Historical Fiction France

Plongez dans l’univers fascinant des Lais de Marie de France ! Découvrez une collection de récits médiévaux captivants, où se mêlent amour courtois, aventures chevaleresques et mystères enchantés. Une plongée dans l’imaginaire médiéval. Marie de France, considérée comme la première femme écrivain de la langue française, nous transporte dans un Moyen Âge empreint de féerie et de passion. À travers ces lais, elle tisse des histoires riches en symbolisme et en poésie, qui continuent d'inspirer et de fasciner encore aujourd'hui.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Library and Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade, a charming and cinematic novel following a young woman from Montana who takes a job in the American Library in Paris, where she discovers the power of storytelling and her own dreams. Paris, 1995...

The secret is hidden within a collection of Dior dresses... London, 2017. There’s no one Lucille adores more than her grandmother. So when her beloved Granny Sylvie asks for Lucille’s assistance with a small matter, she’s happy to help. The next thing she knows, Lucille is on a train to...

In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the...

Écosse, 1352. Pour sauver son frère Athdar, lady Jocelyn Mac Callum est contrainte d'épouser le chef d'un clan ennemi, Connor Mac Lerie, un farouche guerrier à l'âme aussi sombre, dit-on, que les profondeurs des lochs écossais. La rumeur ne l'accuse-t-elle pas d'avoir assassiné sa première femme? Terrifiée, lady Jocelyn sait pourtant qu'elle n'a pas le choix. Car les termes du contrat sont clairs: Athdar ne sera relâché que lorsque son union avec lord Mac Lerie aura été célébrée... et consommée.

Écosse, 1307. Alors qu'une guerre déchire l'Écosse, Alana, guidée par son instinct, s'élance à corps perdu sur le champ de bataille qui menace le château de Brodie, pour sauver un homme. De ce Highlander aux cheveux sombres elle ne sait rien, si ce n'est la terrible vision de lui qu'elle a eue devant un ciel de flammes. Et, en croisant son regard, Alana est soudain traversée par une onde électrique, un sentiment aussi violent qu'inconnu pour elle. Pourtant elle aperçoit bientôt le gonfanon qui flotte sur son équipage.

A sweeping novel about the extraordinary woman who captured Napoleon’s heart, created a dynasty, and changed the course of history—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Traitor's Wife, The Accidental Empress, and Sisi “I absolutely loved The Queen’s Fortune, the fascinating...

1987. Paul Sarda est gendarme dans un village des Hautes-Pyrénées, près de la frontière espagnole. Trente-cinq ans plus tard, son fils, Raphaël, commandant de police à Paris, reçoit une lettre anonyme : « VOTRE PÈRE SAVAIT. » En retournant sur les terres de son enfance, Raphaël va faire resurgir des histoires tragiques que certains auraient aimé garder enfouies.

Based on true events, Tomorrow Is for the Brave is a gripping World War II page‑turner about a courageous woman who risks it all for what is right—perfect for fans of Natasha Lester and Kristen Harmel. 1939, France: Lavish parties, fast cars, and a closet full of the latest fashion—to...

The latest war novel from the New York Times bestselling author and “modern-day master of the genre” (New York Newsday) Alan Furst. Alan Furst's latest novel takes place in the secret hotels, nightclubs, and cafes of occupied Paris and the villages of France during the spring of 1941, when...

A.D. 1172. Henry II’s three eldest sons conspire against him and align themselves with his greatest enemy, King Louis of France, but it’s Eleanor of Aquitaine’s involvement in the plot to overthrow her husband that proves to be the harshest betrayal. As a royal family collapses and a...

In 1943, Philly Delaney would do anything to help win the war. As one of the brave "Attagirls" ferrying military aircraft across Britain, she never expected to fall in love with Ben, a dashing Spitfire pilot. But their whirlwind romance is interrupted when her talent for solving cryptic crosswords leads her to Bletchley Park's legendary codebreakers. Soon, Philly's skills make her the perfect candidate for a perilous mission into Nazi-occupied France. But when Ben's plane vanishes during a similar covert flight, her world shatters.

It is 1939. Despite a law banning him from performing surgery, Ravic, a German doctor and refugee living in Paris, has been treating some of the city's most elite citizens for two years on the behalf of two less-than-skillful French physicians.

In this compelling, eye-opening story of six women who exercised power against the odds-and one, Jane Grey, who never got the chance-acclaimed historian Helen Castor explores the provocative subject of women and power in England. “The boy in the bed was just fifteen years old. He had been...

World War I battlefield nurse Bess Crawford goes to dangerous lengths to investigate a wounded soldier’s background—and uncover his true loyalties—in this thrilling and atmospheric entry in the bestselling “vivid period mystery series” (New York Times Book Review). At the foot of a...

Sidra didn’t murder her husband. Yet even a jinni can’t wish away a wrongful imprisonment. Determined to prove her innocence, she returns to her adopted home - a French village renowned for its perfume witches - with her friends Elena and Yvette by her side. Here is where Sidra’s true destiny awaits, but danger also lurks in the village’s narrow lanes. On her trail is Jamra, another jinni, who’s after more than revenge for the murder of his brother. He also seeks vengeance for the indignities inflicted on jinn by mortals over the centuries.

La trahison qui a ébranlé les services secrets britanniques. Tout est invraisemblable dans ce récit aux allures de roman. Et pourtant, tout est vrai. Au milieu des années 1930, les maîtres-espions de Staline recrutent cinq étudiants de la prestigieuse université de Cambridge. Des jeunes pousses qui s'appellent Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, John Cairncross, Donald Maclean et Kim Philby.

From the author of Kings of Broken Things and In Our Other Lives comes a provocative and stylish literary noir about two female war correspondents whose fates intertwine in Europe. Paris, 1938. Two women meet: Mielle, a shy pacifist and shunned Mennonite who struggles to fit in with the elite...

Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the...

Marie Vachon experiences firsthand the devastation of the German invasion when she takes in a Jewish refugee named Josiane. A loving, if temporary, home for the displaced child. A second chance at motherhood for Marie. After three years, an inseparable bond is created. It’s one that leads Marie and Josiane to an inevitable but surprising reckoning that calls into question what motherhood means—and where it ends.