CATALOGUE FRANKFURT
2016
TABLE OF CONTENTS P. 4-5
EVENT
P. 31
EXPLOSIVE AND SURPRISING
P. 6-13
BREAKING NEWS
P. 32-34
HISTORICAL CRIMES
P. 35-38
HISTORICAL NOVELS
P. 39
SF/FANTASY
P. 40-41
100% DIGITAL
P. 42-45
QUIRCKY DOCS
P. 46-49
NON-FICTION
P. 14-17
FRANCK THILLIEZ Dreaming NICOLAS MALESKI Franck Van Penitas
SOPHIE ADRIANSEN The Shattered Pinball Syndrome SOPHIE LOUBIÈRE Black Coffee; White Coffee HERVÉ COMMÈRE All We Need Is a Dead Body; Guess the End; Ripples in Water; Catching your Death; The Second Man LOUISE MEY Devastated JEAN-MARC SOUVIRA Black Mermaids; Away With the Wind; The Magician FRÉDÉRIC DARD Novels of the night; Kaput, a Killer; San-Antonio JEAN-CLAUDE MOURLEVAT The Reunion JEAN-CLAUDE MOURLEVAT & ANNE-LAURE BONDOUX Shall We Dance ? MARIE FITZGERALD Chasing Miracles; Look Who’s Coming to Dinner? SEAN PLATT & DAVID WRIGHT Yesterday’s Gone
NEW
THIERRY BOURCY & FRANÇOIS-HENRI SOULIÉ The Astronomer’s Dream MISHA HALDEN The Hounds’ Flesh, the Wolves’ Blood MICHEL ROBERT Darkness Agent; Slash SERGE BRUSSOLO The Storm Bird; The Archer’s Daughter; The Scarlet Shroud AGNÈS LEDIG & JACK KOCH The Butterfly’s Spirit
P. 18-25 BESTSELLERS
FRANCK THILLIEZ Pandemia; Syndrome [E]; Bred to Kill; ATOM[KA]; [Angor]; Puzzle; Darksider GILLES LEGARDINIER Someone to Watch Over; No More, I Promise!; Well Done!; Summer’s Lease; A Sure Fire Thing CLAUDE IZNER The Roaring Twenties; Mysteries in Paris; Topsy Turvy J.R DOS SANTOS The cryptanalyst’s 7 unusual cases KARINE GIEBEL The Shadow; The Innocence of the Damned; Satan was an Angel; The Hungry Dark; Till Death Do Us Unite ÉRIC GIACOMETTI & JACQUES RAVENNE Antoine Marcas’ Freemason Investigations, Jean Acacio’s misadventures
P. 26-27 NOIR
CHRISTIAN CARAYON A Breath, A Shade; The Devil’s Den SOPHIE LOUBIÈRE The Stone Boy BARBARA ABEL Behind Hatred; Behind the Grief
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P.28-29
THRILLERS
P. 30
INITIATORY JOURNEY
MICHEL MOATTI A Mind Like Alice FRANÇOIS-XAVIER DILLARD Do it for Mummy FRANCK THILLIEZ & LAURENT SCALESE Blood and Ink MAXIME CHATTAM Carnage
ANTOINE PAJE And She Spoke to Me of a Maple Tree, the Water’s Smile and Eternity; And He Spoke to Me of Cherry Trees, Dust and a Mountain SOPHIE LOUBIÈRE Things Left Unsaid MARIJOSÉ ALIE The Procession
NADINE MONFILS Elvis Cadillac SÉBASTIEN GENDRON Selective Recycling
JEAN D’AILLON Edward Holmes And Gower Watson FABRICE BOURLAND The Detectives of Strange MICHEL MOATTI Back to Whitechapel; Blackout Baby JEAN-PIERRE ALAUX Crime & Monuments JEAN-LUC BIZIEN A Curious Psychiatrist BRIGITTE AUBERT The Cinematograph Detective
VIVIANE MOORE Alchemia JEAN-PIERRE BOURS Indulgences NICOLAS RABEL A Liberation JÉRÉMIE GUEZ The Last Red Tiger JACQUES RAVENNE The Marquis de Sade’s Seven Lives JULIETTE BENZONI Marianne; The Gerfaut in the Mist; Catherine
JEAN-LOUS FETJAINE Guinevere; The Elf Chronicles MICHAEL MOORCOCK & FABRICE COLIN Elric: Soul Drinkers
JULIEN HERVIEUX A Life at War CAMILLE-LAURE MARI Awakening JEAN-FRANÇOIS PRÉ Deadly August Tour de France 2013 Short Crime Novels Short Eroticas
GAËTAN DUCHATEAU & FLORENT GUERLAIN Left Wing/Right Wing JULIEN GOSSELIN, PIERRE MARTIN & JOHANN TRÜMMEL The List OLIVIER MAGNY Stuff Parisians like; Into Wine Little Dictionaries of Passions JEAN-MICHEL ESPITALLIER Fame AGNÈS LEDIG & TEDDY LINET My Gynaecological Guide JADDO Just After Bear Taming
JEAN-MARC DANIEL The Unconventional History of Economic Ideas THIERRY MAILLET Marketing and its History ALEXANDRE MIDAL Design JEAN-LUC HENNIG The Literary and Erotic Dictionary of Fruits and Vegetables JEAN-MARC FERRY Reason and Faith JEAN-PHILIPPE DOMECQ Critique’s Comedy; What Speed Tells Us FABRICE MIDAL Why Poetry? Introduction to Great Thinkers PIERRE JACERME Introduction to the Occidental Philosophy 3
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FRANCK THILLIEZ
NICOLAS MALESKI
Dreaming
Franck Van Penitas
Over 145,000 copies sold in five months Shortlisted for the Elle Reader’s Prize 2017.
12 January 2017 Sample English translation and Reader’s report available
26 May 2016 Sample English translation available Rights sold: Latvia (Zvaigzne), Russia (Atticus)
If his wife hadn’t started cheating on him, Franck wouldn’t have let the unforeseen into his ideal and shipshape life.
Franck Van Penitas has followed his wife, Gisèle, to a remote village in the countryside. When she is working 70 hours a week as a vet; he is dusting, doing the grocery shopping, and overseeing homework. He wanted to be a writer, he is now a full-time stay-at-home dad. Yes, his life has certainly not turned out as planned but Franck can boast about leading a life true to his nature: ritualized, predictable and solitary. Obsessed with his garden, he eliminates any adventurous rodent that could spoil it and addictively follows the weather forecast. And then he can spend quality time with his 3 daughters without having to mix with strangers. His only social life being limited to boring get-together with his wife’s colleagues or fantastic bike rides and lively discussions with some alcoholic locals as cynic, antisocial and reserved as him (as he will soon find out at his expense…). His quiet life is turned upside down the morning he receives an anonymous letter alluding to his wife’s infidelity. Franck Van Penitas being Franck Van Penitas, his reaction and his début as an unfaithful husband will be both mad and funny.
For most people, dreaming stops at the end of the night.
Abigaël is a single mother and a leading psychologist, much sought after in criminal cases for her expertise even if she suffers from a severe case of narcolepsy confusing reality and dreams. For some months now, she has been helping the police on the case of Freddy who has already kidnapped three children. Nine months after the beginning of this investigation, her father, a retired customs officer, insists to take her and her daughter on a weekend away. What was supposed to be a family trip turns into a nightmare, as her father and daughter die. How come she has been found close to the destroyed car with only a few scratches? What secret was her father hiding? Can she blindly trust people around her? Was her daughter supposed to be the next name on Freddy’s list? So many mysteries and questions she will have to resolve to find out the very truth.
Sous le compost is Nicolas Maleski’s debut novel.
• A sense of Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from • How to make progress when the ground crumbles under one’s feet, when the line between reality and dreams becomes thinner and thinner, when one can’t rely on anybody, even oneself? A mesmerizing psychological thriller about manipulation, trauma… and dreams of course! • Abigaël’s path is full of cracks. Franck uses a broken up timeline that follows the twists and turns of his main character’s brain (Pay extremely close attention to the time scale, it’s important!)
Franck Thilliez was the 3rd bestselling
French thriller writer in 2015. He has been commissioned by the Palais de Tokyo in Paris to write a short story as the base of a modern art exhibition (from March 24th to May 16th 2016). See Franck Thilliez on pages 18, 19 and 29.
“ If Franck Thilliez is used to playing with our nerves, he goes even further with Rever. Brilliant, unsettling and addictive.” Elle
a Marriage against the backdrop of a Chabrolian landscape. • Implacable style for this literary debut filled with humour and wit that is also an unusual marital noir novel. • The character Franck Van Penitas is bound to become cult. He lives his life as he wants it to be : at a slow pace, in order to be able to look at the world and people around him and focus on the basis (his family, the ground).
“ More than just a new (and very efficient) thriller, it’s also a physics experience. The broken up timeline makes the readers doubt what he reads. […] Rever shows Franck Thilliez’s genius.” Le Parisien 4
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SOPHIE ADRIANSEN
SOPHIE LOUBIÈRE
25 August 2016 Reader’s report available
“Darkness has a beauty of its own, and no writer conveys that beautiful darkness more fully than Sophie Loubière. She demonstrates the thoughtfulness, craft, and artistic sincerity of a writer whose vision of life is uniquely her own. No writer more skillfully leads her readers into the heart of darkness, nor more gently returns them to the light.”
