Novel / Historical fiction
Laurent Decaux
The Lord of Charny
Champagne, 1382. When, after six years of crusade, Jacques de Charney finally returns to his land, he is astonished to discover an enormous crowd huddled in front of the castle church. Pilgrims ...
Christian Jacq
Champollion The Egyptian
The incredible adventure of the French scholar who deciphered the hieroglyphs From July 1828 to December 1829, Jean-François Champollion made his dream come true and finally travelled the land of ...
Mireille Calmel
The Venitian Lionesses
Volume 1 :
VENICE, APRIL 1627. When three masked men arrive to kidnap her father, a printer, the young Lucia barely escapes a gunshot. What do they want from Don Carlo, her father? Lucia is not one to give ...
Christine Pedotti
The Bible as a Novel
Volume 2 :
The anticipated sequel to Christine Pedotti’s saga about the Bible, the “great novel of human passions”. Unfamiliar and passionate stories in which sentiments are powerfully expressed: love, ...
A.B. Daniel
Queen of Palmyra
The story of a passionate and magnificent struggle With Queen Zenobia, A.B. Daniels brings us back to the lavish days of Palmyra, the jewel of Syria, whose existence is presently under threat. On ...
Christian Jacq
I Built the Great Pyramid
Christian Jacq invites us to share the extraordinary adventure of the construction of the Great Pyramid of Cheops, the last of the Seven Wonders of the World that is still visible, by following ...
Mireille Calmel
Eleanor, One Last Kiss before the Silence
The last and final volume that masterfully ends Mireille Calmel’s saga about Eleanor of Aquitaine and Richard the Lionheart. 1204: John Lackland, who holds absolute rule over England, decides to ...
Gilbert Bordes
The Sails of Liberty
A great action packed novel full of human and maritime adventures. 1789. In order to free his father who has been unjustly condemned to a penal colony, the young Augustin Moncellier embarks on a ...
Mireille Calmel
The Marquise de Sade
On the 200th anniversary of the Marquis de Sade’s death, our most prolific novelist has taken an interest in the least-known spouse. With the charm and power of libertine innuendo, she brings ...
Romain Sardou
Fräulein France
September 1940. Occupied France. In a French village, a large town house is requisitioned. One evening, two drunk men rape the woman of the house and brutally murder her husband. In Paris, the ...
Christian Jacq
Nefertiti, the Shadow of the Sun
Nefertiti is the most famous of the Egyptian queens and the fabulous portrait giving her eternal beauty is known the world over. But what do we really know about this woman, born into lower ...
Mireille Calmel
Richard the Lionheart
Volume 1 : Saladin's Shadow
After two volumes on Eleanor of Aquitaine, this is the first in a new series by Mireille Calmel. Richard the Lionheart, both warrior and poet, springs back to life through Calmel’s magical pen. ...