Frankfurt Book Fair 2014 Rights Catalogue

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Highlights – Fiction  Commercial & Literary fiction Blue Book / Blue Book by Elise Fontenaille N’Diaye ……..……………………………………………………5 On ne joue pas avec le diable / Don’t Mess with the Devil by Patrick Mosconi ………..…………………….……6 L’Hypothèse du prototype / The Hypothesis of a Prototype by Frédéric Touchard ……….…………………….…7 Voyage de noces avec ma mère / Honeymooning with my Mother by Véronique Sels …………………..………….8 La Partition des illusions / The Partition of Illusions by Frédérick d’Onaglia ……………………..……….…….9 L’Enfant des Maures / The Children of the Massif des Maures by Frédérick d’Onaglia …..………..……..….……9 Des vallées à vélo (des pentes et des coteaux) / Riding allong valleys (hillsides and slopes) by Barbara Constantine ...10 Personne ne peut arrêter une fille qui rêve / A Girl with a Dream is Unstoppable by Brigitte Hemmerlin …..……11 Dark nights / Dark nights by Denis Jeambar ……………………..………………………………….………..11 Fenicia / Fenicia by Pierre Brunet …………………………………………….………………………………12 Xenia/ Xenia by Gérard Mordillat …………………………………………...……………………..…..……..13 1 rue des Petits-Pas / 1 rue des Petits-Pas by Nathalie Hug ……………………………………..………………14 Un automne en clair-obscur / Autumn Chiaroscuro by Martine Delomme ……………………….……………14 A l’ombre de nos larmes / In the Shadow of Tears by Éric Le Nabour …………………………...…………….15 Le Fils maudit / The Accursed Son by Françoise Bourdon ……………………………………….…………….15

 Suspense fiction Souviens-toi de demain / Remember Tomorrow by Vanessa Caffin …………………………...…………………16 Et je te donnerai les trésors des ténèbres / I give you the Treasures of Darkness by Jean Bertolino ……………….16 Nouvelle collection de polars / New imprint of Detective fiction…………………………………………….……17

 Historical fiction Les montagnes chantaient la liberté / Over the Mountains to Freedom by Hélène Legrais ….….………………..…17 Les Amants de Sainte-Catherine / The Lovers of Sainte-Catherine by Jean-Baptiste Bester ………………………18 La Fiancée du kamikaze / The Kamikaze’s Fiancee by Jean-Jacques Antier………………………………………18 L’Homme aux ciseaux d’argent / The Man with Silver Scissors by Antonin Malroux …………………………….19 L’Enfant de la cerisaie / The Cherry Orchard Child by Geneviève Senger ….……………………………………19

Highlights – Non-Fiction  Lifestyle Voyage d’un gourmet à Paris / A Gourmet’s Journey in Paris by Jean-Claude Ribaut ………..…..…………..……20 Assortiment de friandises / Assorted Sweets for the Mind by Agnès Abécassis……………..………………..……20 La Pause / The Break by Alban Perinet & Jean-Baptiste Gendarme ……………………………………….21-23

 Documentary / Society La Violence de l’humanisme / Humanism and Violence by Patrice Rouget ……..………………………………..24 Nous n’étions pas des héros / We weren’t Heroes by Benoît Hopquin ………………………………………….24 Nos poisons quotidiens / Our Daily Poisons by Patrice Halimi…………………………………………………25

 Narrative Non-Fiction /Autobiography Poutine / Putin by Frédéric Pons ……………………………………….………………………………….….25 L’Homme de cèdre / The Man of Cedar by Nada Anid ……………………………………………………….26

Backlist – Fiction  Literary fiction L’Entre-temps / The Meantime by René Guitton ...……….……………………………………………………..27 Le Marcheur de Fès / The Walker of Fez by Éric Fottorino ……………..………….…………………………..27 La Demoiselle des tic-tac / Miss Tick-Tacks by Nathalie Hug ..…………………………………………………28 L’Enfant-rien / The Nothing Child by Nathalie Hug …………………...…...……………….………………….28 Ce que savait Jennie / Jennie’s Truth by Gérard Mordillat…………….……..…………………………….……..29 Le Muscle et la Chair / Muscle and Flesh by Patrick Olivier Meyer………………………………………………29 Ma vie précaire / My Precarious Life by Elise Fontenaille N’Diaye ..……………………………………………30 Le Palais de mémoire / The Memory Palace by Elise Fontenaille N’Diaye ………………………………………30

Backlist – Fiction  Commercial fiction Et puis, Paulette… / And Then Came Paulette… by Barbara Constantine ...…………………….…………..……….31 Tom, petit Tom, tout petit homme, Tom /Tom, Little Tom, Little Man, Tom by Barbara Constantine…………..……32 À Mélie, sans mélo / To Mélie, without Melodrama by Barbara Constantine ….………………………………………33 Allumer le chat / Turn on the Cat by Barbara Constantine..……………………………………………..……..……33 Hôtel Miranda / Hotel Miranda by Iman Bassalah …………………..…………...…………………………………34 L’Iranienne / The Iranian Woman by Maurice Bigio………….……………………………………….…..…………34 Week-end surprise / A Week-end Away by Agnès Abécassis…...………………………………………....…………35 Le Théorème de Cupidon / Cupid’s Theorem by Agnès Abécassis………………………………………...…………35 L’Avant-dernière Chance / The Next-to-Last Chance by Caroline Vermalle………………………………………….36 La Mémoire des autres / Other People’s Memories by Annelise Corbrion…………………………………..………….36 Une terre pour demain / A Home for Future Generations by Gérard Georges ………………………………………..37 Le Berceau de la honte / The Cradle of Shame by Mano Gentil……………………………………………………..37

 Suspense fiction Né pour être sauvage/ Born to Be Wild by Alexis Aubenque .………………………………………………………38 Pour le bien des enfants / For the Children’s Sake by Alexis Aubenque …..………………….………………………38 Robe de marié / The Groom Wore White by Pierre Lemaitre..……. …………………………………………………39 Cadres noirs / High-Profile Management by Pierre Lemaitre …...……………………………..………………………39 La Nuit des enfants-rois / The Prodigies by Bernard Lenteric ….……………………………………………………40 Noces de paille / Straw Wedding by Yves Hughes ……………………………………………………………..……40 Série “Diane Silver” / “Diane Silver ” series by Andrea H. Japp ………….…………………………………….……41 Série “ La Dame sans Terre” / “The Landless Lady ” series by Andrea H. Japp………………………………………42 Monestarium / Monestarium by Andrea H. Japp……………………………………………………………….……43 La Croix de perdition / The Cross of Perdition by Andrea H. Japp ………..…………………………………………43

 Historical fiction Retour au pays bleu/ The Blue Landscape of Home by Françoise Bourdon …….……………………….……………44 La Grange de Rochebrune/ Rochebrune Farm by Françoise Bourdon….………..…………...………………………44 « The Wine Trilogy » by Jean-François Bazin ….……………………..……...…………………………………….…45 Le Sculpteur de nuages / The Carver of Clouds by Jean Anglade…….…….…..…………………………………….46 Je jouerai encore pour nous / I’ll Play Along, For Us by Élise Fischer…...………………………………………..…46 La Dame de Kyoto / The Lady of Kyoto by Éric Le Nabour …………….………………………………………….47 Fernand de Magellan / Magellan, Inventing the World by Patrick Girard …...…………………………………………47 Un Bateau pour l’enfer / The Saint Louis’ Epic by Gilbert Sinoué ………………………………………………….48 La Dame à la lampe / The Lady of the Lamp by Gilbert Sinoué …………………………………………………….48

Backlist – Non-Fiction  Social Sciences Collection “La Petite Bibliothèque des Idées” / “A Little Library of Modern Thought ” series …….…………….49-51 Works by Raymond Aron…………..…………………………………………………………….………………52 Works by Léon Poliakov ……..…………………………………………………………………..………………53 La Critique et la Conviction / Criticism and Conviction by Paul Ricœur …....………………………………………54 Dictionnaire international de la Psychanalyse / International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis by Alain de Mijolla ..…..…54 Bohèmes / The Bohemians by Dan Franck……..………………………………………………………………….55 De Freud à Kafka / From Freud to Kafka by Philippe Réfabert …....……………….…………………….………..55 Rhétorique spéculative / Speculative Rhetoric by Pascal Quignard..…..……………………………………………..56 La Haine de la musique / The Hatred of Music by Pascal Quignard ……..………………..……………………….56 Sur les traces des Chrétiens oubliés / Among the Forgotten Christians by Charles Guilhamon ..........………...………57 Blind Date / Blind Date by Anne Dufourmantelle…..……………………………………………………………57 Krach Machine / The Crash Machine by F.rédéric Lelièvre & François Pilet …………………...………………….58 Un fléau si rentable / A Highly Profitable Scourge ………………………………………………….………………58

 Narrative non-fiction / Autobiography / Biography Femen / Femen by Femen ………………………………………………………………………………………..59 Mémoire d’un fils à papa The Memoirs of a Daddy’s Boy by Marcel Ophuls……………….……………….……….60 Pierre Cardin / Pierre Cardin by Sylvana Lorenz…………………………………………………………………..61 Adolfo Kaminsky, une vie de faussaire / Adolfo Kaminsky, the Life of a Counterfeit Artist by Sarah Kaminsky ......…62 Moi Pierre Seel, déporté homosexuel / I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual by Pierre Seel..……………………....…62 Les Sœurs Beauvoir / The Beauvoir Sisters by Claudine Monteil………………………………………………....…63 Un homo dans la cité / On Being Gay in the Projects by Brahim Naït-Balk…………………….………………..…..63 Staline, vie privée / The Private Life of Stalin by Lilly Marcou……………………………………………………..64 Hermann Hesse, poète ou rien / Hermann Hesse, a Poet and Nothing Else by François Mathieu……………………64

 Lifestyle / Albums Imprint « Une vie de Pintade » …………………………………………………………………………………65 Collection “Petites philosophies” / “A Dose of Philosophy” series by Catherine Rambert ………………..………..66 Bonheur zen / The Most Beautiful Zen Stories by Henri Brunel .……………………………………..…………….67 Conte du chat maître zen / The Tale of the Zen Master Cat by Henri Brunel ………………………...…………….67

BLUE BOOK – Blue Book Elise Fontenaille N’Diaye Elise Fontenaille-N’Diaye brings back to life the peoples of South-West Africa and their plight. This gripping, harrowing, narrative proves her ability to weave impeccable research with immense storytelling skills. She questions at every page our ability to look away from what appears to have been a rehearsal for the final solution.

Blue Book is a startling book based on dramatic, little-known historical fact. While attempting to write a book on her great grandfather, WWI General Charles Mangin, famous for incorporating African troops in the French army, Elise Fontenaille-N’Diaye discovered the 1918 report written by Major Thomas O'Reilly for the British government, documenting the massacre of the Herero people by the Germans between 1904 and 1909, in their colony of German South-West Africa - what is now known as Namibia. What begins as an episode of brutal colonialism becomes the first genocide of the 20st century. General Von Trotha and his troops used the Kalahari desert as a death playground. German “scientists” collected the skulls and bodies of the dead to experiment and devise theories that will support the future Nuremberg Laws - among them, Mengele’s mentor, Dr Eugen Fischer. And in a concentration camp set on Shark Island, off the main land of Lüderitz, they tortured, raped and slaughtered.

"Cold - for the nights are often bitterly cold there - hunger, thirst, exposure, disease and madness claimed scores of victims every day, and cartloads of their bodies were every day carted over to the back beach, buried in a few inches of sand at low tide, and as the tide came in the bodies went out, food for the sharks."

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Elise Fontenaille N’Diaye was born in Nancy and has worked as a journalist. She is the author of numerous novels, including Les Disparues de Vancouver published by Grasset and which received the 2010 Prix ErckmannChatrian, Le Palais de mémoire published by Calmann-Lévy as part of the 2011 Rentrée Littéraire and Ma vie précaire published by Calmann-Lévy in 2012.

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ON NE JOUE PAS AVEC LE DIABLE – Don’t Mess with the Devil Patrick Mosconi This thriller worthy of its Anglo-Saxon counterparts explores the dualities of survival instincts and the multiple facets of love. With this book, Patrick Mosconi develops a study of manners exploring the psychological subtleties of character relations, sure to win over readers generally averse to noir fiction. It can also be seen as a metaphor of the seductive power of today’s ultraliberal world, in spite of its deadly nature and an observation rather than a criticism or, as the famous quote goes, evil is only a good perverted, and vice versa. Forty-eight-year-old Michaël Turner has his work cut out for him: to seduce a beautiful but serious woman who doesn’t normally fool around; to have her fall in love with him, that is, only to end up in bed with his chauffeur, and all without even laying a finger on her. These are the stakes of the game of bluff taken on by the rich and fascinating Anglo-American businessman, who is also an inveterate gambler, on one of his biannual trips to the French casinos. A game that he never loses, proving, or so he believes, that everything can be had for either a price - or an illusion. The cruel game that has never been a problem for his driver Rachid (age 25), glad to take advantage of the opportunity and to perhaps even take revenge on society. But then Rachid falls in love with Elena (age 23), a young Hungarian acting student. The two have just moved in together and form a happy couple. When the limousine rental agency informs Rachid that Turner has personally requested him to be his chauffeur on yet another casino outing, Rachid is thrown into a state of panic. How can he say no to Turner without offending him and getting into trouble at the agency? February 2015 - Fiction Rachid admits his problem to the shocked Elena, who first insults him but then suggests playing the role of the female victim herself, a character role right up her alley. Exhilarated by the idea, she even offers to script the “encounter”. Rachid says no, claiming that Turner would be on to her in a minute, that she would make a fool of herself. Unable to come up with a decent excuse, he decides to accept the job but to tell Turner that he has a urinary tract infection - and then say ciao! The following day, to his surprise, Elena’s scooter hits the Bentley in front of the Georges V just as he and Turner are pulling out. Rachid is furious when Elena manages to get herself invited along… The players are all in place, and now for the moment of truth. Beyond the perversity of the situation and the ambiguity of the threesome’s relations, it is above all a deadly fight for each of the protagonists to exist without losing their integrity, in that fuzzy area between love and humiliation. A road movie with multiple twists and turns until a final unexpected end.

Novelist, screenwriter and painter, Patrick Mosconi is the author of over twenty works, most published with Gallimard, including Louise Brook est morte, Mélancolie and Le Chant de la mort. He is an emblematic French novelist who surfs between “écriture blanche”—writing that is white, blank or neutral—and the roman noir. The present dramatic yet carefully polished novel effortlessly blends the two styles.

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L’HYPOTHÈSE DU PROTOTYPE – The Hypothesis of a Prototype Frédéric Touchard A novel that reinvents the concept of intrigue and an easy-to-read story, despite it’s original subject matter and form. It has that odd musicality so often found in cult novels.

Gaspard has run to the forest with a sack bursting with money and buries the black bag. Armed with a revolver, he walks almost all night long to meet his friend, François. Gaspard is 20; the hold-up was a little more than he had expected. He encounters Eva and takes her hostage; or is she the one who is holding him hostage? Six days of stationary erring for a couple searching for meaning. Six days of woodland voluptuousness and indecision, of deadly games and truth. It has to be love.

L’Hypothèse du prototype

In an atmosphere close to Greek tragedy - a tragedy in the style of Goethe, Desnos, Warhol and Godard -, in the depths of a forest drenched in sunlight, smells and noises, first Eva and Gaspard, and then François, luminous and naive, and Jean, gloomy and on guard, weave a strange tale of pitfalls and subterfuge. Will Gaspard’s father and accomplice, Rémi, be able to discover who his son is and where he has hidden the money? Leading a counter investigation after the sloppy work of the local police, the narrator attempts to reconstruct the tragic but magnificent itinerary of a couple looking for another world, for a miracle, for perfection.

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The author draws on the conventions of tragedy and fable, of crime fiction and pop art, of the avant-garde and courtly romances - with Akim and Zembla as guardian angels - to relate the essential and final downward spiral of the star-crossed lovers.

Frédéric Touchard is a documentary filmmaker for television (La Digue, Crise(s), La fanfare ne perd pas le Nord, États d’âmes, to name a few…) and radio (De quel genre humain est l’Internationale? produced by France-Culture). His debut novel, Nu rouge, was published with Éditions Arléa in 2011. He divides his time between the North of France, Paris and Lisbon.

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VOYAGE DE NOCES AVEC MA MÈRE Honeymooning with my Mother Véronique Sels A comical, lighthearted read with underlying currents of such serious subject matter as couples, divorce, and family dynamics. A therapeutic novel addressing the Oedipus complex of mother-daughter hostility and rivalry, and propounding the humorous and extravagant solution of “killing” the mother. A novel that sweeps you away on a journey. That of an advertising writer who knows how to find phrases that hit home and conjure up an entire imaginary world of the Great American West and old cars!

1987. Anne and Raphaël, just married, are planning a trip to the West coast for their honeymoon – in a red, Ford Mustang convertible! The lovebirds are sure to have the time of their life, until they invite Anne’s mother to come along, that is. In the middle of a divorce, and wallowing in grief, they didn’t have the heart to leave her behind. Over the course of a burlesque road trip, the unusual trio – a frazzled pregnant bride, a scattered and intrusive mother, and a seemingly ideal son-in-law – will settle scores, declare love, and war, and attempt to make sense of the befuddled ties that bind them together. Blending episodes both hilarious and heartfelt, their journey gives us a picture post card of a 1980s America where anything goes - including an encounter with a contract killer specialized in mother-in-laws…

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Belgian author Véronique Sels has published two novels with Editions Genèse, La tentation du pont and Bienvenue en Norlande. A onetime teacher, contemporary dancer and advertising writer, she is also a wife, a mother and a world traveler.

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FRÉDÉRICK D’ONAGLIA Frédérick d’Onaglia’s fascination with Provence goes back to his earliest childhood, and the stories of his maternal grandmother who passed on to him her passion for the contrasts and lore of her native region. His vivid portrayals of Provence, central to all of his books, have earned him an ever-growing readership. He is one of the few French male authors whose work explores the genre of family saga from the feminine viewpoint.

LA PARTITION DES ILLUSIONS – The Partition of Illusions A moving novel packed with complexity and insight. Violin teacher at the Aix-en-Provence conservatory, Camille Delgado sees her life turned upside down the day her husband, Stéphane, is physically violent with her. Domineering by nature, Stéphane has been humiliating her for years, goading her more often than not in front of their confused teenage son, Benjamin. Badly shaken, Camille finally decides to leave her husband. Though no longer under her ex-husband’s influence, she knows the road ahead will be long and difficult: Stéphane wants custody of Benjamin, who has given up on school completely and is in total rebellion. To make matters worse, the teenage boy, manipulated by his father, holds his mother responsible for the breakup of the family.

