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14-14
A century lies between them…
Adrien and Hadrien are two thirteen-year-old boys and they live only a few kilometres from one another in northern France. They both have problems in school, at home, and with girls, like most boys their age. There’s only one thing that sets them apart: Adrien lives in the year 2014, and Hadrien in 1914.
But magic intervenes in...
42 Days
Three months in Brittany: the perfect summer holiday, or a secret plan by their parents to keep them safe from the war?
Twelve-year-old Sacha and his little brother Jacob are surprised and delighted to go on holiday earlier than planned, even before the school year is finished. The two young Parisians are even more delighted to be staying in their uncle’s boarding house, a manor by the sea in Brittany.
Their stay there, however, does not quite turn out to be the holiday camp they had...
Adèle and the Wedding of Queen Margot
Between 2015 and 1572, Adèle must choose.
Adèle is fed up with her parents, who never understand anything and insist that she keep studying when she could be out having fun with her friends. So, when she finds out she has to read an entire book during her holidays, it’s just too much!
But little by little, Adèle lets herself be carried away by her reading, to the point that she dreams about...
Adventurous Constance
It seems that stubbornness is a family trait…
London, 1791. Fleeing Paris and the bloody events that followed Louis XVI’s own attempt to leave France, Constance d’Arsac takes refuge in the British capital. Resolved to join her sister in the United States, she manages to convince sea captain John Hadley to take her to her destination.
The crossing promises to be tumultuous, for everything opposes this...
After the Storm
A story that will break your heart before filling it with hope
In a few short hours, Charlotte’s life has turned upside down. Just when she was about to announce to her fiancé that she was pregnant, he was killed in a motorcycle accident. Now she finds herself alone with her doubts, the emptiness that Alex left behind him, and an impossible decision to make – whether or not to keep the child.
Amid this turmoil, Charlotte...
All at Sea
Almoha
‘One of these very rare books we devour again and again’
Noosfere
The Kingdom of Almoha is divided into two parts by an impassable wall.
In the North, humans have turned into monsters, starving as they crawl in the mud. Nath spends his days fighting relentless sentinels and demons lurking in the fog. Too young to die and unwilling to become a monster himself, he has only one way out: if he wants to survive, he has to go over the wall. No one knows...
Alone
A nightmarish story that will keep you holding your breath right up until final full stop.
Mathieu thought he was embarking on a quick trip to the Czech Republic, long enough to wrap up of the affairs of his grandfather, who has just died, and maybe have a beer in a typical Prague pivnice along with his brother, his nephew and a friend. But as soon as he sets foot in his ancestors’ sinister village, his escapade turns into a nightmare.
From the deep heart of...
Annabelle
A sexy and provocative erotic romance by a rising star in the genre
Newly engaged and an editor of young-adult fiction, Annabelle is faced with a daunting challenge: how to tame John, her publishing house’s hottest author, specializing in S&M erotic novels. This intriguing and charismatic man is very demanding in his choice of the people with whom he is willing to work. Convinced that she has no expertise in this field and that he will never agree...
Apocalypse Blues
Arcadia
‘An eclectic, genre-breaking author gifted with an enthralling writing talent.’
France Inter
London, 1872.
In the world of Arcadia, reality takes on the colors of dreams: an idyllic kingdom, bathed in the magic of faerie, where ministers are poets and artists are kings, where the future is taboo and death an unlikely prospect.
One day, however, strange omens disturb the peacefulness of Arcadia’s magnificent capital. Blue-tinged nights, a ghostly...
Arkane
Arlis of the Fair
‘A novel of great charm and undeniable grace.’
Le Monde
Arlis is an eleven year old boy. When you’re eleven the world is full of strange and wondrous things – things like violence and death, which can emerge from nowhere and change your life forever.
Arlis lives with a travelling fairground. There’s Emmett and Lindy, the couple who run the carnival along with Jared, the legless cripple, the gorgeous snake-trainer...
Audacious Sarah
Everything opposes them, and yet…
Maryland, March 1783. After having spent three years serving in a unit of French volunteers sent in aid of the cause of American independence, Louis d’Arsac must carry out a gloomy mission: the restitution to a young woman of an object belonging to her brother, fallen at the battle of Yorktown.
That is how he meets Sarah Hart, a ravishing creature only twenty years in age,...
Ayesha
‘The most ambitious and accomplished work in epic French Fantasy’
Le Monde
The Cyan People are destined to be slaves. The priests read it in the stars, they have been slaves for millennia, and nothing can change it. Or so it’s believed. But when Princess Marikani, the last descendant of the Sorcerer-Kings of Arrethas, rescues a mysterious stranger, Arekh, from a shipwreck everything begins to change.
Arekh grudgingly agrees to help Marikani...
Bad Romance
A passion between two people damaged by life who will find the hope of salvation in love
The day – or rather, the night – Chris met Kate, things didn’t really go by the book. He drank far too much and wandered into the wrong tent. Furious, she threatened him with a harpoon gun.
But you don’t want to get on the wrong side of a guy like Chris. His bad boy way of life represents everything Kate is trying to avoid. She has had enough problems,...
Bag
‘A sombre novel about the horrific destiny of a girl adrift.’
Direct Matin newspaper
Bless you!
‘Continuously funny and packed with rare inventiveness.’
Le Monde
Welcome to Newdon, a quirky Victorian London, where human and Fantasy creatures live side by side. The favorite sport there is Quartek, a sort of football played by Ogres and Zombies. Alas, the local team is so bad that its coach John Moon thinks about suicide…
His friends are no better: Vaughan, the elf, is the worst magic student ever, and Gloin MacCough, a dwarf, has been...
