SPRING 2016

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(Sur une majeure partie de la France)

By Franck Courtès The violent destiny of two country boys. “How can I explain the feeling of dispossession that comes over me when I return to the countryside of my childhood? Inspired by my memories, I wanted to tell of the parallel destinies of two children, in a village close to Paris that started out as Heaven and turned into Hell.

LITERATURE

Over Most of France

Quentin was a sensitive child who adored nature; Gary was already worried at a young age about his aggressiveness and brutality. As a young man, Quentin has a crush on Anne and they discover together their first embrace. Gary, on the other hand, joins a gang, learns to steal, smoke and deal drugs.”

270 pages January 2016

“This novel deals with the ruin caused by galloping urbanization on the countryside, seen here as a lost paradise. Thrilling.” VERSION FEMINA “A book for all generations, including teenagers, because life can only be experienced once.”

Spring 2016

FRANCK COURTÈS was a photographer for twenty years. He is the author of the critically acclaimed short stories Autorisation de pratiquer la course à pied (Prix de la Société des Gens de Lettres, 2013) and a novel, Toute ressemblance avec le père.

PAGES DES LIBRAIRES

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The Same Sky (Le même ciel)

By Ludivine Ribeiro A beautifully gracious first novel that deftly describes loss, the passing of time and the strategies we invent to suspend it. Against a backdrop of ocean and pines, seven people are stuck in a blistering hot summer. A man named Lupo and his weird dog. An adolescent, Line, overwhelmed by life in general. A young boy, Tom, full of questions, and a couple, Nils and Tessa, losing themselves in a whirlwind of parties. One night, a blond woman vanishes. Her disappearance is a detonator; buried secrets explode to the surface… LUDIVINE RIBEIRO lives in Geneva. After working as a journalist and editor-in-chief of several magazines, she remembered her childhood dream and has now published her first novel. 200 pages February 2016

“Ludivine Ribeiro knows how to breathe holiday charm into heartache and irreparable loss.” LE TEMPS “At the heart of this book there is the passing of time, nostalgia, the idea that everything evaporates and that only writing can halt this disaster and capture the fugitive enchantments of life.”

BIBLIOTECA MAGAZINE

(À côté, jamais avec)

By Jean-Marc Parisis The most memorable hours of childhood with their places, emotions, words, shocks, apparitions and epiphanies. “Childhood from around age 3 to 13, a life within a life, or what’s left of it, and what I think of it now. A childhood that is unimaginable today so far removed it was, in every sense of the word, from adult life. I wish in no way to glorify or mystify this childhood. I know what made it and unmade it and how it ended. I have no nostalgia. I’m just describing a sunken island.”

LITERATURE

Beside, Never With

190 pages January 2016

JEAN-MARC PARISIS is the author of seven novels, among which Le Lycée des artistes (Grasset, 1992, prix de la Vocation), Avant, pendant, après (Stock, 2007, prix Roger –Nimier) and Les Aimants (Stock, 2009) finalist for the Renaudot award), as well as four essays, notably Les Inoubliables (Flammarion, 2014) also finalist for the Renaudot award.

“Parisis has a gift of resurrecting the tiniest of memories – they are the epiphanies that hold, curled up inside, all the intensity and cruelty of life.” ELLE “Young and old alike, the new book by the King of melancholia is for you. Parisis gives reality a touch of fantasy in every sentence. An amazing writer.” LE POINT

Spring 2016

Jean-Marc Parisis recounts a childhood, his own, or maybe ours. A childhood that takes place against the backdrop of a small town, with parents, family, a gang of buddies, a few girls too. And Bruno, the first and only friend, so close and yet now out of touch.

