Titres dans Petites villes et ruralité

Big Billy Brennan has suffered the greatest tragedy a parent can know, he has just lost his son. His marriage is a partnership in name alone and at nearly 30 stone, Billy is also obese. So, Billy decides to take on the two things weighing him down - his grief, and his fat - and in doing so he's...

When paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with another teenage adventure gone wrong, he knows better than anyone what happened and how. Thirty years before, that dead boy could have been him. Bruce remembers what it was like to be a risk-taking kid, to feel that thrill and that fear...

Fresh from the scandal at Hampstead County PD, Detective Sergeant Casey Wray works a complex double-homicide that points to a killer on a murderous rampage and a shattering series of discoveries that could end her career … The shocking sequel to the addictive, twisty, bestselling Black Reed...

The Reluctant Sheriff is Chris Offutt's fourth book featuring Mick Hardin. A dark and fierce return to the Kentucky hills, where nothing is what it seems. Mick Hardin returns to the trials and tribulations of local sheriff duties, whilst the previous sheriff, his sister Linda, recovers from a...

After a decade of exile precipitated by the tragic death of his mother, Will Seems returns home from Richmond to rural Southern Virginia, taking a job as deputy sheriff in a landscape given way to crime and defeat. But his attempts to start again are wrecked when a brutal homicide claims the...

So many people had reason to hate her, but did anyone have reason to kill her? Everyone dies famous in a country town, but glamorous Vanessa Walton was a shining star. A celebrity since a television commercial when she was a child, Vanessa is back on the front page for all the wrong reasons...

It’s hard to remember now that I was once that girl, lying in the sand in my red swimsuit and swimming late into the day. Sharkbait, he called me. It’s in the water where she first sees him: a local man almost twenty years her senior. Adrift in the summer after finishing college, a young...

In the hurricane-ravaged bottomlands of South Mississippi, where stores are closing and jobs are few, a fierce zealot has gained a foothold, capitalizing on the vulnerability of a dwindling population and a burning need for hope. As she preaches and promises salvation from the light of the...

From the author of A Little Hope--a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick--comes an enormously powerful and life-affirming novel about three individuals whose lives intersect in unforeseen ways. Set in a close-knit Pennsylvania suburb in the grip of winter, A Quiet Life follows three people grappling with...

Dark, profane, and hilarious, yet ultimately humane, these ten stories are the latest and best of Robin McLean’s reports from the eternal battlefront that is the United States. Ranging across the continent, from Alaska to Missouri, from the flatlands to the mountains, each tale is a snapshot...

Widow Kate Blakely, who is wary of love after her failed first marriage, nonetheless falls for her new neighbor, Zachariah McGovern, after he rescues her four-year-old daughter, Miranda, from a well...

In this timeless, mythical tale of unforgiving justice and elusive grace, rural Mississippi townsfolk shoulder the pain of generations as something dangerous lurks in the enigmatic kudzu of the woods. The town of Red Bluff, Mississippi, has seen better days, though those who've held on have...

Richly imagined and compulsively readable, The Innocents is a riveting story of hardship and survival, and an unflinching exploration of the bond between siblings. SHORTLISTED FOR THE GILLER PRIZE, THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S PRIZE, AND THE ROGER'S WRITER'S TRUST FICTION AWARD In centuries past, a...

'Non-stop thrills from the first page and kept me guessing until the end!’ Freida McFadden on Alice Feeney 'Woah! I didn't see that coming! Delightfully twisty … Diabolically clever' Five Star Reader Review 'So many twists and turns I think I ended up with whiplash … The best thriller'...

"Julien Signol, mon grand-père paternel, ne sut jamais lire ni écrire, et moi, son petit-fils, je suis devenu écrivain."

Ils sont treize : l'abbé Théodéric et douze de ses frères bénédictins de l'abbaye de Solignac, en Limousin. Ils ont pour mission de faire revivre un monastère englouti par les terres hostiles - toutes de marécages, de forêts et de landes - de cette région que l'on appelle aujourd'hui la Brenne, proche de la Sologne. En ce temps-là, le milieu du XIe siècle, quand les héritiers de Charlemagne se disputaient l'Empire disloqué, c'était un pays où survivre était un exploit.

"Pour la plupart des familles françaises, passées en trois générations de la paysannerie à l'université, le XXe siècle a été un formidable ascenseur social."

Quatre récits de femmes, autour de quatre savoir-faire, quatre artisanats de la plus belle tradition provençale. Elles sont quatre, à différentes époques, dans quatre magnifiques écrins. Elles racontent, chacune, un geste ou une tradition séculaire de Provence. L'ardente Eugénie, enfant naturelle d'une "gamine de l'Assistance", à L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, veut accomplir la promesse faite à sa mère… À Montfavet, près de la fabrique familiale de berlingots, Adeline a toujours vécu enfermée dans son monde et a enfoui un tragique secret.

Jacqueline Pagnol et l'Agneau de la Noël en couverture de cet enregistrement nous révèle l'authenticité de la célèbre histoire de cet agneau que Marcel Pagnol immortalisa dans "Angèle" en racontant le tournage de "Regain".

The Day of the Stranding, a new HarperCollins book, full description to follow when available...