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“H” AS IN HAUNTED “H” AS IN HECATOMB “H” AS IN… EVIL IS A LEGACY Since Julian Hirtmann, the notorious and methodical serial killer, has recently escaped ...

The Erased

TWO KILLERS TWO OPPOSITE WORDS TWO DILEMMAS In the northern Spanish region of Galicia, a killer kidnaps women early in the mornig on their way to work. Invisible women. Erased women. In Madrid, ...

The Templar of the shadows

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In her usual engaging style, Mireille Calmel continues her voyage to ancient Cathar to better shine a light on the mysterious order of the Knights Templar. January 21, 1380. Nearly two years ...

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 ...

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 ...

The guts of evil

« Are you proud of what you’ve done? The hour of reckoning has come! » The anonymous letter Inspector Grimm receives is an accusation and a threat. Grimm doesn’t understand the accusation. What ...

Little pleasures on every floor

HUMOR, TENDERNESS & FRIENDSHIP Joanna Baron’s partner is a prominent tax expert, and by his side, she leads a peaceful existence in a chic neighborhood in a town in the Paris area. But when ...

The Ghosts of Kyiv

THERE IS NEWS FROM THE EAST… In Moscow, Olga Ranevskaya, head of the Kremlin’s undercover operations, plots revenge on France. Vladimir Putin wants to use his security forces to punish ...

Bloody Stones

BEHIND THE SCENES OF ORGANIZED CRIME Corsica, 1993. After having fled his island, Ange Biasini is forced to return home. His younger brother Theo needs his skills as a former professional ...

Brad

Brad Pitt’s astounding career told with Frederic Mitterrand’s verve and talent «BRAD» is the story of a handsome kid from Missouri who arrives in Hollywood in the mid-eighties with three hundred ...

An eye in the night

… IS STARING AT YOU ! PLUNGE INTO THE DARK WORLD OF HORROR MOVIES With five movies under his belt, that were considered scandalous at the time of their release, the horror movie director, ...

The Missing of Blackmore

THE MULDER & SCULLY OF THE 1920s INVESTIGATE ON AN ISLAND WRAPPED IN A MYSTERIOUS VEIL Blackmore, October 1925. On this island cut off from the world, off the coast of Guernsey, murders and ...

Mathilde Melodie

A SOCIAL SATIRE ALONG THE LINES OF THE FULL MONTY By age 38, Mathilde has stopped dreaming. She has an especially difficult time imagining she’ll ever sing again because singing inevitably takes ...

I love you

A TENDER , FIERCE & OPTIMISTIC LOVE STORY – Do you have a light? she asked to keep silence at bay while at the same time thinking to herself “what the hell are you doing?” She hadn’t ...

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 ...

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, ...

Erectus, The last winter

An explosive finale to a dizzying trilogy There you are – two lovers out to admire the extraordinary meteor lighting up the night sky as it rains a shower of gold. And then suddenly, the ...

Addicted to love

FROM HOPE & ILLUSIONS TO REVENGE When she meets Romain, a young lawyer from Bordeaux, Juliette is immediately convinced: there is true chemistry between them, and Romain is madly in love with ...

Sacrifice Manor

A new Inspector Grimm investigation A Neanderthal skull on a chest in the entry of the manor. On the floor in front of it… the body of a dead man looking like he’s praying. His forehead is ...

Morgan of the Mist

YOU ARE BOND TO THIS BLADE AND TO THE ONE TO WHOM IT BELONGS Brittany, the fourth century. Morgan has just turned thirteen and Vivian, the high priestess, refuses to promote her to the rank of ...

The Four Winds

AN INSIGHTFUL STORY BOTH HOPEFUL & TRAGIC  Sabran-sur-la-Lys, 1943. Nineteen-year-old Charlotte meets Tobias, a German soldier. It’s love at first sight. She learns she is pregnant just as ...

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 ...

An upside-down world

BEFORE THE WORLD IS IRREVERSIBLY TURNED USPIDE DOWN… Stanislas is a ruthless Parisian stockbroker. Dédé is a homeless man – and a bit of a poet – who lives on the street, downstairs the ...

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. ...

The Archipelago of the Forgotten

This story will make you doubt everything you thought you knew…   Detectives Grace Campbell and Sarah Geringën know this much: even though they have diametrically opposite personalities, they ...

The Road to Key West

My name is Tom Baldwin, I am a writer, and writers have too much imagination. That’s what Annabelle, my ex-wife, used to say all the time. Josh, my wonderful little Josh, used to say ...

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 ...

Look to another sky to better see the stars

Humor, tenderness & twists Chloe Edouard is a successful young Parisian author who has lost her inspiration. She was ready for anything expect the news that the grandmother she never knew—who ...

Beware the angels

“YOU’VE BEEN WARNED. IF YOU ENTER THE COMPOUND, IT WILL ALREADY BE TOO LATE!” High in the California hills sits The Compound, a seemingly ideal spiritual community. Paul Green, a world-weary ...

Lucia

An anguish like never before that will keep you up at night A group of criminology students at Salamanca university discover the existence of a serial killer who has gone undetected for several ...

A Night with no dawn

The Catskill mountains, in Upstate New York.  In the mildness of the Indian summer, young man is walking across a bridge when a car comes straight at him and hits him. A plush house in Western ...

1938, The Eye of the Hurricane

After the “cowardly relief” of the Munich agreement, Hitler sends his foreign affairs minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, to Paris on the 6th of December to sign a “good neighbour” agreement. ...

Deep-Sea Terror

A lock-up on the edge of asphyxia Off the coast of Marseille, the body of a young woman is found in the nets of a trawler. She is completely naked, covered with bites and her left foot has been ...

Like Yesterday

An original puzzle of daunting complexity On 13 August 2017, Jiao Keming, a computer technology teacher at the Nanming high school, his wife and their fiveyear-old son – who suffers from a ...

What if life was just the beginning ?

As a child, Jean is already different from the others. Is this due to the early death of his father or to his extremely sensitive and dreamy character? In the sixth grade, he amazes his ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Passenger with no face

“You’re not the only one searching for the truth”… The anonymous letter left on her doorstep is more than a signal: it’s an electric shock. Inspector Grace Campbell knows that she has no other ...

Dream of Another Word

Volume 2 : To the Pearly Gates

The eagerly-awaited sequel to a novel full of multiple twists and turns that portrays young people determined to tackle the great perils of our time… and create a new world.   Forced to leave the ...

Midnight ! New York

An  irresistible romantic and suspense novel Lorraine runs an advertising agency in Paris. Years ago she lost her father, a renowned gallery owner and art dealer shot down in a Manhattan street.  ...

The Forest of the Missing

Redwoods is a small, isolated town in Oregon, set between the Pacific ocean and an ancient forest of giant redwood trees.  It is also a town with a sinister record.  Every year, several ramblers ...

The Hunt

“There is a dark place that no sunlight can brighten” Full moon. A deer leaps out of the forest. His eyes are those of a … man. It is not an ordinary wild beast hunted in the Ariège forests… In ...

The Compass of Emotions

Doctor, international lecturer with multiple degrees in Acupuncture, Nadia Volf helps us overcome problems and open to life with joy. When events hurtle down on us like squalls in a storm, ...

The Angel of Pigalle

“I’m not a prostitute, I’m a little girl from the Ardennes who got lost. I am a woman, a mother with a heart and a soul, who prostituted herself for 50 years.“ Linda is 77 years old today. She ...

Homo Sanitas

«Health is a deeply human affair!» More than 10,000 years ago, healthcare was frequently practiced. Our distant ancestors invented the art of dentistry, performed surgery and amputations, could ...

The Cathar She-Wolf

Volume 2 :

Montmartre Abbey. For two years, beautiful, brazen Griffonelle has been languishing in her convent.  Far from the young king who is passionately in love with her as well as the legendary gold ...

Erectus 2

The return of the virus. More powerful and terrifying than ever… The eagerly-awaited sequel to Xavier Müller’s bestseller Everyone thought the nightmare was over: having transformed part of ...

In The Shadow of the Wolf

An out-of-the-mould cop tracks, step by step, the shadow of the wolf… Some cases drag you out of apathy… In Rennes, the new police detective Hubert Grimm takes on an all-absorbing case and ...

Dream of Another World

Volume 1 : The Tower of Hope

In Caracas, Venezuela, four teenagers – the Gracias – have to dig deep to find the wherewithal to support their family.  Guarding the secret of their origins, they are growing up in an immense ...

May God Forgive Her

An accurate picture of children victims of abuse and a powerful anthem to love Escaping her father’s violence, 17-year-old Maya finds refuge in Fécamp, below the cliffs. She rebuilds her life and ...

Far from the madding crowd

“It was the African night – cool, velvety, calm, and immense – that André Reilly, formerly Speaker of the Senate, had come to find. And that night took possession of him, leading him down the ...

The Red Hand Mystery

Against the backdrop of the catacombs of Paris and the scrublands of Corsica, a thriller set amidst the turmoil of the French Revolution.  July 1789. As Parisian revolutionaries storm the ...

The Cathar She-Wolf

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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 ...

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 ...

The Last Message

Are you sure you want to know the truth ?  Be warned…  The Last Message might plunge you to the depths of anguish and insanity… The island of Iona, west of Scotland. Great stretches ...

The strength to love

When your dreams are bigger than yourself, happiness is possible… Jamila is born on a council estate with dreams bigger than herself. She quickly comes to realise, however, that her family ...

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 ...

The Day When

When love brings renewed life and hope to people battered down by life ….. Spring 2019 in a Parisian cemetery where Rebecca often comes to put flowers on deserted tombs and where Benjamin has ...

Poly

The new novel by the movie director of “Belle & Sébastien” 1964. Louise and her 10-year-old daughter, Cécile, go to live in a little village in the Cévennes region where a ...

Forewarned is not forearmed

A terrible truth hidden behind the façade of family ties They don’t know each other. Michael Monroe, an impoverished orphan, grew up in London. Mathilde Bateman comes from an extremely wealthy ...

Ariane’s Fool

A terrible truth hidden behind the façade of family ties Véronique is five years old in 1940 when her grandfather, a respected notary, decides that wealth is an abomination and that henceforth he ...

The Valley

“I think someone is acting as if they think they are God…” A cry for help in the middle of the night. A valley cut off from the world. An abbey filled with secrets. A mysterious forest. A series ...

The investigations of Inspector Higgins

Volume 36 : Carbon Footprint

For daring to commit the mortal sin of defending carbon and carbon dioxide, Professor Gregory Cloud is murdered at home by a hooded killer. The investigation is assigned to Higgins who finds ...

The Clara Miller Affair

The body floated up to the surface of the water, like those of the other women. Six in total… This cursed place, in the forests of New Hampshire, is known as Suicide Lake. Clara Miller was a ...

You won’t get the children

As she flicked through the entry-and-exit records of children taken into a chateau in the Drôme region of France during the Second World War, Valérie Portheret’s attention was seized by a detail: ...

The Investigations of Inspector Higgins

Volume 35 : Crime Niçois

A terrifying discovery is made in the beautiful town of Nice, where a world criminology conference is taking place: the body of a wealthy Englishman is found dead in an alley of the old town. The ...

Louis XIV – The child king

How did the young Louis become the Sun King, the monarch under whom France’s grandeur shone so dazzlingly?  The childhood of Louis XIV was both unhappy and romantic. Crushed by his teachers, ...

The duel

On 2nd December 1851, the President of the Republic, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, breaches the constitution and arrogates all powers to himself before proclaiming himself emperor. A man has been ...

Oksa Pollock, Promises of tomorrow

The much awaited return of Oksa Pollock In this new volume in the series, we find our heroine, 10 years later, dealing with the vicissitudes of power, facing the conservative old guard and the ...

The mistress of the silk

A national treasure that has become a universal object of passion Among the many inventions born in China that have changed the destiny of humanity, there is silk, which the Chinese tried to ...

The Wolf of the Cordeliers

A dive into the mysterious backstage of the french Revolution… In May 1789, a wind of revolt blows in Paris. Gabriel Joly, brilliant young provincial, goes to the capital where he dreams of ...

Wild child

“I’m going to tell you a story. My story. Close-to, without reflection or pretence. With the voice and the thoughts I had as a child. Nothing but the raw truth as I lived it and before it was ...

Horemheb, the return of light

The extraordinary destiny of a scribe who became Pharaoh Horemheb contemplated the Great Royal Wife, haloed by the golden light of the setting sun. An almost unreal beauty. – Come on, she ...

