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• Highlights Fiction Camille Anseaume - Four Walls and a Roof - Quatre murs et un toit •6 Sylvie Baron - Rendezvous in Bélinay - Rendez-vous à Bélinay •7 Boris Bergmann - Apnea - Nage libre •8 Roxane Dambre - An Almost Perfect Karma - Un karma presque parfait •9 Marie-Bernadette Dupuy - Amelia, a Heart in Exile - Amélia, un coeur en exil •10 Johann Guillaud-Bachet - Drowned Alive - Noyé vif •11 Érik L’Homme - Tearing the Shadows - Déchirer les ombres •12 Karine Lambert - Once Upon a Tree - Un arbre, un jour •13 Hélène Legrais - The Angels of Beau-Rivage - Les anges de Beau-Rivage •14 Alfred Lenglet - Hearts of Glass - Coeurs de glace •15 Antonin Malroux- The Straw-made Bread - Le pain de paille •16 Éric Le Nabour - Back to Glenmoran - Retour à Glenmoran •17 Florence Roche - Philomena and her kin - Philomène et les siens •18 Julien Sandrel - The Room of Wonders - La Chambre des merveilles •19 Jean Siccardi - Stepping Stone Inn - L’auberge du Gué •20 Laurence Peyrin - The Virgins’ Wing - L’aile des vierges •21 Pascal Voisine - My Kid - Mon Gamin •22

• Highlights Suspense Fiction Jérôme Loubry - The Hounds of Detroit - Les chiens de Detroit •24 Philippe Lyon -The Black Piece - L’oeuvre noire •25 René Manzor - The Fog of Evil - Dans les brumes du mal •26 Guillaume Musso - Gone in the Night - La Jeune Fille et la Nuit •27 Franco Mannara - My Name is Birdy - Je m’appelle Birdy •28 Franco Mannara - Duplicata •29 Elsa Roch- Behind Closed Doors - Ce qui se dit la nuit •30 Elsa Roch - Forgetting What We Promised - Oublier nos promesses •31 Niko Tackian - Toxic - Toxique •32 Niko Tackian - Fantazmë - Fantazmë •33

• Highlights Fiction Fantasy Roxane Dambre - The Scorpi Trilogy - La Trilogie Scorpi •34

• Highlights Non Fiction •36 Asmaa Alghoul & Sélim Nassib - A rebel in Gaza - L’insoumise de Gaza •37 Charles Palant - Believing in Dawn - Croire au matin •38 Cécile Pivot - As Usual - Comme d’habitude •39 Jean Quatremer - The Bastards of Europe- Les salauds de l’Europe •40 Juan Martin Guevara & Armelle Vincent - Che, My Brother - Mon frère, le Che •41 • Backlist Fiction

Sylvie Baron - The Wrath of the Beehive- Les ruchers de la colère •43 Françoise Bourdon - The Master of the Castellar- Le Maître du Castellar •43 Boris Bergmann - Deserter - Déserteur •44 Pierre Brunet- The Triangle of Doubts- Le Triangle d’incertitude •44 Denis Jeambar -Where are you running to, William... - Où cours-tu, William... •45 Élise Fontenaille - Blue Book •45 Barbara Constantine - And Then Came Paulette... - Et puis, Paulette... •46 Barbara Constantine - Light Up the Cat - Allumer le chat •47 Barbara Constantine - Tom, Little Tom, Little Man, Tom - Tom, petit Tom, tout petit homme, Tom •47 Barbara Constantine - To Mélie, no Melodrama - A Mélie, sans mélo •47 Pascale Kramer - The living - Les vivants •48 Vincent de Swarte - Pharricide •48 Eric Le Nabour -The Touble Maker - La Frondeuse •49 Jean-Paul Malaval- Adélaïde at the Edge of the Cliff - Adélaïde au bord de la falaise •49 Jean-Marie Périer - Close To The Sky, Far From Paradise - Près du ciel, loin du paradis •50 Laurence Peyrin - Miss Cyclone •50 Andrea H. Japp - « The Landless Lady » Series - Série La Dame sans terre •51

• Backlist Suspense Fiction Pierre Lemaitre - The Groom Wore White - Robe de marié •52 Pierre Lemaitre - Inhuman Resources - Cadres Noirs •52 Alfred Lenglet - Deadly Games in Winter - Jeux mortels en hiver •53 Alfred Lenglet - Poison in the Veins - Du poison dans les veines •53 Alfred Lenglet - Time of Hatred - Temps de Haine •53

• Backlist Historical Fiction Gilbert Sinoué - The Lady of the Lamp - La Dame à la lampe •54 Gilbert Sinoué - The Saint Louis’epic - Un bateau pour l’enfer •54

• Backlist Non Fiction Benedetta Blancato - Fashion Hell - Enfer fashion •56 Bertrand Burgalat - Diabetically yours - Diabétiquement vôtre •56 Barbara Constantine - Small Portraits of Great People - Petits portraits de très Grandes Personnes •57 Aya Cissoko - N’ba •57 Nora Fraisse - Marion, Forever 13 - Marion, 13 ans pour toujours •58 Nora Fraisse - Stopping Bullying, Now! - Stop au harcèlement ! •58 Raymond Gurême & Isabelle Ligner - Forbidden to Nomads - Interdit aux nomades •59 Femen- Femen •59 Emmanuelle Grundmann - A Highly Profitable Scourge - Un fléau si rentable •60 Emmanuelle Grundmann - Tomorrow, Alone in the World? - Demain, seuls au monde ? •60 Emmanuelle Grundmann - The Assasination of Forests - Ces forêts qu’on assassine •60 Nicolat Hulot - The Titanic Syndrome - Le sydrôme du Titanic •61 Philippe Cury et Yves Misery - A Fishless Sea - Une mer sans poissons •61 Sarah Kaminsky - Adolfo Kaminsky, A Forger’s Life - Adolfo Kaminsky, une vie de faussaire •62 Lilly Marcou - The Private Life of Staline - Staline, vie privée •62 Jean-Marie Roughol et Jean-Louis Debré - My Life as a Panhandler - Je tape la manche •63 Claudine Monteil - The Beauvoir Sisters - Les soeurs Beauvoir •63 Frédéric Pons - The Martyrdom of Middle-Eastern Christians - Le martyre des chrétiens d’Orient •64 Frédéric Pons - Putin - Poutine •64

• Backlist Social Sciences Raymond Aron - The Opium of Intellectuals - L’opium des intellectuels •66 Raymond Aron - Peace and War Amongst Nations - Paix et Guerre entre les Nations •66 Léon Poliakov - Diabolical Causality - La causalité diabolique •67 Léon Poliakov - The History of Antisemitism - Histoire de l’antisémitisme •67 Dan Franck - Bohemians - Bohèmes •68 Mona Chollet - The Tyranny of Reality - La tyrannie de la réalité •68 Anne Dufourmantelle - Blind Date. Sex and Philosophy - Blind date - Sexe et philosophie •69 Anne Dufourmantelle - Maternal Savagery - La Sauvagerie maternelle •69 Michaël R. Marrus & Robert O. Paxton - Vichy France and the Jews - Vichy et les juifs •70 Pascal Quignard - Speculative Rhetorics - Rhétorique spéculative •71 Pascal Quignard - The Hatred of Music - La haine de la musique •71 Philippe Réfabert - From Freud to Kafka- De Freud à Kafka •72 Paul Ricœur - Criticism and Conviction - La critique et la conviction •72

• Petite Bibliothèque des Idées Petite Bibliothèque des Idées •74

• Backlist Non Fiction Lifestyle Catherine Rambert - «A Dose of Philosophy» Series •77 Highlights Fiction - Camille has just found out that her parents are putting her childhood home up for sale, the one that she grew up in with her brothers and sisters. She in one just to soak everything and stay for a week, there to go back decides echoes with the joys and say goodbye. Each room still last time and sor her habits, little mother’s her memories: fond up brings and past the of rows father’s jokes, her older brother’s friends on whom she’d developed more than a few crushes, the fights with her sister... the tears, the laughter, but unconditional love. the mostly, me making it’s confused how and phone the over sale the about Claire tell “I if feel she’d how her ask I Burgundy. in home, childhood a has also She feel. her parents were to sell it. A - dozen years ago, the opportunity came up, and I was really Today, sad. not the same anymore. no, I don’t think so, it’s - What changed? home is where my heart is. - I grew up. I built a life. Now, Perfect, so I basically have a couple weeks left to grow up, make a life for myself and feel at home within me.” Quatre murs et un toit murs Quatre delivers, Anseaume Camille humor, and mixture of tenderness a With childhood to her ode poetic and funny charmingly a by room, room home. Camille Anseaume a Roof and Walls Four - Un is writer a <--- Table of contents Table <--- Camille Anseaume is also in She and journalist. charge of the blog Café de filles, blog by favorite the edi elected tors at Elle. Her two novels, façon d’être tout petit rien and Ta au , monde were published by Kero. March 2018 160 pages

HIGHLIGHTS FICTION 6 290 pages March 2018 Flour. Saint- near Neuvéglise in lives led in the Cantal region. She chette, textbooks forHa- economic numerous of author the mics, Econo in Professor Associate Sylvie Baron has sett has - - gradually broughttolight... from the rest of the world, the entourage’s darkest secrets and passions are offBelinay cutting and wrath its unleashing nature with Eve, On Christmas her in everything does woman power togatherallofthosewhowerepresentonthedaytragedystruck. young the this, of bottom the to get To rything they thoughtwastrue... eve on doubt a casts that letter a upon stumbles Juliette Until ones. loved his from hiding was Edouard he that depression that severe a to succumbed convinced Cantelauze is everyone explanation, of letter a of want For self onthedayofpartyforher20th birthday. him- poison to chose father her that fact the by distraught Sonia, children, her of eldest the with live to Paris to gone has mother Juliette’s fresh. still is grandmother,wound their the but with passed, have years Five along Cornelia. Belinay, of home family the in sister and brother teenage her with living been has dealer, antiques young Juliette, suicide, father’s her Since Cantal. An oppressivefamilysecrethiddenintheshadowsofPlombdu Rendez-vous àBelinay Rendezvous inBelinay Baron Sylvie <--- Table of contents -

7 HIGHLIGHTS FICTION - - L’Express M.P. M.P. Away from all the stereotypes, Boris Bergmann succeeds in in Bergmann succeeds Boris from all the stereotypes, Away Issa, young and introverted, sees his summer getting off to a bad start: to his mother’s he great has despair, failed his end of high She exam. school’s strongly urges him to find a job asquickly as possible. Fromup high in his flat, in this Northern district of Paris deserted for the holidays, the horizon looks dull for young Issa. Until his friend Elie, radiant and athletic, frees him from his torments taking by him to the pool every day. Better yet, Elie saves Issa by explaining to his mother that he is training him to become a lifeguard. Issa however, listless and guarded, has appalling childhood memories of swimming pools and proves to be a very bad swimmer. Nonetheless, he agrees to play along and pushes his own limits to tame a body that seems to refuse to glide naturally. In no time, the be Issa environment challenge: athletic an just than more into turns pool the by provided those all and body, His senses. his all of awakening broad a to subject comes imagination, his for laboratory a into morph water, under scrutinizes he that woman’s a of conquest the crawl, the than More . yearning catalysts of into his from himself in freeing lies his obsession. His challenge body becomes complexes, from the oppressive codes of the “Zone”, from his timidity: the conquest of the other through the conquest of As himself. his own meta morphosis consumes him, will he be able to prove worthy of Elie when he, in turn, will find himself in need of a friend? Nage libre Nage “ issues and the society’s communitarianism, racism, tackling and intimacy. through longing up altogether, growing of stakes years old lycéen, […] 25 de Flore du Prix the Honored at 15 by gift writing novel his fourth this with confirms Bergmann Boris ” analysis. of his acuteness and the Boris Bergmann Apnea A poignant coming of age novel that explores the power of friendship. A poignant coming of age novel that - - - Boris Déser Viens là exceptio- dazzled the literary dazzled Apnea is his second no <--- Table of contents Table <--- January 2018 312 pages que je te tue ma belle, nally awarded in 2007 the “prix de Flore des lycéens”, pheno- publishing true A created him. for menon, both through his youth and his talent, he created much with enthusiasm in 2016 teur, published by Calmann-Lé vy, acclaimed by the press, fina- de prix and Wepler prix the of list Flore, and laureate of the prix du Touquet. Calmann-Lévy. vel published by Bergmann scene with his first novel From early adolescence, French sales : Paperback (Le Livre de Poche)

HIGHLIGHTS FICTION 8 de l’Imaginaire2017. Prix the Grand including awards, several her won also has 2016, Her Plume). (Nouvelle Pen New catego- ry 2015, Pen Golden the and store, book Antre-Monde Choice Award 2015 fromthe States andreceived the Readers the translated in was United writing. Her first series, she dedicates allherfree time to engineer, process industrial an as working Despite remember. writing foraslongshecan Roxane Dambre 300 pages April 2018 Paperback (LeLivredePoche) French sales: SCORPI series, published in published series, 3, a been has 30, , ANIMAE, Both? Or nothing atall? lover? job?A on?A she’s road this of side other the on find Siloé will What job. a of need dire in is she options, no with Left pills? her and rent her for pay she will how Now fired. gets sister,Siloé by Valérien’s caused tanding misunders a of because plan...and to according goes nothing Obviously, his sister’s toxicandshadyboyfriend. candor. In exchange, all Siloé must do is give him advice on how to get rid of and naivety of mix her with what get, can she help the all needs she it, face because interviews, her for her prepare will he deal: a brokers he So, Siloé. liketad a just looks who and men, of kind worst the for attraction of source a is beauty whose sister younger a has eyes, smoldering with man young handsome dark-haired tall, a question, in psychopath the Valérien, Only inter viewed bysaidpsychojusttwodayslater. being herself finding then parking, was he as him insulted vaguely having after psycho of sort some from threats receiving Likeher... to only happen to tend things certain goofball. And a her call to as far so go might including a strong addiction to homeopathic pills - is also really clumsy, one of touch - a OCD with brunette Parisian pretty here’sthing: a But Siloé, the favorite bar. The goal:torevamp herresuméandlandadreamjob. their in session brainstorming a for up friends best three her calls ployed, under-embeing of sick literally is who young Siloé, that, Despite possible. im the on bordering challenge, a that’s now 2018, in France, in job, new a swallow.finding to But hard is day all work at bored being 29, you’re When pursuit ofajob. The hilariousandendearingadventuresofayoungParisianin Un presque karma parfait An Almost Perfect Karma Roxane Dambre <--- Table of contents - - - -

9 HIGHLIGHTS FICTION Marie-Bernadette Dupuy Amelia, a Heart in Exile Amélia, un coeur en exil BESTSELLING AUTHOR MORE THAN 4 MILLION COPIES SOLD AROUND THE WORLD

A stirring romance in the times of Empress Elisabeth of Austria.

November 2017 240 pages

Marie-Bernadette Dupuy, Vienna, 1888. Disconsolate after the brutal death of her betrothed, Ba- best-selling author, was born and roness Amelia von Fairlik, maiden in the Imperial Court, decides to retreat raised in Charente, where she into a convent. When she discovers she is pregnant however, she sees no still resides. A multi-talented wri- other alternative but to let herself die in order to avoid disgrace. An im- ter, she successfully addresses the most diverse genres such as promptu visit from Empress “Sissi” distracts her from this sinister will. Full historical biographies, thrillers, of compassion, the Empress convinces Amelia to go to France to find shel- romances, locally-based novels, ter and solace with acquaintances of hers, the Marquis and Marquise de La- epic family sagas. tour, rich vineyard owners.

Amelia is welcomed by her hosts with the most exquisite kindness. The Marquise treats her like a sister and the extremely handsome Marquis lavi- shes her with attention and favors. To such an extent that Amélia starts to

HIGHLIGHTS FICTION question their true motives... French sales : Paperback (Le Livre de Poche) Large Print (A vue d’oeil)

Foreign sales : Hemiro (Russian)

10 <--- Table of contents novel. median. Isère. He isalsoanamateur co in small town a in and works Johann Guillaud-Bachet 250 pages Février 2018 Drowned alive is his first his is lives - last one. the over turning after long us with stay pages the through raised issues the and thinking, conventional challenges certainties, our of foundations the moves Guillaud-Bachet Johann black. humor the and dynamic is tone The faces, inanincreasinglytangibletensionthatjustkeeps escalating... deform and unveil death of fear and anguish The be? But should who first? mostly, saved be will Who immediate. is dilemma the sailboat, the On area, callsoutthathewillsavethemtoo. the to way its on water.” boat, with patrol up The filling it’sbroken, is boat young voice. The child begs, in English: “Please, there are so many of us, the strong. again. stay Suddenly,crackles to radio is very the do A to have they all rescue, their to come to course its deviate will boat patrol Navy a them: reassures side other the on voice the help, for radio coastal the use they As the boat, the six of them are left alone, all rookies, and one seriously injured. On wave. oncoming an by away carried is instructor nightmare. The a into turns crossing the rises, storms of dreadful most the where day the on But and prejudices... each against off face of other in board these rhythm tight and cramped settings, on revealing origins, the horizons, ideals people by six patterned all routine manoeuvers, and a watches into settle to tries group the As by thesesamewaters. out flushed child, young a as shores French reached he immigrant, Syrian a well: too only sea Mediterranean this knows narrator the them, Amongst instructor.an by anarchy,supervised joyful in Sète of port the leave school sailing the from sailors apprentice Six calm. is sea the high, shines sun The question. One sea,twoshipwrecks,onepatrol. To dieortoletdie,thatisthe Noyé vif Alive Drowned Johann Guillaud-Bachet <--- Table of contents

11 HIGHLIGHTS FICTION . . - - Michel Abescat, Télérama Abescat, Michel Christian Autier, Le Figaro Littéraire Autier, Christian Olivier Maulin, Valeurs actuelles Olivier Maulin, , first adult fiction novel from a renowned novel from a renowned fiction adult , first Shadows “Tearing the core. very readers to their shakes its author, literature children’s ” And amazes them. "As if Rambo had met Seneca.” had met if Rambo "As Fresh out Afghanistan, of unannounced French officer Scrofa rides his Har ley Davidson straight to his former Lieutenant Ivanov’s doorstep. There, he finds Anastasia,Ivanov’s niece. She is young,The sheer force of radiantnature that Scrofa is fascinates her; the freshness of the and rebellious. beautiful young woman has him enraptured. After one night of love, they drive off on his Harley, for what Anastasia will discover to be Scrofa’s last sacrifice. escapade, a race towards the ultimate Greek with Homeric chant — a laced of dialogs Out of this story solely made tragedy — arise scenes of incredible strength: from the thrills of the open road to treasures coves bearing ancient rock paintings, by way Co by hunted of love scenes and lessons on how to a Kalashnikov... assemble carnal lonel Delmar of the DRSD (Directorate for Intelligence and Security of the Defense Department), their high-speed chase across mountains and the edges of ragged cliffs turns into a flight forward – at once mad, wild, poetic and liberating. celebration, Lyrical feast of the flesh and ode to the dead, this short novel is a unique literary jewel where madness intertwines with fate and eternity Déchirer les ombres Érik L’Homme the Shadows Tearing “This novel, which is made almost entirely Peckinpah and of A.D.G. meet. dialogues, […] The is spectacular where aspect Sam of the that 'a agree the ones who delight will souls but sensitive few frighten a mix may mad man, in a mad world, might be the only one who knows where he is heading.” January 2018 110 pages <--- Table of contents Table <--- French sales : Paperback (Le Livre de Poche) , born in Grenoble in born , L’Homme Erik in 1967, has been writing youth novels for almost twenty years. Book of the Stars (Le Livre des étoiles), Le Maître des brisants, Phaenomen, Terre-Dragon, his collections of series have all met with tremendous success.