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I’m Not a Man Who Cries (Je ne suis pas un homme qui pleure)

By Fabienne Kanor

An intimate work that speaks of unfinished love stories, writing, the identities we invent for ourselves and those we strive to possess. “Originally, it was supposed to be about love or, more specifically, about incomplete love stories, either because they ended badly or because they never even began. It was only after the novel was written that I realized I had injected as much laughter as I did anger in the story.” After a difficult breakup, the heroine of the novel, a writer, fears she no longer knows how to love and is afraid she has nothing left worth writing. She questions her existence in a society where she feels she has lost her place. She remembers the men she fell in love with, relationships that often took her to Africa where she first became a writer. Born in 1970, FABIENNE KANOR is the author of several novels, including Humus (Gallimard) and Faire l’aventure (Lattès). She divides her time between Paris and New Orleans. 260 pages February 2016

“A scintillating narrative full of life, delicate emotion and humor in the face of misery.” MARIE-CLAIRE “More than her previous novels, this sixth, bitter sweet, sentimental and caustic novel is woven through with intimate questions of identity.” LIVRES HEBDO

(Marathon)

By Pascal Silvestre Ten short stories that portray the marathon race, the constant training, loneliness, strength of heart and soul and the pure joy. Once reserved for the athletic elite, the marathon, 42.195 kilometers long, today attracts runners of all ages and levels. Who are they and what other dreams hide behind their ambition for athletic achievement? Angelique, the elderly lady in love with Mimoun, Bourvil the energetic volunteer, Mathieu who prays while he runs, Claire who is searching for boundaries, André an adept of Stakhanovism confronted with the trials of injury or Bertrand, a lawyer in his fifties, lost in New York…

LITERATURE

Marathon

Ten stories conceived like the movements of a symphony, Marathon portrays men and women who embark on an adventure that will transform and transcend their existence.

Spring 2016

310 pages March 2016

PASCAL SILVESTRE has run over 50 marathons and holds a record of 2 hours and 39 minutes. He created the website, Runners.fr and lobbies for the emergence of a culture of running. Marathon is his first book.

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Charles Draper (Charles Draper)

By Xavier de Moulins Charles and Mathilde are a model couple but how far will they go to keep up appearances? At Mathilde’s request, Charles left Paris for a house in the country with their two daughters. It was the dream of a lifetime. There is nothing he wouldn’t do to make Mathilde happy. Everyone knows that Charles is devoted to his family. So why is Mathilde now acting so distant? Is it their neighbor Clement who has shown her another path? Or is it the few extra kilos he has put on and his more mature profile? Appearances, lies and false pretences… the radiant beauty of Xavier de Moulin’s characters always hides the darkest of secrets. XAVIER DE MOULINS is a journalist and anchorman on French TV. Since the publication of Que ton règne vienne in 2014 with Lattès, he has been investigating the mechanisms of modern relationships and family. 200 pages February 2016

“A jolting narrative; a novel you can’t put down.” GALA

FICTION

Ahlam (Ahlam)

By Marc Trévidic Marc Trévidic is a French judge and widely known expert on antiterrorism and terrorist networks. In this novel, he presents the unrelenting, chilling portrait of a world capsizing into madness. When Paul, a famous French painter, arrives in Kerkennah, Tunisia, in the year 2000, the island is a tiny paradise for all those seeking peace and beauty. He settles in “the house on the sea” and begins what will become an enduring friendship with the family of a local fisherman, Farhat. The artist grows particularly close to Farhat’s children, Issam and Ahlam, both incredibly gifted in music and painting. Paul begins to hope that the three of them together might realize his dream of creating a unique and global work that would combine all the arts.

340 pages January 2016

MARC TRÉVIDIC is a judge specialized in antiterrorism with the French high court in Paris and one of the leading international experts on terrorist networks. He is the author of two highly praised books, Au Coeur de l’antiterrorisme and Terroristes, both published with Lattès in 2010 and 2013. He is also president of the AFMI (Association Française des Magistrats Instructeurs).

“This first novel is a gripping portrait of Tunisian youth torn between radical Islam and progress. Proof that fiction can be as powerful as non-fiction in portraying reality.” LIRE “Like a crime novel, we are immediately caught up in a relentless, merciless forward momentum.” TÉLÉRAMA “Sometimes it’s fiction that illustrates reality best. A riveting narrative that dissects its subject without judgment – the tour de force of a man of law who is also a novelist.” LE PARISIEN MAGAZINE “In his first novel, Ahlam, Marc Trevidic takes on fanaticism. Armed with his experience, he describes the mechanisms of indoctrination to better eradicate it.” LE SOIR

Rights sold: Germany (Rowholt) Greece (Utopia) Hungary (Muvelt Nep) Italy (Rizzoli) Spain (Suma)

45,000 copies sold

Spring 2016

Ten years go by and the troubles of the world reach Kerkennah. Ben Ali is deposed and radical Islam is gaining ground. The clash between artistic beauty and religious fanaticism begins.

