Joanne Harris

A mouth-watering collection of recipes inspired by fresh, seasonal French market produce, and illustrated with gorgeous full-colour photographs.Once again Joanne Harris and Fran Warde have collaborated to write a French cookbook with a difference. This time they have gone to Gascony for their inspiration and into the world of the French rural market. The best ingredients in season, locally produced fruit, vegetables, wines and cheeses combine to make it a recipe for success.Melon with Floc, Foie Gras with Peaches, Summer Duck Salad and Roasted Stuffed Courgettes are only some of the recipes that will help recapture the tastes of summertime and the authentic French regional experience.

Lansquenet est un petit village au coeur de la France o la vie s'écoule, paisible et immuable. L'arrivée d'une mystérieuse jeune femme, Vianne Rocher, et de sa fille, Anouk, va tout bouleverser. D'autant qu'elle s'avise d'ouvrir une confiserie juste en face de l'église, la veille du carme ! Dans sa boutique, Vianne propose d'irrésistibles sucreries. Et beaucoup succombent son charme et ses friandises... Car le chocolat de Vianne soigne les espoirs perdus et réveille des sentiments inattendus. Tout cela n'est pas du got du comte de Reynaud et du curé, convaincus tous deux que les douceurs de Vianne menacent l'ordre et la moralité... En tout cas, la guerre est déclarée. Deux camps vont s'affronter : les partisans des promesses célestes et ceux des délices terrestres.

Seeking refuge and anonymity in the cobbled streets of Montmartre, Yanne and her daughters, Rosette and Annie, live peacefully, if not happily, above their little chocolate shop. Nothing unusual marks them out; no red sachets hang by the door. The wi nd has stopped - at least for a while. Then into their lives blows Zozie de lAlba, the lady with the lollipop shoes, and everything begins to change... But this new friendship is not what it seems. Ruthless, devious and seductive, Zozie de lAlba ha s plans of her own - plans that will shake their world to pieces. And with everything she loves at stake, Yanne must face a difficult choice; to flee, as she has done so many times before, or to confront her most dangerous enemy... Herself.

The place is St Oswald's, an old and long-established boys' grammar school in the north of England. A new year has just begun, and for the staff and boys of the school, a wind of unwelcome change is blowing. Suits, paperwork and Information Technology rule the world and Roy Straitley, Latin master, eccentric, and veteran of St Oswald's, is finally - reluctantly - contemplating retirement. But beneath the little rivalries, petty disputes and everyday crises of the school, a darker undercurrent stirs. And a bitter grudge, hidden and carefully nurtured for thirteen years, is about to erupt. Who is Mole, the mysterious insider, whose cruel practical jokes are gradually escalating towards violence - and perhaps, murder? And how can an old and half-forgotten scandal become the stone that brings down a giant?

Something inside me remembers and will not forget...When Alice Farrell is drawn to Grantchester churchyard and reads the strange inscription on Rosemary Virginia Ashley's gravestone, she feels oddly disturbed. And when former boyfriend Joe returns to Cambridge with his new girlfriend Ginny, Alice is repelled by the ethereal, lavender-eyed beauty - and is certain of her evil. Then Alice finds an old diary in Ginny's room and reads the story of Daniel Holmes, who lived in Cambridge forty years earlier, and fell under the fatal spell of Rosemary Ashley. As the two stories intertwine, Alice's suspicions about Ginny increase - until the past meets present in a terrifying climax...

Rien n'a changé depuis des sicles sur la petite île du Devin, an large de Noirmoutier Il y a les villageois de la Houssinire et cieux des Salants, l'autre bout de l'île : deux communautés rivales o les haines ont la vie longue. Lorsque Madeleine revient, agrs dix uns d'absence, son village est â la dérive el son univers menacé. Mas, avec l'aide d'un nouveau venu, elle entreprend de sauver les Salants. Contre ses proches. Au prix de tragédies intimes. Joanne Harris a le .secret de réveiller nos sens. Chocolat sollicitait notre gourmandise. En lisant Voleurs de plage, le vent nous fouette le visage et on a le got du sel aux lvres.

Hétfő reggel, hét óra, ötszáz évvel a Világvége után, és megint koboldok fosztogattak a pincében... Az örök álmodozó Maddy Smith születése óta a Káosz jelét viseli a kezén. A vörös rúna hordozója különleges erők birtokosa, de a tizennégy éves lány még maga sem tudja, mire képes. A rossz ómen félelmet kelt a babonás falusiakban, Maddyt kiközösítik, így a szintén számkivetett Félszeművel barátkozik, aki sokat tud a mágiáról, és egy nap félelmetes és káprázatos világba vezeti a kislányt... A Rend fanatikus szolgái végleg le akarnak számolni a Káosszal: felesküsznek, hogy kiirtják a babonákat, a varázslatokat, a meséket és az álmokat. A tündék, törpök, boszorkányok és koboldok ideje lejárt, számukra is beköszönt a világvége, hacsak Maddy nem lopja el az ősi istenek titkát, amivel hatástalaníthatja a Rend titkos fegyverét. Háború van: a Rend végleg elpusztíthatja a világot... most minden egy kislányon múlik. Joanne Harris, a világszerte népszerű Csokoládé, Szederbor, Ötnegyed narancs és számos más bestseller írónője babonákkal és mágiával teli fantasztikus világába vezeti olvasóit. Az ősi skandináv mitológia elevenedik meg ebben a vad, veszélyes, fantasztikus és fordulatos regényben.

