2 Seas Agency Spring 2022 Rights List - France & Quebec

New Titles

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The information in this catalog is accurate as of February 28, 2022.

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Index INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS 7

Denis Thériault | The Samurai With the Red Carnation

ALLARY ÉDITIONS 9

Alexandre Lacroix | Learning to Make Love

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Matthieu Ricard | Memoirs. Notebooks of a Wandering Monk

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Anne-Hélène Clair & Vincent Trybou | How to Be Your Own Shrink

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Matthias Debureaux | The Who’s Who of French Villages

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Riad Sattouf | Esther’s Notebooks: vol. 7

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Bernard Pivot | Friends, Dear Friends: In Praise of Friendship

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Raphaël Glucksmann | Letter to the Generation That Is Going to Change Everything

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Denis Rossano | Joachim Gottschalk

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Anna Tommasi | The Night of the Angels

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Charline Malaval | The Night Witch

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Reine Andrieu | The Amazons Take Flight

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Céline Bentz | Forget the Wildflowers

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Marc Fernandez | Deathly Tapas

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Alex de Brienne | KO series vol. 8: Narco Jihad in Cabo Delgado – Mozambique

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Candice de Léo | What If Princes Wore Dresses?

ÉDITIONS DE LA MARTINIÈRE LITTÉRATURE 26

Laurence Devillairs | A Short Philosophy of the Sea

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Frédéric Lenormand | In Marie Antoinette’s Secret Service series, vol. 7

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Mo Malo | Summit

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Yann Arthus-Bertrand | Legacy. Heritage of a Life

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Thomas Louis | Stony Silence

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Christophe Molmy | The Pit of Souls

AGENCE HYPHEN VMK 33

Christian Carayon | The Next Seasons

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Valérie Cohen | Under Any Sky

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Paul Colize | What a Wonderful World

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Index HARPER-COLLINS FRANCE 37

Sophie Pointurier | The Peripheral Woman

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Louise Browaeys | Make Your Drum Beat

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Marie Aline | The Anonymous Gluttons

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Nicolas Laquerrère | Nueve Cuatro

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Nicolas Druart | Cinnabar

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Émilie Guillaumin | The Ambush

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Paul El Kharrat | Crimes and Mysteries of Paris

ÉDITIONS SCIENCES HUMAINES 45

Jean-François Marmion (ed.) | Psychology of Animals

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Gerald Gaillard & Nicolas Journet | Anthropology

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Jean-François Dortier | Four Questions on Philosophy

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Jean-François Marmion | The History of the Psychology in 101 Dates

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Luc de Brabandere & Anne Mikolajczak | Plato versus Aristotle. A Joyful Introduction to Philosophical Controversy

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Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen | Freud’s Patients. A Book of Lives

LUX 52

Alain Deneault | Mores. From the Cannibal Left to the Vandal Right

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Françoise Ega | Letters to a Black Woman

MASSOT ÉDITIONS 55

Livie Hoemmel | King Sacrifice.The true novel of Bobby Fisher

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L.S. Hilton | All My Lovers’ Wives

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Tess Kinski | Super Cyprine. A Corrosive Vengeance

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Marc Eichinger & Thierry Gadault | War Games. French Corruption and the Hidden Face of Terrorism

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LES ÉDITIONS DE L’OPPORTUN 60

Gwendal Fossois | How to Live Like Batman

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Stéphane Garnier | How to Live Like Hannibal Lecter

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Dorica Lucaci | How to Live Like the Queen of England

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Nathanaël Masselot | How to Live Like Plato

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Éditions de l’Opportun | How to Live Like... Series

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Pierre Varrod | How to Live Like Freud

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François Busson | How to Live Like a Zen Master

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Carla Schiappa-Burdet | How to Live Like Harry Potter

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Jean-François Marmion | Psychology According to Squid Game

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Jean-François Marmion | Psychology According to Star Wars

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Gisèle Foucher | Friendship According to the Series FRIENDS

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Gwendal Fossois | Mythology According to Star Wars

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Ian Ferry | Mythology According to The Lord of the Rings

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Alex Fouilleroux | Genetics Explained by Naruto, Jurassic Park… & the Superheroes

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Arnaud Jahan | Philosophy According to Naruto

