April 2011

Who'd want to kidnap Amber Masterson? She's a loner who cares more about animals than people. But the assault she just survived wasn't about money or sex. Something else is at play here, and I'm hooked trying to figure it out.

Richard Mayhew is painfully ordinary. Lives in London, has a boring life, but he's got this fatal flaw: he's too damn nice. When he helps an injured homeless girl on the street, his whole world collapses into something darker and stranger.

The Ayres family used to own Warwickshire. Their mansion, Hundreds Hall, was the center of everything. Now it's 1947, the war stripped them bare, and the house is falling apart along with the family inside it.

February 22, 1942. After eight years running from fascism, Stefan Zweig ends his life with his wife. This book reconstructs those final weeks in Brazil. Devastating and necessary reading.

Librairie La Manoeuvre - Paris 11