Non Fiction / Memoirs
Kristiyana Valcheva
I Held my Head High
Kristyiana Valcheva is the Bulgarian nurse unjustly accused of heading a plot that led to 400 Libyan children becoming contaminated with the Aids virus. For the first time she describes her eight ...
Aline Feuvrier-Boulanger
It’s Someone Else’s Heart I Can Feel
Aline Feuvrier is 20 years old, and has been living for the past year thanks to someone else’s heart. Aline had a heart transplant in February 2006. At the age of 13, Aline Feuvrier falls ...
Brigitte
I live on your doorstep
« I’m speaking from experience, you can have valid papers, a job, a family, friends, and still have to sleep outside. » An exceptional testimonial: for the first time, a homeless woman tells her ...
Justine
From Now On I don’t Eat Anymore
From a blog to a book, a girl’s fight for teenagers’ lives 200 000 young people are affected today 9 out of 10 are girls 2% of the girls concerned are from developed countries. A journey into the ...
Dominique Wiel
Lord, Have Pity on us.
Unjustly sentenced at the Outreau trial, Dominique Wiel gives us in this autobiography his views on justice and on our society: a fundamental document «I have retraced my steps from the ...
Zlata Filipovic
Stolen Voices
A collection of particularly powerful, emotional testimonials of children in the war from 1914 to 2004, among which Zlata’s own, an internationally acclaimed journal, that became a bestseller ...
Kamran Nazeer
Send in the Idiots
In 1982, when he was four years old, Kamran Nazeer was enrolled in a small school in New York City alongside a dozen other children diagnosed with autism. Calling themselves the Idiots, these ...
Hélène
I started with a joint
Hélène is twelve years old. She lives in a normal family. She is a discreet, sensitive and tormented teenager. Like many young people, she is afraid of the adults’ world that seems dark and tough ...
Mukhtar Mai
In the Name of Honnor
A story of extreme suffering and humiliation, it is also one of immense courage and faith. For the first time, Mukhtar Mai recounts her ordeal in this moving memoir. Mukhtar Mai is thirty five ...
Khady
Mutilated
A deeply moving testimony Every year 2 million young girls are circumcised. 130 million women throughout the world have been mutilated in this way. According to tradition, female genital ...
Sediqa Massoud
My Life with Massoud
Commandant Massoud was assassinated by Islamic fundamentalists on 9th September 2001, two days before the attacks on the World Trade Centre. A hero for many Afghans, the ‘Lion of Panjshir’ had ...
Dominique Baudis
Faced with Slander
“Slander is an ordinary evil that affects many people, and it is also, for each of those whom it strikes, a singular tragedy. In recounting the one I that have just experienced, I hope to ...