HIGHLIGHTS FICTION 12 more thantencountries. in translations with abroad, and outstanding successin France an proved dansons maintenant, renoncé aux hommes L’immeubleont qui des femmes novels, first Her photographer. Karine Lambert 220 pages May 2018 Diana Verlag (German)Diana Verlag Foreign sales: Paperback (LeLivredePoche) French sales: isa novelist and Eh bien andEh see theirlivestransformed. will them of one every and each battle, this of outcome the of Regardless its advocatesstandtogetherinsolidarity. them, stirring and responding to the rhythm of their emotions and conflicts, tached toitthatthey are willing torisktheirlives to save it. While it studies comes keenly aware that it is condemned, and that certain people are so at With every passing day, the plane tree, which considers itself immortal, be very clear. And themayorisonholiday… is nothing when, whom, By illness... an with diagnosed been has tree the stylist, Suzanne seeks an explanation from the Town Hall. They are told that culinary accident.Fanny young motorcycle With husband’sVidal, her since open bar keepthe to own her on striving been has who 52, Fabre, Suzanne 93, Violette, sister her from inseparable spinster old an 91, Bonnafay, line Ade is there Clément, to addition In truth. the uncover to up set is mittee com- motley impromptu an boy, young willful very a Clément, by Initiated To putinafountain?Pavements? A parking-lot?Itmakes nosense. joyed, becomes precious to them once again. Why fell this centenary being? en- had then until birds and children the only that presence, venerable its disappearing completely outrages them. For all of a sudden, the pleasure of tree their of thought the However, locals. the to inaudible remain course, of words, these But spine.” my through piercing is woodpecker a like feels it tree, the says “Ouch! Provence. in village a of square central the shading tree gigantic the onto nailed is notice felling a March, of day first this On spring. Whimsical andpoetic,thestoryofatreewhichrefusestodiein Un arbre, unjour UponOnce aTree... Lambert Karine <--- Table ofcontents - - -

13 HIGHLIGHTS FICTION 1867. 1867. Adeline Dupraz, a young orphan from the Alps, arrives hungry, Poor, she in passes Geneva. out on the street and is rescued by three young girls who bring her back to the only place they can: the Beau-Rivage hotel, where they work. The prestigious Beau-Rivage hotel is known for its illustrious guests: crowned heads, billionaires but also famous artists from the cultural sphere, the crème de la crème of high society meets in this palace. help the with and, there, job a get to is alive stay to Adeline for way only The to soon are work hard and skills Her does. eventually she friends, new her of grow both who Mayer, Mrs and Mr owners, new the of admiration the spark of destinies the years, hundred a over and on day this From girl. the of fond from witness, will They intertwined. be will Mayers’ the and family Adeline’s will hotel Beau-Rivage the that event every staircase, social the of side each There will host. be tragic times and blissful times alike, but each of them is bound to be memorable. Les de Beau-Rivage anges Hélène LegraisHélène of Beau-Rivage Angels The

Hélène Legrais <--- Table of contents Table <--- French sales : Large print (Libra Diffusio) Born in Perpignan, and trained as a journalist, Inter Radio for France worked and as an editor Radio, of before Europe returning 1 to her Catalonia to focus on wri- native ting. Her work is inspired by her homeland: the Roussillon sun, the majestic Canigou mountain, and the fresh tramontane wind. She lives in Perpignan. November 2017 280 pages

HIGHLIGHTS FICTION 14 department inLyon. of head currently is he tendent, Superin Chief Haute-Loire. department of the in safety blic pu of director and Saône-et-Loire department, the in Branch) (Special “RG” French the of tor direc being includes experience His police. national the in career a choosing before military, the by managed school a Flèche, of La Militaire National Prytanée Alfred Lengletstudied at the 290 pages March 2018 FRANCE DE TOUJOURS ET D’AUJOURD’HUI ET TOUJOURS DE FRANCE

roman Cœurs de glace LENGLET de Léa Ribaucourt Une enquête Une ALFRED - - - short career... her of mystery perilous most and murkiest the facing in alone herself finds soon Léa team, Crimes Major her on count can she that trusting Wrongly Ugo Biondellidatesbacktoovertwentyyearsago... of disappearance the whereas man, young a of that is Rhone the in found corpse the yet And categorical. luxury.are end The Transalpine colleagues high in specialized dynasty Italian illustrious an of descendant direct a delli, by Interpol, the Verona police has formally recognized the victim. Ugo Bion alerted case: the reopened just having element new a reason, good for and investigation, the with entrusted is Ribaucourt Leah captain police Young description, leavinghisidentityunknown. his fits report person’s missing no and on clothes no literally has individual The neck. his of back the to blow a death: of Cause Gailleton. quai Lyon, center the in smack river Rhone the from recovered is man a of body The glace de Coeurs Hearts of Glass Alfred Lenglet <--- Table of contents -

15 HIGHLIGHTS FICTION - - - June 1918, in the Cantal region. Ever since her father set off Valen to war, has Troussal tine joined forces with her brother, mother and grandmother enough raises barely The farm sustainable. the family farm to try and make to Valentine feed athem positionall, Châtelain tountil offers workthe as a collective relief. kitchen assistant at the castle to their brand a of discovery the to leads this woman, young bashful a Valentine, For new world. But she is not the only one to plunge into a universe so far from her own. Charles-Marie, young heir to the noble lineage about whom ru mors of homosexuality have been rampant, has become enthralled with the rural world and peasant life, and is on a quest to uncover the recipe for hardship. of times during popular was that bread for substitute a loaf, straw He asks for her company on his numerous walks and in the course of their wanderings, the two Valentine develop a soon bond. starts to question her unea growing a and fooled is one no village, the In intentions. companion’s siness takes root in family, along Troussal the with just a glimmer of hope: could this possibly lead to an expansion of the family lineage? Caught in the trap of a murky relationship, Valentine will have to choose it behind the anguish of leaving and own world the comfort of her between for an uncertain future… Le pain de paille Antonin Malroux Antonin Bread straw-made The - - Antonin Malroux Antonin <--- Table of contents Table <--- April 2018 360 pages Born in 1942 in Boisset Cantal region, in the tur a tailor before trained to be ning to business. In parallel, he he began to Today, write novels. is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences, Lite rature and Fine Arts (Académie des sciences, belles-lettres arts) et of Clermont-Ferrand. The vil- native his in school municipal lage bears his name.

HIGHLIGHTS FICTION 16 360 pages February 2018 Book club(FranceLoisirs) French sales: mann-Lévy. colère de la À l’ombre denoslarmes Tinténiac, à books and novels, such as Retour is theauthorofmanyhistorical he enthusiast, history and duate novel attheage of19. A gra first his published and childhood Nabour Caen, in 1960 in Born started writing from started writing pbihd y Cal- by published , La Louvede Lorient, , Les Étés Éric Le - Unknowingly, Fallonhasalready fallenprey toadeadlyconspiracy. really Meredith,thisdubiouswomanwthatLiamintendstomarry? is who And personality? sulfurous father’s her to linked be murder Sarah’s creasingly add up, Fallon a suspicion starts to take over Fallon’s mind: could pursue the lead of an Irish independent terrorist group. And yet as crimes in- Fallon unwillingly finds herself drawn into the investigation, which seems to brutal death changeseverything. What wasthelatterSarah doing inDublin? friend’s Her O’Connor.Liam novelist controversial and famous the father, her with reconnect to request, mother’s her at Ireland, to back way her on Fallon, a 32-year-old young woman of Franco-Irish descent, was grudgingly been shot,pointblank,witha9mmbullet. has woman young the formal: are area, the off sealing immediately police, collapses. Sarah astonishment, The great her to that hello say and wave to time has barely She years. five over in seen not has she friend best former her Sarah, spots journalist, freelance young a Fallon, airport, Dublin the At Retour àGlenmoran Back to Glenmoran Nabour Le Éric <--- Table ofcontents

17 HIGHLIGHTS FICTION - - Before the Great War, in the region of Velay, Philomena lives with her father, father, her with lives Philomena Velay, of region the in War, Great the Before a prosperous her farmer, husband and their two sons. One day, to her dis- may, she sees her brother return from regiment with a new whom wife in he tow, married in Paris, and their young twins. Sarah, hailing from Poland, the has trouble newcomer fitting in, all the more so being of Jewish announces her she when her to up warm starts to everyone However, faith. to their religion. decision to baptize the twins and convert Nonetheless, personality Sarah’s does not quite fit the profile of what they learn about her Sarah history. is rich, very rich, to the point of helping Phi- lomena finance her Where expansion does projects her for the family farm. come from? money As war breaks out and the men are sent to the battlefront, little does Phi- re own to face terrible on her her to leave is about know that fate lomena velations… Philomène et lesPhilomène siens an twists, aglow with A stunning new saga, full of action-packed pitted against the same co extraordinary heroine unrelentingly Florence RocheFlorence Kin her and Philomena her sense of duty and her nundrum of having to choose between aspiration to happiness. Flo- is the established French sales : Audio-book (CdL) rence Roche rence Born in the Puy-en-Velay, author of at least a dozen novels. With History her work fuelling and her passion, she has - mas tered to perfection the strong and assertive featuring art of characters in always carefully documented historical contexts. She lives in the Haute-Loire region. January 2018 592 pages <--- Table of contents Table <---

HIGHLIGHTS FICTION 18 AVA E IL L A P B

Julien Sandrel E

G S I The Room Of Wonders L La Chambre des merveilles sold in 22 territories : Albatros Media (Czech), Albatros Media (Slovakian), Ciela (Bulgarian), China South Booky (Chinese), Corpus (Russian), De Bezige Bij/ Cargo (Dutch), Editura Trei (Romanian), Epsilon (Turkish), Forlagid (Icelandic), Forum (Swedish), Hemiro (Ukrainian), Keter (Arabic), Kim Dong (Vietnamese), Laguna (Serbian), NHK (Japanese), Penguin Verlag (German), Planeta (Spanish), Psichogios (Greek), Quercus (English UK), Rizzoli (Italian), Sonia Draga (Polish), Zvaigzne (Latvian). French sales : Paperback (Le Livre de poche), March 2018 272 pages Audio-book (Audiolib), Large Print (Libra Diffusio)

A journey through the dreams of a child living on What Thelma doesn’t realize is that Louis can actually hear borrowed time. A novel that mirrors life, unexpec- everything that’s going on. He often laughs and jokes in- ted, moving, funny, sometimes tough, sometimes ternally, impressed by Thelma’s experiences. Even he if enchanting. can’t show it, because on the outside, as he likes to joke, his only expression is his “poker face”. Sometimes he cries Louis is 12 years old. This morning, when he tried to entrust or gets distraught, when he feels that life and reality are his mother with the secret of his very first crush, he could taking over Thelma, when he sees her change, doubt and tell that her mind was somewhere else, most probably on begin to accept the end. His interventions interspersed in her work. So he left, hurt and angry, on his skateboard at the novel, are simply heartrending. full speed, down their street. And missed the turn. A truck rammed into him, in front of Thelma’s eyes. Louis now lies To cross an intersection in Tokyo, eyes shut, before going in a very deep coma, surely irreversible. Four weeks from to see a tattoo master, to take an intensive football course, now, if there is no improvement, it will be necessary to de- to strip naked in the class of Louis’ horrible teacher, to par- cide whether to keep him on the respirator or not. ticipate in a color-run, to find out who his real father is... In the course of this journey through the dreams of a child, Arriving home from the hospital, Thelma finds a notebook and in the midst of this frightening countdown, Thelma under her son’s pillow, in which he has compiled a list of rediscovers the flavor of life, friendship, and mutual assis- his dreams, or rather of all the experiences he’d like to live tance, the dragging of time and the sense of how every- before he goes: Louis calls them “his wonders”. So Thel- thing is better with the touch of craziness. ma makes up her mind: these dreams, she will live them herself, page after page. If Louis can hear what is going ‘‘It is so very rare for an editor to read such a strong no- on from his coma, he will see how beautiful life is and how vel, with a painful sensation at the back of the throat yet a much it is worth living. Maybe it’ll guide him back. And if frank urge to laugh at Thelma’s blunders and Louis’s dark four weeks from now his destiny is to pass away, he will humor. Our only hope is to see Louis wake up and every- have led the life that he has longed for. thing go back to the way that it once was! But of course, such wishfulness is irrelevant, what was before a catas- Thelma has no time to lose: she convinces Charlotte, the trophe belongs to the past, and it is the future that one amazing nurse who takes care of Louis, and gives her must reinvent’’. – Caroline Lepée, Editor an iPad that will be used to broadcast her adventures, straight into her son’s ears. She then takes off to Tokyo, just as specified on the first page of the notebook: “Spend Julien Sandrel was born in 1980 in the south of France. The a totally crazy day in Tokyo with the person I love most in Room of Wonders is his first novel. the world (as of now, Mom)”.

<--- Table of contents 19 - The adventures of a young Provençal before the great cataclysm of The adventures of a young Provençal WWI. Provence, towards the beginning of Antoine 1900. Rabuis is the thirteenth offspring of a poverty-stricken family. His father, an alcoholic lout, aban dons him to a couple of wealthy farmers desperately hoping for a child but unable to conceive, the Bertrands. Cherished as a gift from God, officially adopted shortly the thereafter, boy takes on his new parents’ name and asks to be called Noël. Gentle, intelligent and helpful, Noël Bertrand thanks his lucky star every day for the fortune bestowed upon him. Despite his knack for studies and a amid farm, the on remain to prefers he future, bright very a of promise the whom side, parents’ new his by and enchanting so finds he that countryside he worships above all. Unfortunately, the war breaks out. Noël is called up for service: goodbye Catherine the dreamer, goodbye Cécile the free spirit, between whom his heart wavered. having after reaps it that carnage the and battle into rush one does how But learned to love life For so Noël, passionately? the temptation to change his identity once again is very strong... L’auberge du Gué du L’auberge Jean Siccardi Jean Inn Stone Stepping is a virtuo- Jean Siccardi Jean so when it comes to defending his country from certain stereotypes: far from the farniente and dolce vita it often evokes, a land of toil, discipline and passion. Baie for the Nice Shortlisted des anges prize. A man of the Provence moun- A man tains, the author of books, some 60 January 2018 460 pages <--- Table of contents Table <---

HIGHLIGHTS FICTION 20 vierges) isherfourthnovel. 2015. the awarded was de Zelda Zonk , vie novel, first Her ting. She now devotes hertime to wri- years. twenty for reporter press Laurence Peyrin 350 pages April 2018 Prix Maison de la presse The Virgins’ Wing Virgins’ The (L’aile des hasbeen a La drôlede in achieving happiness? Should wecompromiseourdreamsandbeliefsinthehopeof L’aile vierges des The Virgins’ Wing PeyrinLaurence the other? exclude necessarily one should But freedom. for aspiration her and piness hap- of promise the between choose to have will she that realizes she him, for love her self-confesses Maggie moment the From affair. passionate a a and together.begin them and John brings Maggie horizons broader for alive craving feel to urgency The there. return to determined is he estate, huge a owned father his where Africa, in childhood his spent Having free. break to longs and destiny own his in trapped is John her, like Just gined. Lyon-Thorpe, is far from being the chauvinist and John arrogant heir that she had ima house, the of master the that discover to soon is Maggie But declares hislove. mind andconfusesherwithamysterious Clemmie whom heregularly to proval istheoldLord, approaching one hundred his years old,whoislosing ap her meeting person only The him. about much care not does Maggie man, distant a House, the of master the her.for to As out call voices, ched high-pit their with friends, her way the to reference in employees, her by “Pippa-my-dear” nicknamed Madam, of requirements ridiculous the with dealing does nor Maggie, for task easy no proves century nineteenth the in did they as living still staff domestic of service a with in blend to Having going to America andbecomingadoctor. is nobody that there to witness her fall from grace, she who fact had dreamt and still dreams of the in lies consolation only Her family.Lyon-Thorpe rich extremely the of service the in maid a become to about is feminists, active of line a of descendant the and headed strong O’Neill, Maggie day, to- For heart. heavy a with proceeding is Kent, in manor majestic a House, Shepherd at aisle the up walking woman young The 1946. April England, The extraordinaryportraitofafreewoman. <--- Table of contents - - -

21 HIGHLIGHTS FICTION - It is the summer of 1977, a summer of vinyls, of heat and swimming. Thierry swimming. and heat of vinyls, of summer a 1977, of summer the is It Poivet is fourteen years old and he is is all discovering where years teenage of ride coaster roller the living music, emotion, of pangs feeling his first at once dreary and intense. Growing up in a village where unlike any six other, hundred residents more or less merrily rub shoulders with the one thousand fivehundred patients of a psychiatric hospital implanted in their midst, certainly shapes oneself. A motherless child but with a loving father who is at the helm of the hospi- Thierry tal, has a passion for music, and devotes his vacation to recording his favorite songs on a tape to try and win a national years 22 just Emelyne, wife, new competition. father’s his for feelings his stifle While to striving old, he spends the rest of his days roaming the forest with his best hospital friend psychiatric the in lived has who person deficient mentally a Francis, ever since he was a little boy. Sweet Francis, who saw Thierry come age, into calls him “my kid” and vows a joyful friendship to tinged the with boy, devotion. devotion a with nurse man tattooed A little. very on relies often destiny But for Elvis, a step-mother who is way too young and too a pretty, guitar with goes sideways. And everything two necks and an inquisitive cat... Forty years after that fateful summer of 1977, Thierry, who has become a successful singer, comes back to his village and finally finds out the truth about those few days that changed the course of his life forever. Mon gamin Mon A debut novel brimming with finesse whichado of an the eyes of life, through the sorrows and fantasy between explores the balance Pascal Voisine Pascal My Kid unconventional and moving. lescent and a cast of characters both - Pascal first discovers the world of psychiatry, a world in its own that psychiatry, this came fascinates him. From the inspiration for his debut no A movie buff sinceand director of childhood short films, it is as assistant director that Voisine vel, whose melody whose characters are endearing is unique, in their strangeness, and from which arises the certainty that life can find its way in any and all places. <--- Table of contents Table <--- August 2017 240 pages French sales : Paperback (Le Livre de Poche)

HIGHLIGHTS FICTION 22 Highlights Suspense Fiction - A suffocating plunge into the rotting entrails of Detroit, turned into A suffocating plunge into the rotting a ghost town of derelict buildings. November 1998. Little body Peter’s is found in a bush in Palmer Park. He’s to according size, whose man a by there left and strangled kidnapped, been The collected, that exceeds the of pieces rare ordinary of evidence mortals. investigation is assigned to Stan detective Mitchell, aka Watchdog”, “thea violent cop banished Washington from and exiled in Detroit, this great big capital a into turned industry automotive the of glory former city, a of giant passing day. of crime that sinks further into decay every “Fog the about writing starts press the and escalate abductions long, Before And witness. anonymous an by described devourer child terrifying a Giant”, while the police scrambles with no leads, streets while Detroit’s empty and its residents flee, Mitchell fallsever deeper into alcohol and solitude... He’s and forgotten. off the case, which, with time, is dropped taken managed has who Mitchell, resume. disappearances the later, years Fifteen case, the on back is destruction, self of spiral downward the to end an put to ske whose Berkamp, Sarah town, in fresh detective young a by shouldered than she wants to let on. letons are yet darker Thanks to them, the a killer, giant by the name of Simon Duggan, is finally arrested. Two children are still missing and may still be alive. But Duggan refuses to cooperate and accepts only to speak to Sarah, who, haunted by her own demons, will have to confront the psychopath and listen to ghosts of the past in order to save the children. Les chiens de Detroit Jérôme LoubryJérôme of Detroit Hounds The <--- Table of contents Table <--- French sales : Paperback (Le Livre de Poche) Audiobook edition (CdL) Born in Saint-Amand Morond, fas- up grew 40, Loubry, Jérôme cinated by the millions of books coming out of the factory where his aunt used There, to his work. passion for writing was of in the south He now resides born. France. October 2017 300 pages

HIGHLIGHTS SUSPENSE FICTION 24 Philippe Lyon The Black Piece L’ oeuvre noire

When abominable modern-day circus games are discovered in the heart of Paris, a merciless battle is waged between the ferocity of Good and the lawless might of Evil. April 2018 400 pages

Philippe Lyon is a director and Paris, 2017. Manuel Kross, twenty-five years on the job, a surly cop adored screenwriter. The Black Piece is by his wife and respected by his team, is called to the banks of the Seine his first novel. where the bodies of two men have been recovered; methodically beaten

to death, punched and kicked before being thrown into the river. But the HIGHLIGHTS USSPENSE FICTION autopsy reveals a whole other truth: the men were not murdered, they killed each other. Kross has just uncovered the atrocious modern-day circus games of hand combats being played out in the heart of his city. Combats that are described as ultimate, broadcasted on the darknet, with punters hand-picked for their money and their ability to keep their mouths shut. Behind all this, a discreet businessman, whose name has been whispered in all of the boxing and fight clubs for months. Ari Zeller. Filthy rich, very powerful, very dangerous. Little by little, the investigation leads Kross and his team on a parallel scent, just as spine chilling, which seems to impli- cate a certain Nathan Ferseti, a French psychologist who, three years prior, had vouched for a small-time crook in a French court. Since then, the boy had disappeared. Until the day where his face shows up on police displays, matching that of one of the fighters having participated in the games. In a great number of them actually... The question then arises: what is the link between Ferseti and Zeller?