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Gwendal Fossois | Philosophy According to The Little Prince

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Olivier Dhilly | Philosophy According to Squid Game

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Anthony Huard | Freud and the Superheroes

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Chris Pavone | Back to the Future: 350 Secrets & Fun Facts

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Ziggy | Cat-astrophe! 153 Murphy’s Laws for Cats

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June Fujiwara | The 4 Secrets of the Japanese Way of Life

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Sabine Duhamel | I Don’t Give a F***! Free Yourself

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Christian Doumergue | The Last Mysteries of Lovecraft

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Philippe Valode | The Monsters of History

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Patrick Sbalchiero | Psychics: (Real) Science or (False) Belief?

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Olivier Emphoux | “What Death Told Me…” The Incredible Confessions of an Embalmer

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Individual Authors Denis Thériault

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LITERARY FICTION

The Samurai with the Red Carnation The Samurai with the Red Carnation tells the gripping story of a rivalry in art and love set in medieval Japan.

In this novel that rushes forward like white water, Denis Thériault manages to use unusual versification to write an unputdownable tale of epic proportions, portraying a world that is as lush as it is imaginative.

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From the enchanted forest of his childhood – inhabited

Denis Thériault

by the witch Murasaki, and watched over by a kami

After an outstanding literary début The Boy Who Belonged to the Sea (L’iguane, France-Québec Prize, Anne-Hébert Prize, Odyssée Prize, winner of Radio Canada’s Book Battle and Hervé Foulon Prize), Denis Thériault found success with The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman (Le facteur émotif) Canada-Japan Prize, and, more recently, The Postman’s Fiancée (La fiancée du facteur). Translated into nearly two dozen languages, popular in England and Germany, his work is currently being adapted for both film and television.

divinity – via the Military Academy where he is trained,

Orig. Title: Le samouraï à l’oeillet rouge Orig. Language: French 288 pp. | April 2022 Territory: World

as well as bereavements, betrayals, and unrequited love, to the literary jousts in which he competes, Matsuo learns to live and fight by composing wakas.

These traditional Japanese poems, to which his mother

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introduced him at a very young age, create a liaison, a shared language that connects him to the world and the

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beings in it.

The novel reaches its climax with the ultimate showdown,

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a merciless poetic duel between Matsuo and Yösai, a Buddhist monk he has crossed paths with in the past.

These two “samurai of the word” will fight each other in the gardens of Kyoto’s Imperial Palace, turning each deft verse into an arrow and using the most delicate metaphors as deadly spiritual weapons.

FROM THE SAME AUTHOR

The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman

The Boy Who Belonged to the Sea

Secretly stealing open envelopes and reading

Set on the rugged north shore of the Gulf of

the letters inside, Bilodo has found an escape

St. Lawrence, Canada, two lonely boys form

from his lonely routine life as a postman. When

a powerful friendship. The loss of a parent

one day he comes across a mysterious letter

brought them together. Together they take

containing a single haiku, he finds himself

refuge in a magical undersea world of their own

avidly caught up in the relationship between a

creation, searching for a sense of belonging.

Orig. Title: L’Iguane 207 pp. | 2003 RIG H T S S O LD : 8 territories, movie rights optioned AWA RD S : recipient of 5 literary awards

But for one of them the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur, and the loyalty of his friend is put to the test in a journey that threatens to end in tragedy.

English translation available

long-distance couple who write to each other Orig. Title: Le facteur émotif 118 pp. | 2005

using only beautiful poetry. He feasts on their

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his world comes crashing down around him.

words, vicariously living a life for which he longs. But it will only be a matter of time before

English translation available

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Founded in 2013, Allary Éditions is an independent trade publisher with works including novels, essays, and graphic novels. Following a strict editorial selection process, we publish no more than 15 titles per year.

Allary Éditions is both demanding and popular and is developing a universal catalog of authors who are given the opportunity to create an oeuvre, whilst reaching a large audience. Of the 100 titles published by Allary Éditions, there have been over 240 translations.

Among our authors: Riad Sattouf, Matthieu Ricard, Charles Pépin, Raphaël Glucksmann, Albert Moukheiber, David Djaiz, Diane Brasseur, Jérôme Colin, Florent Oiseau, Bernard Pivot, Alexandre Lacroix, Marylène Patou-Mathis, Matthias Debureaux, etc.

