" L'anglais de l'immobilier " regroupe les termes généraux et techniques, ainsi que les expressions et notions indispensables du monde de l'immobilier. Destiné aux étudiants et aux professionnels, cet ouvrage est pratique et simple d'utilisation : le vocabulaire, classe par thèmes et par ordre alphabétique, est listé dans les deux langues, français/anglais et anglais/français.
'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now.' The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carré's memoir and his first work of nonfiction, is a thrilling journey into the worlds of his 'secret sharers' - the men and women who inspired some of his most enthralling novels - and a testament to the author's extraordinary engagement with the last half century. The listener is swept along not just by the chilling winds of the Cold War or by the author's frightening journeys into places of terrible violence but, most importantly, by the author's inimitable voice. In this astonishing work, we see our world, both public and private, through the eyes of one of this country's greatest writers.
THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAmory's first memory is of her father doing a handstand. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are what she chiefly remembers. It is her photographer uncle Greville who supplies the emotional bond she needs, and, when he gives her a camera and some rudimentary lessons in photography, unleashes a passion that will irrevocably shape her future. A spell at boarding school ends abruptly and Amory begins an apprenticeship with Greville in London, living in his flat in Kensington, earning two pounds a week photographing socialites for fashionable magazines. But Amory is hungry for more and her search for life, love and artistic expression will take her to the demi monde of Berlin of the late 1920s, to New York of the 1930s, to the Blackshirt riots in London and to France in the Second World War where she becomes one of the first women war photographers. Her desire for experience will lead Amory to further wars, to lovers, husbands and children as she continues to pursue her dreams and battle her demons. In this enthralling story of a life fully lived, William Boyd has created a sweeping panorama of some of the most defining moments of modern history, told through the camera lens of one unforgettable woman, Amory Clay. It is his greatest achievement to date.
Británie zabředla do hospodářské krize. Mladý oxfordský akademik s levicovými sklony a jeho přítelkyně advokátka odlétají mimo sezónu na dovolenou na karibský ostrov Antigua. Tam zdánlivou náhodou potkávají ruského milionáře Dimu, jenž vlastní poloostrov a zlaté hodinky posázené diamanty. Rovněž má na pravém palci tetování a touží si zahrát tenis. Kvůli jeho dalšímu přání absolvují mladí milenci složitou cestu přes Paříž a konspirační úkryt ve švýcarských Alpách až do nejtemnějších zákoutí londýnského City i s jeho bezostyšným spojenectvím s britskými tajnými službami. Z anglického originálu „Our Kind of Traitor“ vydaného nakladatelstvím Viking v roce 2010 přeložil Milan Lžička. Jazyková redakce a korektura Soňa Svobodová. První vydání.
A producer. A novelist. An actress.It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. While the world is reeling our trio is involved in making a rackety Swingin' Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives.As the film is shot, with its usual drastic ups and downs, so does our trio's private, secret world begin to take over their public one. Pressures build inexorably - someone's going to crack. Or maybe they all will.From one of Britain's bestselling 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?
Harry Pendel is the charismatic proprietor and guiding genius of "Pendel and Braithwaite Limitada of Panama" through whose doors everyone who is anyone in Central America passes. One Friday afternoon Andrew Osnard barges into Pendel's shop asking to be measured for a suit. Osnard is a spy with a two-pronged secret mission: to keep a watchful eye on teh political manoeuverings leading up to the American handover of the Panama Canal on 31st December 1999; and to secure for himself the immense private fortune that has until now eluded him