L'Allée du Roi
10 best books like L'Allée du Roi (Françoise Chandernagor): Meet Me in Monaco, The Lover, Pirates!, Entreat Me, Eidolon, The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine, Cape May : A Novel, Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman, The Templar Legacy, Death of a Gossip
| Author | Hazel Gaynor |
| ISBN | 0062885375 |
Set in the 1950s against the backdrop of Grace Kelly’s whirlwind romance and glamourous wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco, New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb take the reader on an evocative sun-drenched journey along the Côte d’Azur in this page-turning novel...
| Author | Marguerite Duras |
| ISBN | 0375700528 |
***AWARDED THE 1984 PRIX GONCOURT***
“The story of my life doesn’t exist. Does not exist. There’s never any centre to it. No path, no line. There are great spaces where you pretend there used to be someone, but it’s not true, there was no one.”
The young Marguerite...
| Author | Celia Rees |
| ISBN | 1582346658 |
Nancy Kington, daughter of a rich merchant, suddenly orphaned when her father dies, is sent to live on her family's plantation in Jamaica. Disgusted by the treatment of the slaves and her brother's willingness to marry her off, she and one of the slaves, Minerva, run away and join a band of pirates.
For...
Afflicted by a centuries-old curse, a warlord slowly surrenders his humanity and descends toward madness. Ballard of Ketach Tor holds no hope of escaping his fate until his son returns home one day, accompanied by a woman of incomparable beauty. His family believes her arrival may herald Ballard's...
In a bid for more power, the Shadow Queen of Haradis has unleashed a malignant force into the world. Her son Brishen, younger prince of the Kai royal house, suddenly finds himself ruler of a kingdom blighted by a diseased darkness and on the brink of war. His human wife Ildiko must decide if she will give...
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
| Author | Lindsey Fitzharris |
| ISBN | 0374117292 |
In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation. She conjures up early operating theaters--no place for the squeamish--and surgeons, working before anesthesia, who were lauded for their speed...
A mesmerizing debut novel by Chip Cheek, Cape May explores the social and sexual mores of 1950s America through the eyes of a newly married couple from the genteel south corrupted by sophisticated New England urbanites.
Late September 1957. Henry and Effie, very young newlyweds from Georgia,...
Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman
| Author | Stefan Zweig |
| ISBN | 0802139094 |
Life at the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette has long captivated readers, drawn by accounts of the intrigues and pageantry that came to such a sudden and unexpected end. Stefan Zweig's Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman is a dramatic account of the guillotine's most famous victim,...
| Author | Steve Berry |
| ISBN | 0345476166 |
The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces vying for the treasure have learned that it is not at all what they thought it...
| Author | M.C. Beaton |
| ISBN | 0446607134 |
Fantastic! What a story, so intelligently told! The difference between Death Of A Gossip and the first Agatha Raisin book is that the former doesn't concentrate on the main character's details. That only helped to improve on what was a nice murder case. The gathering of suspects in a library was something...
| Author | Stefan Zweig |
| ISBN | 1590172000 |
The great Austrian writer Stefan Zweig was a master anatomist of the deceitful heart, and Beware of Pity, the only novel he published during his lifetime, uncovers the seed of selfishness within even the finest of feelings.
Hofmiller, an Austro-Hungarian cavalry officer stationed at the...
| Author | José Rodrigues dos Santos |
"Nas escadarias do Museu Egípcio, em pleno Cairo, Tomás Noronha é abordado por uma desconhecida. Chama-se Ariana Pakravan, é iraniana e traz consigo a cópia de um documento inédito, um velho manuscrito com um estranho título e um poema enigmático.
O inesperado encontro lança Tomás...
| Author | Dinah Jefferies |
| ISBN | 0241969557 |
#1 International bestselling novel set in 1920s Ceylon, about a young Englishwoman who marries a charming tea plantation owner and widower, only to discover he's keeping terrible secrets about his past, including what happened to his first wife, that lead to devastating consequences
Nineteen-year-old...
Stieg Larssons erfenis: Zijn jacht op de moordenaar van Olof Palme
Op 28 februari 1986 werd de Zweedse premier Olof Palme op straat in Stockholm doodgeschoten. Een moord die tot de dag van vandaag onopgelost is en waarover de meest wilde complottheorieën bestaan. Stieg Larsson, de latere auteur van de wereldberoemde Millennium-trilogie, is overtuigd van de betrokkenheid...
| Author | Robert Merle |
| ISBN | 2253135356 |
De la mort de François Ier en 1547 à l'édit de Nantes en 1599, la France s'enlise dans l'épreuve des guerres de religion. C'est dans ce pays dévasté, en proie à la misère, au brigandage, à la peste, à la haine, que grandit le jeune Pierre de Siorac, rejeton d'une noble famille périgourdine et...
America's Reluctant Prince: The Life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
A major new biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. from a leading historian who was also a close friend, America’s Reluctant Prince is a deeply researched, personal, surprising, and revealing portrait of the Kennedy heir the world lost too soon.