Block 46
A cool-headed profiler and a glamorous writer joined by a shared obsession with serial killers
Falkenberg, Sweden. Police superintendent Bergström finds the frozen naked body of a woman at Olofsbo beach.
London. A renowned profiler, the taciturn Emily Roy investigates a series of murders of children whose savagely mutilated bodies present the same wounds as the Swedish victim: the throat torn out, the eyes removed, and a mysterious Y carved on one...
Blood Curse
Marie-Antoinette meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Paris in the 21st century.
Louis XXIV is the young king of France, and his fashionable, wealthy nobles amuse themselves in the court of Versailles. Designer crinoline dresses are all the rage, and rich young aristocrats pack the trendy Paris nightclubs. But behind the scenes two rival families vie for power : the Condés, rumoured to be descended from an angel ; and the...
Bohemia
‘A flair for colourful stories, remarkable characters, and extravagant destinies (…) A novel full of noise and fury, strikingly frenetic and saturated with haunting images.’
Le Monde
Europe has been submerged by a mysterious and dangerous liquid substance, known as “ecryme”. Linked by a fragile network of steel tracks, only a few cities rise above this corrosive sea, governed by an oppressive capitalist aristocracy. But despite repression by the regime’s sinister Propaganda ministry, there are stirrings of revolt…
Louise Kechelev is a...
Borderedge
‘A book with style and personality. Fresh and exciting !’
Place to be
In the imaginary kingdom of Borderedge, the rules of fiction reign supreme and swashbuckling characters abound.
Violette, a bored librarian who would love reading about just this kind of extravagant universe, is fed up with the tedium of her own life.
That isn’t the case with Roxane, heiress to the throne of Borderedge, now pursued by pirates working for the usurper...
By a Hair
Calame
'As heroic as it is dramatic, this novel offers a great adventure with the perfect mix of suspense and sensitivity. The sequel can't come soon enough!'
Lanfeust Mag
Chronicles of the Feals
‘A mythos creator and a skilled storyteller, Gaborit introduces us to a fascinating universe and enriches it with his fertile imagination.’
Lanfeust Magazine
Hidden away in the heart of the Empire of the Claw, The Scarlet Tower is home to a mysterious religious order devoted to the most fabulous of creatures, the phoenixes. There initiates learn the secrets of the firebird; how to raise them from their ashes, and how to master their powers.
Januel is one of these initiates, and he’s both young and exceptionally talented. When the...
Close Encounters of a Funny Kind of Guy
Dating 2.0: realistic, touching, and hilarious!
Gérard has just been through a divorce. But he still dreams of love and the ideal woman. So where does one find a soul mate in these networked times?
An ingenuous fifty year old with a soft heart, but also a corrosive sense of humour, Gérard decides to try the dating websites. And soon realises that finding that special someone is not going to be...
Confessions of an Opium-Eating Automaton
‘A manifesto for the steampunk movement. (…) Hectic action, written in an elegant modern style.’
nooSFere
Paris, 1899. The city is filled with flying machines and other technological marvels fuelled by æther, a mysterious source of phenomenal energy.
But the murder of a young woman, who falls from a hansom flying over the Garnier Opera Palace, disturbs the festivities for the Universal Exposition. The crime also involves an automaton, one of the new household machines that...
Contract with a bastard
Could sex without commitment offer them a second chance at love?
Amy has a gift for attracting bastards, and her love affairs have all ended up catastrophes. The last one, a fling with her married boss, cost her her job. Now single, the young woman swears she will never get involved with someone again, although she can give in to physical pleasure from time to time, like the night at the bar when she lets a rather forward man come on to...
Criminal Loft
Dangerous Game
Linda was ready for anything on this mission – except falling head over heels for the enemy!
Being a field operative for a private security company is no bed of roses! But Linda loves her job, far from the humdrum of everyday life.
During a solo mission in Paris, she meets a stranger on a café terrace while she’s staking out a building. Charmed by the man, she indulges in a night of passion in his arms. She certainly doesn’t expect to run into him...
Daughter of the Stones
The battle between Good and Evil and freedom in the face of destiny
Several centuries have passed since the great war of the magi, but the fortress of Jayad is still standing. Lord Arthak d’Althen and his children Tagan and Vallenn are in charge of this endless watch, but they are unaware that a traitor has made a deal with the demon king. During an evening banquet, Jayad undergoes a surprise attack from the army of demons. Arthak is defeated, but his...
Deadly Principles
An unforgettable psychological noir novel set deep in the French countryside
It is the summer of 1979. Eighteen-year-old Franck Servin flees the havoc of his family home to study for his high school diploma. He finds refuge with his uncle and aunt in their isolated farm in the Creuse region where, four years previously, his cousin and lookalike Paul was killed on a road he had travelled on countless times before.
The tragedy still eats away at the family....
Dust City
A fatal attraction between two men that everything opposes
In Dust City, might makes right.
Killian knows this only too well – his own brother, Damon, has risen to the top of one of the city’s most powerful clans. A life style that Kill is seeking to flee at all cost, which does not prevent him from experiencing a powerful fascination with Damon.
Abducted, Kill finds himself in the hands of Damon’s sworn...
Elamia
'A cross between Dune and The Lord of the Rings, this is a triumph.’
Le Figaro
Within a few days, the dead will invade Elamia.