The Shattered Pinball Syndrome Feeling pleasure to give life… Easy as a child’s play.
Thomas H Cook
• These books are based on the author’s journey and her residency at the Chatauqua Institution.
In her late 20’s, Stéphanie has everything to be happy: loyal friends, an amazing job and a perfect and stable relationship with Guillaume. But a baby is desperately missing. With a very lucid point of view, she examines how the obsession of becoming pregnant has ruined her life. And from this failed experience, she will be reborn independent and FREE. Because a mistreated body and an oversolicited mind never give up.
See her blogs: http://blackcoffee66.blogspot.fr/ http://whitecoffee66.blogspot.fr/
Prequel:
Black Coffee Rights sold: Czech Republic (Motto)
14 February 2013 Sample English translation and Reader’s report available A serial killer whose confessions have been transcribed, a vanished husband, a man haunted by his past and a woman desperate to reunite her family. A breathless tracking game along Road 66.
• The book is made of pieces of existence : inner questionings, articles, quotations, statistics, maternal orders, results of medical exams, gynecologist advice, intrusive questions. • The title comes from the pinball slang: players hit the machine, shattering but not breaking the glass. It is when everything is broken in the inside while it looks normal on the outside… • A sequel will be published next year.
“Through a well constructed investigation two destinies, that of Desmond and of Lola, unfold and intersect along the mythic Route 66.” L’Amour des Livres
White Coffee
Sophie Adriansen has written 20 books both for adults and children.
"Written in a style that is fluid, efficient and direct, Sophie Adriansen’s beautiful text asks - with a mixture of poignancy and humour - the essential question of whether you need to become a mother to be a woman." Page des libraires
"The funny, bitter journey of a thirtysomething who is yearning for a child... the absence of a baby reveals the absence of love but at the end of her journey, the narrator gives birth to herself as a vibrant, happy and free woman." Grégoire Delacourt
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13 October 2016 Reader’s report available A serial killer who can’t do any harm anymore. A husband eager to get his family back. A man obsessed with a woman and confronted with ghostly appearances. A woman willing to be elsewhere, in the arms of her loved one. And two children, who try to find their place among them. One is spending some time in Chatauqua (New York), one has just returned from the US to France, the others live in Nancy. Their common point? The Road 66. • Tension, a bewitching atmosphere, a thorough way of writing, a careful consideration to the characters : this is Sophie’s style!
Author of 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). One of her previous novels, The Stone Boy, has been translated into English (see on page 27). 7
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> BREAKING NEWS / SHORTLISTED PRIX DE LITTÉRATURE POLICIÈRE
LOUISE MEY
HERVÉ COMMÈRE
Devastated
All We Need Is a Dead Body
Rights sold: Germany (Suhrkamp)
10 March 2016 Reader’s report available
12 May 2016 Reader’s report available
What is the link between a factory about to shut down, a burnt body, a strike and a rapist?
Fear changes side.
12th July 1998. The main players of different events don’t know that they will all be linked by a single drama eighteen years later. 2014, in a small village in Normandy. As the main factory is about to be shut down, the employees start a strike. Nobody takes them seriously and the main leader suggests that all they need is a corpse. His burnt body is soon found. The police investigate and discover that the seemingly perfect victim had things to hide. So murder, suicide or an opportunity to hit the headlines?
Alex, a single mother, is working in the sex crimes unit of the Parisian police. Sex offenders, raped women, indecent exposures are her everyday lot. One might think she has seen everything. But in the regular flow of investigations, two new cases are brought to her attention and cause quite a stir: the savage rapes of two men. Two straight men with nothing in common, except their shame and refusal to go to the police. When 1% of all rapes concern men, there’s certainly something to investigate on... • A dazzling first novel anchored in social realism. • Unexpected victims for an unforgettable feminist thriller.
• Hervé Commère shows once again that he is a master in crossed destinies, the power of fate and the chain of events.
Louise Mey, 33, lives and works in Paris. Les Ravagé(e)s is her first thriller.
“A real revelation. As strong as your first reading of Michael Connelly.” Avantages “A nerve-racking but perfectly mastered novel.” Plume Libre
“A great novel about freedom, fate, coincidences, courage (or not) to take charge of one’s destiny.”
JEAN-MARC SOUVIRA
M Le Magazine du Monde
Guess the End
Jean-Marc Souvira is a Police Chief and has been working for the Criminal
Investigation Department for 25 years as the Director of the Central Department against Human Trafficking and the Central Department against Financial Crime. He has also worked with Luc Besson as a scriptwriter on the movie Go Fast.
12 June 2014 Sample English translation and Reader’s report available Rights sold: Japan (Shueisha)
Black Mermaids
«Everyone wants to be a piece of a puzzle, not the best nor the most beautiful, just a piece; fitting into the puzzle, that’s what we all are looking for, and when we do, we feel good and strong, or at least alive.»
12 November 2015 Reader’s report available
Guess the End follows four individuals who try to do their best to fulfill their dreams or relive the past. They think they are making choices but they are mistaken and their lives finally take shape despite themselves. The four characters’ destiny will eventually become intertwined, and marked by revenge, love, friendship, fear, hope and... Rock n’Roll!
Africa in Paris: How to investigate on rituals, magic and bewitchment?
Ripples in Water 10 March 2011 Sample English translation and Reader’s report available Rights sold: Japan (Shueisha)
Also avalaible:
The Magician, Away With the Wind
Marseille Detective Novel Award 2011 Ocean’s Eleven meets Usual Suspects.
Two stories, two pieces of a real-life jigsaw that are just waiting to be put together… to the misfortune of all.
Hervé Commère was born in Rouen and now lives in Paris. 8
Also avalaible:
Catching Your Death, The Second man
As albinos’ dismembered bodies are found in the Goutte d’Or neighbourhood in Paris (18th arrondissement), Mistral and his team have to become familiar with a new thinking and analyzing process. Fear and obedience being part of this reality, they will be confronted with an international prostitution network. The case of “the car park rapist” is another file that should have been closed but the killer managed to escape. This is a serious misconduct that Mistral has to justify especially since the fugitive’s lawyer is an old enemy. When his past suddenly catches up with him, how can he possibly stay focused on his absorbing job? • Action, reflection but also procedure and paperwork… This is the everyday life of a squad dealing with multiple investigations that are connected...or not.
“400 beautifully executed pages from the beginning to the very end.” Le Figaro littéraire “A roller-coaster of a thriller […] Impossible to resist the sirens’ song.” Le Point 9
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FRÉDÉRIC DARD
JEAN-CLAUDE MOURLEVAT AND ANNE-LAURE BONDOUX
Frédéric Dard (1921-2000) wrote a great number
NOVELS OF THE NIGHT • Genre : Psychological Suspense • Recurrent Characters : Dual and
it’ll be our secret. Seventeen-year-old Louise Lacroix is desperate to escape her dreary life. So on her way home from work every evening she takes a detour past the enchanting house of Jess and Thelma Rooland – a wealthy and glamorous American couple – where the sun always seems to shine. When Louise convinces the Roolands to employ her as their maid, she thinks she’s in heaven. But soon their seemingly perfect life begins to unravel. What terrible secrets are they hiding? Dripping with tension and yearning, Crush is a chilling Fifties suspense story of youthful naivety, dark obsession – and the slippery slope to murder. Praise for Dard’s thrillers: “Unsettling… orthy of Agatha Christie at her devious best… classic French noir” Guardian “Hugely atmospheric” The Times “Disturbing from the outset with strong echoes of Simenon” Sunday Times
Frédéric Dard (1921-2000) was one of the best known and loved French crime writers of the twentieth century. Enormously prolific, he wrote hundreds of thrillers, suspense stories, plays and screenplays throughout his long and illustrious career. Bird in a Cage, The Wicked Go to Hell and The Executioner Weeps (for which he won the 1957 Grand prix de littérature policière) are also available from Pushkin Vertigo.
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captivating femmes fatales / Men mistreated by life • Recurrent Topic : Manipulation • Tone : Dark, even desperate
Shall We Dance?
PUSH KIN VERT IGO
12 March 2015 Reader’s report available Rights sold: Germany (Zsolnay), Spain (Planeta), Italy (Longanesi), Lithuania (Alma Littera), Taiwan (Ten Points Publishing), Latvia (Zvaigzne), Czech Republic (Argo), Russia (Sindbad), China (Guomai Culture)
DARD
29 titles available Rights sold: UK (Pushkin Press)
i understand why you did it.
FRÉDÉRIC
of works, using either his own name or that of one of his numerous aliases – especially San-Antonio, with a total of over 220 million copies sold.
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CRUSH
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“The “unknown” French master of noir.” The Observer
Also avalaible:
Kaput, a Killer
9 June 2016 The dark and tragic adventures of a young man who becomes a killer because of life circumstances. But underneath the coldblooded killer without remorse, lies a romantic and endearing man.
