Douro Editions "Through reading, we become absent from ourselves and our own lives." Alphonse Karr
Dominique Bugat
Aeronautical engineer, fighter pilot, squadron commander in the "Alsace" Fighter Group, Mirage 2000C pilot, then airline pilot at Air France. Thirty-some years spent in the air before finally settling down to write. Now safely tucked away in Béarn...
Winter 1951. Two veterans of the Free French Forces appear on Avenue de la Gare. One of them was born on this street, which he left in September 1939, and his return is not exactly good news for its inhabitants. This novel is the drama of a small, close-knit community, willing to forgive itself for old faults and bury a dark past, faced with the sudden return of the man who embodies its guilty conscience. But it is also, and above all, the story of a revenge long conceived and patiently accomplished. Publication date: May 2, 2025 Order Press release
When, a few years ago, Matthieu Lefèvre took out two life insurance policies for his wife Virginie, he didn't think it necessary to tell her. A detail, certainly, but a detail that would turn this man's life upside down. His life and... his death. As Jack Laliberté, an old witness to these events, would say much later: "You're young, it's true, but when faced with death, you have to relax. You must always take a deep breath and breathe out for a long time when faced with things or events over which we have no control or which we understand nothing. The two are, moreover, very closely linked..." A lesson to be learned, without a doubt. Publication date: December 1, 2023 Order