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In the meantime Camille is trying to make a fresh start. She gets back in touch with Cédric, an old childhood friend, and throws herself into her work teaching, actively participating in the events of the music school now run by the brilliant conductor, Julien Leffert, recently appointed head of prestigious institute. But having lived with a perverse narcissist for fifteen years, Camille has lost confidence in herself and feels deep down she is not allowed to be happy: her son’s well-being is all that matters, even if it means sacrificing her life for his. But how can she reestablish a healthy relationship with her son and when will she be able to meet someone without being riddled by a sense of guilt? Luckily, she is surrounded by people willing to help, including Cédric, her lifelong friend, and Julien, who is quickly becoming a big part of her life…

L’ENFANT DES MAURES– The Children of the Massif des Maures A remarkable family saga of love, loss, passion and intrigue set against the beautiful hill country of the Massif des Maures. A finely rendered novel of haunting narrative and riveting suspense. 32-year-old doctor Maurine Casténat is back in her natal village and intends to both set up a new practice and help her sister, Carole, who is managing the family chestnuts business now that their father has fallen ill. Relations between the two women are strained from the very start. Between her consultations and duties on call, Maurine is rarely around. Carole, in the meantime, must find new financial backers to save the family business, which the economic downturn has brought to the brink of bankruptcy. At the same time the Casténat sisters’ aunt, a nun at the Carthusian monastery in Vernes, reveals disturbing information about a thirty-year old scandal, which had been big news at the time. Maurine starts asking questions, setting off an unexpected wave of violent reactions in the village. Nobody wants to see the long buried business come to light. Emotions run high, Maurine starts getting poison-pen letters… A novel devoted to contemporary and universal themes: environmental and conservation issues; the struggle of reconciling professional responsibilities and personal life; secrets from the past shedding doubt on one’s very identity; the ravages of Alzheimer's disease for sufferers and families alike; the difficulty of committing to a new relationship after losing a spouse. A host of subjects that readers of all ages and walks of life can easily identify with. 9

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French Sales : Book-club editions (France Loisirs & GLM), Large print edition.

DES VALLÉES À VÉLO (DES PENTES ET DES COTEAUX)

Riding along valleys (hillsides and slopes) Barbara Constantine Barbara Constantine's upcoming novel, set in the country as always, is about bicycles and aging people, children and animals but more so… rebellious teenagers, an unhappy overworked father and a great-aunt on Prozac. Theoretically, not the stuff dream vacations are made of. Yet despite the tensions, some knockdown drag-out fights and a few rivers of tears, it is the roaring laughter, the vital discoveries and heartwarming moments that will of course be remembered. Summertime : two short months to heal, learn, get along and love one another ; two short months to do some pretty serious growing up... The eldest of the pack, 18, had first planned on going on vacation alone with his new girlfriend. But he failed his exams, he is broke and he noticed that his dad is slowly going down the drain. So he decides to go to the country with his 8-year-old twin half-brothers and his 13year-old angry half-sister. His great-aunt (75) lives right next door; obviously she'll help out with the kids... She turns out to be too depressed and totally unfit to look out for anything, including herself!

Des vallées à vélo (des pentes et des coteaux)

The four kids are going to have to do it all – all by themselves – in a house without indoor plumbing, TV, Internet or even a washing machine ! They are also going to have to look after the great-aunt, who has taken a turn for the worse. All this, not wanting to add more troubles to his already full plate, without letting their father, Dimitri, know what's going on. Because Dimitri, meanwhile, is in the city to work. He's been working day and night for some time now. Mornings and evenings, at his job as a plumber ; afternoons, at his wife's bookstore. Though he's not really into books the thought of closing the bookstore never even crossed his mind. So he reads the inside covers, bios and bookseller favorites, trying to advise the clients – almost with a smile. Not an easy task for him these days, but “avec le temps”, as the song by Léo Ferré goes, he'll somehow get by... And maybe, after all, through reading, he'll dig up the energy and love that he thought had deserted him.

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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 sold in 20 languages. For the Autumn 2015, Calmann-Lévy will publish a compilation of Barbara Constantine’s four titles, together with an unpublished short novel My beautiful Week-end.

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PERSONNE NE PEUT ARRÊTER UNE FILLE QUI RÊVE

A Girl With a Dream is Unstoppable A young woman is lost to unrequited love; her life will never be the same.

Brigitte Hemmerlin

Based on a widely talked about case from thirty years ago, Brigitte Hemmerlin recounts a law school student’s obsession with a famous criminal lawyer. The moment Claire sets eyes on the picture of Gabriel Doré in a major weekly magazine, she falls head over heels in love with him. To seduce the man, who doesn’t even know she exists, she will gradually weave her way into his life. First she takes on a summer job as his personal assistant. Then she becomes friends with Dominique, the law firm’s chief secretary. Though Gabriel spurns her advances, Claire is eventually made an associate at the firm where she will work for next several years. Hurt but happy, Claire will give up everything – family, fiancé, friends and future – just to be near the man she loves. When in time she is fired, she refuses to give up her passion. Instead, she destroys her own life just to have him near her. From law firm to courtroom by way of prison – where the suffering of the convicted is clearly March 2014 – Literary Fiction palpable – Claire, guided by love, loses control of her life and ultimately commits an act that will 240 p - French Sale : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche). send her to prison. In a story reflecting both an era, prior to the abolition of the death penalty, and an environment, that of the judicial system, Brigitte Hemmerlin gives us a fictionalized account of her own past, her elegant prose moving effortlessly from dream to reality and back again. Brigitte Hemmerlin was a lawyer from 1978 to 1981. She is now a journalist and a writer and she is currently working on her second novel.

DARK NIGHTS – Dark Nights Denis Jeambar It all started at the Cerf family estate. The last descendant of the illustrious family has just purchased a highlycoveted painting, a thoroughbred at a gallop. Suddenly… In a matter of seconds, life will never be the same for the protagonists of the present stories, a totally immersive tour de force that is also, through a strange play of mirrors, an invitation to self-reflection. Twenty-nine short stories spun together around a common thread: nighttime. In a nocturnal journey from opera stage to trendy Parisian bar, the author conjures up a host of characters who will see the world in a different light – and shape. A moment in the life of: a diva, a baby-faced boxer and a tightrope walker; a man who decides to become a cold-blooded killer, an unfortunate collector and a cutthroat chief inspector; a gorgeous Cuban woman…

A motley crew, that is to say, with an appetite for duplicity and secrets. Each delights in disclosing their hidden identity, and the gangrenous inner wound that will send them reeling into the darkness of night. At the heart of these “nocturnal” short stories: a search for the absolute, a longing for wasted potential, and the decay of the body– and soul… In turn disquieting, frightening and razor-sharp, a collection of bittersweet short stories reminiscent of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Crack-Up.” A master of the art of brevity and suspense, Denis Jeambar gives us a collection of narratives carved with gemlike precision and skill. January 2014 – Literary Fiction – 242 p. Onetime editor-in-chief and general director of several magazines, Denis Jeambar is a journalist and a writer. He has published numerous essays, novels and a biography. The present volume of 29 short stories is his first work published by Calmann-Lévy.

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FENICIA – Fenicia Pierre Brunet

Pierre Brunet gives us the story of his mother Fenicia, a heroine marked early in life by the brutality of the world ; a radiant and tragic figure who would leave behind a heritage first of fascination and idolization, then of chaos, ruin and silence. On April 5, 1964, at the age of 31, Fenicia would pass away in a psychiatric ward on the outskirts of Paris. She had had a number of last names as well as the two given names of Ana and Fenicia. For one of her sons, she would become both a myth and a taboo – a taboo broken here at last through the recounting of her story. The story of little Ana, abandoned at birth near a Catholic orphanage in Barcelona and adopted, at the age of 4, by a fervent couple of anarchists, Conchita and Mateo. Spain's Civil War is in full swing. Exile, life on the road and internment in the concentration camp of Argelès-sur-Mer are little Ana's earliest memories. It is there that her new parents would decide to change Ana's name to Fenicia, in honor of the Phoenicians, who, in the minds of the Spanish anarchists, had landed in Spain not for conquest but rather to give the country its indomitable spirit of freedom. The intelligent and beautiful Fenicia would grow up in France. An anarchist, a seductress, a teenage mother, a wife, but also a doctor of letters, Fenicia would be loved by many : by Mateo, her adoptive father, for whom she would remain “his little girl from heaven above” ; by Georges, the brilliant lawyer who would be Fenicia's her first lover and mentor ; by Jean, her faithful husband who would never understand her and lastly by Gil, the gallant knight who would be her final lover. But the puzzle pieces of this life would never fit together.

March 2014 – Literary Fiction – 434 p.

Indeed, over the course of the years, she would never be sure of being loved, would eternally remain the little girl terrified by the fear of abandonment, by the violence of war, by the ugliness of the world… And terrified, what is more, by the possibility of her own ugliness. Henceforth, Fenicia would steer her life into the virgin territories of make-believe. A life invented and reinvented, a life where truth and lies would become inextricably tangled and eventually cause her downfall. With abandonment for a birthright, war for a childhood and exile for a country, is it possible to make peace with both the world and oneself ? How long can you maintain a balancing act of fact and fiction before you are overtaken by History and the story of your life ? At least thirty-one years, in this case – enough time for an entire life.

Pierre Brunet was born in Paris in 1961. He has held a number of jobs, including ad salesman, croupier, delivery man, security guard and journalist, to name a few. In 1994, he began working by chance in the field of humanitarian aid, which would take him first to Rwanda and then to Bosnia. He is now a member of the board of a French NGO and spends a good part of his time writing. He is the author of Barnum and J.A.B., published respectively by Calmann-Lévy in 2006 and 2008.

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XENIA – Xenia Gérard Mordillat Xenia is the story of two women, of two invisible heroines, that is, the cleaning women, cashiers and salesgirls we run into everyday. It is also a revealing look at the struggle of just getting by, an eye-opening incursion into the real-life workplaces of today's Thelma and Louises.

Xenia (“foreigner” in Greek) is a 23 years old mother with a 5 months old baby. She is barely able to make ends meet by cleaning offices for a corporate cleaning company, when her boyfriend takes off with all of their savings. With no one to look after her son now, Xenia is forced to take him to work, a makeshift solution that works for a while, thanks to the help of her colleagues. Eventually she is caught at work with her son and is fired on the spot.

Luckily, Xenia's neighbours are there for her, especially Blandine who gets her a cashier job at the local supermarket. Soon – amid laughter and tears, romances and quarrels but also hope and insurrection – Xenia and Blandine are sharing the same daily routine : the same job, the same apartment and the same furious drive to work their way to a better life. Then one day their world comes crashing down around them : Blandine is caught taking fruit from the supermarket's dumpster and is threatened with losing her job. Her fate sparks outrage among the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, however, and spurred on by Xenia, they rise up against Blandine's unfair treatment.

January 2014 – Literary Fiction – 384 p. French Sale : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche).

Xenia and Blandine’ story is like a whirlwind, filled with heartwarming moments, everyday trials and triumphs and the incessant struggles of earning a living at nose-to-the-grind jobs that don't leave much time for actual living. Along the way, we encounter a group of truly amazing people who face the hardships of life with quiet dignity and a ready smile. There is Gauvain, the laid-off bank employee who will win Xenia's heart ; Mrs Aziz, the affectionate old Algerian woman and her shopkeeper son ; Biglouche, the mechanic with a heart of gold and Samuel, the young half-black man in search of an identity. They invite us into their world, which is also our own, a world where solidarity is not just another empty word. And a world that Xenia and Blandine are determined to change for the better, even if it means first setting it on fire !

Gérard Mordillat is a writer and a filmmaker. He has published numerous novels, including L’Attraction universelle, Les Vivants et les Morts (Calmann-Lévy 2005), Notre part des ténèbres (Calmann-Lévy, 2008) and Ce que savait Jennie (Rentrée Littéraire 2012). He and Jérôme Prieur are the coauthors of Corpus Christi, a three-part documentary film on the origins of Christianity. He has made over twenty films and wrote the film adaptation of his novel, Les Vivants et les Morts, for France 2.

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1 RUE DES PETITS-PAS – 1 Rue des Petits-Pas Nathalie Hug

With 1 Rue des Petits-Pas, Nathalie Hug deftly recounts village life in post-World War I France. A remarkable fresco of vivid realism and heartfelt emotion. The winter of 1918-1919. The Great War is coming to an end. A small village in Lorraine, only a few miles from the front, is nothing but ruins. Most of the men are dead; the women and children are struggling to survive. Nobody has been spared the tragedies of war, but life must go on. It is time to rebuild, to reopen shops, to start living again – in spite of old wounds. Louise, an orphan at the age of sixteen, knows all about poverty and violence. Taken in by a midwife, she is learning the trade of delivering babies, treating the complaints of expecting mothers and lending a sympathetic ear. She is determined to move on, to learn to read and write, to raise a child and to love. With each passing day at 1, rue des Petits-Pas she will discover quite simply what being a woman really means. But in the remote village of eastern France, local legends feed into fear, and hatred keeps the villagers going. The war wasn't over with the signing of the Armistice.

February 2014 – Literary Fiction – 325 p. French Sales : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche), Book-club editions (France Loisirs & GLM). Nathalie Hug lives in eastern France. She has co-written several thrillers with Jérôme Camut and is the author of two solo novels published by Calmann-Lévy : The Nothing Child (2011) and Miss Ticks-Tacks (2012) which has been selected by the French Institute magazine, Fiction France.

UN AUTOMNE EN CLAIR-OBSCUR – Autumn Chiaroscuro Martine Delomme She thought she had found happiness but her life is about to be turned upside down… A masterful narrative and gripping suspense with an endearing heroine who comes to life as the story unfolds. Claire is the perfect wife, happy and fulfilled. She is expecting a second child and enjoys her job at the cardboard factory owned by her husband, Henri. This latter has fallen into a deep coma after a hunting accident, however, and his chances of surviving are slim. Claire’s life takes a sudden nightmarish turn. Olivia, Henri’s first wife starts harassing her. She seems to be obsessed with her – even bent on destroying her – and much to Claire’s surprise, none of colleagues even seem to care.

What’s behind Olivia strange behavior? How should Claire respond to her relentless attacks? What if her husband was not the man she had though he was? Claire looks to the past for answers, determined to bring the truth to light. Along the way, she discovers her own unsuspected mettle. At the center of a conspiracy and surrounded by a host of ruthless characters, Claire finds two precious allies in her mother and her lawyer, an honest man and a divorced dad. With courage and perseverance, she will ultimately change the course of things and uncover the truth…

September 2014 – Fiction – 330 p. French Sale : Book-club edition (France Loisirs).

Martine Delomme was born in Bordeaux. Her two previous novels published by Belfond have gained her an ever-growing readership.

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A L’OMBRE DE NOS LARMES – In the Shadow of Tears Éric Le Nabour A powerful novel of elegant and deftly-crafted prose, built around the central figure of a strong and deeply moving woman. An enigmatic heroine with exceptional talent and fortitude, yet broken by life. At the age of four, Jeanne loses her parents in a fire in their home on Ile aux Moines. She takes refuge in silence. Mistreated by her foster family, she is saved by Doctor Mérieux, who manages to bring her out of her world of silence. Jeanne growns up and becomes a doctor in turn. She sets up a practice in a small village, where her compassion and skill earn her a reputation that quickly spreads to the surrounding towns. One day she is contacted by a reporter who believe that the death of her parents was not accidental…

September 2014 – Historical Fiction – 300 p. French Sales: Book-club edition (France Loisirs), Large print edition.

Éric Le Nabour recounts with brio the story of a female doctor at the end of the 19th century. He delves into the mystery surrounding the young woman’s past and describes the daily life of women physicians of the day, more numerous than usually thought but nonetheless poorly accepted and mistrusted by the general population unconvinced of their skills. Éric Le Nabour earned early acclaim with several biographies and historical works. He is also an expert on the East and the Far East.

LE FILS MAUDIT – The Accursed Son Françoise Bourdon The novel’s narrative drive built around the interconnecting lives of two characters—an Italian proletarian and the daughter of the Provence bourgeoisie—from opposing walks of life but united by fate in their shared quest for dignity and freedom. The 1860s, the Luberon. Having had enough of his father’s humiliations, Lorenzo, a collier from the Piedmont region, leaves his family and takes to the road. He returns a few years later, now a journeyman carpenter proud of his expertise, to learn that his mother has died. He hopes for a reconciliation with his father but is in for a rude awakening: on the day of his second marriage, his father curses him, calling him the bastard child of an adulteress and the village priest…

Lorenzo takes to the road once more, haunted by the mystery surrounding his birth. A staunch believer in justice and freedom, he will return to the region of his childhood only after a good number of struggles and dramas. In Roussillon, the region’s ochre-colored capital, fate will bring him together with Virginie, a liberated school teacher and the heir to an ochre pigment mining dynasty. He continues to harbor secret hopes of one day discovering the truth of his origins, in this land of blood-red and golden-yellow clay…

Former teacher, Françoise Bourdon is a writer with a passion for history and literature. Her most recent novels, set in Provence – her region of adoption – explore the trades and lives of the bygone times.

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August 2014 – Historical fiction – 300 p. French Sales: Book-club edition (Main Selection GLM), Large print edition.

SOUVIENS-TOI DE DEMAIN – Remember Tomorrow Vanessa Caffin

A young woman, the victim of a physical aggression, is struck by a severe form of amnesia. Will she be able to piece the puzzle of her life back together again without the familiar bearings of memory? A page-turning psychological thriller! Following a violent assault, Charlie Longe wakes up in the hospital completely amnesiac: She has no memories of the past and her mind is unable to record anything new. To remember the events of the day before, she starts keeping a diary. In it, she discovers a cell phone number and the unsettling words, “I am going to die, find husband, find Adam.” Is her life in danger? Who is this Adam? And why is nobody answering the cell phone? Charlie finds herself caught up in a disturbing quest for truth, her diary and the badge of an advertising agency as her only compass. But all of her leads get her nowhere. The agency owner is behaving strangely for one, and so is Georges, the company’s graphic designer who seems to be hiding something. Then there is Vincent, her moody neighbor, an author with a writer’s block who swears he’d never seen her with a man before. Not to mention all of the anonymous emails… Terrified, Charlie looks for answers, alone, unable to trust anyone.

March 2014 – Literature – 250 p. French Sale : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche).

Vanessa Caffin was born in 1976. The author of the acclaimed début novel J’aime pas l’amour… ou trop peut-être (Anne Carrière, 2008), followed by Mémoire vive (Belfond, 2009), which is currently being adapted into film, she published Rossmore Avenue with Belfond in 2011. This latter was among the ten international titles selected for the 2011 Berlin Film Festival. Caffin, who is particularly interested in cinema, is currently writing her first feature film screenplay.

ET JE TE DONNERAI LES TRÉSORS DES TÉNÈBRES I Give You the Treasures of Darkness Jean Bertolino A deftly-crafted supernatural thriller blending fact, action and suspense. 1248. A landslide in the Mountains causes the face of Mount Granier to slide into the valley. Thousands are killed, including Jacques-Guillaume Bonnivard, to whom Pope Innocent IV had entrusted the papal treasure during his exile in France. Nearly eight centuries later, a group of four impassioned cavers – three medical students, Joël, Xavier and Alexis, and a student of medieval history, Nadine – have put together an expedition to explore the renowned Granier cave system. They are careful not to reveal the true nature of their expedition, however: to discover the Pope’s gold. The expedition’s chief financial sponsor is the mysterious Russian firm, Geotechnik, represented in France by Didier de la Renardière, an insufferably arrogant businessman with unlimited funds who joins the Granier exploration team, specialists Igor, Basile and Renaud in tow.