“Melancholy and atmospheric, with a twist worthy of Agatha Christie at her devious best, this brief tale has the hallmark of classic French noir.” The Guardian
• Vintage, classic noir novel in the vein of Natural Born Killers. Also avalaible:
Nearly 115.000 copies sold The game of love, email and chance. Pierre-Marie Sotto was awarded the Goncourt Prize some years ago but is now suffering from writer’s block. This is when he receives a large envelope with only an e-mail address written on it. Assuming it’s a manuscript and unwilling to give his opinion on someone else’s work, he tries to know where he could send this back. Thus begins a correspondence with Adeline Parmelan, a tall big brunette who says she isn’t a reader like others. They slowly get to know each other through their computer screens revealing their pasts, their lives, their hopes and dreams. In the meantime, the envelope is left untouched and soon Adeline doesn’t want Pierre-Marie to open it… Who knows where this could lead them? • Everything started as a game between the authors. Jean-Claude Mourlevat sent the first E Mail as PierreMarie Sotto to Anne-Laure Bondoux and the book is the correspondence that followed.
children books. The rights of his novels have been sold in twenty countries. Anne-Laure Bondoux is an actress, journalist and author. She has written a dozen of children books and she has been awarded several times in France and abroad.
JEAN-CLAUDE MOURLEVAT
SAN-ANTONIO
The Reunion
Rights sold: Italy (E/O), Romania (Univers) A series of 175 noir novels published from 1949 to 2001 written by Frédéric Dard under the penname San-Antonio, that is also the name of the main character, a bon-vivant and seductive police chief who tells his investigations. It has become cult thanks to a specific universe and language.
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THE NEW MYSTERIES OF PARIS 10
Jean-Claude Mourlevat has published thirty or so
12 May 2016 Reader’s report available
What have we done with our pledges of friendship? With our dreams? Silvère has rented a house on the Ouessant Island for a five days reunion with old friends. Jean, with whom he has shared everything, will be coming. And so will Luce, Lours’ and Mara who he hasn’t seen for forty years. The reunion is the occasion for them to remember what they once shared: their dreams, their disillusionments, everything that has made them and still connects them.
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A sensitive and beautifully written novel dealing with universal topics: friendship, memories, lost loves, old age…
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MARIE FITZGERALD
SEAN PLATT AND DAVID WRIGHT
Sub-editor for 15 years, Marie Fitzgerald has then worked for the first TV channel of Latin America. She has spent half of her life travelling the world and is now settled in the France.
Chasing Miracles Rights sold: Germany (Piper), Czech Republic (Argo) 12 May 2016 Reader’s report available
Friendship has no age, it is always young. Claude, an 80 year-old blind man, lives alone and has finally decided to do whatever he likes. Corentin is angry at his overwhelming mother and cannot wait to be of age and flee from home. Alain is a sixtysomething whose life has gone adrift. The 3 men will find one another and decide to rescue Corinne who is beaten by her husband. During a trip to Spain, these four lonesome souls will perhaps find the will to start things over.
• In the vein of Barbara Constantine and Les
Intouchables, a feel-good novel where solidarity and helping one another are the central themes. • These four strong voices and touching humanities will stay with the reader long after the end of the book.
Look Who’s Coming for Lunch 26 May 2016
Surprising things could be asked to earn an inheritance. When Valentine is appointed to carry out her mother’s last wishes, she doesn’t know what she is in for: invite each of the heirs, distant cousins she has never met, to lunch and interview them. Valentine moves in the family home in Bergerac and the visits start as a procession of funny, moving, heartbreaking and endearing meetings.
• Over 100,000 copies already sold (bookclub edition).
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Sean Platt and David Wright launched Yesterday’s Gone in 2011 with one episode published per week on Amazon that sold more than 400,000 copies.
YESTERDAY’S GONE Rights sold: Italy (Fanucci)
Digital: 17 December 2015, Paper: 10 March 2016 English manuscripts of the first 5 (out of 6) seasons available
On October 15 2011 at 2:15 a.m., everyone on Earth vanished. Well, almost everyone.
A scattered few woke in a world where there are no rules other than survival… at any cost. A journalist wanders the wretched reality of an empty New York, in search for his wife and son. A serial killer must hunt in a land where prey is now endangered species. A mother shields her young daughter from danger, as every breath fills her with terror. A bullied teen is thrilled to find everyone gone. Until the knock on his door. A fugitive survives a fiery plane crash. Will he be redeemed, or return to what he’s best at: the kill? An eight year old boy sets out on a journey to find his missing family. What he finds will change him forever. And there’s a few people who aren’t surprised that this happened at all. In fact, they’ve been dreaming about this day for years. These survivors aren’t alone… Someone, or something, is watching them. And waiting… Strangers unite. Sides are chosen. Will humanity survive what it never saw coming? • Yesterday’s Gone is the bestselling, groundbreaking, post-apocalyptic serial thriller for fans of The Stand, Swan Songs and TV Shows like Lost. • A specific and unprecedented publishing plan in order to perfectly combine the paper and digital editions.
Readers’ Reviews “Stephen King meets Lost.” “If you love the mile a minute action and adventure of Doctor Who, the suspense and shock of The Walking Dead, the “oh Hell” and “you’ve got to be kidding” of Lost, AND the “What the Hell was that?!” of Fringe, then this is the book for you.”
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THIERRY BOURCY & FRANÇOIS-HENRI SOULIÉ
MISHA HALDEN The Hounds’ Flesh, the Wolves’ Blood
The Astronomer’s Dream
10 November 2016
A dark coming-of-age tale.
1 September 2016
1917. A young soldier writes letters to his daughter to be born. He explains what men are capable of, their violence but also the power of books and the significance of words to the little one he will never be able to meet. 2015. Rory is like a lonesome dog, living a quiet and solitary life. His peace is disrupted one day when he finds a thief in his apartment. Before he can do anything, a young woman appears and the thief commits suicide. This girl, Lupa, seems to be escaping from someone and will turn Rory’s life upside down. Is it love? No, it’s much more than that.
A And Then There Were None set in the court of Rudolph II. Prague, 1601. Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II has organized a sumptuous feast during which the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe will present his conception of the universe: is the sun revolving around the earth (that would still be heresy…), or the other way around? When his poisoned body is found in the Cabinet of Curiosities of the castle, the Emperor locks all the guests in to find out the killer. • In the vein of S.J Parris and C.J Sansom. • You know Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), Nicolas Copernic (1473-1543) and Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)? You’ll be delighted to get to know Tycho Brahe (born in 1546 in the then Danish peninsula of Scania, died in 1601 in Prague).
Thierry Bourcy is an author and a scriptwriter, he has written a successful historical crime series set during WWI. François-Henri Soulié is a theatre producer and a dialogue writer.
Misha Halden is a pseudonym. Under
her real name, she has written two fantasy novels for which she received several awards.
• Feverish writing and compelling characters in an extremely violent but definitely thoughtful story. • This book is not only about psychological and physical influence, torture but also about values, humanity, our roots and our legacy.
MICHEL ROBERT Former high-level handballer, Michel Robert is now a journalist and a writer who collaborated with Pierre Grimbert on the “Malerune” series.
DARKNESS AGENT
Over 135,000 copies sold Worldwide peace is based on the fragile balance between the Shadow Kingdom and the Light Empire. In the constant fight opposing the two of them, the Chaos forces hold an important weapon: Cellendhyll of Cortavar. Predestined to become the new champion of Light, he has been betrayed by his companions and left for dead. But Sir Morion has taken him in and he has become the fallen Angel, a cruel and invincible warrior drunk with vengeance. Allied with Gheritarish, a being born of magic, he’s got a significant role to play in the Chaos’ plans. But how long will Cellendhyll agree to be merely a weapon in the hands of his machiavellian and traitor Masters ?
• Cellendhyll of Cortavar, the Angel of Chaos is a tough and
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nearly invicible warrior. Between Chaos and Light, he will cross the paths of friends, ennemies, lovers. Duels, revenge and a lot of sex, we bet you’ll want more! • A fantasy series colored with violence, eroticism, and dark humour. • 9 volumes available + 1 Stand Alone.
”[...] short, condensed and concise chapters [...] simple, precise and plain turn of phrase.” ActuSF 14
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SERGE BRUSSOLO
AGNÈS LEDIG & JACK KOCH
The Storm Bird
The Butterfly’s Spirit
10 November 2016
“She is sure of one thing, she doesn’t want to obey.” Under the reign of Louis XIV, Marion becomes the ward of a strange and disgraced baronet. She soon learns that her guardian is a corsair and she finds herself associated to his crimes, for which she is arrested and send to a penal colony in the Caribbean. Upon her arrival, she will have to fight in a world of danger ruled by buccaneers and pirates.
20 October 2016
Get out of your cocoon and reveal yourself.
Serge Brussolo
“The idea of The Butterfly’s Spirit came from the wish to pass on everything positive fate has offered me. We all go through ordeals and difficulties like rapids of a tumultuous river. Some of us catch their breath quicker than others. I am lucky enough to have solid basis allowing me, despite the ordeals, to live a joyful, happy, meaningful life.” Agnès Ledig uses her personal tragic experience to provide a method to see and experience events. It does not aim to change your vision of life but to bring lightness to it.
• This is much more than a pirate book. Of course, there are attacks, traps and trials but Marion is not going to get out of your mind!
