. Mais depuis peu, il s’interroge sur le monde dans lequel il vit et sur son incapacité à pouvoir le rendre meilleur. Il accepte de moins en moins les incivilités des gens qu’il côtoie, leur individualisme et leur négligence, jusqu’au jour où il ne les supporte plus. Il décide alors de ne plus fermer les yeux et de passer à l’acte, à sa manière. Tel un gentleman qui endosserait un costume de chasseur, il s’arrange toujours pour donner...

Alors que Jean pensait être libéré de ses chaînes, à nouveau libre de pouvoir retrouver sa vie « d’avant », une rencontre faite dans le tome I va le contraindre à faire un choix cornélien, entre deux feux que tout oppose : celui qui fait battre son cœur et celui qui fait brûler la poudre à canon. Mais lorsqu’il s’agit de mettre à l’abri de tout danger, sa famille, il n’a pas d’autre choix que d’accepter une mission qui exigera de lui, sacrifice et engagement. Ses capacités managériales et ...

Après À tous les garçons que j'ai aimés et P.S. Je t'aime toujours..., Jenny Han, auteur de nombreux romans à succès, nous livre le dernier tome plein de surprises de la série Les amours de Lara Jean. Retrouvez l'indécise Lara Jean, cette fois aux prises avec de nouveaux choix que lui imposera sa jeune vie d'adulte.

Et si les garçons pour lesquels vous aviez eu le béguin découvraient vos sentiments tous en même temps ? Lara Jean Song conserve ses lettres d'amour dans une boîte à chapeau que sa mère lui a donnée. Ce ne sont pas des lettres qu'elle a reçues, ce sont celles qu'elle a écrites. Une pour chaque garçon qu'elle a aimé. Lorsqu'elle écrit, elle ose ouvrir son cœur et dire toutes les choses que jamais elle n'exprimerait dans la vraie vie, car ses lettres ne sont que pour elle. Jusqu'au jour où L...

Destiny knocks only once…then it kicks down the door.Peri Jean Mace sees dead people, and her psychic abilities follow her around like a bad STD.Peri Jean’s good at ignoring them.But when her trailer trash cousin—recently murdered—begs Peri to use her powers to find her killer, Peri Jean has to face her curse or end up as the next victim.Forever Road is the first of 11 completed books in the Peri Jean Mace Ghost Thri...

The solar system's greatest thief is wanted for murder. To prove his innocence, he needs to pull off a heist even he thought was impossible . . .The Quantum Thief is a dazzling hard SF novel set in the solar system of the far future - a heist novel peopled by bizarre post-humans but powered by very human motives of betrayal, revenge and jealousy. It is a stunning debut.Jean le Flambeur is a post-human criminal, mind burglar, confidence artist and trickster....

Jean le Flambeur is out of prison, but still not free. To pay his debts he has to break into the mind of a living god. But when the stakes are revealed, Jean has to decide how far he is willing to go to get the job done.The sequel to Hannu Rajaniemi's extraordinary debut novel is set to build on the extravagant promise of one of the most exciting new voices to come out of the genre this century.

With his infectious love of storytelling in all its forms, his rich characterisation and his unrivalled grasp of thrillingly bizarre cutting-edge science Hannu Rajaniemi has swiftly set a new benchmark for SF in the 21st century. And now with his third novel he completes the tale of his gentleman rogue, the many lives and minds of Jean de Flambeur.Influenced as much by the fin de siecle novels of Maurice leBlanc as he is by the greats of SF Rajaniemi weaves, intricate, warm capers ...

**'**A remarkable debut novel' Sunday Times'The best historical thriller I've read in twenty years' A.J. Finn**'**A thrilling, unnerving, clever and beautiful story. Reading it is like giving a little gift to oneself' Fredrik BackmanThe year is 1793, Stockholm. King Gustav of Sweden has been assassinated, years of foreign wars have emptied the treasuries, and the realm is governed by a self-interested elite...

'Jean Brash is my favourite character and David Ashton's writing is as delicious, elegant and compelling as she is*'** Siobhan Redmond (Jean Brash in BBC Radio 4's McLevy series)*Jean Brash, who first appeared in BBC Radio 4's Inspector McLevy mysteries, is a formidable woman in her prime. Once a child of the streets, she is now Mistress of the Just Land, the best bawdy-hoose in Edinburgh and her pride and joy. But...

It's time for the annual Blueberry Festival, and Kylie Jean just knows she'd be the perfect Blueberry Queen.