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Isabelle Perrin

    Absolute friends
    A Delicate Truth
    Sweet Caress
    The Pigeon Tunnel
    In The Pocket
    L'anglais de l'immobilier
    • L'anglais de l'immobilier

      • 119 stránok
      • 5 hodin čítania

      " L'anglais de l'immobilier " regroupe les termes généraux et techniques, ainsi que les expressions et notions indispensables du monde de l'immobilier. Destiné aux étudiants et aux professionnels, cet ouvrage est pratique et simple d'utilisation : le vocabulaire, classe par thèmes et par ordre alphabétique, est listé dans les deux langues, français/anglais et anglais/français.

      L'anglais de l'immobilier
    • In The Pocket

      Ou l'art de savoir traduire en anglais les expressions françaises

      • 120 stránok
      • 5 hodin čítania

      Traduire une expression française mot à mot en anglais n'est pas sans provoquer rires et quiproquos.. Cet ouvrage recense 58 expressions françaises de tous les jours accompagnées de leur traduction littérale et véritable ainsi que d'un exemple pour une meilleure intégration.. Désormais, l'anglais n'aura plus de secret pour vous et vous le parlerez les doigts dans le nez, qui, on le rappelle, ne se dit pas « fingers in the nose », mais « hands down »..

      In The Pocket
    • "Out of the secret world I once knew I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for the reality.' The Pigeon Tunnel, John le CarrU's memoir and his first work of non-fiction, is a thrilling journey into the worlds of his 'secret sharers' - the men and women who inspired some of his most enthralling novels. From terrifying meetings with Yasser Arafat in war-torn Beirut to brilliantly observed encounters with the great figures of 20th century film, from Stanley Kubrick to Alec Guinness. The reader is swept along not just by the chilling winds of the Cold War or by the author's frightening journeys into places of terrible violence but, most importantly, by the author's inimitable voice. In this astonishing work we see our world, both public and private, through the eyes of one of the world's greatest writers."

      The Pigeon Tunnel
      4,0
    • Sweet Caress

      • 464 stránok
      • 17 hodin čítania

      When Amory Clay was born, in the decade before the Great War, her disappointed father gave her an androgynous name and announced the birth of a son. But this daughter was not one to let others define her; Amory became a woman who accepted no limits to what that could mean, and from the time she picked up her first camera, one who would record her own version of events. Moving freely between London and New York, between photojournalism and fashion photography, and between the men who love her on complicated terms, Amory establishes her reputation as a risk taker and a passionate life traveler. Her hunger for experience draws her to the decadence of Weimar-era Berlin and the violence of London's Blackshirt riots, to the Rhineland with Allied troops and into the political tangle of war-torn Vietnam. During her ambitious career, the seminal moments of the twentieth century will become the unforgettable moments of her own biography as well. In Sweet Caress, Amory Clay comes wondrously to life, her vibrant personality enveloping the reader from the start. And, running through the novel, her photographs over the decades allow us to experience this vast story not only with Amory's voice but with her vision. William Boyd's Sweet Caress captures an entire lifetime unforgettably within its pages. It captivates.

      Sweet Caress
      4,0
    • In 2008, a counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Cornwall, UK, 2011. A disgraced Special Forces Soldier delivers a message from the dead. Was Operation Wildlife the success it was cracked up to be--or a human tragedy that was ruthlessly covered up?

      A Delicate Truth
      3,8
    • Absolute friends

      • 384 stránok
      • 14 hodin čítania

      ABSOLUTE FRIENDS is a superbly paced novel spanning fifty-six years, a theatrical masterstroke of tragi-comic writing, and a savage fable of our times, almost of our hours. The friends of the title are Ted Mundy, British soldier's son born 1947 in a shining new independent Pakistan, and Sasha, refugee son of an East German Lutheran pastor and his wife who have sought sanctuary in the West. The two men meet first as students in riot-torn West Berlin of the late Sixties, again in the grimy looking-glass of Cold War espionage and, most terribly, in today's unipolar world of terror, counter-terror and the war of lies. Deriving its scale from A PERFECT SPY and its passion from THE CONSTANT GARDENER, Le Carré's new novel presents us with magical writing, characters to delight, and a spellbinding story that enchants even as it challenges.

      Absolute friends
      3,7
    • Our kind of traitor

      • 305 stránok
      • 11 hodin čítania

      Een criminele Russische miljonair die wil overlopen naar het westen gebruikt een jong Engels paar om in contact te komen met de Britse inlichtingendienst.

      Our kind of traitor
      3,6
    • Trio

      • 352 stránok
      • 13 hodin čítania

      "From the award-winning, best-selling author comes a rollicking novel with a dark undertow, set around three unforgettable individuals and a doomed movie set. A producer. A novelist. An actress. It's summer 1968--a time of war and assassinations, protests and riots. While the world is reeling, our trio is involved in making a disaster-plagued, Swingin' Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives. As the movie shoot zigs and zags, these layers of secrets become increasingly more untenable. Pressures build inexorably. The FBI and CIA get involved. Someone is going to crack--or maybe they all will. From one of Britain's best loved writers comes an exhilarating, tender novel--by turns hilarious and heartbreaking--that asks the vital questions: What makes life worth living? And what do you do if you find it isn't?"--

      Trio
      3,5
    • The Tailor of Panama

      • 288 stránok
      • 11 hodin čítania

      Harry Pendel is the charismatic proprietor of Pendel and Braithwaite Limitada of Panama, through whose doors everyone who is anyone in Central America passes; Andrew Osnard, mysterious and fleshly, is a spy. His secret mission is two-pronged: to keep a watchful eye on the political manoeuvrings leading up to the American handover of the Panama Canal on 31st December 1999; and to secure for himself the immense private fortune that has until now churlishly eluded him.

      The Tailor of Panama
      3,5