• In between a personal development book and an exercise booklet. • The book is divided in different parts, representing the rooms of our inner house. Fleuve_BRUSSOLO_Oiseau_Tempete.indd 1
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After years of being a midwife, Agnès Ledig is now a bestselling author, translated in twelve countries. Jack Koch used to be a teacher and is now an illustrator. http://www.agnesledig.fr/
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L ’entrée . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 À quoi ressemble le sas qui me sépare du reste du monde ?
Le salon des amitiés . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Mon cercle d’amis est-il en phase avec mes besoins en ce domaine ?
Le bureau professionnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Mon travail me permet-il de m’épanouir, d’atteindre mes objectifs de vie ?
La cuisine familiale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Ma famille est-elle harmonieuse et bienveillante, ou à l’équilibre fragile ?
La buanderie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 L’endroit de tous les nettoyages…
La salle de bains du moi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
The Archer’s Daughter The Scarlet Shroud
L’estime que je me porte, le temps que je m’accorde satisfont-ils mes besoins ?
La chambre de l’intime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Ma vie de couple est-elle épanouissante ? Mon intimité, sereine ?
La chambre de l’enfance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Ai-je gardé mon âme d’enfant ? Comment la transmettre ?
Les toilettes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
During the Hundred Year’s War, a clan of carnies will stop at nothing to survive, not even using a cursed gift.
Est-ce un endroit qui m’est agréable ?
Le grenier des souvenirs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 Ce que j’aimerais garder…
Le jardin intérieur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
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FRANCK THILLIEZ
FRANCK THILLIEZ
FRANCK SHARKO & LUCIE HENEBELLE
STAND ALONES
Over 2.1 Million copies sold
Puzzle
Rights sold: US (Penguin), Spain (Destino), Spain Catalan (Columna), Germany (Goldmann),
The Netherlands (Xander), 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), Czech Republic (XYZ) Film rights sold to Indian Paintbrush/Paramount
Pandemia
3 October 2013 Sample English translation and Reader’s report available Rights sold: Russia (Atticus), Spain (Destino) Film rights sold
Nearly 330,000 copies sold First rule: Nothing you’re about to live is true. This is a game. Second rule: One of you will die.
4 June 2015 Reader’s report available
Over 265,000 copies sold
Action, extreme tension, moral dilemma, hidden secrets, ambiguous characters, unexpected developments, and amazing twist… A favorite for the genre’s lovers.
!! Watch Out !! Viruses surround you !!
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Puzzle has been introduced as a serial in the daily newspaper “Les Echos” from 8th July to 4th September 2013.
Viruses and germs are central in people’s minds and the epidemics such as plague, flu or recently Ebola are hot topics. Sharko & Henebelle team up with scientists from the Institut Pasteur to track down the invisible while more and more people fall sick, contagion spreads and Evil in any form makes progress…
“With hellish settings, among which a closed down psychiatric asylum, characters manipulated like puppets, Franck Thilliez has all the key to a great suspense. And all the pieces of the puzzle fit perfectly.”
• Pandemia was number 1 on the bestseller lists for two weeks
Aujourd’hui en France
and 25,000 readers were contaminated before the publication.
Darksider
See Franck Thilliez on pages 4 and 29.
13 October 2011 Sample English translation available Rights sold: China (Beijing Booky), Korea (Eunhaeng Namu), Turkey (Pegasus), Russia (Atticus) Film rights sold
Over 225,000 copies sold
Some secrets are shameful. But would you be willing to die to keep them hidden?
Syndrome [E] Bred to Kill ATOM[KA] 14 October 2010 English translation available
14 April 2011 English translation available
11 October 2012 Reader’s report available
Three men wake up at the bottom of an abyss. One is chained at the wrist, the second is chained at the ankle and the third is free but his head is covered by a horrible mask that will explode if he moves away from the others. How far will they have to go to survive?
[Angor]
3 October 2013 Reader’s report available
“A huis-clos that is both stuffy and chilling at the same time.”
“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.”
Ici Paris
Scott Sigler, New York Times bestselling author of the Infected trilogy about Bred to kill.
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Well Done!
GILLES LEGARDINIER The man who knows how to combine humour and emotion like no one else. Over 3.6 million copies sold worldwide
Gilles Legardinier is the 4th
bestselling French author and a allaround writer of feel-good novels, thrillers (which won various awards) and children books as well.
Sample English translations and Reader’s reports available
Film rights sold Four intertwined destinies under the same roof that will learn to settle in, get to know and eventually love each other.
Someone to Watch Over
Tired of a world that he no longer feels part of, Andrew Blake leaves the head of his small company in London to find a job as a butler in France. Upon his arrival at the Beauvillier Manor, he goes beyond simply reinventing himself. He who was looking for a new beginning, will first have to get back in touch with his past.
How a happy band of straightforward and endearing old people could help a father whose daughter is already 20.
“Simple stories, driven by short fast paced chapters and a great sense of humor, this is Gilles Legardinier’s remedy for the blues.”
1 october 2015 Rights sold: Germany (Goldmann), Russia (Sindbad)
As he wanted to cure his neighbours, he has become a doctor. As he was willing to help people who are usually left aside, he spent many years in conflict zones. But when Thomas learns that he is the father of a 20-year-old girl, his view of life and certainties are shaken. He knows he won’t ever make up for lost time and refuses to trouble the life of the one he knows nothing about. But a rush, stronger than anything else, urges him to discover Emma. For her, he will thus become the helping hand of fate, the luck factor, the secret and watchful guardian angel. In his mission, he can rely on the five residents of the retirement home he is now heading, together with the nurse Pauline, her son Théo, the guard of the nearby closed down factory and –without him knowing- Emma’s boyfriend. This is the story of a man who, in order to reach a goal he can’t clearly explain, will be confronted with situations he doesn’t control at all. This is a story about pure love in every shape and form.
Lire
Summer’s Lease 10 October 2013 Rights sold: Turkey (Pegasus), Taiwan (Walkers Culture), Poland (Sonia Draga), Czech Republic (Domino)
Remember your teenage years...
Camille, Lea, Axel, Leo and the gang have known each other since kindergarten. A few months before graduation they are each wondering which path to take… They don’t know that by summer their destinies will change. Supported by those close to them and their teachers they will face illness, incertitude and illusions while at the same time recognizing the value of friendship, love and pushing oneself to the limit.
No More, I Promise!
“A positive novel with a taste of the Elixir of Youth.” Carrefour Savoirs
10 November 2011 Rights sold: Germany (Goldmann), Italy (Mondadori), Spain (Alfaguara), Czech Republic (Domino), Hungary (Park), Poland (Sonia Draga), Greece (Patakis), Russia (Sindbad), Turkey (Pegasus), China (Straits Multi-Media), Korea (Sweet Books), Taiwan (Walkers Culture), Vietnam (Nha Nam), Bulgaria (Hermes), Latvia (Zvaigzne), Lithuania (Alma Littera), Brazil (Arqueiro), Croatia (Znanje), Ukraine (Vivat) Film rights sold
A Sure Fire Thing
2 October 2014 Rights sold: Germany (Goldmann), Spain (Planeta), Czech Republic (Domino), Taiwan (Walkers Culture), Russia (Sindbad)
When all seems lost, maybe it’s time to figure out what’s really worth living?
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When Marie is dumped by her boyfriend she swears never to trust another man neither in her private life nor at work. Sweet Marie is gone, from now on, Evil Marie is in charge. But one can’t completely change his/her nature. When she becomes staff representative, she’ll be the voice of men and women in her company, as everybody is going through troubled times. And when she receives letters from a secret admirer, she will use impossible schemes to find out who he is.
Exile of Angels, When We Were Men
“A sure success for this romantic comedy, every women who has been dumped once can relate to it.” Femme Actuelle
The fabulous destiny of Julie, desperately romantic and utterly clumsy. What is the stupidest thing you have ever done in your life? After getting her hand stuck in her mysterious neighbour’s mailbox, Julie swore that she would quit acting crazy but she is about to do much worse trying to get closer to this man…
“It is impossible to resist the extravagance and charm of this literary Amelie Poulain!” Aujourd’hui en France
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18 October 2012 Rights sold: Germany (Goldmann), Czech Republic (Domino), Poland (Sonia Draga), Russia (Sindbad), Turkey (Pegasus), Taiwan (Walkers Culture), Bulgaria (Hermes), Spain (Planeta), Latvia (Zvaigzne), Brazil (Arqueiro), Croatia (Znanje)
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CLAUDE IZNER
J. R. DOS SANTOS
Le pas du renard
n ce printemps 1921, Paris se relève diffiClaude Izner is the pen name ofdetwo sisters, Liliane Korb cilement la guerre. La vie est chère, le
J.R. Dos Santos is a university lecturer and a journalist who covered wars around the globe and is now hosting
se fait rare, se loger pose problème. and Laurence Lefèvre, who aretravail both second-hand booksellers Jeremy Nelson, jeune pianiste américain pasalong the Seine. sionné de jazz, vient tirer le diable par la queue dans la capitale, à la recherche de ses origines. Mais son engagement au sein d’une troupe de cabaret de Belleville va déclencher une véritable série noire. Qui exerce un chantage à l’encontre des artistes du Mi-Ka-Do pour qu’ils disparaissent les uns après les autres ? Prêt à tout pour survivre, Jeremy va s’avérer un adversaire coriace car, si infime que soit un grain de sable, il peut gripper les rouages d’une machination parfaitement huilée.
