Chloé Royer Book order (chronological)

THE EXPLOSIVE NEW THRILLER FROM INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, DOUGLAS KENNEDY __________________________ 'A pulse-racing thriller centred on hot-button debates' Daily Mail Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, having lost his job after corporate downsizing and on the cusp of sixty, he finds himself scrambling to somehow stay afloat in the only Los Angeles work on offer to a man his age - driving for Uber. When one of his rides, a retired professor named Elise, asks to be dropped off outside an abortion clinic where she now volunteers, Brendan finds himself driving right into the virulent epicentre of one of the major issues of our time, engulfing his life in the process. A novel of high suspense and considerable moral complexity, Afraid of the Light is a tough, affecting social thriller that speaks volumes about the corrosive divisions of our troubled times. __________________________ 'Kennedy is skilled at zigzag plotting, blending domestic twists with turns created by global affairs' OBSERVER

"From the author of the New York Times and international bestseller Unfu*k Yourself Gary John Bishop presents a no-holds-barred guide to breaking through our cycles of self-sabotage to get what we want out of life.In Unfu*k Yourself, Gary John Bishop told us it was time to stop making excuses--to recognize and take responsibility for the negative self-talk holding us back. In Stop Doing That Sh*t, he builds on that message, teaching us how to stop self-sabotaging behavior. Bishop explains how our destructive cycles come down to the way that we're wired. He then identifies different types of people and the ways we fu*k ourselves over: We can't save money. We land in the same type of toxic relationship. We're stuck in a rut at work. Analyzing why we act the way we do, including what our common grenades are that blow up our lives, Bishop then shows how we can interrupt the cycle and stop self-sabotaging our lives. Written in the same in your face style as Unfu*k Yourself, Stop Doing that Sh*t will help us get in touch with our psychological machinery so we learn to interrupt negative thoughts and behavior before they start, allowing us to give our attention to something else, and start to find success in the areas we thought we never could. We can take back our lives. We may have fu*ked up in the past, but Stop Doing That Sh*t will show us how to break the patterns in order to live the lives we yearn to have"--

Before Isabelle I knew nothing of sex. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life. Paris in the early Seventies. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic, beautiful, older and, unlike Sam, experienced in love's many contradictions. Sam is instantly smitten but wary of the wedding ring on her finger. What begins as a regular arrangement in Isabelle's tiny Parisian apartment transforms into a true affair of the heart, and one which lasts for decades to come. Isabelle in the Afternoon is a novel that questions what we seek, what we find, what we settle for and shows how love, when not lived day in, day out, can become the passion of a lifetime.

Fresque à l'ampleur inédite, La Symphonie du hasard couvre vingt ans d'histoire américaine. Dans le bouillonnement social, culturel et politique des sixties-seventies, de New York à Dublin en passant par l'Amérique latine, un roman-fleuve porté par un souffle puissant. Pas évident d'échapper à sa famille, a fortiori quand cette dernière est en conflit permanent, avec une fâcheuse tendance à se mettre dans des situations compliquées. Alice Burns, elle, a choisi une solution radicale : mettre un océan entre elle et les siens et poursuivre ses études en Irlande. D'abord déstabilisée par l'accueil quelque peu revêche des Dublinois, elle se surprend à apprécier une existence simple, plus sereine. Et sa rencontre avec Ciaran pourrait même lui laisser entrevoir la possibilité d'une autre vie. Mais alors que résonnent les premiers échos des exactions de l'IRA, voici que resurgit une vieille connaissance, et avec elle un passé qu'Alice aurait préféré oublier à jamais...

Toutes les familles sont des sociétés secrètes. Des royaumes d'intrigues et de guerres intestines, gouvernés par leurs propres lois, leurs propres normes, leurs limites et leurs frontières, à l'extérieur desquelles toutes ces règles paraissent souvent insensées.À New York, dans un bureau, une éditrice lit un manuscrit. Une œuvre qui la trouble et qui va la replonger dans son passé et celui de sa famille.Sur le papier, une famille comme tant d'autres au pays de l'Oncle Sam, un bonheur propret, une vie plutôt confortable. Et pourtant...Aux années soixante insouciantes vont succéder les années soixante-dix tumultueuses. Et faire exploser au passage toutes ces familles qui croyaient encore au rêve américain...