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(La reine du tango)

By Akli Tadjer A modern, humorous and melancholic fairytale where we learn that tango is more than a passion, it’s an addiction.

FICTION

The Queen of Tango

Suzanne is the only child of a single mother who was known as the famous Queen of Tango, a wonderfully talented dancer. Her premature death left her daughter with some spectacular memories, a passion for dance and an immense fear of abandonment. But Suzanne doesn’t dare dance the tango herself and decides to teach dance instead. Happiness eludes her however and her incapacity to tango prompts her to explore her childhood, discover who her mother really was, calm her irrational fears and find a man capable of being her partner, on stage and in life. When she meets Yan, a small-time thief, she feels ready for anything.

250 pages March 2016

“Tadjer never loses sight of his reader. He loves him, cajoles him, surprises him and plays with him like cat and mouse.“ LE PARISIEN “Akli Tadjer is a unique voice in the art of storytelling.” AU FÉMININ

Spring 2016

AKLI TADJER is the author of eight novels, three of which have been adapted to television : Le Passager du Tassili, Le Porteur de Cartable and Il était une fois.. peut-être pas. His previous novel, Les thermes du Paradis was published with Lattès in 2014 and translated in Germany, Italy and Sweden.

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Another Voice Than Mine (Une autre voix que la mienne)

By Catherine Balance A telepathic encounter between a successful author and a young reader. Maude first discovers famous author Thomas Lubeigt when she comes across one of his books while on vacation. She is seized by a stupefying revelation: entire sections of her own life can be found in Lubeigt’s novels. What is this mysterious connection they share? Could the incredible coincidences she finds only be the result of chance? She can find no one capable of answering her questions, not even Thomas Lubeigt himself. Maude becomes obsessed with her attempt to understand and one day loses conscience. Upon awakening, she has forgotten the existence of Thomas Lubeigt. Thus begins a search into the deep folds of her memory that take her all the way to Bali where she finds herself in the midst of an intrigue rife with unexplained phenomena, irrational occurrences and ancestral rituals.

CATHERINE BALANCE lived in Quebec for ten years.Therapist and coach, she is also specialized in NLP (neuro-linguistic programming), Eriksonian hypnosis and EFT(emotional freedom techniques).

300 pages April 2016

(Où va le chagrin quand il s’en va?)

By Claire Vassé

What if one day, after years of silence, the number of the love of your life lights up on your phone? And if that person was dead… would you answer?

FICTION

What Happens to Grief When it’s Gone?

Four years ago, Solange lost the man she loved, the father of her daughter, Lenny. Since then, she has rebuilt a life with Paul. They are a quiet, happy family until the day Lenny’s phone number lights up on her cell phone. Could it be just a coincidence? Or an imposter? Or even a sign from Destiny? Solange is not even really sure she has properly mourned Lenny’s passing.

250 pages March 2016

Rights sold: Italy (Mauri Spagnol)

CLAIRE VASSÉ is a novelist, screenwriter and movie critic. She has published four novels as well as essays based on her interviews with Claude Miller and Catherine Breillat.

Spring 2016

What happens to grief when it’s gone? In order to find the courage to face this question, Solange finds herself exploring the darkest corners of the supernatural, where the living encounter the dead, where fear is not an obstacle but only a mirror to pass through in order to reach the vitality of one’s feelings.

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Happy People Have No History (Les gens heureux n’ont pas d’histoire)

By Éloïse Lièvre

“During the forty days that preceded my birthday, I wrote a text every day inspired by a photograph taken of me each year from birth to age 39. The quote by Tolstoy ‘Happy people have no history’ kept running through my thoughts since I felt I was happy and didn’t think I had experienced anything noteworthy in my life. This highly personal advent calendar, necessarily fictional, recounts how a person becomes an individual, how dreams and ambitions are guided, determined and polished by parents, friends, acquaintances, lovers, teachers.. And of course all those things that leave their mark: movies, paintings, books, songs, but also important events, the election of a president, terrorist attacks, the first contact with mortality at the birth of our children. Not to mention the first and only slap in the face, the first sexual experience, the first breakup, and the painful drudgery of everyday life.”

