Non Fiction

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...