As the expedition pushes its way deeper and deeper into the underground galleries, little do the explorers suspect they are being watched by a secret society. For centuries, a ruthless enemy has been guarding the Pope’s treasure and, in particular, two priceless relics, the authentic shroud of Christ and the holy chalice. The brotherhood will stop at nothing to prevent the precious artifacts from falling into sacrilegious hands. The adventure quickly turns into a nightmare. March 2014 – Suspense Fiction – 288 p. Fine reporter, war correspondent and former director of a magazine, Albert Londres Prize in 1967, Jean Bertolino takes us on a thrilling quest that compete esoteric traditions, the power of money and companions looking for an Ideal.

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New Imprint of Detective Fiction A selection of “whodunits” from the France de toujours et d’aujourd’hui collection: detective fiction steeped in local color featuring endearing inspectors with attitude, and an astute understanding of the land and its people.  THE CASE OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE by Edouard Brasey / March 2015. Provence in the 1960s. A tramp is burnt to death in the Citroen DS of lavender farmer Léon Jourdan. Inspector Garrigue, on forced leave of absence in his native Provence, offers to help the inspector from Marseille who has been put on the case. Garrigue knows Jourdan, and the dubious role he played during the Occupation, only too well. But the lavender farmer seems beyond suspicion when three of his four children are found brutally murdered, in turn. Not a single clue to go on, other than the bit of golden goat fleece found on the scene of the crime.  MURKY SHADOWS by Bernard Simonay / February 2015 Touraine, 1984. Rising political star Alain Lauragais has been fished out of the murky waters of a woodland pond near Tours. Was it suicide or murder? In 2014, tragedy strikes the Lauragais family again. A mere coincidence or, again, foul play? Karine, a successful novelist living in seclusion on the banks of the Cher River, finds herself unexpectedly caught up in the investigation when her good friend, Sergeant Juliette Ferrand, is put on the case.

 POISON IN THE VEINS by Alfred Lenglet / March 2015 The Mâconnais, today. The body of Paul Humbert, a major winegrower of France’s celebrated Macon, is pulled out of the river. To everyone’s surprise, the autopsy detects arsenic in his blood. Young police lieutenant Léa Ribaucour investigates the secret life of the prominent citizen, and finds herself quickly confronted with an out-and-out conspiracy of silence.

LES MONTAGNES CHANTAIENT LA LIBERTÉ Over the Mountains to Freedom

Hélène Legrais 1940. Determined to escape occupied Paris, Amédine interrupts her studies at the Sorbonne and returns to her parents’ house in Perpignan. To relieve her boredom, she is sent to her grandfather’s in Font-Romeu, a resort village bristling with big city vacationers from as far away as Paris, summer and winter alike. There, Amédine helps out at her aunt’s tea room, in an atmosphere of happy childhood memories. She also renews an old friendship with a former playmate, Vincent. Their supposed relationship sets tongues wagging in the village, but Amédine has more important things to think about. She is part of an escape network, run by the village priest, helping evaders over the Pyrenees into Spain. Among the fugitives, there are a good number of Jews fleeing Nazi persecution, including Daniel Weber: Amédine had been madly in love with him in Paris. While waiting to cross through the mountains to freedom, he has moved into a cottage with his mother and sister. But informants are everywhere, even in places you’d least expect. His mother and sister are arrested. And the noose seems to be tightening on Daniel too…

April 2014 – Fiction – 300 p. French Sale : Large print edition.

Former radio journalist Hélène Legrais worked in Paris before returning to her native Catalonia to devote herself to writing.

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LES AMANTS DE SAINTE-CATHERINE – The Lovers of Sainte-Catherine Jean-Baptiste Bester The deeply-moving story of a working class woman who recovers dignity, and the right to happiness, though betrayed by a ruthless Lothario. 1906. The young Lucia Salavatori, recently arrived in France from her native Piedmont, is working in the silk mills with her son, Livio. The wages are meager, the hours of work, endless; housed in separate dormitories, the mother and son only see each other on Sundays. The lovely Italian woman has a good number of suitors but succumbs to the charms of union leader Gustave Gignoux. Outraged by the mill workers’ miserable fates, this latter becomes a surrogate father to Livio, what is more, when the boy is involved in a serious accident cleaning one of the machines. Then Evariste Faure-Brac takes over the management of his father’s factory— and trouble starts. An amateur painter, the young heir is inspired by Lucia’s physique and insists that she pose for him… September 2014 – Fiction – 300 p.

Brisk and easy-to-read, the lively style of Jean-Baptiste Bester breathes life into the delightful archetypes of the comédie humaine.

Jean-Baptiste Bester was an assistant director before devoting himself to a career in writing. He has written several adventure novels, including Calmann-Levy's L’Homme de la Clarée and Le Cocher du Pont Neuf, selected for the 2011 Grand Prix du roman historique.

LA FIANCEE DU KAMIKAZE– The Kamikaze’s Fiancee Jean-Jacques Antier A deeply moving love story in exotic post-war Japan. A renowned specialist of the World War II maritime history gives us a meticulously detailed account of the war’s catastrophic final months, seamlessly interweaving historical fact with dramatic narrative and real life experience.

March 1945. The Japanese archipelago is being pounded by American B20 bombers. Zawa, a navy pilot for the Empire of the Rising Sun, has volunteered for kamikaze training. Ultimately, he will have to be ready to crash his plane onto an enemy aircraft carrier, to shake the adversary’s domination of the skies. Baïka, Zawa’s fiancée, is plunged into despair by his intended sacrifice. Fluent in English, she has been assigned to the intelligence service of the Department of the Navy in Tokyo. Her mission: to translate intercepted American navy radio messages. In the thick of the Japanese war machine, alongside high ranking imperial officers, she sets out to alter the fatal course of Zawa’s destiny…

Born in Rouen, Jean-Jacques Antier currently lives in Cannes. He is a former maritime reporter as well as a novelist, an essayist, a biographer and a historian. He is the author of an authoritative series of works on the great naval battles of World War II.

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November 2014 – Fiction - 300p.

L’HOMME AUX CISEAUX D’ARGENT – The Man with Silver Scissors Antonin Malroux The fate of an apprentice tailor in post-war France. Rural France, the early 1950s. Young Jacques has always been fascinated by the local tailor. He gives up school at an early age to enter his shop as an apprentice. It is a daring decision. His former classmates all make fun of him. Sewing is a woman’s job, they say. But Jacques doesn’t care. He works hard and manages to avoid the temptations of teenage years, though his heart sorely tested by vacationing city girls who find the artistically-disposed country boy very appealing. By dint of hard work and passion, and particularly thanks to his mentor’s kindness, Jacques masters the art of the silver scissors. Eventually he is confronted with a terrible decision, however: should he stay with the tailor, who has taught him everything he knows, or set off in the world to shape his own destiny… Closely inspired by the author’s own story, the present book pays homage to the virtues of apprenticeship. A fine tribute to the transmission of knowledge. January 2014 – Fiction – 352 p. French Sales : Audio edition, Large print edition, Book-club edition.

Antonin Malroux trained as a tailor and later worked in business. In parallel, he began writing novels. Today he is a corresponding member of the Clermont-Ferrand Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts.

L’ENFANT DE LA CERISAIE – The Cherry Orchard Child Geneviève Senger 1945. The war is over. Alice and her sister return to their native Alsace, which they had fled during the fighting, determined to breathe new life into Val-Dieu, their family estate and orchards. Augustin, a childhood friend, helps them restore the house, which had been ransacked during the war. He proves to be a great help, especially since he has been in love with Alice since his teenage years. But the young woman, courted by several men, is slow when it comes to both understanding her feelings and finding a vocation. Everything becomes clear during a distilling session. Two light bulbs go off: she loves Augustin and she will become a producer of eau-de-vie. But fate ruins all of her plans: Augustin turns out to be her brother, and a criminal fire reduces her distillery to ashes... Alice has to start all over again. But how can she place her faith in life again? March 2014 – Fiction – 450 p. French Sales : Book-club edition (GLM), Large print edition. Geneviève Senger was born in Mulhouse. She worked as a nurse for ten years before embarking on a career in writing. She has written numerous books for young readers and is the author of several novels published by Flammarion, Pygmalion and Presses de la Cité. She draws her inspiration from the tumultuous history of Alsace where she lives and works.

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VOYAGE D’UN GOURMET A PARIS – A Gourmet’s Journey in Paris Jean-Claude Ribaut Both gourmand and scholarly, this foodie’s history of Paris is an original take on the history of City of Lights. A delightful read, for foodie and aspiring gourmet alike. For over two hundred years, the restaurants and bistros of Paris have earned the French capital its gastronomical reputation. An integral part of the scenery, they have come and gone with the air du temps, marking the memories of entire generations like phantom limbs, or the guardians of passing time. Yet most of these public gathering places are less than a hundred years old, renewed every halfcentury or so. The fact is, restaurants, like transitory monuments of sorts, are impermanent. The present work sets out to recount the history of Paris through its restaurants and bistros, those sacrosanct establishments of good food and good times. The author's quest will lead him to wander the city, from one neighborhood to the next, in search of spots with that certain je ne sais quoi, whether inviting, informal or elegant. Literary flaneur Jean-Claude Ribaut takes us on a gourmand tour of Paris, visiting both memory lane and today's best gastronomic tables, in a unique history of the culinary neighborhoods, traditions and success stories of the City of Lights. October 2014 – Non-fiction – 328 p.

Jean-Claude Ribaut has written a weekly food and wine column for Le Monde since 1989. Trained as an architect, he is a connoisseur of gourmand Paris and this famous columnist is a recognized authority with food lovers.

ASSORTIMENT DE FRIANDISES - Assorted Sweets for the Mind Agnès Abécassis The Everyday Art of Positive Thinking! The perfect cure-all gift for the end of the year celebrations and an unparalleled multipurpose book with something for everyone: sayings, quotes and drawings; coloring pages for grownups, exercises both physical and mental, and cooking tricks and tips to be used in all realms of life, whether domestic, private or professional... A book about wellness, happiness and staying Zen addressing a selection of topics that are good for the morale! The magic word here - to think positive. At the end of each chapter, the reader is invited to participate in a selection of humorous activities, such as doing something creative or coloring to relax. More than a book, it is a bouquet of positive thoughts, a panoply of inspirational quotes, a wide-range of relaxing activities and a color chart of laughter and smiles. But it is also a personal diary, a heady and soothing fragrance, a jumble of knowledgeable tidbits and a present to give to yourself… This is not a novel. This is your book! October 2014 – Non-fiction – 288 p. Agnès Abécassis was born in 1972. She started her career as a writer and an illustrator for a women's health magazine. A former screenwriter, she is also a journalist and a literary chronicler for a number of magazines. She is the author of the bestselling Les Tribulations d’une jeune divorcée and of Au secours, il veut m’épouser !, Toubib or not toubib ; Chouette, une ride ! ; Soirée Sushi and Le Théorème de Cupidon and Week-end surprise published by Calmann-Lévy. 20

LA PAUSE - The Break Jean-Baptiste Gendarme & Alban Perinet The Break arose from a game of ping pong between writer, JeanBaptiste Gendarme, and graphic artist, Alban Perinet. “Nobody’s interested in literature anymore,” says the first. “Wrong,” says the second. “It just needs to be approached from a new angle!” “12-19,” concludes the former, with a formidable forehand smash. Over a glass of chilled lemonade, they went on to figure out how to give literature a little more zip: by taking the mystique out of it. From the outset, they decide on the form of dialog to give the dry art of literary criticism a more playful and lively tone. The drawings are conceived with “graphic restraint” (a single panel repeated twelve times) so as not too overpower the texts. Each new page reveals a host of situations and characters, underlining the fact that books for everyone, that books affect everyone. Young people, old people, bald people and animals… each with something to say about a book they have just read. A collection of dialogs, wacky at times and serious at others but always wholehearted.

October 2014 - 96 p.

90 pages, like a condensed ideal library of sorts. Some works have been forgotten, others perhaps ill-treated but each book was read from cover to cover – under the watchful eye of a large cat who could have been a bailiff .

Jean-Baptiste Gendarme (born in 1978) Jean-Baptiste Gendarme has published five books published with Gallimard and is the founder and editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Décapage. He reads four or more books a week, from the depths of a comfortable armchair - and chops wood on the weekend to compensate. Alban Perinet (born in1971) Alban Perinet is a graphic artist who dabbles in illustration, generally for the literary magazine Décapage. He reads four or more graphic novels a week, on the seat of an uncomfortable stool - and plays tennis on the weekend to stretch his legs.

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LA VIOLENCE DE L’HUMANISME – Humanism and Violence Why has the fate of animals gradually worsened with the so-called progress of civilization? Why, in a society as developed as our own – so confident in its abilities, so capable of subordinating its basic needs to moral considerations – do we persecute animals with a clear conscience practically verging on enjoyment?

Patrice Rouget

Does metaphysical humanism, in deifying man, require that we live in denial of our origins, and that animals be punished for being too similar to us? Or do we treat animals viciously for other reasons? Perhaps because they are not prisoner to the rhetoric of death, because they are not subject to the corrupt passion of self, because they would be happy – if left alone – to live fully in the world and to surrender, in death, to the natural order of things? Is that why we hate them deep down? Patrice Rouget’s essay looks at the metaphysical course that led us first to turn our backs on animals, then to make them scapegoats (of our imperfections) and finally to demote them to the status of industrial object (used to satisfy our hedonistic impulses), all with the staunch support of metaphysical humanism, the deceptive ideology that has accompanied with impressive consistency the history of philosophy. April 2014 – Essay – 144 p.

In doing so, he condemns a humanism that chose to establish the “natural exception” of mankind through the punishment of all other living beings. After earning degrees in literature and philosophy, Patrice Rouget worked in textbook publishing. He went on to found and run a general literature publishing house and later, to teach philosophy. His work examines the treatment of living beings in industrial societies.

NOUS N’ÉTIONS PAS DES HÉROS – We weren’t Heroes Benoît Hopquin Seventy years ago, liberated France needed heroes – Resistance fighters, soldiers of the 2e Division Blindée, officers of the Foreign Legion and fighter pilots – to redeem the country’s shame. In 1944, the Free French Forces and the Companions of the Liberation were heroes. In June 1940, they were outcasts. Indeed, stunned by the blow of defeat, most French people quickly resigned themselves to the German Occupation, adjusting their mindsets and managing to get by as best they could. Only a handful of men and women refused the apparent course of fate. With the destiny of France in the hands of Pétain, they chose to fight back. Some found a boat and made it to London, rallying to the side of a certain General de Gaulle; others went into hiding. In any case, they were few and far between. François Jacob, Daniel Cordier, Hubert Germain and ten other Companions recount the context of their participation, as humble extras, in the greater scheme of History. Their unassuming stories – there is no puffed up glory here – paint a kaleidoscopic picture of Free France, from Bir Hakeim to the liberation of Strasbourg by way of London, Tunis, Damascus and Murmansk, but also D-Day and the Battle for Paris.

April 2014 – Document – 300 p. French Sales : Large print edition, Book club edition (GLM).

Our reluctant heroes describe the hardships of daily life, the role played by “colonial” troops, the conflicts with staunch Vichy soldiers; they tell of friends, who lost their lives either on the battlefield or in the camps. The Companions also give an unvarnished account of the joy, the disappointment and the difficulties of adjusting to normal life in post-war France.

Ultimately, their stories are the stories of ordinary people who, by making the right decision, find themselves caught up in extraordinary events. “We’re not heroes,” they each insist. “It was the only thing to do.” Or was it? There weren’t that many of them after all… Special correspondent for Le Monde, Benoît Hopquin is the author of Ces Noirs qui ont fait la France (2009) and Passage de témoin (2011), dialogs with Raymond Aubrac and Renaud Helfer-Aubrac, both of which were published by Calmann-Lévy. 24

NOS POISONS QUOTIDIENS – Our Daily Poisons (and how to take it)

Patrice Halimi A book that is good for you! Every day we are confronted with dozens, or even hundreds, of toxic products that affect both our metabolism and our health. The number of cancers linked to these phenomena is constantly on the rise. This much we know, but what can we do about it, at our own level? How can we avoid coming into contact with the “poisons” that surround us? We go into our bathrooms every day, we go to work, by car or on foot, we make phone calls, we eat, we do chores, we garden, etc. What are the risks involved? How can we control the extent of our exposure to environmental chemicals and make informed choices?

Nos poisons quotidiens

Patrice Halimi takes us by the hand and gives us the key to living better and taking necessary precautions. It is not a book for toxicologists (though the author builds on numerous scientific studies that have led him to reflect on present-day issues). It is first and foremost the work of a pragmatic doctor concerned with questions raised by his patients on a daily basis, a doctor who became interested in questions of environment and health because he believes we can all take action, both individually and collectively.

March 2015 - Document

Patrice Halimi is 47 years old. He is a pediatric surgeon in Aix-en-Provence. In recent years, he has become actively involved in non-profit organization work with the Association Santé Environnement France that he founded in 2008 with Dr. Pierre Souvet. The ASEF conducts preventive campaigns on issues related to health and environment, including air quality, childhood environments, climate change, electromagnetic waves, biodiversity, food and sports.

POUTINE – Putin Frédéric Pons An unbiased and in-depth investigation that breaks with received ideas and finger pointing in a context prone to exaggeration and easy assumption. The book is developed as an innovative and constructive geopolitical essay and explores concrete avenues for improved but clear-headed relations with Russia.

October 2014 – Biography – 374 p.

Who is the enigmatic Vladimir Putin? A tyrant at all costs bent on asserting power, his own and that of his inner circle, in the century-old tradition of the Kremlin autocrats? Or Russia’s savior, out to reinstate the greatness of his country by encapsulating Russian history from the Tsars to the Soviets? How did the man, a mere KGB Lieutenant Colonel at the end of the Cold War, rise to the top of one of the most powerful nations in the world? Who is the man behind the seemingly implacable mask: a brutal and cynical politician, a power-hungry mercenary, or a true patriot committed to defending his country’s interests? In a thoroughly documented investigation backed by a number of unprecedented meetings in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, Frédéric Pons gives us a compelling portrait of the Kremlin’s supreme leader: his training, dreams and ambitions, but also his passion for sports, 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 ascension, part ruthlessness part persuasion. Without ignoring the ambiguous nature of Putin himself, Frédéric Pons recalls the mistakes of the West now paying the price for deliberately ignoring the fears and aspirations of Russia after the collapse of Communism, an attitude of “contempt” responsible, in part, for the present impasse.

