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Ce roman aurait pu être un récit documentaire. En 2017, P. fonce avec sa voiture sur la terrasse d'un restaurant. Angela, 13 ans, meurt sur le coup. On comptera des dizaines de blessés. Alors journaliste, Justin Morin couvre le procès. Il y rencontre une famille ainsi que la sœur du coupable. La famille, c'est celle d'Angela dont les parents, Sacha et Betty, réclament justice. Une famille amputée dont les liens se resserrent. À l'issue du procès, le journaliste n'arrive pas à mettre un point final à son récit.

He was destined to rule the world ... A prince is born under a star of good fortune. It is prophesied that he will become the greatest king of all time. Alexander grows up to fulfil this destiny - powerful as a lion, skilled in the art of war and leader of a vast army. Soon his fame sweeps the world as he builds a mighty empire, conquering all who stand in his way. But this is not enough for the young warrior. Alexander will not rest until he has defeated his mortal enemy, the King of Persia.

Robert Graves first came across the name of Roger Lamb in 1914, when Graves was an English officer instructing his platoon in regimental history. Lamb was a British soldier who had served his king during the American War of Independence, and whose claim to a footnote in history is that he managed to escape twice from American prison camps.

"C'est une histoire vraie, celle d'un homme de guerre et d'une femme seule. Elle s'est passée en Angleterre, au cours des années 1920. À l'époque, elle a fait cinq colonnes à la une dans la presse, puis elle a disparu. J'ai pensé qu'elle valait la peine d'être racontée dans un roman." - Hédi Kaddour.

My First Wife is Jakob Wassermann's intense, powerful account of a marriage - and its ruinous collapse - translated by the award-winning translator of Alone in Berlin, Michael Hofmann. It is the story of Alexander Herzog, a young writer, who goes to Vienna to escape his debts and a failed love affair. There he is pursued by book-loving Ganna: giddy, girlish, clumsy, eccentric and wild. Dazzled and unnerved by her devotion to him, and attracted to the large dowry offered by her wealthy father, he thinks he can mould Ganna into what he wants.

A powerful story of the shattering effects of the First World War on both a family and a country - from Hans Fallada, bestselling author of Alone in Berlin. 'You only want to tyrannise, you're only happy when we're all trembling before you. You're just like your Kaiser. He who doesn't obey is shot down...' Gustav Hackendahl's will is law. Known as 'Iron Gustav', he runs his family and his Berlin carriage business with stern, unyielding discipline.

In The Discovery of Slowness, German novelist Sten Nadolny recounts the life of the nineteenth-century British explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847). The reader follows Franklin's development from awkward schoolboy and ridiculed teenager to expedition leader, governor of Tasmania, and icon of adventure. Everyone with whom he came into contact sensed that he was a rare man, one who was “out of his time” and who moved to a different, grander beat. That beat eventually led Franklin to sail once more—on his final, fateful voyage—into the Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage.

The New York Times bestseller from Margaret George—a captivating novel about history's most enthralling queen, the legendary Elizabeth I. England’s greatest monarch has baffled and intrigued the world for centuries. But what was the Virgin Queen really like? Lettice Knollys—Elizabeth's flame-haired, look-alike cousin—thinks she knows all too well. Elizabeth’s rival for the love of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, and mother to the Earl of Essex, Lettice has been intertwined with Elizabeth since childhood.

Juillet 1960. Dans son havre de la Finca Vigía, près de La Havane, Ernest Hemingway éprouve de plus en plus de difficultés à écrire. Fatigué, déprimé, cerné par l'impuissance, il part pour Madrid et ses corridas. Malade, il est contraint de retourner aux États-Unis. Il mourra un an plus tard, dans sa maison de l'Idaho, sans avoir jamais revu Cuba.

Pourquoi, un matin d'automne, une si jolie jeune femme, intelligente et libre, entourée d'amis, admirée, une fille que la vie semblait amuser, amoureuse d'un beau soldat américain qui l'aimait aussi, s'est-elle jetée à l'aube par la fenêtre d'une chambre d'hôtel, à vingt ans ? J'aimerais savoir, comprendre.