French sales : From the outset of the investigation begins a pernicious fight to the death Paperback (Le Livre de Poche) between Kross and Zeller, a more than uneven battle when one respects the law and the other has no limits. But Kross is not just any cop.

<--- Table of contents 25 René Manzor In The Mist of Evil Dans les brumes du mal

A mysterious serial killer kidnaps children and murders their parents, leaving behind him cryptic voodoo symbols. A breathtaking hunt down signed by France’s most exciting new thriller writer. October 2016 300 pages

In just two novels, René Manzor Tom’s mother is dead and Tom has gone missing. Not just Tom, but John,

HIGHLIGHTS SUSPENSE FICTION HIGHLIGHTS SUSPENSE has emerged as one of the new Michael and Lily too. In each case, a mother is murdered and her child dis- names on the French thriller appears, apparently swallowed up by the sinister mists of South Carolina. scene. His previous novel, Celui Dahlia Rhymes, an FBI agent specialized in ritual crime, gatecrashes the in- dont le nom n’est plus (He Whose Name Is No More) won the Eu- vestigation. Tom is her nephew and, despite severing all ties with her family, ropean Thriller Award at the Co- she feels she cannot abandon him. On returning to the swamps and ancient gnac Festival. With Dans les bru- oaks of her childhood, Dahlia meets Nathan Miller, a former street kid who mes du mal (In the Mists of Evil), has become one of the best cops in Charleston. Together they begin looking he tells a finely-wrought tale set for the missing children with just one lead: the testimony of a neighbor who in the Low Country of South Car- claims to have seen a shadduh, a voodoo spirit, prowling around one of the olina that he loves, powered by houses. And what if, for once, the motive was neither money, nor sex, nor the style that characterizes him, rich in cruelty, finesse and emo- revenge, nor even love? tion.

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26 <--- Table of contents NUMBER 1 BEST-SELLING Guillaume Musso AUTHOR IN FRANCE Gone in the Night La Jeune Fille et la Nuit

With over 28 million copies sold throughout the world, the universal themes addressed in Guillaume Musso’s novels have touched readers in many countries.

A prestigious high school campus buried in snow. Three friends bound by a tragic secret. A young woman disappears in the night.

April 2018 440 pages

Born in Antibes, Guillaume Musso French Riviera, Winter 1992. first fell in love with literature at the age of ten, spending most of his When her prep school is shut down by a blizzard, Vinca Rockwell, 19, one SUSPENSE FICTION HIGHLIGHTS summer holed up in the local libra- of the most gifted students in her post-baccalauréat class, runs away ry, run by his mother. Combining intensity, suspense and with her philosophy teacher with whom she has been carrying on a se- love, his novels are what made him cret affair. For Vinca, «Love is all, or it is nothing.» France’s favourite author of popular No one will ever see her again. novels, translated the world over, and adapted for the big screen. French Riviera, Spring 2017.

Once inseparable, Manon, Thomas and Maxime (Vinca’s best friends) haven’t spoken to each other since they finished high school. They see French sales : each other for the first time in 25 years at their high-school reunion. Audio-book (Audiolib) Back when they were students, under terrible circumstances, the three Club (France Loisirs and friends committed murder and hid the corpse in a wall of their high Le Grand Livre du Mois) school gym. Now the gym is about to be demolished to make way for a Large Print (Libra Diffusio) new building. Suddenly nothing can prevent the truth from coming out. The disturbing, painful, diabolical truth... Foreign sales : Albatros Media (Polish) Toper (Macedonian) Trei Alianza de Novelas (Spanish Editura (Romanian) worldwide) Vulkan (Serbian) Balgunsesang (Korean) W&N (English UK and Baltos Iankos (Lithuanian) Commonwealth) Eksmo (Russian) published on Iztok Zapad (Bulgarian) Hachette Antoine (Arabic) April 24th 2018 Kinneret Zmora (Hebrew) La Nave di Teseo (Italian) Little Brown (English US) Nova Knjiga (Montenegrin) Piper Verlag / Pendo (German)

<--- Table of contents 27 ... - - - takes you on a takes , author, composer, performer, fiddler performer, composer, author, , Franco Mannara Franco , he is back with a violent and futuristic thriller, Duplicata violent and futuristic thriller, , he is back with a Je m’appelle Birdy m’appelle Je author well on his A new explosive Not for the faint-hearted: a preface written by With up French crime fiction! way to shake Caryl Férey. the French crime writer Paolo, an underground rock guitarist is in a really tight jam: he has borrowed Goutte-d’Or, living king-class district, the in Paris’ last genuine wor money from a couple of kingpins in his neighbourhood and has no way of him, for Luckily threats. violent increasingly their despite back, them paying a golden opportunity arises: shadowing people for a And private detective. so Paolo finds himself tailing Birdy, a wealthy young woman who’s given Paolo is up everything to live with squatters. Her family is crazy with worry. horrified to discover that Birdy is leading and anevenmore darker destruc tive life than appearances suggest. Against this backdrop, a sanitary crisis explodes. On their way home from rage. the all is that pill blue new a taking after perish kids dozens of party, a Gypsy Inspector descent, Ibanez, is of in charge of the investigation. Pretty soon, fightingeveryone’s over this new drug, this “Russian roulette” that is giving rise to the most disturbing underground parties. Birdy is part of of all world hidden and dark a into dragged himself finds Paolo turn in and this, violently of groups small by pulled being are reins whose debauchery sexual radical idealists. Ibanez has the intuition that Paolo can help him close the The case. musician’s mission takes on a whole new pace as he struggles to put to an end to the ravages of a drug targeting French youth. From the slums of Paris to its backrooms, My name is Birdy through the nether worlds of Parisian nights and fascist shocking journey networks, with a and clear-sighted provocative scenario that has you terri fied and holding your breath all at once. My name is Birdy is name My March 2017 380 pages Franco Mannara scene, rock underground Parisian the from Arising and acoustic destroyer has pursued an atypical driven and by iconoclastic his career, curiosity and thirst After My name is Birdy for new experiences. French sales : Paperback de poche) Livre (Le sales : Foreign Eksmo (Russian) <--- Table of contents Table <---

HIGHLIGHTS SUSPENSE FICTION 28 of eruption. brink the on city a of shadows the through manhunt fast-paced a original, Mannara embarks Franco us onceagain on ajourney asfrighteningitis meless man. sha- and violent cold, a Kowalski, Commander Police “Monodrome”, ject successfulthe responsible for person the than other none is pro- of outcom him arresting of charge in man the when Especially dangerous. particularly prove will truth the for quest his epidemic, the contain to the Government taken measures by the by sword and fire to brought and apart torn city a in the man who has stolen his identity, determined to prove his innocence. But just broken out. With the help of a couple of hackers, he starts hunting down has plague the of epidemic virulent particularly a where Paris of streets the For the young man, this marks the beginning of a high-speed chase through is thespittingimageof Yésus. Someone isclearlytryinghardtoframehim. murderer the glitch: Slight cameras. the of front in right stage, on sinated assas- is latter the when project, this to opponent staunch a Brach, milian Maxi by hosted meeting a attending is whistleblower, young YésusRose, execution. of means pain-free and modern new, a implement to purpose: Its drome». law,a «Mono- approve entitled to preparing is and penalty death the tored res- has the Government attacks, terrorist of wave 2023.a Paris, Following Franco Mannaraisbackwith anewprovocative thriller! Duplicata - <--- Table ofcontents 400 pages May 2018

29 HIGHLIGHTS SUSPENSE FICTION - - ‘‘I don’t belive in luck. Nor in maledictions. Otherwise, I in luck. Nor in maledictions. don’t belive ‘‘I Amaury Marsac. - wouldn’t be a cop’’ of all of Weary the “ides”, the homicides, the matricides, the suicides...that Amaury superintendent years, twenty of part better the for life his up made Marsac comes close to killing the culprit of an umpteenth infanticide with This time he his wants bare to hands. put an end to Crimes, it Pa- all, Major back way since into plunged he’s that darkness and Evil of life whole the ris, when. But his boss has other ideas and tells him to step back, take a break his desk. and think things over for a week, far from And so he goes, back to his sources and the village of his youth, a land of green hedges shrouded in mist. But on the day of his arrival, as he debates whether or not he should reach out to Elsa, the childhood sweetheart he hasn’t seen in ten years, an old woman is found This woman, Marianne, is one of the benevolent dead souls who watched house. in her ramshackle over him in youth, who let him play for hours on end in her backyard and throat has been slit and her hair shaved off. garden. Marianne’s Horrified, Marsac it makes clear he wants in on the investigation. In a place where nothing is as it seems, where rural fantasy readily turns into dark magic, he finds himself once more drawn behind the scenes slips away and of the human soul. From where one does not come out unscathed. In a mix of amorous throes and superstition, of unforgiving landscapes and unhealed scars from childhood and History, this first instalment of the ad ventures of superintendent Marsac flirts with the secret follies of men and plays a heartbreakingly wrenching melody. Behind Closed Doors Ce se la nuit dit qui has been writing since childhood, poetry first and foremost. In her teens, she met the person Elsa Roch French sales : Paperback (Le Livre de Poche) February 2017 300 pages Elsa Roch Elsa Roch girl with care autism whom of she during all would take Salomé, a who 3 would year-old change her life, psychiatrist, a become to her led and calling first her on brought that experience this is It time. free her of fee started but side the on writing kept She disorders. addiction and adolescence autistic, in specialized ling limited by what she could achieve in wanting poetry, to explore the shortcomings of mankind, one Vargas...proved a turning point, Fred James Lee Burke, Discovering Lehane, by one, in a different way... and she turned her writing towards mystery novels. “This world is my own. It concentrates everything. Grenoble. She lives near Life, love, death”. <--- Table of contents Table <---

HIGHLIGHTS SUSPENSE FICTION 30 dom, wanderaroundandslowlyfadeaway. free of dreams from sprung lives, broken where dusk, after Paris on novel begins. thus the streetsofParis manhuntthrough crossed A A remarkable cence. inno own very his doubt to starts he insanity, of brink the on And reach. and seek revenge on whoever took her... But the truth hovers just out of his Emma meant the world to him.Hewantstake justice intohisownhands assassin. the for lookout the on also is Afghanistan, from return his since Jérôme Pieaud, who has been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder silencing anoverlycuriouspen… at aimed murder cold-blooded or passion of crime motives: two between Superintendent Marsac delves into the investigation with all his might, torn close. ger getting too anyone Could be this the reasonbehind herdeath? the world. She must have loved desperate causes, the sort that puts in dan- throughout trafficking human denounced articles whose journalist, mitted Emma was a bright and sunny young woman, a gifted independent and com- lice... Heseemsanidealculprit. po- the her from hiding in is officer, murdered military a brutally Pieaud, Jérôme lover, found Her home. is Loury Emma 2010. of summer Paris, Forgetting What We Promised One fights evil with evil, theotherwithlaw. Oublier nospromesses Who willstandintheend? - - Paperback (LeLivredePoche) <--- Table of contents French sales: February 2018 300 pages

31 HIGHLIGHTS SUSPENSE FICTION - Some people like to come into your life, some, to exercise their to exercise some, life, your into to come like Some people you. to destroy order you in to seduce others and over you, power ones. are the toxic They The January Headmistress 2016. of an elementary school in the suburbs of attacks terrorist the by bruised a city In office. her in murdered found is Paris Crimes Major one... sensitive highly a is schools of subject the winter, that of sends in Khan, deputy Tomar chief police commander of section 3, nickna the Pitbull and known strongly med for feeling about violence against women. At first glance, the case seems simple, to be “closed in 24h” according to one of the first detectives on scene, and yet the many demons that haunt have Tomar at least one advantage: he has developed an uncanny instinct And he immediately for detecting a story that has more than meets the eye. gets that the pure violence of this murder is just a false pretence. dark very a takes life his Crimes, Major from unit his with investigating While to known well rapist repeat a of body the that learns he with, begin To turn. him has been found in the The Bois last de seen time Boulogne... him, he’d in that same park, the Bob in question had been pretty banged up from a to have to going is Tomar alive. but him, given had himself he that beating make sure that this cannot be traced back to him. And then, on the same day, the thing that he’d been dreading for over twenty years finally hap- pens: the man that he sends money to every single year to stay away from material. blackmailing foolproof with reappears, brother his and mother his In other words, a painful start to the Year New for stuck Tomar, between raging internal battles and open conflicts. Toxic Toxique is a French screenwriter, director and novelist. His work in the audiovisual has been shortlisted for the Polar de Cognac literary award 2017. He lives in Paris. award 2017. Cognac literary de for the Polar has been shortlisted Niko Tackian Niko Toxic French sales : (GLM) Book-club Paperback (Le Livre de Poche) Foreign sales: Verlag Piper (German) January 2017 January 304 pages NIKO TACKIAN NIKO Born in 1973, landscape has been honored on numerous occasions, with among others the Best Award Fiction at the Festival de La Rochelle 2009, the Best Movie Award at the POM Festival 2010, (Toronto) and the Best Movie Award at Festival the ARPA 2012, in LA. His first novel, published in2015, received the libraries’ Cognac), bestowed by 80 de Thriller Festival (Festival Polar Cognac at the Award Thriller choice people’s readers. <--- Table of contents Table <---

HIGHLIGHTS SUSPENSE FICTION 32 liant thrillerbyNiko Tackian. bril new this in panache with intermingle resilience and justice Revenge, this evidence... Is Tomar’s. chives, registered as incriminating evidence in a murder case. But this knife, from missing gone Ar knife a about her interrogate deputy,to his Rhonda, rate-General of the National Police), the (Inspecto- police of the Lieutenant police, has summoned IGPN an unsure: increasingly seems future his that now especially duty, his from wavers yet, Tomarnever And victims. the of activities illegal and squalid the by distraught Tomarsoon are team his and banian. Al- in “ghost” or Fantazmë, a loose, the on is killer elusive an that districts light red Paris’ around it has cellar.rumor a long, in Before death to beaten dealer,also an Albanian of body the on squad drug the of members by red discove- sample, another with coincides scene the on found DNA the But detta, thekindofinvestigationthatwillremainunsolvedforyears. ven- a to linked is Policecrime DNA. the Commander reckonsTomar Khan unknown of sample a and fingerprints of lot a site, On Paris. of dissement arron- 18th the in cellar a 2017.in January death, to beaten found, is man A How tobeagoodcopwhenvictimsarealsoexecutioners? Fantazmë Fantazmë - - <--- Table ofcontents (Le LivredePoche) French sales: Paperback January 2018 300 pages

33 HIGHLIGHTS SUSPENSE FICTION Winner of Highlights Prix the Grand de l’imaginaire Fiction 2017 Fantasy

Roxane Dambre Roxane Dambre was born in 1987 in the suburbs of Paris. Her imagination was quick to show her the mysteries that lurk behind the capital’s walls and from the age of 14, she decided to reveal them to the world through her writing. She published a number of short stories under the pen name Blanche Saint-Roch. Inspired by her love for chemistry and logic, she is now pursuing her studies in science and focusing on a degree in industrial process engineering. She continues to write for herself, her loved ones and for all of those who one day have dared to dream. Her Animae series, published under her name by the Éditions de l’Epée et le Livre de Poche, proved a great success. HIGHLIGHTS FICTION - FANTASY

SCORPI V1 Those Who Tread in the Shadows Scorpi T1 - Ceux qui marchent dans les ombres

A souped-up love story in the supernatural-tinged city of Paris.

During one of those summer storms for which only Paris has the secret, young Char- lotte discovers a small boy nestled at the foot of her building, his dark hair dripping with water and his shirt plastered from the rain. Charlotte, the picture of kindness, offers him safe harbour until it eases. Once there, the child starts telling her the most appalling story: his parents and brother are “creatures of the shadows”, hired assassins

October 2016 with supernatural powers, baptised the Scorpi. He himself, Elias, is an apprentice. And 378 pages his catchphrase seems to be: “Do you want me to kill him”? Charlotte does not believe a word he’s saying, at first. But soon after, she discovers an older version of Elias in French sales : her living room, a tall twenty-five year-old with dark brown hair and startling ultrama- Paperback (Le Livre de rine blue eyes. Adam, the older brother, has just entered her life, which is about to be Poche) turned into a wild and crazy ride. How would you react if you were twenty threemostly Foreign sales : peaceful, and you fell in love with a hired killer who is not even human ? Shanghai Wipub Books (Chinese simplified characters)

34 <--- Table of contents SCORPI V2 Those Who Live in Hiding Scorpi T2 - Ceux qui vivent cachés

Life with the Scorpi is tantamount to romance, humour and danger.

Since she started living in the Scorpi manor, Charlotte has been discovering a whole new world. If it had just been her fiancé, Adam, and his peculiar family of hired assassins, especially his incredible little brother Elias, her days would’ve been full enough. But then that would’ve been without counting all of the other magical creatures en- deavouring to act normal around her just to make her happy... and unerringly failing at one point or another. Charlotte doesn’t know whether she should be trembling or laughing any more, but she adores every one of them! October 2016 And yet, one September day, her new life plunges into horror. A man, known as the 416 pages Hunter, has undertaken to track and eliminate all of the creatures. Adam himself fears him and is forced into hiding. Charlotte is their only hope, the man will not harm her French sales : as she is human. But being human is precisely a risk, as she is the weakest one to act. Paperback (Le Livre de A long long time ago, Charlotte heard that legends always arise from a misunderstan- Poche) ding. Will this turn out to be true? Foreign sales : Shanghai Wipub Books (Chinese simplified

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SCORPI V3 Those Who Bring the Masks Down Scorpi T3 - Ceux qui tombent les masques

A dazzling finale!

One week in Venice with her best friend, a flight on a private jet and a room with a view of Saint Mark’s Square... Too good to be true? Charlotte should probably have known better... Instead of an idyllic holiday in one the world’s most beautiful cities, she finds herself tracking a mortal enemy of the Scorpi, another Hunter. Assisted by a strange creature hidden in the canals of Venice, Charlotte fulfils her mission only to find out that the

November 2016 Hunter is far from being alone! All of the families from the shadows start converging 416 pages towards Venice to wage battle, sending their best killers, each more terrifying than the other... the worst being her own in-laws. Thankfully, Charlotte can always count on Adam, more and more in love with her and French sales : increasingly awkward, on his younger brother Elias, so cute that you’d forget how Paperback (Le Livre de dangerous he is, and not forgetting Kibble, the happiest dog on Earth, set to become Poche) without a doubt one of the heroes of this adventure... Foreign sales : Shanghai Wipub Books (Chinese simplified characters)

<--- Table of contents 35 Highlights Non Fiction Asmaa Alghoul & Sélim Nassib A Rebel in Gaza L’Insoumise de Gaza

“Known for her defiant stance against the violations of civil rights in Gaza.” New York Times

“A political yet sensual book, in which the glow of guava and olive trees and the fragrance of jasmine and strong tea flow throughout the book.” Libération

November 2016 240 pages

Asmaa Alghoul was born in 1982 What is to become of a young girl from Gaza growing up in the shadows of in Rafah, in a Palestinian refugee an uncle whose role in the Hamas security forces is of utmost importance camp south of the Gaza Strip. She and to whom she is vehemently opposed? is a regular contributor to the Mo-

nitor, a news site that covers current events in the Middle East. What is to become of her when Israeli soldiers barge into her home in the heart of darkness to force her grandfather and other old men outside in

Sélim Nassib, born in Beirut in their pyjamas to clean up the graffiti left on the walls by the local youth? HIGHLIGHTS NON FICTION 1946, has been living in France since the beginning of the 70s. A long What is to become of her with a father who is a Muslim and a liberal, and time correspondent for the French who has a passion for books, a compassionate grandfather who hides her newspaper Libération, he put his under his quilt, in a society ruled by imprisonment, corruption and male Arab and Jewish roots to good use in his apprehension of the com- chauvinism - yet also by remarkable humanity? plex issues in the Middle East. He is also the author of the novel Un She writes to clear out this excess of contradictory feelings, she paints in amant en Palestine (Robert Laffont). tones both solemn and bright and etches the sensual portrait of a birth country that she passionately loved, and which over time became a caul- dron of wars and fundamentalism.

