As a good drawing is often better than a thousand explanations, what could be better than a Comic Strip to tell the tale of Operation Overlord and the Allied Landings in Normandy ? Without wishing to give a parody of a famous phrase printed by an equally famous newspaper read by young people aged 7 to 70, it is clear that comic strips are read ...
When Millicent Pemberton's acting career comes to a disastrous end, she seduces a wealthy Scottish Duke and moves into his impressive castle. Pregnant with Justin she raids the Duke's safe and disappears with a fortune in banknotes. 22 years later, a fiercely dominating mother, Millicent and her American lover move to the USA selling her family home, leaving him to be introduced into an alien world. A Pandora's box of events challenges his sanity. He'd been arrested and jailed briefly for a trumped-up charge of rape. Mentally, physically and sexually abused by a collection of crazy women (including a randy teacher and her class of equally randy 16-year-old schoolgirls). Locating his mother in the USA, Justin accompanying her to a bank is taken hostage by three armed gorillas during a raid. He is whisked away into the wilds to be harassed by a gang of women thieves. The Duke, recognising Millicent from a TV newsflash and realising Justin must be his son, races to rescue him with a bunch of mercenaries. Justin's story has so many unpredictable events you are forced to turn over the page to learn what happens to our guy next.
Paddy Doyle is an extraordinary man. Born during a terrifying storm that isolates his home (Milford Farm in the Irish Republic) from the outside world, the priest who delivers him plays a crucial role in Paddy's upbringing and mentors his affinity with the sea. When, at the age of 21, he leaves the safety of Ford Farm to work in the UK's construction industry, Paddy's life is never the same again. He saves his supervisor from a potentially fatal accident, crosses swords with his employer and drifts from one company to another, before Shaun Cullerton, MD of Eureka Construction offers him a job that shapes the rest of his life. From the discovery of a half brother, a sexual proposal from a wealthy (and insistent) widow, an old flame who desperately needs his help, to a company takeover, a torrid affair with the new boss's vivacious wife, another new love interest, karma and regret, ghostly experiences, assassination attempts, a kidnapping and a chilling situation on Paddy's wedding day, this is a racy, steely read, bursting with twists and turns that will stay with you a long time after reading. Contemporary fiction at its most thrilling, exciting, dangerous and captivating, From Dingle With Love is a multi-genre novel that will have you gripped from the prologue.
A six-day series of interviews between Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel and French journalist Michaël de Saint Cheron, Evil and Exile probes some of the most crucial and pressing issues facing humankind today. Having survived the unspeakable evil of the Holocaust, Wiesel remained silent for ten years before dedicating his life to the memory of this tragedy, witnessing tirelessly to remind an often indifferent world of its potential for self-destruction. Wiesel offers wise counsel in this volume concerning evil and suffering, life and death, chance and circumstance. Moreover, the dialogue evokes candid and often surprising responses by Wiesel on the Palestinian problem, Judeo-Christian relations, recent changes in the Soviet Union as well as insights into writers such as Kafka, Malraux, Mauriac, and Unamuno.
INEDIT - NOUVELLE EDITIONC’est en disciple que Michael de Saint Chéron entreprit de « converser avec un Emmanuel Levinas au soir de sa vie ». Conversation pleine de crépuscule et d’espérance, de tendresse et d’admiration. Il y est question de la place du féminin dans son acheminement vers une transcendance de l’altérité, du concept du temps dans la philosophie de Bergson, de Paul Ricoeur, de sa vision de la « fin de l’histoire » à l’heure où s’écroulait l’empire communiste d’Occident. Dans une seconde partie, l’auteur propose une réflexion sur la phénoménologie du visage et la problématique de la déconstruction, de la rupture, dans l’œuvre de Levinas. Pour ce faire, il interroge les œuvres de Sartre, Ricoeur, Malraux, mais aussi Kant, Heidegger et Derrida. Une approche résolument novatrice de la pensée du grand philosophe se déploie dans ces pages.