Novel / Historical fiction
François-Guillaume Lorrain
Day of betrayal
What happens to the relationship between two people when a third wheel, uncontrollable, enters the picture? In his new novel François-Guillaume Lorrain vividly depicts the fatal triangle formed ...
Christian Jacq
Ramses III
THE BEST-DOCUMENTED CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY IN EGYPTIAN HISTORY He was the last of the pharaohs. Twenty years after his illustrious predecessor Ramses II (with whom he had no blood relation), Ramses ...
Catherine David
Babylon
Volume 2 : Time for Revenge
A DAZZLING NOVEL THAT BLENDS THRILLER & HISTORICAL SAGA We are in 554 BC, and, after a violent ascent to the throne, King Nabonidus rules now over Babylon. The city is resplendent but the ...
Marek Halter
The Jewish Girl of Shanghai
From Nazi Germany to Communist China Ruth and Clara meet in Germany in 1937. Ruth is Jewish and dreams of becoming a fashion and dressmaker icon, and Clara, the daughter of rich bourgeois family, ...
Christian Jacq
The Secret Mission of Sinouhé the Egyptian
A FASCINATING NOVEL ABOUT EGYPT’S GREATEST SPY They say the Egyptians invented everything, including the spy novel. The first one was written in the twelfth dynasty, and Christian Jacq ...
Gilbert Bordes
Jesus, three days before his death
THE STORY OF JESUS THE MAN, AS YOU’VE NEVER HEARD IT BEFORE Who was Jesus, beyond the symbols and the myths? A man like any other — with fears and doubts — who was enraged by injustice. ...
Mireille Calmel
Of Swirls and Blood
One of the greatest heroines of the 100 Years’ Warplot 1343. At the beginning of the Breton War of Succession (in present-day Brittany) a pact is signed between England and France. Jeanne de ...
Henri Loevenbruck
The Murderer of the rue Voltaire
A new Gabriel Joly investigation set in the Comédie Française Paris, August 1789. On one end, The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen is being drafted… On the other end, people are ...
Christian Jacq
The Golden Woman
“You were made to reign, my daughter…” Hatshepsut is one of the most famous queens of Egypt, whose life was a series of miracles that would give her a legendary place in history. The beautiful, ...
Mireille Calmel
The Cathar She-Wolf
Volume 1 :
Paris, November 1226, several days before the coronation of St Louis… The impulsive Griffonelle, a 16-year-old thief, witnesses her mother’s savage murder in broad daylight. Suspicion quickly ...
Christian Jacq
Egypt, the last hope
“You who are living on the Earth, approach my eternal resting place. I will guide you on the path of life.” Inscription on the tomb of Petosiris 324 B.C. Ancient Egypt is a mere ...
Catherine David
Babylon
Volume 1 : The city of passions
A dazzling novel that blends thriller and historical saga It is sixth century B.C. and rumours are raging like wildfire around the ancient city of Babylon… Corpses have been discovered in front ...