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PHILOSOPHY

Learning To Make Love

alexandre lacroix

apprendre à

How should we be making love in the age of porn?

faire l’amour

The philosopher Alexandre Lacroix suggests an art of eroticism for our time.

The classic treatises on the erotic arts, like the Kama Sutra and The Tao of Sex, are outdated. Tied to cultural

un art érotique pour notre époque

traditions unlike our own, they’re not very useful in practical terms. So the question is, how can we – without tipping into Puritanism – detach ourselves from the porn model that has contaminated our sexuality, in

Orig. Title: Apprendre à faire l’amour Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 300 pp | May 2022 Territory: World excl. French

order to achieve higher quality pleasure? In other words, in the 21st century, what would a truly satisfying and accomplished sexual relationship look like?

In order to find out, Alexandre Lacroix presents short

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chapters, each of which offers a lessons about one facet or aspect of making love. Neither strait-laced nor

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Alexandre Lacroix Alexandre Lacroix is the editor-inchief of Philosophie magazine and founder of Words (Les Mots), a writing school. After A Contribution to the Theory of the Kiss (Contribution à la théorie du baiser, Autrement, 2011) and How Not to Become a Slave to the System (Comment ne pas devenir esclave du système?, Allary Éditions, 2021), with this volume, he continues his musings on a life that is good.

moralizing, he doesn’t try to elude anything, addressing issues like preliminaries, rhythm, force of habit, changing

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positions, making noise, and orgasms, but always from a philosophical point of view. Drawing both on his own experience and on the writings of the great thinkers about sexuality and love, he discourses on a new type of method. The art of eroticism for our time.

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Observing the Beauty of Nature

How Can We Avoid Being Slaves to the System Alexandre Lacroix gives everyone new points of reference for understanding the systems that dominate our lives and allows us to cut ourselves some slack. By freeing ourselves from the Orig. Title: Comment ne pas être esclave du système 112 pp. | 2021 # O F CO P I E S S O LD 10,000+

dominant utilitarianism, by establishing a nonnegotiable ideal that will guide our acts, it is possible to take back the reins of our own lives.

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Orig. Title: Devant la beauté de la nature 430 pp. | 2018 # OF COPIES SOL D 6,000+

A fascinating philosophical inquiry spanning time, space, and subject matter to unravel the mystery of nature’s beauty. An essay on aesthetics that takes a political turn as it uncovers the roots of the ecological crisis: our distancing from nature.

Preserving, and developing, our sensibility to nature’s beauty has never been so essential.

PR ESS & QU OTES An exciting book, full of new ideas and unexplored pathways.

— PAT R IC K W IL L IAM S , E L L E

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MEMOIR

Memoirs Notebooks of a Wandering Monk The memoirs of Matthieu Ricard, the world’s most famous Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard was born in 1967, at the age of 21, in Darjeeling, India. His spiritual father, Kangyur Rinpoche, was a revered Tibetan teacher who enthralled him with Orig. Title: Carnets d’un moine errant Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 768 pp. | October 2021 Territory: World excl. French M AT ERI A L AVA I L A B LE French MS English translation available Photo insert included

his extraordinary quality of being. Five years later, with a doctorate in genetics from the Pasteur Institute and a promising career before him, Matthieu Ricard gave it all up to go live in the Himalayas, a decisive choice that he has been grateful for every day for the past 50 years.

Meditative retreats in extremely remote areas and fascinating journeys to Bhutan, Nepal and Tibet, scientific experiments

in

the

most

prestigious

laboratories,

meetings with the greatest sages...

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His Notebooks recount the life of a wandering monk, with neither material nor geographical ties, who is constantly on the path towards self-realization and compassion in action.

Matthieu Ricard Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk and a photographer. A molecular geneticist, he has served as an interpreter for the Dalai Lama. He first became well known thanks to the book he wrote with his father, Jean-François Revel (The Monk and the Philosopher, 1997). Author of best-selling titles, including The Art of Meditation, Why Meditate: Working with Thoughts and Emotion, and Three Friends in Search of Wisdom, he devotes much of his time to humanitarian projects with the organization Karuna Shechen, which he co-founded.

