Arthur Beauchamp takes a break from the courtroom to write a memoir so he can set the record straight about a headline murder case he fought as a young lawyer in 1966. The trial would either mark him as a pathetic loser or thrust him into the top ranks of criminal counsel. The background: in 1966, a young housemaid was raped by her employer, a callous and vindictive millionaire. She shot him point blank, so it seemed an open-and-shut case of first-degree murder. Enter Arthur Beauchamp, a young lawyer haunted by having bungled his only previous murder case. He is now called upon to defend a case that he is almost certain can't be won. But as the trial speeds through twists and turns, his slashing cross-examinations bring hope that the jury might entertain a reasonable doubt. In the present time, Arthur learns that writing about his social gaffes, booze, and sex is not easy, especially as his efforts are regularly interrupted by the quirky characters who inhabit his supposedly idyllic Garibaldi Island.

Per quanto sconfitta e conclusasi in una triste tragedia, la Comune di Parigi del 1871 diede voce a un possibile che si è impresso per sempre nella memoria storica: è concepibile una vita senza rapporti di servitù e sfruttamento, senza il dominio esclusivo del denaro, senza Stato e senza capitale? Con tutti i limiti e le contraddizioni che hanno contribuito alla loro sconfitta, gli uomini e le donne della Comune tentarono di dissolvere le strutture burocratiche dello Stato-nazione centralizzato. Ciò che sembrava fantasma e immagine di sogno si mostrava invece come utopia concreta. La Comune realizzò una riorganizzazione della vita quotidiana, nella sua pratica sociale, molto più rilevante di qualsiasi atto di governo: in tal senso essa è l'indicazione di uno stile di vita: «Estendere la dimensione estetica alla vita quotidiana, come richiesto sotto la Comune dalla Federazione degli Artisti, non solo rende l'arte accessibile a tutti, ma la rende anche parte integrale di qualsiasi processo creativo. Si crea una nuova relazione sensibile con i materiali - la loro consistenza, densità, malleabilità, resistenza - e con i processi lavorativi propri di ciascuno, con le tappe necessarie per la loro realizzazione e, d'altro lato, con la nuova riproduzione delle abilità di chi vi ha partecipato» (Ross). Il lusso comune è una riconfigurazione della vita quotidiana in cui - al di là di ogni separazione di classe - l'arte e la pratica del lavoro si fondono in una nuova unità vitale, in un gioco armonico.

Dans l’ombre de Hamilton, Wilson vit en fantôme, exécutant des missions illégales pour un parrain se surnommant Darwin’s Nightmare.

Originally published in 2002 and nominated for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel A blend of thriller, satire, and romance with a shocking twist Romance novelist Maggie Schneider flees snowy Canada for Costa Rica, seeking inspiration ... and maybe even a romantic encounter. She finds far more than she expected when she's kidnapped by a rag-tag gang led by a handsome, charismatic revolutionary called Halcon: the Falcon. Also held hostage for ransom is Halcon's main target, the flirtatious wife of a right-wing U.S. senator, who seeks to capture the Republican nomination as U.S. president. Enter burned-out ex-secret agent Slack Cardinal, the protagonist of Deverell's third novel, Mecca. Now he has changed his name and is hiding out in the Costa Rican jungles, working as a tour guide. But he is found there by CIA operative Ham Bakerfield and reluctantly pressed into service to try to rescue the women.

Arthur Ellis award-winning William Deverell's 1983 bestseller An extremist warlord is about to unleash the world's deadliest shock troops. The Rotkommando - an army of expert terrorists, political fanatics, and psychotic killers - is armed with a failsafe masterplan. Codeword ... Mecca. Now the Rotkommando is poised on the brink of a crazed kamikaze mission to nuke Israel and ignite World War III. Only three people on Earth have the power to stop them: a burned-out poet with delusions of grandeur, a devout nymphomaniac with a taste for blood, and a desert guru who communes with camels. From Montreal, New York, and Washington to Paris, Berlin, and Saudi Arabia, Mecca thunders at white-knuckle speed through the knife-edge worlds of espionage and terrorism, where violence is a way of life and time is always running out ...

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 sur­roundings: the streets, courtrooms, and waters of Vancouver. Dr. Tim Dare is a forensic psychiatrist whose life is in a mess: his wife has just left him to find herself; his mother is being sued for libel by a small-town mayor over a mystery novel; he's been made the monitor of a man just out of psychiatric hospital, a man he considers a psychopathic murderer; he's being hauled before a disciplinary committee for "misplacing" a file; one of his patients is "transferring" feelings to him rather too romantically; and now someone's threatening to kill him. He can't even get into an elevator without falling apart. No wonder he thinks he needs to see a shrink himself. Under the guidance of fellow psychiatrist Dr. Allison Epstein, Dare gradually learns how to face the demons within - and those in the real world that are really out to get him.

Finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel. "Deverell touches on the evils of the Native residential school system as this literate mystery builds to a surprising solution. Readers will hope they haven't seen the last of the endearingly complex, fallible, and fascinating Beauchamp." - Publishers Weekly, starred review Arthur Beauchamp, after a successful and much-lauded career at the criminal bar, is now retired to Garibaldi Island. His immediate desire is to win the Mabel Orfmeister Trophy for the Most Points in Fruits and Vegetables at the Garibaldi Island fall fair. With his crop picked and packed, Beauchamp is ready to do battle. While waiting for the judges, he can muse on his recently published biography by one Wentworth Chance. It is appropriately florid, with enough catty references to make it readable. And it takes Beauchamp back to his first big criminal case in 1962, the one, in legal terms, that "made him." The trial of Gabriel Swift was front-page news. Swift was the Indigenous gardener of Professor Dermot Mulligan, but he was far more than a servant. He was one of Mulligan's stars, a brilliant mind to mentor. Arthur Beauchamp knows all about that, because he, too, was one of Mulligan's best and brightest. When Mulligan disappears, in unusual circumstances, suspicion falls on Swift even though Mulligan's widow insists he couldn't have done it and much of the evidence leans toward suicide.

Complex, fascinating, and fun ... Kill All the Judges is a classic crime work, from an author heralded as one of Canada's best, and with good reason." - Shelf Life Finalist for the Stephen Leacock Humour Prize Is someone systematically killing the judges called to the British Columbian bar? At least one has been murdered and several have disappeared. Arthur Beauchamp returns from retirement once again to take on the case, this time defending his former nemesis, backwoods poet Cudworth Brown. He finds himself chasing all kinds of leads, including tracking down a mystery novel that Brown's unreliable former lawyer has been writing, just as Beauchamp's own wife, Margaret, has announced her candidacy for the Green Party. Complex, madcap, and peopled with some of the most delightfully eccentric characters to be found between two covers, Kill All the Judges proves William Deverell's mastery of the hilariously comedic crime novel.

"Smart, beautifully written, and really, really, funny satire featuring Arthur Beauchamp." -- The Globe and Mail Finalist for the Stephen Leacock Humour Award In this zany political thriller, the leader of the despotic Asian nation of Bhashyistan declares war on Canada after a limo bearing its visiting delegation is blown sky-high in snowy Ottawa. The suspected assassin, Abzal Erzhan, a Bhashyistani revolutionary, disappears. Was he kidnapped, was he murdered, or did he get away scot-free? Enter famed trial lawyer Arthur Beauchamp, dragged from retirement on his idyllic Gulf Island farm. As he prepares to represent Erzhan, he must ponder a hard, ethical question: is the alleged terrorist guilty, or has he been set up to take the fall? Arthur soon finds himself tangled up with wily civil servants, scheming cabinet members, an abrasive Bhashyistani propagandist, and a government spy who stumbles about like a bull in a china shop. Meanwhile, the international pressure mounts as Canadian oil executives are taken hostage while three Canadian female tourists, fearing terrorism, hide out in Bhashyistani's wintry wilds.

Award-winning novelist William Deverell is back with a new Arthur Beauchamp legal thriller. Lawyer Arthur Beauchamp is facing the most explosive trial of his career: the defence of seven boisterous environmentalists accused of sabotaging an Ontario plant that pumps out a pesticide that has led to the mass death of honeybees. The story zigzags between Toronto, where the trial takes place, and Arthur's West Coast island home, where he finds himself arrested for fighting his own environmental cause: the threatened destruction of a popular park. The Toronto trial concludes with a tense, hang-by-the-fingernails jury verdict. Realistic and riveting, Stung is a propulsive legal thriller by a beloved author at the height of his powers.

Autour du lac, la paix semble revenue. Mais l'arrivée de deux chats des montagnes bouleverse le Clan du Tonnerre. Ils supplient Étoile de Feu de les aider à vaincre une horde de félins sans foi ni loi. En quête d'aventure, les trois apprentis, Nuage de Lion, Nuage de Houx et Nuage de Geai, veulent faire partie de l'expédition. Ils en apprendront bien plus sur eux-mêmes qu'ils ne l'espéraient...