Collection: Language Learning Fiction

Dass Charlie schwul ist, weiß die ganze Schule. Dagegen ist Nick, der Star der Rugbymannschaft, so straight wie eine Goalline. Glaubt Charlie. Aber dann entwickelt sich eine intensive Freundschaft zwischen den beiden unterschiedlichen Jungen. Charlie weiß sofort, dass er in Nick verknallt ist. Ni...

"Qu'est-ce que tu dirais si j'avais tué quelqu'un? J'ai cru qu'elle plaisantait ou qu'elle m'avait posé cette question à cause des romans policiers qu'elle avait l'habitude de lire. C'éait d'illeurs sa seule lecture. Peut-être que dans l'n de ces romans une femme posait la même question à son fia...

Between Figeac, in the Lot, Chanterelle or Aurillac, in the Cantal, and Paris, 'Histoire du fils' probes the heart of a family, its ordinary happiness and its deepest vertigo, those who dig galleries in lives, under silences.

A collection of short readers enriched by colour illustrations, notes on vocabulary and interspersed with a variety of comprehension activities and exercises. The accompanying audio material offers a reading of the entire story as well as some listening exercises, as detailed in the books. With d...

1931, Napoleon V reigns over a France that has remained stuck in the era of steam following the mysterious disappearances of the most brilliant scientists.

Novel on a little-known revolutionary named Alejandro Mayta-Avedaño.

"Zorbas, a "big, black and fat" cat from the port of Hamburg, keeps the promise he made to the seagull, Kengah before dying, to take care of her egg until the chick is born and then raise it and teach it to fly.

In the great tradition of publishing famous children's books in Latin, professional classicist and lifelong Tolkien fan Mark Walker provides a deft translation of the entire book. His attention to detail, including the transformation of Tolkien's songs and verses into classical Latin metres, will...

"La hojarasca (1955) es la historia del entierro de un hombre, un médico misterioso y odiado, al que sus vecinos quieren dejar insepulto. Al mismo tiempo es la historia del odio acumulado durante veinticinco años en Macondo, un lugar llamado a ser, pocos años después, famoso en el mundo entero."-...

Is it really a wolf that kills the sheep around the village of Saint-Victor? Superstitions resurface, a rumor spreads: it's not an animal, it's a werewolf.. When a breeder is found with her throat slit in her sheepfold, the rumor turns to psychosis.