Devil’s Island

REVENGE IS A MATTER OF MEMORY The body covered with a strange white powder… the extremities gangrenous… A face frozen in a grimace of pain… Sarah Geringën is gripped with horror when she sees her ...

The mad king

At the beginning of the year 1392, every dream is possible to Charles VI. Queen Isabeau has just given birth to a son, the country is returning to prosperity, the war with England is coming to an ...

The Prisoner of the devil

When revenge and witchcraft intertwine, only strength and passion remain May 1494, in Egypt. A stone wheel rotates, guarded by a secret order. When it stops, the name of the one who must die ...

We were two

They were two but made only one. José Frèches believed that they had eternity before them. But on November 29, 2011, at the age of 61, he had to say goodbye to his twin. That day, he thought he ...

The Investigations of Inspector Higgins

Volume 33 : A crime for eternity

A Russian Millionaire has decided to defeat death by taking advantage of the latest discoveries of science… As far as he is concerned, the project is no longer madness. He has installed in ...

Give me wings

A new heartwarming story by the movie director of Belle & Sebastien A wonderful shared experience between father & son A magical encounter between men and birds At the origin of Nicolas ...

Wisdom and madness of a world to come

Why do so many intellectuals indulge in that evil joy that is pessimism? Why do we no longer see the considerable progress made by our societies in terms of life expectancy, health and working ...

M, the edge of the abyss

Why does Moïra, a young French girl, find herself in Hong Kong, at Ming, the Chinese digital giant? Why, from the first night, is she approached by the police? Why does the Center, the ...

THE INVESTIGATIONS OF THE INSPECTOR HIGGINS

Volume 32 : Jack the Ripper: the return

The nightmare, the worst nightmare, starts again. In Whitechapel, a London neighborhood that remains haunted by its elusive shadow, Jack the Ripper is back. A serial murderer kills ladies of the ...

Dark Grounds

Two ordinary families at the start of the new school year. Two families where everyone hides and silences problems so as not to worry others. At the Kessler’s, the mother has rekindled her ...

You’ll see, you will be fine, mum

For the first time, the director of a retirement center for dependent elderly people (EHPAD) testifies For nearly three years, Jean Arcelin managed an EHPAD in the south of France, before giving ...

Tutankhamun, the ultimate secret

IN SEARCH OF THE ULTIMATE SECRET OF TOUTÄNKHAMON, The Golden Masked Pharaoh In this new edition, Christian Jacq presents and comments on the fascinating photos of Tutankhamun’s treasure. ...

I dreamed of changing the world

What an incredible life! For the first time, Marek Halter traces back his remarkable destiny   Once upon a time… there was a young Jewish boy who was born in Warsaw a few years before the ...

Free To Love

July 1942. Her name is Esther, she is twenty years old and she is a Jew. Her parents have been arrested so she wanders the streets in Paris, lost and terrified. While having a rest on a bench, ...

Erectus

And suddenly humanity began to regress There is chaos in Richards Bay, South Africa. A man has metamorphosed. He sports prominent jaws, is covered with hair and no longer speaks. Soon, in New ...

These Women Who Created Egypt

AN ODE TO ANCIENT EGYPT AND TO WOMEN In These Women Who Created Egypt Christian Jacq shows us the fundamental role that women, famous or not, played throughout the history of Pharaonic Egypt. ...

She Wanted to See The Sea

May 1944. Jeremy, Rachel and Eloise have to leave the farm where they had been hiding for several months. The militia is on their heels: they are Jews, and their father is a scholar whose ...

The Girl of The Knights Templar

Volume 2 :

July 1322. Kingdom of France. “All who have sinned out of pride, out of greed, you will die. And Flore Dupin shall deliver the sacred balm to whom, from another lineage, will have deserved ...

Loving Hearts

– You want it, Dana. – Yes. – You know I know it. – Yes. – So what is holding you back? – Nothing. Everything. You. At twenty years old, Dana still feels ...

Fragile

Are we going to all kill each other in this car? Mom is annoyed with everything, dad cannot calm her anymore, and my sisters just want to disappear. I am five years old and I have the intuition ...

Once Upon A Time In China

José Frèches, writer and passionate storyteller of the “country of the middle”, tells here the extraordinary story of China, its beauties and mysteries. How to understand today’s China without ...

Pharaon

“My name is Thutmosis, and I have built a world. A world with borders threatened by darkness and barbarism. A world that could have disappeared under the weight of greed, lies and ...

And If We Were Kind

Kindness… It’s when a smile is the reflection of a tear, When the sound of a “I love you” covers an alarm ringing… I started this book with a poem. Whispering to you. You ...

Love Saved Me From Sinking

A book of a rare power, on the meaning of life, the price of freedom and the strength of feelings. This is the story of a child abandoned at a very early age. Then the story of a teenager marked ...

1914-1918

1914 & 1918: two crucial years during which the fate of the World was played out In 14 as in 18, the Germans are less than sixty kilometers from Paris. Each time, the patriotism and the ...

The River of Oblivion

North China, June 1995. Shen Ming, a young and brilliant teacher, is suspected of the murder of a high school girl. A few days later, he is stabbed in a closed down factory, nearby the school. ...

The Investigations of Inspector Higgins

Volume 30 : Enigma XXL

XXL. The acronym for large sizes, three Roman numerals … but also a code to decipher and the mark of a murderer striking in Edinburgh, capital of Scotland. It all starts with a poisoning at ...

The Confinement

For a long time, Oceane was this curled upon herself child, who looked at no one and seemed to count the stars in the sky. At kindergarten, doctors and teachers were formal: the child is autistic ...

The Investigations of Inspector Higgins

Volume 29 : Save the Queen!

Near Higgin’s manor, a car accident. The driver, a former terrorist, didn’t die accidentally. Victim of a delayed-action poison, he was on his way to meet the former chief-inspector and notify ...

Antarctica

“Crossing Antarctica was my childhood dream. I decided to face this white immensity by following an unexplored itinerary, the longest that one could imagine: 5100 kilometers in an almost ...

The Girl of the Knight Templars

Volume 1 :

The New Historical Saga by Mireille Calmel Discover the incredible story of the curse of the Knight Templars… It all begins in 1314 when Jacques de Molay, the last great master of the Knight ...

The Alliance

A new gripping investigation for Sarah Gerigën, protagnosit of the best-seller “The Scream“ An island stricken by icy winds, in Norway on the edge of the Arctic Circle. Atop a cliff, ...

Shall we dance?

Established in London, at the bottom of a derelict dead-end, Frank is not a record store owner like the others. In this vinyl shop, a beautiful team of merry misfits, all a little damaged by ...

Click & Love

A new romantic 2.0 comedy that will make you want to fall in love again And here it is : Only One Love… another dating application that promises us love… with a capital “L” as they say. ...

The Investigations of Inspector Higgins

Volume 28 : Actor or murderer?

A young and pretty actress achieves something extraordinary: she forces the door of Higgins’ country estate. She begs him to investigate the strange death of Sir Charles, a famous and wealthy ...

Sisters

Poor fallen souls, I had to kill you… May 1993. Two sisters, Alice 20 years old and Amber 21 years old, are found dead on the banks of the Garonne. Clad in communion dresses, they face each ...

A little voice told me to keep losing weight

“I head for the scale: 33.8 kilos. I’ve lost some more weight, part of me is satisfied. But I’m also sad: if I keep losing weight I’ll have to stay in the hospital for a long time. And I ...

Back From The Darkness

It is Saturday December 8, 2012 and 14-year-old Kouamé is relaxing and watching TV with his Dad while his Mom and sister are busily preparing lunch. A Saturday like any other, until the front ...

Trapper dreams

“I don’t care about earning money, or about a career…I want to know the thrill of the immensity of the ice, I want to live like a trapper, to hunt and fish, run on the tracks, navigate the ...

The Silence And The Fury

A lost lake in Ontario and, in the middle, a cragged little island where the evil wind of suspicion blows. Max King, a pianist beloved worldwide, lives there reclusively, a prisoner of his ...

The 5/5

Volume 2 : Tumult

For the 5/5 the time of unrest has arrived… In the dismal heat of summer, the bonds between the street sport aficionados Titus, Far, Merlin, Tom and John have become stronger as they have gotten ...

The Investigations of Inspector Higgins

Volume 27 : Crime On Lake Geneva

The Island of Peliz is the only island in Lake Geneva. On this piece of land, almost entirely covered by a hundred-year-old plane tree, the corpse of an English billionaire and former secret ...

The Venetian Lionesses

Volume 2 :

“Think back to the first volume of The Venetian Lionesses. In October 1627, Lucia, the young and mischievous Venetian, helplessly watched as fire engulfed her modest family’s print shop. The day ...

The Investigations of Inspector Higgins

Volume 25 : Cleopatra's Needle

On a foggy night in October a drunken bum stumbles upon two cadavers at the foot of Cleopatra’s Needle. Could the Egyptian obelisk that was transported to London in 1877 be the cause of these ...

Father David & The Empress & The Panda

A Great Epic Novel. The exciting story of an animal that has become a legend. “You all know it, with its splendid black and white attire, its good-natured aura, its insatiable appetite and its ...

The 5/5

Volume 1 :

When five teenagers unite against injustice. Far is 16 years old, she is a gifted young woman torn between two cultures. Merlin and Titus, twins, have dropped out of school. They are 17 and ...

Total Urgency

The Machine rules over the entire world. Created by humans, it now controls them in all domains. Who oversees it? No one. It is self-sustaining, diminishing all areas of freedom in the name of ...

Happiness Is Not Forbidden

“Happiness is a bridge between two moments of suffering. From an overpass to a viaduct. I am going to try to help you design and construct these safety arches. Let me take you on a little trip to ...

Free!

« I always knew that freedom was reliant on our inner soul. » Through his expeditions, Mike Horn, despite all incidents, loneliness and extreme conditions, has always been pursuing the one and ...

Victor Hugo

A MASTERLY BIOGRAPHY Victor Hugo is a great, immense writer. The entire world knows him. But what do we know of the man, the spouse, the lover? And firstly of the child, torn between his father ...

The Investivations of Inspector Higgins

Volume 26 : Blame On Brexit

Walt Selfridge, a high-ranking English official fiercely opposed to Brexit, has been assassinated. The official reason: a crime of passion. However, when Higgins meets the alleged culprit in ...

You Are Not Born A Parent, You Become One

“I have seen so many families whose zest for life has disappeared. I have seen many mothers in tears because they can no longer put up with their children. I have seen children push their ...

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 ...

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 ...

All Alone in the World

The story of an incredible interior journey. “I had only one fear – not reaching the end. It was a victory over myself.” “I am fifty two years old and I have five children and a boat that I ...

The Venitian Lionesses

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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 ...

Over The Walls

Paris, 1930. Paul had only known one and the same horizon: the high walls of the orphanage, an austere building in the working class Parisian suburbs. But then one day he is taken in by a joyful ...

The Investigations of Inspector Higgins

Volume 24 : The Demon of Kensington

While a storm has plunged London into torment and the clocks strike midnight, a corpse is burning atop a church in Kensington. And not just any church, but that of the Copts, the Christians of ...

An Apartment in Paris

“Art is a lie that tells the truth…” Paris, an artist’s workshop hidden at the end of a lush green alleyway. Madeline has rented it to allow herself some rest and isolation. Due to a ...

Undress French History

“France is still the country in the world where sensuality reigns, the nation that is the most devoted to the pleasure of loving!” Gonzague Saint Bris An untold and passionate ...

Night

Servaz finally returns for a nerve-racking confrontation with Hirtmann It is a stormy night on the North Sea. Shaken around by violent winds, the helicopter lets Kirsten Nigaard off on an oil ...

1917 – A Russian Passion

The Russian Revolution as has never been told before At the end of December 1916, Rasputin had issued this warning to Tsar Nicolas II: “Not one member of your family will live longer than ...

Madeleine Pauliac – The Rebel

The extraordinary story of doctor Madeleine Pauliac, the heroine of Anne Fontaine’s movie “The Innocents”/”Agnus Dei” ! Free and dedicated to the point of sacrifice. ...

Someone To Talk To

Samuel is celebrating his thirty-fifth birthday, alone along with his empty plates. Depression is setting in. He grabs his phone but soon realizes he has no one to talk to. Suddenly a number pops ...