Foreign sales: A writer, that is what she becomes. AST (Russian) Doppelhouse Press (English, USA and Canada Only)

<--- Table of contents 37 A powerful dialogue between five authors and Charles Palant, authors and A powerful dialogue between five Auschwitz survivor. At a time when the very last witnesses of Nazi barbarism are disappearing, who orator hold of the words of a great has continually has taken literature called upon us not to forget the horrors to which racism and anti-Semitism can lead. Élisabeth Brami, Noëlle Châtelet, Alexandre Jardin, Mazarine Pingeot and Alice Zeniter cross their childhood, of reflections said be can what with Auschwitz, after years Charles Seventy camps. death Palant, survivor of the po- and analysis historical When humanity? and hope speech, transmission, litics have failed to prevent barbarism, to defeat obscurantism, what is left of thoughts freedom to defend those at its helm creation and literary but and the right to live as well as to love? tes- extraordinary the memory our in keep to readers, as then, duty our is It timony of this It is our turn not yes to life. man who has said to let it fade away. Croire au matin au Croire Charles Palant Believing in Dawn . ------, born in Bille en tête , born in War is a novelist and was Pingeot Mazarine Alice Zeniter playwright, born in 1986. A gra Piolat Introduction by Laurent born in 1974. In 1988, her novel by published was Premier Roman Julliard. duate of the Ecole Normale Su périeure, she is a PHD candidate in Theater Studies. She has also where Hungary, in French taught years. she lived for several to. Professor of writer, Philosophy and The main themes of his work are and pedagogy. love à la Feydeau Noëlle Châtelet, born in 1944, is a writer and academic. Specia Garden Alexandre Elizabeth Brami Elizabeth saw in 1946, is a clinical psycho by published been has She logist. several children’s literature and general literature publishers. lized in issues of the body, she has given multiple lectures conferences and seminars both at in France and abroad. 1965, wrote his first novel at the age of 20, entitled <--- Table of contents Table <--- January 2018 160 pages

HIGHLIGHTS NON FICTION 38 Cécile Pivot As Usual Comme d’habitude

Cécile Pivot Comme d’habitude

« Tu es né autiste et, oui, c’est vraiment difficile de vivre avec toi. Mais ce que j’ai appris avec les années, Antoine, c’est qu’il est encore plus difficile pour toi de vivre avec nous. » “Cécile Pivot’s story breaks your heart more than once. It is all the more moving that this mother takes upon herself her own imperfections.”

Sophie Delassein, L’Obs.

February 2017 230 pages HIGHLIGHTS NON FICTION

Cécile Pivot is a journalist who As Usual is a mother’s love letter, Cécile, to her 22 year-old son, Antoine, gladly partakes in regular incur- telling the story of their life together. From an incomprehensible early sions into the world of writing. childhood when Cécile knew something was wrong but never managed to be heard, to the day those words “autistic disorder” were, finally, laid out by the doctor, and on to the life that followed the diagnosis, with all of its mistakes, its pleasures, its bouts of anger and fits of laughter. Cécile Pivot speaks, in clips and through some of the most memorable moments of their common history, of what it’s like to be, not just the mother of an autistic child, but also a woman, and an active one at that, and the mother of other children, of what it’s like to love a child when it’s so hard to live together. This story is one that Cécile has held close to her heart for a long time: she started taking notes from the very first years of Antoine’s life, and then, from those scattered fragments, she decided last year to draw the essence for this book.

More than just a testimony, As Usual is a text whose literary prowess only serves to enhance the emotion stirred in us by the tale, without ever insis- ting on it. A vibrant book. French sales: Paperback (Le Livre de Poche) Option on Movie adaptation (Cactus Prod.)

<--- Table of contents 39 Jean Quatremer The Bastards of Europe Les salauds de l’Europe

April 2017 324 pages

Jean Quatremer has been cove- Can we still claim to be European? Too many scandals, such as the recruit- ring European issues since 1990. ment of José Manuel Durão Barroso, former President of the Commission, He has notably revealed a num- by the investment bank Goldman Sachs. Too many compromises, such as ber of cases that have shaken the the election of Jean-Claude Juncker at the EU’s executive’s helm, he who European Union, including Édith Cresson’s fictitious employment turned his country, Luxembourg, into a tax haven. Too many setbacks: from scandal which led to the resigna- economic issues to external border control, by way of social or defense tion of the Santer Commission in procedures. Too much unbridled liberalism. And too little democracy. HIGHLIGHTS NON FICTION 1999. Journalist for Libération, author of the blog « Coulisses de It is not difficult to file an unsparing indictment against the Union by concea- Bruxelles », compulsive twitto, ling the responsibility of national governments in these drifts. The bastards he is also a writer and author of of Europe are the States, the masters of the Union, who betrayed the TV documentaries. dreams of the founding fathers, but also the demagogues who try to trick us into believing that returning to the past would solve all of our problems. It is time to reiterate what the Union has brought us at its most vulnerable time, i.e. now, what with external threats coming from Putin’s Russia and Trump’s United States, and internal ones stemming from Brexit and the rise of extremist parties.

In this striking and impactful book, one of the best specialists on Europe French sales: studies each argument set forward by his opponents, one by one, sorts Book club (GLM) truth from fiction, and stresses that the construction of the European Com- munity, as perfectible as it may be, remains the last pacifist utopia in a world on the brink of doom.

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Juan Martin Guevara is Ernesto “Che” Guevera’s youngest brother, fifteen years his junior. At the time of Che’s death in the Bolivian maquis on Oc- tober 9th, 1967, he and his siblings formed an unspoken agreement never to share memories of their deceased brother outside of the Guevara family clan. For nearly half a century, Juan Martin has maintained the silence, though faithfully dogged by his brother’s shadow from Buenos Aires, where he lives, to Havana, where he has made regular visits since 1959. Juan Mar- April 2016 tin today feels bound to speak out, to “share what he knows of his brother” 328 pages before it is too late. HIGHLIGHTS NON FICTION

Juan Martin Guevara is 71 In an unprecedented biography, we are invited into the Guevara family and lives in Mataderos, a wor- fold. We discover a close-knit and bohemian clan of five siblings, raised by king-class neighborhood of Bue- a couple of eccentric and upper middle-class Argentinians, Ernesto Guevara nos Aires. He spent eight years and Celia de La Serna. Guevara senior is portrayed as a colorful character, a in prison, condemned by the quirky man of various professions, minus the qualifications, who, in theory, military junta for his association did not share his son’s revolutionary ideas. Guevara’s mother is seen as a ca- with the Frente Antiimperialista y por el Socialismo and his re- pable and courageous woman, a Francophile and a fervent admirer of gue- lationship to Che. He recently rilla warfare. Arrested in April 1963, after a six month stay in Cuba, Europe founded the non-profit organi- and Brazil, she would be the family’s first political prisoner. Juan Martin des- zation «Por las huellas del Che» cribes Ernesto’s relationships with his siblings and parents alike, showing (In the Footsteps of Che). how, each in its own way, would contribute to the Comandante’s emotional and political awakening. We discover Che, the caring, protective and darkly Armelle Vincent is a journalist humorous elder brother ever ready to play tricks and to go on jaunts, and based in Los Angeles. She writes for Point and Le Figaro. Her close Che the political leader during a crisis, in Cuba, in 1959, when Juan Martin acquaintance with Che Gueva- spent two months at his brother’s side. And of course there is Che the idea- ra’s youngest brother dates from list, the impromptu vagabond and the explorer, drifting with the wind in July 2007, when she traveled to search of adventure. Buenos Aires for the French magazine L’Amateur de cigare to in- Juan Martin also gives us the story of his own political struggles during the terview Juan Martin Guevara. Years of Lead in Argentina, including eight years spent in prison for his political activities and his relationship to Che. He also tells of Che’s children, living in the shadow of their father, the myth, and sheds light on Cuba today and, in particular, on the political and spiritual heritage of el Che.

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<--- Table of contents 41 Backlist Fiction elns f ul, oeig rud them around hovering guilt, of feelings manage freeto themselves from these other,each for love pite their they not will mother.his been rejectedby always Des- has he death, accidental brother’s his for responsible held sorrows: concealed also has Frédéric suicide. to and despair to husband first her driving of her always accused has her mother-in-law her Until passing, wounds. secret has Noémie the bullsofhisManade. rearing to passion, unbridled with time, his devotes Frédéric prison, in time his by estate. A former Communard hardened inheritedowner oftherecently Castellar Marescot, Frédéric husband, second her marries letters, of woman widow, lade, Noémie 1883. Va- France, The Camargue, set intheFrenchcountryside. A powerful19thcenturyfamilysaga 288 p. May 2015 Digest) (Sélection duReader’s Condensed edition (Libra Diffusio) Large-print edition (Le LivredePoche) Paperback French sales: Sylvie Baron Sylvie been in contact for the past eight years. eight past the for contact in been hardly has he whom with children, two his Overnight, of custody regains Gautier between spouses havegonewrong? argument an Could suspect. one number police’s the becomes soon Gautier practices, fraudulent Probee’s of to bethere. son an activedetractor As rea no had Nathalie Probee, beehives, of supplier powerful American a by hired Recently France? in doing Nathalie was What Clermont-Ferrand. in lot parking his wife isfound stabbed to death in a when dramatically changes life quiet His the bordersof Auvergne. of hishoney nowextends well beyond only passion: beekeeping. The reputation his to himself devoted has Gautier then, Since Thomas. ten-year-old and Mélissa thirteen-year-oldchildren, two their with York New to moved and ago years him left family, wealthy a to heiress thalie, Na- wife, His region. the Cantal of corner Gautier lives onanoldfarm in aremote colère la de ruchers Les The Wrath Beehive of the fre teacher, former A family estate. rera who will one day take the helm of the to his mother, and Camille, a rebellious to- close and intellectual sensitive, alliance: Raphaël, their of born are children Two her longing for emancipation as a woman. indulge to reluctant man, cutting and que brus a Frédéric in discovers start, fresh a remarriage be for whomthis was meantto Noémie, shadows. ominous and dark like Tour de France. She currently lives in Nyons. the of apprentice an and builder a was who yore, in fond memory of a great-grandfather trades andtheeverydayforgotten to lifeof readers her reintroduces she literary, things adoptive her and all about Provence. Passionate history of backdrop the are against novels set recent most Her writing. sion: pas- lifelong her to herself devote to chosen The MasterCastellar of the Françoise Bourdon Le maître du Castellar du maître Le Françoise Bourdon - Marge isnowheretobefound... But fortune. family entire the on hands to gether would have done anything who Marge, sister, third a and had Madeline Nathalie Gautier’s activism. with environmental do to nothing has out, turns it motive, The killer. the unmask will Joséfa Laborie, Inspecteur tigation, charge oftheinves- the detective in than Sharper innocence. his prove to out sets Gautier help, With children. two his with bond quickly will friend housekeeperand his Joséfa, murder. of convicted him see to eager beekeepers discriminating less him anumber won of enemies among re lentless activismfororganichoney has Gautier’s worse, matters make To the custodydecision. disputes estate, nearby a in established newly and wealthy exceptionally deline, sister-inhis Meanwhile, Ma law life. city of ease and comfort the to used teens, pre two the on tough is Cantal, rural of heart the in deep farm, family the on Life has <--- Table ofcontents - Paperback (LeLivre Audio-book edition Large-print edition Book club(GLM) French sales: de Poche) (Feryane) May 2017 320 page (CdL) - - -

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280 p. August 2017 Viens là que je te - Pierre Brunet The Triangle of Doubts Triangle The Le Triangle d’incertitude Le Triangle dazzled the literary scene as a teenager with his first novel, first his with teenager a as scene literary the dazzled is his fourth novel. , which was awarded the student Prix de Flore in 2007, created specially for him. for specially created 2007, in Flore de Prix student the awarded was which , is a much awaited novel by a French writer promised to an amazing career. Boris Bergmann Boris tue ma belle talent. his for as age his for attention much as drawn has who phenomenon publishing true A Déserteur Boris Bergmann Deserter Déserteur A rundown France has just declared war on the Caliphate. Following a heartbreak, a talented hacker looking for a cause decides to join His the expertise army. is an asset, and soon he is assigned the task of programming drones that fly over conflict areas. After a while operating these weapons from behind a screen in Paris, he is sent on a mission in a Middle-Eastern military base. There, he discovers young soldiers whose enthusiasm has been crushed by being put on the sidelines, as even and action in be to hoping boredom, by consumed are They the them. of instead war drones lead the wounded, while the ostracized narrator defends a country that dehumanizes warfare effectively. in order to kill more By thrusting us into the depths of an ideologically confused generation, Boris Berg- mann delivers a masterful and fast-paced novel. This captivating tale, told in a lively shifting. keeps the ground style, transports the reader on the field, where and clever The Triangle of Doubts Triangle The Pierre Brunet navigated Brunet Pierre a variety of different jobs: advertising space August 2016 p. 230 Sales: French Paperback (Le Livre de Poche) <--- Table of contents Table <--- nia for his new vocation. Born in 1961 in Paris, 1994, In others. amongst journalist, and officer, security courier, (croupier), dealer salesman, Bos to then Rwanda to travels and work, humanitarian towards chance, by off, branches he At the end of his journey, under cover of an uncertain night, Etienne’s path crosses that path Etienne’s night, uncertain an of cover under journey, his of end the At of yachtsmen caught in a terrifying yet magnificent storm. Back in Brittany, Etienne struggles to reacquaint himself with humanity and sinks into elite his from comrades the officer, naval a as work his for passion His distress. personal unit, his wife, his kids...nothing and no one can alleviate the shame he is plagued with or his need to demean He himself. casts both Offoff, Gil- figuratively with and literally. liatt, his sailboat, for the onshore winds to chase away the memory of the way death smelled in the suffocating heat This of solo Bisesero. crossing represents his last hope, his lifeline, and the diary he on keeps board rapidly becomes While a cathartic process. the things, all away washes which sky, Brittany the of light healing the on feed hopes his ghosts of his shortcomings still find a way to surface... There are things that even a hardened soldier can never forget. Especially when Especially he forget. feels never can soldier a hardened even that things are There partially responsible for a Could disaster. Etienne have avoided the massacre in Bise- sero, Rwanda, while he was deployed there in 1994? A thousand two hundred Tutsis massacred over the course of three days while the French to intervene...of army failed man a being Despite up. higher much from come had act to not decision the not: course of action, he found himself counting the victims.

BACKLIST LITERARY FICTION 44 Élise Fontenaille Blue Book

« Cold - for the nights are often bit- today as Namibia. terly cold there - hunger, thirst, ex- What began as an episode of brutal posure, disease and madness claimed colonialism became the first genocide of scores of victims every day, and cart- the 20th century. General Von Trotha and loads of their bodies were every day his troops used the Kalahari desert as a carted over to the back beach, buried death playground. German “scientists” in a few inches of sand at low tide, collected the skulls and bodies of the and as the tide came in the bodies dead to experiment and devise theories went out, food for the sharks. » that would support the future Nuremberg Laws - among them, Mengele’s mentor, Blue Book is a startling novel based on a Dr Eugen Fischer. January 2015 little-known, dramatic historical fact: the 220 p LITERARY FICTION BACKLIST Herero genocide. While attempting to Élise Fontenaille was born in Nancy and write the story of her great grand-father, has worked as a journalist. She is the au- WWI General Charles Mangin, famous thor of numerous novels, including Les for incorporating African troops to the Disparues de Vancouver published by Gras- French army, Elise Fontenaille-N’Diaye set and which received the 2010 Prix Erck- discovered the 1918 report written by mann-Chatrian, Le Palais de mémoire pu- Major Thomas O’Reilly for the British blished by Calmann-Lévy as part Rentrée government, documenting the massacre Littéraire and Ma vie précaire published by of the Herero people by the Germans Calmann-Lévy in 2012. between 1904 and 1909, in their colony of German South-West Africa - known

Denis Jeambar Where are you running to, William... Où cours-tu, William... In a city where the far right is about to ethical values of American society. Wil- win the elections, William Kenfcet, a fier- liam, upon reading his story, claims it as cely independent journalist, feels that his own and writes a book that will help the worst is about to hit Paris. He writes him dig into its grey areas. about it, loud and clear. Could this be the reason why one night, coming home This multifaceted novel, black as ink, from a televised debate, he is the victim where the destinies of fleeing characters of an assault in front of the Luxembourg all interlock, is also a political thriller, a gates? And why a young couple, trying to reflection on filiation, transmission and defend him, is murdered in cold blood? the power of literature. August 2017 376 p. When William wakes up in the hospital, his life has become a burden he can no A writer and journalist, Denis Jeambar longer carry. Weighed down by his family took turns being the managing editor history, consumed by his demons and of the Point, the President of Europe 1, and the President and managing editor advancing age, he decides to fly to New of L’Express. He is the author of around York and honor the grave of the young twenty essays, novels, short stories and man who died while trying to save him. biographies, including Le jour où la girafe s’est assise (Arléa, 1994), L’inconnu de Goa One morning, a newspaper headline des- (Grasset, 1996), Accusé Chirac, levez-vous ! cribing a human-interest story changes (Seuil, 2005), Gershwin (Mazarine), Le défi the course of his life. Thus begins another du monde (with Claude Allègre, Fayard, 2006), Portrais crachés (Flammarion, 2011), tale, one whose thread interweaves with and Dark Nights, nouvelles nocturnes (Cal- the first; the story of Harvey Miller, a man mann-Lévy, 2014). Where are you running whose social demotion has turned him to, William...is his sixth novel. into an animal and who spews out the

<--- Table of contents 45 Barbara Constantine Barbara Constantine writes novels and fixes a house in the Berry region. She also watches the cranes go by, the flowers and the trees grow, and the cats, and the birds, and the squirrels... She is the author of Allumer le chat (2007), A Mélie, sans mélo (2009) and the best-sellers Tom, petit Tom, tout petit homme, Tom (2010) and And then came Paulette (2012), which has been translated in 20 languages. For the Autumn 2014, Calmann-Lévy published a compilation of Barbara Constantine’s four titles, together with an unpublished short novel My beautiful Week-end.

