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Amérique 1950 : le « White only » s’applique partout : bus, hôtels, culture ; pour un soldat noir, voyager d’un État à l’autre est une odyssée. C’est dans un pays au bord de l’implosion que, de retour...

« Je l'ignore. J'ignore si l'oiseau que vous tenez est vivant ou mort, mais je suis sûre d'une chose : il est entre vos mains. Il est entre vos mains. » Toni Morrison, née en 1931 dans une famille d'ouvriers...

C’est l’histoire de jeunes gens venus voir une vieille femme, aveugle et sage, descendante d’esclave, noire et américaine. Ils disent tenir un oiseau entre leurs mains. L’aïeule ne sait s’il est vivant...

Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home, the farm where she was kept as a slave.Unable to forget the unspeakable horrors that took place there, she is haunted by the violent spectre of her dead child,...

Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unloved, unseen, Pecola prays each...

Four young women are brutally attacked near an all-black town in rural Oklahoma.The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise. Spanning the birth of the...

Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine. Then there’s Son.Jadine is sophisticated, beautiful, a black American graduate of the Sorbonne. Son is a black fugitive from small-town Florida...

A stirring exploration of war, race and belonging from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America...

'Toni Morrison was the lodestar who inspired us' Bernadine EvaristoTwyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old, when they were thrown together as roommates in a girls' shelter....

Lured South by tales of buried treasure, Milkman embarks on an odyssey back home.As a boy, Milkman was raised beneath the shadow of a status-obsessed father. As a man, he trails in the fiery wake of a...

Joe Trace – in his fifties, door-to-door salesman, erstwhile devoted husband – shoots dead his eighteen-year-old lover.At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, who is given to stumbling...

A haunting and affecting meditation on love from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved. May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida – even L – all are women obsessed with Bill Cosey. He shapes their yearnings...

'Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter' New York TimesAs young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets...

An exploration of race from one of the twentieth century’s primary chroniclers of the African American experience.Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison...

An incisive and thought-provoking collection of essays on a defining American experience, curated by the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.Toni Morrison contributes an introduction and brings together...

On le surnomme « Laitier » parce que sa mère a continué de lui donner le sein en cachette jusqu’à ses trois ou quatre ans. Son vrai nom, c’est Macon Mort, le même que son père. Il vit dans le Nord, dans...

Plus d’une quarantaine de textes de Toni Morrison sont réunis dans ces pages. Des textes écrits durant plusieurs décennies et qui, chacun à sa façon, attestent de la généreuse intelligence de Toni Morrison....

Un milliardaire de Philadelphie a pris sa retraite dans une île des Caraïbes. Sa femme, ancien prix de beauté, supporte mal ce qu'elle vit comme une relégation. Les rapports avec son mari se dégradent...

« Le 124 était habité de malveillance. Imprégné de la malédiction d'un bébé... »À Bluestone Road, près de Cincinnati, vers 1870, les meubles volent, la lumière allume au sol des flaques de sang, des gâteaux...

Dans son onzième roman, qui se déroule à l’époque actuelle, Toni Morrison décrit sans concession des personnages longtemps prisonniers de leurs souvenirs et de leurs traumatismes. Au centre du récit,...

Vers 1680, l’Amérique n’est encore qu’aux prémices de son histoire coloniale. Parmi les utopistes du Nouveau Monde, il y a Jacob Vaark, fermier et négociant d’origine hollandaise. Sa femme Rebekka a perdu...

Twyla et Roberta ont huit ans lorsqu’elles se rencontrent au foyer de St-Bonaventure. Quatre mois durant, les deux fillettes resteront inséparables, avant que la vie ne les éloigne. Au fil des années,...

Nel Wright et Sula Peace sont deux petites filles noires, deux meilleures amies qui grandissent dans une bourgade de l’Ohio au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale. Ensemble, elles rêvent d’une autre...

Sethe et sa famille vivent avec le fantôme de Beloved depuis des années. Car Sethe a tué sa petite fille de deux ans — pour que jamais elle ne soit esclave comme elle. Depuis, la guerre de Sécession s’est...

Le jeune soldat Frank Money rentre aux États-Unis en proie à de violentes crises d’angoisse. La guerre de Corée vient de se terminer, et il lui faut reprendre une vie normale désormais, tenter de dépasser...

Bill Cosey possédait autrefois un hôtel sur la côte Est qui connut son heure de gloire au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale ; tout ce que la communauté noire comptait d’artistes, d’hommes d’affaires...

