Médiathèque départementale du Lot

The Rest of Our Lives / Benjamin Markovits

Livre | Markovits, Benjamin | Faber & Faber Ltd | 2026

When Tom's wife had an affair, he resolved to leave her once their children had grown up. Twelve years later, after driving his daughter to university, he remembers his pact and keeps driving west to visit friends, family and an old girlfriend. But he also has secrets of his own - trouble at work and health issues - and sometimes running away is the hardest thing to do.

Fable for the end of the world / Ava Reid

Livre | Reid , Ava | Del Rey | 2025

En encourageant des accumulations massives de dettes de sa classe inférieure, une seule entreprise, Caerus, contrôle tous les aspects de la société.Inesa vit avec son frère dans une ville à moitié engloutie où ils survivent en tenant un magasin de taxidermie. À l'insu d'Inesa, leur mère cruelle et indolente a accumulé une énorme dette – suffisamment pour qualifier l'un de ses enfants pour le spectacle d'assassinat diffusé en direct de Caerus : le...

Birding / Rose Ruane

Livre | Ruane, Rose | Corsair | 2025

In the nineties, Lydia was one half of a teen pop group. Their image was sexy, edgy, girly yet ‘in control’. The reality was very different. Now, thirty years later, with #MeToo revelations a daily reality, a famous ex-lover resurfaces with a slick, self-serving apology, demanding forgiveness. Suddenly, Lydia is overwhelmed with memories of a harmful time in her life that refuses to leave her in peace. Meanwhile, Joyce has never left home and the...

The fourth consort / Edward Ashton

Livre | Ashton, Edward | Solaris | 2025

Dalton Greaves is a hero. He’s one of humankind’s first representatives to Unity, a pan-species confederation working to bring all sentient life into a single benevolent brotherhood. That’s what they told him, anyway. The only actual members of Unity that he’s ever met are Boreau, a giant snail who seems more interested in plunder than spreading love and harmony, and Boreau’s human sidekick, Neera, who Dalton strongly suspects roped him into thi...

Disappoint me / Nicola Dinan

Livre | Dinan, Nicola | Doubleday | 2025

Max is thirty, a published poet and grossly overpaid legal counsel for a tech company. She’s living her best life. Or is she? The debris of years of dysphoria and failed relationships rattle around in her head. When she tumbles down the stairs at a New Year’s Eve party and wakes up in hospital alone, she decides to make changes. First up: a stab at good old-fashioned heteronormativity. Enter Vincent, corporate lawyer and hobby baker. His trad fr...

Onyx Storm / Rebecca Yarros

Livre | Yarros, Rebecca | Piatkus | 2025

Witchcraft for wayward grils / Grady Hendrix

Livre | Hendrix, Grady | Tor Nightfire | 2025

'I did an evil thing to be put in here, and I'm going to have to do an evil thing to get out.' They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they're sent to Wellwood house in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to give birth in secret and then put their babies up for adoption. Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone....

Another man in the street

Livre | Phillips, Caryl | Bloomsbury | 2025

In the early Sixties, Victor 'Lucky' Johnson arrives in London from St Kitts, with dreams of becoming a journalist. Lucky soon finds work first at an Irish pub in Notting Hill – then as a rent collector for an unscrupulous slum landlord Peter Feldman. Shadowing Lucky from his early struggles in London to the present day, Caryl Phillips paints a striking portrait of a flawed but vividly alive man grappling with the lifelong disillusionments of ex...

Accidentaly Amy / Lynn Painter

Livre | Painter, Lynn | Penguin | 2025

Isabella Shay is usually a very honest person. But when she’s running late for her first day at her dream job and the barista yells for “Amy” three times with no answer, she does the unthinkable. Izzy takes that PSL. It’s the exact drink she ordered and paid for, only way further ahead in the queue—and she’ll take whatever bad karma is coming for her; she’s desperate and very late. But when she turns around and runs directly into the most attra...

You’re probably gayish : The truth (and lies) behind 17 gay stereotypes / Mike Johnson, Kyle Getz

Livre | Johnson, Mike | Jessica Kingsley | 2025

What if I don't know how to "do stuff" all the other gays can do? What if I don't know the name of that gay Netflix movie? What if I'm not obsessed with Jennifer Coolidge like everyone else? Am I really bad at being gay? While being gay has become more socially and legally acceptable, there's a specific kind of gay that's most accepted. He's hot, jacked, white, loves iced coffee, watches Drag Race, and has a service job but somehow travels to Pa...