Fiction

A mysterious metallic ticking wakes up a journalist in the middle of the night; a somnambulant woman is accused of being possessed; a tomb is desecrated and with it its contents cursed; a violinist falls madly in love with the shadow of a woman......

Dasher is an adventurous young reindeer with a wish in her heart. She spends her days with her family under the hot sun in a traveling circus, but she longs for a different life ... one where there is snow beneath her hooves and...

Will the animals manage to save Christmas? Yeyo is about to burst with happiness. The Three Wise Men have gone to the desert to choose the camels that will accompany them next Christmas. And it seems that they have noticed Yeyo. Now he is...

The narrator, just out of childhood, lives in a small village with his parents, who work in the house of a well-to-do family. Fascinated, he observes the life of the gentlemen and their children, who inhabit a world that is inaccessible and increasingly contradictory...

An invigorating meditation on fame and celebrity and the redemptive and healing power of art, a portrait of the ravages of disappointment and divorce, a poignant consideration of the rites of fatherhood and manhood, a novel steeped in rage and sex, longing and despair,...

Seville, 1579. The lawyer Pacheco and the twenty-fourth Medina once again face an unprecedented challenge. On this occasion, their mission is riskier than ever: to recover a valuable shipment of smuggled silver that could alter the destiny of the Netherlands and endanger the balance...

1936. In the midst of the Great Depression, in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky, nineteen-year-old Cussy Mary Carter, nicknamed Damsel and with a rare peculiarity in her skin, is one of the traveling booksellers of the Equestrian Library Project sponsored by Roosevelt as part...

In ancient Carthage, where the waves of the Mediterranean caress the African coast, an empire of trade and power was born. But when Rome rose on the horizon, the First Punic War unleashed a fierce struggle that left Carthage in ruins. At the heart...

Jacky Mauchrétien is a local businessman who has enriched himself by developing a vast network of drug resale and prostitution, and reigns over the Norman village he completely controls. He does not hesitate to prostitute himself and even rape his own daughter, nor to...

Adrian Rawson, the mythical scientist, businessman and director of a museum of horrors is serving his sentence. Is his crime so terrifying? He may die in prison after having achieved professional success and happiness with Eva, his wife. But how did he end up...

Born in 1126 in Cordoba, Abu-l-Walid Muhammad would be elevated by the new lords of the Peninsula, the Almohads, as one of their great sages and courtiers, but the audacity of his thinking would eventually cost him everything he had achieved. Centuries later, his...

The blizzard is wreaking havoc in Alaska. In the heart of the storm, a child disappears. It only took seconds, the time to retie her shoelaces, for Bess to let go of the boy's hand and he's out of sight. She goes out looking...

A fun reflection on ambition, adulthood and the complexities of today's world. Tracy Flick is the hard-working assistant principal of a public high school in a quiet, small New Jersey town. At forty years old, she leads a peaceful life and, although her ambition...

Winter is coming, the nights are longer. There are those who gather under the mistletoe with their family and friends while others advocate the abolition of the Christmas spirit under the slogan "Ban Christmas or Die." Among the pages of this collection of stories...

A novel about the epic founding and heyday of one of the most mythical bookstores in the world. An exciting hymn to the bookseller's trade and to universal literature. A novel about the epic of the founding and heyday of one of the most...

Cornwall, Midsummer 1947. Pendizack Manor Hotel is buried in the rubble of a collapsed cliff. Seven guests have perished, but what brought this strange assembly together for a moonlit feast before this Act of God - or Man? Over the week before the landslide,...

The Dinosaur is Still Here, the complete work of Augusto Monterroso, brings together for the first time in a single volume all the stories of the master of the micro-story, each one more brilliant, arranged chronologically: those collected in his first Complete Works (and...

Bolivian National Award. A novel that will leave you breathless. The clash of two cultures is elevated exponentially by unprecedented suspense. Banished from her own home and deprived of seeing her son, Lea, a Bolivian immigrant in Toulouse, finds herself on a “desert journey”....

An unexpected event tarnishes the routine of Saint-Louis: an influential lawyer in the city has died in an accident on the A-35. Inspector Gorski, in charge of the investigation, will have to deal not only with his Strasbourg counterpart, but also with a young...

The kidnapping of the beautiful Greek queen Helen by the Trojan prince Paris triggers a war between the two people. The Greeks send their fleet and besiege the city of Troy. The conflict will last ten years, and will cause much suffering and many...