"Lulu Ann Bridewell est si noire de peau à la naissance que sa mère, Sweetness, n’éprouve pour elle que dégoût. Elle élève seule la fillette, avec dureté, répugnant à la toucher. Jusqu’au jour où Lulu...

Toni Morrison analyse les mécanismes à l’oeuvre dans le racisme qui ont permis d’établir et de perpétuer la domination d’une seule catégorie d’individus. Dans sa quête de réponses, l’autrice se replonge...

Playing in the Dark puise son origine dans une série de conférences sur le roman américain, données par Toni Morrison à l’université de Harvard. La lauréate du prix Nobel analyse le rôle attribué aux...

« Comment est-ce qu’on fait ? Je veux dire, comment est-ce qu’on fait pour que quelqu’un vous aime ? » Mal aimée, la jeune Pecola Breedlove rêve d’être vue autrement et de recevoir une plus grande attention....

Is it ever too late to leave the friend zone? Friends-to-lovers TikTok sensation, The Cheat Sheet, is the rom-com that has readers laughing and rooting for these lovable best friends from the first page!...

OVER 12 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDENOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREA NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFor years, rumours of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina...

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again..." Ancient, beautiful Manderley, between the rose garden and the sea, is the county's showpiece. Rebecca made it so - even a year after her death, Rebecca's...

The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble,...

“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.”—Ann Patchett“Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma...

A burned-out pop star stranded in small-town Kentucky can't help falling for her unlikely knight in shining armour - the notoriously grumpy owner of the local pie shop - in this charming slice of romance...

Can the perfect village save the perfect wedding? INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE EXTRACT FROM A POSTCARD FROM ITALY Cher, the landlady of the Duck & Puddle...

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting Dune Messiah, the sequel to one of the most influential works of all time, which has inspired countless other stories for...

An enchanting collection containing books four, five, and six of #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s beloved Regency-set Bridgerton novels—Romancing Mister Bridgerton; To Sir Phillip, with...

THE INSPIRATION FOR HBO AND SKY TV’S EMMY NOMINATED HOUSE OF THE DRAGON. Centuries before A Game of Thrones, an even greater game began, one that set the skies alight with dragon...

When the owner of the local flower shop in Rome, Kentucky, makes a questionable agreement with a tattooed bad boy, a delightful friends-to-lovers romance begins to bloom - from the author of When in Rome...

My plan was perfect. My friend needed a date, and my brother's best friend was single. Problem solved.Until I saw Jaeger for the first time in years, and sparks flew in the wrong direction.Jaeger has...

As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being...

2 March 1810 . . . Today, I fell in love.At the age of ten, Miranda Cheever showed no signs of Great Beauty. And even at ten, Miranda learned to accept the expectations society held for her—until the...

A forbidden, secret affair proves that all's fair in love and science - from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood. Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a...

In the vast expanse of the treacherous ocean, a legendary tale unfolds, gripping the hearts of readers for generations to come. Immerse yourself in the thrilling world of "Moby Dick," a literary masterpiece...

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting one of the most influential works of all time, which has inspired countless other stories for more than half a century,...

An enchanting collection containing the first three novels in New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s beloved Bridgerton series set in Regency England—The Duke and I, The Viscount Who Loved Me,...

Jonathan Harker, a young London solicitor travels to Transylvania to help a rich nobleman, Count Dracula, purchase an estate in England. Dracula is planning to immigrate to England, and wants Harker to...

Pre-order Beth's epic new novel, SWEPT AWAY, now! 'Beth O'Leary is that rare, one-in-a-million talent who can make you laugh, swoon, cry and ache all in the same book' EMILY HENRYTiffy and Leon share...

Readers love The Ingredients for Happiness! ‘A gorgeous summer read’ ‘Uplifting, funny, romantic and charming’...

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU Newspeak, Doublethink, Big Brother, the Thought Police - the language of 1984 has passed into the English language as a symbol of the horrors of totalitarianism. George Orwell's...

A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's classic historical masterpiece.A...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his...

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil...

This ebook compiles Jule Verne's complete collection, including "Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Journey to the Interior of the Earth", "The Mysterious Island", "Around the World in Eighty Days",...

‘Addictive. A first-class page-turner.’ Lisa Hall, author of Between You and Me Can the past ever be forgotten? As soon as nurse Maura Lyle sets foot inside the foreboding Essen Grange,...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP BESTSELLER#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE'An utterly mesmerising novel..I absolutely loved this book' Bernardine Evaristo,...

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov’s iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire,...

The hauntingly prophetic classic novel. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being...