But an unfortunate confrontation with a boy in his school results in a prank that goes badly wrong and suddenly he's incarcerated - without chance of release. Inspired by the Count of Monte Cristo, Fry's psychological thriller is written with the pace, wit and shrewd insight that we have come to expect from one of our finest novelists.

Stars' Tennis Balls

Poète déchu, critique dramatique acariâtre, vieux libidineux aigri confit de misanthropie, ted wallace est un inébranlable rationaliste et un ennemi tonitruant des bonnes manières.
 Alors qu'il vient de se faire mettre à la porte du journal pour lequel il écrit, il se voit investi d'une mission secrète par sa très charmante filleule jane : soulever le mystère de swafford hall, demeure du richissime lord logan. david, le fils de la maison, détient-il réellement le pouvoir de guérir les gens ? armé de flair, d'esprit critique aiguisé et de whisky, ted wallace va arpenter le château à la recherche de la vérité.
 Un roman où humour et sarcasme bousculent l'intrigue.

L'hippopotame

Adrian Healey est un menteur compulsif et invétéré. Il est jeune, beau, très intelligent, extrêmement cynique, sans scrupule, spirituel et tricheur. Ses excentricités, son homosexualité tapageuse et ses provocations en font le héros scandaleux de son collège. Du moins, tant qu'il en fait encore partie... Des années plus tard, un de ses professeurs l'entraîne à son tour dans une aventure rocambolesque. Avec un humour décapant, des dialogues caustiques pleins d'esprit, Stephen Fry fustige l'hypocrisie et bouscule la bonne société anglaise.

Mensonges, mensonges

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

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.

 When the Browns go out for the day, Paddington decides to surprise them by baking a chocolate cake and spring cleaning the house. However, it isn't a good idea to try and do both things at the same time, as Paddington soon finds out .

Paddington Minds the House

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

Making history

Le choc frontal entre Michael Young, thésard en histoire à Cambrige, et le professeur Leon Zuckermann, vieux physicien obsédé par l'une des périodes les plus noires de l'histoire du XXe siècle, va changer l'histoire - littéralement. Mais pour cela, il faut compter également sur une pilule miracle, sur un rival oublié du petit teigneux autrichien et sur la fatale élasticité du temps. Car qui vous dit qu'effacer un tyran améliorerait le cours de l'histoire humaine ? Michael Young va découvrir combien est retorse la destinée, dans une comédie romantique pimentée d'un zeste d'amour gay et bouleversée par un solide suspense science-fictif. Le pire n'est jamais certain, mais le mieux ne se trouve pas forcément non plus là où l'on attendait

Stars' Tennis Balls

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