HELOISE LIÈVRE was born January 10th 1974 in Agen. A college professor, she has two children. Her first novel La Biche ne se montre pas au chasseur was published with Editions D’un noir si bleu in 2014. 200 pages April 2016

(Le chant des lendemains)

By Valérie Gans

In a changing France, the traditional nuclear family is no longer the norm, for better or for worse. Lorraine has left for Dordogne to live with Mario, an activist against world hunger, who is determined to invent a tough, drought-resistant cereal. But GMOs have bad press and local farmers will do everything they can to stop him. Arnaud and Elliott have a son, Frank. During the week he lives with his Dads and every other weekend he stays with his birth mother. Frank is growing up in a changing world and life is not easy for him. His school friends constantly remind him he is “different”.“Different” children in a changing world; a world of immense geopolitical and ecological challenges… Journalist with Figaro Madame, VALERIE GANS is the author of several novels (among which, Le Bruit des silences in 2013 and Des fleurs et des épines in 2015) and has been translated in numerous countries. 250 pages May 2016

WOMEN’S FICTION

Tomorrows’ Song

“Valerie Gans observes her contemporaries with a exquisite eye and an adept pen.”

MADAME FIGARO

Vacation Homework Spring 2016

(Les devoirs de vacances)

By Adèle Bréau

The heroes of La Cour des grandes and Les Jeux de garçon are back! Mathilde, Alice, Lucie and Eva made it through the storm of the school year with courage and passion. Christophe, Max, Jacques, Fred, Vincent and Adrien have grown up and dealt with important transformations in their lives. Everyone is welcoming vacation after all the difficult crises endured over the year. However, the calm was not to last… Although they are all overjoyed to share the sunshine and an immense farmhouse in Brittany, the sudden death of one of the group will shatter their idyllic vacation.

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Director of the website Terrafemina, ADÈLE BRÉAU is also the mother of two little boys and author of the blog adeledebrief.wordpress.com. Her two previous novels, La Cour des grandes and Les jeux de garçons, sold 12,000 copies in France and are translated in Germany. 350 pages Juin 2016

If Anyone Had Said (Si on nous l’avait dit)

By Laura Trompette

A French new adult romance In her home town in Corrèze, Alice Perret dreams of a more exciting life all while good-naturedly accepting the boring routine on her parent’s farm. But if Alice might be a nobody in her country town, she is someone on the web. The unexpected arrival of Nolan Sharp, an English businessman travelling through France, will shake up the status quo. In only twenty-four hours, a tragic event will bring Alice and Nolan together, although the two have nothing in common and are certainly not prepared to fall in love… Born in 1987, LAURA TROMPETTE has worked as a journalist and social media manager before creating her digital communications agency. She is the author of Ladies’ Taste and Ladies’ Secret (Hugo&Cie, 2015) considered the very first new adult romances à la française. 290 pages March 2016

“Laura Trompette exquisitely reveals the behaviors of her time.”

LE JOURNAL DES FEMMES

By Giacometti Ravenne Giacometti Ravenne take us to the heart of one of the most fabulous enigmas of all time! The year of our Lord 1190: Chrétien de Troyes reveals the existence of the most sacred relic of medieval times in the Western world: the Grail. The Church decides to destroy his text and replace it with a Christianized version of the legend. The Vatican 2016: The scientific institute of the Holy See delivers the conclusion of a secret report: the Church is headed for inevitable ruin in just a few decades. The Pope decides that finding the Grail will create an immense shock among Christians worldwide and thus bolster Christianity. At great risk, Police commissioner Marcus delves into a ring of antique smugglers and strives to recover a deviant sepulcher that might hold the secret to the Grail… But what is that secret? Christ’s descendants? An elixir of eternal life? A means of communicating with God? And is that secret revealed in Chrétien de Troyes’ original text? 400 pages May 2016

ERIC GIACOMETTI was a journalist with le Parisien. He has conducted several investigations into Freemasonry and had been an observer of the society for many years. JACQUES RAVENNE is a writer and Freemason. He is a specialist of ancient manuscripts. Old friends, they share a passion for symbology and secret societies, real or imagined.