An army is being led from beyond the grave by the greatest wizard that the world has ever known. Nothing and nobody can stand in his way. Only one man is capable of organizing resistance and restoring hope, but he lost his memory long ago. He has even forgotten his own name.
But what if the key to victory lay within this...
Elementary
There’s no smoke without fire…
Esoterritory
An apocalyptic thriller that will haunt your nights…
Arcames looks like a small, serene and picturesque village in the French countryside, but it might be the crucible of an apocalyptic cult preparing the unspeakable. People keep their mouths shut here, and outsiders are suspect.
When two police detectives are put in charge of investigating the disappearance of a young woman, all clues lead them to this place that appears to be...
Eternity
‘Magali Ségura writes with a pen which is both poetic and powerful, keeping us bewitched by its spell’
Chroniques de l’imaginaire
In the Saltearth archipelago, a seed containing a gift is received from the gods every 500 years, and an individual is elected to decide how it will be used.
When several minor sorceresses are murdered, Naslie, a descendant of those endowed with the gift of Magic, flees from the Ancient One, whose menacing shadow she has sensed pursuing her over the years.
Her eight-year-old...
Extra Soul
False Brother, Real Secret
Léa’s new adopted brother seems way too gifted to be only human… and to remain unnoticed
- formerly entitled THE BOY WHO RAN TOO FAST -
One night, Léa’s father tells her something that will change her life. A couple of friends have passed away, and their sixteen-year-old son, Mike, is coming to live with them. He will sleep in the bedroom next to hers, share her bathroom, and attend her high school!
Her father also asks Léa to let him know about any «strange» behavior... Now...
Fanged and Furious
‘With its funky dialogues and heroine in full fury, it’s a truly irresistible mix. THE Bit-lit novel you should read, definitely. A true delight’
Urban Lecture & Co
Maeve spends her time trying to control her hot temper and drowning her troubles, including a series of gory nightmares, in alcohol and in the arms of her numerous lovers.
When she meets Lukas, she feels an extraordinary attraction for him. That is... until he abducts her and reveals she is the secret daughter of a powerful centuries-old vampire against whom Lukas is seeking...
Fanny
Seduce a friend’s ex to avenge her? In theory, it’s just another role for Fanny, but she risks getting caught in her own trap…
After spending several years in New York where she started on an acting career, Fanny returns home to Paris in the hope of obtaining the role of her life. By chance she runs into her best friend from high school, who has just suffered a particularly painful breakup. To help her turn the page, Fanny agrees to set a trap for the man who broke her friend’s heart: she is supposed to...
For Better of for Worse
An old flame, secret grudges: a story of second chances in sunny Spain
Jennifer is proud of her life in Montreal. She has a stimulating career and a boyfriend who pampers her, and she doesn’t need anything else – especially not her estranged husband!
Yet there Bruno is, eight years after the marvelous summer they spent on his property in Spain. They fell madly in love, got married, and then separated for reasons still unknown to him. Now...
Fortune Cookies
From the general blackout to the media dictatorship, a hard-hitting, realistic and timely text, which will awaken the rebel inside you.
Brittany, tomorrow:
An electrical power outage plunges the small lives of Blanche and Hadrien into darkness, along with whole of Europe. A mysterious rumour filters through the radio waves: the government is concealing something going on in the south… Is it war? Their daughter is far away, on holiday in Spain. Hadrien decides to leave immediately in search of her, but...
Free as a Dream
Gaïa
Man had failed to respect for Nature.
Now there’s no reason for Nature to respect Man.
A mysterious epidemic is spreading across the planet. Soon millions will die. Contact has been lost already with remote regions of the Earth.
In these frightening circumstances Alexander Grant, head of Genetics, a New York biotechnology company, meets Anne Cendras, a prominent French biologist. She’s convinced a sudden and terrible change in the balance of the world’s...
GeekMeQuiz
A game of quizzes and challenges that will put your geek culture to the test!
More than 700 questions & 130 exciting challenges!
Choose your specialty among six themes: Literature, TV Series, Cinema, Comics, Video Games, Manga
… and pool your skills with other players to rule the game and make your...
Genesia - The Crimson Chronicles
An exciting and ambitious series from a superb writer
Evan, a young and lazy shepherd, wishes for adventure. Which, when he finds himself fleeing his home and family pursued by Inquisitors, suddenly doesn’t seem like such a good idea after all.
Caessia, the young princess, is also on the road. Having defied her father and escaped the palace to avoid an arranged marriage, fate decrees that she and Evan should meet up. And that the...
Good Intentions
A psychological noir novel brimming with emotion
Heaven Sent
When an angel of death meets a doctor ready to do anything to save lives
For as long as she can remember, Elina has had only one mission, one reason for being: she appears at the bedside of the dying and guides the soul detached from its body to the door it must cross. She has no idea what awaits the human souls on the other side, and she has no desire to find out. She does not care much at all about them; after all, they had their time on Earth, and they should...
High Kingdom
With his Cardinal’s Blades trilogy, Pierre Pevel earned a ticket to the big league in fantasy. With the High Kingdom series, he proves his right to a permanent berth there’
Gold Star
The High Kingdom is facing its darkest hour. Its King has been weakened by illness and many are discontent with the Queen’s regency. As rebellion rumbles throughout the land, new threats are massing forces at the realm’s borders.
Desperate, the King decides to free Lorn, who has spent the past three years locked away on trumped-up charges in the citadel of Dalroth....
Hordes
An action-packed tale of war, battle and dark prophecies
Audric is the ‘Demon’s Scourge’. The captain of the Serpent Horde owes his nickname to the jointed steel armband that allows him to wield a gigantic sword that no other living man can even lift. It is rumoured that he acquired this superhuman strength by means of some infernal pact.