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Ferdinand lives all by himself on his big empty farm. His son, daughter and grandchil- dren have all moved away. One day his neighbour Marceline shows up after a terrible storm. With his usual awkwardness, Ferdinand invites her to stay. Then his best friend Guy, a recent widower at loose ends, moves in. Lastly come the Lumière sisters, fleeing a monster of a nephew bent on getting their home. Thus a strange 67 to 95 year-old quintet is formed. An odd arrangement, to say the least, that little by little becomes the norm. When the health needs of the eldest prove January 2012 too challenging, the quintet decides to recruit a suitable candidate at a nearby nursing 314 p. school, who, in exchange for a few hours work a week, will be given room and board. Muriel takes them up on it. Then at the local agricultural school, Kim is enlisted to help out with the garden. One night an increasingly round and nauseous Muriel gives birth – both to her own surprise and that of everyone else – to a little girl, an unwanted addition in Muriel’s eye... But our new-formed fivesome doesn’t see things in the same light... Baby Paulette will be well looked after indeed! BACKLIST COMMERCIAL FICTION

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This is the heart-warming story of a little boy who acts like an adult and a mother who acts like a child. « A concentrated dose of vitamins to brighten your life ! Happiness, pleasure…things you absolutely need right now for a welcome change of pace. » – Gérard Collard « Barbara Constantine tenderly paints the lives of regular people, and knows like no one else how to bring them to life to share with us the mix of solemnity and irony that make up their everyday lives. » – Prima

Tom, an eleven-year-old boy, lives with his young mother, Joss. She was thirteen when she gave birth to him. As Joss has a penchant for going out, falling in love and disappearing on weekends, Tom is often left to his own devices and has learned to fend for himself. Plus, the little money his mother does earn is scrupulously set aside to pay January 2010 for breast reduction surgery. Joss wants men to pay attention to her for something 260 p. more than just her chest. Tom, therefore, slips quietly into his neighbours’ vegetable BACKLIST COMMERCIAL FICTION BACKLIST French sales: Paper- gardens for food, digging up carrots and potatoes... Before leaving, however, he care- back (Le Livre de fully replants and waters everything he has dug up. One day, he enters a new garden Poche adult & young- and comes across Madeleine, an old woman who had been lying in the middle of her adult editions) cabbage patch for two whole days. Without Tom’s help, she would most certainly have Large-print edition died. (Feryane) Book club (GLM & Foreign sales: France Loisirs) Albatros media (Czech) Meulenhoff / Boekerij (Dutch) Audio-book edition Azbooka-Atticus (Russian) Munhakdongne (Korean) (Audiolib) Blanvalet (German) Seix Barral (Spanish Worldwide) Fazi Editore (Italian) Sekwa Förlag (Swedish) Option on movie Grup 62 (Catalan) Shanghai 99 (Simplified Chinese) adaptation : Rhamsa Könyvmol képző Kiadó (Hungarian) Sonia Draga (Polish) Productions La Maison des femmes (Vietnamese) Yuan-Liou Publishing (Complex Chinese)

To Mélie, No Melodrama Light Up The Cat A Mélie, sans mélo Allumer le chat Mélie is 72 and lives alone in the Barbara Constantine’s first novel, countryside. Her granddaughter, is about fairly normal folks who Clara, 10-year-old, is coming to rather naturally experience incre- spend the whole summer with her dibly weird things. for the first time. The evening be- There is the embalmer at a fune- fore her arrival, Mélie learns that ral home who takes up photogra- she has some serious health prob- phy as a hobby, a child who learns September 2008 lems and should begin a heavy January 2007 healing from his pot-smoking 256 p. treatment immediately…too bad, 268 p. grandpa, a cat convinced of being she says ! Indeed the grandma is an intellectual, and… well, you French sales: Paperback really not into melodrama and French sales: get the drift. This is a book written (Le Livre de Poche) prefers to spend her summer Paperback to make us laugh. It is not a nice Book club (GLM) making wonderful memories for (Le Livre de Poche) book. Between the lines is a run- Large-print edition Clara : funny ones, like watching Book club (GLM) ning critique of annoying idiots. (Feryane) bamboo grow while listening to Infused with tenderness, it pays La Traviata, singing songs in the Foreign sales: homage to simple lives and to the Foreign sales: rain, or tasting the weeds growing Cairo Editore (Italian) pride of humble spirits, to those Azbooka-Atticus on trail edges. Of course, since life who do not run with the pack, (Russian) always holds surprises, Mélie is fi- who pass inconspicuously. It is a Cairo Editore (Italian) nally going to fall in love. tribute to “un-beautiful” people. Random House (German) <--- Table of contents 47

- 180 p. (Italian) (Flamma August 1998 (English-UK) French sales : Foreign sales : Pascale Kramer Pascale Adelphi Edizioni Configo publishing Paperback (Pocket) L’Implacable brutalité brutalité L’Implacable Suhrkamp (German) - - Autopsie of a father Autopsie (Calmann-Lévy, The (Calmann-Lévy, Living 2000 PRIX SUISSE SUISSE PRIX 2017 Le Car rion, 2016). Several of Several her books have been rion, 2016). translated into Italian, German, and - Engli the Grand awarded She has been sh. Prix for her work. Suisse 2017 du réveil (Mercure de France, 2008 – Prix Schiller 2009, Grand Prix du roman de la Société des gens de lettres, Prix Rambert 2010), and Born in Geneva in 1961, in Paris since living and working has been 1987. She has published over ten including novels – Prix Lipp 2001), Pharricide AUTHOR AUTHOR AWARDED THE GRAND - - Vincent de SwarteVincent (published under the Page Blanche Le Cirque de la lune and Le Pascale Kramer Pascale Les vivants It was a bright and shining day, the 8th of Louise, Vincent May. her and husband younger brother Benoît, all three brim ming with disconcerting youth, oblivion and immaturity, are struck by a - devasta ting tragedy. Told through the eyes of Benoît, The Li ving tries to capture the shock and awe of the split second knocking, when and fate above comes and beyond, relentlessness the of scandal, or mystery, the of life. from start Powered to finish with the en- swing and summer in full ergy of a nature the muted pain of Louise, the book asks a simple question: how can you imagine is young and all the worst when you are survive you do how and bright, and sunny it? The Living ture to adult fiction. Amongst many other books, he is the author of author the is he books, other many Amongst fiction. adult to ture rousel des mers Vincent Swarte de is a very eclectic author who proved his writing skills through many genres, from novels to short stories, from Children’s litera Unscrewed by the wind, chiseled like an old fancy chair leg, Cordouan’s Cordouan’s leg, chair fancy old an like chiseled wind, the by Unscrewed mad. keeper its turn to depths Sea’s of out came it like looks lighthouse Geoffroy, its new guest who settled in recently, thought he was used to this lonely life where one oneself tries as to time occupy passes. But the lighthouse tickles him... too quickly, very quickly, quickly, The young man digs up his tools of amateur stuffer. He gives his first who came Then to an English couple crayfish. a and cong eel cares to a to get married in the lighthouse’s gorgeous circular chapel. The next visitor to come is the engineer from the Lights and Buoys authorities, who turns out to be an explosive red-headed woman… In this unique novel, Vincent de Swarte depicts the childish all-might of an odd killer – an innocent lost in a wild and spectacular landscape. His feverish and sharp writing, cold and flowing, casts a spell onreader. the collection, Gallimard, 1996 and 1998). collection, <--- Table of contents Table <--- Foreign sales: Edition Blau (German) University of Nebraska (English) August 2000 p. 202

BACKLIST LITERARY FICTION 48 Calmann-Lévy. à Tinténiac, à as such novels, and publications history numerous of author the is he subject, said for passion a and history degreein a graduated with Having 19. of age the at novel first his 1960, in Caen in Born Will shemanagetoescapethe mercilessmisfortunethathasbefallenher? band’s murder, andimprisonedinNantes. collapses under the vindictive impulses of her sister-in-law. ultimately Claire is emancipation accused of and her hus- freedom of life this but bourgeoisie, haute intellectual the with relationships tie to her enables work Her women. by managed and founded reading, and becomes a freelancer for La Fronde, the first feminist newspaper entirely and writing for passion a rediscovers she Montmartre, in Settled life. new a for hope with filled Paris to moves and manor the leaves Claire accidentally, dies Max When she weretheladyofhouseandwhonever missesanopportunitytohumiliateher. besides all this, bear the presence of her sister-in-law, Jeanne, who behaves as though must, She produces. he wine the for penchant strong a with husband, tyrannical and violent a himself reveals Max her, than winegrower.Older wealthy a Lesarnoy, Max marry to forced is enthusiast, literary young a century,Claire, 19th the of end the At 300 p. October 2017 Poche) Paperback (LeLivrede diffusio) Large-print (Libra French sales: La Louvede Lorient, Éric Le Nabour harrowing mysteries. A heart-rending storyofanabandonnedchildwhosefamilycontains Adélaïde au falaise bord la de Adélaïde of at theCliff theEdge Jean-Paul Malaval France botholdandnew. BorninBrive,henowlives Corrèze. novels thathaveestablished over thirty him asoneofthegreatest observers of Provincial Nouvel Observateur wrote forLe arts, of bachelor his completing After confront himtoanimpossiblechoice... ther has committed suicide: the first of many revelations on the road to a truth that will mo- her that out finds soon family.He her investigating while her of care take to and girl little keepfamily,the to host decides and he institution between up grown having the police before thinking better of it, too shaken to abandon her. A foster kid himself, to over child the hand to decides Gaspard them, around anywhere else one no With way. She appearsfraughtwithtrauma,anddoesnotspeakaword. her lost have to seems four, who than older no girl, little a upon stumbles he cliff a of giving his life the fresh boost it so desperately needs. While out on a walk on the edges of hopes the in back step takea to urge the feels He own. his on away goes and break a take to decides architect, Seize, Gaspard divorce, bitter a Following Brittany.2004, A woman’s emancipationduringtheBelle Epoque. À l’ombre de nos larmes started writing at a very young age and published and age young very a at writing started , Les Étésde la colère bfr dvtn hs ie o ieaue H hs written has He literature. to time his devoting before , The Trouble Maker Eric Le Nabour Le Eric Jean-Paul Malaval became and notably a journalist La Frondeuse La published by published Retour <--- Table ofcontents Condensed edition(Art Book club(GLM and France Loisirs) French sales: Gallery) May 2017 302 p.

49 BACKLIST LITERARY FICTION - 350 p. 350 Jazz ma March 2017 French sales : France Loisirs) Paperback (Pocket) Bookclub (GLM and (GLM Bookclub - Miss Cyclone at the time), then started working for (Kero, 2015). (Kero, Laurence Peyrin Marie-Claire Loin de Paris Télé 7 Jours and Salut . He also movies for directs feature les Copains ricane Bob, the Lewinsky case, and 9/11) as dramatically reflected in the intimate upheavals in the young heroines’ lives. and yet they understand each other better understand yet they and than anyone. Even the irruptive arrival of can men in their duo do nothing to break their bond. There are virtually no taboos between them...or are there? Because a secret does lie among both friends: one of 1980 and that dates back to the year that will irrevocably affect their lives, and 2001, in day fateful a on Cyclone, miss lead to have to choose her own path. Laurence Peyrin evokes the strength and in friendship and sisterhood of uniqueness the most luminous manner, through four stages of the lives of Angela Four and June. very crucial periods that with four memorable events coincide in York New History (the death of John Lennon, hur (XO, 2001), and 2001), (XO, - - , Paris-Match was born in Neuilly Périer Jean-Marie in 1940. During the he ‘50s, assisted renowned photographer Daniel Filipacchi (at Close To The Sky, Far From Paradise From Far Sky, The Close To paradis du loin ciel, du Près Third age, senior, old... so many expressions to describe those over Celebrated sixty. in the press as being the “age of happiness”, sexagenarians are no longer set aside in releases on sex or targeted who’s gone Jean-Marie marketing. a Périer, bit over sixty, scratches the surface of this idyllic in a collection image of short stories which set things straight. “Why is our time hell-bent on Why hiding the desperately want truth about third age? to make us believe that life starts the moment you Why reach pretend sixty? that the notion of age is just in our heads when in the morning you wake up with muscles you 20”? had reminding you you’re no longer knew you even never With the a author lot illustrates the of last humor and hundred meters acuity, of these so- Moving, line. their of end the at or song swan their of middle the in women and men people Old backlash. or comebacks of revenge, and reunions of stories quirky metimes come”... to “festivities the from stemming panic the prevent to words, other in stories, Jean-Marie Périer Jean-Marie gazine, the cinema Antoine (including et Sébastien with Jacques Dutronc and François and Périer which of books, eleven published has Périer Jean-Marie Dutronc). Jacques with rêveur Sale Enfant gâté October 2017 p. 200 <--- Table of contents Table <--- Angela has a friend, June, who is her polar opposite: slender and ethereal, blond, disinterested of rich and the daughter parents, who only swears by her freedom and independence. There is nothing that should have brought these two together, verished projects of this legendary sea- York Coney Island, where New side resort, flows into the sea. The district is cheerful and bright during the ghost and dreary summer, but fairground, bustling with a like in the winter, when stop turning. the Angela carousels actually owes nickname to the Cyclone, her with its famous wooden roller coaster. Miss Cyclone is Angela. A sixteen year- A sixteen Angela. is Cyclone Miss curves with generous brunette old Italian and a timid nature, whose destiny is all planned out: a few years from now, she will marry Nick Spoleto, the son of Coney Island carnies. Because Angela was raised in the impo

BACKLIST LITERARY FICTION 50 Andrea H. Japp Born in 1957, trained as a toxicologist, since 1990, Andrea H. Japp has written over twenty novels, she is considered one of the queens of crime fiction in France. She has also written many novellas, scenarios for television and cartoons. Celebrated French detective novelist Andrea H. Japp has left historical fiction for a while to make a remarkable return to the world of thrillers with a contemporary setting starring Diane Silver, one of the world’s finest profilers.

« The Landless Lady » Series Published between 2006 and 2008, around 384 p. each.

VOL. 1 – The Track of the Beast VOL. 3 – Divine Blood Les chemins de la bête Le sang de grâce 1304. France is divided by the conflict between Philip In this third volume, the knots surrounding the multiple the Fair, who wants to free himself from the church’s mysteries exposed in the first two volumes are untied. omnipotent authority, and Pope Benedict XI, who dies The title, Divine Blood, is a clue. Whose blood courses suddenly from poisoning. In these troubled times, through young Clément’s veins ? And what does this re- Agnès, a tempestuous young widow, will see her desti- veal about his identity ? Who was behind the murders ny change radically. Why does Eudes de Larnay, Agnès’s in the convent of Clairets ? The investigation will go as perversely stupid half-brother, accuse her of being pos- far as Rome and Pope’s closest advisors. As for the love sessed by the devil and plotting with heretics to bring kindling between Agnès and Arthus, there is yet another her before the Inquisition ? Who sends the letters bea- surprise in store… ring the papal seal that speak of the “divine blood” to the convent of Clairets ? What does the young Clément, VOL. 4 – The Battle of the Shadows Agnès’s protégé, discover in the books of the convent’s Le combat des ombres library ? What can one make of the dead bodies found Young Clémence (formerly Clément) has disappeared. abandoned in the forest, burnt but without any trace of Agnès desperately hopes to find her again. She- ma fire, or clawed by a mysterious animal ? nages to escape the clutches of the inquisition but is being slowly poisoned… Arthus, count of Authon, now VOL. 2 – The Rose-Whisperer Agnès’s husband falls, in his turn, into the hands of the Le souffle de la rose Inquisition ; whereas Francesco de Léone, the white Agnès is dragged before the court of the Inquisition, knight, tries once again to save them and protect their where Nicolas Florin, the Grand Inquisitor, wants to secret. see her weep and beg, and demands that she be put to A thrilling ride from beginning to end, the fourth volume death. Meanwhile, at the convent of Clairets, one nun of “La Dame sans terre” gives long-awaited answers to after another is found poisoned. They know that the the mysteries of this exciting and intriguing story. culprit is among them but who could really commit such atrocities ? Everyone is a suspect. Élodie, the mother abbess is sure only of one thing : the key to solving this French sales: Paperback (Le Livre de Poche) mystery lies in the manuscripts of the Abbey’s secret Book club (GLM “Main Selection”) library. Though Agnès doesn’t know it yet, she is not alone : Count Arthus of Authon is prepared to kill in or- Foreign sales: der to save Agnès, who has stolen his heart. Francesco Gallic Books (English) Goldmann (German) de Leone, a Knight Hospitaller, is on a mysterious quest Gotica (Portuguese) involving Agnès and has sworn to protect her at all costs Hemiro Ltd. (Russian) against her enemies. Finally, Clément’s ingenuity may just change his destiny and his Lady’s one forever. <--- Table of contents 51 Pierre Lemaitre Pierre Lemaitre is the author of Travail soigné (éditions du Masque, 2006) Prix du Premier roman du Festival de Cognac, Robe de marié (Calmann-Lévy, 2009) Prix du Meilleur polar francophone, Cadres noirs (Calmann-Lévy, 2010) Prix du Polar européen du Point, Alex (Albin Michel, 2011) & Sacrifices (Albin Michel, 2012), Dagger international Prize (2012&2015) and Rosy & John (Livre de Poche, 2013). Au revoir là-haut, his last novel published by Albin Michel, won the Prix France-Télévisions and the Prix Goncourt 2013. His novels have been translated to thirty languages and several are currently being adapted into movies and plays.

Blood Wedding A MASTERPIECE TRANSLATED IN 18 LANGUAGES ! Robe de marié January 2009 - 272 p. « Though the French suspense novel ralyzed and there have been other deaths too among her often seems a bit tentative next to loved ones. the machine of English-language sus- One day, she awakens from a deep sleep and finds Loïc in pense, this one comes to shake away his bed, strangled by a shoelace. Panic-stricken, Sophie our misconceptions and demonstrate runs away. A kind stranger crosses her path at the train a morbidly efficient ‘French touch’. » – station and invites Sophie to her house. There, Sophie Atmosphères steals her ID then wakes once again from a deep sleep Sophie Auverney, the thirty-year-old to discover the young woman’s lifeless body. Did Sophie nanny of little Loïc, feels she is losing stab her ? She doesn’t recall anything. Knowing that the her mind, she forgets details, does or police are already searching for her, she goes into hiding. errands unexpected things. Sophie is Is she a cold-blooded murderer? What is going on? haunted by her terrible past. Vincent, her husband, committed suicide after a tragic car accident had left him pa- French sales: Paperback (Le Livre de Poche), Book-club editions (GLM & France Loisirs) Audio-book edition (CDL) Movie sale : Alexandre Films Foreign sales: Nemo – Autentica (Portuguese- Muza (Polish) Alfaguara (Spanish Worldwide) Brazil) Sea Sky (Simplified Chinese) Ascheoug (Norwegian) Fazi Editore (Italian) Ullstein (German) LATIO NS N A A Azbooka-Atticus (Russian) Fish+Fish (Complex Chinese) Xander Uitgevers (Dutch) R V

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Inhuman Resources Cadres Noirs February 2010 -350 p. WINNER OF THE 2010 PRIX DU POLAR EUROPÉEN - LE POINT TRANSLATED IN 14 LANGUAGES

57-year-old Alain Delambre, former Short-listed along with two other candidates, he is infor- human resources manager, has med that the management’s final decision will depend BACKLIST SUSPENSE FICTION been unemployed for five years. on how well he reacts under intense pressure, that is in a Unable to find work in his field, he simulated hostage-taking situation. Determined to land has accepted a menial job as an in- the job at all costs, our protagonist agrees to play the ventory clerk at a ridiculously low game, setting off an unstoppable chain of events... Our salary. With the support of his wife disillusioned and scorned hero may be a “grandpa boo- Nicole and their two daughters, he mer”, but he is more than ready to prove that he too is tries his best to make do. Then one an expert at making the most of any opportunity that co- day he comes across an unexpected job offer that fits his mes his way. A remarkably taut, well-crafted novel and a profile to a T, except for his age. Not to be put off, he blistering attack on the cynicism and snobbery of corpo- goes in to the recruitment agency ready to give it all. rate bigwigs and management techniques.

French sales: Paperback (Le Livre de Poche), Book club (France Loisirs), Audio-book (Le Livre Qui Parle) Options on TV Series : Mandarin TV Foreign sales: Dasan Books (Korean) Alfaguara (Spanish Worldwide) Fazi Editore (Italian) Muza (Polish) Azbooka-Atticus (Russian) Lindhardt of Ringhof Forlag (Danish) Nemo – Autentica (Portuguese - Brazil) Bromera (Catalan) MacLehose Press (English Worldwide) Pegasus Yayinlari (Turkish) Bungei Shunju (Japanese) Minerva (Finnish) Xander Uitgevers (Dutch) Minoas (Greek) 52 <--- Table of contents BACKLIST SUSPENSE FICTION

Alfred Lenglet Former head of the Saône-et-Loire Renseignements Généraux, the intelligence service of the French Police, Alfred Lenglet is currently the Divisional Commissioner of the city of Lyon. He is a literature enthusiast and the author of seven novels.

