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The Devil and Sherlock Holmes de David Grann
Collection of the journalist's articles previously published in varous periodicals.
Photojournalist and many other things in -ist.
I read a lot of SFF, obscure LGBT, travel, photography theory and women authors, in French and English.
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Collection of the journalist's articles previously published in varous periodicals.

All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the …
Here's a book that doesn't have an over-complicated plot full of twists you can't believe in. Rather, the world-building is smart and to the point, it has just enough explanations and backstory, and you're never bored.
At times funny, enraging and hard-hitting, this essay where Ovidie explains her sex strike should make everyone -- and especially straight cis-men -- think about their practice of love, sex and relationships.
Here's the thing with amazing authors : they get you used to amazing books. Unfortunately, this one isn't that, although it is always nice to read an Adamsberg novel. It's just that it's a bit long and boring at times, the charm of the previous novels isn't really there.

Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But when his newspaper ships …

After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration …

Dans une grande ville d'un pays en guerre, un spécialiste de l'interrogatoire accomplit chaque jour son implacable office. La nuit, …

The international publishing sensation now available in paperback: an audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame and ambition, set in …
I picked this book because I'd just photographed the author -- who is super nice -- on the very island where the action is happening. Maybe brutal crime novels aren't too much my thing anymore, all the POV characters withhold information, in one case it works really well, in the others, not so much...
A really good read, the main character is nuanced and the plot strong -- even though the trope "I have a really dark secret, let me tell you about it much later" is a bit overused in novels, it still works, as the story is more than just that.