Download or read book The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles written by Katherine Pancol and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le Divorce meets The Elegance of the Hedgehog in this hilariously entertaining mega-bestseller from France When her chronically unemployed husband runs off to start a crocodile farm in Kenya with his mistress, Joséphine Cortès is left in an unhappy state of affairs. The mother of two—confident, beautiful teenage Hortense and shy, babyish Zoé—is forced to maintain a stable family life while making ends meet on her meager salary as a medieval history scholar. Meanwhile, Joséphine’s charismatic sister Iris seems to have it all—a wealthy husband, gorgeous looks, and a très chic Paris address—but she dreams of bringing meaning back into her life. When Iris charms a famous publisher into offering her a lucrative deal for a twelfth-century romance, she offers her sister a deal of her own: Joséphine will write the novel and pocket all the proceeds, but the book will be published under Iris’s name. All is well—that is, until the book becomes the literary sensation of the season.
Download or read book The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles written by Katherine Pancol and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2013 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a novel about men and women ... the women we are, the women we would like to be, the women we shall perhaps one day become. It is also a novel about love, friendship, betrayal, money, dreams and a little white lie and its hilarious, life-changing consequences.
Download or read book The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles written by Katherine Pancol and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...a clear-eyed, warmly funny tale.' Kirkus Reviews This novel is the story of a lie. But it is also a story of laughter and tears, of life itself. When her chronically unemployed husband runs off to start a crocodile farm in Kenya with his mistress, Josephine Cortes is left in an unhappy state of affairs. The mother of two is forced to make ends meet on her meagre salary as a medieval history scholar. Meanwhile, Josephine's charismatic sister Iris seems to have it all - a wealthy husband, gorgeous looks, and a tres chic Paris address-but secretly she dreams of bringing meaning back into her life. And then a dinner party changes the sisters' destinies. Iris is seated next to a famous book publisher to whom she spins a tale of the 12th century romance she's writing. When Iris charms him into offering her a lucrative deal for her book, she offers her sister a deal of her own: Josephine will write the novel and pocket all the proceeds, but the book will be published under Iris's name. All is well - until the book becomes the literary sensation of the season...
Download or read book The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles by Katherine Pancol Book Analysis written by Bright Summaries and published by BrightSummaries.com. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the more straightforward side of The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles by Katherine Pancol, which tells the story of Joséphine, whose husband has just left her, and her elegant, wealthy sister Iris, who has always been their mother’s favourite. When Joséphine agrees to write a novel that will be published under Iris’s name, this becomes the catalyst for a journey of self-discovery that sees her step out of her sister’s shadow, finally stand up to her overbearing mother and find love again. With its vividly detailed characters and constant twists and turns, The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles will leave readers hooked right up to the last page. Katherine Pancol is a bestselling French author who has published 14 novels to date. In the English-speaking world she is best-known for The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles and its sequel, The Slow Waltz of Turtles. Find out everything you need to know about The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
Download or read book The Slow Waltz of Turtles written by Katherine Pancol and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this mega-bestseller from France and the follow-up to The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles, a woman contends with divorce, family trouble, and even murder in her journey to discover who she really is. Fortysomething mother of two Joséphine Cortès is at a crossroads. She has just moved to a posh new apartment in Paris after the success of the historical novel she ghostwrote for her sister, Iris. Still struggling with her divorce—the result of her husband running off to Kenya to start a crocodile farm with his mistress—she is now entangled too in a messy lie orchestrated by her sister. And just when things seem they can't get any more complicated, people start turning up dead in her neighborhood. As Joséphine struggles to find her voice and her confidence amidst a messy web of relationships and a string of murders, she and those around her must learn to push on with determination, like headstrong little turtles learning to dance slowly in a world that's too violent and moving too fast.