Time of Hatred Temps de haine March 2017 290 p.

Léa Ribaucourt, police captain, is being transferred to Lyon. True to criminal brigade tradition, the newcomer is entrusted with an unsolved case. This ALFRED one concerns a murder dating back to the previous year. The victim, a young LENGLET offender, was shot with a 22 Long rifle at the foot of a housing project in Bron. roman

FRANCE DE TOUJOURS ET D’AUJOURD’HUITemps Léa throws herself whole heartedly into the investigation but quickly beco- de haine mes disillusioned: no new leads arise from her own enquiries. As she starts to fear that her new duties will be tainted by failure, a new event rekindles the case: one year later to the day, a new murder, identical in every respect to the one in Bron. Léa regains hope. Little does she know about the killer’s harmful drive...and what he might do when she flushes him out.

Poison in the veins Deadly Games in Winter Du poison dans les veines Jeux mortels en hiver

Mâcon. Lieutenant Léa Ribaucourt is When the body of twenty-year-old to investigate the disappearance of college student Vivian Verdier is disco- Paul Humbert, a local notable and the vered in the woods near Macon, rookie owner of a large vineyard near Lyon. police lieutenant Léa Ribaucourt is put His corpse is soon located, and the on the case. possibility of accidental death ruled The young man, who had been shot out when traces of poison are found with a hunting rifle while out jogging,

January 2015 in his blood. Léa and her assistant, March 2016 had been involved in drug dealing. In 304 p. Sergeant Aurel Raisin, first question 280 p. all likelihood, it is a case of settling old the victim’s relatives, all of whom are scores. Yet no matter how closely Ri- French sales: either reluctant to talk or downright baucourt scrutinizes the young man’s Paperback hostile. Over the course of the inves- past, the lieutenant is unable to come (Le Livre de Poche) tigation, Humbert’s ex-wife, mistress up with a likely suspect. And why did Book club and best friends are questioned, as the victim trace a “4” on the ground (GLM & France Loisirs ) are his political adversaries and neigh- before falling into a coma? bors. Apparently, Humbert’s behavior Continued investigations reveal a had suddenly changed in 1984. That disturbing portrait of a young man same year, he left both his wife and constantly in and out of trouble: small- mistress, got tattooed, and acquired time dealer, vicious soccer player, di- inexplicable wealth. Could those sud- shonest employee… His girlfriend was den changes have something to do convinced Vivian was about to pull off with his death? “something big.” Had the lightweight delinquent gotten in over his head?

<--- Table of contents 53 Gilbert Sinoué

Gilbert Sinoué was born in Cairo in 1947. His books, among which Le Livre de saphir (Gallimard, Prix des Libraires 1996), L’Enfant de Bruges (Gallimard, 1999), Des jours et des nuits (Gallimard, 2001), L’Ambassadrice (Calmann-Lévy, 2002), Les Silences de Dieu (Albin Michel, 2003), and Un bateau pour l’enfer (Calmann-Lévy, 2005) have been translated throughout the world with great success.

The Lady of the Lamp La Dame à la lampe

Gilbert Sinoué paints here a portrait of Florence Nightingale’s life. A pioneer of modern nursing, known as « The Lady of the Lamp », for the oil lamp she always carried as she ran through darkened hospital hallways.

This formidable woman’s life is recounted through a series of conversations between the young biographer, Jonathan Brink – inspired to document Miss Nightingale’s life after having interviewed her twenty-some years earlier – and Henry Bonham Carter, Nightingale’s cousin and right-hand man through much of her life. From her bourgeois beginnings and early role as a caretaker to her clear compassion April 2008 for those less fortunate than she ; from her legendary work in the Crimean War to the 286 p. foundation of the first nursing school in Great Britain ; from her organization of field medicine during the US Civil War to the commendable work she accomplished in the French sales: Paperback (Folio) latter part of her life fighting infectious diseases… Book club (GLM & Gilbert Sinoué artfully delves into the past to bring Florence Nightingale, as well as the France Loisirs) people and events that marked her, back to life. Large-print edition (Feryane)

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The Saint Louis’ Epic Un bateau pour l’enfer

November 8th, 1938. Following the murder in Paris of the Embassy attaché von Rath, Goebbels – in retaliation – launched the tragically famous Kristallnacht, Night of the Broken Glass : the burning of synagogues and ransacking of Jewish homes. From then on, in addition to an out-going visa, the Jews who wanted to leave Germany had to buy an immigration visa. 1939. For reasons of exterior propaganda, Adolph Hitler decided to authorise the de- parture from Germany of all Jews who desired to do so. In May 13th, 1939, the S.S. Saint-Louis, a liner sailing under the Nazi flag, casted off from Hamburg. Close to a thousand passengers were aboard, all German Jews and all in possession of very ex- January 2005 pensively acquired valid tourist visas. Destination : Havana, Cuba, where the exiled 304 p. would wait for the right to enter the United-States. On May 23th , the day prior to the boat’s entrance into Cuban territorial waters, Gus- French sales: tave Schroeder, captain of the Saint-Louis, received a cable from the Cuban govern- Paperback (Le Livre de ment. The latter, manipulated by the Nazi agents established there, had suddenly Poche) Book club (GLM) decided to cancel all the authorisations. Schroeder was informed that the ship would Large-print edition not be authorised to come alongside. And an order was given to make an about turn (Libra Diffusio) and to bring back its cargo to Hamburg. Schroeder decided to disobey and established radio contact with the governments of the so-called free world. Roosevelt, the first approached, refused. Thus began the horrifying epic of the Saint-Louis.

Foreign sales: Actel Trading (Greek - Cyprus), Neri Pozza (Italian), Pro Editura (Romanian), Styria de Ediciones (Spanish) Park Publishing (Hungarian), Kok Ten Have (Dutch) 54 <--- Table of contents Backlist Non Fiction Benedetta Blancato Fashion Hell Enfer fashion

Former agent for a major Parisian modeling agency, Benedetta Blancato delves into the cutthroat world of fashion where young girls’ bodies are seen as mere objects to be sold to the highest bidder. Indeed, during the frenzy of Fashion Week, thousands of apprentice teenage models, seeking fleeting glory and rarely informed of their rights, are subject to enormous amounts of pressure and barely legal work practices. Bookers, busy kowtowing to powerful untouchable clients, are utterly indifferent to their plight. In a close examination of the upheavals of the fashion industry on the interna- January 2016 tional level, Benedetta Blancato gives us a scathing portrait of the world of mo- 250 p. deling agencies, where moral harassment is the norm and financial stakes the bottom line. The waltz of models from Kiev to Paris and the financial interests of Benedetta Blancato is major groups guided by capital of often dubious origins are identical, the author a fashion journalist. She further proves. makes regular contribu- tions to Stylist, Lui, Les In- rocks, Vice Italie, Snatch, The occasional scandal that comes to light in a business that dispassionately and Marie Claire Italie. trades the bodies of young women is the mere tip of the iceberg. Backed by a Fashion Hell is her first wealth of testimonials, the author breaks the law of silence to throw devastating book. light on the sprawling world of fashion.

Bertrand Burgalat Diabetically Yours Diabétiquement vôtre BACKLIST NARRATIVE NON FICTION

Diabetes: a plague that kills more people than AIDS and malaria combined.

There are 400 million patients in all categories.

15 % of health expenses in France and the United States.

Since the discovery of insulin, very little progress has been made, October 2015 and many approximations remain. 296 p.

Why such a disaster? French sales: Paperback Bertrand Burgalat answers the question thoroughly. Mixing autobiography, (Le Livre de Poche) investigation and testimony, Diabetically yours describes the triumphant sugar, submerged societies and devastated lives. Iconoclast and rigorous, a masterful work of public use.

56 <--- Table of contents Aya Cissoko N’ba

N’Ba, “my mother” in Bambara, the national language of Mali, is Aya Cis- soko’s deeply moving tribute to her mother, who arrived in France in the mid-1970s wearing a waxprint “boubou” and a pair of plastic flip-flops. The daughter’s portrait of her strong-willed mother immerses us in the culture of West Africa, where women are the mainstay of family life, responsible for educating children and passing on maternal languages and traditions. In Paris, the Malian immigrant would have to face, on a daily basis, an enormous rift separating two worlds. N’Ba is told from a two-way perspective, that of a mother, strug-

March 2016 gling to conserve her identity despite a life reduced to a 272 p. succession of trials; and that of a daughter, born in France and trying to construct an identity of her own, by breaking with her mother’s. Ultimately, it is the story of two Foreign sales: women from two different cultures both brought together and separated by fate. Das Wunderhorn (German) N’Ba is Aya Cissoko’s second book. Her first, Danbé, co-written with Marie Desplechin (Éditions Calmann-Lévy, 2011), was adapted into an award-winning television movie. BACKLIST NARRATIVE NON FICTION NARRATIVE BACKLIST

Barbara Constantine Small Portraits of Great People Petits portraits de très grandes personnes Under the incomparable pen of Barbara short, the pictures are really a trip, what’s Constantine, sixteen caring and gentle por- the worst that could happen? That you traits of elderly people narrating the story may want to go and see them? That you of their lives. may want to go and smack ‘em a kiss? That would be awesome. They are in such dire “People of all ages I’m sure will be sur- need of love...” prised by these pages. And yet it’s all true. Grandpa and Grandma have not always This book arose from a meeting between had white hair or bushy eyebrows, have Barbara Constantine and the elderly not always needed walkers or false teeth. people of the retirement home in her There was a time when they ran, laughed, neighbourhood. She wanted to tell their May 2017 176 p. played, told jokes, fooled around, had their stories, each and every one of them. Her hearts broken, got frustrated, scared, and texts are illustrated by portraits, a work by acne... Cécyl Gillet. French sales: Paperback (Le Livre de Poche) Contrarily to you however, their youth was not long-lasted. Some of them started A long time script girl for the film and tele- working at the age of 11. Yes, that was vision industries, Barbara Constantine now tough... And then, their games were not dedicates her time to writing and travelling (to meet with readers in middle schools, your own. As kids or even teenagers, they high schools, bookshops, libraries, etc.). But never got iPads for Christmas! Computers also: spinning (on a potter’s wheel), plan- hadn’t even been invented yet, nor video ting (flowers, vegetables, trees, thoughts...), games for that matter. Unbelievable! There cooking (yummy vegetarian dishes) and was no TV, no phones (mobile or landline), laughing (with everyone, but mostly with her no running water or electricity everywhere, children and grand-children, whom she finds toilets were in a shed at the back of the gar- extraordinary, of course!). den, and to get to school they had to walk for miles, come hell or high water!

Hard to picture the life they led. Upon reading this, you’ll get an inkling. The texts are

<--- Table of contents 57 Nora Fraisse Nora Fraisse is the founder of the association “Marion Fraisse, an Outstretched Hand” dedicated to the fight against school and cyber bullying. She has two other children, including a daughter who is about to enter middle school. MORE THAN 200.000 COPIES SOLD IN FRANCE Marion, Forever 13 Marion, 13 ans pour toujours Marion Fraisse was a good student. The school system proved unable to deal Cheerful, engaging and openhearted: with bullying, the teachers disengaged, she had a bright future ahead of her, with the Principal in complete denial. After dreams of becoming an architect. She the death of their daughter, in addition to lived a happy home life with her parents their grief, Marion’s parents – who filed a and her brother and sister in the suburbs complaint – had to face the indifference, of Paris. On February 13 2013, at the age incompetence and inhumanity of the of thirteen, she committed suicide by educational institution. hanging herself with a scarf in her be- At all costs, Nora Fraisse tried to un- January 2015 droom. She left a note behind for her derstand how her daughter could have 172 p. classmates, explaining that, this time, the chosen to take her own life. She poured French sales : Paperback insults and violence had gone too far. In through the Facebook messages and (Le Livre de Poche) this poignantly sincere letter, the teena- text messages Marion received from her Book club ger is almost apologetic: “I guess I wasn’t 8th grade schoolmates. She gleaned bits (France Loisirs) able to tell you how heavy-hearted it all of information here and there from the made me feel, but I’m telling you now, parents and teachers - though generally Foreign sales : though my heart has stopped beating.” reluctant - who were willing to share it Amber (Polish) Could this terrible loss have been with her. AST (Russian) avoided? Nora Fraisse, Marion’s mother, Nora Fraisse’s ordeal kindled an urge to AZ Culture Co is convinced it could have been. Her write, and denounce society’s blindness ( Vietnamese) daughter had been complaining about to the growing phenomenon of bullying Vision B&P (Korean) Bertrand Editora (Por- the atmosphere at school. After asking at school, worsened by social networks. tugese -Portugal) the others kids to quiet down in class, Her testimony is a call for vigilance and Bastei Lübbe (German) Marion got booed. This incident led her for concrete action, but it is also a perso- mother to request her daughter’s trans- nal response, the voice of a mother spea- TV Movie : fer to another class, which was denied. king to her daughter. Europacorp BACKLIST NARRATIVE NON FICTION Stopping Bullying, Now! Stop au harcèlement !

On February 13, 2013, thirteen-year-old Marion committed suicide, the victim of bullying. Her mother, Nora Fraisse, has been fighting ever since, so that Marion won’t have “died for nothing,” so that “bullying will be taken seriously,” so that things will really change. The success of Marion, Forever Thirteen (published in 2015) has made her the unintentional voice of a cause and raised greater public awareness of bullying issues. However, despite this important first step, much remains to be done. Through the association she founded, Nora Fraisse has met numerous young victims, and their parents; she has spoken with teachers, psychologists and activists, and has studied measures in place in France and abroad. Drawing on this experience with her characteristic pragmatism and the energy, Nora August 2016 Fraisse continues the fight with the present guide to putting an end to bullying, at 96 p. school and on social networks, each at our own level. Intended for both victims and witnesses and teenagers and parents, its aim is simple: to tell it like it is, to put wounds into words, to decipher the mechanisms at play, and to come up with effective solutions. Phobias, learning obstructions, self-mutilation and even suicide—there are hundreds of thousands of students suffering in silence. The time has come for bullying to stop. The time has come to make bullying “uncool!”

58 <--- Table of contents Femen Femen

The first book published by the founding members of FEMEN, explaining the goals of pop-feminism and giving us their incredible story, in four-part harmony. During the Euro 2012, their war cry was heard all around the world : “Ukraine Femen is not a brothel !” Inna, Sasha, Oksana and Anna, the founders of the FEMEN activist movement, grew up in ordinary families in two small Ukrainian towns. Each showed signs of unusual independence early on, refusing to succumb to the overriding hopelessness of life in post-Soviet Ukraine, determined to amount to something in life. Since 2008, the “gang of four” came up with a new kind of feminism, a more radical and spectacular movement they would March 2013 call “pop-feminism”. Thus FEMEN, or “thigh” in Latin, was born. 368 p. Topless, and sporting floral crowns and high heel shoes, the four women’s Foreign sales : slight frames were turned into vehicles of ideological expression, placards for Arachne Publishing Co. painting slogans and images. Humor, dramatic staging, physical daring and the (Korean) shock factor soon became part of the foursome’s highly-effective repertoire. Malpaso (Spanish First in Ukraine, and then the world over, the four women have taken on issues Worldwide) of gender inequality as well as poverty, discrimination, dictatorships and reli- Polity Press (English gious dictates. In Italy, they protested against the conduct of Silvio Berlusconi Worldwide) NON FICTION NARRATIVE BACKLIST ; in France – dressed like housekeepers – against that of Dominique Strauss- Kahn. The Ukrainian activists have climbed steeples and embassy walls, have ISH GL SA burst in on TV studios and polling places and – as the movement has radica- N M

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Raymond Gurême & Isabelle Ligner Forbidden to Nomads Interdit aux nomades

85-year-old Raymond Gurême si one of bating skills. At the age of 18, he enters the rare survivors of a forgotten chap- the French Resistance, and activelly par- ter in French history: the internment ticipates in the liberation of the country. of « nomadic families » from 1940 to This service to his country will never re- 1946. ceive official recognition. A patriarch with 15 children and 150 des- Born in 1925 in caravan, like his ances- cendants spanning three generations, tors before him, Raymand was an acro- Raymond lives with his family a few short

May 2011 bat and a clown in the family circus. His kilometers aways from the camp where 236 p. parents were the proprietors of an itine- he was once imprisoned. The true and rant cinema. As early as 1940, his family epic story of a colorful character who Foreign sales: is persecuted by the Vichy government defied death again and again, and ati- Piemme (Italian) which views all Roma as wandering fo- mely testimonial of the tribulations of his reigners. Raymond and his immediate people. relatives are place in the squalid camped of Darnétal in the Seine-Maritime region, Veteran AFP journalist, Isabelle Ligner has and later in the camp of Linas-Montlhéry written about numerous conflicts, dealing in Essonne. Cut off from the world, they in particular with immigration issues, more lack food, heat and sanitary living condi- recently the Roma and « Gens du Voyage ». tions. Raymond is a true descendant of the Sons of the Wind, and refuses to be locked up: he escapes, using his acro-

<--- Table of contents 59 Emmanuelle Grundmann Emmanuelle Grundman is a primatologist and post-doc researcher at Natural History Museum of Paris. She is an expert of animal/human interactions with a focus on great apes conservation. She is president of the french chapter of the Jane Goodall Institute. She has written several books and is a freelance journalist on wildlife and environmental issues for various french magazines such as Terre Sauvage and Sciences&Avenir.

A Highly Profitable Scourge Un fléau si rentable

Focusing on both health and environmental issues aroused by palm oil, Emman- uelle Grundmann gives us the first thoroughly documented and impartial investigation on this latest green gold, and sifts through the truths and falsehoods that have clouded the debate for the past twenty years.

Palm oil is everywhere, distributed by supermarkets around the world, found in an ubiquitous array of agribusiness foods and household products, including pastries and powdered milk, condiments, ready-made meals, ice cream and pizzas, cosmetics and soaps... Indeed, its mechanical and thermal properties give it a hold infinitely more stable than any other vegetable oil, no matter the temperature. Numerous NGOs September 2013 and public health agencies have sounded the alarm, repeatedly challenging its high 264 p. content in saturated fatty acids, synonymous today with the obesity of consumers. Criticisms don’t stop here, however. The oil palm, intensively farmed in some of the Foreign sales: world’s most valuable rainforests, has devastating effects on habitat, biodiversity and CLAP (Simplified indigenous peoples. Yet the issue is virtually taboo, as both “agro” concerns and gov- Chinese) ernments condemn any overly curious journalist who may rub consumers the wrong way and interfere with business.

Tomorrow, Alone in the World? The Assassination of Forests Demain, Seuls au monde ? Ces forêts qu’ on assassine Preface by Jane Goodall The scenario is straight out of The alarming state of the dying BACKLIST NON FICTION- ECOLOGY a science-fiction novel: in po- forest of Borneo is not new to lar conditions, a small group of Emmannuelle Grundmann. Half heavily armed men are trying to of the world’s forests have been break into a high-security vault destroyed, an additionnal 16 mil- in order to steal... seeds! The year lion more acres are massacred is 2100, and nothing is left of the each year. February 2009 March 2007 328 p. biodiversity that once populated 284 p. Yesterday for rubber, today for the planet, except these speci- palm oil or paper pulp, the fo- mens kept deep in the vault of rests’ resources have long been Svakbard’s seed bank: outside, in coveted by humans, who pillage, the real world, nothing has sur- destroy and pollute, eliminating vived. With a little help from a few endogenous species and chasing greedy multinational corporation, out native populations in order to biodiversity has collapsed. After make profit. this self inflicted holocaust, Man Forests are the lungs of the Ear- finds himself alone in the world. th. Today, they are devoured by a Science-fiction? Perhaps not... chronic cancer for which we, humans, bear full responsibility.

