A melting pot of Oxbridge dons, maverick oddballs and more regular citizens worked night and day at Station X, as Bletchley Park was known, to derive intelligence information from German coded messages. Bear in mind that an Enigma machine had a possible 159 million million million different settings...

Sir James Wordie lead arduous expeditions well into his forties, while building his reputation as an academic and mentor. He rose to be President of the Royal Geographical Society. This book captures the drama of an extraordinary life lived at the edge, establishing James Wordie in his rightful plac...

Strolling through this wide sweep, gazing across the fleet of trains bound for Paris or Brussels, the powder blue steel vaulting soaring above them, the inside of a giant whale's ribcage, a hymn to the infrastructure of our hyper-connected age; like Jonah swallowed up by it all, by the hum of the gi...

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Chef Michael Smith is passionate about cooking and sharing great food and flavors. Chef Michael Smith’s Kitchen is a collection of Chef Michael’s all-time favorite recipes that he cooks regularly in his own home kitchen, using lots of wonderful, memorable flavors to be enjoyed with family and friend...

Une prose intense, lyrique pour le portrait d'une Amérique exsangue et désespérée. Plongez avec le nouveau roman de Michael Farris Smith au coeur du delta du Mississipi Abandonné à la naissance, Jack est passé d'orphelinats en foyers, avant que Maryann, une lesbienne mise à l'écart par la b...

" De temps à autre apparaît un auteur amoureux de son art, du langage écrit et des grands mystères qui résident de l'autre côté du monde physique. Il y avait William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy ou Annie Proulx. Vous pouvez maintenant ajouter Michael Farris Smith à la liste. " James Lee Burke Une ...

C'est le dernier jour des vacances, et Cherry décide de chercher d'autres coquillages pour compléter son collier. Elle est déterminée: ce sera le plus long collier jamais fait, un collier de géant ! Mais bientôt les nuages se font plus sombres, la mer se transforme en monstre gris... et Cherry est...

"De temps à autre apparaît un auteur amoureux de son art, du langage écrit [...] et des grands mystères qui résident de l'autre côté du monde physique. Il y avait William Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy ou Annie Proulx. Vous pouvez maintenant ajouter Michael Farris Smith à la liste." James Lee Burke Aprè...

La vie moderne est épuisante : rejoignez la révolution Calme.Des trains retardés, des emails à ne plus savoir qu'en faire, il est grand temps de faire une pause.Rechargez les batteries et vivez l'instant présent.Ce livre a trois objectifs : revenir à la paix intérieure, se réapproprier son espace, e...

Et si on vous offrait cinq minutes à partager avec votre amour mort... à condition d'accepter de combattre des forces infernales ? Straczynski nous dévoile un récit à la croisée du mythe d'Orphée et de L'Enfer de Dante. Suivez la descente aux enfers de Joe Fitzgerald, un ancien homme de main de la ...

Ceci est mon corps relate l'éducation sentimentale d'un jeune garçon homosexuel issu d'un milieu socioéconomique défavorisé de l'Est ontarien. Le texte traverse les frontières de genre (littéraire et sexuel), d'orientation sexuelle, de langue, de race et de classe en proposant d'analyser la décompos...

A mesmerising SF thriller from a master of the genre. Hap Thompson is a REMtemp, working the night hours, having people's anxiety dreams for them. For the first time in his life, Hap's making big money - and that should have been enough... ...

Talking fridges, human clone farms, flying shopping malls - we must be in the Michael Marshall Smith zone. A world all too close to our own... ...

As Smith recalls: "This story came about in the simplest way, the way I always enjoy most - something happening in real life that makes you think 'What if?' "Our household gets a lot of its food via an online delivery service, and one day when I was unpacking what had just been dropped at our house ...

Substitutions - Michael Marshall SmithMichael Marshall Smith recalls: "This story came about in the simplest way, the way I always enjoy most - something happening in real life that makes you think 'What if?' "Our household gets a lot of its food via an online delivery service, and one day when I wa...

What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night - Michael Marshall Smith "'What Happens When You Wake Up in the Night' was one of those stories which come along once in a while," reveals Michael Marshall Smith, "the kind that drops straight into your head, fully-formed, as if fulfilling a forgotten order...

The Japanese called it the centipede. The northern part of Lunga Ridge, a narrow grass-covered rise that looked like an insect from the air, overlooked a coastal plain. In the center of that plain was Henderson Field, the vital home of the Cactus Air Force and the prize of the Guadalcanal campaign. ...

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The first part of bestselling author Michael Smith's epid unauthorised history of Britain's secret intelligence service. Six tells the complete story of the service's birth and early years including spyinmg on Germany, the murder of Rasputin and astonishingly daring secret missions inside Bolshevik ...

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