Nicholas Shakespeare

Se rendant à l'enterrement d'un de ces anciens professeurs, Andy Larkham, employé dans une maison d'édition de guides pratiques, se trompe de chapelle et assiste aux funérailles d'un certain Christopher Madigan. Lequel avait stipulé, dans son... Lire la suite

Bruce Chatwin's death from AIDS in 1989 brought a meteoric career to an abrupt end, since he burst onto the literary scene in 1977 with his first book, In Patagonia. Chatwin himself was different things to different people: a journalist, a... Lire la suite

A fascinating and dramatic investigation into the events that led to Winston Churchill becoming Prime Minister against the odds. ‘A gripping story of Churchill’s unlikely rise to power’ Observer London, May 1940. Britain is under threat of invasion... Lire la suite

Following the death of his parents in a car crash, eleven-year-old Alex Dove is torn from his life on a remote farm in Tasmania and sent to school in England. When he returns to Australia twelve years later, the timeless beauty of the land and his... Lire la suite

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE Cakes and Ale is both a wickedly satirical novel about contemporary literary poseurs and a skilfully crafted study of freedom. As he traces the fortunes of Edward Driffield and his extraordinary wife... Lire la suite

In the Amazon city of Belén, in the heart of the Peruvian jungle, three old men sit on a bench. They sit in the square every day under the hot sun, remembering the women they loved and the world when it was a better place. One day a woman hurries... Lire la suite

Près de trente ans après la mort de sa tante Priscilla, l’auteur découvre une boîte contenant sa correspondance et des photos. Persuadé depuis toujours qu’elle a connu un destin héroïque pendant la guerre, il décide de mener l’enquête et de faire la... Lire la suite

In a world of lies, proof is power John Dyer is living a quiet life when he receives a call that changes everything: an old university friend, Lia, has been killed. Decades have passed since his last heartbreaking conversation with her, but Dyer... Lire la suite

Thomas Wavery is the new Consul General at Abyla on the tip of North Africa. A career diplomat, Wavery was once a high flyer, but an affair with a younger woman has dashed his dreams of ambassadorship. He arrives in Abyla with his wife suing for... Lire la suite

A fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers. Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our... Lire la suite

When Nicholas Shakespeare stumbled across a box of documents belonging to his late aunt, Priscilla, he was completely unaware of where this discovery would take him and what he would learn about her hidden past. The glamorous, mysterious figure he... Lire la suite

"A story as brooding and insular as the Tasmanian town in which it is set. . . . Expertly crafted, the novel illuminates love's craggy depths." — Publishers Weekly Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Torn by tragedy from his early life... Lire la suite

Nicholas Shakespeare’s collected stories take us around the globe and into the intimate lives of his characters and the dilemmas and temptations they face. The opening novella, ‘Oddfellows’, tells the little-known history of the only enemy attack on... Lire la suite