Set in occupied wartime France, this is the story of a successful woman whose carefully constructed and hidden past threatens to be exposed by her profiteering nephew.

FIVE QUARTERS OF THE ORANGE

Le temps de trois merveilleux étés passés chez ses grands-parents, le jeune Jay Mackintosh a rencontré un homme très mystérieux : Joe. Ce personnage énigmatique transformait la réalité en une fête exubérante. Surtout, il fabriquait un vin particulier dont chaque gorgée était un élixir magique. Joe a disparu et cet univers s'est soudainement évanoui. C'était il y a quinze ans, mais son souvenir le hante encore.Depuis, Jay est devenu un écrivain célèbre. Mais, en panne d'inspiration, il s'adonne volontiers à la boisson... jusqu'au jour où une annonce immobilière le conduit sur les traces de son passé. Le château à vendre ressemble étrangement à un lieu que lui avait décrit son ami...

Vin de bohème

The ellusive truffle

Before the sweet delight of Chocolat, before the heady concoction that is Blackberry Wine, and before the tart pleasures of Five Quarters of the Orange, bestselling author Joanne Harris wrote Sleep, Pale Sister -- a gothic tourde-force that recalls the powerfully dark sensibility of her novel Holy Fools. Originally published in 1994 -- and never before available in the United States -- Sleep, Pale Sister is a hypnotically atmospheric story set in nineteenth century London. When puritanical artist Henry Chester sees delicate child beauty Effie, he makes her his favorite model and, before long, his bride. But Henry, volatile and repressed, is in love with an ideal. Passive, docile, and asexual, the woman he projects onto Effie is far from the woman she really is. And when Effie begins to discover the murderous depths of Henry's hypocrisy, her latent passion will rise to the surface. Sleep, Pale Sister combines the ethereal beauty of a Pre-Raphaelite painting with a chilling high gothic tale and is a testament to Harris's brimming cornucopia of talents. This P. S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

Sleep, Pale Sister

This is the reissue of Joanne Harris's second novel, a Gothic tale set in 19th century London.

SLEEP, PALE SISTER

Jay Mackintosh is trapped by memory in the old familiar landscape of his childhood, to which he longs to return. A bottle of home-brewed wine left to him by a long-vanished friend seems to provide the key to an old mystery. As the unusual properties of the strange brew take effect, Jay escapes to a derelict farmhouse in the French village of Lansquenet. 



There, a ghost from the past waits to confront him, and the reclusive Marise - haunted, lovely and dangerous - hides a terrible secret behind her closed shutters. Between them, a mysterious chemistry. Or could it be magic?

Blackberry wine vin de boheme

«Se retrouver enfermé, sans pouvoir se libérer, n'est-ce pas que c'est effrayant ? Voilà parfois ce que j'éprouve avec Henry. (...) Il me fait prendre du Laudanum pour que je me tienne tranquille et sage, mais au-dedans de moi j'ai envie de crier et de mordre et de sortir en courant de la maison, nue comme une sauvageonne.»Henry Chester, peintre épris de pureté, trouve en Effie le modèle parfait. Elle n'a que dix-sept ans lorsqu'ils se marient. Henry, qui pourrait être son père, profite de cette occasion rêvée pour l'embrigader dans un mode de vie rigide et austère. Mais le corps parle et reprend ses droits, dans cette société victorienne hypocrite où les figures les plus ascétiques et les plus spirituelles cachent en elles des forces obscures et chaotiques...Ce roman, entre thriller psychologique et conte gothique, révèle une inextinguible soif d'amour, où s'exprime moins la folie des femmes que la terrible cruauté des hommes.

Dors, petie soeur

''AN INGENIOUS, GRIPPING READ... IT TERRIFIED THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF ME'' DAILY EXPRESS

FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR JOANNE HARRIS COMES THIS GRIPPING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER...

Once there was a widow with three sons, and their names were Black, Brown and Blue.  Black was the eldest; moody and aggressive. Brown was the middle child; timid and dull. But Blue was his mother''s favourite. And he was a murderer.

Blueeyedboy is a dark and intricately plotted tale of a poisonously dysfunctional family, a blind child prodigy, and a serial murderer who is not who he seems. Told through a series of anonymous posts on the internet, this is a thriller that makes creative use of all the multiple personalities, disguise and mind games that are offered by playing out a life online.

''Engrossing psychological thriller...a novel of unusual complexity...Harris, best known for Chocolat, again shows her skill and versatility'' MAIL ON SUNDAY

The second in the Malbry Cycle of psychological thrillers - the latest of which is A Narrow Door.

BLUEEYEDBOY

Something inside me remembers and will not forget... The revised and updated reissue of Joanne Harris's first ever title - an absorbing, dark, chilling story. A welcome return for the novel that heralded the arrival of an extraordinary talent. Contains a brand new Foreword.

FIVE QUARTERS OF THE ORANGE

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