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Stephen Clarke

    15. október 1958

    Stephen Clarke je autorom siedmich bestsellerov, ktoré satiricky skúmajú zvláštnosti francúzskej kultúry. Jeho diela sa s humorom zameriavajú na každodenný život, zvyky a mentalitu Francúzov, pričom často využíva nadľahčovanie a iróniu na odhalenie absurdných stránok francúzskeho spôsobu života. Clarkov prenikavý pohľad a vtipný štýl z neho robia obľúbeného pozorovateľa francúzskej spoločnosti.

    Stephen Clarke
    Merde Actually
    Talk to the Snail
    Dirty Bertie
    Merde! 1. - 4. díl.
    Faktor Merde
    Paríž sa odhaľuje
    • Paríž sa odhaľuje

      • 328 stránok
      • 12 hodin čítania

      Stephen Clarke je úspešným autorom kníh o Francúzsku a Francúzoch. Vo svojej novej knihe sa venuje mestu Paríž – mestu svetla, ktoré je zároveň jednou z najnavštevovanejších metropol sveta. Vydajte sa na prehliadku s týmto vtipným sprievodcom, spoznajte všetky tajomstvá veľkomesta od módy, kinematografie a umenia, cez byty a bagety, až po svrčkov v metre a cikanie na ulici. Sú Parížania skutočne takí hrozní, ako sa o nich traduje? Čo pre nich znamená voda a prečo sa musia s jedlom maznať? A ako je to so šampanským, romantikou a sexom?

      Paríž sa odhaľuje
      3,7
    • Dirty Bertie

      An English King Made in France

      • 400 stránok
      • 14 hodin čítania

      The entertaining biography of Edward VII and his playboy lifestyle, by the author of A Year in the Merde Despite fierce opposition from his mother, Queen Victoria, Edward VII was always passionately in love with France. He had affairs with the most famous Parisian actresses, courtesans, and can-can dancers. He spoke French more elegantly than English. He was the first ever guest to climb the Eiffel Tower with Gustave Eiffel, in defiance of an official English ban on his visit. He turned his French seduction skills into the diplomatic prowess that sealed the Entente Cordiale. A quintessentially English king? Pas du tout! Stephen Clarke argues that as "Dirty Bertie," Edward learned all the essentials in life from the French.

      Dirty Bertie
      4,3
    • Talk to the Snail

      • 272 stránok
      • 10 hodin čítania

      Acts as a guide on how to get what you really want from the French. This title provides advice on useful phrases.

      Talk to the Snail
      3,8
    • Merde Actually

      • 448 stránok
      • 16 hodin čítania

      What is the best way to scare a gendarme? Why do French job applicants put sexually transmitted diseases on their CVs? From the bestselling author of A Year in the Merde.

      Merde Actually
      3,6
    • Dial M for Merde

      • 317 stránok
      • 12 hodin čítania

      Englishman Paul West has just received an offer he can't refuse: two weeks in the sun, all expenses paid, with a beautiful blonde called Gloria Monday. M, as Gloria likes to be known, is down south to report on caviar trafficking but it soon becomes obvious that she's interested in something a lot more fishy than caviar.

      Dial M for Merde
      3,5
    • Paul West is in deep financial merde. His only way out of debt is to accept a decidedly dodgy job that involves him touring America in a Mini, while pretending to be typically British. Also in the car is Paul's French girlfriend, Alexa, and his American poet friend, Jake, whose main aim in life is to sleep with a woman from every country in the world. Preferably in the back of Paul's Mini. But as the little car battles from New York to Miami, and then heads west, leg-room turns out to be the least of Paul's troubles. His work is being sabotaged, his tour plans are in tatters, and his love life becomes a Franco-American war zone. And as Paul knows better than anyone, when you mix love and war - merde happens ...

      Merde happens
      3,5
    • Merde in Europe

      • 352 stránok
      • 13 hodin čítania

      One Brit in Brussels. Two French Women. And a whole lot of merde. The hilarious new novel from Stephen Clarke, bestselling author of A Year in the Merde and A Thousand Years of Annoying the French. Does Brussels really want to outlaw bingo, bagpipes and smoky bacon crisps? Are eurocrats trying to rename the English Channel? And can the ink in euro notes really make men impotent? No. Well, not exactly. But it is true that the EU is a seriously flawed institution. And it's about to become even more so as Englishman Paul West goes to Brussels to work for a French MEP, and gets an insider's view of what really goes on in the massive madhouse that is the EU Parliament. As Britain prepares to vote whether it stays in or exits the EU, Paul gets the chance to influence the result of the referendum. He has to decide: better the devil you know? Or bring on the Brexit? It's a decision that could cost him a lot more than his euro paypacket . . .

      Merde in Europe
      3,4