Matthieu donates all of his revenue - royalties from his books and photographs, keynote speaker fees, etc. - to the humanitarian projects carried out by Karuna Sechen.

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Three Friends in Search of Wisdom

Beyond the Self Often invited to universities all over the world to take part in brain studies, Matthieu Ricard is

A philosopher, a monk, and a psychiatrist explore

one of the world’s most experienced meditators.

the question of what creates joy and hardship in

A neurobiologist, Wolf Singer is one of the

life. They draw the most essential lessons from

world’s leading brain specialists. For eight years,

their life paths, their reading, and their years of

they have been sharing their knowledge and

personal and professional research in order to

questioning how the mind works together.

Orig. Title: Cerveau et Méditation Orig. Language: English 482 pp. | 2017 French & German MS available

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Orig. Title: Trois amis en quête de sagesse Orig. Language: French 530 pp. | 2016 # OF COPIES SOL D 550,000+

accompany each of us on our road through life.

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PSYCHOLOGY | MENTAL HEALTH

How to Be Your Own Shrink A Neuroscientist and a Therapist: Theory and Practice on How to Control Your Brain Working on yourself starts here: Be your own shrink and free yourself from your chains.

Anxiety, fear, stress, conflict, impulsiveness, anger, depression, lack of self-confidence, and more are all mechanisms that the brain puts into place over the course of our lives without our realizing it.

Orig. Title: Devenez votre propre psy Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 400 pp. | October 2021 Territory: World excl. French M AT ERI A L AVA I L A B LE French MS

To ease those feelings, we need to master our brains by understanding how they work and learning to influence them. That’s what Anne-Hélène Clair, PhD in neuroscience, and Vincent Trybou, psychologist and psychotherapist, propose to teach us in this book.

They pair theory and practice to offer us an efficient toolbox that will empower us to transform our harmful behavior, calm our toxic emotions, and deconstruct our negative thoughts.

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Not just a scientific text, this book makes recent advances in knowledge about the brain

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accessible to everyone, as well as showing us how to apply them concretely to re-educate our neurons in our daily lives. Unlike personal-development books, this book isn’t about a single “miracle” method, but instead borrows tools from a range of theories that have been confirmed by neuroscience, choosing the ones that are most applicable in different

Anne-Hélène Clair & Vincent Trybou

real-life situations.

Anne-Hélène Clair, PhD in neuroscience, is a psychologist at the Brain Institute at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (Paris).

A book written for everyone, as many therapists were looking for a tool to assist both

Vincent Trybou is a psychologist and psychotherapist specialized in behavioral and cognitive therapies; he practices at the CTAH (Centre des Troubles Anxieux et de l’Humeur/ Mood and Anxiety Disorders Center).

their patients and psychology students.

PRESS & QUOTES A very interesting book that combines knowledge of the brain with knowledge of psychology and psychotherapy.

— C ÉDR IC WAUT IE R, RT BF

A book that popularizes brain mechanisms and provides an effective toolbox to better understand what is going on in our heads. An ideal book for those who wish to become masters of their lives.

— FEMMES D ’AUJ O URD’HUI

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TRAVEL | HISTORY

The Who’s Who of French Villages Let International Celebrities and Global Historical Figures Guide You through the Gallic Countryside Discover how well-known personalities as varied as Marie Curie, Lenin, Madonna, Fidel Castro, Harry Truman, Albert Einstein, Orson Welles and Pope John-Paul II are connected with different villages in France.

Practically every famous person from the past century has an intimate link to a small town somewhere in France. This guide presents four hundred villages that have attracted pop stars, actors, painters, political leaders and scientists…let alone the inventors of photography, showers, motorized robberies, and bras! Four hundred big names for as many small towns.

Orig. Title: Guide mondain des villages de France Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 500 pp. | March 2022 Territory: World excl. French M AT ER I A L AVA I L A B LE French MS

Matthias Debureaux Matthias Debureaux is deputy editorin-chief of the magazine Citizen K. He is the author, most notably, of the long-seller De l’art d’ennuyer en racontant ses voyages (How to Bore People with Your Travel Stories), which Allary Editions re-released in an enriched edition in 2015.

