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A producer. A novelist. An actress.It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. While the world is reeling our trio is involved in making a rackety Swingin' Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives.As the film is shot, with its usual drastic ups and downs, so does our trio's private, secret world begin to take over their public one. Pressures build inexorably - someone's going to crack. Or maybe they all will.From one of Britain's bestselling writers comes an exhilarating, tender novel that asks the vital questions- what makes life worth living? And what do you do if you find it isn't?

"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."

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.

Una operación antiterrorismo, nombre en código Wildlife, se lleva a cabo en la colonia británica de Gibraltar. El objetivo es capturar a un poderoso traficante de armas islamista. Los ideadores son un ambicioso ministro de Asuntos Exteriores del Reino Unido y un contratista de Defensa, amigo del ministro. La operación es tan secreta que ni siquiera Toby Bell, el secretario personal del ministro, está al tanto. Sospechando un complot con resultados desastrosos, Toby intenta detenerlo, pero es trasladado al extranjero para otro cargo. Tres años después, es convocado a su deteriorado castillo en Cornualles por Sir Christopher Probyn, un diplomático retirado, y bajo la vigilancia de su hija Emily. Toby deberá elegir entre lo que le dicta su conciencia y sus obligaciones hacia las instituciones para las que trabaja. Si la única condición necesaria para que el mal triunfe es que las personas honestas no hagan nada, ¿cómo se puede permanecer en silencio?

Two young lovers find themselves in the darkening basement of an anonymous house in Bloomsbury. In the same room sit two members of Britain's intelligence service. And they want information. The couple, Perry and Gail, have just returned from holiday in the Caribbean where they met the mysterious Dima, a Russian millionaire in fear for his life. The Russian thinks that only the unlikely figure of Perry can save him. And Dima has cash - and he is prepared to pay. Their meeting will propel Perry and Gail on a terrifying journey from London to Paris and on to a safe house deep in the Swiss Alps. When there is that much money at stake, and a British government that needs it that badly, certain sacrifices, even if it means a life or two, will have to be made ..

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 »..

" 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.

Los amigos que dan título a la novela son Ted Mundy, hijo de un militar británico, nacido en 1947 en Pakistán -el mismo día en que el país declaró su independencia-, y Sasha, hijo de un pastor luterano de la República Democrática Alemana refugiado en la República Federal. Los dos se conocen siendo estudiantes en Berlín Occidental, una ciudad sacudida por las algaradas y las manifestaciones; se reencuentran una década después en el turbio ambiente de la guerra fría y el espionaje, y vuelven a coincidir una vez más -su experiencia más atroz hasta la fecha- en el mundo unipolar del terror, el contraterror y la guerra de las mentiras.

En este revuelto mar de fondo Harry Pendel, presunto sastre de la realeza, cobra un insospechado protagonismo. Por su establecimiento desfilan los personajes más importantes de Panamá y en el probador, casi un confesionario, escucha secretos de toda índole. Dadas las circunstancias no resulta extraño que el servicio de inteligencia británico, representado por el agente Andy Osnard, arribista, manipulador y ambicioso, seleccione al sastre como eje de sus intrigas. En esta novela Le Carré reflexiona con humor y pesimismo sobre el espionaje actual, al que considera una farsa y mera caricatura del de la guerra fría. "Es el único libro, junto con Un espía perfecto, con el que quiero ser enterrado." JOHN LE CARRÉ