Historical Fiction France

Paris, 1393. Recent widow Christine de Pizan became a scribe to support her family, but when she is called to the palace to work, she dreads going. There, everyone fears the king's attacks of unreason and they believe the charlatans who claim they can cure him with vile potions. But when a mysterious book of magic leaves a trail of real murdered bodies in its wake, Christine has more than black magic to worry about. Then one of the king's favorites, Hugues de Precy, is found murdered and his wife Alix de Clairy is blamed.

In the second novel of the New York Times bestselling Temeraire series, the Napoleonic Wars take Captain Will Laurence and his dragon to China on a perilous mission. “Full of wonderful characters with real heart.”—Peter Jackson When Britain intercepted a French ship and its precious...

Sur une route perdue de l'Ouest américain, un homme roule à tombeau ouvert. Cet homme, c'est Frank Guidry. À ses trousses, un tueur à gages mandaté par le mafieux Carlos Marcello, qui veut se débarrasser d'un témoin indésirable dans le crime du siècle : l'assassinat de JFK. Guidry sait que la première règle, quand on est en cavale, est de ne pas s'arrêter. Et que la seconde est de ne compter que sur soi-même.

From "a major new talent" (George R. R. Martin) comes an epic speculative novel of revolution, adventure, and the struggle for free will set in a world that might have been, of mechanical men and alchemical dreams. My name is Jax. That is the name granted to me by my human masters. I am a slave...

Kristin Harmel, the New York Times bestselling author who “is the best there is at sweeping historical drama” (Kelly Harms, author of The Seven Day Switch), returns with a captivating new novel about several intertwined stories of love, loss, courage, and redemption set over the course of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH From Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank, comes her much-anticipated second novel, which tells the improbable love...

From the national bestselling author of Banyan Moon, a captivating, evocative story of two estranged sisters on a quest to find a painting by a forgotten Vietnamese artist that holds the truth of their family’s fractured past. Aside from the fact they are sisters, Vivi and Calla Nguyễn...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “All the Steve Berry hallmarks are here: scale, scope, sweep, history—plus breathless second-by-second suspense. I love this guy.”—Lee Child Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone wakes to find an intruder in his Copenhagen bookshop: an American...

A passionate, sweeping novel of a love that transcends time. When twenty-something Wall Street analyst Kate Wilson attracts the notice of the legendary Julian Laurence at a business meeting, no one’s more surprised than she is. Julian’s relentless energy and his extraordinary intellect...

Two women vie to change their destinies after Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte orders marriage to a princess he hopes will bear him a royal heir in this compelling novel from the internationally bestselling author of Nefertiti and Maria. “A fascinating tale that won’t soon be forgotten...

Angleterre, Danemark, Xe siècle. "Que je sois maudite si je pars avec vous!" Lady Fearn tremble à l'idée de suivre Aric, le guerrier danois qui négocie sa capture avec son père adoptif. Non seulement ce Viking la traite comme une vulgaire marchandise, mais en plus il compte la retenir en otage au Danemark pendant toute une année! Et, à sa grande stupeur, son père, coupable d'avoir fauté avec la sœur du Viking, accepte la proposition pour maintenir la paix.

Stories of wartime France, present-day England, a Nazi criminal, and a dying woman intersect in this elegant literary thriller.

"Paris est désormais au peuple. Tout chaviré. Aiguisé. Se baignant aux fontaines. La nuit est tombée. De petits groupes marchent sur les barrières. Ce sont des bandes d'ouvriers, de menuisiers, de tailleurs, gens ordinaires, mais aussi des porte-faix, des sans-emplois, des argotiers, sortis tout droit de leur échoppe ou du port au Bled. Et dans la nuit de la grande ville, il y eut alors une étincelle, cri de mica. L'octroi fut incendié. Puis un autre. Encore un autre. Les barrières brûlaient."

1937. Betty, âgée de dix-sept ans, quitte tout ce qu'elle a toujours connu, son Hälsingland natal, sa mère, ses frères, pour rejoindre la capitale où l'attend une position de femme de chambre chez un riche médecin. Elle, qui ne sait du monde que ce qu'elle en a écouté dans les livres, bout d'excitation. Dans le train déjà, elle rencontre un homme passionnant, professeur d'origine juive, qui partage son goût pour la littérature... Mais, une fois arrivée en ville, Betty déchante vite : elle doit supporter le mépris de l'épouse de son employeur et travaille du matin au soir.

The Perigord of 16th-century France is a wild region on the edge of the reaches of royal authority - its steep, forested valleys roamed by bands of brigands and gypsies, its communities divided by conflict between Catholics and converts to the new Protestant faith, the Huguenots. To this beautiful but dangerous country come two veterans of the French king's wars, Jean de Siorac and Jean de Sauveterre, The Brethren - as fiercely loyal to the crown as they are to their Huguenot religion.

A devastating love story. A bewitching twist on history. A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power, and redemption. In 1785, Professor Sebastian Grave receives the news he fears most: the terrible Beast of Gevaudan has returned, and the French countryside runs red in its wake. Sebastian knows the...

Après la tragédie qui a ébranlé le village et causé le décès de Bérangère, Agnès tâche de reprendre les rênes de sa vie. Sa correspondance avec Marion lui procure un soutien inestimable et lui permet de garder contact avec la vie du manoir et avec son amie qui, enfin, semble envisager l’avenir avec espoir.

In 1677, an invisible wall separates settlers in New France from their Huron neighbors. Yet whether in the fledgling city of Quebec or within one of the native tribes, every woman's fate depends on the man she chooses - or is obligated-to marry. Drawn into unexpected friendship through their loves, losses, and dreams of home and family, Claudine Deschamps, Gabrielle Giroux, and Manon Lefebvre will have to call on their bravery and resilience to succeed in this new world.

Paris, 1989: Alone in her luminous apartment on Île Saint-Louis, Sylvie discovers a mysterious letter among her late lover Julien’s possessions, launching her into a decades-old search for a child who vanished in the turbulence of the Second World War. She is unaware that she is watched...

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BAD GUY HAS TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY TECHNOLOGY? An accident with an antigravity machine catapulted Peter Schock and Kate Dyer back to 1763. A bungled rescue attempt leaves Peter stranded in the eighteenth century while a terrifying villain, the Tar Man, takes...