Depuis que son frère Bruno est interné dans un asile psychiatrique, Étienne se croit à l’abri de tout et de tous, dans son domaine du Bois des Songes. Cette trêve sera toutefois de courte durée. Cherchant en vain une forme de libération...
Psychological fiction
- Author:Couturier, GraciaSummary:
- Author:Élie, JérômeSummary:
Quand il était enfant, Ray Cormier partit avec son père dans la péninsule du Niagara pour y faire la cueillette des fruits. Mais au retour, un événement incompréhensible est venu bouleverser sa vie. Incapable de partager ce souvenir...
- Author:McEwan, IanSummary:
In an alternative 1980s London, Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will...
- Author:MacIntyre, R. P.Summary:
Immediately before his tragic death, stuttering mechanic Dave visits his younger brother Denny with a note for their sister Dianne. “D-don’t r-read it. D-don’t open it. D-don’t nnothing it,” Dave commands before taking off one last time...
- Author:Strowbridge, Nellie P.Summary:
Each day we begin life, not from where we are, but from where we have been. The mind is life’s most seasoned traveller.
Maiden from the Sea is a breathtaking journey into the life and troubled mindscape of a servant girl from...
- Author:Goldberg, ÉléonoreSummary:
Dans ce livre exploratoire de la mémoire où s'entrecroisent fiction et souvenirs, Macha, début trentaine, raconte les lieux qu'elle a habités et traversés depuis son enfance : des grandes maisons de Vineuil et de Kinshasa, en...
- Author:Clayton, MelindaSummary:
On a beautiful fall evening, in the middle of a game of hide-and-seek, five-year-old Bobby Clark is kidnapped by his estranged father, a shiftless man with a history of domestic violence and drug abuse. Bobby’s twin brother Ricky...
- Author:Goudreault, David, Sutcliffe, J.C.Summary:
My mother was always committing suicide. She started out young, in an amateur capacity. But it didn't take long for Mama to work out how to make psychiatrists take notice, and to get the respect reserved for the most serious cases....
- Author:McLeod, ChrisSummary:
Centres around Watt, a writer in middle-aged decline, who has a talent for procrastination and inaction. The story unfolds like a psychological thriller, carefully peeling back the layers of Watt's life, revealing clues. As the police,...
- Author:Krauss, NicoleSummary:
Samson Greene, who, during the removal of a brain tumor, loses his adult memories. Feeling lost as an outsider in his own life, Samson agrees to participate in a scientific experiment in which memories are grafted from one brain to...
- Author:Buntin, JulieSummary:
Fifteen-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter, until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Within the year, Marlena is dead, drowned in six inches of icy water. Decades later,...
- Author:Schofield, AnakanaSummary:
Martin John sits beside you on the train. Can he see that look on your face? He needs to see that look in your eyes, the surprise of his touch upon your leg, and your repugnance. Despite his work's distractions, his evil flatmate's...
- Author:Denman, K. L.Summary:
After watching a tv program about Otzi, a 5,000-year-old Ice Man, Kit's friend Ike becomes convinced that Kit's destiny is to become the next ice man -- a source of information for future generations. Together they obtain artifacts they...
- Author:Laporte, Valérie JessicaSummary:
"«?J'ai regardé l'enfant dans le miroir. Un garçon torse nu, maigre, triste me faisait maintenant face. Ce garçon a enfilé les vêtements de petit-frère-sent-bon et a pris une grande réserve de respiration. Ce garçon a effleuré sa tête,...
- Author:Dupré, LouiseSummary:
Memoria tells the seemingly ordinary story of a woman overwhelmed by grief when her lover abandons her. The loss opens an old wound: some 20 years ago Emma’s teenage sister vanished without a trace. Soon Emma will meet another man, but...
- Author:Kafka, FranzSummary:
Benedict Cumberbatch reads Franz Kafka's famous story of man-turned-insect, Metamorphosis. After a night of troubled dreams, Gregor Samsa wakes to discover that he has turned into a huge, monstrous, cockroach-like creature, with an...
- Author:Whittall, ZoeSummary:
Missy Turner thinks of herself as the most ordinary woman in the world. She has a lot to be thankful for: a great kid, a loving husband, a job she enjoys and the security of living in the small town where she was born. Then one day...
- Author:Mun, NamiSummary:
Growing up in the Bronx during the '80s, Korean immigrant teen Joon is forced out on her own as her family crumbles around her. From there Joon comes of age on the streets of New York, balancing on a tightrope between living and...
- Author:Deverell, WilliamSummary:
Arthur Ellis award–winning William Deverell's 2003 bestseller In Mind Games, William Deverell returns to the intriguing territory of the law and lawyers and of human psychology and motivation, and he does so in familiar Deverell sur...
- Author:Deverell, WilliamSummary:
A psychological time bomb is triggered in Kellen O’Reilly as he begins to experience disturbing “flashbacks” to his unresolved and turbulent past.
It is winter in Montreal. Dr. Satorius, head of Coldhaven Manor, a psychiatric...
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