Carys Davies

Veuf inconsolé, John Cyrus Bellman vit avec sa fille Bess dans leur ferme de Pennsylvanie. Un entrefilet dans la gazette locale le sort de sa mélancolie : des ossements gigantesques auraient été déterres quelque part dans le Kentucky. Se pourrait-il que des creatures fantastiques rodent dans les terres inconnues qui setendent au-dela du fleuve Mississippi ? Bellman, simprovisant aventurier, part a la recherche de ce qui se cache a louest

Fleeing his demons and the dark undercurrents of life in Britain, Hilary Byrd takes refuge in a south Indian mission house next door to the presbytery where the Padre and his adoptive daughter, Priscilla, live. As Hilary's friendship with Priscilla grows, so too do the religious and nationalist tensions around them, and the mission house may not be the safe haven it seems. Meticulously crafted and tenderly subversive, The Mission House is a deeply human story of the wonders and terrors of connection in a modern world.

An important historical record and a well paced story in its own right Great Uncle Harry is also much more than that a tremendous act of love Guardian From the time many years ago when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother Harry he was determined to find out more about him The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of painstaking detective work Michael dug out every bit of family gossip and correspondence he could He studied every relevant official document He tracked down what remained of his great uncle Harry s diaries and letters and pored over photographs of First World War battle scenes to see whether Harry appeared in any of them He walked the route Harry took on that fatal final day of his life amid the mud of northern France And as he did so a life that had previously existed in the shadows was revealed to him Great Uncle Harry is an utterly compelling account of an ordinary man who led an extraordinary life A blend of biography history travelogue and personal memoir this is Michael Palin at his very finest PRAISE FOR EREBUS Beyond terrific I didn t want it to end BILL BRYSON Magisterial Palin brings energy wit and humanit

Un western en miniatura, un viaje tras los pasos de los pioneros americanosAfectado por la pena causada por la muerte de su mujer y con una insatisfacción que no sabe ubicar, John Cyrus Bellman, un cuidador de mulas de treinta y cinco años, decide dejar su pequeña granja en Pensilvania para poner rumbo a una aventura imposible con apenas una brujula y algunas provisiones: seguir el rastro de los pioneros que aseguraron haber encontrado huesos de animales colosales en el interior del pais. Tras prometer que volvera en dos años, deja atras a su unica hija adolescente, Bess, bajo el obsesivo cuidado de su hermana Julie.La joven se ve forzada a vivir en un mundo hostil donde nadie parece reclamarla, mientras sigue los pasos de su padre a traves de los viejos mapas que encuentra en la biblioteca local e intenta eludir las atenciones que tanto su tia como ella reciben del vecino, Elmer Jackson. Mientras tanto, las aventuras de Bellman a traves

Un debut literari enlluernador: una faula èpica sobre la relació d’un pare i una filla sota la forma d’un western en miniatura.Afectat per la pena a causa de la mort de la seva dona, John Cyrus decid