ROARING TWENTIES IN PARIS Investigations to the beat of jazz and foxtrot.
the evening news in Portugal. He is also the author of seven essays and fifteen novels, all bestsellers in Portugal and abroad.
THE PORTUGUESE PHENOMENON
Le pas du renard
Over 3 million copies sold worldwide
In 1921 Paris, life is hard: the scars of the war are still visible, work is scarce and finding a place to Izner, auteur à succès des enquêtes live is difficult. JeremyClaude young American, duNelson, libraire Victor a Legris, revient pour une toutein nouvelle aventure menée au He rythmefinds a is looking for his father the capital. malicieux du fox trot, dans le Paris endiablé job as a pianist in a music hall, des années folles.but soon his colleagues are disappearing one after the other. And someone is making an attempt on his life. Has he fallen into a trap?
Follow Tomás Noronha, a Portuguese history teacher and world-renowned cryptanalyst confronted with mysteries that could seem to be beyond all understanding. But you’ll surely be hooked on these fast-paced, page-turner thriller books that will effortlessly enable you to grasp complex philosophical and scientific concepts and to question some seemingly established truths.
The Einstein Enigma
Over 371,000 copies sold in France and over 200,000 copies sold in Portugal Rights sold: USA (Harper Collins), USA Spanish (Rayo), Brazil
“A delightful and incredibly accurate reconstruction of Paris at the time of the Roaring Twenties.” Biba 1018_IZNER_Renard.indd 1
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MYSTERIES IN PARIS 12 titles available
Over 820,000 copies sold in France
SERIE COMPLE S TED
English translations available Rights sold: US (St Martin’s Press), UK (Gallic Books), Italy (Nord/ TEA), Germany (Pendo), Russia (AST/Astrel), Sweden (Kabusa Böcker), Brasil (Nemo)
Each investigation is set in a famous place of Paris.
Paris, at the end of the 19th Century. Victor Legris is in his 30’s and works as a bookseller. He regularly finds himself confronted with mysteries and that’s good luck because he loves acting as a detective. Embark with the author Claude Izner on an unusual walk across the Capital of Lights.
(Record), Spain (Rocca), Italy (Cavallo di Ferro), the Netherlands (Querido), Finland (Minerva), Czech Republic (Albatros), Hungary (Kossuth), Romania (Paralela 45), Bulgaria (Hermes), Greece (Livanis), Russia (Premiere Publishers), Turkey (Pegasus), Germany (Sportwelt) Film rights sold English, French, Portuguese manuscripts available. Tomás is hired as a double agent by the Iranian and the CIA to work on a manuscript written by Albert Einstein whose content seems to be so extraordinary that it could shake the world. Its title, Die Gottesformel : The God Formula. The enigma surrounding this ultimate legacy places Tomás on a possible nuclear conflict involving Israel and Iran. But, more importantly, it puts him on the trail of the greatest mystery of all. The scientific proof of God’s existence. Also avalaible:
By the same author:
Topsy Turvy 21 February 2013 Rights sold: Russia (AST/Astrel) Paris, 1998. A bookseller has been killed in his shop. The only clues to be found by the corpse are two Jules Verne’s original editions that have been mangled. Milo Jassy, bouquiniste along the Seine, must solve the case for he might become a victim himself... 22
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KARINE GIEBEL
ÉRIC GIACOMETTI & JACQUES RAVENNE
Karine Giébel was born in 1971. Her first novel, Terminus Elicius
(La Vie du rail, 2004) won the Marseille Detective Novel Award in 2005. It was followed by Meurtres pour Rédemption (republished by Fleuve Éditions in 2010). She is now published by Editions Belfond.
Jacques Ravenne is the pseudonym of a high-ranking Freemason with intimate knowledge of the history and culture of the Order. See Jacques Ravenne on page 37. Éric Giacometti used to be an investigative journalist who reported extensively on Freemasonic mores.
The Shadow
ANTOINE MARCAS’ FREEMASON INVESTIGATIONS
8 March 2012 Sample English translation and Reader’s report available Rights sold: Germany (Berlin Verlag), Poland (Sonia Draga), Korea (Balgeunsesang), Turkey (Pegasus), Vietnam (Maison d’édition des femmes)
Over 2.2 million copies sold A series of 9 suspenseful thrillers that introduce the reader to the secrets of Freemasonry and offer an enlightening historical parallel to modern investigations.
Cognac & Marseille Detective Novel Award 2012 Nearly 220,000 copies sold
English translation available Rights sold: Brazil (Objetiva), Bulgaria (Millenium), Czech Republic (Dobrovsky), Denmark (Cicero), Germany (Rowohlt), Hungary (IPC), Italy (Newton Compton), Japan (Kodansha), The Netherlands (De Boekerij), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Portugal (Europa America), Russia (Veche), Spain (Random House Mondadori), Turkey (Pegasus), Poland (Publicat), US (The French Book)
The perfect crime exists. It is deceitful, it takes its time and, most of all, it doesn’t appear to anyone… but the victim.
Volume 9.
The Illuminati’s Reign
“SUCCESS!! Relentless plot line coupled with a fascinating portrait of a woman.”
12 June 2014
Over 240,000 copies sold
Metro
Freemason detective Antoine Marcas faces a secret society that claims to come from the Illuminati.
The Innocence of the Damned
Marcas has to trace a conspiration whose roots can be found in the French Revolution and that has crossed time and places to the Silicon Valley. He would have to find out what is right and what is wrong and escape the trap of conspiracy theories.
5 May 2012 Sample English translation and Reader’s report available Rights sold: Poland (Sonia Draga), Korea (Balgeunsesang), Turkey (Pegasus)
“A new investigation even more enthralling than the previous ones, instilling doubt (and fear) about a possible manipulation of masses by technological excesses.”
Nearly 115,000 copies sold Beat at their own game.
After spending many years in jail, Raphaël is released and soon leads his younger brother to a jewellery heist on Place Vendôme. But the initial plan goes wrong and William is seriously injured. The fugitives end up in an isolated farm where Sandra, a vet, is taken hostage and forced to cure William. But the boys ignore that they are in the Devil’s House. From predators, they’ll soon become targets of a pitiless monster.
“In this oppressive and closed environment, the author gives life to complex, even inhuman characters that she refuses to condemn, the reader is the only judge. We finish the book exhausted and seriously shaken up.” Version Femina
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Le Point
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Jean Acacio’s Misadventures
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Satan Was an Angel Till Death Do us Unite The Hungry Shadows
Rights sold: Germany, Spain, Italy
3 November 2016 Follow Jean Acacio, a colourful character in his misadventures and discover the Freemasonry, a so-called secret society, which is actually only discreet.
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> NOIR / DOMESTIC SUSPENSE
CHRISTIAN CARAYON
SOPHIE LOUBIÈRE
A Breath, A Shade
See Sophie Loubière on pages 7 and 30.
Rights sold: Germany (BTB), Italy (Sperling & Kupfer), Spain (Salamandra), The Netherlands
“The slightest shadow, the lightest breath.” The Hare and the Frogs by Jean de la Fontaine 1980. A party to celebrate the end of summer is in full swing in the southern part of the Massif Central. Justine, Guillaume, Emmanuel and Florie, aged 10 to 14, are given the permission to sleep on a small island in the middle of a lake. When the parents don’t see them coming back in the morning, they swim there and discover a horror scene: three children have been slaughtered and the fourth one has been left for dead. 2014. Whole families – those of the victims and of the many suspects –, the town and even the region never got over this trauma. Marc-Édouard is a history teacher in Toulouse, whose career has come to a standstill. His personal life is not going better (his wife has left him and Siobhan, one of his students, has tried to commit suicide after the end of their affair). A disastrous gala at the university drives him to see a psychiatrist. There, he confesses that his life has been overshadowed by fear because of the multiple murder that took place when he was 11 years old. To get rid of it, Marc-Édouard starts over the investigation, on the pretext of writing a thesis.
• An unputdownable thriller. • When the sense of the intrigue of Michel Bussi meets the faultless narration of Pierre Lemaitre. • The rights have been sold in 4 countries before the French publication after auctions and preempts.
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The Stone Boy
14 April 2011 English translation and Reader's report available Rights sold: US (Grand Central), UK (Sphere), Czech Republic (Motto) Film rights sold
Provisional cover
(Luitingh-Sijthoff) 14 April 2016 Sample English translation and Reader’s report available
Nearly 80,000 copies sold A Hitchcockian suspense.
Madame Préau feels that something isn’t right with her neighbours. They have two perfectly healthy children, but a third one appears from time to time and seems to be calling in for help by throwing pebbles at her window. The police refuse to listen.
“The Stone Boy is an absorbing psychological thriller.” The Times
“This novel demonstrates that with such writers as Loubière, Fred Vargas and Pierre Lemaître, French noir is in the ascendant.” Financial Times
BARBARA ABEL Barbara Abel is a renowned author of thrillers formerly published at Editions du Masque and now at Editions Belfond.