The Investigations of Inspector Higgins

Volume 23 : School of Crime

Somewhere in England, the headmaster of a rather peculiar school decides to retire and appoints his successor. But his choice is disputed and the debate quite bloody… The police then ...

The Son of the Taiga

In the snowy landscape of the great Canadian North, at the start of the XIXth century, a young Indian who has been banished from his village sets off without looking back, with his nine dogs, his ...

On The Run

“It must be long past midnight. The neighbours must have woken up, they’d have to be deaf not to hear the coming and going in the staircase, the relentless flashing of the emergency ...

Revolution

In this book published in November 2016, Emmanuel Macron, who was then presidential candidate, tells us for the first time his personal story, his inspirations, his view on France and its future ...

French Revolution

Ten Years of Passion, Fever and Terror With French Revolution we experience the events from the inside. Much differently than in our childhood schoolbooks; a groundbreaking and founding narrative ...

Seven Ways to be Happy

One of the most brilliant philosophers of our time delivers us keys to find real happiness. Far from the so-called “rules of wisdom” that apply to everyone, Luc Ferry addresses the question ...

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, ...

Sphinx

THEY ARE NINE. Nine representatives of a mysterious brotherhood, Sphinx. Nine keepers of the secret of life, spread out around the world. Nine sentenced to death by the new masters of technology ...

There Where the Sun Disappears

A strong testimony An account on resilience Singular and poetic writing “When I first began this story I knew that the pages of the genocide and the massacre of my family in Rwanda, in ...

Dan & Celia The Twins of OtherWord

Volume 1 : The Impossible Mission

Celia and Dan are now thirteen. Dan dreams of following in the footsteps of his illustrious parents. Celia, for her part, is as timid and fragile as her brother is strong and bold. To prove his ...

Henry IV

The terrible destiny of Henry the Fourth, the King they wanted dead. A gripping tale.  He is the King of France and of Navarre who had hoped to overcome dissentions and permit Catholics and ...

The Scream

Every page of the story raises the question of the meaning of existence and plunges us into our innermost fears.  Psychiatric Hospital in Gaustad, Oslo. At dawn after a night of bitter cold, ...

The Investigations of Inspector Higgins

Volume 22 : Tutankhamun's Curse

Outraged by the nonsense disseminated about the mummy of Tutankhamun, the top scientist Jennifer Stowe decides to travel to Egypt with a group of specialists. But the trip never happens. She is ...

Like a Lost Child

For the first time ever, the autobiography of Renaud Séchan Renaud did not become a poet by chance. If he felt the need at a young age to put life into words, both his and ours, it was because he ...

If you can, go ahead!

His uncle Constantin, a fighter pilot during the war, used to tell him: “If you can, go ahead!” “ Pilot on Airbus A330 and A340, at Air France, Gérard Feldzer made this saying ...

The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins

In this spirited new adventure with the affable rogue and fallen gentleman Thomas Hawkins, our hero prays for a royal parson as he relives the espionage, underground dealings, and murder ...

Mom…

Sylvie Vartan’s heartbreaking homage to her mother. The exact same day that she lost her Mother, Ilona, on June 26th 2007, Sylvie Vartan realized just how extraordinary this woman had been, as ...

Susan Hopper

Volume 2 :

The Last Paycheck

The angry cry of a woman who won’t back down In the workplace “seniors” are becoming increasingly vulnerable. Women suffer the most from this insecurity. How can one live today, at 50 years of ...

The true taste of ripe tomatoes

“So we agree on that?” All that I miss so much. The common sense of the past, uprightness, words handed down, sharing, naked truth. Call me backward looking? No at all. On the ...

Diabolical

Ten years of diabolical manipulation. In September 1997, Ghislaine de Védrines meets Thierry Tilly for the first time. She does not have the slightest idea that she has just met the devil ...

Brooklyn Girl

“I remember the moment very well. We were looking out over the sea, the horizon shining, when Anna asked the question: “If I did something terrible, would you still love me?” How would you ...

Virals

Volume 5 : Terminal

The thrilling finale to Kathy and Brendan Reichs’ series The Virals are back—but they’re not the only pack in town anymore. Terminal finds Tory Brennan—grandniece of the famous forensic ...

The Courage of a Mother

The story of a dying mother’s fight to find a foster family who will take care of, and protect, her four children. Her story, and her personality, have deeply moved people all across France. How ...

The New Aventures of Arsène Lupin

Arsène Lupin’s Great Return Who is he? Where does he come from? No one knows. Arsene Lupin is everywhere but nobody knows what he really looks like. The most famous villain of his time, and the ...

I, Charlemagne, Christian Emperor

The astonishing portrait of one of the « fathers of Europe » depicted through the eloquent writing of Max Gallo. When the time came to place his soul into the hands of the Lord, Charlemagne felt ...

Genghis Khan

Volume 2 : The Conqueror

The mysterious and fascinating destiny of Genghis Khan, the man who ruled over the greatest empire to ever have existed, stretching from Northern China to the borders of Europe. The conqueror ...

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 ...

Tugdual

Volume 3 : Battle for Earth

This time, Tugdual, Zoé and Mortimer are going to use all their powers to annihilate the Conquerors. The challenge? To save humanity…a thrilling finale. Underground at the Denver airport, the ...

The Bible as a Novel

Christine Pedotti opens the doors to the Bible for us, revealing the most beautiful of novels. She allows us access to its passionate stories, where feelings are expressed with power: love, ...

Genghis Khan

Volume 1 : The Man Who Loved the Wind

The life of one of the biggest conqueror of all times. This Mongolian nomad reigned over a territory even greater than that of Alexander the Great. A history of flesh and blood in which the ...

The Great Race The Yukon Quest

The story of an incredible challenge Nicolas Vanier embarks upon one of the world’s hardest sled races: the Yukon Quest. The Yukon Quest is 1600 kilometers of mountainous landscapes between ...

The Armenian

At the heart of the Armenian genocide. From a mother to her daughter. “I am the child of several storms, the daughter of rivers of blood. I was born to Armenia but my heartland was ...

Darkmouth

Volume 2 : Worlds Explode

A monstrously worrying suspense Legend Hunter-in-training Finn may be clumsy and uncoordinated, but nothing will stop him from saving his dad, who is trapped in a land full of the monsters that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reaching for the Sky

One Moutain at a Time A call to live freely and to follow your dreams. A crazy challenge: four 8000m climbs in the Himalayas, one after the other. You only climb the mountain of life one time. ...

A Stolen Life

A rare testimony about domestic violence and the mechanism of psychological control. “An hour has already passed since the countdown began. I’ve got to hurry to get the ironing done. After, it ...

No Lies Allowed

She is a virtuoso cellist. He is a famous Icelandic scientist, specialized in the brain. Laura and Erik live in Paris. A united, passionate and admired couple. Until the party that was thrown for ...

Tara Duncan

Volume 2 : The Forbidden Book

The second volume of Tara’s adventures is even funnier and more action packed! There is no rest for the young Spellweaver Tara Duncan! After barely escaping the grips of the Magister she must ...

Tara and Cal

Volume 1 : Tara and Cal

Is a Spellweaver without magic still a Spellweaver? A new era has begun for Tara Duncan. She who was undoubtedly the most powerful Spellweaver that OtherWorld had ever seen has lost her magic. ...

Tara Duncan

Volume 1 : The Spellweavers

Humor, adventure and magic for the first volume of the exploits of a Spellweaver like no other! Tara, an ordinary young girl, learns that she is a Spellweaver. She finds it rather corny…. She ...

Richelieu

Max Gallo tells the true story of Richelieu, a legendary character and a great builder of French unity. Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu should never have become Cardinal. Devoted to a ...

The Investigations of Inspector Higgins

Volume 21 : Assassination among the Druids

On a summer night, on St. John’s Day, the representative of various Druidic branches meet on the famous site of Stonehenge. The Great Druid Glamorgan The Red has summoned them in order to ...

The Investigations of Inspector Higgins

Volume 20 : Justice is done

For this high-profile London judge, a murderer is a man like all the others: whatever the atrocity of their crimes, they should be rehabilitated into society. Unfortunately for that magistrate, ...

The Investigations of Inspector Higgins

Volume 11 : The Secret of The Mac Gordon

Louis XIV The Life of the Great King

He was king as soon as he turned five, and he reigned until he reached the age of seventy seven. He was admired and well liked. He pushed back the frontiers of France. He was without mercy with ...

The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

The unforgettable novel of those we love but let go For twenty years, their paths were separated. It only took a letter from Queenie, announcing her imminent death, for Harold Fry to decide to ...

God Wills It

A vibrant chronicle that draw our attention upon historical recurrence Max Gallo, after Jesus, the Man who was God (more than 120,000 sold copies), drags us into the most novelized tale of one ...

Setna

Volume 4 : The Duel of The Mages

The ultimate confrontation of Prince Setna and the black mage Prince Setna is about to find his betrothed Sekhet, who is hiding in Memphis from assassins. But the black mage, Kekou, manages to ...

The Devil in the Marshalsea

London, 1727 – and Tom Hawkins is about to fall from his heaven of card games, brothels and coffee-houses into the hell of a debtors’ prison. The Marshalsea is a savage world of its ...

The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty

A modern and irreverent tale to get over with the cult of beauty! A witty feminist fable that examines the thrills and pitfalls of beauty from the perspective of two polar opposites: Barb, an ...

Darkmouth

Volume 1 : The Legend begins

A monstrously funny adventure! Be careful! Legends are coming! But rest assured, Finn was born to save the world… When he is faced with a ferocious monster, Finn doesn’t feel quite ...

A Hell of a Story

A new nightmare begins! Bernard Minier invites himself into your nights. “I will never go back to the island. Even if Jennifer Lawrence herself came to my door and begged me to go back, I ...

Tugdual

Volume 2 : Servants of the Order

The worse thing that could happen to them is to fall in love. A thrilling second volume of the Tugdual series, a new creation from the authors of Oksa Pollock. On each page a dark and unexpected ...

Virals

Volume 4 : Exposure

When twin classmates are abducted from Bolton Prep, Tory and the Virals decide there’s no one better equipped than them to investigate. But the gang has other problems to face. Their powers are ...

This Very Instant

Lisa and Arthur can only see each other one time per year. He spends his life looking for her… … she spends hers waiting. Lisa dreams of becoming an actress. She works in a bar in Manhattan to ...

Setna

Volume 3 : The Soul Thief

Danger in the Court of Ramses II Prince Setna has just escaped from the river where the Gods had thrown him for having stolen the Forbidden Book. While all believe he is dead, Setna makes his way ...

Escape

“It’s 6:00pm. I hear the call for prayer. My heart is racing in my chest. It’s now or never. A single mistake and they massacre me…” For eleven months, sixty-three-year-old Francis Collomp is ...

Machiavelli and Savonarola

At the turn of the 16th century the world is fascinated by the city of Florence. The Republic, under the rule of the Medici, is envied for its prosperity, its splendor but also its intrigues. Two ...

Setna

Volume 2 : The Forbidden Book

An intricate web in the court of Ramses II. Will love be strong enough to foil the evil plot ? Prince Setna, the youngest of Ramses’ sons, must go to the capital to interrogate his father about ...

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 ...

Brothers until the last breath

Twin brothers Damien and Nicolas Delmer have been fighting the incurable and degenerative disease cystic fibrosis since childhood. They were told that they would not live beyond seventeen…they ...

Short stories from Dragomira

Little Red Riding Cap, Ali-Dingo and the Forty Thieves, The Merlicoquette Who Wanted to Be as Big as the Incompetent. Does that ring a bell? Well, yes, the Lunatrixes’ have their stories and ...

And even that can’t be possible…

Forty years of fulfilled dreams! “I’m an old spoiled child. A lucky one. A privileged one. Not even happy, just satisfied. My memory is sparkling brilliantly: the joyful songs, the laughs & ...

Setna

Volume 1 : The Cursed Tomb

Hidden in its cursed tomb, Osiris’ vase, the most precious of treasures that holds the secret of life and death, is deemed inaccessible. A black mage has nonetheless stolen it and plans to use it ...

George Sand: The secret diary of a Lioness

An original and surprising look at the good Lady of Nohant through the inspired writing of Catherine Hermary-Vieille, who lends her words to George Sand in order to evoke her great loves, Chopin ...

The black book of the condition of Christians in the world

A civilisation in peril? The Black Book of the Condition of Christians in the World gathers: • The contribution of the world’s leading experts (historians, journalists, observers, ...

