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A Morgan Leafy se le acumulan los problemas. Un político le chantajea, sus planes para amañar las elecciones han fracasado y se está gestando un golpe. Su amante le engaña y la hija de su jefa, objeto de su pasion, acaba de anunciar su compromiso con su mas odiado rival. Es mas, el padre de la chica amenaza con despedirlo a menos que se deshaga de un cadaver que, segun creencias locales, debe dejarse pudrir al sol africano.

Vienna. 1913. It is a fine day in August when Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with the eminent psychiatrist, Dr. Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering the nature of his problem when an extraordinary woman enters. She is clearly in distress, but Lysander is immediately drawn to her strange, hazel eyes and her unusual, intense beauty. Later the same day they meet again, and a more composed Hettie Bull introduces herself as an artist and sculptor, and invites Lysander to a party hosted by her lover, the famous painter Udo Hoff. Compelled to attend and unable to resist her electric charm, they begin a passionate love affair. Life in Vienna becomes tinged with the frisson of excitement for Lysander. He meets Sigmund Freud in a cafe, begins to write a journal, enjoys secret trysts with Hettie and appears to have been cured. London, 1914. War is stirring, and events in Vienna have caught up with Lysander. Unable to live an ordinary life, he is plunged into the dangerous theatre of wartime intelligence - a world of sex, scandal and spies, where lines of truth and deception blur with every waking day. Lysander must now discover the key to a secret code which is threatening Britain's safety, and use all his skills to keep the murky world of suspicion and betrayal from invading every corner of his life. Moving from Vienna to London's west end, the battlefields of France and hotel rooms in Geneva, Waiting for Sunrise is a feverish and mesmerising journey into the human psyche, a beautifully observed portrait of wartime Europe, a plot-twisting thriller and a literary tour de force from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart, Restless and Ordinary Thunderstorms.

Consulter un psychanalyste a parfois des conséquences inattendues: en proie à des troubles sexuels, Lysander croise la fascinante Hettie chez son thérapeute viennois et tombe fou amoureux. Acteur agu

It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge.A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Aided by a beautiful accomplice and hindered by the local militia, he undergoes a scarring experience which compels him to ignore Ms orders in pursuit of his own brand of justice. Bonds renegade action leads him to Washington, D.C., where he discovers a web of intrigue and witnesses fresh horrors.Even if Bond succeeds in exacting his revenge, a man with two faces will come to stalk his every waking moment.

Nat Tate, pintor abstracto, alcohólico y desventurado, se arrojó a las gélidas aguas neoyorquinas en enero de 1960. Nunca apareció su cadáver y apenas se hallarían algunos restos de su trabajo (dieciocho exactamente), pues el mismo se habia tomado la molestia de destruirlo poco antes de morir. Muchos años despues, un variopinto grupo compuesto por David Bowie, Gore Vidal, William Boyd y John Richardson (biografo de Picasso) convoco una fiesta de homenaje en la casa de Jeff Koons. Alli se leyeron fragmentos de este libro a la crema cultural de Manhattan, la cual, segun cuentan las cronicas, recordaba vagamente al inolvidable artista, aparecio el formidable merito de sus residuos y se sintio hondamente impresionada por su tragico destino.Asistian criticos, marchantes, directores de museo, periodistas, supermodelos y notables como Frank Stella, Julian Schnabel, John Ashbery, Jay Mclnerney, Siri Hustvedt, Paul Auster o Michael Collins. Fue sin duda un acontecimiento memorable, que por inesperados motivos, ocuparia largas columnas de prensa durante varias semanas y que ha seguido coleando hasta hoy sin menoscabo del prestigio postumo adquirido por el pintor, cuya exigencia obra rebota esporadicamente en la grandes casas de subastas. ¿Pero quien fue Nat Tate? Esta perfida biografia desvela este borroso enigma. Porque el lector acaba contemplando el libro o, dicho de otro modo, que esta delante de sus narices.

An Ice-Cream War is William Boyd''s sparkling debut novel on the grimly comic side of conflict, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.''What do you think would happen if I shot an elephant in the balls?''''I think it would hurt a great deal.''Millions die on the Western Front but in East Africa a quite different war is being waged - one with little point and which is so ignored that it will carry on after the Armistice because no one bothers to tell both sides to stop.As the conflict sweeps up natives and colonials, so those left at home and those fighting abroad find themselves unable to escape the tide of history bearing down on them.

Amory Clay''s first memory is of her father doing a handstand but it is his absences that she chiefly remembers.Her Uncle Greville, a photographer, gives her both the affection she needs and a camera, which unleashes a passion that irrevocably shapes her future. She begins an apprenticeship with him in London, photographing socialites for magazines. But Amory is hungry for more and her search for life, love and artistic expression will take her to the demi-monde of 1920s Berlin, New York in the 1930s, the Blackshirt riots in London, and France during the Second World War, where she becomes one of the first women war photographers.In this enthralling story of a life fully lived, William Boyd has created a sweeping panorama of the twentieth century, told through the camera lens of one unforgettable woman.

À peine a-t-il soufflé les bougies de son quarante-cinquième anniversaire que l''agent 00 le plus efficace de Sa Majesté se voit confier une mission d''un genre très particulier : faire d''un général

Un viejo director de cine, John James Todd, parte, como un cazador solitario, tras su úlitma pieza: su propia armonía con un universo regido por la incertidumbre. Así, a caballo de una obsesión -Jean Jacques Rousseau, el revolucionario pensador frances- nos conduce por los callejones y avenidas de nuestra historia mas cercana: el nacimiento del cine, la Gran Guerra, la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la caza de brujas... el eterno juego del olvido. Se trata, en suma, de correr al acecho y captura del propio ser, de una vida que atraviesa con pasion los primeros setenta años de nuestro siglo. Con Las nuevas confesiones, William Boyd -el celebrado autor de Barras y estrellas, Un buen hombre en Africa y Como nieve al sol- consigue su obra maestra, una novela que se lee sin descanso y que confirma a su autor como un narrador mordaz, ambicioso e inteligente, como un excepcional dominador de la ironia que sabe convertir la Historia en una gigantesca ficcion.

'I live on Brazzaville Beach ... I am here because two sets of strange and extraordinary events happened to me ... One in England, first, and then one in Africa' On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater examines the complex circumstances that brought her there. Sifting the details for evidence of her own innocence or guilt, she tells her engrossing story with a blunt and beguiling honesty that not only intrigues and disturbs but is also completely enthralling.

A producer. A novelist. An actress.It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. There are riots in Paris and the Vietnam War is out of control. While the world is reeling our three characters are involved in making a Swingin'''' Sixties movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives. Elfrida is drowning her writer''''s block in vodka; Talbot, coping with the daily dysfunction of making a film, is hiding something in a secret apartment; and the glamorous Anny is wondering why the CIA is suddenly so interested in her.But the show must go on and, as it does, the trio''''s private worlds begin to take over their public ones. Pressures build inexorably - someone''''s going to crack. Or maybe they all will.From one of Britain''''s best loved writers comes an exhilarating, tender novel that asks the vital questions: what makes life worth living? And what do you do if you find it isn''''t?