Les Laveuses apró falu a Loire mentén. Ide tér vissza Framboise, hogy élete végét szülőfalujában élje le. Nevét, kilétét gondosan titkolja, kemény munkával rendbe hozza a régi házat és a gazdaságot, kis vendéglőt is nyit, amely hamarosan közkedveltté válik. Visszatérése azonban felkavarja benne a faluval kapcsolatos gyermekkori emlékeit. A múltbéli szál a német megszállás ideje. A lázadó természetű, akkor kilencéves Framboise özvegyen maradt anyja kemény kézzel vezeti a gazdaságot, neveli gyermekeit, akik újságokért, ritka élelmiszerekért, rúzsokért apró kis füleseket, megfigyeléseket szállítanak a németeknek. Sőt, egyikükbe, a fiatal Tomas Leibnizbe Framboise lassan bele is szeret. Háború idején a falu mindezt nem nézi jó szemmel, s a család körül lassan lincshangulat alakul ki... A titkolt múltra a jelen drámai eseményei közepette fény derül, mígnem Framboise kénytelen leleplezni önmagát, és vállalni a múltat.

In seventeenth-century France, against a backdrop of witch trials, regicide and religious frenzy, Juliette, one-time actress and rope-dancer, seeks refuge with her young daughter in the remote abbey of Saint Marie-de-la-Mer, and reinvents herself as Soeur Auguste. Until a new Abbess is appointed, bringing with her a ghost from Juliette's past, a man she has every reason to fear.

A gripping psychological thriller played out in cyberspace, from the bestselling author of Chocolat and The Lollipop Shoes

Once there was a widow with three sons, and their names were Black, Brown and Blue. Black was the eldest; moody and aggressive. Brown was the middle child; timid and dull. But Blue was his mother's favourite. And he was a murderer.' Blueeyed boy is t he brilliant new novel from Joanne Harris: a dark and intricately plotted tale of a poisonously dysfunctional family, a blind child prodigy, and a serial murderer who is not who he seems. Told through posts on a webjournal called "Badguysrock", this is a thriller that makes creative use of all the multiple personalities, disguise and mind games that are offered by playing out a life on the internet.

Take your partners, please. Suburban witches, defiant old ladies, ageing monsters, suicidal Lottery winners, wolf men, dolphin women and middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear: in Joanne Harris' first collection of short stories the miraculo us goes hand-in-hand with the mundane, the sour with the sweet, and the beautiful, the grotesque, the seductive and the disturbing are never more than one step away. This is an eclectic selection of tales for our times that shows a side to Joanne Har ris you have never seen before. So go on, be tempted. After all, it's only dancing.

Five past midnight, three years after the End of the World, and, as usual, there was nothing to be seen or heard in the catacombs - except, of course , for the rats and (if you believed in them) the ghosts of the dead. Runelight is set in a world coming back to life, but it is also a world in conflict. For Maddy, born with the mark of magic on her hand, the return of the old gods and the overthrow of the brutal Order who suppressed them is a time of excitement. But for Maggie, raised as part of the Order, it is a time of chaos and desolation, as her family and values are wiped out. Like the two girls, the new world remains divided - the old regime has gone but with nothing to take its place, anarchy is beginning to spread. Joanne Harris draws us back into the richly imagined world first introduced in Runemarks - a world not unlike our own, had it been shaped by the Vikings instead of the Romans. But if its inhabitants, including Maddy and Maggie, can't solve their differences soon, they will destroy their world altogether.

It isn't often you receive a letter from the dead. When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she has no choice but to follow the wind that blows her back to Lansquenet, the village in south-west France where, eight years ago, she opened up a chocolate shop. But Vianne is completely unprepared for what she finds there. Women veiled in black, the scent of spices and peppermint tea, and there, on the bank of the river Tannes, facing the square little tower of the church of Saint-Jerome like a piece on a chessboard - slender, bone-white and crowned with a silver crescent moon - a minaret. Nor is it only the incomers from North Africa that have brought big changes to the community. Father Reynaud, Vianne's erstwhile adversary, is now disgraced and under threat. Could it be that Vianne is the only one who can save him?