• The cocoon-like atmosphere in protected suburbs, where the pace Christian Carayon is a history teacher and a true lover of cinema. Un souffle, une ombre is his third novel.
is easy, serves as a backdrop to tragic stories where madness and the evil flourish. We suffocate in the open ! • In her thrillers, Barbara Abel tells the story of everyday people who are flung into a daily hell from one moment to the next.
Behind Hatred
12 April 2012 Sample English translation and Reader’s report available Film to come!
“If you like “Desperate Housewives”, you will like Derrière la Haine”.
Sequel
Behind the Grief 14 November 2013 Reader’s report available
Elle
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> THRILLERS / NOVELLAS
MICHEL MOATTI
FRANCK THILLIEZ & LAURENT SCALESE
A Mind Like Alice 31 March 2016 Reader’s report available
Should we trust a desperate mother?
Laurent Scalese wrote Le Baiser de Jason, Le Sang de la mariée, La Cicatrice du diable and La Voie des âmes (Éditions Belfond). See Franck Thilliez on pages 4, 18 and 19.
Alice Hoffman wakes up in a clinic alone, after her failed attempt to kill herself. Memories and pain are coming back slowly: Franck, her 11-year old son, has disappeared during a flood in Burgundy. She meets at the clinic a policeman who seems to think that Franck did not die that fateful day. They will team up to find out the terrifying truth.
Blood and Ink 6 June 2013
Nearly 20,000 copies sold
Michel Moatti is an academic and a journalist. His first two books, historical novels, were well received by the critics. See on page 33.
An author has been betrayed by his publisher. Will his sole imagination allow him to rewrite history?
FRANÇOIS-XAVIER DILLARD Do it For Mummy
13 March 2014 Sample English translation and Reader’s report available
When a mother lead her child to take the blame for her own crime, what kind of grown-up could he become?
Early 70’s, Sébastien lives with his mother and teenage sister. One argument too many and his sister is sent to a psychiatrist hospital and his mother to prison. Years later, Sébastien leads a normal life as a doctor, raising his two daughters after the tragic death of his wife. The seemingly perfect life shatters when children patients of Sébastien die, and fears from the past thus resurface.
“A 100% French thriller which restores the prestige of the genre with a gripping story depicting, through the viewpoints of different characters, present lives haunted by a past tragedy, until the shocking finale!” Trends in Riviera
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MAXIME CHATTAM Maxime Chattam published a trilogy (Michel Lafon) followed
by “Le Cycle de la vérité” and a series “Autre-monde” (Albin Michel). Pocket publishes all of Maxime Chattam’s works in paperback.
Carnage
12 May 2010 Rights sold: UK (Gallic Books), Russia (Ripol)
Over 130,000 copies sold
A high-school student shoots his classmates: a tragic and isolated event in New York… that is multiplying.
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> EXPLOSIVE AND SURPRISING
ANTOINE PAJE
NADINE MONFILS
Reader’s report available Rights sold: Italy (Tre60), China (Beijing Xiron Books) Antoine Paje managed a business and worked abroad for several years until he realized that he wasn’t happy. This is how he decided to learn to get to know himself. His books are based on his personal experiences and aim at helping others.
Elvis Cadillac 2 June 2016
When (Belgian) beer is flowing freely but money is scarce: a deadly combination!
And She Spoke to Me of Maple Trees, the Smile of Water and Eternity
Driving a pink Cadillac and always with his dog Priscilla, Elvis Cadillac is the worst Elvis impersonator. But that doesn’t stop him from being booked for corny weddings or tasteless parties. Life is good for him! Until his momma, who disappeared when he was five, comes back in his life when she realizes that there is some dough to make with him. His first mission: the birthday of a rich old woman who knew love on Blue Moon. But everyone in the family wants to see the old bird die to get their hands on the money and Elvis finds himself surrounded by suspicious deaths...
12 November 2015
Life offers minutes of eternity that we let fly by.
Alexandre Kraunos thought he was living the perfect life. The death of Elise, his elderly neighbor who pampered him, makes him realize that the present never existed for him, nor the past for that matter. Every minute was just a step to the next one. Thanks to reunions, new encounters and a little help from destiny, he will be able to spot minutes which can offer switch in a life…
And He Spoke to Me of Cherry Trees, Dust and a Mountain
• A fierce social critique filled with
2 January 2014
Nadine Monfils is an artist, writer and direc-
Nearly 70,000 copies sold One may need a whole life to learn how to walk.
Paul Lamarche thought he was living the life he had always wanted until the moment he is arrested while on a festive tour of the USA. There he meets someone who will provoke a total change in him and liberate for good all the fears that had hindered his existence.
SOPHIE LOUBIÈRE
Things Left Unsaid
See Sophie Loubière on pages 7 and 27.
8 January 2015
A trip down memory lane.
François Valent, a 82 year-old retired journalist, doesn’t expect anything from life anymore. But a trip with his rebellious grandson Antoine will help him unveil the secrets that have shattered his whole life and have always fed his pain and shame. He’ll thus have to confront the ghosts of his childhood that abruptly ended in the Aveyron region during a bloody and untold episode of WWII.
MARIJOSÉ ALIE The Procession 7 January 2016
Magical realism deep in the Amazonian forest.
In Campan, a small village deep in the Amazonian jungle, the quiet life of the inhabitants is disturbed. A mysterious procession is following the river. Rumours of women from all over the world, of a treasure are spreading. Nobody knows where this is heading, not even the members. But the experience will change everybody’s life forever.
tenderness and the inimitable “Belgian surrealism”.
tor. She has written over forty novels. Her first feature film is called Madame Edouard and her next one is to come. Elvis Cadillac is her first title published by Fleuve Editions that will soon become a series!
SÉBASTIEN GENDRON According to the «Six Degrees of Separation» theory, Sébastien Gendron, born in 1970, is one handshake away from George Clooney, and thus only two handshakes away from Barack Obama.
Selective Recycling 6 February 2014
Discount Contract Killer.
After spending several years as a hit man, Dick Lapelouse decides to start working in the discount industry. He offers a complete catalogue at reduced prices for his assassination skills to anyone who feels threatened by any number of hassles: judicial officer, neighbour, violent husband, insensitive mistress, etc…
“By writing a book that brilliantly uses the codes of the genre while at the same time bringing a true touch of novelty, Sébastien Gendron may just be a very promising young author.” Evene
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JEAN D’AILLON
EDWARD HOLMES AND GOWER WATSON 5 February 2012
Over 40,000 copies sold 2 volumes available
When Paris was under English control.
The clever reinterpretation of the Holmes and Watson myth, set in Paris governed by the English, during the Hundred Years’ War.
Jean d’Aillon is the cult author of historical crimes.
He has written 5 series and 35 novels with 750,000 copies sold.
MICHEL MOATTI Back to Whitechapel Sample English translation available
The true story of Jack the Ripper: Conclusions of an in-depth investigation
In a London devastated by the Blitz, Amelia Pritlowe, a nurse, finds out she is the daughter of Mary Jane Kelly, Jack the Ripper’s last victim. Burned by such a background, she decides to investigate the cold case. • This novel is based on the author’s own quest. During 3 years, Michel Moatti dissected the records (press reviews, forensic reports, investigation documents from Scotland Yard, testimonies etc…) and thus gives a more than plausible face to the famous Victorian serial-killer. • The narrator is the only character who did not exist. • As a sociologist, Michel Moatti brilliantly describes life at the time of Jack the Ripper in some London underprivileged quarters. See Michel Moatti on page 28. Also avalaible :
Blackout Baby
FABRICE BOURLAND
JEAN-PIERRE ALAUX
Fabrice Bourland is a great admirer of Edgar Allan Poe, Jean Ray, Robert Louis Stevenson and E.T.A. Hoffmann.
Previously in radio and television, Jean-Pierre Alaux is the co-author of an oenodetective series, “Le sang de la Vigne” (Éditions Fayard), which has become a major TV show in France.
THE DETECTIVES OF STRANGE
CRIME & MONUMENTS
Over 50,000 copies sold
Join Séraphin Cantarel for a tour of France’s most beautiful monuments (Albi, Cordouan lighthouse, Reims Cathedral, Mont Saint-Michel, Rocamadour) on the trail of antique looters, villainous gravediggers and other dubious auctioneers!
English translations available Rights sold: UK (Gallic Books) 5 volumes available
A pair of heroes that tends to remind us of the most famous detectives of all times in a series of extraordinary investigations in which supernatural mixes with real life.
“A series of investigations with France’s most beautiful monuments as a background.”
“It’s as if you’re reading an Edgar Allan Poe corrected by Conan Doyle; or the other way around.”
La Dépêche du Midi
Point de Vue
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JEAN-LUC BIZIEN
VIVIANE MOORE
Jean-Luc Bizien used to be a teacher. He published numerous children’s and adults’ books.
Of Irish-Italian origin, Viviane Moore is completely French, despite her name. Her first novels were published in 1997, to immediate success.
ALCHEMIA
A CURIOUS PSYCHIATRIST
6 February 2014
This is how profiling started…
2 volumes available Follow Sybille Le Noir, a strong and unconventional young woman well versed in alchemy, in the tumultuous times of the Wars of Religion. Teamed up with Jean de Montcel, a policeman, she will have to solve crimes surrounded by alchemy and its mysteries.