Audric pays no heed to these rumours, just as he ignores the warnings of his...
I.F. Imaginary Friends
In Eden's Own Words
One gay teenager’s long journey toward acceptance
It’s the last year of high school for Eden – the end of his stormy adolescence in a small town in the United States, where he’s stuck between a capricious mother and a wealthy but absent father.
His world has just been turned upside down by the death of another student, and by the distress of this student’s brother, which affects Eden deeply. While the...
Indie Games
The history, artwork, and sound design of independent video games
Infinite Chaos
She swore that she would never again let a man kiss her…
A terrible thing happened to Dylan when she was a teenager. Since then all her efforts have been focused on rebuilding her life. She moves to San Francisco hoping to finally get everything in order. She plans to continue her combat sports training, get a degree in management, and, above all, keep well away from menfolk.
For she has sworn that her lips will never again kiss...
Keep Calm & Love Me
What if all you need to find love is to keep calm?
Ever since Ben left her to become engaged to her own sister, Lina desperately wants to change her life. She decides to return to London, write her next novel and perhaps find her old flame, Jaimee…
But between her publisher urging her to write erotic romance, a genre she knows nothing about, and advances from her neighbour, Swann, a devilishly sexy Irishman who dreams of...
Largo Winch
‘The series with 11 million copies sold’
Le Figaro
Nerio Winch, chairman and managing director of the all-powerful Group W, dies in the middle of the night, driven to suicide when he’s framed for a crime he never committed. But just before his death he records a message for his adopted son, Largo, who has been kept a secret from his rivals.
Largo Winch, the sole, secret heir to Nerio’s ten billion dollar fortune, is a...
Leading Role
When she meets the two men of her dreams, the leading characters in a famous love triangle…
what choice will she make?
Professional dancer Thia is a passionate young woman. When she hears that a fan event has been organized around the release of a film based on her favorite book saga, she doesn’t think twice. Heading there with her best friends, she cannot imagine what awaits her. Through a fortunate set of circumstances, she has the chance to meet the actors, and notably, the handsome and mysterious...
Legion
A nail-biting thriller, based on both real historical events
and urban legends, that will capture the reader in its web
Is the hospital haunted?
A series of apparently motiveless murders has rocked the Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Nantes. Police captain Ael Guivarch, an obsessive perfectionist and a methodical rationalist, refuses to believe in a supernatural cause for the escalating violence, certain there must be a logical explanation. But his quest for truth risks endangering his deepest...
Leïlan
‘A revelation’
Le Monde
Leïlan is the Land of Illusions, a mysterious kingdom. These doomed lands, whose borders are closed, are spoken of with respect mingled with fear. A terrible tragedy has fallen upon the royal family. And ever since then, the people of Leïlan have been oppressed by Duke Korta, who is manipulating the king from the shadows behind the throne.
But Axel, a young messenger, has...
Life Lines
A dazzling novel about the joy of allowing trust and emotion to prevail
Gabrielle and Antoine have perhaps run into one another before, on a street corner, at the botanical gardens, or in a café. But nothing has destined them to meet. And yet, a simple anonymous letter is about to alter their fates… if they’re willing to gamble on a wild chance and pay heed to their feelings.
Gamble? Chance? The two of them are about to discover what...
Lucy’s Heart
A brash healer embroiled in a forbidden passion in the 19th century
Lucy Hadley has no time for the chattering of high society, while her healing talents have earned her the reputation of being a witch. Called to the bedside of the Earl of Lauderdale, who is seriously ill, she meets the nobleman’s best friend, Jack de Nerval, a mysterious duke who has sailed the seven seas in the service of Napoleon’s navy.
It’s the beginning of...
Malhorne
‘An incredible thriller! Don’t miss this one, it’s brilliant!
Lire
Malhorne comes from the dawn of mankind. He’s crossed the borders of death, and lived countless lives throughout history. Now he’s going to reveal himself to the world.
When anthropologist Franklin Adamov discovers a statue hidden deep in the Amazonian forest he has no idea of the true extent of the mystery he has stumbled upon. The statue alone is a puzzle: dated to the...
Milan Blush
My Disastrous Holiday
A dream holiday in the country? Not if nature suddenly goes crazy!
Mör
Necrophiliacs Anonymous
‘It’s been a very long time since my imagination got carried away like this’
bit-lit.com
The peaceful existence of Népomucène, funeral home director, is disturbed by a dangerous serial killer. Népomucène fears that he may be the next target. His devoted friend, Bob, a 150-year-old vampire, investigates the case, convinced that the murderer is not human. The undertaker grows increasingly worried as Bob takes more and more risks to protect...
Night’s Gold
If it were you, would you have answered that personal ad… ?
‘Generous man seeks free-spirited young woman to reside in his home. Must be beautiful, interesting, cultivated, 24-28 years in age, open to naughty games…’
That day, when looking through the newspaper for job offers, Victoria comes across this rather surprisins personal ad. Victoria is fully aware that she has nothing in common with the sort of women who...
Offside
The most important match of their career won’t be played on the pitch…
Ogre on the run
Discover Paris in this frantic high-speed chase as a young girl searches for her heart
Jeanne is hospitalized for appendicitis when an ogre suddenly appears and steals her heart. But dying is out of the question! A musketeer and his talking cat appear at the right moment and lend her a dragon’s heart, but it will only work for a day.
In short, the young girl, accompanied by these strange companions, has only several hours to find her vital organ. A frantic...
