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CATALOGUE LONDON 2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS P. 4-5 EVENT JEAN-CLAUDE MOURLEVAT & ANNE-LAURE BONDOUX Shall We Dance ? FRANCK THILLIEZ Pandemia, Syndrome [E], Bred to Kill, ATOM[KA], [Angor] P. 6-7 NEW AGATHE COLOMBIER HOCHBERG The Buoyant Lives of Lady M. SOPHIE LOUBIÈRE Things Left Unsaid P. 8-15 BESTSELLERS GILLES LEGARDINIER A Sure Fire Thing, No More, I Promise!, Well Done!, Summer’s Lease, When We Were Men, Exile of Angels FRANCK THILLIEZ Puzzle, Darksider ÉRIC GIACOMETTI & JACQUES RAVENNE Antoine MArcAs’ FreeMAson investigAtions CLAUDE IZNER Mysteries in PAris, Topsy Turvy KARINE GIEBEL Satan was an Angel, The Shadow, The Hungry Dark, The Innocence of the Damned P. 16-20 NOIR HERVÉ COMMÈRE Guess the End, Ripples in Water, Catching your Death, The Second Man FRANÇOIS-XAVIER DILLARD Do it for Mummy, Child’s Play BARBARA ABEL Behind Hatred, Behind the Grief SOPHIE LOUBIÈRE The Stone Boy, Black Coffee FRÉDÈRIC DARD Noir Novels, sAn-Antonio LÉO MALET the new Mysteries oF PAris P. 21-23 THRILLERS FRANCK THILLIEZ & LAURENT SCALESE Blood and Ink MAXIME CHATTAM Carnage DAVID S. KHARA Dawn’s Remnants, An Eternal Night PATRICK GRAHAM Those Places are Dead DAVID-JAMES KENNEDY The Avenging Sea P. 24 INSPIRATIONAL NOVEL ANTOINE PAJE And He Spoke to Me of Cherry Trees, Dust and a Mountain P. 25 WOMEN’S FICTION AGATHE COLOMBIER HOCHBERG Nothing Personal, Wild Holidays P. 26 FAMILY COMEDY TIM SLIDERS Timeville P. 27-29 HISTORICAL CRIMES FABRICE BOURLAND the Detectives oF strAnge JEAN D’AILLON A Study in Red MICHEL MOATTI the riPPers’ investigAtor JEAN-PIERRE ALAUX criMe & MonuMents JEAN-LUC BIZIEN A curious PsychiAtrist BRIGITTE AUBERT the cineMAtogrAPh Detective 2 P. 30-36 HISTORICAL NOVELS JEAN-PIERRE BOURS Indulgences VIVIANE MOORE The Headless Woman NICOLAS RABEL A Liberation JÉRÉMIE GUEZ The Last Red Tiger JEAN-PIERRE RENOUARD My Stripes Were Earned in Hell JACQUES RAVENNE The Marquis de Sade’s Seven Lives HUGUES DE QUEYSSAC the BlAck knight AnD the white lADy SERGE BRUSSOLO The Archer’s Daughter, The Scarlet Shroud JULIETTE BENZONI MAriAnne, the gerfaut in the Mist, cAtherine ANICK KIEFFER Lili’s Diary P. 37-38 100% DIGITAL JULIEN HERVIEUX A liFe At wAr CAMILLE-LAURE MARI AwAkening JEAN-FRANÇOIS PRÉ DeADly August tour De FrAnce 2013 short criMe novels short eroticAs P. 39 EXPLOSIVE AND SURPRISING SÉBASTIEN GENDRON Selective Recycling P. 40-41 SF/FANTASY JEAN-LOUS FETJAINE Guinevere, The Elf Chronicles MICHAEL MOORCOCK & FABRICE COLIN Elric: Soul Drinkers MICHEL ROBERT Darkness Agent, Slash P. 42-45 QUIRCKY DOCS PIERRE LUNÈRE In the Guardian Angel’s Lodge JULIEN GOSSELIN, PIERRE MARTIN & JOHANN TRÜMMEL The List VIRGINIE DUMONT How Do You Fail At Raising Your Children? Smile, You Are Parenting a Teenager! OLIVIER MAGNY Stuff Parisians like, Into Wine the worlD exPlAineD to olD Folks JEAN-MICHEL ESPITALLIER Fame JADDO Just After Bear Taming CÉDRIC DASSAS Rare or Medium? P. 46-51 NON-FICTION little DictionAries oF PAssions THIERRY MAILLET Marketing and its History ALEXANDRE MIDAL Design ERYCK DE RUBERCY The Wagner Controversy JEAN-PHILIPPE DOMECQ, A New Introduction to the Art of the 20th Century, What Speed Tells Us JEAN-MICHEL MAULPOIX Four Paths: Wanderings Through French Poetry FABRICE MIDAL Why Poetry? introDuction to greAt thinkers FRANÇOIS FÉDIER Time and the World – From Heidegger to Aristotle, Reading Plato DOMINIQUE SAATDJIAN Essential Texts of Charles Péguy CHRISTOPHE BOURSEILLER The False Messiahs FRANÇOISE SIMPÈRE The Art and Etiquette of Polyamory 3 > EVENT JEAN-CLAUDE MOURLEVAT ET ANNE-LAURE BONDOUX Shall We Dance? 12 March 2015 Reader’s report available Rights sold: Germany (Zsolnay), Spain (Planeta), Italy (Longanesi), Lithuania (Alma Littera), Taiwan (Ten Points Publishing) The game of love, email and chance. Pierre-Marie Sotto, a famous writer, is suffering from writer’s block. One day, he received a large envelope with only an email address written on it. Assuming it’s a manuscript, he writes to the email address asking a return address as he doesn’t read manuscripts. From there on, he starts a corres- pondence with Adeline Parmelan, a tall big brunette, who says she isn’t a reader like others. They get to know one another through their emails, revealing their past, their lives, their hopes and dreams. The large envelope is left untouched and soon Adeline doesn’t want Pierre- Marie to open it. Who knows where this could lead them? • An uplifting French feel-good novel, reminding of Daniel Glattauer’s Love Virtually. • Brilliantly insightful, funny, sad, brave and totally real. Jean-Claude Mourlevat has published thirty or so children books. The rights of his novels have been sold in twenty countries. “I read Shall We Dance, and I fell in love. The book is Anne-Laure Bondoux is an actress, journalist funny, witty, touching and engrossing at the same time. and author. She has written a dozen of children I love the characters (all of them!) and I’m sure our books and she has been awarded several times in