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L’HOMME DE CEDRE – The Man of Cedar Nada Anid An unprecedented history of contemporary Lebanon : the fascinating journey, full of sound and fury, of a “soldier monk,” a must-read for anyone interested in the Christians of the Middle East and a thoroughly documented and “even-handed” account, neither incriminating nor overly flattering. The cedar tree is known for producing solid weather-resistant timber. It is also the national symbol of Lebanon. Samir Geagea is Lebanese through and through, by birth – but also in head and heart. A young soldier, and then a feared warlord during the civil war that ravaged Lebanon from 1975 to 1982, he headed the Lebanese forces that fiercely defended Beirut’s endangered “Christian nook”, refusing vassalage in any form, be it to Syria, Palestine or Israel. Threatened, vilified and accused of numerous murders at the end of the hostilities, he refused to flee his homeland in spite of repeated warnings. Arrested and sentenced to death by a tribunal under Syrian influence for crimes he didn’t commit, he languished in a 6m2 jail cell for eleven years, in the basement of the Interior Ministry in Beirut: eleven years spent reading, thinking and praying; and eleven years of soul searching. When released from prison in 2004, he was a different man: The warrior had turned politician; the war leader with a fiery temper had become an intellectual. The only survivor of several assassinations that claimed the lives all the partisans of Lebanese sovereignty over a thirty years period, from Bachir Gemayel to Rafiq Hariri, he better than anyone embodies the idea of Lebanese national independence; indeed, he is one of the few Lebanese political leaders not to have accepted compromise.

October 2014 – Document, Biography - 312 p.

From his eagle’s nest on Mont Lebanon, where he lives as a recluse, still fearing assassination, Samir Geagea is an advocate of unity and inter-community dialog within the framework of the “March 14th Alliance.” Today, it is with a heavy heart that he watches the civil war in Syria revive sectarian hatreds – which had nearly led to the suicide of the Lebanese nation in the past. The warrior, the outcast and the wise man: Samir Geagea has lived three lives, and might just be on the cusp of a long-awaited fourth – as a Statesman for Lebanon.

Nada Anid, a French-speaking Lebanese, worked in graphics and advertising in Beirut before founding a nonprofit organization advocating the right for Lebanese women from all walks of life, regardless of religious persuasion, to run for elected office. She is the author of Les Très Riches Heures d’Antoine Naufal, Libraire à Beyrouth (Calmann-Lévy, 2012).

Foreign Sale : Hachette Antoine (Arabic).

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L’ENTRE-TEMPS – The Meantime René Guitton

Rentrée Littéraire 2013

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Addressing his father with a shy yet loving “you”, a son explores his origins. A brilliant and captivating novel written with passion, wisdom and care. Alexandre, the little boy born in prison in a remote corner of Morocco in 1943, is a grown man now. He is back in Casablanca to exhume his father. The father he had adored, the naval officer who had taught him about airplane mechanics and green flashes at sunset. The man who had taught him the importance of treating others with kindness and respect. However, exhuming his father means digging up the past. There is his mother, Rose, a young Italian milliner, shy but impassioned ; and his maternal grandparents truly enamored of freedom. But there is also Yemna, the Jew, and Mina, the Muslim ; the aunt from America and the cousins from Africa… With modesty and feeling, the author gives us a finely-wrought family history within the larger context of History : that of World War II. Yet throughout it all, with the world crumbling tragically around them, a sense of joy prevails. Cruelty is outweighed by the pleasure of being together.

August 2013 – Literary Fiction – 208 p.

French Sales : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche), Large print edition.

Publisher, author and an ardent defender of human dignity, René Guitton is a tireless purveyor of trends of thought, his work over the years having sought, in particular, to establish a philosophical, cultural, and religious dialogue between the East and West. He won numerous prestigious literary awards with Ces chrétiens qu’on assassine (Flammarion, 2009) and Si nous nous taisons : le martyre des moines de Tibhirine (Calmann-Lévy, 2001). He is also the author of En quête de vérité (Calmann-Lévy, 2011).

LE MARCHEUR DE FÈS – The Walker of Fez Éric Fottorino After L’homme qui m’aimait tout bas (Gallimard, 2009) and Questions à mon père (Gallimard, 2010), Éric Fottorino retraces his biological father's footsteps, in Fez, in search of his Judeo-Moroccan roots. “He was born in Fez in February 1936. Today he lives near Barcelona. His illness prevents him from using his legs, but he still has his memories. He was supposed to be here with me, walking in Fez. But here I am, alone. He is my distant guide. This is the story of my father, Maurice Maman. He didn't raise me ; he did not give me his name. We've only really gotten to know each other in the past ten years. I am retracing the path of his childhood, visiting the city, the Mellah, the souks. I discover the stagnant wadi with its icy water, and my father’s childhood dream of becoming a great Moroccan swimmer.

September 2013 – Fiction – 192 p.

French Sale : Paperback edition

Here is the street where my father peddled coal, he had to see three stars in the sky before would light up a cigarette. Over here, the balcony of their first apartment in the European city. And there, the Empire Cinema where he would sneak in during intermission. Next I stop in front of the Urbaine, with its elevator and terrace. From that very same summit Maurice would cast off his talet, his prayer scarf, refuting religion, the gesture of a teenager rising in revolt at the premature death of his older sister. I think about his life and mine, and all of the things left unsaid. Fez tells me his story.”

(Folio). Éric Fottorino was the former director of the French daily, Le Monde. He won numerous prizes for his works : the Prix Europe 1 and the Prix des Bibliothécaires for Un territoire fragile (2000) ; the Prix François Mauriac de l'Académie française for Caresse de rouge (2004) ; the Prix Femina for Baisers de cinéma (2007) ; and the Prix des Lectrices Elle 2010 for L'homme qui m'aimait tout bas. 27

NATHALIE HUG Nathalie Hug lives in eastern France and is the author of several thrillers and suspense novels published with Jérôme Camut. With L'Enfant-rien, her first solo novel, she explores a new literary genre. She is also the author of Miss Tick-Tacks and 1, Rue des Petits-Pas published by Calmann-Lévy in 2012 and 2014.

LA DEMOISELLE DES TIC-TAC – Miss Tick-Tacks Moselle, 1944. Under Allied bombs. Trapped in the cellar beneath the ruins of her house Rosy, a fourtneen-year old German girl clings to her past in order to survive.

English sample translation available

Miss Tick-Tacks is part of Fiction France Review’s focus titles for translation. “A thoughtful, accomplished novel” – Le Figaro Littéraire “When the innocent become the playthings of adults and madmen…” – L’Express “My new world is hardly wider than I am tall, and as long as two men. What remains of the ceiling over my head is a tangle of blackened beams. I keep searching for a current of fresh air, some sign of a presence. But there isn't even a glimmer of light. Everything is perfectly still. The sloping ground is littered with debris of all sorts, the leftovers of our previous life, everything we had carefully packed away in the hopes of better days”.

March 2012 – Fiction – 208 p.

Rosy wants someone to come rescue her, but knows there's little hope : in the village, she and her mother, both Germans, were hated and nobody ever gave them any help. The truth is Mutti did admire Hitler, until her dying breath. In order to survive in her underground cell, Rosy clings to memories, and her scant provisions. Her sole companions are a single small hen and the horrible hairy spiders that uncle Eddy – whom she had loved like a father – called “the tick-tacks”. French Sales : Book-club edition (France Loisirs), Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche).

L’ENFANT-RIEN– The Nothing Child A story carried by the voice of a little boy, alternately serious and funny, perfectly rendered in a tone that manages to disturb and excite the reader. “A brilliant debut novel by Nathalie Hug who knows how to create this cruel and gnawing feeling called remorse. The U-turn of the end is a real warning shot, the reader cannot get away with.” – Le Magazine des livres A lonely child, raised by an emotionally-crippled mother, searches for a father and dreams of another life. Adrien lives with his loving but elusive mother, his halfsister Isabella, who is lucky enough to have a dad to come and get her every weekend, and a kidney disease that binds him to stay at home. A quiet and thoughtful child, Adrien suffers from the secrecy surrounding his birth. One day, his mother gets hit by a car and is turned into a “heap-of-strawberriesand-cream”. Taken in by his half-sister's father, Adrien gets a chance at the life he has always dreamed of. Adrien, the Nothing-child, returns to his mother's side, and disappears into a world of shadows, memories and dreams. The final twist transforms the whole story and makes this dark and moving book sound like no other. January 2011 – Fiction – 144 p.

French Sales : Book-club edition (France Loisirs), Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche).

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CE QUE SAVAIT JENNIE – Jennie’s Truth Gérard Mordillat A powerful short novel recounting the quest of a tragic yet sublime heroine inspired by hope and justice, a brilliant account of hope and madness, inextricably intertwined. “ The finely rendered and scathing portrayal of a couple thirsting for justice in a lawless era.” – Le Monde des livres “ The heroine is a warrior, fierce and deeply affecting.” – Lire 13-year-old Jennie hates Sundays, the worst day of the week, and this one is going to be really bad. Her mother's boyfriend, Mike, is celebrating his birthday but he kills himself on his motorcycle before their very eyes. Her mother, Olga, finds herself on her own, raising Jennie and Jennie's half-sister, Malorie. Three years later, Slimane and two babies enter the picture, bringing a semblance of peace to the blended family. But a second accident brings the happy interlude to an abrupt end. Jennie and her younger sisters and brother are separated and placed in different foster homes. Jennie, transformed into a Mother Courage, is determined to reunite her siblings and to take them to see the ocean, as Olga had promised. While traveling to the four corners of France, Jennie meets Quincy, an actor who wants to stop acting. For better or worse, their fates are joined together, all the way to the cliffs of Etretat.

This novel is a hard-hitting, short read that’s impossible to put down and which confirms the full scope of the author’s literary talent. Gérard Mordillat is a writer and a filmmaker. He has published numerous novels, including L’Attraction universelle, Les Vivants et les Morts (Calmann-Lévy 2005), Notre part des ténèbres (Calmann-Lévy, 2008) and Ce que savait Jennie (Rentrée Littéraire 2012). He and Jérôme Prieur are the coauthors of Corpus Christi, a three-part documentary film on the origins of Christianity. He has made over twenty films and wrote the film adaptation of his novel, Les Vivants et les Morts, for France 2. English sample translation available

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August 2012 – Literary Fiction – 224 p.

French Sales : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche), Book-club edition (GLM).

LE MUSCLE ET LA CHAIR – Muscle and Flesh Patrick Olivier Meyer An unexpected father and son relationship, both explosive and poignant in this second novel by Patrick Olivier Meyer, confirming the promise of the first, Nevrospiral (Calmann-Lévy, 2010). The author's edgy writing skillfully juggles humor and melancholy. Ewad Kubicz, a 31 years old Parisian photographer, is about to become a father. Then he learns of the death of his own father, Kazimierz Kubicz, whom he had cut off all ties with fifteen years earlier. Kazimierz, a former pole vault champion, had led a thousand lives, from his native Poland to the United States, without ever settling down for good. First as a national hero and then a traitor, later as an unfaithful husband and a truant father, the impulsive charmer had always been an enigma to his son. The unreal announcement of his death reopens old wounds and sets Ewad off in search of his father via encounters, in both Poland and the United States, with the women in his life. Unexpected events and reflections on the past soon turn Ewad's journey into a personal quest. How can we forgive being betrayed by someone we love ?

January 2013 – Fiction – 200 p.

Patrick Olivier Meyer was born in California in 1969. His family moved to the suburbs of Paris, when he was two. Since then, he has taken up writing and been exploring ways of moving on. Le Muscle et la Chair is his second novel. He is also the author of Nevrospiral (Calmann-Lévy, 2010). 29

ELISE FONTENAILLE-N’DIAYE Elise Fontenaille N’Diaye was born in Nancy and has worked as a journalist. She is the author of numerous novels, including Les Disparues de Vancouver published by Grasset and which received the 2010 Prix Erckmann-Chatrian.

MA VIE PRÉCAIRE – My Precarious Life A story on life on the edge, that is, balancing urgency, necessity and a certain taste for risk, her story beautifully reflecting the vulnerability of life. “The title itself reads like a promise : My Precarious Life. Mine, not that of another, the possessive indicating a kind of pride, a claim to singularity. Once the book is opened – and we are captured by its fast-paced prose – it is impossible to put down.” – ELLE “A year ago to the day, I put all of my books out on the sidewalk : hundreds and thousands of books. They had covered the walls of my home, spreading, over time, like a second grainy skin, a lichen of sorts, invading every inch of my apartment. Even the bathroom, the kitchen, the hall... Up until then, I didn't think I was capable of getting rid of even a single book. If someone was even a tiny bit late returning a book I'd lent them, I'd be physically sick, would experience an actual sense of loss, as if one of my children – made out of paper – had been taken from me. [...]. Once the books were arranged in their makeshift library, I went to the window, a little to one side behind the curtain, and with a pair of binoculars I watched.” When Elise is forced out of her flat in Paris, she gets rid of everything she owns, including her books. Unencumbered by material possessions, she lives day by day, letting her desires, her natural curiosity and the kindness of strangers decide her fate, a happy or a tragic ending hanging in the balance at each new step.

April 2012 – Literary fiction – 180 p.

From a shack in Saint-Nazaire to a beach in Guyana, Elise will make friends, both real and virtual, will encounter a slumlord and a cop-cum-writer, will experience heartbreak and exchange love money. She will sleep out in the open and be confined to the walls of a convent. She will be jostled by chance, overwhelmed by choices and shaken up by encounters.

LE PALAIS DE MÉMOIRE – The Memory Palace An evocative yet delightful tale, taking the reader down intellectual, spiritual and sensual roads in a spellbinding journey. From the depths of an opium den, the Jesuit Artus de Leys – deserted by faith and torn by love – hesitates over the comfort of oblivion and the pain of remembrance. The man he loves exists only in his mind now. To bring him back to life, Artus builds an imaginary edifice inherited from an ancient art form : a memory palace. With each addition to his palace, memories come flooding in, from his first visit to China in the 1720’s, invited by the Emperor Kangxi to train young scholars in the Forbidden City, to his escapades in Paris and his friends of bygone days. He sees himself riding in the forests of Manchuria alongside his beloved pupil, Jade, who he initiates to the Ars Memorativa and the Christian faith. But Artus can't keep reminders of their passion's fatal turn at bay, without seeing his palace of memory collapse.

August 2011 – Literary fiction – 162 p. 30

ET PUIS, PAULETTE… – And Then Came Paulette… Barbara Constantine After her 2010 best-seller Tom, petit Tom, tout petit homme, Tom, Barbara Constantine succeeds once again to create a real gem and takes the reader to a moving and strong story, full of life, humor and hope. You will smile, be teary-eyed and above all feel good.

RIGHTS SOLD IN 20 LANGUAGES PRIX DES LIBRAIRES - LE LIVRE DE POCHE 2013 Ferdinand lives all by himself on his big empty farm. His son, daughter and grandchildren 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 too challenging, the quintet decides to recruit a suitable candidate at a nearby nursing 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 ! January 2012 – Fiction – 144 p.

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-sellersTom, petit Tom, tout petit homme, Tom (2010) and And then came Paulette (2012).

French Sales : Book-club editions (GLM & France Loisirs), Large print edition, Audio-book edition (Audiolib), Paperback editions (Le Livre de Poche adult & young-adult editions), Condensed edition (Selection du Reader’s Digest).

Foreign Sales : MacLehose Press (World English), Einaudi Stile Libero (Italian), Seix Barral (World Spanish), Rowohlt Kindler (German), Intrinseca (Portuguese/Brazil), Meulenhoff/Boekerij (Dutch), Kinneret Zmora (Hebrew), Can Yayinlari (Turkish), Shanghai 99 (Simplified Chinese), Munhakdongne (Korean), Bertrand (Portuguese), Yuan-Liou Publishing (Complex Chinese), Empuries/Grup62 (Catalan), Sekwa Förlag (Swedish), Arvids (Danish), Azbooka-Atticus (Russian), Bazar Forlag (Norwegian), Poplar Sha (Japanese), Stereoma SA (Greek), Sonia Draga (Polish).

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TOM, PETIT TOM, TOUT PETIT HOMME, TOM

Tom, Little Tom, Little Man, Tom Barbara Constantine This is the heart-warming story of a little boy who acts like an adult and a mother who acts like a child.

RIGHTS SOLD IN 12 LANGUAGES “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, bookseller “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 “Barbara Constantine helps us see la vie en rose, and it feels fabulous!” –

Femmes d’Aujourd’hui. Tom, an eleven-year-old boy, lives with his young mother, Joss. She was thirteen when she gave birth to Tom. 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 for breast reduction surgery. Joss wants men to pay attention to her for something more than just her chest. Tom, therefore, slips quietly into his neighbours' vegetable gardens for food, digging up carrots and potatoes... Before leaving, however, he carefully replants and waters everything he has dug up.

January 2010 – Fiction - 260 p.

One day, he enters a new garden and comes across Madeleine, an old woman who had been lying in the middle of her cabbage patch for two whole days. Without Tom's help, she would most certainly have died.

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-sellersTom, petit Tom, tout petit homme, Tom (2010) and And then came Paulette (2012).

French Sales : Paperback editions (Le Livre de Poche adult & young-adult editions), Large print edition, Book-club editions (GLM & France Loisirs).

Foreign Sales : Blanvalet (German), Fazi Editore (Italian), Seix Barral (World Spanish), Grup 62 (Catalan), Munhakdongne (Korean), Azbooka-Atticus (Russian), Könyvmolyképző Kiadó (Hongrois), Yuan-Liou Publishing (Complex Chinese), Albatros media (Czech), La Maison des femmes (Vietnamese), Sekwa Förlag (Swedish), Sonia Draga (Polish).

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BARBARA CONSTANTINE À MÉLIE, SANS MÉLO – To Mélie, without Melodrama A fantastic dose of refreshment, humor and emotion ! “ This book invites us to take the time to live, to love from 10 to 78, to escape the infernal pace of work, illness and death.” – ELLE

Mélie is 72 and lives alone in the countryside. Her granddaughter, Clara, 10year-old, is coming to spend the whole summer with her for the first time. The evening before her arrival, Mélie learns that she has some serious health problems and should begin a heavy treatment immediately…too bad, she says ! But her top priority is her dear Clarinette ! Indeed the grandma is really not into melodrama and prefers to spend her summer (perhaps her last ?) making wonderful memories for Clara : funny ones, like watching bamboo grow while listening to La Traviata, singing songs in the rain, or tasting the weeds growing on trail edges. And there’s also old Marcel, who teaches Clara how to do handy work, and Fanette, her mother, who wants to find a step-father for Clara, or Bello her godfather, who wants to include her in his group of musical godchildren… Of course, since life always holds surprises, Mélie is finally going to fall in love.

September 2008 – Fiction – 256 p.

French Sales : Book-club edition (GLM), Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche), Large print edition. Foreign Sales : Cairo Editore (Italian), Azbooka-Atticus (Russian).

ALLUMER LE CHAT– Turn on the Cat Barbara Constantine’s first novel, Allumer le Chat is about fairly normal folks who rather naturally experience incredibly weird things. There is the embalmer at a funeral home who takes up photography as a hobby, a child who learns healing from his pot-smoking grandpa, a cat convinced of being an intellectual, and… well, you get the drift. This is a book written to make us laugh. It is not a nice book. Between the lines is a running critique of annoying idiots. However, it is infused with a certain tenderness that pays homage to simple lives and to the pride of humble spirits, to those who do not run with the pack, who pass inconspicuously. It is a tribute to “un-beautiful” people. The short chapters, titled much like silent movies, are written in a spoken style. It is a book that begs to be seen and listened to. The odd, quirky characters will stick in your memory for a long time because you know that they really do exist – you have seen them ! French Sales : Book-club edition (GLM), Paperback edition (Points Seuil). Foreign Sale : Cairo Editore (Italian).

