This Thing of Darkness
- 896pages
- 32 heures de lecture
A 19th-century sea-faring adventure following Captain Robert Fitzroy of the Beagle and his passenger Charles Darwin.
Harry Thompson Livres
Harry Thompson s'est imposé comme un talent littéraire polyvalent, connu pour ses contributions perspicaces à la comédie, à la biographie et à l'écriture de romans. Sa vaste expérience dans la production radiophonique et télévisuelle lui a permis de nourrir et de lancer de nombreuses carrières comiques de premier plan, façonnant ainsi de manière significative l'humour britannique contemporain. L'unique roman de Thompson, une œuvre historique, a été acclamé par la critique et figuration sur la liste préliminaire du Booker Prize, démontrant sa capacité à créer des récits captivants ancrés dans le passé. Au-delà de la fiction, il s'est consacré à des études biographiques et a écrit un récit captivant d'une expédition sportive unique, faisant preuve d'une large portée littéraire et d'un œil observateur aiguisé.
Welcome to my downside up life! My name is Ariana and I want to explain what it's like to have pathological demand avoidance from my perspective. I'll try and show you why I am the way I am from inside my own head and why I often feel like I have to control the things around me by avoiding demands as much as I can.
Tintin: Herge and His Creation
- 336pages
- 12 heures de lecture
A fascinating and witty account of the life of Tintin, his creator, and the phenomenon that they became.
Penguins Stopped Play
- 256pages
- 9 heures de lecture
It seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the globe. Except - hold on a minute - that's not a simple idea at all. And when you throw in incompetent airline officials, amorous Argentine Colonels' wives, cunning Bajan drug dealers, gay Australian waiters, overzealous American anti-terrorist police, idiot Welshmen dressed as Santa Claus, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and whole armies of pitch-invading Antarctic penguins, you quickly arrive at a whole lot more than you bargained for. Harry Thompson's hilarious book tells the story of one of those great idiotic enterprises that only an Englishman could have dreamed up, and only a bunch of Englishmen could possibly have wished to carry out.