Through the lens of their decades-long friendship...
In a city as corrupt as it was luxurious, those who dared to dream were bound to pay the price.
Havana, Cuba, 1947. Young Patricio flees impoverished Spain and steps into the sultry island paradise of Havana with only the clothes on his back and half-baked dreams of a better life. Blessed with good looks...
| Author | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal de Sévigné |
| ISBN | 2080702823 |
Madame de Sévigné, célèbre sans avoir jamais rien publié, demeure sans doute l'écrivain français le plus cité et le mois connu.
Le mariage de sa fille, en 1670, avec le comte de Grignan, le départ de cette fille idolâtrée pour la Provence marquent le début d'une correspondance...
A Year in Paris: Season by Season in the City of Light
| Author | John Baxter |
| ISBN | 0062846892 |
A NEW YORK TIMES "SUMMER READING" PICK!
From the incomparable John Baxter, award-winning author of the bestselling The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, a sumptuous and definitive portrait of Paris through the seasons, highlighting the unique tastes, sights, and changing personality...
| Author | Jean-Christophe Rufin |
| ISBN | 0330393871 |
Jean-Christophe Rufin yokes the elegant language of the French enlightenment with the storytelling of Alexandre Dumas to create a splendid parable of liberty, religious fanaticism and the possibility of happiness.
'Set in 1700, towards the end of the reign of Louis XIV, it follows the fortunes...
The Quiet Side of Passion
| Author | Alexander McCall Smith |
| ISBN | 0345808703 |
The new novel from the bestselling Alexander McCall Smith about Isabel Dalhousie--philosopher, moral sleuth, mother, wife--in which Isabel is called upon to help when a paternity question presents more than meets the eye.
Isabel finds herself befriended by Patricia, a single mother whose...
| Author | Gaël Faye |
| ISBN | 2246857333 |
Avant, Gabriel faisait les quatre cents coups avec ses copains dans leur coin de paradis. Et puis l'harmonie familiale s'est disloquée en même temps que son "petit pays", le Burundi, ce bout d'Afrique centrale brutalement malmenée par l'Histoire.
Plus tard, Gabriel fait revivre un monde...
Un tome d'entre deux où l'aventure est sympathique à suivre mais où il ne se passe pas grand chose au final concernant l'intrigue principale. Je n'ai rien contre, entendons-nous bien, j'ai même beaucoup aimé ce volume qui reste dans la lignée des autres avec une ambiance bon enfant et naïve qui...
Ciao Amore (FICTION FRANCAI)
"Le premier qui m’interpelle je l’aimerai pour toujours, et il devra m’aimer en retour, sinon je le tue."
Cette histoire commence par un pari, celui que s’est lancé Cléophée, vingt-huit ans. Son défi lui fera croiser le mystérieux Ferdinand... Cédera-t-il à son charme vénéneux...
The Little Bookshop of Lonely Hearts
A quaint old bookshop, where happy ever after is only a page away…Once upon a time in a crumbling bookshop, Posy Morland hid in the pages of romantic novels.So when Bookend’s eccentric owner, Lavinia, dies and leaves the shop to Posy, she must put down her books and join the real world. Because Posy...
| Author | Jessica Fellowes |
| ISBN | 0751567159 |
It's 1919, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London, and most of all her oppressive and dangerous uncle.
Louisa's salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside. There she will become nurserymaid, chaperone...
| Author | Laetitia Colombani |
| ISBN | 2246821258 |
A 40 ans, Solène a tout sacrifié à sa carrière d'avocate : ses rêves, ses amis, ses amours. Un jour, elle craque, s'effondre. C'est la dépression, le burn-out. Tandis qu'elle cherche à remonter la pente, son psychiatre l'oriente vers le bénévolat : sortez de vous-même, tournez-vous vers...
Deux pêcheurs autour d’un cadavre, la forêt de Rambouillet pour seul témoin. La victime n’est pas une jeune femme ordinaire, mais la fille d’un politicien sulfureux. Son corps a été littéralement broyé. Par quoi ? Par qui ? Pourquoi ? C’est ce que le groupe de la crim’ mené...
Some curses grow stronger with time…
People say that all Cornish inns are haunted, but the Waterwitch’s history is particularly chilling. Built from the salvaged timber of a cursed ship, the guest house’s dark secrets go further back than anyone can remember.
Emma is permanently confined...
3月のライオン 14 [3-gatsu no Lion 14]
夏まつり以降、急接近したあかりと島田と林田。不思議な3人の関係は時にすれ違い、時に重なり合いながら三月町や川本家を舞台に周囲の人々も巻き込んでいく。そして秋も深まる頃、零にとって最後となる駒橋高校の文化祭を迎えるが、奇しくも同じ日に開催される職団戦の会場に零はいた。クラスの出し物に奮闘するひなたと立会人を務める零。それぞれの場でそれぞれの思いを抱えながら過ごす秋の一日が始まる──。
2018年12月刊.