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January 2007 – Fiction – 256 p.

HÔTEL MIRANDA – Hotel Miranda Iman Bassalah

“Iman Bassalah’s exquisite novel is a poignant missive from that inviolate stronghold, from that pocket of resistance denouncing dictatorships – wether marital or political – around the world : the human heart.” – ELLE 20-year-old Selma boarded, after spending time in a Tunisian jail, an overloaded vessel bound for Lampedusa. The Arab Spring had not yet occurred. Ever since her boyfriend had mysteriously disappeared, the sole purpose of her life had been to get to Paris. She leaves behind her mother, Zineb and her adorable brother, Rabih – whose mental handicap had turned him into an avid collector of photos of Ben Ali, in his mind a fabulous king. Meanwhile, Louise is desperate to find a hotel room in Paris. She is determined not to spend another day trapped by her relationship and the dictates of perfect motherhood. Thus do our two runaways find themselves making a temporary last stop at the Hotel Miranda, a no star hotel, home to a cast of luminous characters with secret sorrows. There is Osmani, the goodhearted old Turk ; Moncef, the proprietor with a booming laugh ; Warda, the Lebanese connoisseur of good bread ; Ilan, the Israeli tourist ; Mama Fanta, the Malian matron ; Taoufik, the emergency room doctor ; all of whom will give Selma and Louise a warm welcome to their new home, a safe haven where they will be able to make a fresh start, to rebuild their lives at last. Iman Bassalah is a journalist and a writer who divides her time between France, Italy and Tunisia. She is the author of numerous works, essays and short stories. Hotel Miranda is her first novel.

May 2012 – Commercial Fiction 240 p.

Foreign Sale : Newton Compton (Italian).

L‘IRANIENNE – The Iranian Woman Maurice Bigio The story of one woman's determination to forge a new destiny for both her son and her country. Based on an international Iranian figure, Shirin Ebadi, and her fight for human rights. “ A masterful novel of Iran today. Powerful and moving.” – Biba Shirine is an Iranian, a mother and a lawyer. A staunch defender of freedom of thought, of women's rights, of hope. Jew, she had converted to Islam out of love to marry Shapour, a respected scientist. Their son, Shantia, is afflicted with a form of muscular dystrophy transmitted on the mother's side. Shirine refuses to give in to guilt but her convictions have put up a wall between herself and her husband, who, due to the illness of Shantia, progressively turned to be a religious fanatic. Despite the threats, Shirine continues braving the arbitrary decrees of Iranian society: she disobeys her husband and continues her work as a lawyer. Her indomitable spirit soon lands her in jail and after months of solitary confinement, she is released, only to find her son has been placed with a “new mother” and her husband has repudiated her. She has nothing left to lose now and is determined to save her son.

May 2012 – Commercial Fiction 264 p.

Foreign Sale : Newton Compton

Maurice Bigio was born in Cairo and lives in France. A staunch defender of human rights, he has closely followed the political, social and religious evolution of the MiddleEast region. He won the Prix du Livre Pourpre 2013 for this novel.

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AGNÈS ABÉCASSIS Agnès Abécassis was born in 1972. She started her career as a writer and an illustrator for a women's health magazine. A former screenwriter, she is also a journalist and a literary chronicler for a number of magazines. She is the author of the bestselling Les Tribulations d’une jeune divorcée ; Au secours, il veut m’épouser !, a hilarious text on the joys of coupledom ; as well as Toubib or not toubib ; Chouette, une ride ! ; Soirée Sushi and Le Théorème de Cupidon, a romantic comedy set in the movie industry.

WEEK-END SURPRISE– A Week-end Away A great summer read with fresh vibes and a delightful sense of humor with a lovely heroine today’s readers will easily identify with : Brune, a modern mom stretched thin between romantic entanglements, raising her sons and her search for personal fulfillment. Once upon a time, when paper mail was out and letters were sent electronically, in little bits and pieces, was Brune, an actress and divorced mother of Nestor and Noé, twin brothers experimenting puberty. A week in the life of this woman, in pictures. Snapshots of her “moments”, her brief emotional outbursts. But those days, real feelings were hidden by the seeming futility of text-messages. Indeed, Brune was receiving ambiguous text messages from Leonard, her radio host best friend, desperately in love with her. She was also always there for Suzie, texting her during her love disappointments. Then she was chatting with Prunelle who had a job on line and was being hounded by Simon, a sleazy guy on the Internet. Luckily, with all this going on, Noé and Nestor were doing pretty well at school (if it weren't for that awful teacher) and had an unlimited imagination.

In brief, a week in the life of a woman, still dreaming of vacation, who finds herself invited to London, for a tête-à-tête weekend, just herself and her sons… but after all not just her sons.

May 2013 – Commercial Fiction 232 p. French Sale : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche).

LE THÉORÈME DE CUPIDON – Cupid’s Theorem “Between sparkling situations and compelling twists, Agnès Abécassis gives us a delicious romantic comedy in two voices, one female and one that has transformed.” – La Nouvelle République “Bubbly, energetic, Agnès Abécassis gave a sweep to the gloom, and gives us lightness and cheerfulness, with a beautiful energy which become trademark.” – Question de femmes Nothing happens by chance. Indeed, even love has its laws, a mathematical law, in our case the Cupid's theorem : two parallel lines that never converge. Unless, that is, if they meet up at an intersection and fall in love. Take, for example, the trajectories of our lovebirds with seemingly antipodean expectations. Adélaïde, an exuberant, straight-forward and funny casting director – and fed up with love – and Philéas, an awkward, serious and shy filmmaker – with sex on the brain. Each in turn relates the ins and outs of daily life, revealing, along the way, the failures of one very short-sighted cherub... who finally gets it right ! March 2011 – Commercial fiction – 240 p. French Sale : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche). Movie Sale : Nexus Factory.

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L’AVANT-DERNIÈRE CHANCE – The Next-to-Last Chance Caroline Vermalle This touching and convincing story is an artful mix of cheeky dialogue and the expression of feelings and emotions that are hard to share. The German edition of L’Avant-dernière Chance, Denn das Glück ist eine Reise, has been a best-seller in Germany. While working on the filming of a movie in London, Adèle, an independent young French intern, receives an unexpected text message from beyond the grave ! Indeed, her grandfather, who passed away a few days earlier, writes to wish her happy birthday… This odd event causes Adèle to remember the past few months, in an attempt to make sense out of things. Her Grandpa Georges, aged 83, a homebody and avid gardener suddenly decided to set off on a road trip around France with his friend. Adèle, worried about his fragile health when she found out, asked that he send her daily updates by text message. And thus began their unique correspondence, a seemingly simple form of communication which brought them back together after ten years apart. Could texting be a way for them to nurture their close relationship even when separated by death ? Caroline Vermalle worked on documentaries for BBC in London for 7 years. She now lives in Paris and runs an architectural firm. L’Avant-dernière Chance is her debut novel and won the Prix Nouveau Talent Bouygues in 2009 and the 2011 Prix Chronos.

March 2009 – Fiction – 252 p.

French Sales : Large print edition, Condensed edition (Sélection du Reader’s Digest), Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche Young-Adult). Foreign Sales : Lübbe (German), Ediciones B (Spanish), Ecus Publishing (Complex Chinese), Gallic Books (English World rights).

LA MÉMOIRE DES AUTRES – Other People’s Memories Annelise Corbrion A novel that challenges our convictions for which the author was awarded the 2012 Prix Nouveau Talent Bouygues Télécom-Metro. Emma is having a hard time getting over her parents' sudden death. She does find some comfort, however, in her work as a computer graphics artist specialized in touching up old photographs. Immersing herself in the lives of perfect strangers, frozen in eternal happiness, she restores some of the original splendor of memories tarnished over time. Little does she expect the “paranormal” turn her life is about to take when she receives a mysterious email one day. Its sender is none other than a man from one of the photos she had restored – a man who had died in the 1940s ! He says he needs her help, as do the other ghosts whose requests soon start inundating her inbox. Why are all of these departed souls getting in touch with her ? Emma unwittingly becomes their messenger, carrying out their last wishes to defy oblivion and establish truth. Until she gets one too many emails – one that involves her personally. Soon she is off on dangerous investigation of memories that don't quite belong to the past. The departed may have brought Emma back to life, but she is in for a wild ride... Just how far will Emma be willing to go in her quest for truth ? April 2012 – Commercial Fiction 210 p.

Annelise Corbrion lives in the east of France. La Mémoire des autres is her debut novel.

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UNE TERRE POUR DEMAIN – A Home for Future Generations Gérard Georges A young British family shakes up the life of a solitary, stubborn farmer in a small village in Auvergne. Against all odds, a lasting friendship will form. In the tiny French hamlet of Garachou, the population is 1 : Old Ferdinand Pelissier who raises a few animals along with his dog Gamine. Ferdinand’s only love Yvette, has disappeared a long time ago, along with all of his friends. But one October evening, after milking time, a couple of British city-dwellers stumble into his yard. Ferdinand grabs his hunting rifle and refuses to let them in. The foreigners return the next day, along with the mayor : they are buying the neighbouring farm in ruins to turn it into a bed and breakfast. Thus begins a very tense lesson of understanding between an urban British family dreaming of getting back in touch with nature and a cantankerous old French loner. Slowly, thanks to the couple’s charming little girl, Peggy, a beautiful and sincere friendship blooms across cultures and generations. Until one day, Ferdinand is hospitalized and diagnosed with pneumonia.

November 2010 – Fiction – 270 p. EAN : 9782702141588

Gérard Georges worked as a radio journalist, teacher and school director before becoming a full-time writer.

French Sale : Large print edition. Foreign Sales : Thiele & Brandstätter Verlag GmbH (German), Piper Verlag (German paperback).

LE BERCEAU DE LA HONTE – The Cradle of Shame Mano Gentil A story of love, with all of its contradictions, that illuminates a little-known chapter of Nazi policies intent on turning reproduction into a weapon for victory. The Third Reich, with its reproduction of the pure race – the Aryan – Marthe could care less about all that. She loves Johannes, period. He is an SS officer, handsome, considerate and, more importantly, the key to escaping her miserable fate as a Picard peasant. Thanks to him, she is accepted into one of the most confidential programs : the Lebensborn. Love and ambition, but also ingenuity, soon see her settled in the Heim des Mésanges, the sole French maternity facility for expanding the Germanic race. There she and Johannes studiously collaborate on fulfilling their mission of having a child. Marthe has a new life, and a new name. Now she is Agatha, the beautiful Agatha. But these carefree days are over all too soon. The debacle will force the young mother to abandon her comfortable life at the “Heim des Mésanges”. Alone.

Mano Gentil was born in 1961. She has worked as a copywriter, a journalist and an office manager. She has written a dozen novels for adults and adolescents, all of which have dealt with questions of humanity. Her previous novel, Dans la tête des autres, was published by Calmann-Lévy in 2010.

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January 2013 – Commercial Fiction 240p.

French Sale : Large print edition.

ALEXIS AUBENQUE Former bookseller and genre literature buff, Alexis Aubenque made his crime fiction debut in 2008. His “River Falls” trilogy – winner of the 2009 Prix Polar in Cognac – met with a great success. “Nuits noires à Seattle” is his new series of true page turners, featuring Charité bien ordonnée (2011), Pour le bien des enfants (2013) and Né pour être sauvage (2014). Each book of the series can be read separately.

NÉ POUR ÊTRE SAUVAGE – Born to Be Wild This new investigation from Captain Mike Logan plunges us in the violent and criminal world of the Hells Angels. Set under the sky of Seattle, it completes the series “Dark Nights in Seattle” from which each book can be read separately. Ryan Bonfire, onetime aspiring rock star turned Hells Angel, is back in Seattle for the first time in fifteen years. No longer on his way to rock and roll stardom, he's here on quite another mission – to take someone out – and he’ll need to have all of his wits about him to do it ! But returning to his hometown has unexpectedly stirred up demons from the past, a host of disturbing emotions – perhaps even scruples ? – that he will have to overcome to execute the contract. Meanwhile, Captain Mike Logan is back on the job with Lieutenants Angelina Rivera and Dean Nelson, investigating the attempted murder of a police officer's girlfriend. Could the case be related to Ryan Bonfire's return to Seattle ?

January 2014 – Thriller – 400 p.

French Sale : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche).

POUR LE BIEN DES ENFANTS – For the Children’s Sake Also from the “Dark Nights in Seattle” series, For the Children’s Sake is a hard-hitting and fast-paced thriller about a both poignant and timely subject: adoption. “A well tied-up plot, packed with suspense, that keeps us on tenterhooks up until the last page” – Femme Actuelle Becky Parker lives with her picture perfect family in an affluent Seattle suburb. A straight-A student and a gifted musician, she has just discovered the whereabouts of her older brother, Oliver, who was also adopted but whose home life has not been happy. The siblings' prospective reunion is overshadowed by unfortunate circumstances, however : Oliver, a delinquent looking for trouble, is suspected of having murdered a famous surgeon. Becky wants desperately to believe in her brother. Yet she can't help wondering whether Oliver is an innocent victim or a skillful manipulator. Captain Mike Logan assigns the sensitive case to Lieutenant Rivera and his new partner, Liu Zhang, who find themselves caught up in a tangled web of do-gooders and child trafficking. January 2013 – Thriller – 394 p. French Sale : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche).

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PIERRE LEMAITRE Pierre Lemaitre was born in Paris in 1956. He worked for many years as a teacher of literature and now devotes his time to writing novels and screenplays. His novels, rewarded by many prizes, have made Pierre Lemaitre an outstanding success with critics and the public alike. In 2013 he was awarded the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award, for Au revoir là-haut (Albin Michel).

ROBE DE MARIÉ – The Groom Wore White A masterpiece translated in 13 languages ! “Though the French suspense novel often seems a bit tentative next to the machine of English-language suspense, this one comes to shake away our misconceptions and demonstrate a morbidly efficient ‘French touch’.” – Atmosphères Sophie Auverney, the thirty-year-old nanny of little Loïc, feels she is losing her mind, she forgets details, does or errands unexpected things. Sophie is haunted by her terrible past. Vincent, her husband, committed suicide after a tragic car accident had left him paralyzed and there have been other deaths too among her loved ones. One day, she awakens from a deep sleep and finds Loïc in his bed, strangled by a shoelace. Panic-stricken, Sophie runs away. A kind stranger crosses her path at the train station and invites Sophie to her house. There, Sophie steals her ID then wakes once again from a deep sleep to discover the young woman’s lifeless body. Did Sophie stab her ? She doesn’t recall anything. Knowing that the police are already searching for her, she goes into hiding. Is she a cold-blooded murderer ? What is going on ? French Sales : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche ), Book-club editions (GLM & France Loisirs), Audio-book edition (CDL).

January 2009 – Suspense fiction – 286 p.

Movie Sale : Alexandre Films. Foreign Sales : Ullstein (German), House of Books (Dutch), Könyvmolyképzö Kiadó (Hungarian), Kashiwa Shobo (Japanese), Fish+Fish (Complex Chinese), Muza (Polish), Dasan Books (Korean), Fazi Editore (Italian), Azbooka-Atticus (Russian), Editora Nemo – Autentica (Portuguese/Brazil), MacLehose Press (English World rights), Alfaguarra (Spanish World rights), Colibri (Bulgarian).

CADRES NOIRS – High-Profile Management WINNER OF THE 2010 PRIX DU POLAR EUROPÉEN - LE POINT Translated in 8 languages “Lemaitre brilliantly explores an explosive social reality” – Le Parisien 57-year-old Alain Delambre, former human resources manager, has been unemployed for five years. Unable to find work in his field, he has accepted a menial job as an inventory clerk at a ridiculously low salary. With the support of his wife Nicole and their two daughters, he tries his best to make do. Then one day he comes across an unexpected job offer that fits his profile to a T, except for his age. Not to be put off, he goes in to the recruitment agency ready to give it all.

Short-listed along with two other candidates, he is informed that the management's final decision will depend on how well he reacts under intense pressure, that is in a simulated hostage-taking situation. Determined to land the job at all costs, our protagonist agrees to play the game, setting off an unstoppable chain of events... Our disillusioned and scorned hero may be a “grandpa boomer”, but he is more than ready to prove that he too is an expert at making the most of any opportunity that comes his way. A remarkably taut, well-crafted novel and a blistering attack on the cynicism February 2010 – Suspense fiction – 350 p. and snobbery of corporate bigwigs and management techniques. French Sales : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche), Book-club edition (France Loisirs). Movie Sale : Acajou Films. Foreign Sales : Fazi Editore (Italian), Pegasus Yayinlari (Turkish), House of Books (Dutch), Muza (Polish), Dasan Books (Korean), Editora Nemo – Autentica (Portuguese/Brazil), Alfaguarra (Spanish World rights), MacLehose Press (English World rights). 39

LA NUIT DES ENFANTS-ROIS – The Prodigies Bernard Lenteric The electrifying and pulse-pounding novel of a whole generation. The most powerful computer on Earth has been equipped with a program to detect child prodigies. Jimbo Farrar, a young man, prodigy, became in charge of this operation, created for dozens of years but forgotten by all. One day, whereas it has never discovered anything that really matters, the computer alerts Jimbo : seven child prodigies have been localized. Jimbo is the only one to know and he will keep their existence secret. Some years later : New York City, nighttime in Central Park. Seven teenagers are brutally attacked, beaten and sexually abused. All seven victims, however, happen to be the child prodigies, linked what is more by a single mind, a single spirit. Thus is born their inexorable hatred of the world, hatred only to be quenched by a series of robberies and perfect crimes.

First publication : May 1992 New release : May 2011 Fiction – Thriller – 350 p.

If there were eight of them, the world would be theirs – and the long night of the Prodigies would come at last… Jimbo knows it and is trying desperately to stop them... Unless, of course, he is on their side ! Bernard Lenteric was born in 1944 and died in march 2009. He has been a filmmaker before becoming a successful writer.

Movie Sale : The Prodigies, released on June 2011 and produced by Fidélité Productions. French Sale : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche). Foreign Sales : Salani (Italian), Demipage (World Spanish).

NOCES DE PAILLE – Straw Wedding Yves Hughes A masterfully-crafted dark novel, full of humour, in two acts from the tender meeting between a young taxidermist and a lovely old couple with a weird wish to a suffocating paranoia and a astounding outcome. Lukas, a taxidermist, meets clients for an unexpected mission. Charlotte and Léonce have been together for fifty years and they toy with the crazy idea of being stuffed. That way, they won’t be separated ; they will continue to hold each other’s hand. At first quite confused, Lukas is quickly carried away by the project. And gets involved in the game. All three will become obsessed by the idea. A strange relationship develops between them, like a weird complicity, very intimate, made up of imagination, tenderness and humour…. black humour. Lukas finally becomes part of his clients’ everyday life. He even settles in their house. Then, when the Day comes, he will have everything at hand. The project takes on great importance, to the point that it is obsessive, and finally becomes the ultimate goal of their lives. And soon, they are gripped by suspicion. They start to doubt, to spy on each other, to watch, to suspect each other. Indeed, each will become progressively very impatient. Born in Geneva in 1960, Yves Hughes has written scripts for the television and for radio. He has also written numerous novels for young people. Straw Wedding is his fourth novel.