Download or read book Article 353 written by Tanguy Viel and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This atmospheric noir novel retraces the steps that led to a murder off the coast of Brittany, probing the relationship between law and justice. In a depressed town on France's northern coast, a man named Martial Kermeur has been arrested for the murder of real estate developer Antoine Lazenec after throwing him overboard. Called before a judge, Kermeur goes back to the beginning to explain what brought him to this desperate point: his divorce, his son's acting out, layoffs at his job, and, above all, Lazenec's dazzling project for a seaside resort. The temptation to invest all of your severance pay in a beautiful apartment with a view of the sea is great. But still, it has to be built. In this subtle, enthralling novel, Tanguy Viel examines not only the psychology of a crime, but also the larger social ills that may offer its justification.
Download or read book The Madmen of Benghazi written by Gérard de Villiers and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MADMEN OF BENGHAZI, available for the first time in the U.S., is a gripping, racy, ripped-from-the-headlines espionage thriller set in volatile post-Qaddafi Libya. Gérard de Villiers (1929–2013) spent his five-decade career cultivating connections in the world of international intelligence, which allowed him to anticipate geopolitical events before they occurred—and to masterfully blend fiction with an insider’s knowledge of international affairs. Published from 1964 until his death in 2013, his bestselling SAS series of 200 spy novels, starring Malko Linge, was long considered France’s answer to Ian Fleming, with Malko as his James Bond. Its hero, Malko Linge, an Austrian aristocrat, spends his time freelancing for the CIA in order to support his playboy lifestyle. When terrorists try to shoot down a plane carrying Libyan prince Ibrahim al-Senussi, it is clear that someone wants him dead. But the CIA has its own plot for the prince: Now that Qaddafi has been overthrown, al-Senussi is their best bet to set up a constitutional monarchy and stem the Islamist tide in Libya. The CIA, which needs Malko as much as he needs them, sends the Austrian aristocrat to Cairo to learn more about al-Senussi’s plans by seducing his companion, a ravishing British model. This mission is enormously appealing, but also proves enormously dangerous, as the same madman of God who is trying to kill al-Senussi also takes aim at Malko.
Download or read book Grown Ups written by Marie Aubert and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Venomous. Bitchy. Brilliant.' Independent Ireland 'Pure escapism! An endearing, moving novel about family, fertility and finding your feet' Emma Gannon, author of Olive 'Drily funny and emotionally gripping, it's the perfect summer read' Vogue ____________ Ida is a forty-year-old architect, single and starting to panic – all she sees are other people's children, everywhere. On a family holiday in the idyllic Norwegian countryside, she's rapidly regressing, picking fights with her sister Marthe and flirting with Marthe's husband. But when some supposedly wonderful news from Marthe sends tensions rocketing, Ida is forced to finally recognize that there's more than one way to grow up. ____________ PRAISE FOR GROWN UPS ' Beautiful, slim but powerful' Nell Frizzell, author of The Panic Years 'Exploring the modern themes of dating apps and egg freezing... both hilarious and devastating' Independent ' Blistering comedy... close-to-the-bone commentary on family dysfunction, sibling rivalry and modern motherhood' The Herald 'One of the best novels about singleness, siblings and approaching middle age I've ever read' Jan Carson, author of The Fire Starters 'Sharp, funny, very poignant' Miranda Ward, author of Adrift 'Excoriating' Susannah Dickey, author of Tennis Lessons 'Elegant literary drama wrapped up in a rollicking good holiday read' Kat Brown ____________ WHAT READERS THINK OF GROWN UPS 'Short, droll and highly readable, Grown Ups is a slice of life that rings painfully true' 'Sensitive, emotional, and littered with the kind of tongue in cheek humour that I love' 'The Scandinavian setting was the icing on the cake, it was perfect escapism!' 'A potent little gem of a novel... Outstanding!' 'A really poignant read with humour and drama scattered amongst the pages' 'An excellent examination of family dynamics... I loved this' 'Painfully honest, and dark with a hint of humour. Grown Ups tells it like it is' 'A brilliant little book that I know I will return to'
Download or read book Shit Cassandra Saw written by Gwen E. Kirby and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Kirby has mastered the art of short fiction…A stunning collection from a writer whose talent and creativity seem boundless.” —NPR “Kirby takes joy in subverting the reader’s expectations at every turn. Her characters might be naïve, even reckless, but they aren’t about to be victims: They’re strong, and brave, and nearly always capable of rescuing themselves.” —New York Times Book Review Margaret Atwood meets Buffy in these funny, warm, and furious stories of women at their breaking points, from Hellenic times to today. Cassandra may have seen the future, but it doesn't mean she's resigned to telling the Trojans everything she knows. In this ebullient collection, virgins escape from being sacrificed, witches refuse to be burned, whores aren't ashamed, and every woman gets a chance to be a radioactive cockroach warrior who snaps back at catcallers. Gwen E. Kirby experiments with found structures--a Yelp review, a WikiHow article--which her fierce, irreverent narrators push against, showing how creativity within an enclosed space undermines and deconstructs the constraints themselves. When these women tell the stories of their triumphs as well as their pain, they emerge as funny, angry, loud, horny, lonely, strong protagonists who refuse to be secondary characters a moment longer. From "The Best and Only Whore of Cym Hyfryd, 1886" to the "Midwestern Girl Is Tired of Appearing in Your Short Stories," Kirby is playing and laughing with the women who have come before her and they are telling her, we have always been this way. You just had to know where to look.