A Sherlock Holmes specialist in psychology and his dauntless assistant form a daring duo who reminds us of "The Avengers" series.
"With an unyielding plot that is as sharp as a knife, Jean-Luc Bizien tells a fast-paced story about the pursuit of a criminal mastermind." Dauphiné Libéré
Over 25,000 copies sold
“A fascinating thriller with the wars of religion as a backdrop.” Page des libraries
JEAN-PIERRE BOURS
Jean-Pierre Bours has published several books. Now retired, he focused on his two favourite subjects: xvith century Germany and the myth of Faust.
Indulgences
3 volumes available
15 December 2014
The struggle of two women eager to fulfill their destinies.
BRIGITTE AUBERT Brigitte Aubert works as a program planner for the cinema and
has published fifteen or so thrillers (Le Seuil), as well as detective novels for young adults.
THE CINEMATOGRAPH DETECTIVE This series covers the years 1890 to 1900 and the highly original plots are based on the cinema, the opium of the decade that totally remodeled the 20th Century’s imaginary.
“Orchestrating unstoppable suspense and skillfully manipulating the art of the cliffhanger and the unexpected, Brigitte Aubert has begun a promising series.” Ciné Live
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1500, Holy Roman Empire. In a world devastated by plague, starvation and war, Eva Mathis abandons her child in the church in Coswig, before being arrested for witchcraft and subjected to an inequitable and barbaric trial. Fifteen years later, as the Reformation is starting in Germany, Gretchen is growing up in a peasant family. When she learns that she’s been taken in, she then starts her identity quest that will lead her on the path of the greatest spirits and artists of her time: Martin Luther, Lucas Cranach or Doctor Faust.
NICOLAS RABEL
Nicolas Rabel works in cinema. Une libération is his first novel.
A Liberation 1 Decembre 2013
Paris, August 1944 : Freed ? A young policeman comes to a retirement home following the murder of one of the resident. There, he meets Odette Dulac, an inoffensive old woman. Their meeting is the chance for Odette to let go her past. Paris, 1940. She is nineteen years old when she is arrested and tortured by the SS. Freed, her commitment to the Resistance is strengthened but the liberation of Paris could cost her much as love is blind when it comes to war… 35
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> HISTORY / XVIII-XIXth CENTURY
JÉRÉMIE GUEZ
JACQUES RAVENNE
3 March 2014
9 January 2014 Rights sold: Poland (Publicat)
The Last Red Tiger
The Marquis de Sade’s Seven Lives
Historical Crime Historia Award 2014
Sade as never seen before…
A soldier on the track of a dissident fighting with the Viet Minh.
Who really knows the true story of the Marquis de Sade? Only one man, Joseph Fouché, the Minister of Police. He will reveal to the Marquis’ eldest son the whole story of Sade and his seven lives: a libertine under Louis XV, a prisoner under Louis XVI, a politician during the French Revolution, a writer during the Directory, a madman during the Empire era, Sade was also a lover madly loved in return. As for his seventh life, it’s yet to be discovered….
March 1946. French troops are sent to South-East Asia to regain control of this part of the world. Dispirited after the death of his wife, Charles Bareuil enrolls in the French Foreign Legion to serve in Indochina. This war will become personal when Charles decides to investigate on an Occidental sniper nicknamed «The Red Tiger» who seems to have moved over the ennemy’s side but who has decided to protect him.
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A story of friendship, love and betrayal with the Indochina war in the background. • A novel in the vein of Apocalyspe Now and Enemy at the Gates.
• Everybody knows the Marquis
de Sade’s infamous reputation but who knows about his life? This fictionalized biography will give you all the details. • Jacques Ravenne recreates with brio the trouble times around the French Revolution.
“An unexpected novel that you cannot put down until the end.” Page des libraries
“Fascinating and well documented.” Livres Hebdo
“A detailed, entertaining, fictionalized and well documented biography.” Midi Libre
Jérémie Guez is 25 and lives in Paris. Le Dernier Tigre Rouge is
his fourth novel after Du Vide plein les Yeux, Paris la Nuit and Balancé dans les Cordes (awarded the Prix SNCF du Polar 2013).
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JULIETTE BENZONI
JEAN-LOUIS FETJAINE
Juliette Benzoni was born in Paris. Fervent Alexandre Dumas reader, she
Born in 1956, Jean-Louis Fetjaine has diplomas in Philosophy and Medieval History. Journalist and editor since 1985, he has written numerous works. With the success of his trilogy, Jean-Louis Fetjaine has quickly imposed himself as one of the main representatives of French Fantasy Fiction.
• Seen through the eyes of the female characters, History
Guinevere
began her own career as a novelist in 1964 with the Catherine series that has been translated into 22 languages. She has since written almost 60 novels. The Catherine series, The Florentine, The Gerfaut and Marianne have been made into televised versions. (from the Middle Ages to the thirties) is brought back to life through these fast paced adventures fueled with passion. • One of France’s most read authors, Juliette Benzoni has captured 50 million readers in over 22 countries.
MARIANNE 5 volumes available The prodigious life of Marianne d’Asselnat de Villeneuve begins in England, at her aunt’s place, who has taken her in after her parents were guillotined during the Reign of Terror. Her adolescence suddenly ends the day that she marries the handsome Francis Cranmere, whom she had secretly been eyeing for a long time. After a terrifying wedding night Marianne must flee and return to France where a man whom she had been taught to hate day after day is the ruler: Napoleon.
THE GERFAUT IN THE MIST 4 volumes available Gilles Goello, bastard destined for priesthood, escapes from university in Vannes after meeting a young poor aristocrat named Judith who gives him three years to become worthy of her. One year later, he embarks for America, to join Lafayette’s troops and becomes a war hero. Gilles thus discovers the power he has over women and how much he needs them, especially after the passion that Site, a beautiful Native American woman, incites in him.
CATHERINE 6 volumes available Amidst the 100 year war, Catherine Legoix is desperately in love with the noble Arnaud de Montsalvy, but Phillipe le Bon, Duke of Burgundy, is courting her with his desire. After marrying the Duke’s silver cleaner, Catherine’s destiny seems sealed. However, as she becomes a victim of her own destiny, Catherine blindly follows her dream of love.
13 February 2014
Thanks to Merlin, Arthur has reclaimed his father’s throne and marries Guinevere, the daughter of King Leo of Great Carmelide. But Merlin soon discovers that she is a demon, a White Lady harbinger of great disasters.
THE ELF CHRONICLES Rights sold: Portugal (Europa America), Russia (Hemiro) A prequel to “The Trilogy of the Elves”.
“An efficient style capable of recapturing the magic and passion of ancient times.” Le Monde “And what if Fetjaine had invented political fantasy?” Le Magazine littéraire
MICHAEL MOORCOCK & FABRICE COLIN German bombardments punctuated Michael Moorcock’s childhood which may explain his somber and apocalyptic vision of the world. He has been the king of heroic fantasy ever since the first "Elric" appeared in 1961.
Fabrice Colin has written over thirty novels for both adults and teenagers. Awarded on many occasions, his works include comic book scenarios as well as radio plays.
Soul Drinkers 19 May 2011
This episode takes place after the fall of Melniboné, more precisely between “While the Gods Laugh” and “The Singing Citadel” in The Weird of the White Wolf. 38
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> 100% DIGITAL / SERIES
JULIEN HERVIEUX
TOUR DE FRANCE 2013
A LIFE AT WAR
To celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Tour de France, 12-21 has put 5 detective stories on line based on the tour, the quintessential sporting event of the summer.
A blog and a digital series on WWI.
May My Injury Be Fatal by Jean-Bernard Pouy An Inescapable Smile by Gilles Legardinier The Tour from Father to Son by Benoît Séverac Deathbone Kneecaps by Jean-Marc Souvira One Last Tour by Franck Thilliez
Antoine Drouot is 24 in 1914. He starts a diary in which he writes down his, his family’s and friends’ everyday life.
CAMILLE-LAURE MARI Awakening
The first digital and apocalyptic series published in real time!
Martin Hurston is a doctor and researcher in neuropsychiatry. He wakes up from a coma whose real causes are unclear and consequences huge and disturbing. Is he an Awake? But who are the Awakes exactly?
• 21 episodes were posted (without DRM) from 1st to 21st December 2012, rumored date for the end of the world.
Camille-Laure Mari is 23, she’s an Arts student. She has won a writing contest organised with the website WeLoveWords.
JEAN-FRANÇOIS PRÉ
SHORT CRIME NOVELS A hundred noir novellas.
Most of the texts by Sophie Loubière have been broadcasted during the author’s radio program on France Inter. Those by Gérard Moss are original titles.
DEADLY AUGUST
Jean-Francois Pré invites you to Deauville, Paris-Plage, La Baule, Biarritz and Nice to investigate with a retired commissioner who only dreams of holiday.
• Each Thursday in August 2013, 12-21 readers made a gruesome discovery in a pleasant environment.
SHORT EROTICAS A series dedicated to sexy breaks.