Paris of Wonders
‘A stroll through a fascinating alternate Paris at the turn of the 20th century, but one in which mystery, magic, and murder lurk at every step.’
Elbakin.net
Pink Silk
In 19th-century Paris, a lady turns seamstress, and becomes mistress of her fate.
Rose de Saulnay, a quiet young woman belonging to the upper classes, has a passion for fashion which she expresses by creating superb dresses in secret. But her husband, a violent and possessive man, finds this pastime unworthy of her social rank and disapproves of her behaviour.
At a grand ball, she meets Alexander Wright, the French capital’s most renowned couturier. Her...
Positive Way
An unforgettable encounter between a withdrawn teenage girl and a young slacker musician
‘You lost your Mohawk somewhere,’ she remarked with a small pout.
It was at that precise moment he fell in love with her.
Alice had met him that evening, at one of his concerts at a pub in the centre of London, wearing her ever-present camera on a strap around her neck – it was her way of looking at the world.
He was up on...
Power
"A masterpiece"
Le Monde
Promethium
An explosive thriller that never lets up, in an intrigue
where terrifying enigmas and real-life facts intertwine
A radioactive body fallen from the sky triggers a series of events that will lead police lieutenant Inès Herrera into a dizzying spiral of death.
Pursued by sinister individuals prepared to do anything in order to make the irradiated corpse and any evidence of its existence disappear, she takes reference with the only person she can trust, her former boss in the criminal...
Ravishing
Resistants
Return to River Falls
The return of the cult series!
It’s early summer and the small town of River Falls is the perfect base for lovers of nature. But when hikers discover the body of a young girl who has been killed in ritualistic fashion, fear grips the town’s inhabitants.
Mike Logan has just been appointed sheriff and the last thing he needs is another murder. Mike and his wife Jessica Hurley, an FBI profiler,...
Revenge
‘Fabrice Colin is a master of French Fantasy. He is a spellbinding storyteller and his novels generate a delightful feeling of wonder.’
Le Monde
Barkhan’s tale is a tragic one. Born in the Land of the Thousand Canyons, Barkhan was orphaned when invaders – tall, merciless Senthaï warriors, clad in black steel – slaughtered his family. Found and raised by the emperor’s brother, in the great city of Dât-Lakhan, he ultimately sacrificed himself for the man who had saved his life. Sentenced to death for...
Saint Mary of the Shadows
No one knows she’s the last hope of humanity.
And that suits her just fine.
For more than twenty years, the Shadows have haunted the world, devouring every living being within their reach. Except for one little girl, no one has ever survived their poison. But the girl became a laboratory rat subjected to cruel experiments, before her parents sacrifi ced themselves to save her.
After several years spent on the run from the government and fi ghting to...
Sascha’s Requiem
Beneath the outward guise of a carefree young woman, Sascha conceals grave secrets. An orphan, she has no knowledge of her origins or how she came to have her strange power: she can possess people by mere touch, allowing her to change bodies. She makes use of this to earn a living and eliminate any vampires who cross her path, in the hope of one day finding those responsible for...
Satan is Just Another Man
Saving Paradise
‘Do you believe in Heaven?’
Faustine’s student life was thrown into turmoil the day her father’s laboratory was blown up. She is immediately given the same close protection that her father’s team gets, and is not indifferent to the charm of Nato, the bodyguard she is allocated.
Faustine is convinced she knows the identity of the man who is pursuing them, and whose goal appears to be the...
Scandalous Elisabeth
Au fil d’Isa
Paris, 1778. Élisabeth d’Arsac is a ravishing young woman who turns the head of every man she meets. Attached to her freedom, she wants to experience love without the inconveniences of marriage.
She meets a dark, handsome stranger during a costumed ball and, between two dances, she indulges in an amorous interlude with him which awakens all sorts of new sensations...
Science-fiction Generation
The World’s greatest collection of cult objects from blockbuster movies
An incredible collection of cinema objects comparable both in numbers and value with George Lucas’s!
A major asset for communicating on Star Wars, with unpublished, previously unseen contents on cult movies.
An impressive...
So Far from Earth
Three adventures in time and space from a master of French science fiction
In The Time of the Great Hunts, Roll and his clan of seemingly prehistoric (or perhaps post-apocalyptic) men encounter creatures who wear armor fly through the air in ominous steel birds. Soon these two evolutionary alternatives to present-day humanity clash. But which of them represents the more enviable state? And which is the more human?
In The War of the Gruuls, humanity has...
Soul of London
Sowing Death
A thriller with highly contemporary themes set in the heart of rural France
Special Effects
“Pinteau is in awe of special effects, (…) he gives a thorough, insightful history that is never overblown and always intelligent”
Publishers Weekly
An expert
A privileged eyewitness of the evolution of special effects since 1985, Pascal Pinteau travels regularly to the United States, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, and Canada to meet the leading specialists in this field.
A complete work
This is the only work on this subject that allows one to discover the first...
Stolen Letters
Under the Sun King, one teenage girl’s search for identity in the merciless world of nobility
Françoise is the daughter of the famous Marquise de Sévigné, whose thinking and prose have enchanted the French court. The young woman has been invited to her first dinner with nobles, where she must dazzle everyone with both her vivacity and beauty. Intimidated by the
idea of meeting Jean de la Fontaine and Madame de La Fayette, the young girl commits a faux...
Stolen Time
A journey between past and present, in search of a lost romance
Can a letter from a stranger change your life?