Download or read book The State of Israel vs the Jews written by Sylvain Cypel and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PopMatters Best Book of the Year A perceptive study of how Israel’s actions, which run counter to the traditional historical values of Judaism, are putting Jewish people worldwide in an increasingly untenable position, now with a new introduction. More than a decade ago, the historian Tony Judt considered whether the behavior of Israel was becoming not only “bad for Israel itself” but also, on a wider scale, “bad for the Jews.” Under the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu, this issue has grown ever more urgent. In The State of Israel vs. the Jews, veteran journalist Sylvain Cypel addresses it in depth, exploring Israel’s rightward shift on the international scene and with regard to the diaspora. Cypel reviews the little-known details of the military occupation of Palestinian territory, the mindset of ethnic superiority that reigns throughout an Israeli “colonial camp” that is largely in the majority, and the adoption of new laws, the most serious of which establishes two-tier citizenship between Jews and non-Jews. He shows how Israel has aligned itself with authoritarian regimes and adopted the practices of a security state, including the use of technologies such as the software that enabled the tracking and, ultimately, the assassination of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Lastly, The State of Israel vs. the Jews examines the impact of Israel’s evolution in recent years on the two main communities of the Jewish diaspora, in France and the United States, considering how and why public figures in each differ in their approaches.
Download or read book Sister of My Heart written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of Mistress of Spices, the bestselling novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the family secrets and romantic jealousies that threaten to tear them apart. Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite those differences, since the day on which the two girls were born, the same day their fathers died--mysteriously and violently--Sudha and Anju have been sisters of the heart. Bonded in ways even their mothers cannot comprehend, the two girls grow into womanhood as if their fates as well as their hearts were merged. But, when Sudha learns a dark family secret, that connection is shattered. For the first time in their lives, the girls know what it is to feel suspicion and distrust. Urged into arranged marriages, Sudha and Anju's lives take opposite turns. Sudha becomes the dutiful daughter-in-law of a rigid small-town household. Anju goes to America with her new husband and learns to live her own life of secrets. When tragedy strikes each of them, however, they discover that despite distance and marriage, they have only each other to turn to. Set in the two worlds of San Francisco and India, this exceptionally moving novel tells a story at once familiar and exotic, seducing readers from the first page with the lush prose we have come to expect from Divakaruni. Sister of My Heart is a novel destined to become as widely beloved as it is acclaimed.
