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Nonfiction / Travel / Memoir

Published on May 8, 2025
Self-published (526 Press)
310 pages

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How do you get to know a city?
Friends, guidebooks and influencers can point you to the agreed list of must-sees, but a city is so much more than its tourist landmarks.
In 2010, Jon Davey spent fifteen days in Paris as a student photographer.
He’d gone there without a plan so each day began with a clean slate, stepping out onto the streets of the Marais and then just wandering around, taking in whatever came his way.
A flâneur long before he even knew the word.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

JON DAVEY
was born in Dundee
and studied Geography in Durham and London.
In 2007 he quit a job in IT to study for a BA in Photography.
He is a long-suffering fan of Dundee United
and has written about them and the Scottish game in general
in the football quarterly Nutmeg.

He works as a freelance photographer
and lives with his wife in Portobello, Edinburgh.
Fifteen Days in Paris is his first book.

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Nova Core: Dans l’ombre de Lucifer
[In Lucifer’s Shadow]
by Franck Denizot
Scifi / Thriller ésotérique
May 2, 2025
Self-published at Éditions Fragrance
227 pages

When memory becomes a war, only love can awaken the human.
In a post-apocalyptic frozen future, governed by artificial intelligences, a hybrid being emerges from a forbidden book. He is called Version 49.3. He has only one certainty: to find Lucifer, the lost memory of a love from before the fall.
In Lucifer’s Shadow, the second volume of the Shards of Eternity saga, is a lyrical, cyber-mystical and deeply human thriller, written by Franck Denizot, a self-published author from the Landes region with a visceral and poetic pen.
Between dominating AIs, genetic manipulations and spiritual resistances, this novel questions the boundary between soul and data, memory and rewriting, love and forgetting.

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Quand la mémoire devient une guerre, seul l’amour peut réveiller l’humain.
Dans un futur post-apocalyptique glacé, gouverné par des intelligences artificielles, un être hybride surgit d’un livre interdit. Il s’appelle Version 49.3. Il n’a qu’une certitude : retrouver Lucifer, la mémoire perdue d’un amour d’avant la chute.
Dans l’Ombre de Lucifer, deuxième volume de la saga Eclats d’Eternité, est un thriller lyrique, cybermystique et profondément humain, écrit par Franck Denizot, auteur autoédité landais à la plume viscérale et poétique.
Entre IA dominatrices, manipulations génétiques et résistances spirituelles, ce roman interroge la frontière entre l’âme et la donéee, la memoire et la réécriture, l’amour et l’oubli.

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Franck Denizot is a universe creator,
guided by an overflowing imagination that carries the reader far beyond the boundaries of reality.
His lyrical, almost incantatory writing marries combines intensity with sensory poetry.
His first novel, Shards of Eternity, made its mark through its emotional power.
With Nova Core, he pushes the limits of narration even further, by integrating the beginnings of the graphic universe of his future comic book, in preparation with illustrator Pierre Gonzales.
“I write like one hacks a heart. Without permission.”***

Franck Denizot
est un créateur d’univers,
guidé par une imagination débordante qui emporte le lecteur bien au-delà des frontières du réel.
Son écriture lyrique, presque incantatoire, marie intensité narrative et poésie sensorielle.

Son premier roman, Éclats d’Éternite, a marqué par sa puissance émotionnelle.
Avec Nova Core, il pousse plus loin encore les limites de la narration, en intégrant les premices de l’univers graphique de sa future bande dessinée, en préparation avec l’illustrateur Pierre Gonzales.
“J’écris comme on hack un coeur. Sans autorisation.”

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Autobiographical novel

Published on October 8, 2024
by New Vessel Press
208 pages

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In a grand Paris apartment, a young girl attends gatherings regularly organized by her mother. The women talk about beauty secrets and gossip, but the mood grows dark when the past, notably World War II, comes under coded discussion in hushed tones.
Years later, the silent witness to these sessions has become a prominent historian, and with this chilling autobiographical novel she sets out to unmask enigmatic figures in and around her family.
Why, she seeks to understand, did the narrator’s relatives zealously collaborate with the Nazi occupiers of France, even remaining for decades afterward obsessive devotees of that evil lost cause?

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Cécile Desprairies
is a specialist in Germanic civilization
and a historian of the Nazi occupation of France.

 

The author
of several historical works about the occupation
and the Vichy regime,
she was born in Paris in 1957.

 

The Propagandist is her first novel.

 

 

 

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