Flavie, author of romance novels and sentimental to the core, cannot help being won over when one day she receives a mysterious letter, along with an apology from the Post Office for the delay in delivery… of forty-three years!
So who is this Amélie and the anonymous man desperate to persuade her to give up...
Supremacy
‘A modern space opera with everything it takes to delight fans of the genre’
Bifrost
Over the millennia, humanity has spread to the Cluster, a group of stars located in a distant arm of our galaxy. But the humans and other intelligent races who settled here are threatened by a highly effective system of mind control, imposing a uniform society and crushing all dissent: Supremacy. One after another, by subtle ruse or brutal force, the independent worlds of the Cluster are...
T.I.M.E Stories
Ta-Shima
‘An essential SF novel full of action, suspense, secrets, ethics’
Daily Mag
For eight centuries, the planet Ta-Shima has remained isolated from the Federation of Human Worlds, and has been home to two very different but complementary human races: the Shiro, arrogant and bloodthirsty lords, ready to kill one another over matters of honour, and the Axis, thickset and hairy, imbued with a limitless admiration for the Shiro, who in return are compelled to protect them...
Tempting Nights
They had sworn never to fall in love, but that was before they spent the night together…
Adam is handsome, intelligent, wealthy, and terribly lonely. Heart-broken since his divorce with a famous actress, he refuses to maintain any prolonged relationships and contents himself with the services of escort girls to accompany him at society events. One evening, he meets a bewitching, independent young woman, nothing like his usual partners. After exchanging a few words with him, she...
That Which Binds Us
‘Original! Enthralling! Strange! Marvellous! Surprising…’
Autour des livres
Alice is no ordinary young woman. Upon the death of her grandmother, a year earlier, a gift came to her: the ability to see the emotional attachments of every person she meets. These bonds appear to her in the form of luminous threads, creating before her eyes a veritable web between people. Unable to explain the phenomenon, Alice learns to live with it in deepest...
The Book and the Sword
The Fantasy novel that has conquered the world
Year 10 of the new Republic, in the remote port city of Masalia.
Dun-Cadal, once the greatest general of the Empire, has been drinking his life away for years. Betrayed by his friends and grief-stricken at the loss of his apprentice, he’s done with politics, with adventure, and with people. But people aren’t finished with him – not yet.
Viola is a young...
The Broken Balance
‘If Harry Potter were a French girl, he’d be Elie !
A novel you urgently need to discover !’
Glossy
Elie has just lost both her parents in a car accident. Since then, her life has been falling apart. At home, her brother Karl had developed an absurd obsession for plastic ducks, while her Aunt Magalie is busy mass-producing badges. When the teenaged girl catches the two of them whispering together about a mysterious Order and magic spells, she starts to wonder whether she isn’t the...
The Cardinal's Blades
‘A stunning English-language debut with this breathless, swashbuckling tale of intrigue, spying, and swordfights. An adventure plot leaves plenty of room for character development, drama, and excitement.’
Publishers Weekly - starred review
Paris, 1633. The streets are filled with intrigue, duels, spies and adventure. The skies are filled with dragons. Dragonnets are exotic pets, wyverns are high-class riding mounts, and drac thugs are the coarsest of mercenaries.
But the power rising from Spain and its Court of Dragons is anything but mundane ; there the deadly Black Claw cult draws on dragons as they once were:...
The Château by the river
Two women, two eras, and one castle that will decide their destinies
Alexandra, a dynamic young business woman from California, has always been fascinated with France. She discovers that she herself has French roots when she comes across a photo of her ancestor Gabrielle D’Arcy, posing in front of the Château of Ferté-Chandeniers. She determines to find out everything there is to know about this woman who left her country for America a...
The Children of Evernight
‘The fluid writing, the twisted plot and the colourful characters propel us to an original and highly engaging universe!’
Glossy
To escape from boarding school, on the eve of her thirteenth birthday Camille makes a wish before falling asleep: to never wake up again.
When she re-opens her eyes, she discovers her wish has come true. For here she is, in Evernight, the world of dreams. Wandering in this strange universe, she meets odd characters who lead her to the reverse city, where she must find the...
The Complete Novels
A unique collection gathering the major works of a highly acclaimed author
Ranging from pure science fiction to space opera and fantasy, Julia Verlanger’s bitterly beautiful novels rank among the best works from France’s «Anticipation» brand of fantastic fiction that emerged after World War II.
Verlanger creates fascinating post-apocalyptic worlds and depicts lands ravaged by bacteriological warfare
– strangely...
The Day When…
All the adults are asleep…
let the party begin!
One day, all the adults on Earth fall one after another into a mysterious coma… Children and teenagers suddenly find themselves left to their own devices.
Léo and Marie, two sixteen-year-old high school students, assemble their friends to try and save as many babies and small children as possible and distribute food to the neighbourhood kids. Within this group of...
The Dead Girls Club
‘Ill-used girls get revenge.These books are dark jewels.’
L’Ecran Fantastique
Stand back, good people, as The Dead Girls Club opens its doors. On the menu this evening: fresh blood, violent shivers, dark fears and sleepless nights. Welcome to the horror of fairy tales that turn out for the worse, welcome to contemporary tales in which children take revenge on adults with a frighteningly cruel innocence, welcome to novellas about broken childhoods the survivors of...
The Devil’s Compassion
What if having compassion for the devil were enough to ensure your survival?
The Dragons of the Red City
“I thought Fantasy was an Anglo-Saxon monopoly, until I read Erik Wietzel. It feels good to be proved wrong sometimes. This is the best Fantasy story I’ve read in a long time.”
