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I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current.

Virginia a vu le jour à bord du bateau construit par son père, Peter Tangvald, célèbre aventurier ayant fait plusieurs fois le tour du monde.

- Rentrée littéraire 2024 - La vérité sur l'affaire du Collier. Deux femmes se font face, une reine qui a tout et une intrigante qui veut tout.

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

Juillet 1960. Dans son havre de la Finca Vigía, près de La Havane, Ernest Hemingway éprouve de plus en plus de difficultés à écrire.

The New York Times bestseller from Margaret George—a captivating novel about history's most enthralling queen, the legendary Elizabeth I.

In The Discovery of Slowness, German novelist Sten Nadolny recounts the life of the nineteenth-century British explorer Sir John Franklin (1786-1847).

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.

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.

"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.

Robert Graves first came across the name of Roger Lamb in 1914, when Graves was an English officer instructing his platoon in regimental history.

Katherine Ashley, the daughter of a poor country squire, happily secures an education and a place for herself in the Tudor court of Henry VIII.

At eighteen, Rosemary arrives in New York from Tasmania with little more than her love of books and an eagerness to explore the city she's read so much about.

Mark Antony, famous warrior and legendary lover, expects that he will be Julius Caesar's successor. But when Caesar is murdered, his eighteen-year-old nephew, Octavian, is named his heir.

"This is the story of a man who loved two women, and one of them killed him.