HISTORICAL NOVELS

(L’Empire du Graal)

Spring 2016

The Empire of the Graal

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Operation Tutankhamun (Opération Toutankhamon)

By Jean-Claude Laurent A new series of historical crime novels both modern and inventive. Louis Porier has a gift: when gripped by an emotion, he is able to travel to the past. For a young professor of history and geography, it’s true bliss. While on a class visit to the Louvre one day, he is fascinated by the famous statue of a sitting scribe and is suddenly whisked back to Egypt in 1400 BC where he finds himself a scribe in the service of the Pharaoh. His name is Hapy and his mission is to investigate the abrupt death of the grand priest of the Amon Temple. He will uncover several sinister plots that threaten the Pharaoh’s life and suspects hiding at the highest levels of government: fanatic priests of the ancient cult of Aton, ministers, and even the queen. JEAN-CLAUDE LAURENT is the pseudonym of Jean-Claude Perrier and Laurent Lemire who are journalists and well-known writers (Livres Hebdo, L’Obs, etc.). They have written several books: historical novels, biographies and essays for the former, and biographies and essays for the latter.

200 pages April 2016

(Enceinte, tout est possible)

By Renée Greusard An off-beat, humorous, feminist investigation, that analyses the myths and legends about pregnancy. When Renée Greusard, thirty-something journalist, became pregnant, she was surprised by the mountain of recommendations received from all sides, many of which were not the easiest to accept. She set out to write a light-hearted but serious book to attempt an answer to these and so many other, often taboo, questions. Through meetings with doctors, researchers and women, she wanted to prove why, even pregnant, women can retain power over their bodies.

NON FICTION

Pregnant, Anything is Possible

RENÉE GREUSARD, born in 1985, is a journalist. She has worked for several publications and radios (L’Humanité, Les Inrocks, Liberation, Causette, Arte Radio, le Mouv, France Inter) before joining the team at Rue89 in 2011. 285 pages March 2016

Life Ahead of Me Spring 2016

(La vie devant moi)

By Colombe Pringle “This book was born from the desire to share with all the women of my generation who are confronted with the question of time.” Life from the point of view of a sixty-year-old woman, who accepts her age, her gifts and what is finished and what is yet to come. Everything can be reinvented as long as you resist clichés and what other people think. It’s the story of transmission of knowledge and experience over three generations but also of fundamental encounters. A time of laughing when things aren’t really that funny. A time of saying those intimate things we wouldn’t tell anyone.

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COLOMBE PRINGLE is of French-British origin by both birth and soul. She is the daughter of novelist Flore Groult and niece of the feminist writer Benoite Groult. She worked as a journalist for Elle, Vogue, and L’Express before heading the magazine Point de Vue for ten years. 285 pages March 2016

Brainiac (Tronche de zèbre)

By Vincent Thibodeau “When my mother found out I was a brainiac she cried. They were tears of joy but mostly of fear since she knew what life could be like for a child of ‘high intellectual potential’.” Today, Vincent is a cheerful pre-adolescent but, at the age of 8, he felt useless. Too much pressure, isolation and bullying in school, along with a painful and insidious loss of self esteem. In this book, he describes in his own words his heightened perceptiveness, his hyper sensitivity and his chaotic itinerary up until he understood what was going on inside himself. Above all, Vincent wrote this book to help children like himself. VINCENT THIBODEAU is almost 12. He started writing this book when he was 10. He recounts the happiness and disillusions of a child diagnosed as « gifted ». 200 pages March 2016

All Sad People Can Learn to Smile (Tout déprimé est un bien portant qui s’ignore)

By Michel Lejoyeux

We all have a good-mood machine in our skulls but we don’t know how it works! This book will explain how and offer a feel-good lifestyle without medication or chemicals of any kind. You can do the maintenance of your happiness all by yourself; escape negativity as easily as exercising your muscles, your breathing or your heart. All you have to do is apply certain scientifically proven techniques, full of common sense but incredibly effective.

