Nick Laird

Une histoire un brin loufoque pour oser être soi-même, par deux grands noms de la littérature jeunesse.
Un cochon d'Inde en tenue de judo, c'est vraiment étrange... Cet animal de compagnie ne serait-il pas un peu dingo ?

Un album qui invite à être soi-même, car c'est finalement ce que l'on sait faire de mieux!
Pour son anniversaire, Kit reçoit un adorable cochon d'Inde... portant un tout petit kimono. C'est un cochon d'Inde judoka ! Mais son accoutrement lui vaut... Lire la suite

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A powerful, thought-provoking novel about two sisters who must reclaim themselves after their lives are dramatically upended from one of our finest authors Alison Donnelly has suffered for love. Still stuck in the... Lire la suite

An energetic, fiercely funny, ultimately redemptive debut novel set in London and Northern Ireland chronicles the lives of two reunited friends who discover that one of them has accidentally stolen money from a band of paramilitary terrorists. Lire la suite

To a Fault, Nick Laird's debut collection, won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize; On Purpose, his follow up, won a Somerset Maugham award for travel writing. In Go Giants, his third and most... Lire la suite

A very funny, energetic, wonderfully engaging novel about where we’re from and where we’d like to get to… Danny Williams is talented, upwardly mobile and has left his Northern Irish small town roots well behind him. In his mid-twenties he lives in a... Lire la suite

Alison vive ancora nella piccola cittadina dell'Irlanda del Nord dov'è nata, lavora nell'agenzia immobiliare del padre e spera che il suo secondo matrimonio rappresenti finalmente la svolta che sta cercando da anni. Sua sorella Liz, che ha preso le... Lire la suite

David Pinner é um homem arredio, que tem consciência de sua insignificância. Escrevendo sob a proteção de um pseudônimo em um blog no qual destila cinismo, este professor universitário fala sobre o que lhe vem à telha, particularmente sobre artes... Lire la suite

Reeling in the face of collapsing systems, of politics, identity and the banalities and distortions of modern living, Nick Laird confronts age-old anxieties, questions of aloneness, friendship, the push and pull of daily life. At the book's heart... Lire la suite

One of the Observer's Best Children’s Books of 2024 A warm and endearing story about the quiet power of being yourself from Zadie Smith, Nick Laird and Magenta Fox. Maud - a judo-suit wearing guinea pig and proud weirdo - is off into the wild, as is... Lire la suite

**One of NPR's "Books We Love" in 2023 “Extraordinary.” —James Conor Patterson, Times Literary Supplement Acclaimed poet Nick Laird reflects on the strange and chaotic times we live in with singular precision, clarity, and daring.** Reeling in the... Lire la suite

Danny Williams, ventisette anni, vive a Londra e fa l'avvocato in un prestigioso studio legale: ha una casa di proprietà, un ottimo stipendio, ed è sicuro di essersi lasciato alle spalle la vita proletaria, turbolenta e provinciale del paesino dell... Lire la suite

Easter Parade, uscito originariamente nel 1976, è un romanzo esemplare della sensibilità di Yates: una saga familiare senza concessioni al romanticismo, un limpido ritratto di esistenze borghesi in bilico tra la mediocrità e le aspirazioni. Le... Lire la suite

Celebrated for his novels and screenplays, Nick Laird has been 'an assured and brilliant voice' (Colm Toibin) in contemporary poetry ever since his impressive debut, To a Fault, in 2005. This is his strongest collection to date, in which we sense... Lire la suite

Il secondo romanzo dell'autore di "La banda delle casse da morto" è un gustoso e raffinato dramma psicologico ambientato nella Londra di oggi. David Pinner, trentacinquenne di scarso fascino e blogger frustrato, incontra dopo anni Ruth Marks, una... Lire la suite