Maxime Chattam
The son of the queen of Redfelt has been abducted. The ransom is the city’s magical sword, in which it is rumoured that the souls of dragons sleep. But the queen’s emissaries have vanished, along with the weapon they were to deliver to the kidnappers.
The queen therefore summons Alec, a bounty hunter, and formerly her lover when he was a young officer in the service of...
The Emperor’s Hand
From common gladiator to the Emperor’s living weapon, the cruel destiny of Rekk the Butcher
Rekk’s childhood was not easy, and the rest of his life won’t be, either. Gladiator then soldier in the imperial army, he is spotted by the Emperor in the infernal mire of the Kushite jungles. He becomes the Emperor’s agent to defeat the hordes of barbarians, then the armed wing for all the Empire’s dirty work.
Little by little, Rekk evolves into a hated and...
The Eye of the Gods
‘Likeable characters draw the reader into an adventure that sees them make the transition from childhood to adolescence. Intriguing and enjoyable, an excellent reading experience.’
Lanfeust Magazine
Twenty-nine children live in the Bubble.
Split over five levels – and into three rival groups – with no adults and no contact from the outside world, they have everything they need: food, power, shelter and company. But it’s not going to last.
The first sign comes when the food dispensers fail. Mina of the Wolves forges an alliance with Alec, leader of the...
The Eyes
A Lovecraftian horror thriller set in an isolated asylum in the French countryside
In the 1950s, a psychiatric hospital in a windswept place deep in the countryside fuels countless rumours among residents of nearby villages. When the mutilated body of a...
The House
‘ Two hours of reading engraved in your memory for life.’
France Inter
The House
In a white dress, bouquet in hand, Martine knows that she will never love Jean, the sad and violent man she has just married. But inside her, a seed is germinating. This seed is her decision. For years she will endure her daily existence and raise their child. But silently, boldly, and persistently, she will be planning her escape.
The Dress
It has...
The Ice Swords
Déria is the daughter of a northern lord, sent to finish her education at the court of the Emperor where her charm, just as devastating as her sword, leaves no one indifferent. But Déria prefers the company of her young maid Shani and the soldier Mahlin to that of the nobles at the court.
The news of her assassination comes as a brutal blow to her friends, who swear...
The Illusions of Sav-Loar
The end of the war between magicians could come from a slave girl discovering her powers
In the kingdom of Shadow, the women who possess the gift are persecuted by men from the Closed, the patriarchal religious order. For centuries now these women have taken refuge in the legendary Sav-Loar, a city at the heart of the Forest of Dreams protected by spells and illusions.
When Blue becomes a teenager, she discovers her powers and joins forces with a group of slaves...
The King of Tackling
He’s a professional sportsman, weighing 222 pds.
Will he resist her shy 5’1?
Romain is the kind of rugby player they just don’t make anymore, and he knows it. He is also the kind of man they don’t make anymore, but he’s really not aware of it.
In his wild youth, he earned a reputation for being a hard hitter: “The King of tackling” is his middle name. He’s a legend of the sport, yet not one to pose for calendars or go...
The Legacy of the Crosser-Kings
A meeting of two young women whose linked destinies will change the history of their worlds
The Legend of the Demon Slayers
‘Full of action, suspense and mystery, and set in a world dominated by magic’
Fantasy.fr
‘It was eleven o’clock when they asked Malïn to kill himself. They left him in his princely suite with a dagger, a bowl of spiced wine sweetened with honey, and a vial of poison. He was fourteen years old.’
Yet Malin is not alone in his plight. The entire royal palace had been struck by a terrible illness causing madness, and then death. Malin is infected and...
The Lord of Crystal
‘With a twisted sense of humour and a light tone, this is a great book, well-paced and with an original idea, which provides hours of pleasure.’
Lanfeust Magazine
One morning the young emperor Odrien wakes up to find his people gone. Everyone, throughout the entire kingdom, has disappeared. Or almost everyone. There are three others, mysteriously left behind: a pick-pocket, a Wise-One, and the captain of the Imperial Guard. Odrien must bring them together to help him.
The answers lie in the mirror: they must travel through it, into the...
The Magic of Paris
A swirling contemporary YA fantasy trilogy
The Morgenstern Trilogy
Welcome to a futuristic universe where replicas of old cities are pleasure grounds for tourists… and murderers
The Mysteries of Saint Petersburg
A remarkable and intriguing novel, halfway between Fantasy and historical novel.
An old dying woman entrusts Efim Stoïkov, a young Siberian shaman, with the task of looking after a mysterious creature, which shows him the way to the Purple Land, the world of spirits. Surviving the first ordeals of his apprenticeship as a shaman, he emigrates to Saint-Petersburg.
Political conspiracies and sorcerers’ fights are common things in the brothels and palaces...
The Opera Macabre
‘With their historical edge and European setting, these vampire chronicles offer an alternative to the US writers who dominate the genre’
Fantasy.fr
Flamenco Red
It was 1840, in a back-street Algiers brothel, when Carmilla became a vampire. A superb flamenco dancer and a strong, passionate, vibrant woman, she believes in progress and soon finds herself at war with powerful and ancient vampires who are strongly attached to their black magic, mystical rites and ancient ways…
The Perfect Scenario
What if you could instantly write your life as it goes along?
The Pirates of the Crooked Claw
An extraordinary, One Piece-like pirate adventure
When Caboche, having fled the military orphanage, goes off in search of his father, he certainly never expected to meet the company of the Crooked Claw, and still less to find himself aboard their ship! Led by a disillusioned captain called Bretelle and renowned for never having successfully boarded another ship, the crew looks more like a circus troupe than a band of...