For this Who’s Who of French Villages, he spent four years cycling the country’s back roads.

A tour guide, Who’s Who, and mini-encyclopedia all rolled into one, The Who’s Who of French Villages is a book like no other. The entries are arranged by village, and each one is a juicy telling of the place’s history and geography.

Exploring France has never been so entertaining!

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HUMOR

How to Bore People with Your Travel Stories Historically, the art of traveling blends with the art of talking about our travels. In other words, it blends with the art of annoying our relatives by showing off our happiness or pretending to be adventurers. Yesterday we organized special slide show evenings. Today, thanks to social media, we can inundate our contacts with a steady stream of comments, photos, and videos. Our ability to knock people out with our travel stories has become limitless, so we no longer give our audience any breathing space.

Drawing from an ancestral know-how, Matthias Debureaux initiates us to this subtle art in his bitingly ironic manual that mocks all our failings as tourists. A short text that has a refined style and sharp wit.

Orig. Title: De l’art d’ennuyer en racontant ses voyages Orig. Language: French 100 pp. | 2015

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COMIC BOOK SERIES (9 VOLUMES)

Esther’s Notebooks

vol. 7

Based on true stories told by Esther A., Esther’s Notebooks draw us into the daily life of a girl talking about school, friends, family, and pop stars.

Allary Editions publishes one volume per year, nine volumes in total. Each volume covers one year in the life of Esther, from her 10th through to her 18th year, and each contains 52 stories for the 52 weeks of the year.

Volume 1 (2016): Esther is 10 years old. Who are Tal, Kendji Girac, and the Hotheads?

What are the criteria of beauty that make young boys and girls popular? What can you do when your friends have more money than you do? What does the ‘brutal-bridge’ game consist of? How did Esther’s class feel about the attacks in Paris in January 2015?

Orig. Title: Les Cahiers d’Esther Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 56 pp. each | 2016-2024 Territory: World excl. French M AT ERI A L AVA I L A B LE French MS English translation (vols. 1-3)

What do you do if you’re worried about your breast size?

Volume 2 (2017): Esther is 11 years old. She tells us about the birth of her little brother, the terrorist attacks, the boys she is in love with, religious discussions with her best friend, her teacher with dwarfism, her mother who suddenly gained weight, her idiot big brother and her father, that hero...

Volume 3 (2018): Esther is a 12-year-old student in a prestigious college in the center of Paris. She is now a preteen! The presidential elections, her first cell phone, her hamster Manuela, the arrival of acne, her conspiring brother, her left-wing partisan

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Animated series adaptation by Canal+ broadcast (3 seasons ongoing since 2018)

father, her far-right voting grandmother, President Macron, the Illuminati, and her love for sausage-apricot cake... Esther talks about everything!

Volume 4 (2019): Esther is now 13, she leaves childhood and enters adolescence…

In this volume Esther talks about her dental braces, #BalanceTonPorc (the French counterpart of the #metoo movement), her long-gone dreams, her secret boyfriend Ben, her friends, her family…

Volume 5 (2020): Esther is now 14 and learns to dance the floss, starts to take an interest in politics (just a little), wonders how we can live normally while the homeless sleep in the streets, and learns how to say “I don’t give a s*#@” in Spanish, thanks to her penpal Nacho. Of course she listens to Angèle, and imagines that all the young people of the world will save the Earth by joining hands.

Volume 6 (2021): It’s the year Esther turns 15 and is entering ninth grade, her last year of middle school! She reconnects with her BFFs Éva and Léa, puts up with some overly

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feminine girls who got left back, organizes her first big birthday party (with alcohol!), tries a cigarette and (finally) creates her Instagram profile, which inevitably attracts psychopaths.

Then everything gets thrown into chaos by the coronavirus... it’s lockdown time.

Volume 7 (2022): Esther is in tenth grade! This is the year she turns 16. Everyone smokes; it’s almost like a “drug empire.” Some of her friends are anti-vax. She still gets vaccinated, and by a fireman better looking than Timothée Chalamet. Her body changes – not because of the vaccine. She has to make her choiecs and invent her future life. To make some pocket money, she starts babysitting and even becomes a camp counselor.