Foreign sales: Riemann Verlag (German) 60 <--- Table of contents Nicolas Hulot The Titanic Syndrome Le syndrôme du Titanic him that our world is a tiny and fragile The world as we know it is coming to an place. This book is an ultimate warning end. Similar to the Titanic’s passengers, before falling into despair. If all of us, rich we are racing towards the precipice dan- and poor, do not immediately change cing and laughing. Driven by our egoism our conduct in order to do “better with and arrogance, we are convinced to be less” and replace ecology in the center the “masters of our fate and the uni- of our collective and individual decisions, verse”. we will drown together. We have to be solidary with the future living – this is a However, the forewarning signs of the the message Nicolat Hulot, tireless and April 2004 242 pages future catastrophe are there: frequent passionate, wants to spread. From the climate disruptions, omnipresent pollu- heights of Johannesburg to his native vil- French sales: tion, exponential extinction of animal and lage school and from the luxurious cham- Book Club (GLM&France plant species, anarchic plundering of na- bers of Elysée to the farms of Bretagne Loisirs) tural resources and multiplication of sani- and Lorraine, his message is vital. “I have Paperback ( Le Livre de tary crises. We conduct ourselves as if we not been born an ecologist, I have beco- Poche) were the last humans in the world and the me one”. And we, too, can. We must. Foreign sales: CLAP (Simplified Chinese) last generation to live on the earth: after Star Publishing (Corean) us, the deluge? The Titanic Syndrome is an essential book everyone has to read. With Nicolas Hu- Nicolas Hulot has traveled across five lot, we will not be ableare not allowed to continents and no one knows better than say that we did not know. BACKLIST NARRATIVE NON FICTION-ECOLOGY NARRATIVE BACKLIST Philippe Cury & Yves Miserey A Fishless Sea Une mer sans poissons

The ocean, for most of us, is a realm Blind and systematic plundering - as it is of beauty, romance and adventure. virtually impossible to pick and choose Yet “Somewhere Beyond the Sea”, as among various species - and horrendous the song goes, a terrible tragedy is ta- ‘‘waste’’ have already wiped out entire king place: man is killing off the earth’s species, causing the catastrophic desta- greatest resource. Indeed, the practice of bilization of the marine ecosystem. The commercial and non-commercial fishing brutal and irreversible collapse of our in the last one hundred and fifty years fishing resources is no longer a fanciful has depleted the ocean’s fisheries, once hypothesis. What are our governments April 2008 considered inexhaustible, at a rate of doing? Little, or nothing: ocean waters are 150 p. one hundren million tons of fish per year. international, they belong to everyone. A world government, albeit difficult to es- Doctor of science Philippe Indeed, high-sea, deep-sea and today’s tablish, is the only way of stopping the Cury conducts Mediter- ‘‘small fish’’ fishing practices are trans- massacre. Individual countries, however, ranean and tropical marine research at the CNRS. forming the world’s oceans into aqua- fear the wrath of their fishing industries. tic deserts. Fish don’t stand a chance Yves Miserey is a science against modern technology (sonars, Backed by facts and irrefutable evidence, journalist for the French radars, GPS) and materials (nylon, A Fishless Sea is a chilling wake up call daily Le Figaro. polyester). From the commercial fishing that nevetheless leaves room for hope. fleet to the traditional pirogue, boats The effects of over-fishing are still rever- today are ever more efficient, making sible if a worldwide moratorium on fi- Foreign sales: it profitable to fish new species that shing of endangered species is imposed. Shuppan (Japanese) were once considered non-comestible. Heliopolis Culture (Complex Chinese) Institut d’Estudis Catalans (Catalan)

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« ...I’ve got to stay awake, as long as possible. Fight off sleep. The math is simple. In one hour I can make false papers for thirty people. If I sleep for an hour, thirty people will die »

This is the incredible story of Adolfo Ka- This book questions the notions of com- minsky’s life as a counterfeit artist, ac- mitment, destiny, free choice and conse- tive from 1943 to 1971. His convictions quences. When Kaminsky, at the age lead him to spend his entire life in hiding, of 17, begins making forgeries for the guided by survival instincts, necessity Resistance, little does he realize that and danger alone. A race against the clo- he is already caught up in an inexorable September 2009 ck – and against death – in which every mechanism : that of his own sense of 264 p. minute truly counted. duty towards fellow man. This is also a French sales: A genius forger, he devoted his life to ai- dialog between a father and a daughter. Paperback (Le Livre de ding the great opposition movements of Sarah, born in 1979, attempts to unders- Poche) the 20th century, working for the French tand her father’s unusual destiny, giving Book club (GLM & Resistance and the Algerian FLN, provi- us the account of a man whose very exis- France Loisirs) ding false papers for Jews emigrating to tence was a secret and who accepts, at Palestine, teaching counterfeiting tech- last, to speak of the past. niques to the combatants of repressive regimes in Spain (under Franco) and Sarah Kaminsky was born in Algeria and Greece (during the Regime of the Co- has lived in France since she was three. To- lonels), and aiding the freedom move- day, she is both an actress and playwright. Adolfo Kaminsky, une vie de faussaire is her ments of Latin America and Africa. first book. Foreign sales: Angelo Colla Editore (Italian), Antje Kunstmann (German), Belge Yayinlari (Turkish), Capital In- telectual (Spanish), Casbah (Arabic & French Algeria), Doppelhouse Press (English Worldwide), Kinneret Zmora Dvir (Hebrew), Metafora (Czech), Open learning (Complex Chinese), United Sky Beijing (Simplified Chinese) Lilly Marcou The Private Life of Staline Staline, vie privée The man behind the legend and the shadow of the legendary figure of Joseph Sta- BACKLIST NARRATIVE NON FICTION lin fell over most of the 20th century.

This work attempts to shed light on the mystery of the man behind the legend, to understand the inner-workings of his personality based on previously unpublished archi- val information, as well as accounts from surviving family members and close friends. Author Lilly Marcou dives into the large quantity of Soviet documents available to Western researchers in order to question established notions and bring the shadowy areas of Stalin’s life into light. She distinguishes hearsay from truth, analyzes certain controversies and reveals little-known facts. It is easy to think that a dictator under whose regime so many atrocities were com- March 1996 352 p. mitted can be nothing other than a monster. By looking at him as a whole human being, he becomes all the more vulnerable before the judging eyes of history. French sales: Book-club edition Born in 1936, Lilly Marcou headed a research group working on the international Com- (GLM) munist movement for the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales (1975 – 1981) before teaching at SciencesPo in Paris from 1982 to 1988. She has written numerous works including Les Défis de Gorbatchev (Plon, 1988), Ilya Ehrenbourg, un homme dans son siècle (Plon, 1992) and Elsa Triolet, les yeux et la mémoire (Plon, 1994). Foreign sales : Daugava (Lettonian) Antet 2000 (Romanian) Hemiro Ldt (Russian) Arenula (Italian) Jorge Zahar (Portugese-Brazil) Duna Kiado (Hungarian) Levne Knihy (Czech) El Ateneo (Spanish-Latin America) 2020 Editora (Portugese -Portugal) Espasa-Calpe (Spanish-Spain) Wydawnictwo Iskry (Polish) 62 Claudine Monteil The Beauvoir Sisters Les soeurs Beauvoir

One was blond, the other was a brunette. One a painter, the other a writer. One was docile, the other was a rebel. Despite their differences, Hélène and Simone de Beau- voir were united by an indestructible love. Neither time nor diverging aesthetic or political opinions ever managed to shake it. But their correspondence and memories reveal an equivocal relationship in which love is tainted with condescendence on Si- mone’s part, and with jealousy on Hélène’s, Hélène being a less talented artist and eternally in the shadow of her world famous elder sister. March 2003 Beyond the ambiguities of this attachment, we discover the lives of two women who 302 p. passionately dreamed of a life different from that of their mother and from that of all the submissive and virtuous women who came before them – those women who Foreign sales : always spoke in terms of duty. To exist as women and as artists : such was the parallel Atlantis forlag (Swedish) struggle of the Beauvoir sisters. Castelvecchi (Italian) Circe (Spanish Worldwide) Claudine Monteil is a historian focusing on women of the 20th century and a specialist on

Langen-Müller (German) Beauvoir sisters, whom she knew personally. She is the author of several works including NON FICTION NARRATIVE BACKLIST People’s Literary Publ. Simone de Beauvoir, Mémoires d’une jeune fille rebelle(Ed. du Rocher, 1996), and two nove- House (Simplified listic biographies, Les Amants de la liberté, on Sartre and Beauvoir (Éditions n°1, 1999) and Chinese) Les Amants des temps modernes on Charlie and Oona Chaplin (Éditions n°1, 2002). Sicheonmunhak (Korean) The Seal Press (English Worldwide) October 2015 176 p.

Jean-Marie Roughol & Jean-Louis Debré My Life as a Panhandler Je tape la manche One evening a bum with a cheeky grin to bring any women home. Before long, offered to look after the bicycle of a man Roughol was on the street, and broken- doing some shopping on the Champs hearted in the bargain. From squat to Elysées. The biker was the former French subway station by way of park bench and interior minister, Jean-Louis Debré. The fleabag hotel he persevered, however, homeless man, Jean-Marie Roughol, and eventually landed a job as a waiter had been living on the streets panhand- in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. But those ling for over two decades. From chance days were numbered too: five years later encounter to lengthy conversations, Roughol was out of a job again, home- Jean-Marie Roughol was born April 11, 1968. He has a singular friendship was cemented less, drowning his sorrows in drink. He spent 23 years, or almost between the panhandler and the pre- tried his luck at panhandling once more, half of his life, living on the sident of the Constitutional Council of surviving as best he could between the streets. France. So much so that, with the help good days and the bad, because survival Jean-Louis Debré, is the of Debré, Roughol agreed to tell his in the “hustling” business means knowing former President of the story—an unvarnished account of for- the game and its rules, the competition Constitutional Council of ty-seven years of hard living and drink. and the seasons: you have to capture the France and, has written a number of essays and right territory and defend it, to make al- best-selling detective no- He recalls his difficult childhood in Pa- lies, to fend off the newcomers, to know vels. ris and how, at the age of eighteen, he how to find the cheapest hotels, to avoid French sales: would succumb to the fascination of Pi- the cops and to stay out of shelters… Paperback galle, the red-light district. Marco, a local (Le Livre de Poche) owning a crepe restaurant, agreed to let Roughol still panhandles in the chic Foreign sales: Jean-Marie to work for him for room and neighborhoods of Paris. And though he Come Together Press board. This would be just fair enough for says he’ll miss the streets the day he is (Complex Chinese) him until he fell madly in love with a strip- no longer capable of surviving out there, Omega Publishing (Czech) per ignoring Marco’s steadfast rule not his dream is to open his own creperie. Purun Communication (Korean) <--- Table of contents 63 - - - - dented meetings in Saint Petersburg Petersburg Saint in meetings dented and Moscow, Frédéric Pons gives us compelling a portrait of the Kremlin’s su- preme leader: his training, dreams and sports, for passion his also but ambitions, as both a spectator and an athlete, and the diversity of his powerful network of influence, not to mention the decisive phases of his stunning political sion, part ruthlessness part persuasion. ascen- nature Without ignoring the ambiguous of Putin himself, Frédéric Pons the recalls mistakes of the West now the paying price for deliberately ignoring fears and the aspirations of Russia after the collapse of Communism, an attitude of “contempt” responsible, in part, for the present impasse. cenary, cenary, or a true patriot committed to interests? defending his country’s In a thoroughlyinvestiga- documented tion backed by a number of unprece country, some country, are exiled in places where Farm not necessarily welcomed. are they confideand and academics alike workers share their pain: daily discriminations, child abductions, looting, mass killings, women and young raped, and sold, as girls well as the destruc kidnapped, millen and buildings tion of religious nia-old antiques. This Black Book on persecution recounts and examines the res- their martyrdom ponsibility of the international commu nity: Europe’s blindness or criminal - in ambiguous State’s United the difference, position, and other countries’ complicity in proven the expansion of Jihad in the West. - - - Putin Poutine An unbiased and and ideas with received tion that breaks in-depth investiga- finger pointing inexaggeration a contextand easy assumption. The prone to book is developed as an innovative and constructive geopolitical essay and ex plores concrete avenues for relations with Russia. improved but clear-headed Putin? Vladimir Who is the enigmatic A tyrant at all costs bent on asserting power, his own and that of his inner cir cle, in the century-old tradition out savior, of Russia’s Or autocrats? Kremlin the to reinstate the greatness of his country by encapsulating Russian history from the Tsars to the Soviets? How did man, a mere the KGB Lieutenant Colonel at the end of the Cold War, rise to the top of one of the most powerful nations in the Who is the man behind the world? seemingly implacable mask: a brutal and cynical politician, a power-hungry mer In Iraq and Syria, the ordeal of Eastern Middle Christians is the first genocide of the 21st This century. unsettling book confirms this through poignant testimo- nies and vivid descriptions of religious confronted with minorities who are other Islamist and of ISIS the brutality groups. also could which this, of record a keep To one day perhaps be used in an - investiga tion by an international court of justice, a voice to those who the author gives their country wi- to leave forced were thout ever hoping to go back and who have lost everything, except their faith. Most have been displaced within their in a neighboring country refugees or are Le martyre d’Orient des chrétiens The Martyrdom of Middle-EasternMartyrdom The Christians . He teaches geopolitics at Saint-Cyr Military School and isa journalist and the editor-in-chief of the World service of (Spanish - (Spanish <--- Table of contents Table <--- October 2014 October 2014 p. 374 March 2017 384 p. Foreign sales: El Ateneo Latin America) (Russian) Kuchkovo-Pole Ottovo Nakladatelstvi Slovak) & (Czech French sales : Paperback ( Mon Poche) the École de Guerre and is president of the Association des journalistes de Défense.la Valeurs ActuellesValeurs Frédéric Pons Frédéric Frédéric Pons Frédéric

BACKLIST NARRATIVE NON FICTION 64 Backlist Social Sciences Raymond Aron Born in Paris in 1905, Raymond Aron, professor of Philosophy, was in turn, professor at the Institut des Sciences Politiques and at the École Nationale d’Administration in 1945, sociology professor at the Sorbonne in 1955, director of research at the École pratique des Hautes Etudes and professor at the prestigious Collège de France (1970). In parallel, he also pursued a career in journalism, contributing to Combat, Le Figaro where he became director of their politics department in 1976 before being appointed general administrator of L’Express in 1979. His many works have marked the 20th century.

The Opium of Intellectuals L’Opium des intellectuels (1955) First published in 1955, L’Opium des intellectuels is an irrevocable condemnation of the credulity tinged with dishonesty and of the dogmatism on which the French intelligen- tsia stands. Raymond Aron examines with rigorous and strict probity the evolution of “the Left”, “the Revolution” and “the Proletariat”, ideas that belong to the myth he explodes. How is it possible to accept the attitude of intellectuals who are merciless to- ward the failings of democracy but ready to tolerate the worst of crimes as long as they are committed in the name of the proper doctrines ? How is it possible not to grasp the absurdity of the political and ideological mixtures that alienate intellectuals who are religion seekers, who worship History as a god ? Even if he repudiates his youthful April 2004 341 p. ideas, Raymond Aron does not take the law into his own hands. He offers a dispassion- ate thought-process, a fight rid of all hatred, urging “all those who refuse to see in the Forum struggles the secret of the human destination” to follow him. French sales : Paperback (Pluriel) Foreign sales : Guiparang (Korean) Akademiai Kiado (Hungarian) Kiepenheuer & Witsch (German) AST (Russian) Lindau Edizioni (Italian) Curtea Veche (Romanian) Muza Publishing (Polish) Dituria (Albanian) Pagina Indomita (Spanish Worldwide) Doubleday (English Worldwide) Três Estrelas (Portuguese Worldwide) Divize Akademia (Czech) Yilin Press (Simplified Chinese)

Peace and War amongst Nations Paix et Guerre entre les Nations (1962)

Dissuasion, subversion, persuasion. These are the three central means by which state relations are conducted. Having reached the end of his investigation, Raymond Aron tries to define the moral doctrine of diplomatic action and the strategy with the best chance of saving peace without sacrificing liberty. Finally, in an exercise of utopian

BACKLIST SOCIAL SCIENCES BACKLIST thought, he is looking for the conditions of peace by law. In 1962, when the book is published, these conditions are not completed and peace is ensured by the absence or limitation of wars. Raymond Aron’s analysis takes place at the height of the Cold War and explains the power struggle imposed by the nuclear weapons that only a few military powers hold. It is also a reflection on the history of January 2004 mankind. 790 p. Translation rights for English, German and Italian are not available

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66 <--- Table of contents Léon Poliakov Léon Poliakov was born in St Petersburg on November 25, 1910. Raised in Russia, Italy and Germany, he studied law and literature in Paris before turning to journalism and historical research. In 1944, he participated in the creation of the Centre of Modern Jewish Archives. At the end of World War II, he assisted Edgar Faure at the Nuremberg trials. He died in Paris in 1997. Léon Poliakov published numerous works with Calmann-Lévy, including Le Bréviaire de la haine (1951), Le Procès de Jérusalem (1963), Les Banquiers juifs et le Saint-Siège (1967) and Le Mythe aryen (1971).

The History of Antisemitism Histoire de l’antisémitisme 4 vol. (1955) Covering the history of prejudice against Jews from the time of Christ through the rise of Nazi Germany, this title presents in elegant and thoughtful language a balanced, careful assessment of this egregious human failing that is nearly ubiquitous in the his- BACKLIST SOCIAL SCIENCES tory of Europe.

VOL. 1 : Du Christ au juifs de cour VOL. 2 : De Mahomet aux Marranes VOL. 3 : De Voltaire à Wagner VOL. 4 : L’Europe suicidaire

April 2004 341 p. French sales : Volumes 1 and 2 : Paperback (Points Seuil) Foreign sales : Chikuma Shobo (Japanese) Pennsylvania UP (English Worldwide) Hasefer (Romanian) RCS Libri (Italian) Idiomas Vivientes (Spanish) Taiwpn Universitas (Polish) Jüdischer Verlag (German) Perspectiva (Portuguese)

Diabolical Causality La causalité diabolique 1980/1985/2006

Part 1 : Essay on the origin of persecution Here Poliakov examines the principal groups that have, like the Jews, been scapegoats in European history – who have been held responsible for epidemics, wars and other disasters.

Part 2 : From Mongol domination to Lenin’s victory Poliakov describes the October revolution. He retraces the origins of Russian history, marked by the division – civil and religious – between the people and the authorities and analyses the manner in which, over the centuries, this divide gave birth to the idea that “conspiracy” could explain all conflicts. March 2006 640 p.

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<--- Table of contents 67 Mona Chollet The Tyranny of Reality La tyrannie de la réalité

Nowadays, few ideas are as hackneyed as that of “reality”. Politicians, managers, economists and novelists: all call on the spirit of reality claiming that only realism seems to be acceptable. In our collective mind, reality now stands as the standard value. Mona Chollet, an independent journalist, reveals with insight the pernicious use of the concept in every type of discussion and shows how the realist injunction is both deceptive and confusing. Against the veneration of reality, Mona Chollet defends the benefits of imagination and dreams. She gives an account of individual and collective experiences, and explores the “elsewhere” of society. She starts a discussions about August 2004 dreamers: Gaston Bachelard, Italo Calvino, Robert Louis Stevenson, and scientists 368 p. who share their views: Bernard d’Espagnat, Augustin Berque. It does not prevent her from condemning the perversions of dreams, from bovarysm to all kinds of totalitar- ianism. Thus, the author joyfully suggest an alternative route – not to allow us to flee reality – but on the contrary in order to experience it fully. French sales: Paperback (Gallimard/Folio)

Foreign sales: Mona Chollet was born in Geneva in 1973. She works as an independent journalist and editor of the cultural critics website peripheries.net. She regularly writes for Swiss newspaper, Kziazka I Praza Instytut such as Femina and Le Courrier de Genève. She was a long time contributor of Charlie Hebdo, (Polish) as well as Les Inrockuptibles.

