Saviez-vous que le fils d'Apollon a failli brûler la terre en jouant avec le char solaire de son divin père ? Que Psyché est entourée de deux vilaines belles-soeurs prêtes à tout pour ruiner son histoire d'amour avec Eros ? Ou que Sisyphe a passé les menottes à la Mort en personne ?

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'Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. Just stick out your wand hand, step on board and we can take you anywhere you want to go.'When the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it's the start of another far from ordinary year at Hogwarts for Harry Potter. Sirius Black, escaped mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, is on the run - and they say he is coming after Harry. In his first ever Divination class, Professor Trelawney sees an omen of death in Harry's tea leaves ... But perhaps most terrifying of all are the Dementors patrolling the school grounds, with their soul-sucking kiss ...

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (UK Edition)

Ce roman, nourri de jalousies, de vengeances, de retournements de situations, met en scène un personnage qui fait étrangement écho à un autre héros de la littérature française : le comte de Montecristo mais à l'heure d'Internet, du e-bussiness et des portables. Roman à suspense, Stephen Fry y déploie ses thèmes favoris : usurpation, mensonge et vengeance.

L'île du Dr Mallo

In Making History, Fry has bitten off a rather meaty chunk by tackling an at first deceptively simple premise: What if Hitler had never been born? An unquestionable improvement, one would reason--and so an earnest history grad student and an aging German physicist idealistically undertake to bring this about by preventing Adolf's conception. And with their success is launched a brave new world that is in some ways better than ours--but in most ways even worse. Fry's experiment in history makes for his most ambitious novel yet, and his most affecting. His first book to be set mostly in America, it is a thriller with a funny streak, a futuristic fantasy based on one of mankind's darkest realities. It is, in every sense, a story of our times.

Le Faiseur d'histoire

Le choc frontal entre Michael Young, thésard en histoire à Cambridge, et le professeur Zuckermann, vieux physicien obsédé par l'une des périodes les plus sombres du XXe siècle, va changer l'histoire, littéralement. Mais pour cela, il faut aussi compter sur une pilule miracle, sur le rival oublié d'un petit teigneux autrichien et sur la fatale élasticité du temps. Le pire n'est jamais certain, mais le mieux ne se trouve pas forcément non plus là où l'on attendait...

Le faiseur d'histoire

'There is a plot, Harry Potter. A plot to make most terrible things happen at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year.' Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby, and rescue from the Dursleys by his friend Ron Weasley in a magical flying car! Back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his second year, Harry hears strange whispers echo through empty corridors - and then the attacks start. Students are found as though turned to stone ... Dobby's sinister predictions seem to be coming true.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (UK Edition)

One of the world's best loved presenters meets one of the world's greatest authors in this beautiful selection of timeless, haunting stories. Vividly brought to life through abundant illustrations and Stephen's masterly introductions, Oscar Wilde's short stories are here made accessible to an entirely new generation.

 Whether you know it or not, the stories in this book are familiar. Like old friends whose charm and warmth never fade, Oscar Wilde's short stories have enchanted generations of readers, and this beautiful book makes them accessible to an entirely new readership.

 Selected and presented by one of Wilde's biggest fans, the book includes a foreword from Stephen Fry, who will also supply short introductions to the stories themselves, explaining why they mean so much to him and why they should mean a lot to you too.

 Meet the selfish giant, whose garden was cloaked in perpetual winter until he allowed the children to enter and play, the happy prince whose statue stood overlooking his city, who gave the rubies and sapphires embedded in his eyes and clothing to feed the poor, and the tiny swallow who helped him. And let's not forget the remarkable rocket who was so convinced that he would be the brightest, most remarkable rocket of all, yet who ended up in a ditch. There's also the Canterville ghost, so inept at being scary that every attempt to spook his American visitors results in failure.

 Stephen Fry has always been passionate about Oscar Wilde's writing but he has a particular fondness for his short stories. In this beautifully illustrated book he shares with us what each story means to him and what he feels the reader can take away with them, whether they're five or fifty years old. As well as a general introduction, Stephen offers introductions to the stories themselves, taking the reader through his selection. Illustrated by Nicole Stewart, stunning artwork accompanies each story to give shape to the reader's imagination.

 Whether you are buying this for yourself, for your wife, your son or daughter, for your nephew, your niece, your mother, your brother or your sister, the book will be a gift that you or they will cherish forever and return to time and time again. These are stories for adults and children of all ages, for all time.

Oscar Wilde’s Stories for All Ages

En Angleterre, les acteurs écrivent aussi bien qu'ils jouent la comédie... Ce n'est pas Stephen Fry, aussi efficace à l'écran que la plume à la main, qui fera taire la rumeur. Dans L'Hippopotame, son second roman (après Mensonges, mensonges), il dresse un étrange tableau de famille, sur fond de riche société anglaise, et dévoile en trompe-l'oeil les secrets des uns et les obsessions des autres. Au premier plan, avec cet humour juste et raffiné, teinté d'une méchanceté toute britannique, Fry dépose son hippopotame, Ted Wallace.L'individu aime les femmes, l'argent, le whisky... Snob et acariâtre, ce poète à la plume de fiel compte dans ses relations quatre-vingt-quinze pour cent d'ennemis et cinq pour cent d'amis intéressés. Alors qu'il noie dans l'alcool son échec professionnel au bar d'un club de Soho, il tombe sur Jane, sa filleule, qui lui annonce bientôt qu'elle est atteinte d'une maladie mortelle. Une révélation qui n'aurait guère concerné notre ami Ted si elle n'était suivie d'une proposition : cent mille livres pour enquêter sur un miracle qui aurait eu lieu dans la magnifique propriété de l'oncle de Jane : Michael Logan. Un richissime industriel que Ted connaît bien..

L'Hippopotame

A funny story about Paddington, the beloved, classic bear from darkest Peru - now a major movie star!

 For more than six decades, stories of Paddington Bear have delighted children all over the world.

 Paddington finds himself at a loose end, which spells trouble for the Brown family! They have lots of suggestions for jobs to keep him occupied, but Paddington's way of doing things are not always what's expected .

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