Tugdual

Volume 1 : The Black Hearts

Just shy of 18, Tudgual’s family is not exactly like other families. Like him, they all have magical powers. Abakum, his grandfather, Mortimer, his 17-year-old brother and Zoe, his 16-year-old ...

Of Dogs and Snow

6,000 km through Mongolia, China and Siberia. Ravenous lover of the Far North, Nicolas Vanier takes us on an extraordinary adventure through the wildest of territories, from the Pacific coast of ...

It just happened like that

A unique destiny, a powerful artist, a free-thinking man that these words unveil with accuracy, strength and modesty A superb and extravagant artist, Gerard Depardieu has been driven by his inner ...

Europa

Save Europe! In Europa, Europe’s last chance, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing calls, along with former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, for the urgent construction of strong and federated group of ...

Abandonned by words

Everything is a constant struggle: finding your way, being resourceful, getting around and putting up with mockery and humiliation. For the first time a book speaks of this disgrace that forces, ...

If I Stay

Mia is 17, all her friends are envious of her boyfriend, she has parents who may be a little excentric, but are nice nonetheless, a cute baby brother, and she is passionate about music. And then, ...

Francis I

The renowned historian whose books consistently sell over 100,000 copies in France brings us a stunning new historical narrative. 25 January 1515. Francis I is crowned in St. Denis. As early as ...

Tara Duncan

Volume 12 : The Final Battle

Is all lost? Tara Duncan is exhausted. The power of her terrifying magic puts her on the front line in the fight against the comet that continually tries to devastate the demon planets ...

Three children of our time

Three modern day children who are trapped by their antagonisms and their desires. France is twenty years old, she is beautiful and lives in the chic 16th district of Paris. She meets Salim, a ...

Love Addict

A taste of chic and sensual Paris that will please readers of The Devil Wears Prada and Fifty Shades of Grey. A humorous and erotic journey through the most iconic spots in Paris! When an ...

Sweet Damage

‘I still dream about Anna London’s house. In my dreams it’s as if the house itself has sinister intentions. But in real life it wasn’t the house that was responsible for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Central Park

Alice and Gabriel have no memory of the night before…yet they won’t forget it anytime soon. New York, 8am. Alice, a young Parisian cop and Gabriel, American jazz pianist, wake up on a bench in ...

To the 8th Heaven

Charlotte Valandrey, a die-hard lover and fighter, pens a very personal narrative and takes us on a romantic, sensitive, tender and often funny adventure that reveals the unpredictable magic of ...

The Fall of the Roman Empire

With his concise and scintillating pen, Max Gallo guides us, along with Galla Placidia, the last roman Empress and Attila the Hun, through the very last glory days of the empire that had ...

Don’t Turn Out the Light

  “You did nothing.” Christine Steinmeyer thought the letter she found in her mailbox on Christmas Eve wasn’t meant for her. But the man calling in to her radio show seems convinced ...

The Perfect

After the success of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Rachel Joyce follows with a very moving and elegant second novel. England, 1972. Byron Hemmings, age 11, learns from his best friend ...

Richard the Lionheart

Volume 2 : The Knights of the Grail

1191. For the last two years, the men of the third crusade wage a bloody and heated fight to free Jerusalem from Saladin. While Philip Augustus has just returned to France, Richard the Lionheart, ...

The book thief

IT IS IN 1939. NAZI GERMANY. THE COUNTRY IS HOLDING ITS BREATH. DEATH HAS NEVER BEEN BUSIER, AND WILL BECOME BUSIER STILL. Liesel Meminger and her younger brother are being taken by thei mother ...

God’s White Lie

“God is a buddy of mine. Or at least he was, until I found out he lied to me. It was just a second ago, right at the moment I died. I thought I was just going to disappear into oblivion ...

Comic Book – Belle and Sebastian

Nicolas Vanier delivers a brilliant version of Belle and Sebastian, a story of friendship between an orphan and his Great Pyrenees dog in the middle of World War II. High up in a village in the ...

Unavoidable

Will you know before Jo what drives him to kill? Jo Simon is a serial killer. Against his will. An unknown force makes him kill. Anyone. When the urge has passed, he tries to understand what ...

Genevieve of Paris

The Story of Saint Genevieve, the young woman who stood up against the Huns. 51. Gaul is under threat. Heading up a huge army, Attila has just destroyed Metz. Paris is on his path of invasion and ...

Oksa Pollock

Volume 6 : The Last Star

The long-awaited final volume of the magic saga! Oksa and the Run-for-Your-Lives are chasing their worst enemy: Orthon. With the help of his two sons, Gregor and Tugdual, he is unscrupulously ...

The Way to Rome

In 2007, for their honeymoon, Edouard and Mathilde Cortes walked 6000 kilometers on the pilgrimage routes leading from Paris to Jerusalem. Five years later, they leave as a family – two parents ...

Jesus, the Unknown Man

Precise research combined with the tender insight of a woman of faith. For centuries, we have written about Jesus, his life, his encounters, his miracles… Yet, the more we know about him, the ...

Scream and Silence

The story of a life nearly destroyed but saved by the will to fight. Claudine Rohr was raped two times. The first time was by her father. The second time, it was the doctor she confided in, years ...

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 ...

Theodore Boone

Volume 4 : The Activist

Theodore Boone trapped in the web of unscrupulous politicians In the quiet county of Strattenburg, citizens are troubled by the news of the construction of a new highway. Theo’s middle ...

Sentenced to Take My Own Life

Jonathan was still in grade school when the baiting, insults and punches began. They made fun of him, his body, his last name (which means “destiny” in French)… Then came the threats: they ...

Oksa Pollock – The graphic novel 1

Thirteen year old Oksa Pollock used to think she was just like everybody else, until one night when everything changed… Alone in her room and feeling ner­vous about starting a new high ...

Tara Duncan

Volume 11 : The War of the Planets

In OtherWorld, in the sky, six demon planets have appeared! What do they want? Why are they here? Do they mean war? Tara and Lisbeth have a serious choice to make: they have to warn the ...

A History of the First World War

Volume 2 : 1918 : The Dreadful Victory

Following 1914, Max Gallo concludes his account of the First World War. The author recounts these terrible years sealed Europe’s future and the outcome of this conflict which changed the world ...

I, Confucius…

A fabulous tale of wisdom that will help is to live better. After I, Buddha, José Frèches has now decided to explore Confucius. His teachings sculpted the minds of billions of human beings and he ...

Belle et Sébastien

Nicolas Vanier delivers a brilliant version of Belle and Sebastian, a story of friendship between an orphan and his Great Pyrenees dog in the middle of World War II. High up in a village in the ...

Are you her Mars? Is she your Venus?

According to your sign, your ascendant and Mars and Venus’ position, Elisabeth Teisser details all of the different astral combinations and their types (passionate couples/loving friendships, ...

Virals

Volume 3 : Code

They shouldn’t have. They shouldn’t have taken part in this internet scavenger hunt. They shouldn’t have tried to solve the first clue. But it was such a great challenge – a test of their super ...

Like a Fish out of Water

Patrick Sébastien dedicates this book to people who are like “fish out of water”, who are gasping for breath on the shore, out of the current, nostalgic and rebellious. Along paths ...

Susan Hopper

Volume 1 : The Lost Perfume

A new protagonist. A new dark tale. A new series by the authors of Oksa Pollock. After the resounding success of their first series, Cendrine Wolf and Anne Plichota are embarking on a new ...

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. ...

Next

She is his past… … he is her future. Emma lives in New York. At age 32, she is still looking for Mr. Right. Matthew lives in Boston. He lost his wife in a terrible accident and is raising ...

A History of the First World War

Volume 1 : 1914: The Fate of the World

Paris, East Station, Sunday 2 August 1914. Everyone is rallied up. All of these men getting ready to leave are so innocent and unaware… They cannot imagine that hundreds of thousands among them ...

The Newfoundland Violin

After The Winter Children, Gilbert Bordes delivers a portrait of the life of fishermen and the story of a man pulled between the call of the open sea and his impossible love for the mysterious ...

Theodore Boone

Volume 3 : The Accused

Theodore Boone wanted by the police? While all of Strattenburg anxiously awaits the trial of the odious Pete Duffy, who has been accused of murder, our young lawyer’s apprentice keeps ...

Oksa Pollock

Volume 5 : The Reign of the Felons

Oksa and the Run-for-your-Lives have finally made it back to the Outside! The Young Graciousness is reunited with both her mother and Gus, but her heart is bruised: Tugdual fled to join Orthon ...

Theodore Boone

Volume 2 : Abduction

Cleopatra’s Last Dream

For the first time, the legendary love story and power struggle between Cleopatra and Caesar as told by Christian Jacq. Queen at age 18, Cleopatra dreamed of reforming her country, only to be ...

The Circle

June 2010. In the middle of a World Cup match, Martin Servaz receives a call from a long-lost lover. A dozen kilometers away in the town of Marsac, Classics professor Claire Diemar has been ...

The Boy who Talked to the Wolf

Six lost souls, six connected souls, six souls waiting for one another. Little Eagle, a 13 year-old Native American, is madly in love with the lovely Wolfen. He decides to take off on a journey ...

Oblivion is Devil’s Play

For the first time, renowned historian Max Gallo reveals his life through an exceptional autobiography. This autobiography reads like a novel – a novel of initiation. A history book, a tale of ...

America

Volume 2 : The Red Hand

From the birth of the thirteen colonies to the present day, a merciless hatred grows between two families… A ruthless vendetta with a dazzling historical perspective 1733. One man embarks on a ...

Tara Duncan

Volume 10 : Dragons vs. Demons

Otherworld is all a flutter: the Empress let the demons in! Using Tara’s engagement as an excuse, though Tara has no intention of marrying anyone, Lisbeth offers her niece’s hand to both the ...

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

He only meant to post a letter. But he ended up walking over 1000 kilometres. An unforgettable novel that is a success the world over. “I’m on my way. Wait for me. I’m going to save you. I will ...

The Forgotten One

With great finesse, humor and sensitivity, Cyril Massarotto brings us to the edges of the mind, memory and familial love. A few months ago, Madeleine started forgetting things. Oh, you know, ...

7 Years Later…

Divorce separated them, danger is going to bring them back together…From the streets of Paris to the heart of the Amazon, an unsparing and brilliantly constructed thriller. A bohemian artist with ...

The Blood of Black Dolphins

Is telling the truth always the best choice? Rachel is forced to choose between her life’s calling and her only son. Thirtysomething Rachel Karlsen is a Franco-Danish environmental activist and ...

The Great Journey

Volume 2 : Mohawks’ Quest

“You shall travel by earth, stone, water and ice.” These are the last words that Raian, the old Chief of the Nahanni says to Mowhawks, his sixteen year old great-grandson before sending him off ...

Oksa Pollock

Volume 4 : The Cursed Ties

The times are changing… Destiny is being fulfilled just as Oksa is turning sixteen. While the Two Worlds are experiencing great chaos, she at long last becomes the monarch of Edefia, her ...

Eleanor

Volume 2 : The Broken Alliance

1172, Early one morning, Eleanor gets out of bed, leaving her husband Henry asleep. But appearances are deceiving. For years now, Eleanor has been living far from Henry. Their legendary union is ...

The Joyful Always Heal

François Rabelais said, “The joyful always heal.” Patrick Sebastien has made this his motto, his life’s lesson, his standard, to face tough moments, wounds, grief, defeat and betrayal, there is ...

Leaving unknown

A lively young woman trying to find herself. A fowlmouthed cockatiel. An old rattletrap. All aboard for Hollywood! This time, she’s really fed up! 25 year-old Maeve is about ready to lose it. ...

Harkis, Abandoned Soldiers

“I would like to honor you, harkis, but this book will do so better than I. This is your voice, modest, grave and dignified. We in France, our France, abandoned and betrayed you. You say it with ...

This is Not an Autobiography

From Salut les copains to Paris Match, Daniel Filipacchi, a very discrete and mysterious person until now, reveals for the first time his “manual” for life. Like his life, Filipacchi’s story is ...

Once upon a Secret

1962, Washington, the West Wing of the White House. Mimi, a young 19 year-old student is interning in the press department. She is young, naive and from a good family – she went to the same ...

Little Red Girl with Knife

“Over there, that’s my secret notebook, anyone that finds it better watch out because whoever reads my secrets inside, I’ll knock their brains out . So watch out. My secrets are the Empire.” This ...

