Puts the focus on the disease of addiction without blame or shame for either the addict or the codependent.Lyrical, uplifting prose style.A message of hope emerges from the tale of suicidal despair.Engrossing storytelling.

La reine des biographes. Un grand récit qui offre une histoire inégalée du grand et tragique XVIe siècle.En six volumes d'exceptions, publiés entre 1994 et 2002 aux éditions de Fallois, Simone Bertière a raconté l'histoire des reines, célèbres ou oubliées, qui ont fait la France de la Renaissance à la fin de la monarchie. Voici l'édition définitive – en un beau et fort volume - des deux premiers consacrés au XVIe siècle qui ont vu s'épanouir comme jamais le pouvoir des femmes avant...

A Sunday Times History Book of the YearShortlisted for The Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award'No Briton has written better than Winder about Europe' - Sunday TimesIn AD 843, the three surviving grandsons of the great Emperor Charlemagne met at Verdun. After years of bitter squabbles over who would inherit the family land, they finally decided to divide the territory and go their separate ...

‘What a heroine Endurance Proudfoot is! I loved her from the start. An unconventional woman who takes us on a fascinating - if bumpy - ride through a man’s world. I laughed, cried and most of all cheered! Can’t stop thinking about it… an absolute cruncher of a tale’ Janice Hallett, author of The Appeal'A complete joy of a novel that, like it’s wonderful protagonist’s namesake, is a story of endurance against all odds. Full of heart and so eloquently writte...

‘I absolutely loved The Lost Passenger. I adored the writing style, the characterization and the gripping storyline. Bliss!’ JILL MANSELLIn the chaos of that terrible night, her secret went down with the Titanic. But secrets have a way of floating to the surface…Trapped in an unhappy aristocratic marriage, Elinor Coombes sees only lonely days ahead of her. So a present from her father - tickets for the maiden voyage of a huge, luxu...

* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award* National Book Award Finalist* Time magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year* New York Times Notable Book“We have long needed a fair-minded overview of this vitally important religious sensibility, and FitzGerald has now provided it” (The New York Times Book Review).Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Frances FitzGeral...

La reine des biographes. Un grand récit qui offre une histoire inégalée du grand et tragique XVIIe siècle.En six volumes d'exceptions, publiés entre 1994 et 2002 aux éditions de Fallois, Simone Bertière a raconté l'histoire des reines, célèbres ou oubliées, qui ont fait la France de la Renaissance à la fin de la monarchie. Après Les Reines de France. Le siècle des Valois publié en 2022, voici l'édition définitive – en un beau et fort volume - des deux ouvrages suivants con...

La reine des biographes. Un grand récit qui offre une histoire inégalée d'un XVIIIe siècle riche en bouleversements.En six volumes d'exception, publiés entre 1994 et 2002 aux éditions de Fallois, Simone Bertière a raconté l'histoire des reines, célèbres ou oubliées, qui ont fait la France de la Renaissance à la fin de la monarchie. Après les deux précédents tomes des Reines de France, Le siècle des Valois publié en 2022 et Le Grand Siècle...

Welcome to the British Ladies Football ClubLondon, 1897. Minnie Newton – twenty-eight-year-old schoolteacher and women’s rights advocate – has a passion for football. But in Victorian society, football is a men's game. That is, until Minnie decides to take matters into her own hands and place an ad in the newspaper, asking for volunteers to join the first ever women’s football team.From a motley collection of replies, Minnie puts together a squad. Most of t...

‘I want you to remember something, Nat. You’re small on the outside. But inside you’re as big as everyone else. You show people that and you won’t go far wrong in life.’An uplifting, feel-good story perfect for fans of Mrs England The Doll Factory and The Devil and the Dark WaterMy name is Nat Davy. Perhaps you’ve heard of me? There was a time when people up and down the land knew my name, though they only...

Si le christianisme venait à disparaître de la société française, que deviendraient les valeurs fondamentales d’après lesquelles nous vivons depuis des siècles ? Que resterait-il de la laïcité ? De quelles autres croyances délétères verrions-nous l’avènement ? Et avec quelles conséquences pour notre vision de l’humanité ?Cette question, Mgr Hippolyte Simon se l’était posée il y a plus de vingt ans dans un livre devenu un classique. Parce que la situation s’est aggravée, il reprend ...

Geoffrey Wheatcroft's hugely entertaining and well researched history of the Tour de France is already established as the definitive account of cycling's greatest event. Since the book was last published in 2007, much has changed. Bradley Wiggins' historic victory in 2012 - the first Briton ever to secure the yellow jersey - brought him a knighthood and garnered more interest in the race than ever before. Yet the months after were dominated by an even bigger story, as Tour legend and seven...