Fiction biographique

No book ever written has more perfectly captured the spirit of the 1960s counterculture....

Sharp-eyed, stubborn, and passionate, Jindan was known for her beauty. When she caught the eye of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, she was elevated to royalty, becoming his youngest and last queen—and his favorite....

Her beauty saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee....  

Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair is a stunning new novel that reimagines the unexplained 11-day disappearance of Agatha Christie that captivated the world....

Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager - obsessed with music, food, and girls....

China, December 1941. Having left an unhappy life in England for a teaching post at a missionary school in northern China, Elspeth Kent is now anxious to return home to help the war effort. But as she prepares to leave China, a terrible twist of fate determines a different path....

George and Weedon Grossmith's The Diary of a Nobody paints a detailed picture of life in 1892....

1950: Margaret Devonshire (Megs) is a 17-year-old student of mathematics and physics at Oxford University. When her beloved eight-year-old brother asks Megs if Narnia is real, logical Megs tells him it’s just a book for children, and certainly not true....

In the pre-dawn hours of August 24th, 1305, the outlaw William Wallace -sits awaiting the dawn, when he is to be hanged and then drawn and quartered....

First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful and influential novels. The story focuses on two ebullient young Americans whose quest for Truth leads them on an odyssey....

Figure mythique des lettres américaines, celle que l’on surnommait « la dame en blanc » demeure encore aujourd’hui une énigme. Elle a toujours refusé de rendre sa poésie publique et a passé les dernières années de sa vie cloîtrée dans sa chambre ; on s’entend pourtant maintenant à voir en elle un des écrivains les plus importants du dix-neuvième siècle.

Fabriquer une femme raconte l'entrée dans la vie adulte de deux amies adolescentes, Solange et Rose. Ce sont les années 80 du siècle précédent, en province dans le Pays basque, à Bordeaux, puis à Paris. Deux destins à la fois liés et différents, à travers lesquels Marie Darrieussecq écrit avec un réalisme audacieux, parfois cruel, le grand roman de l'apprentissage féminin, maladroit, drôle, souvent douloureux, de la sexualité, de la vie amoureuse, du couple. Mais aussi celui des ambitions intimes et sociales de deux jeunes femmes "en construction" dans un monde masculin.