A History of World War II

Volume 5 : 1944-1945: The Triumph of Freedom

D-Day is close. Freedom is close. At least, this is what the French are hoping in January 1944. But the path to the fall of the Third Reich is still long. Max Gallo tells the story of this march ...

Child of the First Dawn

All were born on September 11th, 2001 and now have less than a year left to live. They are linked by a forgotten tongue and a terrifying secret that goes back to the dawn of time Only a newborn ...

AAA

A takeover bid…for a country?! A shocking debut novel that dances into the underbelly of politics and finance. A disturbingly accurate reflection of how the world currently turns. “If the rich ...

Mathilda

“Each year, when I return to Namibia, I visit Mathilda Schloss’ grave. I help the Namibian trail openers with me to weed and clean up the bougainvilleas that surround out. I wait for them to move ...

The Great Journey

Volume 1 : Mohawks and the People of the North

“You shall travel by earth, stone, water and ice.” These are the last words that Raian, the old Chief of the Nahanni says to Mowhawks, his sixteen year old great-grandson before sending him off ...

Eleanor

Volume 1 : and the Reign of the Lions

At long last, 10 years after the phenomenal success of Eleanor’s Bed, the adventure continues! In the year 1154, the kingdom of England discovers Eleanor of Aquitaine: an incredibly beautiful, ...

2012-2016

Will the end of the world come about in 2012, as predicted by the Mayas? No, assures us Elizabeth Teissier. However, 2012 will without a doubt be a pivotal year, the start of an era filled with ...

The Little Girl Who Loved The Light

Cyril Massarotto’s fourth novel, written with a mature and steady hand, is filled to the brim with notions of tenderness, transference, and survival, and explores the heart’s astounding capacity ...

A History of World War II

Volume 4 : 1943: The Taste of Victory

Surviving with Wolves – Misha Defonseca’s True Story

Misha Defonseca was virtually unknown when her enigmatic and sensational Holocaust memoir, Surviving with Wolves1, first appeared in French and Belgian bookstores in 1997. Despite the fact that ...

Jude R

In 1970, Jude R. crosses the United States of America from East to West. On the run from vengeful individuals, he meets Lipi, a fifteen-year-old girl who seems as lost as he is. Moody and ...

Joan of Arc

On the occasion of the 600th anniversary of Joan of Arc’s birth in January 2012, Max Gallo tells the incredible and epic story of this extraordinary young woman. “Jeanne is a young woman barely ...

Dark Stars in the Sky

In 2007, Nadia is sent a picture of her grandfather, officer in the Wehrmacht. Humiliated, disliked, disparaged, Nadia’s mother was one of 200 000 children born out of scorned upon liaisons ...

Surviving with Wolves : Misha Defonseca’s True Story

Rumors about the veracity of Misha Defonseca’s account first surfaced in early 2008 and by February the author confessed that her story was made-up. Author Lionel Duroy immediately thought ...

Tara Duncan

Volume 9 : Battles the Black Queen

“No way!” To general astonishment, on the day of her sixteenth birthday, Tara categorically refuses to become Empress of Omois, when her Aunt Lisbeth steps down to give her niece the crown. And ...

Virals

Volume 2 : Seizure

The Virals’ home on Loggerhead Island is under threat, and only one thing can save it: a lot of money. A 300-year-old legend Rumour has it that notorious pirate Anne Bonny hid her treasure ...

In Another Life

Sometimes, dreams are not made to come true. A thriller that blurs the lines between reality and hypnosis One night, at the beginning of a Parisian summer, 24-year-old neurobiology student Max ...

Come back

A movie screen legend, a jealous producer, a killer… Some films are cursed. Finally! For the first time ever, Helene Lancel, star of the French screen, has accepted a role in television. ...

Mary Magdalene

Volume 3 : The Poet Prince

The Son of Man shall choose When the time returns for the Poet Prince. He will inspire the hearts and minds of the people So as to illuminate the path of service And show them the Way. This is ...

Daughter of M’Barek and Fatim-Sohra. Attorney General.

18th May 2007. On the steps of the Elysée Palace, her name is called: “Ms. Rachida Dati, Attorney general.” Rachida Dati, daughter of a worker from Chalon, is named Minister for ...

A History of World War II

Volume 3 : 1942, Dawn of A New Day

During that impressive year in 1942, between terror and hope, Max Gallo continues his epic History of World War II. 1942: “Death greedily crosses continents and oceans.” In Europe, ...

Blasphemy

Sentenced to death over a glass of water. It is 45°C (113°F) out that day, in a field in Punjab. Asia has been gathering berries for several hours. The work is grueling, but Asia has a husband ...

We are all unique

An individualized approach to pain prevention and well-being. Variety is the spice of life! You cannot cure everyone the same way. Nadia Volf explains how understanding our own natures can help ...

Born under a Lucky Star

What if you changed your mind about astrology? We are all unique, and every choice we make determines the course of our lives. But are we following the path that suits us best? This is what ...

Call from an Angel

Two whole lives contained in two tiny mobile phones… New York, JFK Airport. In a packed airport lounge, a man and a woman literally run into each other, spilling their belongings on the ...

Please Look After Mom

A million-plus-copy best seller in Korea, this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family’s search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station ...

Oksa Pollock

Volume 3 : The Heart of Two Worlds

Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, torrential rain… The Earth is crumbling apart! While London is being is flooded by the overflowing waters of an angry Thames, Oksa and the Pollock family ...

The Frozen Dead

Best French Novel Price at the Festival Polar de Cognac 2011 Embouchure Price 2012 In December 2008, in a valley deep in the Great Pyrenees, the employees of a hydroelectric plant discover, on ...

A History of World War II

Volume 2 : 1941: A World Ablaze

Max Gallo brings World War II history to life, exploring the tragic years that drastically changed the world. January 1941: Europe is reeling from the shock of 1940. The nazi plague has ...

Alas, it’s a beautiful day!

“I decided to write during two months. July and August. Like summer slides, snapshots. Following the moments and my mood, as I like so much to do. Without premeditation, as it came. ...

The Rise of Egypt

Volume 3 : Eye of Falcon

With the help of valiant Scorpion, and the magic of Priestess Neit, Narmer has achieved peace between the Two Lands, where slowly, serenity is restored to the everyday lives of its citizens. ...

The Son

2011 GONCOURT DEBUT NOVEL PRIZE “Eleven days after I died, Dad took my blanket to the dry cleaner’s. Walking up the Rue du Couedic, his nose buried in my bedding. He’s telling ...

Virals

Volume 1 : Viral

Tory Brennan, niece of acclaimed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (of the Bones novels and hit TV show), is the leader of a ragtag band of teenage “sci-philes” who live on a ...

I Remember Everything

Is life worth living From so much to tell My memory Clairefontaine Keeps flowing I remember everything I wrote I sang I remember you Who enchanted me. Here are tender and nostalgic memories of ...

Shadows of the Romanovs

A captivating novel about one of the best kept secrets of the 20th century Quentin cannot believe his own eyes: he has found, in a package delivered to his mailbox in the middle of the night, a ...

The Rise of Egypt

Volume 2 : Scorpio's fire

In this stunning new series, Christian Jacq reveals the mystery behind the First Dynasty: how the Two Kingdoms, plunged into chaos, became the Egypt of the pharaohs, land of a timeless ...

Where She Went

It’s been three years since the devastating accident . . . three years since Mia walked out of Adam’s life forever. Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is Juilliard’s rising star ...

Don’t Ask

What if a stranger knew all your family secrets?* Anne, a young French journalist, runs a man over in the streets of Naples. The man wakes up with amnesia, and without a phone or any ...

No life

A literary version of The Matrix, breathtaking, fast paced and subtle. * The “No lifes”, are those who spend all their time on the Internet instead of going out and living their real ...

Cinderella goes to Hollywood

The hilarious adventures of a Frenchie in Hollywood, the only place in the world where truly anything is possible…* Ines Valente’s dream is to work in the world of cinema. And since ...

The Long Winding Road to You

“I had to come such a long way to find you”, murmurs Marie Christine Barrault in Roger Vadim’s ear on the day of their wedding. A long path to find this unique, profound, ...

Endal

Allen Parton was seriously injured while serving in the Gulf War and returned home unable to walk, talk or remember most of his life. After five years of rehabilitation, he was still severely ...

A 10 Year Ambition

In its new report, the “Commission for the Liberation of French Growth” presents a ten-year strategy and 27 new proposals. It refers to two emergencies: debt reduction, to avoid loss of ...

Theodore Boone

Volume 1 : Kid Lawyer

A perfect murder. A faceless witness. A lone courtroom champion knows the whole truth… and he’s only thirteen years old. Meet Theodore Boone. In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many ...

The Rise of Egypt

Volume 1 : War of the Clans

Christian Jacq reveals the mystery of the Zero Dynasty: how a country of two lands, plunged into chaos, gave rise to the Egypt of the pharaohs, birthplace of an ageless civilisation… 3500 ...

Jesus, the Man who was God

All Max Gallo’s powers of bringing a story and all its subleties to life were needed to tell the tale of one of the greatest mysteries of the world: Jesus, man or God, God and man… On ...

For Sale: Mariana, aged 15

“Mariana, Florina, Elena are all aged between fifteen and sixteen years, and work as sex slaves. That is essentially all the information I have about them, but it’s all I really need ...

A Child from Another World

Today is Alex’s birthday. Who is Alex? He is Lucy’s son, a long awaited child delivered to her from the heavens at Roissy airport, eight years ago, her greatest pride and joy. The only man in her ...

America

Volume 1 : The Thirteenth Colony

A ruthless vendetta A dazzling historical perspective The year is 1691. A vessel is making its escape from the coast of Ireland, which has fallen into English hands. Onboard, are Harry and Lilly ...

Changing Secondary School: It’s Possible!

For 30 years several reforms have been implemented, uselessly. Childrens get bored, give up. Worse: violense is growing. Even worse: They are still not taught the learnings that are necessary to ...

I Am The Most Beautiful Man in The World

This man is a legend, yet all he wants to do is disappear. And when he finally finds something to live for, it may already be too late… “Thinking back, I’ve always been ...

A Spoilt Child

It’s a beautiful story, and beautiful stories are meant to be told… We all know Jean-Marie Périer, the photographer of the idols for “Salut les Copains” in the gay 1960s, ...

I’ve always said he would do it again

When she talked about her rape, it was soon forgotten. Now that a woman is dead, she must and will be heard. “My name is Morgane Vallée, and I’m 22 years old. I’m not a judge, ...

Beautiful Malice

With a page-turning plot and characters that leap off the page, this is the story of an obsessive friendship and dark secrets that can no longer be hidden. “Truth or dare?” she asks. ...

Oksa Pollock

Volume 2 : The Forest of the Lost

Gus has vanished! Oksa’s best friend disappeared this morning, somewhere inside St Proximus, their magnificient London college. All that’s left of him is his mobile phone, which Oksa retrieves ...

Yes, Tell me, Why?

Why do lions have a large mane? Why do the characters in Star Trek travel via teleportation? Why is it so difficult to remove the plastic covering new CDs? Why can’t we understand anything ...

The Assault

54 hours of terror, 173 hostages And 45 members of the GIGN, who will stop at nothing to save them. An historical exploit, and a never before revealed adventure. December 24th, 1994. Roland ...

Little Flower from Mandchuria

The astronomic journey of a young Chinese girl, born in a woodsmen’s camp, into a family broken by the Cultural Revolution, who learned English by listening to the radio, and through sheer ...

Lightning

“- Sam, what are we going to do… you know, after? It was the first time we used that word: after. He didn’t answer. He walked to the double window. He stood there, looking out. ...

Miral

Written by the much-admired Italo-Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal, Miral is a novel that focuses on remarkable women whose lives unfold in the turbulent political climate along the borders of ...

The Physic Book of Deliverance Dane

A crime lost to time. A secret buried deep. One book unlocks an unimaginable truth. Salem, Massachusetts, 1681. Fear and suspicion lead a small town to unspeakable acts. Marblehead, ...

Girl on Paper

“She appeared on my terrace on a stormy night, soaking wet and stark naked: -Where did you come from? -I fell… -Fell out of what? -Fell out of your book. You know, out of your ...

The Queen of Light

Volume 2 : Terra Incognita

Duchess Helen, overwrought after the death of Prince Djem, leaves behind the splendour and intrigues of the Vatican to return to France, an irreparable crime is brewing in secret in the corridors ...

