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Drawing on Maggie O’Farrell’s long-term fascination with the little-known story behind Shakespeare’s most enigmatic play, HAMNET is a luminous portrait of a marriage, at its heart the loss of a beloved child. Warwickshire in the 1580s. Agnes is a woman as feared as she is sought after for her unusual gifts. She settles with her husband in Henley street, Stratford, and has three children: a daughter, Susanna, and then twins, Hamnet and Judith. The boy, Hamnet, dies in 1596, aged eleven. Four years or so later, the husband writes a play called Hamlet . Award-winning author Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel breathes full-blooded life into the story of a loss usually consigned to literary footnotes, and provides vindication of Agnes, a woman intriguingly absent from history.

Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell, Tinder Press

What happened to the women we were supposed to become?

Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry – and the promise of everything to come. They are electric. They are the best of friends.

Ten years on, they are not where they hoped to be. Amidst flailing careers and faltering marriages, each hungers for what the others have. And each wrestles with the same question: what does it take to lead a meaningful life?

The most razor-sharp and heartbreaking novel of the year, EXPECTATION is a novel about finding your way: as a mother, a daughter, a wife, a rebel.

Expectation, Anna Hope, Black Swan

«Au printemps les fleurs, ou à l’automne les plantes, ont bien tout pour plaire.
Tant pis si les gens du bourg semblent tellement fâcheux.» .

Moine zen et poète non conformiste, peu connu de son temps mais devenu au XXe siècle une figure hautement populaire, Ryôkan (1758-1831) ne se soucia jamais de faire une «œuvre». Dû à l’admiration et à l’amitié de la jeune moniale Teishin, elle-même poétesse, le florilège de poésies ici présenté témoigne d’une inspiration où la pensée bouddhique et l’expression de la simple sensibilité sont indissociables de la célébration des charmes de la nature.

Ô pruniers en fleur, Ryokan, Folio bi-lingue

Traduction en breton (et un chapitre en gallo) du livre Et vous ? Êtes-vous plutôt crêpe ou galette ?, ouvrage initié par cinq musées : le Musée de l’Ancienne abbaye de Landévennec, l’Écomusée des Monts d’Arrée, le Musée Bigouden de Pont-l’Abbé, le Musée de Dinan et le Musée départemental breton de Quimper.

Krampouezh galetez e breizh a-bezh, Anonyme, Coop Breizh