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Romans et bandes-dessinées en langues étrangères
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A journey into the meaning of Arcadia

Ben OKRI
In Arcadia
Vintage
ANG R OKR
A group of angry and ill-assorted people accept an invitation to make a journey. Inspired by a painting and financed by a mysterious benefactor, they set off to discover the real Arcadia. Or what remains of it.
Winner of the Booker Prize

Greg ILES
Sleep no more
Coronet
ANG R ILE
John Waters is a successful petroleum geologist with the perfect family. Then one day his world is turned inside out by a single word spoken from the lips of the stunning Eve Sumner. One solitary word that takes him back a decade to another woman and the most passionate of affairs.

P.D. JAMES
A Taste for death
Penguin
ANG RP JAM
Two bodies, their throats cut with brutal precision, lie in a waste of blood in the dingy vestry of St Matthew’s Church, Paddington. One is an alcoholic tramp ; the other, Sir Paul Berowne, a recently resigned Minister of the Crown. Dalgliesh arrives to begin his investigations.

Cathy KELLY
Someone like you
Harper & Collins
ANG R KEL
Cathy Kelly’s Someone Like You is the uplifting tale of three thirtysomething women who meet on holiday in Egypt and become close friends. Emma, Leonie and Hannah are all at different stages in their lives but have one thing in common—each one is waiting for that final jigsaw piece to slot into place, the elusive thing that will make them truly happy.

Sue Monk KIDD
The Secret life of bees
Penguin
ANG R KID
Lily has grown up believing she acciden-tally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father’s account of the event. Now fourteen, she yeams for her mother. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her father, she has only one friend : Rosaleen, a black servant whose sharp exterior hides a tender heart. When racial tension explodes one summer afternoon, and Rosaleen is arrested and beaten, Lily is compelled to act.

Jamaica KINCAID
Mr Potter
Vintage
ANG R KIN
In this luminous new novel, Jamaica Kincaid tells the story of an ordinary man. The island of Antigua comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffer who makes his living driving a navy blue Hillman along the wide-open roads that pass the only towns he has ever seen and the graveyard where he will be buried.

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