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2005 – Suspense fiction – 190 p.

Foreign sale : Ripol Classic (Russian).

DIANE SILVER – Diane Silver series 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.

DANS LA TÊTE, LE VENIN – Venom France, 2008 : a man has been strangled by a former lover who had dropped out of sight. Two psychotic teens, Louise and her sidekick Cyril, are ensnared in a murderous brand of Satanism. The final step in their initiation involves committing a murder but their own bloodthirsty plans are annihilated when the two are brutally murdered. USA, 2008 : Diane Silver is hunting down a serial killer. Yves, a French cop who Diane trained in profiling, informs her of the murder of the two teens. As she reconstitutes the murder of the two adolescents, Diane opens Pandora’s box… French Sales : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche), Book-club edition (GLM “Main Selection”), Large print edition

Foreign Sale : Editora Nemo – Autentica (Portuguese / Brazil).

March 2010 – Crime Novel 266 p.

UNE OMBRE PLUS PÂLE – A Lighter Shadow Diane has made a pact with Rupert Teelaney, alias Nathan, one of world’s rich and famous, to hunt down serial killers and eliminate them in order to spare their future victims. This is perfectly illegal, but Diane wants more than anything to find the “tout” who drove her daughter into the hands of a murderer. While Nathan is hunting down the tout, Diane is working on a gruesome case : in a quaint cottage, a pipe leak reveals a mass grave in the basement housing at least 9 women’s bodies. In Paris, Yves Guéguen takes a liking to Sara Heurtel and her son Victor. Nathan is watching him and Yves is getting in the way. How will these three stories come together ?

September 2009 – Crime Novel 308 p.

French Sales : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche), Book-club edition (GLM “Main Selection”). Foreign Sale : Editora Nemo – Autentica (Portuguese / Brazil).

LA MORT, SIMPLEMENT– Death simply Any relief Diane might have felt after this vengeful murder is masked by her growing feelings of doubt about Nathan. Who exactly is he ? A righter of wrongs or a charming, intelligent and dreadful psychopath who is merely looking for excuses to do what he loves most : killing ? When Diane learns that her best friend and French counterpart Yves Guéguen was murdered in Paris, she wonders if Nathan might be involved.

French Sales : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche), Book-club edition (GLM). Foreign Sale : Editora Nemo – Autentica (Portuguese / Brazil). January 2010 – Crime Novel 330 p. 41

LA DAME SANS TERRE – The Landless Lady Andrea H. Japp A historical series by Andrea H. Japp, author of about thirty novels, and considered one of the “queens” of crime fiction in France. Published between 2006 and 2008, around 384 p. each.

VOL. 1 – The Track of the Beast 1304. France is divided by the conflict between Philip the Fair, who wants to free himself from the church’s omnipotent authority, and Pope Benedict XI, who dies suddenly from poisoning. In these troubled times, Agnès, a tempestuous young widow, will see her destiny change radically. Why does Eudes de Larnay, Agnès’s perversely stupid half-brother, accuse her of being possessed by the devil and plotting with heretics to bring her before the Inquisition ? Who sends the letters bearing the papal seal that speak of the “divine blood” to the convent of Clairets ? What does the young Clément, Agnès’s protégé, discover in the books of the convent’s library ? What can one make of the dead bodies found abandoned in the forest, burnt but without any trace of fire, or clawed by a mysterious animal ?

VOL. 2 – The Rose-Whisperer Agnès is dragged before the court of the Inquisition, where Nicolas Florin, the Grand Inquisitor, wants to see her weep and beg, and demands that she be put to death. Meanwhile, at the convent of Clairets, one nun after another is found poisoned. They know that the 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 mystery lies in the manuscripts of the Abbey’s secret library. Though Agnès doesn’t know it yet, she is not alone : Count Arthus of Authon is prepared to kill in order to save Agnès, who has stolen his heart. Francesco de Leone, a Knight Hospitaller, is on a mysterious quest involving Agnès and has sworn to protect her at all costs against her enemies. Finally, Clément’s ingenuity may just change his destiny and his Lady’s one forever.

VOL. 3 – Divine Blood In this third volume, the knots surrounding the multiple mysteries exposed in the first two volumes are untied. The title, Divine Blood, is a clue. Whose blood courses through young Clément’s veins ? And what does this reveal about his identity ? Who was behind murders in the convent of Clairets ? The investigation will go as far as Rome and Pope’s closest advisors. As for the love kindling between Agnès and Arthus, there is yet another surprise in store…

VOL. 4 – The Battle of the Shadows Young Clémence (formerly Clément) has disappeared. Agnès desperately hopes to find her again. She manages to escape the clutches of the inquisition but is being slowly poisoned… Arthus, count of Authon, now Agnès’s husband falls, in his turn, into the hands of the Inquisition ; whereas Francesco de Léone, the white knight, tries once again to save them and protect their secret. A thrilling ride from beginning to end, the fourth volume of “La Dame sans terre” gives long-awaited answers to the mysteries of this exciting and intriguing story. French Sales : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche), Book-club edition (GLM “Main Selection”). Foreign Sales : Gallic Books (English), Goldmann (German), Gotica (Portuguese), Family Leisure Club (Russian). 42

POLARS HISTORIQUES – Historical Thrillers Andrea H. Japp

MONESTARIUM – Monestarium 1288. Alexandria, Egypt. An Armenian merchant helps a dying man in the desert who bequeaths him a mysterious bag containing bone and clay fragments. 1290. Acre, Galilee. The Armenian has been contacted by someone who wants to buy the mysterious bag from him. Instead of money in exchange for the bag, only a knife to the throat. 1307. Convent of Clairets, France. Angélique, a young cloistered nun, has been strangled. What was the motive ? Undoubtedly because she too closely resembled one of her sisters, Marie-Gillette d’Andremont, who found anonymous refuge in the convent after fleeing Spain where her lover was assassinated by two killers… The investigation thus begins, conducted by Plaisance de Champlois, the young and newly-appointed abbess of Clairets, aided by the honourable Aimery, count of Mortagne. Rumour has it that these murders are all linked to the secret held in the mysterious bag containing bone and clay fragments. A diptych of the Virgin in conversation with repentant soldiers, given to Marie-Gillette by her lover before his death is the key to the enigma. The answer, which, if revealed, would threaten the Church’s credibility, is presumably to be found in a reflection on the soldiers’ March 2007 – Historical Thriller - 356 p. armor… French Sales : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche), Book-club edition (GLM “Main Selection”), Large print edition. Foreign Sales : Algaida Editores (Spanish), Euromedia (Czech), Newton Compton (Italian).

LA CROIX DE PERDITION – The Cross of Perdition

Winter 1308. The snowbound Convent of Clairets. A string of macabre murders involving Tarot cards. How do the brutal killings of Dominican nuns tie in to the ruthless hunt for Arnauld Amalric's cross, of alleged magical powers, worn during the Albigensian Crusade in Béziers (a military campaign initiated by the Catholic church to eliminate the Cathars) a hundred years earlier ? And who exactly is Claire, young daylight-shunning woman determined to protect four ill-treated, but gentle, “circus freaks” ? As the champions of good, young abbess Plaisance de Champlois and Knight Arnaud de Villeneuve, look for answers, the reader is caught up in a spine-tingling and expertly-crafted medieval mystery.

French Sales : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche), Book-club edition (GLM “Main Selection”) Large print edition. Foreign Sale : Algaida Editores (Spanish).

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May 2008 – Historical Thriller - 330 p.

FRANCOISE BOURDON Former teacher, Françoise Bourdon is a writer with a passion for history and literature. Her most recent novels, set in Provence – her region of adoption – explore the trades and lives of the bygone times.

RETOUR AU PAYS BLEU – Back to The Blue Landscape of Home Grief-stricken characters find happiness – and hope – in the landscapes of their native Provence. From farmhouse to hill town bastide, among the vineyards, olive groves, lavender fields and holly oaks of Provence, the author recounts the intersecting destinies of a host of soul-searching characters. Recently widowed, Sabine takes refuge at the Mas des Anges where she forms a special bond with a blind man. A fifty-year old man, laid off for economic reasons, devotes himself to the duty of remembrance, and discovers newfound happiness. A husband takes his Alzheimer’s-stricken wife back to the lavender fields of her youth. She hasn’t forgotten them... A woman leaves her unfaithful husband to become a lavender farmer... A grandson is given the task of convincing the family matriarch to give up the sumptuous estate on which she has spent her entire life. He sides with his grandmother instead of the family. October 2013 – Fiction – 330 p.

Françoise Bourdon gives us a richly embroidered tapestry of human life – shot through with the silver thread of hope – in a poignant collection of finely crafted stories.

French Sales : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche), Book-club edition (GLM & France Loisirs), Large print edition.

LA GRANGE DE ROCHEBRUNE – Rochebrune Farm Three generations of impassioned lavender farmers struggle to preserve their regional heritage, in a Provence family saga of vibrant scents, colors – and emotion. Rochebrune Farm, 1918. Pierre has returned to the family farm with a severe facial disfigurement. But the unconditional love of his wife, Antonia, and the birth of a daughter, Valentine, restores his will to live. He decides to begin to grow lavender: Antonia has a passion for it. Years go by. World War II is a terrible time for the whole family. Valentine, who has lost her great love to the war, is disconsolate. In 1958, she marries a childhood friend. The couple has a son, Alexis who, after a happy childhood spent among the lavender fields, falls in love with a young English girl on vacation in the region. He will never forget his first love. By the age of thirty, Alexis is running the family farm and is the only single person in the village. Who will take care of the lavender fields one day, when he can no longer farm them? April 2013 – Fiction – 374 p. French Sales : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche), Book-club editions (GLM & France Loisirs), Large print edition. 44

THE WINE TRILOGY by Jean-François Bazin Journalist, writer, historian and former President of the Regional Council of Burgundy, Jean-François Bazin is a leading expert on wine and wineries. A regular contributor to the Hachette Wine Guide, he has written over twenty reference works on wine, including the monumental Universal Dictionary of Burgundy Wine (Presses du Belvédère).

LES RAISINS BLEUS – Blue grapes 1880 – 1914. Set in Burgundy’s famous Gevrey-Chambertin and recounting the intermingled destinies of a family of winery owners and a family of winemakers, Blue Grapes is a tale of rivalry between the advocates the “French grapevine,” decimated by rampant phylloxera, and the promoters of the more robust “American plants.” A splinter group will choose exile and in doing so give rise to the vineyards of California.

French Sales : Book-club edition (GLM), Large print edition. March 2010 – 464 p.

LE CLOS DES MONTS-LUISANTS –

The Clos des Monts-Luisants The interwar period. Dissent and rivalry among a dynasty of Burgundy winemakers set against the raging battle, between winery owners and wine traders, over the birth of Burgundy’s appellations contrôlées.

French Sales : Book-club edition (GLM), Large print edition. September 2011 – 480p.

LE VIN DE BONNE ESPERANCE –

The Wine of Good Hope Both a tale of the turbulent relations between a Burgundian estate owner and his wife, the heiress of a Bordeaux château, and a celebratory initiation into the mysteries of the present day world of wine, from the dictatorship of the American wine tasters to our mystic infatuation with biodynamics by way of label fraud.

French Sales : Book-club edition (GLM), Large print edition.

October 2012 – 480 p.

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LE SCULPTEUR DE NUAGES – The Carver of Clouds Jean Anglade Inspired by the life of Ralph Stackpole, the picturesque and spirited portrait of a renowned American sculptor – the toast of San Francisco in the 1930s – who left his country at the height of fame for the love of Francine, a beautiful Frenchwoman. California, 1898. Ralph is orphaned at the age of thirteen. Left to fend for himself, he encounters Jack London, whom he decides to become a gold prospector. After being trapped in a collapsed mine, he realizes that he is not cut out for a life of adventure. Spontaneously drawn to sculpting, Ralph turns to the study of fine arts, his promising talent soon earning him a scholarship that takes him to the Beaux-Arts in Paris. Upon returning to San Francisco, he makes a name for himself as the city's official sculptor, piling up impressive public commissions. Then one day, Francine, a beautiful French immigrant from the Auvergne region, enters his workshop. His love for the homesick Frenchwoman soon leads Ralph to leave the United States again and to settle on a farm in the heart of the French countryside. Thus begins a whole new life, complete with a cast of colorful characters. Ralph thinks that his days as a sculptor have come to an end, only to discover the unsurpassed quality of the gray stones used to build the village church, the Volvic stone. August 2013 – Historical fiction – 288 p.

French Sales : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche), Book-club edition (GLM), Large print edition, Audio edition.

Jean Anglade was born in 1915. From humble origins, he would go on to become first a school teacher then an Italian teacher and an associate professor. The spiritual successor of Alexandre Vialatte, he is considered the literary patriarch of the Auvergne region.

JE JOUERAI ENCORE POUR NOUS – I’ll Play Along, For Us Élise Fischer With this beautiful love story paced by classical music, the author also orchestrates a suspense-packed thriller and unveils, revelation after revelation, the weight of a heavy past. 1975. Twenty-year-old Anaïs Lange, an impassioned pianist, lives with her grandmother in Nancy, in the East of France. Already well-known locally, she is unexpectedly given the opportunity of replacing a famous pianist on tour in the region. Thus does she meet and fall in love with the charming violinist, Nathanaël. The lovers tell each other everything, including their family histories. Nathanaël's father and grandfather, owners of a music store perished in concentration camps and his mother managed to escape the roundup, taking with her, as sole possession, her violin. Anaïs tells the story of her father, an active member of the Resistance who attempted the impossible to help Jewish families escape from the Gestapo and was a hero during the Liberation.

September 2013 – Historical fiction 304 p.

The lovers' respective pasts create an even stronger bond. Passionately in love, the young musicians are soon expecting a child and contemplating marriage. But Nathanaël's mother and grandmother are inexplicably against their union. This fierce opposition seems incomprehensible, until Anaïs discovers that her family history is based on terrible lies.

French Sales : Book-club edition (GLM), Large print edition.

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LA DAME DE KYOTO – The Lady of Kyoto Éric Le Nabour “A captivating look at Japan through the eyes of an impassioned young woman searching for freedom” – Le Semeur hebdo “Both the magnificent portrait of a woman at a historic crossroads and an engrossing tale, the author’s poignant ‘Lady of Kyoto’ has it all.” – Le Dauphiné Libéré Kyoto, 1904. Myako Matsuka has been the ward of her brother, Naoki, since the assassination of their parents, a couple of rich silk industrialists. When Naoki leaves for the front during the Russo-Japanese War, Myako is left to manage the family business on her own. Horrified by working conditions in the factory, she doesn't hesitate to violate her brother's instructions, revealing a proud and independent temperament. But her troubling love for an English diplomat, Allan Pearson, and the entrance into her life of a young Frenchman with a passion for stamps, Martin Fallières, complicate the situation.

November 2012 – Historical Fiction 380 p.

Torn between passion, family ties and professional responsibilities, tormented by her parents' mysterious death, Myako is going to have to choose : a painful decision that will expose the equally tragic truth of her own past and that will cause her future to take a very different direction than the one she had imagined.

Foreign Sale : Newton Compton (Italian). Éric Le Nabour earned early acclaim with several biographies and historical works. He is also an expert on the East and the Far East.

FERNAND DE MAGELLAN – Magellan, Inventing the World Patrick Girard In this novel Patrick Girard relates the exceptional destiny of Fernand de Magellan’s history, often overlooked. Magellan's great journey is a prototype of sorts, an adventure for adventure's sake, a feat with no tomorrow. The gallant maritime epic of a veritable Don Quixote of the Seas. Educated in the Portuguese court, the penniless fidalgo was raised on feats of chivalry, serving as a young man in India and Barbary until a wound makes him unfit for soldiering. Decommissioned and living on a modest pension granted by Portugal's Manuel I, with whom he is out of favor, Magellan devotes himself to a secret dream : to sail around the southern tip of the newly discovered Americas, the passage to the Moluccas spices. Achieving this feat would not only bring new wealth and lands to his native country, it would also reunite him with his former comrade in arms, now the vizier of the Sultan of Ternate, with whom he had been secretly corresponding. But like Columbus before him, Magellan's request for a small fleet is refused by the Portuguese court. He is forced to turn to Spain, to win the trust of the recently crowned Don Carlos, future Charles V, also a newcomer to Spain.

May 2012 – Historical Fiction 350 p. Foreign Sale : El Ateneo (Spanish for Latin America only).

Historian, journalist and novelist Patrick Girard is the author of numerous works, including the epic historical trilogies Le Roman de Carthage (Éditions N°1) and Al Andaluz (Calmann-Lévy). Also written by Patrick Girard :

CHRISTOPHE COLOMB – Christopher Columbus (April 2011 – 350 p.) Foreign Sales : Presença (Portuguese), El Ateneo (Spanish – Latin America only). 47

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), A mon fils, à l’aube du troisième millénaire (Gallimard, 2000), 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.

UN BATEAU POUR L’ENFER – The Saint Louis’ Epic 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 departure 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 expensively acquired valid tourist visas. Destination : Havana, Cuba, where the exiled 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, Gustave Schroeder, captain of the Saint-Louis, received a cable from the Cuban government. The latter, manipulated by the Nazi agents established there, had suddenly decided to cancel all the authorisations. Schroeder was informed that the January 2005 – Historical fiction – 304 p. ship would not be authorised to come alongside. And an order was given to make an about turn 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 SaintLouis. French Sales : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche), Book-club edition (GLM), Large print edition. Foreign Sales : Actel Trading (Greek /Cyprus), Neri Pozza (Italian), Pro Editura (Romanian), Styria de Ediciones (Spanish), Park Publishing (Hungarian), Kok Ten Have (Dutch).

LA DAME À LA LAMPE – The Lady of the Lamp 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 for those less fortunate than she ; from her legendary work in the Crimean War to the 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 latter part of her life fighting infectious diseases… Gilbert Sinoué artfully delves into the past to bring Florence Nightingale, as well as the people and events that marked her, back to life. French Sales : Paperback edition (Folio), Book-club editions (GLM & France Loisirs), Large print edition. Foreign Sales : Psichogios (Greek), Neri Pozza (Italian).

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April 2008 – Historical fiction – 286 p.

LA PETITE BIBLIOTHÈQUE DES IDÉES

A Little Library of Modern Thought J. Derrida, J. Baudrillard, J. Kristeva, A. Negri, etc.

DE L’HOSPITALITÉ by Jacques Derrida & Anne Dufourmantelle (1997) Anne Dufourmantelle attends a seminar held by Jacques Derrida. He speaks of hospitality but also of hostility, the other and the stranger, or what is approaching our borders. Foreign Sales : Boom (Dutch), Stanford UP (English), Sangyo Toshu (Japanese), Ekkremes (Greek), Ediciones de la Flor (Spanish), Passagen Verlag (German), Escuta (Portuguese /Brazil), Resling Publishing (Hebrew), Egyptian National Center for Translation (Arabic), Dongmoonsung Publishing (Korean).

