Cradle 4. Skysworn
(Synopsis from the back cover):
«With his duel fast approaching, Lindon is locked away in prison.
As a Blackflame, he is too dangerous to remain free. The Skysworn, protectors of the Empire,...
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Artemis
Second novel by Weir, published after the success of The Martian: perhaps that is why more was expected. The narrative is set in Artemis, the first and only city on the Moon, which is made up of five (the...
Bad actors
This is the eighth instalment in the series about Jackson Lamb and his slow horses.
A key aide to the Prime Minister disappears without a trace, and it is none other than Claude Wheelan, former head...
Telling Tales
It is a novel starring Inspector Vera Stanhope, a character created by the author. The plot revolves around a murder: ten years have passed since the killing of Abigail Martel when a witness claims to have...
The Secrets of the Abbey
The author is a German, Jörg Bong, who divides his time between his home country and Brittany, France.
This is the eleventh book in a series featuring Commissaire Georges Dupin.
In one of the...
Walden, or Life in the Woods
In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cabin in the woods near Walden Pond, Massachusetts. During the two years he spent there, he began writing Walden, his most important work, a chronicle of his...
An Unhappy Girl
The narrator’s friendship with Fústov, a student living in Moscow, allows him to meet the young Susanna and gain access to the notebook in which she has written her dramatic life story, from childhood up to...
Loss and Gain
This is a novel that paints a vivid picture of religion in Oxford at the time of the Oxford Movement. Charles Reding is the son of a clergyman and is an undergraduate at the university and his friends and...
2010: Odyssey Two
Nine years after the disastrous Discovery mission, a new expedition made up of Americans and Russians sets out to find the lost ship and search the database of the rogue computer HAL 9000 for something that...
The Identity Trap
It is a political and intellectual essay that engages directly with one of the most tense debates of our time: the primacy of identity versus universal values. The author begins from an undeniable fact—...