The Rangers’ Code
The essential guide for every budding adventurer with a passion for the wild
The Reluctant Witch
The Seven Cities
The flamboyant destiny of an elusive thief inSamarande, city of corruption and violence
Of the Seven Cities, province of the High Kingdom, Samarande is the largest, most famous, and above all, most dangerous.
It is in this violent and corrupt world that Iryän Shaän practices his profession : that of a thief. After getting his hands on a precious tiara, he is then robbed of the jewels that adorn it, and he must find the guilty party and overcome his...
The Seventh Warrior-Mage
‘Fast-flowing, spectacular and entertaining fantasy. A honey-trap for readers, impossible to put down’
Librairie Mollat
Jal is not only a thief, but also a deserter. Pursued by his former fellow soldiers, he escapes death by a hair.
He is rescued by a woman who asks in exchange that he swear to defend her village against the conquering army he has just betrayed. An army led by the most powerful of the warrior-mages.
Although at first Jal has no intention of honouring his promise, the...
The Shadow of our Secrets
The Sighs Counter
A two-sided novel: at last, a story told from both sides!
A man, a woman, an impossible love story. Their relationship is first of all two points of view, each with its own version of events. Heads for hers, tails for his. From the terrace of a Parisian café, he observes her while she notices him, and soon, their eyes do more than meet; they seek one another out. He’s married and the father of two children. She has just left her...
The Skeleton King
The dead obey his commands…
Nothing withstands his anger
Condemned to a life as pariahs, Junia, a young woman of gigantic size, and Shaghan, a boy lacking legs, are the favourite slaves of a blacksmith-mage. A spell permits them to endure the infernal heat of a forge built on top of a volcano, the trade-off being a fatal vulnerability to cold preventing any chance of their escape.
Their survival ensured solely by a potion possessed by...
The Twilight Realms
‘Young, gritty author Mathieu Gaborit ranks with Anglo-Saxon masters’
L’Humanité
There’s a secret place known as the Dying Day, where legends spring to life. Hidden beneath the eternal shadow of a gigantic tree, the Dying Day is a school where blade masters and magicians instruct their students in the mystical rites of a strange and dark power.
Within the mysterious boundaries of the school walls, Agone, son of the deceased Baron de Rochronde, faces...
The Undeniable Charm of a Heart-Stealer
The Vampire of Bacalan
Two teenagers investigate their origins through the memories of a mysterious stranger
Cornelia and Niko, two sixteen-year-old twins, see their lives turned upside down during a concert by the harbor. Cornelia hears a mysterious voice with an English accent and follows it. She becomes lost in the labyrinth of the naval base and almost drowns, but is narrowly saved by an enormous dog.
The dog later reappears during their jaunts around town. A crow seems to be...
The Visitor from the Future
In 2550, the Earth has been ravaged by a series of disasters that may well spell the end for humanity. Acid rains and zombie attacks are the daily lot of the last remaining survivors.
Among them is the Visitor, who has taken on the mission of cancelling these catastrophes. Helped by a wacky scientific robot, he goes back in time to the 21st century in an attempt to...
The Waldgänger
In a world in crisis, one man can change everything…
But he needs to give a damn.
Yumington: the city with a thousand tales. Plunge into its sordid depths, and you may never come back out…
And what if an ordinary man gains limitless powers in a society wracked by social, economic and political crises?
And what if this man had the ability to change everything?
And what if this man could not care less?
Blake thought...
The Werewolves of Miller's Hollow
The White Abbey
A skillful political thriller where private lies and state secrets become entangled
Lieutenant Gange is raising his six-year-old daughter on his own in a mountain village in the Jura. His wife left a few months ago without saying why and they haven’t heard from her since.
When two murders occur in the same week in this remote community where «nothing ever happens», Gange becomes embroiled in an explosive investigation. Little by little, all...
The Wolves of Riverdance
A forbidden love and an age-old war, in which it could be the key issue at stake…
Upon arriving in the small town of North Cascades, Lucas finds a job, an apartment, and even a friend: Léo. But the shadows, embodied by his half-brother,...
Transparent
A moving coming-of-age novel about youth and finding one’s place in the world
Unwanted
Wielstadt
‘An absolute gem of a book, whose author must be one of the most gifted in this genre’
Le Monde
Germany under the Holy Roman Empire is set ablaze by the Thirty Years War. After completing a sensitive mission for the Order of the Templars, Kantz, an exorcist knight who has been initiated to the arcane secrets of the Kabbalah, returns to Wielstadt. Although the city is protected by a mysterious dragon, Kantz is charged with tracking down an elusive pack of ghouls.
As the war...
Wild Heart
He wants to love this boy, but first he must learn to forgive himself
‘Are you angry, Gabriel?’
This was the question Dr Grant asked him at every session over the three years he’d spent in the correctional centre. Of course he was angry. He’d always been angry. He’d been most angry at high school when he saw Vicky, the smiling boy who seemed to look at him in a funny way. One day Gabriel...
With You
Love in the midst of horror
Wonderful
‘Wonderful, the word that qualifies the best this novel’
Le Monde
The end of the world is coming. Tomorrow. So for those of us with things still to do, the clock is ticking. The pale moon is beginning to wane, threatening men in black are kidnapping people, and dark plots are growing as, with the final deadline approaching, spies start working harder than ever.
Yet some things stay the same. At Blue FM the DJ plays music and talks to his...