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ESSAY

Friends, Dear Friends In Praise of Friendship Friendship breaks walls down; broadens our point of view; lengthens our arms, our steps, and our time.

What is simpler or more precious than friendship? Bernard Pivot, who knows the pleasure of having faithful friends, some of them lifelong, can measure its true worth.

We all know Pivot, the literary critic, but in this book we discover Pivot, the friend, who has always been careful to distinguish sincere friendship from cronyism. Which can be Orig. Title: Amis, chers amis. Eloge de l’amitié Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 160 pp. | February 2022 Territory: World excl. French

tricky, when your influential position attracts favors and flattery… But Bernard Pivot knows true friendship too well to let the wool be pulled over his eyes. His own personal pantheon includes childhood friends and high-school ones, journalists, actors, a few writers, and just one publisher. Chosen ones whose place in his heart is forever.

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In these vibrant pages, overflowing with emotion and sincerity, Bernard Pivot allows us to come as close as possible to the mysterious alchemy between two people. We don’t have many real friends. Bernard Pivot’s changed his life. In talking about them, he tells us a lot about himself.

Bernard Pivot

From the cult literary television program Apostrophes to the presidency of the Académie

Bernard Pivot developed the legendary French literary TV show Apostrophes, which he hosted for 15 years. He also created and hosted the famous Dictation TV show in France, which went on to be adapted around the world—as far as China. He was President of the Académie Goncourt from 2014 to 2019. He retired in 2022 from the Journal du Dimanche where he had been literary critic for thirty years.

Goncourt prize jury via his column in the Journal du Dimanche, Bernard Pivot is omnipresent in the French literary scene, as well as one of the most popular people in France. His previous book at Allary Éditions is Help! Words Have Eaten Me Alive (Au secours ! Les mots m’ont mange).

PRESS & QUOTES A case for friendship that defies social relations, love, and time. It’s irresistible.

— T É L É M AT IN

Declaration of friendship to those who marked his childhood in Lyon and then his career as a journalist, Amis, chers amis, develops by magnifying with anectodes the famous adage of Montaigne: “because it was him, because it was me”.

— LE JO U R NA L DU DIM AN CHE

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POLITICS | SOCIETY

Letter to the Generation That Is Going to Change Everything Whatever possessed you to be 20 today?!?

The more you try to listen, the more you hear the gloomy chorus of those who are resigned to how things are and the mournful lament of powerlessness.

Climate catastrophe? Inescapable!

The end of biodiversity? Irremediable!

Financial globalization, relocations, and mushrooming Orig. Title: Lettre à la génération qui va tout changer Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 192 pp. | August 2021 Territory: World excl. French M AT ERI A L AVA I L A B LE French MS RIG H T S S O LD Portugal | Guerra e Paz # O F CO P I E S S O LD 40,000+

inequality? Ineluctable!

The decline of democracy, erosion of human rights, and rise of hate speech and hate crime? Inevitable!

Everywhere you look, people keep telling you that that is just how it is, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

But that’s not true! The future is never written in advance, and you can change the course of things.

I’ve seen you display the spontaneity and energy that is

Raphaël Glucksmann Raphaël Glucksmann, essayist, has written several bestselling books: Génération gueule de bois (2015), Notre France (2016), and Les Enfants du vide (2018). He is a co-founder of the “Place publique” movement and a European MP. With over 700,000 Instagram followers – young people, for the most part – he uses social media as a tool to mobilize. He unleashed the wave of solidarity for the Uyghur situation, for instance.

in such short supply among our political leaders.

Your eruption onto the political scene is going to be game-changing. You’re going to prove the fatalists and cynics wrong. Never underestimate your power. Use it, and you’ll see.

R.G.

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The Children of the Void

Generation Hangover

We are free, but is it making us happy? The

so challenged. The temptation to seal off borders

underlying anxiety we all feel stems from the

is spreading across Europe. The face-off between

lack of a collective outlook, from the breakdown

Islamists and the extreme right threatens our

of the narratives and structures that only

open societies. We were lazy democrats, indolent

yesterday still ascribed the individual a place

humanists. We must learn to talk about and

within the group. Our parents deconstructed these narratives, these ‘alienating myths,’ and they were right to do so.

PRESS & QUOTES A scathing observation of ‘the society of solitude.’

