Mireille Calmel

“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 ...
José Frèches

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 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 ...
Laurent Decaux

Champagne, 1382. When, after six years of crusade, Jacques de Charney finally returns to his land, he is astonished to discover an enormous crowd huddled in front of the castle church. Pilgrims ...
Christian Jacq

The incredible adventure of the French scholar who deciphered the hieroglyphs From July 1828 to December 1829, Jean-François Champollion made his dream come true and finally travelled the land of ...
Mireille Calmel

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 ...
Nicolas Vanier

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 ...
Guillaume Musso

“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 ...
Bernard Minier

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 ...
Cyril Massarotto

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 ...
Nicolas Vanier

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 ...
Virginie Jouannet

“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 ...