La fin des dieux, Antonia Susan Byatt

Une jeune fille découvre dans la bibliothèque de sa mère Asgard et les dieux, un livre qui conte l’histoire tourmentée des dieux nordiques et les mythes qui les entourent. Avec son masque à gaz toujours à portée de main (nous sommes dans la campagne anglaise pendant la seconde guerre mondiale), elle s’immerge dans ces contes où le serpent Jörmungandr grandit tellement qu’il finit par faire le tour du monde et mordre sa propre queue, où son père Loki se métamorphose sans cesse pour jouer des tours cruels, où le loup Fenris, un autre de ses enfants monstrueux, se fait enchaîner par les dieux, ce qui coûtera sa main à Týr.

Doors Open, Ian Rankin

Freeing masterpieces of art from the banks and corporate vaults, that was the plan from the beginning. A plan where the boredom and art taste of an Edinburgh millionaire are the motivations under the surface, but Mike Mackenzie never lies to himself about it. Then the carefully thought plan takes a life of its own, helped with a few friends of him and the chance meeting with Chib Calloway, the mafia baron of the city who happens to be an old-time school acquaintance, already a bully then.

Romance con la Muerte, Ernesto Romito

La experiencia de la montaña, Ernosto la tuvo con su padre desde pequeño. Aficionado a la adrenalina, hizo montañismo, kayak, ski, paracaidismo, pero al final, es su experiencia con el Aconcagua a los 23 años que sigue siendo su memoria la más fuerte.

La Nieve del Almirante, Álvaro Mutis

En este romance como en la vida real, el viaje es mucho más importante que su destino. Cuando seguimos a Maqroll el Gaviero en su viaje por el río Xurandó para legar a unos aserraderos donde aprendemos que quiere comprar madera en la mitad de la selva amazónica, lo comprobamos a su lado.

Ocean Park, Ludovic Debeurme

Deux frères que tout sépare mais que l’appel de leur mère à l’article de la mort va peut-être réunir.

Out of the woods, Chris Offutt

Chris Offut’s characters often had to leave their Kentucky hills and woods, because nothing changes much there and everything is always the same, while others stayed there for the very same reasons, a deep sense of belonging rooted in those woods. His dialogs from people of few words are dense with all that is not said, pruning out all the obvious and concentrating on deeper meaning and cultural traits coming from the first settlers like the folk hero Daniel Boone to the white Indians nearly gone native.

The Coral Thief, Rebecca Stott

When he arrived in Paris, on a hot July night of 1815, Daniel Connor was full of expectations. He was to work with Professor Cuvier at the Jardin des Plantes, with an offering of rare coral specimens, a mammoth bone, an introduction letter, and the preface for the English translation of Cuvier’s book by Jameson, his professor in Edinburgh. But he fell asleep on the mail coach alongside a mysterious beautiful woman who stole it all, while leaving his money untouched.