This book is the first volume of the trilogy Le temps Dan Franck des Bohèmes. Regarding the rights of Libertad! and Minuit, the second and third volumes published by Bohemians Editions Grasset, please contact Ms Heidi Warneke: Bohèmes [email protected] They were and always will be the heroes of the Bohemian period : a magnificent era whose influences and movements still reverberate at the turn of the twenty- first century.

Dan Franck’s book covers the first thirty years of the 20th century, when Montmartre and Montparnasse were filled with glorious subversives who were inventing modern art and the literary language of the century : Picasso the gentle anarchist, Apollinaire

BACKLIST SOCIAL SCIENCES BACKLIST the eroticist, Modigliani and his women, Max Jacob and his men, the fiery Aragon, the solitary Soutine, Man Ray, Gertrude Stein, Henri Matisse, Andre Breton and many others. 1998 They came from many different countries. They were painters, poets, sculptors, mu- 570 p. sicians, and began seminal movements such as fauvism, cubism and surrealism. Their lives were as flamboyant as their work ; they were hedonists, believed in free love and broke all the rules of conventional Parisian society. Dan Franck, novelist and screenwriter, has written French sales: Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche), Book club (France Loisirs) more than thirty books. His novel La Séparation Foreign sales: Renmin UP (Simplified Chinese) (Ed. Corps, 1991) won the Clio Publishing (Korean) Sel Yayincilik (Turkish) Prix Renaudot. Columna (Catalan) SonM (Bulgarian) Garzanti (Italian) Sluzbeni Glasnik (Serbian) Grove Atlantic (English Worldwide) Universal Dalsi (Romanian) L&PM (Portuguese - Brazil) Wydawnictwo Iskry (Polish) Parthas Verlag (German) Galeria Miquel Azuleta (Spanish) Psichogios (Greek)

68 <--- Table of contents Anne Dufourmantelle Anne Dufourmantelle (1964 - 2017) was a philosopher, psychoanalyst, and former editor at Calmann-Lévy where she directed a collection of philosophical essays. She is the author of several books including La Sauvagerie maternelle (Calmann-Lévy, 2001), La Femme et le Sacrifice (Denoël, 2007) and Éloge du risque (Payot, 2011). She wrote since 2007 in the French newspaper Libération.

Maternal Savagery La sauvagerie maternelle

All mothers are savage. Savage because they unconsciously take an oath to keep their child forever inside of them. To keep unaltered, at least, the link unites them with their

child in the mother connection that she herself grew up in. The oath continues this way, BACKLIST SOCIAL SCIENCES secretly, from mothers to daughters and sons, leading to suffocation or even murder if difference doesn’t play its part in opening the circle and breaking the fascination. The oath must be broken by the child to become him or herself, to find his or her truth and desire. The risk he or she faces is abandoning them other to her melancholy and facing the fear of being abandoned him or herself, to be able to love. How do those who were exposed to this savagery with particular violence get out? How can psychoanalytical communications create a new connection for those feeling October 2001 suffocated? 220 p. The author answers these questions with famous literary examples such as Tolstoi’s Anna Karenina, the mother in Marguerite Duras’ Barrage contre la Pacifique, and Sty- ron’s Sophie’s Choice. French sales: Paperback (Payot & Rivages)

Blind Date. Sex and Philosophy Blind date. Sexe et philosophie

Blind Date imagines this meeting between sex and philosophy, not as a real tête-à- tête, but as it has always been happening, that is to say indirectly, blindly, in areas that are common to neither : love letters, thought, eroticism, writing… Blind date is said of a rendez-vous between two strangers, organized by an absent third party who knows them both. Philosophy – starting with astonishment (Aristotles), declaring itself the science of being, hoping to be the curer of the soul, finding its etymology as “love of wisdom”, seeing itself as a spiritual education, rectifying itself as logic of statements, delivering itself at length in textbooks, written in all languages but supposedly thinking in one... – is slowly vanishing. September 2003 Sex – it finishes when explanations become necessary, it is commented upon only at 220 p. its disappearance, it upsets all theory trying to circumscribe its effects… It is present everywhere, all the time, and is perpetually missing. It is said that the rendez-vous was made three thousand years ago. Officially, that is. But it has been postponed ever since. French sales : Paperback (Payot & Rivages)

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<--- Table of contents 69 Michaël R. Marrus & Robert O. Paxton Vichy France and the Jews. Vichy et les juifs

Revised and expanded edition Translated from English by Marguerite Delmotte

In 1981, the first edition of Vichy France and the Jews, the pair of American historians revealed that anti-Semitic policies were put into place in Vichy France, with no Nazi coercion whatsoever, starting in the summer of 1940. The question of the Vichy regime’s responsibility was no longer entirely repressed at the time, but the subject was October 2015 600 p. considered a minor one, and gaining access to French and German archives was a long and laborious process. A lot has happened since then. The archives are no longer closed, thanks in particular French sales: to the law passed on July 15, 2008 authorizing historians to access highly confidential Paperback (Le Livre de Poche) records. Furthermore, the role of the Vichy government is now central to historical re- Book club (GLM) search on the era. A number of other major events have occurred in the past decades, as well: the French government has recognized Vichy’s active role in deporting Jews; For the previous the French Catholic Church has made amends for its initial silence; and French citizens edition: have been charged, tried and sentenced for crimes against humanity or complicity in Foreign sales: such crimes. Stanford UP (English) The authors, on the basis of a wealth of material, have fleshed out and layered the fun- damental thesis that utterly obliterates the idea – gaining ground today – that 75 % of the Jews in France were able to survive partly thanks to the Vichy regime. Today, more than ever, it is urgent to read the revised and expanded edition of Vichy France and the Jews.

Michaël R. Marrus is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Toronto. He specializes in anti-Semitism in France, on which he has written over a dozen works.

Robert O. Paxton is Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University (New York). He specializes in Vichy France and is the author of the authoritative Vichy France (Seuil, 1973) and a dozen of works, including Parades and Politics at Vichy (1966), and L’Armée de Vichy (Tallandier, 2003). BACKLIST SOCIAL SCIENCES BACKLIST

70 <--- Table of contents Pascal Quignard Pascal Quignard was born in 1948. He won the Prix Goncourt in 2002 with Les Ombres errantes (Grasset). He is the author of numerous novels, including Tous les matins du monde (1991, Gallimard), Terrasse à Rome (winner of the Grand Prix du Roman de l’Académie Française in 2000, Gallimard) and Villa Amalia (2006, Gallimard), and essays : Petits Traités (1981, 1983, 1984, Clivages), La Leçon de musique (1987, Hachette), Le Nom sur le bout de la langue (1993, P.O.L), Le Sexe et l’effroi (1994, Gallimard). Passionately fond of music since his childhood, he H TRAN plays cello and has founded the Baroque Opera and Theatre Festival in Versailles. IS S L L A G

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A surprising and fascinating essay that guides us through a bright analysis on music, our relation to sounds and to silence.

This book is composed of ten little tracts that calls on “the connections between music BACKLIST SOCIAL SCIENCES and the pain from the constantly surrounding sounds”. It may seem paradoxical from Pascal Quignard, in whose work music has a great significance. To explain this paradox Quignard analyses several founding myths, among which Saint Peter whose remorse was called up by a rooster’s crow or the sirens’ song in Ulysses’ odyssey ; but also the very origins of instruments, from their name to their production. He chooses the exa- January 1996 328 p. mple of the zither, or khitara, made out of tortoise shell, sheep guts and cow skin, just like Ulysses’ killing bow. French sales: From the darkness of the first men’s cavern to the darkest pages of our history, the Paperback (Folio) author shows us how music can be a source of pain. It can even become a slavery tool Foreign sales: for, as Quignard explains, “musical rhythms captivate the body’s rhythms. (…) Hearing El Cuenco de Plata and obedience are connected. A conductor-leader, performers-subordinates, obedient (Spanish Worldwide) people, such is the structure that is built by the execution of music. Wherever there is EDT (Italian) a leader and subordinates, there is music.” He reminds us that in the death camps du- Franz (Korean) ring the Second World War, prisoners went in gas chambers listening to music. Some Rocco Editora conductors who came back from the camps, like Simon Laks, but also other people (Portuguese, Brazil) who had always loved music, like Primo Levi, have explained how music has become a Suisei-Sha (Japanese) Studentska Zaloba (Slo- suffering or related to the memory of this suffering. Thus, “the phrase Hatred of music venian) is used to express how loathsome music can become even to who loved it most”. Yale UP (English World- wide) Henan UP (Simplified Chinese)

Speculative Rhetorics Rhétorique Spéculative

Literature is language seen as a throwing weapon. (…) Human life relies on language like the arrow relies on wind. (…) The archer’s target is the aiming eye. The whole book aims at a final point. The final point is the only moment when the writer and the reader meet : they meet to say farewell. The final point is the moment when they kill each other. The final point is the punctured eye. Then, imagination gives the reader’s body back to reality, like the sea would leave a dead body on the shore. Pascal Quignard explains through five short tracts that it is better to show rather than demonstrate, that images are stronger than thoughts ; that obviousness exempts from conviction and language from philosophy. Passionately fond of literature, an un- January 1995 ashamed literary-minded person, Quignard relies, among others, on the conversations 218 p. between Marcus Aurelius and Fronto and undertakes to rehabilitate the latter. Marcus Cornelius Fronto, Marcus Aurelius’ private tutor, hated philosophy and religion and has been criticized throughout the history of literature, when he was not simply forgotten. French sales: Beyond a mere reinstatement, this is a brilliant literary analysis by Quignard, to whom, Paperback (Folio) as well as to Fronto, literature is impervious to rationality, to predictable. Foreign sales: Editora Hedra (Portu- With Speculative Rhetorics, Pascal Quignard immerses the reader in what he calls, right guese - Brazil) from the dedication, a defence of literary-minded people”, clever and sincere. El Cuenco de Plata (Spanish Worldwide) <--- Table of contents 71 N Philippe Réfabert MA TR R A E N From Freud to Kafka G S

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Reading Kafka enlightened Freud decisively. That’s the bet the author makes in this beautiful text in the form of a meditation and case histories. A never-before published confrontation of Freudian discoveries with Kafka’s writing.

Philippe Réfabert, while asking himself along with us the meaning of uncovering the unconscious, continuously comes back to the question of origin to demonstrate that being a parent means allowing the child to envisage their mortality. Here, death is all September 2001 that limits desire. Without the support of his parents, the child risks sacrificing either 210 p. his sexual prowess, or his capacity for initiative or judgement. Freud supposed that the child naturally possessed this unconditional support making Foreign sales: him or her a tragic hero in the making, a little Oedipus, i.e., a hero capable of crimina- Karnac Books (English lity without killing himself or going crazy. Worldwide) When the child (or the child as an adult) finds the freedom to think that the price he must pay to survive is too high, he calls upon a psychotherapist and asks to be released from the deal he is made with himself. During the treatment, if the patient finds himself, and in the presence of the therapist, the resources to attack the walls he has built, and if he succeeds in the changing, then the therapy can be called psychoanalysis.

Philippe Réfabert is a psychatrist and psychoanalyst. He has participated in many sym- posiums and collective works. A renowned clinician, he has given seminars on the book’s theme.

Paul Ricœur Criticisim and Conviction La critique et la conviction

A lesson in philosophy, Criticism and Conviction is a witness to Ricœur’ stunning ability to bring knowledge and culture together.

For the first time, one of the major philosophical minds of the 20th century, known for his discretion, chooses to reveal his personal and intellectual evolution to two fellow BACKLIST SOCIAL-SCIENCES philosophers, Marc de Launay and François Azouvi. Criticism and Conviction is not only an introduction to the life and work of Paul Ricœur, November 1995 covering all of the philosophical schools of interest, from metaphysics to psychoana- 290 p. lysis, from hermeneutics to ethics, from the history of philosophy to religion. It is also a long and inspiring thought process which explores a few questions that have rarely or never been touched upon in his other books : aesthetics, for example, or current Paul Ricœur is one of the events. This work is also a thought-provoking meditation on existence and death. major philosophers of the 20th century. His works are diverse, abundant and French sales: Paperback (Pluriel) continue to meet suc- Foreign sales: cess both in France and Association Apokalipsa (Slovenian) Polity Press (English-UK) throughout the world. His Ediçoes Almadina (Portuguese) Toubkal (Arabic) most renowned works are De l’interprétation (Seuil, Greenbee Publishing (Korean) Yapi Kredi kültur Sanat (Turkish) 1965 and 1995), Le Conflit Karl Alber Verlag (German) des interprétations (Seuil, 1969), La Métaphore vive (Seuil, 1975).

72 <--- Table of contents Petite Bibliothèque des Idées LA PETITE BIBLIOTHÈQUE DES IDÉES Jean Baudrillard & Jean Nouvel LES OBJETS SINGULIERS (2000). This title is an initial dialogue between a philosopher and an architect, both known for the audacity and strength of their works. They explore the “singular objects” of our time and make a lively critique of current obsessions and paradoxes. French Sale : Paperback (Arlea). Foreign Sales : Dongmoonsun (Korean), Beijing Pub- lishing (Simplified chinese), Minne- sota UP (English Worldwide), Fon- do de Cultura Economica (Spanish Worldwide), Passagen Verlag (Ger- man), Electa (Italian), Dar Charkeyyat (Arabic), Kajima Institute (Japanese), Futura (Greek), Paideia (Romanian), AGM (Croatian), Yem Publications (Turkish), Boekencentrum Publish- ers/ Klement (Dutch), Umetnisko Izo- brazevalno (Slovenian).

Christophe Bident RECONNAISSANCES (2003) What is the mystery inherent in acts of acknowledgement, and why is it such a current issue? Why do we have the need to be acknowledged? Writer and literature professor, Chris- tophe Bident explores the theme of recognition, particularly in the works of Robert Antelme, Maurice Blanchot and Gilles Deleuze. Foreign Sale : Arena (Spanish World- wide).

Frédéric Boyer COMME DES FRÈRES (1998) This is a magnificently-written bibli- cal, literary and philosophical essay on fraternity and war. Foreign Sale : Dongmoonsun (Korean).

Belinda Cannone LE SENTIMENT D’IMPOSTURE (2005) This title invites us to reflect upon the origins and manifestations of a very common feeling that we carefully hide – feeling out of place, like we do not deserve the place we are and fear being found out. The author draws on literature, film, psychoanalysis, politics and personal accounts to better understand this phenomenon. French Sale : Paperback (Folio). Foreign Sales :Bibliotheca nueva (Spanish Worldwide), Editura Art (Romanian), East China Normal UP 74 <--- Table of contents (Simplified Chinese), Edizioni di Pas- saggio (Italian). Belinda Cannone lencia” from the 1950’s to nowadays, L’ ÉCRITURE DU DÉSIR (2000) Julia Kristeva through the study of the massacres. WINNER OF THE BEST ESSAY PRIZE AVENIR D’UNE RÉVOLTE (1998) Basing herself upon political, social FROM THE ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE This title brings together three of and contextual considerations, the 2000 Kristeva’s major texts on exile and author, a Colombian anthropologist What makes us a writer ? What is revolt, more in terms of an interior born in Bogotá, establishes a typology the driving force behind the desire revolution than political action. The of the massacres and of its perpetra- to write, transcribe, tell the world’s texts are witness to her powerful tors. The author questions the sym- story ? Belinda Cannone studies this argumentation, both on a psychoan- bolization and ritualization of acts of question through an analysis of her alytical level and as a literary critic. violence, the semantic grounds of an favourite writers. She also touches on her own arrival inhuman anthropology, but also the French Sale : Paperback (Folio). in France and what it means to be a devastating effects of the massacres Foreign Sale : East China Normal UP stranger in a strange land. regarding the body classification. (Simplified Chinese). French Sale : Paperback (Champs-Flammarion). Marc-Alain Ouaknin Jacques Darras Foreign Sales : Boom (Dutch), C’EST POUR CELA QU’ON AIME LES NOUS SOMMES TOUS DES ROMAN- Guangxi Normal University (Simpli- LIBELLULES (1998) TIQUES ALLEMANDS (2002) fied Chinese), Il Nuevo Melangolo Rabbi Marc-Alain Ouaknin, who Poet and essayist Jacques Darras ex- (Italian), Instituto de Sao Paulo (Por- holds a degree in philosophy, tells the plores the thinking of great German tuguese - Brazil), Brandes & Apsel story of a meeting between a wise romantics such as Hegel, Schelling, (German), De Facto Editores (Portu- master and his disciple in the Luxem- Holderlin, Lessing, etc. and the influ- guese) bourg Gardens and the philosophical ence they have on us today, particu- quest that is born from this meeting. larly in terms of building Europe. He mixes the teachings of the Bible, Foreign Sale : East China Normal UP Antonio Negri cabala, major European literary texts (Simplified Chinese). DU RETOUR (2002) and philosophical references with his In his own inimitable voice, Antonio own personal humour and prose. Jacques Derrida & Anne Dufour- Negri recounts his exceptional des- Foreign Sale : Dongmoonsun mantelle tiny. From one letter to another (F (Korean). DE L’HOSPITALITÉ (1997) for Future, B for Red Brigade, C for Anne Dufourmantelle attends a sem- Crime, etc.), he relates the most im- Philippe Sollers & Christian de inar held by Jacques Derrida. He portant events of his life, his political Portzamparc speaks of hospitality but also of hos- commitments, his exile in France, his VOIR, ÉCRIRE (2003) tility, the other and the stranger, or return to Italy and his imprisonment. A second dialogue between an archi- what is approaching our borders. French Sale : Paperback (Le Livre de tect and a writer. They evoke favour- Foreign Sales : Boom (Dutch), Stan- Poche). ite writers, painters, other architects ford UP (English Worldwide), Sangyo Foreign Sales : Metaichmio (Greek), and raise the question : can we think Toshu (Japanese), Chibuma Shobo Rizzoli (Italian), Distribuidora Re- without language ? (Japanese Paperback) Ekkremes cord (Portuguese - Brazil), Campus French Sale : Paperback (Folio). (Greek), Ediciones de la Flor (Spanish (German), Ehak (Korean), Editorial Foreign Sales : Minnesota UP (En- - Argentina), Passagen Verlag (Ger- Debate (Spanish), Sakuhin Sha (Japa- glish Worldwide), Yapi Kredi Kültür man), Escuta (Portuguese - Brazil), nese), Routledge (English), Van Gen- (Turkish), Henan Up (Simplified Chi- Resling Publishing (Hebrew), Egyp- nep (Dutch), Korpus (Slovenian), Sic nese). tian National Center for Translation (Polish). (Arabic), Dongmoonsun (Korean), Gérard Pommier Bellaterra (Spanish - Spain only) Jean Oury & Marie Depussé LES CORPS ANGELIQUES DE LA À QUELLE HEURE PASSE LE TRAIN… POST-MODERNITE (2000) Dany-Robert Dufour (2003) Psychoanalysst Gérard Pommier ex- LETTRES SUR LA NATURE HUMAINE This is an extraordinary dialogue plores the current need to smooth À L’USAGE DES SURVIVANTS (1999) about madness and ordinary life in over the rough edges, to «angelify» Dany-Robert Dufour, writer, essayist a mental hospital, housed in an old the body and desire (cloning, virtual and linguistics professor at the Uni- castle, between Jean Oury, psychi- reality) wich paradoxically leads to versity of Paris brings us a anthropo- atrist and psychoanalyst and writer a resurgence of extreme violence. logical essay on the human being as Marie Depussé. A very pertinent analysis of our an “anaxotl” – that is a being who, constantly changing society. unlike most animals, is incapable of Maria Victoria Uribe Foreign Sales : taking care of himself at birth. ANTHROPOLOGIE DE l’INHUMANITÉ East China Normal UP (Simplified Foreign Sale : (2003) Chinese). Dongmoonsun (Korean). This book relates the history of Co- lombia from the period of “La Vio-

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