Fiction

Jack Tamerlaine, away from Cadence for ten years, is called back when young girls begin to vanish from the isle. Cadence is steeped in enchantments and ruled by capricious spirits of fire, water, earth, and wind. Adaira, Jack's childhood enemy and heiress of the...

Nine strangers flee bombings in a balloon, forced to decide who must jump into the sea so the rest can reach a desert island and start anew. These travelers are the only survivors of a world war, but what’s really at stake is a...

A game book with flaps and reliefs that offers little ones an exciting tactile and sensory experience. The texts and images transmit in a simple and poetic way the magical thinking of children, highlighting their empathetic relationship with natural elements.

A BOOK WITH HOLES that get BIGGER and BIGGER to expand the world of the little ones. An INTERACTIVE READING that invites you to play with the images (touching, blowing, caressing...) to see how they transform.

Most kids love hide-and-seek, but Camila just wants to hide. Hiding is what she does best when she worries, and she worries a LOT. What if... I can’t... I’m scared! A class trip to the aquarium causes her worries to pile up like never...

Roman, Nordic or Hindu culture.

In 1994, Grace Paley collected all of her story books into a single volume. Her exuberant characters, her unmistakable and singular voice, her eccentric and radiantly biting temperament, as well as her use of language of uncommon richness, strengthened her position as one of...

This is the second Compendium dedicated to one of the house's distinguished authors and brings together the works in which Nothomb exploits her extraordinary capacity to reveal the darkest and most disturbing part of our daily world, even in the areas where we most...

A psychological thriller, an immersive read, with echoes of Proust and Haneke... In a small town in the depths of northern France, neighbors Christine and the family formed by Patrice, Marion and their daughter, Ida. On Marion's birthday, the party organized by her husband...

The characters in Ten Planets inhabit an unimaginable future that invites us to doubt the tools with which we calibrate our closest world: an earthling exiled in an unlikely corner of the galaxy makes a discovery that forces him to rethink his categories of...

A game book with flaps and reliefs that offers little ones an exciting tactile and sensory experience. The texts and images transmit in a simple and poetic way the magical thinking of children, highlighting their empathetic relationship with natural elements.

A game-book with flaps, photographs, lots and lots of illustrations and the incredible stories of the best engineers of the animal kingdom. The water spider steals a little piece of sky and takes it underwater to build its bubble-house, which is made... only of...

Dark Laughter is a little modern Odyssey. The plains of the Midwest, the great rivers, form the backdrop for the adventures of the protagonist, John Stockton, a man on the run from social conventions and in search of a new self. In a world...

In the realm of appearances, monsters are not what we think. The Louvre, 1655. Catherine Beauvais, known as Cateau, la borgnesse, displays her striking ugliness through the corridors of the most beautiful palace in the world. Catherine has unique knowledge of plants thanks to...

When the dazzling Qi Empire is shaken by the death of its sovereign, the Yehonala family is called to the capital to pay their respects to the new Emperor: Xianfeng. However, that trip turns out to become the family's doom, and Lilan, the only...

Creatures that climb onto the roofs and take flight, a teenager with a passion for blood, a teacher who picks up her neighbor's head in her garden, a girl unable to separate herself from her father's teeth, two noisy twins at a festival of...

Cockfight narrates from different voices in the home, that space that builds or destroys. It addresses family ties and their secret codes, power relations, affection, silences, solidarity, abuse... That is, all the horrors and wonders that are enclosed within the four walls of a...

We can all be each other's demon. We can all be that other's human sacrifice. María Fernanda Ampuero, one of the essential voices of current Latin American literature, masterfully pushes us into a humid, rotten and hostile universe where violence marks the narrative of...

Stories of ghosts, of possession, of murderous clothing and jewelry, stories about the transformation of the body or about the cult of a girl who drowned in a water tank, or about the hyenas that can still be heard in a place where a...

The wonderful story of a girl, an elephant and the friendship that changed their lives. Jama is twelve years old and lives with her mother and her great-aunt in Kenya, in a Maasai village, but she feels different from her classmates. Every day she...