Another real-life character tour de force from Jean Teulé featuring a famous female serial killer from the nineteenth century.Little Hélène Jégado had always been different. Schooled in the ancient beliefs of the Breton people by her mother, the beaut
Le mardi 16 août 1870, Alain de Monéys, jeune Périgourdin intelligent et aimable, sort du domicile de ses parents pour se rendre à la foire de Hautefaye, le village voisin. Il arrive à destination à quatorze heures. Deux heures plus tard, la foule d
Frères humains qui après nous vivez, N'ayez les cœurs contre nous endurcis.Il est peut-être né le jour de la mort de Jeanne d'Arc. On a pendu son père et supplicié sa mère. Il a appris le grec et le latin à l'université de Paris. Il a joui, ment
Charles IX fut de tous nos rois de France l'un des plus calamiteux.A 22 ans, pour faire plaisir à sa mère, il ordonna le massacre de la Saint Barthélemy qui épouvanta l'Europe entière. Abasourdi par l'énormité de son crime, il sombra dans la folie.
In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russian navigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prove even more disastrous. In search of new Arctic hunting
« ...Non, ne pleure pas... Tiens, prends mon mouchoir, petite fille... Mais il y a une chose que je dois te dire : les gens qui s'arrêtent de parler deviennent fous. Chu Ta, par exemple, je ne te l'ai pas dit tout à l'heure, mais il est devenu fou et t
Onitsha tells the story of Fintan, a youth who travels to Africa in 1948 with his Italian mother to join the English father he has never met. Fintan is initially enchanted by the exotic world he discovers in Onitsha, a bustling city prominently situated o
When his parents split up, and his dad leaves home, a ten-year-old boy begs the sky to help him. The next day an ice storm covers his city. When the power goes out and the temperature drops, people must turn to each other to survive. But for one neighbour
The first victim is a horse: its headless body hangs suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff. On the same day as the gruesome discovery, a young psychiatrist starts her first job at a secure asylum for the criminally insane, just a few miles away. Comma