LES OBJETS SINGULIERS by Jean Baudrillard & Jean Nouvel (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 edition (ARLEA). Foreign Sales : Minnesota UP (English), Dongmunsun (Korean), Fondo de Cultura Economica (Spanish), Passagen Verlag (German), Electa (Italian), Dar Charkeyyat (Arabic), Kajima Institute (Japanese), Futura (Greek), Paideia (Romanian), AGM (Croatian), Yem Publications (Turkish), Boekencentrum Publishers / Klement (Dutch).

L’AVENIR D’UNE RÉVOLTE by Julia Kristeva (1998) This title brings together three of Kristeva’s major texts on exile and revolt, more in terms of an interior revolution than political action. The texts are witness to her powerful argumentation, both on a psychoanalytical level and as a literary critic. She also touches on her own arrival in France and what it means to be a stranger in a strange land. French Sale : Paperback edition (Champs-Flammarion). Foreign Sales : Boom (Dutch), Columbia UP (English), Il Nuevo Melangolo (Italian), Instituto de Sao Paulo (Portuguese /Brazil).

DU RETOUR by Antonio Negri (2002)

In his own inimitable voice, Antonio Negri recounts his exceptional destiny. From one letter to another (F for Future, B for Red Brigade, C for Crime, etc.), he relates the most important events of his life, his political commitments, his exile in France, his return to Italy and his imprisonment. French Sale : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche). Foreign Sales : Metaichmio (Greek), Rizzoli (Italian), Campus (German), Ehak (Korean), Sakuhin Sha (Japanese), Routledge (English), Van Gennep (Dutch), Record (Portuguese/Brazil), Korpus (Slovenian), Sic (Polish).

COMME DES FRÈRES by Frédéric Boyer (1998) This is a magnificently-written biblical, literary and philosophical essay on fraternity and war. Foreign Sale : Dongmunsun (Korean). 49

LA PETITE BIBLIOTHÈQUE DES IDÉES

A Little Library of Modern Thought B. Cannone, C. de Portzamparc, P. Sollers, G. Pommier, etc.

VOIR, ÉCRIRE by Philippe Sollers & Christian de Portzamparc (2003) A second dialogue between an architect and a writer. They evoke favourite writers, painters, other architects and raise the question : can we think without language ? French Sale : Paperback edition (Folio). Foreign Sales : Minnesota UP (English), Yapi Kredi Kültür (Turkish).

LE SENTIMENT D’IMPOSTURE by Belinda Cannone (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 edition (Folio). Foreign Sales : Bibliotheca nueva (Spanish), Editura Art (Romanian), East China Normal UP (Simplified Chinese), Edizioni di Passaggio (Italian).

L’ ÉCRITURE DU DÉSIR by Belinda Cannone (2000) WINNER OF THE BEST ESSAY PRIZE FROM THE ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE 2000 What makes us a writer ? What is the driving force behind the desire to write, transcribe, tell the world’s story ? Belinda Cannone studies this question through an analysis of her favourite writers. French Sale : Paperback edition (Folio). Foreign Sale : East China Normal UP (Simplified Chinese).

À QUELLE HEURE PASSE LE TRAIN… by Jean Oury & Marie Depussé (2003) This is an extraordinary dialogue about madness and ordinary life in a mental hospital, housed in an old castle, between Jean Oury, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and writer Marie Depussé.

LES CORPS ANGÉLIQUES DE LA POST-MODERNITÉ by Gérard Pommier (2000) Psychoanalyst Gérard Pommier explores the current need to smooth over the rough edges, to “angelify” the body and desire (cloning, virtual reality) which paradoxically leads to a resurgence of extreme violence. A very pertinent analysis of our constantly changing society. Foreign Sale : East China Normal UP (Simplified Chinese). 50

LA PETITE BIBLIOTHÈQUE DES IDÉES

A Little Library of Modern Thought J. Darras, M-A. Ouaknin, C. Bident, etc.

NOUS SOMMES TOUS DES ROMANTIQUES ALLEMANDS by Jacques Darras (2002) Poet and essayist Jacques Darras explores the thinking of great German romantics such as Hegel, Schelling, Holderlin, Lessing, etc. and the influence they have on us today, particularly in terms of building Europe. Foreign Sale : East China Normal UP (Simplified Chinese).

LETTRES SUR LA NATURE HUMAINE À L’USAGE DES SURVIVANTS by Dany-Robert Dufour (1999) Dany-Robert Dufour, writer, essayist and linguistics professor at the University of Paris brings us a anthropological essay on the human being as an “anaxotl” – that is a being who, unlike most animals, is incapable of taking care of himself at birth. Foreign Sale : Dongmunsun (Korean).

RECONNAISSANCES by Christophe Bident (2003) Writer and literature professor, Christophe Bident explores the theme of recognition, particularly in the works of Robert Antelme, Maurice Blanchot and Gilles Deleuze. Foreign Sale : Arena (Spanish).

ANTHROPOLOGIE DE l’INHUMANITÉ by Maria Victoria Uribe (2003) This book relates the history of Colombia from the period of “La Violencia” from the 1950’s to nowadays, through the study of the massacres. Basing herself upon political, social and contextual considerations, the author, a Colombian anthropologist born in Bogotá, establishes a typology of the massacres and of its perpetrators. The author questions the symbolization and ritualization of acts of violence, the semantic grounds of an inhuman anthropology, but also the devastating effects of the massacres regarding the body classification.

C’EST POUR CELA QU’ON AIME LES LIBELLULES by Marc-Alain Ouaknin (1998) Rabbi Marc-Alain Ouaknin, who holds a degree in philosophy, tells the story of a meeting between a wise master and his disciple in the Luxembourg Gardens and the philosophical quest that is born from this meeting. He mixes the teachings of the Bible, cabala, major European literary texts and philosophical references with his own personal humour and prose. French Sale : Paperback edition (Points Seuil). Foreign Sale : Dongmunsun (Korean). 51

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.

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 intelligentsia 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 toward 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 ?

April 2004 – Essay - 341 p.

Even if he repudiates his youthful ideas, Raymond Aron does not take the law into his own hands. He offers a dispassionate 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 Sale : Paperback edition (Pluriel). Foreign Sales : Kiepenheuer & Witsch (German), Doubleday (English World rights), Lindau Edizioni (Italian), Mlata Fronta (Czech), Yilin Press (Simplified Chinese), Akademiai Kiado (Hungarian), RBA Libros (Spanish), Dituria (Albanian), Curtea Veche (Romanian), AST (Russian), Tres Estrelas (Portuguese).

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 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 mankind. Foreign Sales : Golden Marketing (Croatian), W. Martins Fontes (Brazil), University Ljubljana (Slovenian), Social Sciences Academic Press (Simplified Chinese), AST (Russian). Translation rights for English, German and Italian are not available.

Calmann Lévy also holds rights to Essai sur les libertés (1965).

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January 2004 – Essay - 341 p.

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).

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 history 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

French Sale : Volumes 1 and 2 : Paperback edition (Points Seuil). Foreign Sales : Idiomas Vivientes (Spanish), RCS Libri (Italian), Perspectiva (Portuguese), Jüdischer Verlag (German), Pennsylvania UP (English), Hasefer (Romanian), Universitas (Polish), Chikuma Shobo (Japanese).

LA CAUSALITÉ DIABOLIQUE (1980/1985/2006) “Diabolical Causality” 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.

Foreign Sales : Munchik Editores (Spanish), Perspectiva (Portuguese).

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LA CRITIQUE ET LA CONVICTION – Criticism and Conviction Paul Ricœur 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 philosophers, Marc de Launay and François Azouvi. Criticism and Conviction is not only an introduction to the life and work of Paul Ricœur, covering all of the philosophical schools of interest, from metaphysics to psychoanalysis, 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 events. This work is also a thought-provoking meditation on existence and death.

November 1995 Essay/Interview - 290 p.

Paul Ricœur is one of the major philosophers of the 20th century. His works are diverse, abundant and continue to meet success both in France and throughout the world. His most renowned works are De l'interprétation (Seuil, 1965 and 1995), Le Conflit des interprétations (Seuil, 1969), La Métaphore vive (Seuil, 1975), Temps et Récit (Seuil, 1983-1985), Soi-même comme un autre (Seuil, 1990). François Azouvi and Marc de Launay, researchers at the prestigious French CNRS, were the editors-in-chief of the Revue de métaphysique et de morale, under Ricœur’s direction.

French Sale : Paperback edition (Pluriel). Foreign Sales : Editoriale Jaca Book (Italian), Columbia UP (English/US), Polity Press (English/UK), Edicoes 70 (Portuguese), KRC (Polish), Karl Alber Verlag (German), Yapi Kredi Yay (Turkish), Association Apokalipsa (Slovenian), Greenbee Publishing (Korean).

DICTIONNAIRE INTERNATIONAL DE LA PSYCHANALYSE

International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis Alain de Mijolla Seven years of work, 500 international contributions from all horizons, 2000 pages, 1600 entries. The first dictionary of its kind, written by internationally known analysts from France and abroad. It defines and describes the development of the different theoretical and clinical psychoanalytical notions, as well as the principal actors, works, events and institutions in the history of psychoanalysis and of the psychoanalytical movement in the world since their origins. The entries are presented alphabetically. The terms are translated into five languages and are followed by a short bibliography which is completed at the end of the volume. Besides a great number of Freudian and post-Freudian notions, this dictionary is the only one to provide entries such as : biographies of the world’s principal psychoanalysts, their most remarkable works, events which have marked the history of the psychoanalytical movement and its various evolutions, and the principal institutions which have illustrated its development, not to mention the contribution of certain movements derived from psychoanalysis such as Analytical Psychology (Jung) or Individual Psychology (Adler). Neuropsychiatrist and psychoanalyst Alain de Mijolla is a member of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris, the International Psychoanalytical Association and Archives and the History of Psychoanalysis Committee. Founder and president of the International Association of the History of Psychoanalysis, he is the director of the Institute of the History of Psychoanalysis of the EHESS Research Centre on Europe.

French Sale : Paperback edition (Pluriel). Foreign Sales : Gale Thompson (World English), Akal (World Spanish), Imago (Portuguese). 54

April 2002 – Reference book 2 volumes of 950 pages each

BOHÈMES – The Bohemians Dan Franck 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 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. They came from many different countries. They were painters, poets, sculptors, musicians, 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 has written many books and his work has been published in over twenty-eight countries. French Sale : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche). Foreign Sales : Grove Atlantic (World English), Clio Publishing (Korean), Psichogios (Greek), Dals (Romanian), Garzanti (Italian), Wydawnictwo Iskry (Polish), Renmin UP (Simplified Chinese), SonM (Bulgarian), Sel Yayincilik (Turkish), Parthas Verlag (German),Sluzbeni Glasnik (Serbian), L&PM (Portuguese/Brazil).

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DE FREUD À KAFKA – From Freud to Kafka Philippe Réfabert

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 that limits desire. Without the support of his parents, the child risks sacrificing either his sexual prowess, or his capacity for initiative or judgement. Freud supposed that the child naturally possessed this unconditional support making him or her a tragic hero in the making, a little Oedipus, i.e., a hero capable of criminality without killing himself or going crazy. 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 symposiums and collective works. A renowned clinician, he has given seminars on the book’s theme.

Foreign Sale: Karnac Books (English World rights).

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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 plays cello and has founded the Baroque Opera and Theatre Festival in Versailles.

RHÉTORIQUE SPÉCULATIVE (1995) “I call speculative rhetoric the antiphilosophical literary tradition that runs throughout the western history since the invention of philosophy. I date its theoretical advent back to 139, in Rome. Its theorist was Fronto.” “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.”

January 1995 – Essay - 218 p.

Foreign Sale : El Cuenco de Plata (Spanish World rights).

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 unashamed literary-minded person, Quignard relies, among others, on the conversations 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. Beyond a mere reinstatement, this is a brilliant literary analysis by Quignard, to whom, as well as to Fronto, literature is impervious to rationality, to predictable. With Speculative Rhetoric, Pascal Quignard immerses the reader in what he calls, right from the dedication, “a defence of literary-minded people”, clever and sincere.

LA HAINE DE LA MUSIQUE (1996) 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 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 example of the zither, or khitara, made out of tortoise shell, sheep guts and cow skin, just like Ulysses’ killing bow. From the darkness of the first men’s cavern to the darkest pages of our history, the author shows us how music can be a source of pain. It can even become a slavery tool for, as Quignard explains, “musical rhythms captivate the body’s rhythms. (…) Hearing and obedience are connected. A conductor-leader, performers-subordinates, obedient people, such is the structure that is built by the execution of music. Wherever there is a leader and subordinates, there is music.” He reminds us that in the death camps during the Second World War, prisoners went in gas chambers listening to music. Some conductors who came back from the camps, like Simon Laks, but also other people who had always loved music, like Primo Levi, have explained how music has become a suffering or related to the memory of this suffering. Thus, “the phrase Hatred of music is used to express how loathsome music can become even to who loved it most”. 56

January 1996 – Essay - 328 p.

French Sale : Paperback edition (Folio). Foreign Sales : El Cuenco de Plata (Spanish World rights), Seido-Sha (Japanese), Yale University Press (English World rights).

SUR LES TRACES DES CHRÉTIENS OUBLIÉS

Among the Forgotten Christians Charles Guilhamon An uncontroversial yet extremely lively account of the Church's position in the world today, exploring both the difficulties facing Christians in a number of countries and the vitality of their faith. An adventurepacked travel narrative full of extraordinary – and at times tragic – encounters, as well as an inspirational questioning of mankind. “An extraordinary travel account attesting both today’s disturbing rise of intolerance and fanaticism and – through inspirational encounters – the inexhaustible power of dreams of fraternity.” – L’Est-éclair Right after graduation, Charles and Gabriel decide to ride their bikes around the world. They give themselves a year and a very tight budget : 1€ per person, per day. They will cover 11,000 kilometers, finding refuge among Christians in countries where they are a minority, barely tolerated and even persecuted. Thus do they visit communities who practice their faith the way the first Christians did. We will stay with the Baghdad Chaldeans in Iraq, encounter the Christians of Nepal immediately after a church bombing, be admitted to a clandestine Catholic community in China and meet the new inhabitants of the Tibhirine monastery in Algeria, as well as a priest without parishioners in Mauritania and parishioners without a priest in the heart of the Amazon.

September 2012 – Travel literature/ Religion – 450 p.

Charles Guilhamon is a recent graduate of the prestigious ESSEC business school. He is the head of a company dedicated to the social and solidarity economy.

French Sale : Book-club edition (GLM).

BLIND DATE – Blind Date. Sex and Philosophy Anne Dufourmantelle 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. Sex – it finishes when explanations become necessary, it is commented upon only at 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. Born in Paris in 1964, Anne Dufourmantelle is a philosopher and psychoanalyst. 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).

Foreign Sales : Donzelli Editore (Italian), Illinois University Press (English).

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September 2003 – Essay – 220 p.

KRACH MACHINE – The Crash Machine

How high-frequency traders are undermining the stock market Frédéric Lelièvre & François Pilet WINNER OP THE PRIX DUMUR 2013 Both a meticulous investigation and a pedagogical tool for the general public exploring the stakes of financial markets today, which can be read as a thriller. In the past ten years, a new sort of speculator has taken control of financial markets : highfrequency traders. These mathematics and physics virtuosos, hired by hedge funds and major banks, develop algorithms able to execute trading instructions at the speed of light. The resulting software navigates financial markets on automatic pilot, turning profits and manipulating markets in split seconds – with complete impunity.

Backed by a wealth of previously unpublished legal documents, the present investigation reveals the hidden face of high-frequency trading. Against a backdrop of tax evasion and industrial espionage, the book also looks at the FBI's exposure – at the behest of Goldmann Sachs and the Société Générale – of ambitious traders accused of circumventing banking regulatory codes. Financial enforcement authorities know perfectly well that traders using these “hot rods” are manipulating the market but they don't have the means to pursue them. Do new rules therefore need to be put into place ? The United States has chosen not to intervene. Will Europe be able to hold out against today's all-powerful finance lobbies ? March 2013 – Document –232 p.

Frédéric Lelièvre heads the Economics & Finance Section of the Swiss daily Le Temps and François Pilet heads the Economics Section of the weekly Le Matin Dimanche. French Sale : Paperback edition (Points Seuil). Foreign Sale : Beijing Hauzhang Graphics & Information Co. (Simplified Chinese).

UN FLÉAU SI RENTABLE - A Highly Profitable Scourge. Emmanuelle Grundmann Focusing on both health and environmental issues aroused by palm oil, Emmanuelle 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 cookies, cakes, 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 what the temperature. Numerous NGOs and public health agencies have sounded the alarm, repeatedly challenging its high content in saturated fatty acids, synonymous today who have the obesity of consumers with little access to fresh produce. Criticisms don't stop here, however. The oil palm,is being intensively farmed in some of the world's most valuable rainforests, with devastating effects on habitat, biodiversity and indigenous peoples. Yet the issue is virtually taboo, as both “agro” concerns and governments condemn any overly curious journalist who may rub consumers the wrong way and interfere with “business”.

September 2013 – Document – 264 p.

Emmanuelle Grundmann is a biologist, a naturalist and a primatologist. She has published a number of books examining animal and human interaction, including Ces forêts qu'on assassine (2007) and Demain, seuls au monde ? (2010), both of which were published by Calmann-Lévy. 58

FEMEN – Femen By Femen The first book published by the founding members of FEMEN, explaining the goals of popfeminism and giving us their incredible story, in four-part harmony.

During the Euro 2012, their war cry was heard all around the world : “Ukraine 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 call “popfeminism”. Thus FEMEN, or “thigh” in Latin, was born. Topless, and sporting floral crowns and high heel shoes, the four women's slight frames were turned into vehicles of ideological expression, placards for painting slogans and images. Humor, dramatic staging, physical daring and the shock factor soon became part of the foursome's highly-effective repertoire. First in Ukraine, and then the world over, the four women have taken on issues of gender inequality as well as poverty, discrimination, dictatorships and religious dictates.

March 2013 – Document – 272 p.

In Italy, they protested against the conduct of Silvio Berlusconi ; in France – dressed like housekeepers – against that of Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The Ukrainian activists have climbed steeples and embassy walls, have burst in on TV studios and polling places and – as the movement has radicalized – each of the four women has spent time in prison. They have been sued for hooliganism in Ukraine and banned from entering countries abroad. Yet thanks to unprecedented media coverage, FEMEN has found branches in over a dozen countries and their movement is very strong in France, Germany and Brazil. According to them, this is just a beginning. This is their story, told in their own words to journalist and Russian specialist Galia Ackerman.

Anna, Inna, Oksana and Sasha are the founder members of the FEMEN. Inna and Oksana fled to Paris to escape persecution in Ukraine. Journalist, translator and writer, Galia Ackerman, is a specialist of post-Soviet countries. She has published numerous works, including Tchernobyl, retour sur un désastre (“Folio” Gallimard, 2007) and Le Roman du Juif universel, by Elena Bonner and André Glucksmann (interviews and remarks collected by Galia Ackerman).

