La Terre sous l'Angleterre

Descendants des légionnaires romains qui protégèrent le mur d'Hadrien contre les invasions pictes, la famille Julien vit depuis toujours sur les mêmes terres, aux portes de l'Ecosse. Depuis des générations, les hommes recherchent l'entrée d'un mystérieux monde souterrain sous les remparts. Plusieurs l'auraient trouvé mais aucun n'en est jamais revenu, jusqu'à aujourd'hui.

Starred Review. Hans van den Broek, the Dutch-born narrator of O'Neill's dense, intelligent novel, observes of his friend, Chuck Ramkissoon, a self-mythologizing entrepreneur-gangster, that he never quite believed that people would sooner not have their understanding of the world blown up, even by Chuck Ramkissoon. The image of one's understanding of the world being blown up is poignant—this is Hans's fate after 9/11. He and wife Rachel abandon their downtown loft, and, soon, Rachel leaves him behind at their temporary residence, the Chelsea Hotel, taking their son, Jake, back to London. Hans, an equities analyst, is at loose ends without Rachel, and in the two years he remains Rachel-less in New York City, he gets swept up by Chuck, a Trinidadian expatriate Hans meets at a cricket match. Chuck's dream is to build a cricket stadium in Brooklyn; in the meantime, he operates as a factotum for a Russian gangster. The unlikely (and doomed from the novel's outset) friendship rises and falls in tandem with Hans's marriage, which falls and then, gradually, rises again. O'Neill (This Is the Life) offers an outsider's view of New York bursting with wisdom, authenticity and a sobering jolt of realism. (May) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Starred Review. Hans van den Broek, the Dutch-born narrator of O'Neill's dense, intelligent novel, observes of his friend, Chuck Ramkissoon, a self-mythologizing entrepreneur-gangster, that he never quite believed that people would sooner not have their understanding of the world blown up, even by Chuck Ramkissoon. The image of one's understanding of the world being blown up is poignant—this is Hans's fate after 9/11. He and wife Rachel abandon their downtown loft, and, soon, Rachel leaves him behind at their temporary residence, the Chelsea Hotel, taking their son, Jake, back to London. Hans, an equities analyst, is at loose ends without Rachel, and in the two years he remains Rachel-less in New York City, he gets swept up by Chuck, a Trinidadian expatriate Hans meets at a cricket match. Chuck's dream is to build a cricket stadium in Brooklyn; in the meantime, he operates as a factotum for a Russian gangster. The unlikely (and doomed from the novel's outset) friendship rises and falls in tandem with Hans's marriage, which falls and then, gradually, rises again. O'Neill (This Is the Life) offers an outsider's view of New York bursting with wisdom, authenticity and a sobering jolt of realism. (May) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Greta, apprentie forgeronne, découvre une petite créature perdue sur la place du marché. En ramenant le dragon-thé chez lui, elle va rencontrer les deux propriétaires du salon de thé : Hesekiel et Erik. Ces derniers vont alors l'initier à l'art délicat du soin des dragons-thé. Tandis qu'elle se lit d'amitié avec eux et avec la timide Minette, Greta va découvrir l'étendue de cet art et comment les dragons-thé enrichissent leurs vies. Un conte de fée envoûtant autour de Greta et de sa découverte du monde enchanteur des dragons-thé. Pour les 9-12 ans