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A chief practitioner of the “magic-realist” style, Gabriel García Márquez’s influence and importance lie in his crucial role of bringing Latin-American fiction to wider audiences while pioneering it at the same time. The Colombian-born Nobel winner tells fantastical tales of romance and heroism against an historic Latin American backdrop, always infusing believability by giving his writing a journalistic cast.

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Istanbul, en cet hiver 1591, est sous la neige. Mais un cadavre, le crâne fracassé, nous parle depuis le puits où il a été jeté. Il connaît son assassin, de même que les raisons du meurtre dont il a été victime : un complot contre l’Empire ottoman, sa culture, ses traditions et sa peinture. Car les miniaturistes de l’atelier du Sultan, dont il faisait partie, sont chargés d’illustrer un livre à la manière italienne… Ce roman nous plonge dans l’univers fascinant de l’Empire ottoman de la fin du XVIe siècle. Une réflexion sur la confrontation entre Occident et Orient sous-tend cette trame policière, elle-même doublée d’une intrigue amoureuse, dans un récit parfaitement maîtrisé

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or Six Good Reasons to Stay at Home and Bolt the Door

“Talk to the hand ’cause the face ain’t listening,” the saying goes. When did the world get to be so rude? When did society become so inconsiderate? It’s a topic that has been simmering for years, and Lynne Truss says that it has now reached boiling point. Taking on the boorish behaviour that has become a point of pride for some, Talk to the Hand is a rallying cry for courtesy.

Like Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Talk to the Hand is a spirited conversation, not a stuffy guidebook. It is not about forks, for a start. Why hasn’t your nephew ever thanked you for that perfect Christmas present? What makes your builder think he can treat you like dirt in your own home? When you phone a utility with a complaint (and have negotiated the switchboard), why can’t you ever speak to a person who is authorised to apologise? What accounts for the appalling treatment you receive in shops? Most important, what will it take to roll back a culture that applauds rudeness and finds it so amusing?For anyone who’s fed up with the brutality inflicted by modern manners (and is naturally too scared to confront the actual yobs), Talk to the Hand is a colourful call to arms - from the wittiest defender of the civilised world.

This complete and unabridged edition contains every word that Shakespeare wrote — all 37 tragedies, comedies, and histories, plus the sonnets. You’ll find such classics as The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing and The Taming of the Shrew. This Library of Literary Classics edition is bound in padded leather with luxurious gold-stamping on the front and spine, satin ribbon marker and gilded edges. Other titles in this series include: Charlotte & Emily Bronte: The Complete Novels; Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Works; Mark Twain: Selected Works; Charles Dickens: Four Complete Novels; Lewis Carroll: The Complete, Fully Illustrated Works; and Jane Austen: The Complete Novels.

Jane Austen is without question, one of England’s most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature’s most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published. Whether it is her sharp, ironic gaze at the Gothic genre invoked by the adventures of Catherine Morland in “Northanger Abbey”; the diffident and much put-upon Fanny Price struggling to cope with her emotions in “Mansfield Park”; her delightfully paced comedy of manners and the machinations of the sisters Elinor and Marianne in “Sense and Sensibility”; the quiet strength of Anne Elliot in “Persuasion” succeeding in a world designed to subjugate her very existence; and “Emma” - ‘a heroine whom no one but myself will like’ teased Austen - yet another irresistible character on fire with imagination and foresight.

Indeed not unlike her renowned creator. Jane Austen is as sure-footed in her steps through society’s whirlpools of convention and prosaic mores as she is in her sometimes restrained but ever precise and enduring prose.

Everyone knows that tyrannosauruses are big and scary, so when a placid duckbill dinosaur’s egg ends up in the wrong nest confusion is sure to ensue! When the baby dinosaur hatches out, he’s so out of place that his grisly big sisters call him Tyrannosaurus Drip. Poor little Drip: all he wants is a quiet life munching on water weed …Another winner from the author of “The Gruffalo”.

Although far less famous than Vincent, Theo van Gogh played an essential role in the art and life of his brother while leading a fascinating life of his own, as shown in a detailed biography with information drawn from the work and letters of both brothers.

Statistics show rising divorce rates and fractured partnerships, but they conceal another story: relationships that last happily. How such couples achieve their happiness has remained their secret - until now. Janet Reibstein, an internationally respected psychologist and relationship expert, has talked in depth to over 200 couples whose partnerships are happy and enduring.

Here she pulls back the curtains on relationships: both partners in couples married and unmarried, gay and straight, talk candidly and profoundly about their lives together. They tell hidden tales of success: what’s worked, what hasn’t; what problems crop up, how they’ve overcome them; the importance or not of commitment, monogamy, sex, romance, pleasure, perspective, autonomy and independence, and of children (both joint and from previous relationships), friends, relatives, ex-partners and in-laws. The nitty-gritty of real life emerges, yielding simple ideas for how to conduct relationships to maximize their potential for happiness.

The book will unearth many surprises. By telling secrets, large and small, previously locked away behind closed doors, by deconstructing how couples do it, in simple layman’s terms but filtered through the eyes of a relationship expert, this book convinces that life - long love is a real, achievable possibility.

As the Shadow of Mordor grows across the land, Aragorn is revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient kings. Gandalf miraculously returns and defeats the evil wizard, Saruman. Sam leaves his master for dead after a battle with the giant spider, Shelob; but Frodo is still alive — in the hands of the Orcs. And all the while the armies of the Dark Lord are massing — and the One Ring comes ever closer to the Cracks of Doom.