Foreign Sales : Polity Press (English World rights), Arachne Publishing Co. (Korean), Malpaso (Spanish World rights).

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MÉMOIRES D’UN FILS À PAPA – The Memoirs of a Daddy’s Boy Marcel Ophuls The name Marcel Ophuls will forever be associated with the film The Sorrow and The Pity, a landmark documentary that brought to the public eye France’s ambivalent stance during the German Occupation – that of massive collaboration and sporadic episodes of resistance.

The now eighty-six year old filmmaker decided to write his Memoirs, a personal epic propelled by the winds of History: Born in Frankfurt in 1927, he leaves Nazi Germany with his family in 1933. The German Jew becomes French in Paris. War breaks out and he is exiled again. In Hollywood during the 1940s, he becomes an American citizen then goes to war in Japan. Most of his historical documentaries will retrace in one way or another, the remarkable course of his life. For example, The Sorrow and The Pity is an account of the exodus of Mendès France interwoven with memories of Ophuls’ own exodus, in his father’s convertible, from Paris to the south of France. Today he tells his story with outspokenness and a hint of mischievous glee, admitting that his great career as a documentary film maker was in reality a second choice. The son of Max Ophuls was raised to revere “Cinema” with a capital C, the “real cinema” of Capra, Lubitsch, Hitchcock and his father, of course. He would only turn to making documentaries after an aborted attempt in the field of fiction.

His first feature film, the screwball comedy Banana Peel, is a commercial hit, but the next, the Eddie Constantine series Fire at Will, is a box office failure that will sign his death warrant in the field. A fortunate demise for documentary film buffs: Marcel Ophuls would go on to direct one masterpiece after another in the genre, and would be awarded an Oscar for his 1989 film, Hotel Terminus, about the life of Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie.

January 2014 – Memoirs – 312 p.

The Memoirs of a Daddy’s Boy, with guest appearances by Bertolt Brecht, François Truffaut, Marlene Dietrich and François Mitterrand, is a lighthearted yet melancholic work , the story of a son struggling to come out of his father’s shadow: “The trouble is, I am the son of a genius…”

The work includes a wealth of previously-unpublished photographs.

Foreign Sale : Ullstein – Propyläen (German).

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PIERRE CARDIN By Sylvana Lorenz

Pierre Cardin’s call emerged early, at the age of 8 and his vital need for creation never left him since. At now 92, the last emperor of haute couture hasn’t lost any of his glory or power. His secret: “To keep open, alert. To stay available to welcome what destiny brings him, destiny which has kept all its promises but which has denied him the most beautiful and precious of creations: a child.” More than the fashion designer and the internationally famous businessman, it’s the private side of Pierre Cardin’s life that Sylvana Lorenz, artistic director and PR of L’Espace Cardin, wishes to unveil in this book; and this is especially difficult since Pierre Cardin is such a secretive person. He has always been very careful to hide his weaknesses and wounds. Straight as an “i”, born in the Venice region, Pierre Cardin, never shows his feelings or successes; over the years he has managed to turn his solitude into an ally and to keep his thirst for life intact. He never shows any of the tantrums known to Hollywood stars, preferring to keep the Viandox beverage which has warmed him up when he first arrived in Paris in 1944, on the menu of his famous Maxim’s restaurants. Confidences, anecdotes, shared moments which Sylvana Lorenz has kept away in her diary year after year, has enabled her to paint the portrait highly intelligent and very private workaholic conqueror. The last child of a family with seven children, the son of an old Italian immigrant, transforms everything he touches into gold. He has always lived and still lives for the love of Art. March 2006 – Biography – 204 p.

Sylvana Lorenz has been working closely with Pierre Cardin for over 35 years. An art gallery director, who also works for Match TV, she is part of the jet-set and has been around the world with Cardin several times.

Foreign Sale : Surugadai Shuppan Sha (Japanese).

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ADOLFO KAMINSKY, UNE VIE DE FAUSSAIRE

Adolfo Kaminsky, the Life of a Counterfeit Artist Sarah Kaminsky “...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 Kaminsky’s life as a counterfeit artist, active from 1943 to 1971. His convictions lead him to spend his entire life in hiding, guided by survival instincts, necessity and danger alone. A race against the clock – and against death – in which every minute truly counted. A genius forger, he devoted his life to aiding the great opposition movements of the 20th century, working for the French Resistance and the Algerian FLN, providing false papers for Jews emigrating to Palestine, teaching counterfeiting techniques to the combatants of repressive regimes in Spain (under Franco) and Greece (during the Regime of the Colonels), and aiding the freedom movements of Latin America and Africa.

September 2009 Non-fiction narrative - 208 p.

French Sales : Book-club editions

This book questions the notions of commitment, destiny, free choice and consequences. When Kaminsky, at the age of 17, begins making forgeries for the Resistance, little does he realize that he is already caught up in an inexorable mechanism : that of his own sense of duty towards fellow man. This is also a dialog between a father and a daughter. Sarah, born in 1979, attempts to understand her father's unusual destiny, giving us the account of a man whose very existence was a secret and who accepts, at last, to speak of the past.

Sarah Kaminsky was born in Algeria and has lived in France since she was three. Today, (GLM & France Loisirs). Foreign Sales : Angelo Colla Editore she is both an actress and playwright. Adolfo Kaminsky, une vie de faussaire is her first book. (Italian), Kinneret Zmora Dvir (Hebrew), Antje Kunstmann (German), Capital Intelectual (Spanish), Belge Yayinlari (Turkish), Casbah (Arabic & French for Algeria only).

MOI PIERRE SEEL, DÉPORTÉ HOMOSEXUEL

I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual Pierre Seel Pierre Seel remained active until late in life in his personal crusade, publicly airing the long-overlooked tragedy of the homosexual holocaust. His account of his suffering and his plea for justice are heartrending in their dignified restraint. On a 1941 fateful day, in Nazi-occupied Strasbourg, 17-year-old Pierre Seel was summoned by the Gestapo. He had made the mistake of reporting a theft that had occurred in a gay area of town. The police added his name to a list of suspected homosexuals that was soon turned over to the occupying Germans. To attempt escape would have meant the arrest and deportation of his family, so young Seel chose instead to report to Gestapo headquarters, starting out on a journey that would take him from the safety and innocence of his teenage existence to the horrors of the war. In this brief, powerful memoir, he recalls the details of his arrest and torture by the Gestapo and his horrific experiences at the Schirmeeck-Vorbruch concentration camp in Alsace, where homosexuals were the most despised of prisoners. Inexplicably released in 1941, he was drafted into the German army, saw action on various fronts and managed to survive the war. In 1981, outraged by a prominent bishop's characterization of homosexuals as “sick”, he became inspired with a sense of obligation to obtain recognition for what had happened to some 350,000 homosexuals during the war, and his public statements became a famous cause in France. Pierre Seel passed away in 2005. Foreign Sales : Basic Books (English/US), Text (Russian), Cassara Editora (Portuguese/Brazil). 62

April 1994 - Autobiography - 264 p.

LES SŒURS BEAUVOIR – The Beauvoir Sisters Claudine Monteil Great historical moments, such as Jean-Paul Sartre’s funeral and the feminist struggle for legalizing abortion are relived through the eyes of these incredible women. 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 Beauvoir 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 Simone’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. Beyond the ambiguities of this attachment, we discover the lives of two women who 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 always spoke in terms of duty. To exist as women and as artists : such was the parallel struggle of the Beauvoir sisters. Claudine Monteil is a historian focusing on women of the 20th century and a specialist on Beauvoir sisters, whom she knew personally. She is the author of several works including Simone de Beauvoir, Mémoires d’une jeune fille rebelle (Ed. du Rocher, 1996), and two novelistic biographies, Les Amants de la liberté, on Sartre and Beauvoir (Éditions n°1, 1999) and Les Amants des temps modernes on Charlie and Oona Chaplin (Éditions n°1, 2002).

March 2003 – Biography - 300 p

Foreign Sales : The Seal Press (World English), Circe (World Spanish), Silcheonmunhak (Korean), Langen-Müller (German), People’s Literary Publishing House (Simplified Chinese), Castelvecchi (Italian).

UN HOMO DANS LA CITÉ – On Being Gay in the Projects Brahim Naït-Balk The inspirational story of a young man of North African descent coming to terms with his homosexuality. Brahim Naït-Balk grew up ashamed. Ashamed of himself, ashamed of his sexuality, ashamed of the difference isolating him from the rest of his family : homosexuality. How does a Muslim, a Berber, the eldest of a large Moroccan family, reconcile his particular nature with his cultural background ? How can he construct his identity with an absent father and an overly possessive mother ? And above all how is he to find happiness in the projects, where virility is a badge of honour, boys are programmed to dominate and the law of the jungle rules ? The sensitive and romantic Brahim dreams of love only to be subjugated to violence, sexual aggression and the daily humiliations of neighbourhood bullies. For years he lived in fear, hugging the walls, trying not to be noticed. And then one day he decided he'd had enough. At the age of 30, he comes out of the closet and declares his sexual preference. Many hurdles must be overcome, but he is ready for them, ready to bear with pride the burden of being different. Today at the age of 45, he hosts a radio program on homosexuality and coaches the Gay Paris Football team. October 2009 – Non fiction narrative 200 p.

Un homo dans la cité is a story of transformation, of one man's choosing freedom over fear to come into his own. Un homo dans la cité is Brahim Naït-Balk’s first book.

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STALINE, VIE PRIVÉE – The Private Life of Staline Lilly Marcou The man behind the legend and the shadow of the legendary figure of Joseph Stalin 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 archival 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 committed 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.

March 1996 – Biography

Born in 1936, Lilly Marcou headed a research group working on the international Communist 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 : Arenula (Italian), Wydawnictwo Iskry (Polish), Levne Knihy (Czech), Duna Kiado (Hungarian), Jorge Zahar (Brazilian), El Ateneo (Spanish/Latin America), Family Leisure Club (Russian).

HERMANN HESSE, POÈTE OU RIEN

Hermann Hesse, a Poet and Nothing Else François Mathieu A complete and comprehensive biography, based on Hesse's twenty volumes Complete Works as well as the four volumes of his Correspondence and the writer's numerous accounts of his family and friends, explores both the profoundly human values and the artistic devotion of a man who was “a poet, and nothing else”. By the time he was twelve, Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) had already decided he would be a poet, and nothing else, a decision his unbending family took as a sign of madness. Hesse would persevere, however, and in 1946, he would be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The poet's philosophy of perseverance as the path to self-fulfillment is reflected in all of his literary creations. Indeed, Peter Camenzind, Knulp, Demian, Siddhartha, Harry Haller, the “Steppenwolf”, and Joseph Knecht in The Glass Bead Game all convey the same message : rise up against yourself, free yourself from the constraints that prevent you from living, dare to break with the old and to start anew. The author gives us a vivid portrayal of the writer, starting from his childhood. He examines, in particular, the subtlety of Hesse's thought, influenced by the teachings of Nietzsche and Eastern philosophies, and recounts the author's slow and definitive retreat to the Swiss village of Tessin. François Mathieu sets out to encounter the writer, uncovering along the way a universal body of work rooted in the depths of the human soul and in a love of nature. August 2012 – Biography – 550 p.

Former journalist, François Mathieu is a translator, literary critic and author. He has translated numerous German literary greats, including Grimm, Kafka, Brecht and Wassermann. He also edited, translated, and introduced a collection of texts by Hermann Hesse, Brèves nouvelles de mon jardin (Calmann-Lévy, 2005).

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Foreign Sale : Shanghai Century Literature (Simplified Chinese).

SERIES « UNE VIE DE PINTADE » Directed by Layla Demay & Laure Watrin

Written by female journalists living on-site and set up like an advice column, the authors go behind the scenes of major world cities to give an insider’s view of the different slices of life with funny and inspired illustrations. A pintade, which translates as “guinea fowl”, is neither a chick nor a turkey, not even a pheasant and definitely not a birdbrain. There’s nothing demeaning about this bird name. This fowl, native to Africa, symbolizes liberated women (contrary to chicks, a guinea fowl knows how to fly, though not very well !) and is the perfect representation of today’s woman : both serious and light, feminine and feminist. A woman who wants it all, who tries to juggle home and work life and stay on top of everything while claiming the right to indulge in frivolous things once in a while ! The guinea fowl is an attractive bird who is fierce, gregarious, unruly, independent, and who makes a lot of noise… Across the globe, whether in Paris, Buenos Aires, Beirut or Tokyo, women ask themselves the same questions, but the answers differ according to culture and geographic location. Love, seduction, sex, male-female relations, women’s place in society, in the working world, political freedom, children, body image, beauty, shopping, fashion. All of these themes are present in this series and are addressed with multicultural flair, humour and a light spirit. You can also visit the dedicated website including news, quizzes and good places all over the world : www.lespintades.com French Sale for all titles : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche). Foreign Sales for Une vie de Pintade à Paris : Business Weekly Publications (Complex Chinese), Time Books (Korean), Lijiang Publishing House (Simplified Chinese).

The imprint is published in Russian by Ripol-Classic

LES PINTADES PASSENT A LA CASSEROLE A “3 in 1” book : a culinary expedition into Paris and New York, a foodie’s guide and a gourmet cookbook. “Tell me what you are eating, and I'll tell you what kind of Pintade you are.” Such is the adage of Layla Demay and Laure Watrin who take to the kitchens of fellow chicks in Paris and New York. In a thorough investigation of a number of themes – families and mealtime, cooking and socializing, feelings and food – our feathered reporters meet with renowned chefs, amateur cooks, supermarket managers, VIP food gurus, cheesemakers and fishermen alike, to reveal their favourite recipes. To top it all off, ten great chefs from Paris and New York (including Daniel Boulud, Mario Batali, Wyllie Dufresne, Inaki Aizpitarte, Adeline Grattard and William Ledeuil) join the fellowship of the fowl, offering up their own recipes, which all include pintade (or guinea fowl) in their list of ingredients.

October 2010 – Lifestyle / Travel

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PETITES PHILOSOPHIES – A Dose of Philosophy series Catherine Rambert We all know it is difficult to discern our happiness amongst the stress, the noise and worries of every day life. With one thought per page and one philosophical tale for every season, this collection brings together 365 thoughts, aphorisms, or hints to help the reader take a step back and acquire more wisdom, appreciate inner peace’s silent presence, develop it through simple actions and share it with others.

PETITE PHILOSOPHIE DU MATIN – A Dose of philosophy in the morning Do you wish you be calmer, more balanced and happier in your day-to-day life ? This title suggests simple daily strategies that everyone can use to succeed and maintain peace of mind when dealing with the day’s hassles. What better time than the morning, with its promise of a fresh, new start, to make good resolutions? (2001) French Sales : Book-club edition (GLM), Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche). Foreign Sales : Random House (German), Armenia (Italian), L&PM (Portuguese / Brazil).

PETITE PHILOSOPHIE DU SOIR – A Dose of philosophy in the evening What valuable lessons can we learn at the end of each day ? Can we avoid repeating today’s mistakes tomorrow ? Did we seize the day ? A Dose of philosophy in the evening offers advice and stratagems to reflect upon at the end of the day, and what better moment than the nighttime to review the hours gone by and make simple resolutions for tomorrow. (2002) French Sales : Book-club edition (GLM), Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche). Foreign Sales : Ripol (Russian), Armenia (Italian).

PETITE PHILOSOPHIE DE LA PAIX INTÉRIEURE – A Dose of philosophy for Inner Peace The search for inner peace is the eternal quest of all human beings. To be in peace, to live as well as possible with one's self and with others. To seek harmony in all things and be aware of one's luck, to love, share and exchange, and taste the pleasures of the moment... (2004) French Sale : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche). Foreign Sale : Armenia (Italian), L&PM (Portuguese / Brazil).

PETITE PHILOSOPHIE POUR CEUX QUI VEULENT ATTEINDRE LE SOMMET DE LA MONTAGNE – A Dose of philosophy for those who want

to reach the top of the mountain Getting to the top of the mountain, fulfilling one’s dreams, or fully succeed, to lead a happy private and professional life, to be in harmony with oneself, to surpass oneself, to reach for the stars… who hasn’t dreamt of this ? (2006) French Sale : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche). Foreign Sale : Armenia (Italian).

PETITE PHILOSOPHIE POUR SURMONTER LES CRISES

A Dose of philosophy for Overcoming Difficulties With the world economic crisis hitting home, how are we to maintain a positive outlook ? How are we to keep our spirits up and put things into perspective – or even see cause for hope – when everything seems to be pointing to gloom and doom ? Catherine Rambert has the answers. (2009) French Sale : Paperback edition (Le Livre de Poche). Catherine Rambert is a journalist, and editor in chief of a major television magazine, Télé Star. She has also written La Fête des maires, published by Lattès, Femmes d’influences, published by Hachette/Carrère, and has penned her first novel Impostures sur papier glacé, published by Éditions n°1 in 2007.

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HENRI BRUNEL LES PLUS BEAUX CONTES ZEN – The Most Beautiful Zen Stories These three volumes of Zen tales, stories and anecdotes offer a wide range of traditional material from Japan, China, Tibet, and India. A few of these pieces are new accounts of parables by Zen masters, but they are mostly based on oral traditions that go back to early Buddhist sources. Varying in length from half a page to half a dozen pages, these 70 delightful short stories, have at least one thing in common : they are all designed to break ordinary expectations, to surprise and charm the reader into fresh ways of thinking – whether they transport us to a world of animals who think and speak like scheming humans, a romantic realm of heroes and princesses, or the downto-earth everyday life of monks, beggars, robbers, courtesans, and greedy nobles. Also exists in an illustrated version (2002)

Foreign Sales : Diogenes (German), La Campana (Catalan), Sic ! Publishers (Polish),

November 2001 – Tales

Pro Print Publishers (Romanian), Ripol Classic (Russian), Garamond (Czech).

CONTE DU CHAT MAÎTRE ZEN – The Tale of the Zen Master Cat Entrusted to a Zen leader, Koyabashi the cat, an old tomcat all covered with scars, has dedicated his youth to learning and serving. As he became a leader himself, he carried on with his spiritual quest travelling the length and breadth of Japan, accompanied by his only disciple, a little monk cat, naive and a bit undisciplined. Wandering from temple to temple, the two pilgrims discover all the different stages of Zen wisdom.

Thus the story of their trip is both a tale in which you can find all the qualities (especially the sense of humour and poetry) that made Les Plus beaux contes zen a success and a real introduction to the key concepts of Buddhism : “the Four Noble Truths”, “the Noble Eightfold Path”, “the Six Perfections”… These teachings have never been presented in such a brilliant and lively way.

September 2004 – Album

Thanks to Christian Roux’s numerous illustrations, inspired by Henri Brunel’s text, The Tale of the Zen Master Cat will delight the eye and the mind of the readers of all ages. Foreign Sales : Soshi-Sha (Japanese), Eurasian Press (Complex Chinese), Sic ! Publishers (Polish), DTV (German), Solbaram Publishers (Korean), Garamond (Czech). French Sale : Paperback (Points Seuil).

Calmann-Lévy also published Henri Brunel’s Humour zen (2003) and L’Année zen (2003).

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