This is the three hundred and twenty second secondary library newsletter. This week: discover a new spy story in John Le Carré’s circus ; meet Eroline, a freaky girl who speaks with the dead… (in French) ; learn about the amazing history of the radical extremists of the 1970s.. ; and as always, all the new books that we recently catalogued…
Voici la trois-cent-vingt-deuxième lettre d’information de la bibliothèque secondaire. Cette semaine: découvrez le nouveau roman d’espionnage de la série du Cirque de John Le Carré (en anglais) ; rencontrez Eroline, une fille bizarre qui parle avec les morts… ; découvrez l’incroyable histoire des extrémistes radicaux des années 1970… (en anglais) ; et enfin, comme d’habitude, les nouveautés que nous avons cataloguées récemment…
KARLA’S CHOICE / Nick Harkaway
It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus.
With the wreckage of the West’s spy war with the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only on a more peaceful life. And indeed, with his marriage more secure than ever, there is a rumour in Whitehall – unconfirmed and a little scandalous – that George Smiley might almost be happy.
But Control has other plans. A Russian agent has defected in the most unusual of circumstances, and the man he was sent to kill in London is nowhere to be found. Smiley reluctantly agrees to one last simple task: interview Susanna, a Hungarian émigré and employee of the missing man, and sniff out a lead.
But in his absence the shadows of Moscow have lengthened. Smiley will soon find himself entangled in a perilous mystery that will define the battles to come, and strike at the heart of his greatest enemy…
Karla’s choice, F HAR, 298 pages.
ÉROLINE MARTOT GRANDE PRÊTRESSE DE L’ÉTRANGE / Aurélie Magnin
Son nom évoque une folle aux chats dans un manoir hanté. Elle déteste la lumière du soleil. Dans la cour, elle parle toute seule. Sa mère peint des squelettes de chat.
Oui, Eroline Martot n’est pas comme les autres. Peut-être parce qu’elle a la faculté de voir les morts. Ce sont d’ailleurs ses seuls amis : Nancy, Maryline, Haidar et son chat Lupin, ça fait du monde et du bruit. Difficile de paraître normale, de sociabiliser avec les vivants…
Alors quand Jackie débarque dans sa classe et semble trouver Eroline absolument parfaite, c’est tout son univers qui vacille. Fantômes et salle de classe, vie scolaire et caprices d’ectoplasmes, ça y est, la jungle du collège est définitivement paranormale !
Éroline Martot, grande prêtresse de l’étrange, R MAG, 201 pages.
THE REVOLUTIONISTS / Jason Burke
In the 1970s, a network of radical extremists terrorised the West with plane hijackings and hostage-takings.
Among them were the beautiful young Leila Khaled with her jewellery made from grenade rings, the hard-drinking philanderer Carlos the Jackal sporting shades and open-neck shirts, and the radical leftists of the Baader-Meinhof Gang. Taking Israel, capitalism and ‘western imperialism’ as targets, they orchestrated spectacularly violent attacks that held governments to ransom and the world gripped to their television screens.
Drawing on decades of research, declassified archive material and original interviews with witnesses and participants, Jason Burke provides a masterful account of their exploits over the course of this dark decade. From the Munich Olympics and the raid on Entebbe to the Iranian Embassy Siege in London and the Beirut bombings of the early 1980s, he takes us into the lives and minds of the perpetrators of these attacks, as well as the government agents who sought to thwart and assassinate them.
In the process, he shows how the extreme fringe of a secular, leftist, revolutionary movement ultimately birthed something altogether different and far more lethal: the violent expression of a fanatically conservative religious zealotry.
Gripping, globe-spanning and pulsing with drama, The Revolutionists is the definitive account of the decade when terrorism took to the skies and transformed the world.
The revolutionists, 363.325 BUR, 752 pages.
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And finally, discover all the new books that we catalogued recently.
Pour finir, voici les livres que nous avons catalogués récemment.