France and abroad. readers will love the book as much as I did.” Bettina Woergoetter – Zsolnay “In Bondoux and Mourlevat’s novel, we found simply enticing and almost mesmerizing the sheer quality of the writing, combined with a masterful storytelling, and we also think that having a writer as a protagonist is a pure stroke of genius on the side of the authors, since this allows the writing and the plot to proceed together with a unique firmness and assuredness.” Giuseppe Strazzeri – Longanesi 4 > EVENT FRANCK THILLIEZ FRANCK SHARKO & LUCIE HENEBELLE Over 1.8 Million copies sold Rights sold: US (Penguin), Spain (Destino), Spain Catalan (Columna), Germany (Goldmann), The Netherlands (Sijthoff), Brazil (Intrinseca), Russia (Atticus), Taiwan (Solo Press), Portugal (Sextante), Turkey (Pegasus), Japan (Hayakawa), China (Hachette Phoenix), Slovakia (Artforum), Hungary (Gabo), Korea (Eunhaeng Namu), Thailand (Welearn) Film rights sold to Indian Paintbrush/Paramount Pandemia 4 June 2015 Reader’s report available An unknown strain of the flu threatens mankind. Three swans have been found dead from the flu in Northern France. Amandine Guérin, a virus specialist is sent to investigate. At the same time, Franck Sharko and Lucie Henebelle are faced with a new case: the body of a man is discovered in the woods. The case is complicated and to make things worse, a severe case of the flu is propagating in France and soon worldwide. And the strain of the virus remains unknown... Franck and Lucie are faced with the biggest stake: the preservation of mankind. • Franck Sharko and Lucie Henebelle are back for a new chilling thriller! • A hot topic at the centre of the investigation: deadly viruses. Franck Thilliez is the author of a dozen successful thrillers including La Chambre des morts, awarded the Quai du Polar Reader’s Prize in 2006 and the SNCF French Thriller Award in 2007. See Franck Thilliez on pages 11 and 21. Syndrome [E] Bred to Kill ATOM[KA] [Angor] 14 October 2010 14 April 2011 11 October 2012 3 October 2013 English translation available English translation available Reader’s report available Reader’s report available “Crichton fuses with True Detective in a hammering hard-science thriller where the heart of darkness lies not in the soul, but in the genes. Thilliez engineers a winner.” Scott Sigler, New York Times bestselling author of the Infected trilogy 5 > NEW AGATHE COLOMBIER HOCHBERG The Buoyant Lives of Lady M. 15 May 2015 There is no age to change one’s life. Hit by the economic crisis, seventy year- old, Emma Mareuil, has to leave her splendid apartment with a view on the Eiffel Tower for the family house in South-West France. Together with Edgar, her butler, and Juliette, her granddaughter, Emma has decided to transform the family house into a B&B, soon fully booked. Used to a luxury way of live, she finds it hard to live on a budget but discovers with great delight the “real” life. But soon, Emma’s behaviour becomes worrisome. She disappears without reason, steals food in the middle of the night and spends endless hours in the garage. Is she losing her mind? • A larger-than-life character at the centre of a feel-good novel. • Agathe Colombier-Hochberg shows a new side of her talent as an author. Agathe Colombier Hochberg writes successful novels dedicated to urban women and families confronted with modern concerns. See Agathe Colombier Hochberg on page 27. 6 > NEW SOPHIE LOUBIÈRE Things left Unsaid 8 January 2015 The initiatory journey of a remorseful grandfather and his rebellious grandson. When François Valent, a retired reporter, hears that his grandson, Antoine, is about to flunk high-school, François kidnaps the young man and take him on a journey to Villefranche-de-Rouergue. Two days to- gether and at the end, Antoine will have to choose between going back to school or a big fat cheque. The journey is also a trip down memory lane for François: he grew up in the city and his childhood abruptly ended during a bloody episode of WWII. The journey will help them get to know one another and will free François of his past. • A beautiful novel on the passing down from one generation to the next. • An unknown tragedy of WWII unveiled. Author of five novels, detective short stories and a children’s book, Sophie Loubière also made a name for herself in the publishing community thanks to a unique literary program (Parking at Night, France Inter) and her reviews at France Info (Thriller Info). See Sophie Loubière on pages 19. 7 > BESTSELLERS GILLES LEGARDINIER The man who knows how to combine humour and emotion like no one else. Nearly 2 million copies sold in total Sample English translation and Reader’s report available A Sure Fire Thing 2 October 2014 Rights sold: Germany (Goldmann), Spain (Planeta), Czech Republic (Domino), Taiwan (Walkers Culture) When all seems lost, maybe it’s time to figure out what’s really worth living? When Marie is dumped by her boyfriend she swears never to trust another man neither in her private life nor at work.

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