Download or read book Call Me Scarlett written by Katherine Pancol and published by Bergh Publishing. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three schoolmates each have a dream--Severine to be a reporter, Martine to live in America, and Juliette to find her Prince Charming--but their worldly education has just begun as they experience the disappointments and disillusionments of adult life
Download or read book The House of Deep Water written by Jeni McFarland and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three women learn what it means to come home--and to make peace with the family, love affairs, and memories they'd once left behind--in this stunning and perceptive debut novel. River Bend, Michigan, is the kind of small town most can't imagine leaving but three women couldn't wait to escape. When each must return--Linda Williams, never sure what she wants; her mother, Paula, always too sure; and Beth DeWitt, one of River Bend's only black daughters, now a mother of two who'd planned to raise her own children anywhere else--their paths collide under Beth's father's roof. As one town struggles to contain all of their love affairs and secrets, a local scandal forces Beth to confront her own devastating past. Uniting the voices of mothers and daughters, husbands, lovers, and fathers, this unforgettable debut novel offers both a compulsively readable family story and a riveting portrait of small-town America today. With wisdom, humor, and exceptional heart, The House of Deep Water explores motherhood, trauma, love, loss, and new beginnings found in that most unlikely place: home.
Download or read book The Slow Waltz of Turtles by Katherine Pancol Book Analysis written by Bright Summaries and published by BrightSummaries.com. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the more straightforward side of The Slow Waltz of Turtles with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Slow Waltz of Turtles by Katherine Pancol, the sequel to the hit novel The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles. This new instalment is just as action-packed as its predecessor and features many of the same captivating characters, including the talented but self-doubting Joséphine, her headstrong daughter Hortense, her overbearing mother Henriette and her manipulative, self-centred sister Iris. Following the success of her debut novel A Most Humble Queen, Joséphine is now living in the heart of Paris and seems to have moved on from her husband’s sudden death thanks to her burgeoning relationship with the handsome Luca, but a series of grisly murders and her increasingly close relationship with her brother-in-law Philippe soon turn her mundane, peaceful life upside-down. Katherine Pancol is a bestselling French author who has published over 15 novels to date. In the English-speaking world she is best-known for The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles and its sequel, The Slow Waltz of Turtles. Find out everything you need to know about The Slow Waltz of Turtles in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
Download or read book A History of the World in 21 Women written by Jenni Murray and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of A History of Britain in 21 Women The history of the world is the history of great women. Marie Curie discovered radium and revolutionised medical science. Empress Cixi transformed China. Frida Kahlo turned an unflinching eye on life and death. Anna Politkovskaya dared to speak truth to power, no matter the cost. Their names should be shouted from the rooftops. And that is exactly what Jenni Murray is here to do.
Download or read book The Suitors written by Cécile David-Weill and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comedy of manners that serves as an insightful look at the lives of those in the upper classes. After two sisters, Laure and Marie, learn of their parents’ plan to sell the family’s summer retreat, L’Agapanthe, they devise a scheme for attracting a wealthy suitor who can afford to purchase the estate. Selling it would mean more than just losing a place to go during the summer—for the sisters, it’s become a necessary part of their character, their lifestyle, and their past. L’Agapanthe, a place of charm and nostalgia, is the perfect venue to exercise proper etiquette and intellect, though not all its visitors are socially savvy, especially when it’s a matter of understanding the relationships between old money and the nouveau riche. The comedy of manners begins: with stock traders, yogis, fashion designers, models, swindlers, the Mafia, and a number of celebrity guests. Laure—the witty, disarming, and poignant narrator—guides the reader through elegant dinners, midnight swims in the bay, and conversations about current events, literature, art, and cinema. The Suitors is an amusing insider’s look at the codes, manners, and morals of French high society.
Download or read book Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman written by Elizabeth Buchan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller! “Wise and wonderful. . . Buchan celebrates the patience and wisdom that only age can bring.” —USA Today “Bottom line: Get Revenge.” —People Get ready to cheer for Rose Lloyd, a woman of young middle-age who proves that starting over doesn’t have an age limit. After twenty-five years spent juggling husband, career, and kids with admirable success, Rose suddenly finds both her marriage and her career in unexpected ruin. Forced to begin a new life, she is at first terrified, then energized, by her newfound freedom—it’s amazing what prolonged reflection, a little weight loss, a new slant on independence, and some Parisian lingerie will do for the psyche! Witty, insightful, and emotionally resonant, Buchan’s novel will strike a chord with anyone who has ever wondered what Middle Age would look like from the other side of the looking glass (answer: much better than you could ever expect).