Apocalipstick

A hilarious and lively debut novel, with one cinematically paced comical scenario after another, laced with real emotion and feeling. An exceptional debut novel. Who is this blonde, climbing out ...

Oksa Pollock

Volume 1 : The Last Hope

Visit the Oksa Pollock website Thirteen year old Oksa Pollock used to think she was just like everybody else, until one night when everything changed…Alone in her room and feeling nervous ...

Sisters in Sanity

Have you ever had the out-of-control dream? The one where you know you’re not crazy, but no one around you—not your parents, not your teachers, not even the authorities—will listen to you? For ...

A History of World War II

Volume 1 : 1940, from Despair to Hope

The destiny of Europe was decided in 1940. Seventy years later, Max Gallo brings back to life those terrible, yet still largely unknown twelve months in history. January 1940: the ‘phony ...

Intrusion

Many people dream about forgetting the past. Cyrille, on the other hand, would love to remember… What happened during the ten years that are just a black hole to her? Cyrille Blake is a ...

Get Lost

You have to see it to believe it: in 2010, men and women are still being banished from their families for loving someone of their own gender. “It’s within families that homophobia ...

Imhotep, the Inventor of Eternity

Pharaoh is dead, Egypt is weakened. Djeser, a fierce prince, has decided to found a new dynasty, but will he be elected by the Grand Council, and will the gods choose him? In these troubled ...

The Queen of Light

Volume 1 : Elora

In a dark forest, deep in the Vercors region, Elora, Baroness Hélène de Sassenage’s young adopted daughter, discovers the remnants of a dead body. Instead of running away terrified, Elora ...

A Dog Named Christmas

In this heartwarming novel, author Greg Kincaid tells the tender story of how one very special dog changed the lives of his adoptive family- and an entire town-forever. “Todd, they always ...

The Ten Thousand Desires of Emperor Chenghua

Passions, intrigue and sensuality within the walls of the Forbidden City… Beijing, 1660. The ravishing courtesan Yadil, swathed in veils of precious fabric, trembles fearfully before the ...

Her Fearful Symmetry

Julia and Valentina Poole are semi-normal American twenty-year-olds with seemingly little interest in college or finding jobs. Their attachment to one another is intense. One morning the mailman ...

Leave Rome or Die

The year is 62 AD. Nero rules over the Roman empire with a despotic hand. Young patrician Marcus is sentenced to death for offending him. Hunted by the Pretorian guard, he escapes from the ...

Napoleon, Uncovered

The portrait, from up close, of an unknown Napoleon “Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jerome, is my grandfather’s grandfather. In the Emperor’s story, the story of the Republican general, or the ...

Berlin November 9th 1989: The Fall

20 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, Alexandre Adler, expert in international relations, reveals the hidden reasons behind the fall of the Soviet world. Twenty years ago, the Berlin wall ...

My cocked eyed life

From Des Boutons Dorés to Pour moi la vie va commencer, via the famous Captain Flam, three generations know his songs and melodies. When he recounts his memories, Jean-Jacques Debout rends a ...

Have a Little Faith

What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together? In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two ...

A Ticket to Hell

Her husband has been beating her for years. The day he tries to take his anger out on their nine year old son, she has no other choice: she intervenes, and ends up killing him. But her husband is ...

The Winter Children

During the Second World War, the story of six children’s fight for survival, in the lonely frozen plains of the snowy Pyrenees Winter, 1943. ‘The children! Where are the children?’ The ...

Tara Duncan

Volume 7 : And the Ghost Invasion

Tara’s world is on the road to perdition! There is a breach into the beyond. Thousands of ghosts invade OtherWorld, avidly hoping for reincarnation. In a few hours, the Empress, the ...

Tara Duncan

Volume 8 : The Maleficient Empress

Banished on Earth for almost destroying OtherWorld, Tara is entirely cut off from her past life. With no news from her friends Robin the doe-eyed elf, Cal the Patented Thief, or soft Sparrow, far ...

The Princess and the President

We might have been expecting something more from him along the lines of restoring order to the world of finance or the future of the European Continent. However, the former President of the ...

A Hundred Blank Pages

When a strange inheritance changes the hand a life has been dealt… “This notebook is my heritage. Your sisters will get the rest, but believe me, I leave you my most precious ...

Slumgirl Dreaming

From Mumbai’s slum to Hollywood’s glitter: Rubina, the little star from Slumdog Millionaire who moved the whole world, tells her extraordinary story. I’m Rubina and I’m nine years old. My life ...

Mary Magdalene

Volume 2 : Book of Love

No more talk about it

 “A bear. That’s what everyone thinks of me. And that is the truth. If I had prepared a plan for this book, which I did not, what would have been in it? My birth, my school years, the ...

Into the Celine Dion Mystery

Celine Dion at last revealed Celine Dion has millions of fans throughout the world, she has sold more than 200 million records, and yet she remains mysterious. Denise Bombardier – one of ...

The Witches’ Chorus

Volume 3 :

The end of the magnificent Witches’Chorus, an enchanting historical adventure, abounding in sensuality. 1484. At the Court of Philippine of Sassenage, danger reigns over all. It threatens ...

Being Young at All Ages

An illustrated self-help guide to a longer, happier life “In Ancient China, the custom was to pay the doctor…once you felt better. As soon as you fell ill, healthcare became free. ...

The Last Days of Paris

A spectacular fantasy thriller about the History of Paris and its lost river. It’s a Spring evening. In the famous menagerie in the Jardin des Plantes, the animals are restless. They’re ...

French Revolution

Volume 2 : To arms, citizens!

The second volume of this innovative and thrilling tale. Diverging from official History, from our school books, this is the French Revolution as seen from the inside.

I Had an Out-of-Body Experience

Krystel was involved in a serious car accident the day before her final exams. She is declared clinically dead upon arriving in the hospital, and she spends four weeks in a coma. During those ...

The Book of Fate

A thriller to be read with bated breath, set in the heart of the White House, that changes you forever. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The President of the United States is there for an official state ...

Where Would I Be Without You?

Gabrielle has two men in her life. One is her father; the other is her first love. One is a famous cop; the other is a renowned thief. Fate took them away from her a long time ago. On the same ...

The Judgement of the Mummy

When the vibrant London of the 19th century discovers through crime the civilisation of the pharaohs… London, 1821. An extraordinary event has attracted the attention of London’s aristocratic ...

A Path of Promises

Mathilde and Édouard Cortès walked the 6000km between Paris and Jerusalem. An incredible human adventure, both physically and spiritually. 17th June 2007, on the steps of Notre-Dame de Paris, ...

Tara Duncan

Volume 6 : In Magister's Trap

« Harry Potter’s little French sister » (Paris Match) arrives in XO. TEASER TARA DUNCAN (Animated film co-produced by Moonscoop)   In the magnificent palace in Ornois, young Tara is fuming. ...

I, Sampat Pal, Warrior in a Pink Sary

For the past two years, deep in the Uttar Pradesh province, one of the poorest parts of India, a woman has taken the reigns of an uprising. A women’s revolution, a revolt of the mistreated, of ...

The First time, I Was Six …

Every year in France, thousands of children are sexually abused. Three times out of four, it is within their own families. Almost every time, both the child and the people around keep quiet. ...

The Great War 1914-1918

For the 90th anniversary of the signing of the armistice of World War I, a commemorative album, a collection of exceptional archives, for the most part yet unpublished This exceptional album ...

The 7 lives of Dr Kouchner

Founder of Doctors without Borders, then World Doctors, activist, journalist, gastro-enterologist at the Cochin hospital, scriptwriter for a famous TV show, first of the French Doctors, European ...

See You Soon!

See you soon!, are the last words that Michel Serrault wanted to leave us with, and which he asked to see inscribed on his book. The rest of the text is merely an interpretation of…the ...

I Started With a Drink

The exceptional story of a woman who became an alcoholic at a very young age, while she worked as an air hostess for a big national company. Like most alcoholic women, she denies having this ...

Wolf

With this fast-paced, adventure-filled novel, Nicolas Vanier takes us on a journey into breathtaking, unkown territories. Touched by the sight of a wolf mother playing with her cubs, Serguei ...

Help! Rescue our school!

For a period of six years, this young professor has made notes on his work in a tough high school. With total freedom of expression, and a lively tone, he recounts the unbelievable situation ...

Cancer!

Aged 28, he fights for his life and tells us how beautiful it is. At the age of 20, Christophe was told he had cancer. Despite his existence falling apart at the seams, he conquers his illness. ...

God is a Friend of Mine

A first novel by a 33-year-old author A modern writing, full of humor and vibrant with emotion. The narrator is 30 when he meets God. Or, rather, when God summons him. He does not ask him for ...

The Witches’ Chorus

Volume 2 :

In the style of Le Lit d’Alienor and Bal des Louves, the sequel to the magnificent Chant des Sorcières, a magical historical novel, abounding and sensuous. It is the winter of 1484. At the ...

The 7 of Spandau

The chaplains of Albert Speer, Rudolf Hess, and other nazi criminals judged in Nuremberg, locked up in the Spandau prison, tell their stories. Between 1947 and 1987, seven nazi ex-dignitaries, ...

The Gates of Louviers

Myrielle Marc delivers a magnificently constructed novel, about a woman rebuilding her life after a breakup, about solitude, freedom and hope… Pauline has children, and as of this morning, ...

One Day, Perhaps

« You must live and love like there is no tomorrow. We always think we have so much time, but it’s not true. One day, we realise we have gone past the point of no return, and it is too late ...

My Father

Two years ago, while walking on les Champs-Elysées, Mireille Darc meets with destiny through a stranger woman, who told her a stupefying revelation. This woman has got a « message » for her from ...

Little Eagle

As he comes home from school one autumn evening, Little Eagle, thirteen years old, comes upon his sobbing mother, who confesses that he isn’t her son. She found him, twelve years ago, in ...

Tutankhamun

In Search of the Ultimate Secret of Tutankhamun, The Famous Golden Masked Pharaoh Cairo, 1951. King Farouk, a cruel and corrupt tyrant, reigns over Egypt. The last descendant of the great priests ...

My Voice for Freedom

The exceptional testimony of Ani Choying, A Buddhist nun who has been fighting for the freedom of Young Nepalese girls for more than fifteen years. Ani Choying is a fighter. She has been fighting ...

300 Resolutions to Make France Change

In August 2007, the French President and Prime Minister asked Jacques Attali to summon a commission, whose role would be to deliberate on possible ways of making sure growth could be strong once ...

The Witches’ Chorus

Volume 1 :

After Calmel’s previous novels, 2 million copies sold in France and translated into 15 languages, A fabulous new historical novel, bursting with magic and sensuality. The year is 1483, the place ...

Absolute Love

Claude Francois has been gone for 30 years. The woman who lived in his shadow reveals the secrets of an all-consuming love. “Always keep that flame in your eyes alive for me”, he ...

The High Commissioner and The Unumployed

« Dear Martin Hirsh, finding your letter in my letterbox gave me great pleasure. I accept your offer to continue this exchange, especially since I find the idea of corresponding with you highly ...

I Met Incredible People

One day, I decided to turn my life around. To stop doing television, not to do L’instit anymore, even though it was such a big part of my life, and to become simply Gerard again. Spend time with ...

Deliver Us from Evil

An engrossing historical thriller where magic and superstition coexist alongside Catholicism and the stranglehold of the Vatican Cantimpré, January 1288. This remote village, situated in the ...

Louis XIV

Volume 2 : L'Hiver du grand roi

The untold story of king Louis The Great Max Gallo takes us back to Louis XIV’s side, into his thoughts, to show us his humanity. He tells us all about the future king’s tormented ...

Nouvelle traduction : J’ai rencontré des gens formidables

« Un jour, j’ai décidé de changer de vie. Arrêter la télé, ne plus être L’Instit qui m’avait tant donné, redevenir Gérard. Retrouver ma famille après ces dix années exaltantes mais épuisantes de ...

French Revolution

Volume I : The People and the King

Diverging from official History, from school books, this is the French Revolution as seen from the inside. An innovative and thrilling tale. In 1774, with great acclaim, a young king mounts the ...

Gandhi

Volume 2 : And India Will Be Free!

The second volume of a gripping biography, which underlines the modernity of this great man.

The Christmas Ark

Why did magic leave our world? What happened to the goblins, elves and fairies that used to inhabit the tales of yesterday? What if they were coming back? London, winter 1858. Amory, an ...