Very short (4,500 characters) to short (up to 40,000 characters), these 27 easy-toread and easy-to-access short stories are declined in different colors depending on the erotic content : 1 - Sweet Pleasures 2 - Spicy Pleasures 3 - Hot Pleasures
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> QUIRKY DOCS
GAËTAN DUCHATEAU & FLORENT GUERLAIN
OLIVIER MAGNY
Left Wing/Right Wing 3 November 2016
What divides the Left Wing and the Right Wing ? All kind of subjects, serious or less, are treated with graphics and illustrations in order to find out what really divides the Left Wing and the Right Wing. • A political handbook both instructive and irreverent.
Gaëtan Duchateau and Florent Guerlain are the co-founder
of a creation studio and have worked with brands, media and publishers.
Stuff Parisians Like
4 November 2010 English translation available Rights sold: Taiwan (My House Publishing), Germany (Blanvalet)
Nearly 74,000 copies sold
This book describes like no other what truly makes Parisian life so unique thanks to a collection of short anecdotes. Olivier Magny is a real Parisian: he was born and raised in the City of Lights and shares here his spot-on analyses and priceless insights about his city. And he does all that with great humor and wit. So if you want to know Paris as it is, understand things beyond clichés, learn the tricks and phrases that will make you blend in and have a good laugh all at the same time - this might just be the book for you.
“Hilariously perceptive.” New York Magazine “Indispensable and irresistible.”
JULIEN GOSSELIN, PIERRE MARTIN & JOHANN TRÜMMEL Julien, Pierre and Johann created a blog in 2011. They also have their
own column in a trendy cultural magazine and they now have their own book.
The List 8 November 2012
Who has never imagined the life of passers-by while sitting on the terrace of a café?
“The ultimate politically incorrect book.” Avantages “A dictionary that is badly funny.” Métro
Le Point
Into Wine
21 November 2013 English translation available Rights sold: Taiwan (Cube Press)
An invitation to enjoy one of life’s greatest pleasures: drinking!
What if wine was not so complicated? Olivier Magny invites us to rediscover wine with humour and a breath of fresh air; and shares his expertise in order to show us that treating yourself to pleasure is not only easy, but absolutely necessary. • Olivier Magny is to wine what Jamie Oliver is to food! • A book full of optimism and practical solutions to boost your health, bring happiness and joy.
“A pleasant and instructive read.” Le Monde
Olivier Magny founded hiw own wine-tasting company that has taught French wine to 50,000 people. A native Parisian himself, he lives part-time in the United States. When he is in Paris, you could easily find him in his wine bar, Ô Chateau located 68 rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 42
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LITTLE DICTIONARIES OF PASSIONS
AGNÈS LEDIG AND TEDDY LINET My Gynaecological Guide
16 condensed titles available at Pocket 70 titles available at Éditions Plon
21 January 2016
Over 1 million copies sold
A simple and fun guide to understand your body and make the appropriate choices.
The “Dictionaries of Passions” compile wanderings by those fervent about their favorite subject in the form of alphabetically ordered articles. These works are not intended to be encyclopedic, but rather subjective essays (hence the term “passion”). Thirteen years later, these reference works have been reinvented in a more compact format at Pocket under the name of “Little Dictionary of Passions”.
Agnès Ledig and Teddy Linet give professional advices to help women, from puberty to menopause, become the actresses of their health.
Agnès Ledig is a midwife as well as a successful writer and Teddy Linet is a
gynaecologist.
The best known in their field have contributed to this collection, published at Éditions Plon since 2000, which is gathering nearly 70 titles: Max Gallo and Claude Allègre of the Academy of Sciences, Frédéric Vitoux from the Académie Française, Christian Millau, co-founder of the Gault-Millau culinary guides, Bernard Pivot and Didier Decoin of the Académie Goncourt and other stars. Titles availables: Gastronomy, Science, History of France, Rock, Trains, Napoleon, Judaism, Bible, India, Catholicism, Cats, Spain, France, Sky and stars, Venice, Languages, De Gaulle, Rugby, Gardens, Television, Wine
« A smart and feminist guide […], the perfect book to put an end to some clichés.” Elle
JADDO Through the blog www.jaddo.fr, Jaddo uses a pseudonym to comment on the joys, sorrows, the flaws and the beauty of the profession.
Just After Bear Taming
JEAN-MICHEL ESPITALLIER Jean-Michel Espitallier is a writer, poet and musician.
Fame 2 February 2012 Caustic or moving, we laugh – forced sometimes – at this new spectacle of the “show biz” society, in which we have become actors (accomplices), more or less voluntarily.
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6 October 2011
Over 51,000 copies sold
Rights sold: Germany (Ullstein), Italy (Vallardi) Confessions of a suburbian GP. Funny and full of emotion, these intimacies downplay the doctor / patient relationship.
If you liked this topic, you will like
Cédric Dassas, Valérie Agha, Didier Lestrade and Gilles Pialoux
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NON-FICTION / SOCIETY
JEAN-LUC HENNIG
JEAN-MARC DANIEL
Jean-Luc Hennig used to be a journalist at Libération and Rolling Stone. He
Jean-Marc Daniel is an economic teacher and has written several books on
has written thirty books, both fiction and non-fiction.
the subject.
The Literary and Erotic Dictionary of Fruits and Vegetables
The Unconventional History of Economic Ideas
25 August 2016 Just like flowers, fruits and vegetables have their own language and if we could still understand them, they would tell us about our most secret tastes and disgusts. From apricots to truffles, through gherkins, turnips, olives, parsley, grapes and tomatoes, the author reveals their origins, alleged powers and attributes but also how famous people, writers, doctors, proverbs used them. He also associates erotic images to each of them for a surprising effect! • A daring and inspiring thought on feelings and delight.
27 October 2016 Focused on authors such as Adam Smith, David Ricardo or John Maynard Keynes and their ideas, this book allows a better grasp of today’s theories or how economics has become a science that is now at the heart of social issues. • Go off the beaten track and educate yourself thanks to the author’s gift of teaching and lively writing.
THIERRY MAILLET Thierry Maillet is a marketing consultant, a columnist at Le Nouvel Économiste
and a teacher. He also leads a seminar at the Science-Po University in Paris. As early as 2001, he invented the terminology “consum’actor”, which is now commonly used.
Marketing and its History 2 september 2010
The eternal search for the ideal consumer.
The book’s objective is to describe the advances in marketing by demonstrating how the front-runners in the field have always attempted to adapt to society’s expectations.
ALEXANDRA MIDAL Alexandra Midal is a design historian and theoretician. She has diplomas from both the Sorbonne and Princeton University School of Architecture. She used to be an assistant to Dan Graham. She is now a professor at the Geneva University of Art and Design.
Design
5 November 2009
An Introduction to the History of a Discipline.
Based on an absolute belief in an object’s power to permanently transform and improve the world we live in, the author demonstrates the ways in which design has proposed to reform political, social and artistic circles and how it has, in certain cases, become a genuine political tool. 46
JEAN-MARC FERRY Jean-Marc Ferry is a philosopher and has taught at the university of Nantes and is now a honorary teacher at the University of Brussels. He is the author of twenty books.
Reason and Faith 26 September 2013
What role Faith can play in our modern world?
Ratio et fides, reason and faith used to be complementary. However, with the secularization of our modern societies, they are now opposed. The book offers to consider them together and to reconcile them. Fides sive ratio, faith is also reason.
JEAN-PHILIPPE DOMECQ Jean-Philippe Domecq is a novelist and an essayist.
What Speed Tells Us
26 September 2013 Formula One is the most watched sport on the planet, almost on par with football. Highly technical, entrusted to a few demigods who are the drivers, these modern chariot races fascinate and reflect our image as a society that is more and more dependent on the technology. The Grand Prix, circuits, drivers write yet another page about the sociology of the second half of the XXth century.
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> NON-FICTION / PHILOSOPHY
FABRICE MIDAL INTRODUCTION TO GREAT THINKERS
Painter, editor and poet, PhD in Philosophy, Fabrice Midal teaches at the University of Paris VIII.
Why Poetry?
Titles availables Gilles Deleuze Claude Levi-Strauss Jean-Paul Sartre
7 October 2010
The Heritage of Orpheus. What if we knew nothing about poetry? “Poetic” today is often associated with incidental, beautiful or even soppy. Poetry, however, allows one to look upon words, the world, even existence from a completely different perspective, and it is the poets who guard the harmony between man and his environment. Through the exploration of poetry’s founding myth, Fabrice Midal shows us how to listen to and read a poem.
Jacques Derrida Pierre Bourdieu Martin Buber Jean Malaurie
A very clear overall picture of key concepts by great thinkers from the second half of the 20th century.
These guides mainly target students willing to adapt, thanks to one single volume, to the essential points of authors that may be difficult to grasp. These titles have been written by a new generation of specialists.
• Quotations from poets from all ages and from all continents.
JEAN-PHILIPPE DOMECQ See Jean-Philippe Domecq on page 48.
PIERRE JACERME
Critique’s Comedy 5 November 2015
Pierre Jacerme is a philosophy teacher.
A key reflection on the history of contemporary art, its criteria and its wanderings.
Introduction to the Occidental Philosophy 26 September 2013
Rights sold: Italy (Marinotti) If you liked this topic, you will like Understanding Modern Art by Fabrice Midal 48
An introduction to the four pillars of the Occidental Philosophy: Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plato and Descates. Without being to erudite, but not too simple either, the author comments the fundamental texts of Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plato and Descartes. 49
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