NON FICTION

30,000 copies sold

MICHEL LEJOYEUX is a professor of psychiatry and addictology, head of departments at several Parisian hospitals. He is the author of international research studies and of successful books on optimism and health.

300 pages January 2016

Rights sold: Italy

“With a few easy exercises and no medication, Pr Lejoyeux delivers the keys to a cheerful life.” ELLE “A marvel of wisdom, both witty and clear.” L’EXPRESS

Spring 2016

Paths to Joy

(Les chemins de la joie)

By Isabelle Filliozat

“The beautiful emotion of joy is the emotion that makes sense of our existence. Joy is the result of effort, concentration and attention. When we learn or accomplish something, we are giddy with joy. A walk in nature, running, dancing, singing, partying, all bring us joy and we will see why. In this book, through an abundance of information and exercises to awaken our consciousness, I will explore the roots of joy, its expression, physiology, hormones and benefits, and I will explain how to promote it in our everyday lives.”

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ISABELLE FILLIOZAT is a psychotherapist and director of the Ecole des Intelligences Relationnelle et Emotionnelle. She is the author of numerous books translated in over 20 languages, among which Au Coeur des émotions de l’enfant and the highly successful J’ai tout essayé. 320 pages March 2016

This is Your Captain Speaking (Captain speaking)

By Jean-Christophe Laminette A humorous guide for the worried flyer Why do we always board a plane on the left side? Did you know there is no reason to worry if you look out your window and see a thick cloud of smoke coming from the wing? What does this vaguely unnerving phrase “Arm the doors” heard at the beginning of each flight mean? A mix of useful information and curious facts, reassuring (for the most part) statistics and amusing anecdotes gathered by a pilot, this humorous guide is for the curious but also for all those who remain a bit wary of getting on a plane.

Born in 1961, JEAN-CHRISTOPHE LAMINETTE was a commercial airline pilot for 25 years with Air France. He lives in Aix-en-Provence. 285 pages March 2016

(Dedans ce sont des loups)

By Stéphane Jolibert A frozen universe, somewhere past the Northern border on the edge of the civilized world. In this place, where the sounds of trees and animals are muffled by the weight of the snow, lives old Tom who lost his legs and who runs a clandestine distillery; Nats who runs the deliveries of moonshine between Tom’s farm and the bar/hotel/whorehouse called the Terminus; Sarah the redhead who Nats has a painful hankering for; the Irishman, the foreman, Leila the prostitute and Twigs the mechanic. And then there’s Marthe who endures the violence of her alcoholic husband.

CRIME NOVELS

Inside There Are Wolves

A band of people surviving together despite the snow and hard times because there is nowhere else to go. They all struggle daily with the wolves, all the wolves, whatever kind they might be.

250 pages March 2016

“A crime novel that takes place entirely out in nature, where the saying ‘man is a wolf to man’ takes on all its meaning. A great gust of fresh air and a must read.” PAGES DES LIBRAIRES “A dark novel set in the wild country out in the middle of nowhere.” BIBLIOTHECA MAGAZINE

Spring 2016

STÉPHANE JOLIBERT grew up in Senegal and studied at the BeauxArts School in Saint-Etienne. He also worked as an artistic director and taught visual communication and semiology. Today he lives and works near Belgium. Dedans ce sont des loups is his first novel.

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Scoop (Scoop)

By Yann Le Poulichet A first novel and corrosively funny behind-the-scenes look at celebrity magazines. Tragedy at SCOOP: Pascal, editor in chief of the famous celebrity magazine was just found dead, his throat brutally slit in the men’s room. To find the killer, a female cop and a journalist will have to plunge into the murky world of the gutter press and navigate the heartless, lawless paparazzi, informers willing to sell their grandmother for the right price and cynical stars. They will also have to deal with Cordelia, a mysterious character who, from the sidelines, appears to supervise everything with an iron fist. A champagne bender and the exchange of stolen photos further complicates things for our heroes who will have their hands full trying to dig for the truth in this chaotic crowd. YANN LE POULICHET is a journalist at Voici and privy to the underside of the people press : a joyful and vicious world, fantasized by many. Scoop, a first novel that resembles its author : bitingly funny. 300 pages March 2016