Frozen Memories

“I love finding myself weeks, even months worth of marching away from any road, from the closest village. To become part of the land, become one with the animals which inhabit it. To no ...

Rhett Butler’s People

He was the man behind the legend of Gone With The Wind… The time has come to tell his story. Get RHETT. Fully authorized by the Margaret Mitchell estate, Rhett Butler’s People is the ...

The Bat’s Daughter

Four hundred million records sold worldwide Forty years of uninterrupted international performances Fifteen hundred songs recorded in all languages More than three hundred Gold, Diamond, and ...

In the Light

A life through the stage and through song Sylvie Vartan recorded her first record, Panne d’Essence, with the help of her brother Eddie. The song quickly becomes a hit. From then on, the ...

On Love in General…

French women have sex without complex A modern how-to do written by a love addict Learn the pleasures of sexuality and love with lightness and humour, without any taboos, the way the French do ...

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 ...

One Day, Terrible Things will Happen…

A nerve-racking thriller “à la Stephen King”. A very demanding thriller, wonderfully constructed and written, that awakens ancient fears in us: shadows and ghosts, mystical ceremonies, and a ...

Gandhi

Volume 1 : I Am a Soldier of Peace

January 2008 : 60th Anniversary of the death of Gandhi, a man renowned the world over. How did this sickly, fainthearted, painfully shy Indian man become the great man we know? How did this ...

Louis XIV

Volume 1 : The Sun King

The untold story of the king Louis The Great Max Gallo employs his talent to take us back to Louis XIV’s side, into his thoughts, to show us his humanity. He tells us all about the future king’s ...

To Laugh, and Not to Die

Millions of people will be deeply affected by the story of his life, people who have loved and applauded him for over 20 years. Those who have only ever heard the name will discover a unique ...

Mary Magdalene

Volume 1 : The Expected one

THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD! A political rivalry that ended in two executions An intricate love triangle that altered the course of History A religious revolution that changed the world… ...

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 ...

Oncle Dan

Jean-Marie Périer tells us the story of the enigmatic head of press Daniel Filipacchi, his « third father », the man who helped him get to where he is now, and who was a central figure during the ...

Lost and Found

Layla, a five-year-old girl, disappears in a Los Angeles shopping center. Thoroughly shattered, her parents end up separating. Five years later, she turns up in the exact same place where her ...

Together

“As we come to the end of this campaign, throughout which so many subjects have been discussed, so many words have been said, I wanted to say how, and why, it was still possible to imagine ...

When the Chinese Stop Laughing, the World Will Weep

Should we be scared of China? When you get to China for the first time, you’ll be amazed to see that people there laugh all the time. This permanent laughter is a sign of Chinamen’s quest for ...

Orphans of Evil

What became of the children born in the Lebensborn, those human breeding farms created by the Nazis? The answer is in this gripping thriller. Germany, 1995: on the same day, four men are ...

We finish off our old, don’t we?

This book is an outry of anger, and rebellion, a living testimonial of a man who shares with us the horrors, sufferings and the emotions of a run-of-the-mill retirement home. The truth has never ...

The River of Souls

Can an impossible love be renewed beyond time? Maud, a successful novelist about to turn 40, is suffocating under the weight of a secret. In the past few weeks, her life, so full and rich, seems ...

Family at the centre of our life

The twentieth century has been corrosive an acid. Like the monumental statues of dictators which we have seen falling heavily on the news, traditional values have also been destroyed, or shaken. ...

The Black Plague

Volume 2 : The Ragman King

The Black Plague is wreaking havoc in France. The kingdom is wavering. A young princess leads a conspiracy which aims to restore justice It is the year 1324. Queen Clemence, the King’s widow of ...

Until Death Do Us Part

INGRID BETANCOURT HAS JUST BEEN FREED! Her memoirs, “Until Death Do Us Part” (original title: La Rage au coeur), has been published by XO in 2001. This woman is a heroine. In this ...

The Black Roses

Inspired by the greatest mining tragedy in French history, this highly moving novel celebrates courage, solidarity and heroism. In the spring of 1906, the roses that Éliette picks in the mining ...

Objective: The North Pole by Night

After Conquering the Impossible, Mike Horn takes us on a journey into darkness and ice that defies reason. “In front of us gaped the mouth of Hell. An endless night, abysses of cold where no ...

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 ...

The Black Plague

Volume 1 : The Conspiracy of the Lilies

A maiden of royal blood seeking to regain her rightful place; conspirators working to reestablish justice and a king’s honor; a turbulent love story in a country ravaged by the Plague… A great ...

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 ...

The Vengeance of the Gods

Volume 2 : The Divine Worshipper

Egypt, 518 BC, the reign of Amasis, next to last pharaoh of the XXVI dynasty. Kel, a young scribe recently hired by the prestigious guild of interpreters, thinks his future is secure. But ...

Empire of tears

Volume 2 : The Plunder of the Summer Palace

A fugitive dancer, a prince turned traitor by love, a child whose life is in danger, a young rebellious English woman… The destinies of Jose Freches’ characters come together to form the canvas ...

Save Christmas

London, 1854, December 24th. Santa Klaus hasn’t come to the houses in London. One can see no gift under the enlightened Christmas trees. Sadness spreads through the city. A child, Harold, a ...

The Vengeance of the Gods

Volume 1 : The Man Hunt

Egypt, 518 BC, the reign of Amasis, next to last pharaoh of the XXVI dynasty. Kel, a young scribe recently hired by the prestigious guild of interpreters, thinks his future is secure. But ...

The Kiss of Qumrân

What do we know about Jesus’ early years? The fascinating story of a young man in search of his origins, and a young girl who simply wants to experience love. This child, Ieschou, is none other ...

We Chose Freedom

The extraordinary journey of a visionary woman doctor, from the USSR in the 80s, to France, land of rebirth and recognition. Nadia is Russian, born in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) in 1961. Her ...

For One More Day

From the author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie, a new novel that millions of fans have been waiting for. In this first novel from Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five ...

Empire of Tears

Volume 1 : The Opium War

A fugitive dancer, a prince turned traitor by love, a child whose life is in danger, a young rebellious English woman… The destinies of Jose Freches’ characters come together to form the canvas ...

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 ...

No One will Get Away

Concord, New Hampshire. Winter of 2007. Twenty four corpses are discovered in the snowed in construction site of a highway. Twenty four dead bodies, the victims aged from 18 to 60, of all races, ...

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 ...

The Jungle

Along the lines of The Jungle Book, an account of an extraordinary childhood. An International bestseller: No. 1 in Germany and Great Britain. At the age of 5, Sabine arrived in Western New ...

Wake Up, Jules Ferry, they’re going mad!

A controversial book about a national scandal: the complete failure of secondary schools and of their mission. French high schools, cornerstones of the educational system, are failing ...

The Cursed Man

Pain, duty and the law Will seal the fate of two wondrous, timeless characters A harsh, violent, entirely gripping story. On a distant, maybe imaginary, island of the North, a young man is ...

My Testimony

“As far as I can remember, taking action has always been one of my watchwords. I have always been fascinated by the possibility of changing the everyday life, of making the impossible ...

The Clearstream scandal

When truth is stranger than fiction… For almost three years, an imbroglio threatens many French State dignitaries. The affair has got a name – Clearstream -, possesses dark ramifications in ...

The House of the Wolves

Volume 1 : The Cursed Room

A powerful and entrancing novel December 1500. At the foot of the ramparts of Montguerlhe castle, under the frozen moon, lies a young girl. She is bloody and unconscious. Because she was too ...

Will You Be There?

There is a question that everybody, at least once in a lifetime, must have come up with: if you had the opportunity to, what would you change in your life? If you had to do it again, what ...

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 ...

The Prince or the Fools Feast

An adventure story and a philosophical tale with which Jacques Chancel takes us into a fabulous and baroque universe. Four men get in a pub. Each one has received a plane ticket for Saigon. They ...

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 ...

Mozart

Volume 3 : The Brother of Fire

“I swear to God, your son is the greatest composer ever…” (Joseph Haydn speaking to Mozart’s father). Mozart, still supported by his faithful Thamos, is happy to throw himself into Masonic rites ...

The Historian

Volume 2 :

My dear and unfortunate successor: It is with regret that I imagine you, whoever you are, reading the account I must put down here. The regret is partly for myself – because I will surely ...

Mozart

Volume 4 : The Beloved of Isis

While sick and crippled with debts, Mozart still composes, because his life depends on his work. So will he accept, with sort of a premonitory and heartrending surge, the mysterious order for a ...

Lady Pirate

Volume 1 : The King's valets

Earthly, violent and passionate, Mary Read — the legendary pirate — is one of the heroines that Mireille Calmel, since The Eleanor’s Bed and The She-Wolves Ball, excels in recalling. London, ...

Queen of Palmyra

Volume 1 : The Dance of Gods

The saga of the Syrian Cleopatra, a woman who led a kingdom, stood up to the great Roman Empire, and became a legend in her lifetime. After the international succes of the INCA (500 000 copies ...

The Black Star

1943. A roundup. Sidonie and her two twin children are arrested : they are Black and will be sent to a concentration camp. To fight against loneliness, pain and madness, Sidonie is dipping into ...

The Historian

Volume 1 :

My dear and unfortunate successor: It is with regret that I imagine you, whoever you are, reading the account I must put down here. The regret is partly for myself – because I will surely ...

My Soul for God, my Body for my Country, my Honour for Myself

Lieutenant Pierre Guillaume, an exceptional sailor and soldier, was born on August 11th 1925 in Saint-Servan, France, and died on December 2002, after an intense and eventful life. A soldiers’ ...

The Black Book of Women’s Condition

The first report on the situation of women throughout the world In many parts of the world today, women’s lives are unbearable, and not enough is known about this. No tradition, no custom, no ...

Mozart

Volume 2 : The Son of Light

First a symphony and then a serenade… Mozart keeps on composing, as if his own existence was dependent on it. But his employer, the Prince and Archbishop of Salzburg doesn’t like this exhibited ...

In between the shadows and the light

“When I think back to my first years, in Bulgaria, I feel as though there never was a child happier at the prospect of discovering the world. And yet, never had the world been plunged into such ...

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 ...

Mozart

Volume 1 : The Great Wizard

For the 250th birthday of the composer, Mozart Christian Jacq discloses the secret bounds which linked together Mozart, Freemasonry and Ancient Egypt Mozart had been initiated into the Mysteries ...

Queen of Palmyra

Volume 2 : The Golden Chains

Third Century A.C., Zenobia has become Queen of Palmyra. She refused to consummate her marriage, convincing her husband that, by respecting her this way, he would win glory. And, thus, when the ...

Schooled by far North

The Horn daughters put to the adventure test… Everybody knows Mike Horn. He is a professional adventurer who carried out some amazing solitary expeditions: he swam down the Amazon, he went round ...

One Second Before Christmas

A magical, enchanting Christmas tale that grows out of the questions.How does Santa Claus deliver all his packages at once?…. Where is his factory?… Who makes the gifts?… How does it all ...

Once Upon a Time in China

« When China wakes up, the world will tremble ». Napoléon José Frèches, sinologue and passionate story-teller, renders to history of China accessible to all. In this accessible and illustrated ...

The Black Ribbon of Lady Beresford

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 ...

Until my heart is beating

“Writing about my life took me more than a year, during which I have always been switching from laughter to tears. Am I proud of the result? I am proud of achieving it… For the rest, I just ...

I was born today at dawn

3 million copies sold throughout the world “Tales help children to fall asleep and adults to wake up.” Jorge Bucay proposes in his new book a collection of tales he invented in order ...

The Black Book of Saddam Hussein

One million civilian deaths, two million victims altogether: this was the toll of Saddam Hussein’s thirty five year long dictatorship. The Black Book of Saddam Hussein is the first book of its ...

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 ...

Lady Pirate

Volume 2 : The Parade of the Shadows

Vengeance ! That is the word engraved on the heart of Mary Read, pirate and spy for the king of Scotland, as she sets out for Venice. Her husband, her great love, the man for whom she had laid ...

Vitriol Mint

In any recess of debauchery lie a huge sense of propriety, some immeasurable quantities of pure love and unfathomable depths of soul. This book is the real-life novel of an icon. Of an ...

Fatal Light

After his successful Mist and The Night of Aquarius (300,000 copies sold in France), Laurent Botti has produced another hit : Fatal Light, THE thriller about the film world. Iris is thirty years ...

Women and Domination

All over the world, each year, one woman out of five is a victim of violence from her partner. Three women die from it every two weeks. Physical aggressions in couples don’t happen suddenly. ...

Surviving with Wolves

During the WWII, Misha, 8 years old, crossed all Europe in search for her parents, and was adopted by packs of wolves. A fascinating story.

A Mix-up in Heaven

After a tremendously successful previous novel — Afterwards…, which has sold 300.000 copies — Guillaume Musso offers a bewitching story, full of enchantment, suspense and love. Juliette and Sam ...

Sky

His name was Sky Eyes; he dreamed of being an eagle. In the green hell of Vietnam an extraordinary friendship springs up between Sky, an Apache Indian who has enlisted in the American army, and a ...

Conquering the Impossible

“If a man is motivated by an idea, the impossible no longer exists…” – Mike Horn Mike Horn had an idea. He wanted to attempt the impossible: to circumnavigate the 20 000 kilometres of the artic ...

Life is sweet under the Shade of the Palm Trees

« The origin of all these short stories, Egypt invites us to a journey through time and space, which will lead us from a mysterious oasis to the secret chambers of the Great Pyramid. » Christian ...

Marlon, My Impossible Love

Only one woman has known Marlon Brando very well. They loved eachother and tore apart. For the first time she tells everything… An exceptional document.

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 ...

I am not a murderer

A deeply moving book “Defying laws and social habits, a mother brought to his suffering and incurably ill son the death he was longing for. This extreme and modern tragedy, overwhelmed the ...

The Spark of God

Deep beneath Jerusalem, from the beginning of time, lies an object that could change the world: the Spark of God. At least that is what nine knights, willing to risk their lives in the attempt to ...

I, Buddha

The life of an exceptional man, famous but unknown, who revolutionized his times and still continues to win vast numbers of followers. Siddartha was born six centuries before Christ, into an ...

I was 12, I took my bike and I went to school

An exceptional testimony On May 28th, 1996, Sabine Dardenne, 12 years old, was kidnapped by Marc Dutroux, a paedophile and multiple offender who had already raped other young girls in Belgium. ...

Let me tell you about the ways of life

A young man, anxious to know more about himself, consults the amazing Jorge who, each time they meet, offers him a new story. Tale after tale, from the story of The Chained up Elephant to the one ...

I have forgotten to tell you

For the last 20 years, Jean-Claude and I have had an uninterrupted dialogue. I suggested him to write his memoirs. Eleven years later Le Ruisseau des singes was published. The door was on his ...

Unusual Memories

Everyone dreams one day of being a Prince, and of living in a Palace alongside kings and highly placed men. Prince Michael of Greece recounts with fondness and humour his life amongst the crowned ...

Orfenor

Volume 2 : Tristan

A family from a bygone age in an ancient house, caravans that appear out of the blue, a small black suitcase, a piano in search of an identity, and the story of a great love affair. And reigning ...

My foot in

In any dictionary, you can find two very close expressions. On the one hand, “to put one’s foot in it”, which means “to boob”. And, on the other hand, “to put one’s foot down”, which means “to ...

Married by force

Married by force, she was forced to submit to a man she didn’t love. Leila was 21-year old when she was married by force in France. She is now determined to bear witness, in order to make people ...

Orfenor

Volume 1 : Natalène

A family from a bygone age in an ancient house, caravans that appear out of the blue, a small black suitcase, a piano in search of an identity, and the story of a great love affair. And reigning ...

The Five people I met in heaven

A novel that makes you feel at peace with life. Five people you met while you were alive are waiting for you in heaven. Their destiny is closely connected to yours, although you don’t necessarily ...

Snowbound Gold

I discovered the Far North as a teenager, devouring the novels of Jack London. The immense regions of ice and snow he described fascinated me. I said to myself: that’s where I want to be. But ...

The Mysteries of Osiris

Volume 4 : The Great Secret

The great secret of resurrection finally disclosed. The Annunciator, unrecognizable and dressed up as a priest, is now hiding in the heart of Abydos. He plans to murder the young Iker in order to ...

The Silk Empress

Volume 3 : The Usurpator

On the fabulous Silk Route, the outcome of a unique adventure. Adored by thousands of pilgrims as the reincarnation of a mythical couple, the young Celestial Twins brought back to China through ...

The Mysteries of Osiris

Volume 3 : The Path of Fire

The secret of resurrection and eternal life… Iker, the young scribe, has finally understood that, by hounding Pharaoh Sesostris through hatred, he had taken the wrong target, for the enemy is ...

Manifesto against poverty

“Friends, please help… Tonight, at three o’clock in the morning, a woman died of cold. She died clutching the piece of paper she had been given two days ago, informing her that she ...

In that time, life used to dance !

“With a single shot and a simple intuition, Jean-Marie Périer has fixed the dream forever…” Patrick Modiano Jean-Marie Périer tells about this “simple intuition” by immersing himself in his ...

Afterwards…

Afterwards… is a story of a child who comes back from death. As an 8 year old boy, Nathan drowned in a lake and felt as if he had been inhaled by a tunnel of light. Declared dead, he woke up ...

The Silk Empress

Volume 2 : The Eyes of the Buddha

On the fabulous Silk Route, the adventure of the encounter between East and West… From oasis to oasis, from monastery to monastery, the Silk Route has become the scene of a huge pursuit. A war of ...

The Mysteries of Osiris

Volume 2 : The Conspiracy of Evil

Evil keeps on setting against Eternal Egypt… Despite the will of Pharaoh Sesostris who had a temple and a whole city built, despite the efforts of the generals who are looking — in vain — for the ...

Ulik in the Land of Romantic Disorder

A young Eskimo comes to Paris to represent his Inuit tribe, which Unesco has just declared part of the “heritage of humanity”. Bewildered and utterly at sea in this new world, Ulik ...

The Silk Empress

Volume 1 : The Roof of the World

One day, on the Silk Route, East and West meet… VIIth century China holds a treasure which is the envy of the entire world : silk. In the West, the ladies in the fashionable set are willing to ...

Because I don’t want to die

An incredible trip round the world in pursuit of the “other” medicines. Imagine that you are thirty years old and suddenly you’re seized by recurring cramps which make you totter and ...

Living Free

The life path of a woman worker for the “Ni Putes, Ni Soumises” organization A book of hope, dedicated to every young girl in the big-city suburbs Loubna Meliane never lowers her ...

Memoirs

The Mysteries of Osiris

Volume 1 : The Tree of Life

The secret of resurrection and eternal life… For it is not a tree like any other: it has grown out of the tomb of the first king of Egypt, the God Osiris assassinated by his brother, to ...

The House of the Wolves

Volume 2 : The Vengeance of Isabeau

A powerful and entrancing novel December 1500. At the foot of the ramparts of Montguerlhe castle, under the frozen moon, lies a young girl. She is bloody and unconscious. Because she was too ...

War Reporter

For thirty-five years Patrick Chauvel has been photographing the violent conflicts which have broken out across the world. In prose that is spare and arresting, with the force and conviction of ...

So Far from the World

The true story of a Tahitian fisherman shipwrecked for 4 months in the Pacific On April 15th, 2002, Tavae cast off from Papeete for an ordinary day at sea. Soon afterwards his engine failed, and ...

Glory at the age of 20

Thirty-three young people who have known immortal glory. Alexander the Great who wanted to triumph over the four corners of the world, the Beatles who did just that, Blaise Pascal, scientific and ...

Caesar Imperator

A popular biography in which Max Gallo explores with his usual talent and passion this fascinating and ambitious man, his love and sensual pleasure as well as thirst of power and glory.

Burned Alive

A Victim of the Law of Men Souad is seventeen years old, she is in love. In her village like many others, love before marriage is synonymous with death. “Dishonoured”, her family ...

The World according to Chloe

It’s tough being a trendsetter… “My name is Chloe Matthews (…) my whole life is one dramatic contradiction. Sometimes I’m gorgeous (on a good day, with make-up and the right clothes); ...

The Legend of the Jade

Volume 3 : The Everlasting Islands

What if we all held a disk of jade in the hollow of our hands?… The four of them grew up together, Zheng, Golden Fish, Spring Dew and Zhaogao, in a realm in full expansion. Then Zheng used power ...

What I cannot tell you

What is happening in French schools ? For the first time, schoolboys and schoolgirls are talking without restraint. What did you never tell your parents? What can’ t your teachers know? A book ...

The Legend of the Jade

Volume 2 : Golden Fish

Is it possible to change the course of time? The years have passed, the old king Zhong is dead and his son Anguo, the new king, chose Lubuwei, the horse dealer, as minister. Then it was Anguo’s ...

Journals

These journal entries by Nirvana front man Cobain record his thoughts from the late 1980s until his suicide in 1994. There are no real answers to his death to be found in this collection of ...

Evasions

74 days in Jolo

Taking on the World

The great destiny of an extraordinary sailor When Ellen finished the Vendee Globe, yachting’s toughest race aged just 24 the nation took her to it’s heart. The depth of the affection ...

Forgive Us Our Sins

1284. The «chill winds of the Devil» isolate from the rest of the world the small diocese of Draguan, in the county of Toulouse. Before the sight of the statue of the Virgin Mary broken by the ...

The Legend of the Jade

Volume 1 : The Celestial Horses

Games of love and war in the China of the First Emperor. In the bustling morning market of Handan Square in the Kingdom of Zhao, the respected horse trader Lubevey is making the rounds together ...

The Chest of Souls

A deadly conflict between science and sacred. As a young intern at the very prestigious St Thomas Hospital in New York, Dr. David Levine takes care of leukemic children. Sharon, eight years old, ...

Queen Liberty

Volume 3 : The Flaming Sword

At the end of the Middle Empire, an army of barbarians managed to invade Egypt. Youg princess Ahotep decides to head up the Egyptian Resistance.

The Son of the Taiga

Volume 2 : The White Storm

The sequel to The Son of hte Taiga, the great adventure novel of Nicolas Vanier, on the bestseller list since its publication. Banished from his clan, Ohio, the young Nahanni Indian, has ...

The Siberian

For the first time a Russian author reveals the workings of the Russian mafia… A thriller where lives are worthless, where money and power are everything. “Money is the only thing ...

The Conspiracy of Joan

And what if Jeanne d’Arc was not the woman we thought she was… It is Sunday 20 May 1436, just as the dean of the Saint-Thibault Church, in Metz, has finished mass and is chatting with his ...

Eleanor’s Bed

A dazzling first novel, in which the supernatural affects the lives of mortals, sometimes with cruelty sometimes in the service of love. Poitiers, 1137. Eleanor, the very young duchess of ...

Queen Liberty

Volume 2 : The War of Crowns

At the end of the Middle Empire, an army of barbarians managed to invade Egypt. Youg princess Ahotep decides to head up the Egyptian Resistance.

Victor Hugo

Volume 2 : Je serai celui-là !

The fascinating portrait of a major author of French literature, who because of his political slant and his controversial writings, was also a prominent 19th Century figure.

Queen Liberty

Volume 1 : The Empire of Darkness

When a young rebel girl says no to the occupation and the barbarians… In the XVIIIth century before Christ, at the end of the Middle Empire, an army of barbarians comes from Asia on chariots ...

Inca

Volume 3 : The Light of Machu Picchu

They came from Spain, crossing the seas to conquer a legendary empire where the temples and palaces are decorated with gold. 170 conquistadors led by Captain Pizarro against 80,000 Incas ...

Latitude Zero

This man did what no one before dared to try: going round the world following the equator. When Mike Horn is haunted by a dream, he makes it come true. This 35-year-old South-African crossed the ...

Inca

Volume 2 : The Gold of Cuzco

The incredible has happened! During the terrible night which followed the Great Massacre, at Cajamarca, the Emperor Atahuallpa has been taken prisoner… In the indescribable chaos, Anamaya wants ...

Inca

Volume 1 : Princess of the Sun

L’histoire d’un amour impossible entre une princesse inca et un conquistador espagnol au milieu de l’incroyable conquête de l’Empire inca… Quito, 1527. Seule ...

The Son of the Taiga

Volume 1 : The Dream Catcher

A great adventure novel by the author of The White Odyssey. In the snowy landscape of the great Canadian North, at the start of the XIXth century, a young Indian who has been banished from his ...

Victor Hugo

Volume 1 : Je suis une force qui va !

The fascinating portrait of a major author of French literature, who because of his political slant and his controversial writings, was also a prominent 19th century figure.