— L E MOND E

RI GHTS S OLD: Germany, Greece

Never in 70 years has our democratic model been

Orig. Title: Génération gueule de bois 170 pp. | 2015 # OF COPIES SOL D 30,000+

defend our democracies again, to descend into the arena and fight.

PRESS & QUOTES Fascinating from start to finish.

— CAN AL +

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LITERARY FICTION

Joachim Gottschalk Joachim Gottschalk was the most famous actor in Germany from the 1930s until 1941, when he committed suicide along with his wife and son. This novel relates his tragic fate, and through it, that of the greatest artists of that era.

In 1920s Berlin, Joachim Gottschalk’s talent gradually came to be recognized fame on the theatrical stage. He was the most promising young actor of his generation.

Denis Rossano

But while Joachim was going from success to success on

Denis Rossano is the author of A Childless Father (Un père sans enfants, Allary Editions, 2019); winner of the 2019 Société des Gens de Lettres Revelation Prize, it is currently being made into a movie.

stage and screen, his nation, Germany, was sliding into fascism. Married to Meta, a Jewish woman he was madly Orig. Title: Joachim Gottschalk Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 300 pp. | August 2022 Territory: World excl. French

in love with, and devoted to his art, which gave his life

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together, taking their son Michael with them.

meaning, Joachim became more divided day by day. The Nazis ordered him to choose between his art and his wife. In November 1941, the spouses committed suicide The entire German art scene is portrayed through the family’s tragic fate; it was a scene in which everyone had to choose between exile, submission and death.

LITERARY FICTION

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A Childless Father The father, Douglas Sirk, was a theatre director in Germany in the ’20s and one of Goebbels’s favorite filmmakers in the ’30s. Married to a Jewish woman, he had to flee to the United States, where his melodramas allowed him to conquer Hollywood. The child was Klaus Detlef Sierck, Douglas’s son by his first wife, an unsuccessful actress who became a fervent Nazi. After their divorce in 1928, she wouldn’t allow him to see their four-year-old son, who she turned into a child star in the Nazi film industry.

Orig. Title: Un père sans enfant Orig. Language: French 368 pp. | 2019

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Le Livre de Poche is the first mass-market publisher in France, founded in 1953 by Henri Filipacchi, with more than a billion copies sold to date. True to its purpose, this publishing house has a catalog that caters to all audiences and covers a wide literary spectrum, from classics to contemporary French and foreign bestsellers, from practical books to essays and reference books.

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CRIME & THRILLERS

The Night of the Angels Back at her childhood home, Alice finds herself at the heart of an investigation of a disturbing child disappearance, twenty-five years after a similar tragedy…

Alice, a divorced young mother, decides to return to Perros-Guirec, the hometown she left 10 years before. She hopes to reconnect with both her parents and the familiar landscapes, and to put the painful past behind her. Instead, the beach town in Brittany that holds so many memories for her soon begins to fill her with dread. Her parents have become strangers, her childhood sweetheart is obsessed with his sister’s disappearance Orig. Title: La nuit des anges Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Préludes Editions 320 pp. | March 2022 Territory: World excl. French

a quarter of a century earlier, and once-familiar faces are just ghostly memories now.

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beginning of a veritable nightmare for Alice, who gets sucked into a dual investigation

Soon the whole town becomes panic-stricken when a little girl disappears. It is the

of both past and present.

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In this fast-paced first novel, Anna Tommasi cleverly juggles the discomfort of feeling like one has lost one’s bearing and the poison of buried secrets. Skillfully handled from start to finish, it’s a real page-turner!

Anna Tommasi Anna Tommasi was born in 1986 and grew up between Sète, a coastal city near the French Riviera, and the Paris area. Having trained to be an engineer, she travelled the world before settling down in Lyon, where she now lives in a happily blended family. La Nuit des anges is her first novel.

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HISTORICAL FICTION

The Night Witch Southern Russia, 1942 — Young Anya dreams of just one thing: flying. During the darkest hours of World War II, she joins an exceptional new air squadron composed exclusively of women pilots. From the cursory training to the devastating battle of Stalingrad, Anya takes wing… but at what price?

© Jean Paul Malaval

Moscow, 2018 — Young Pavel is a helpless witness to

Orig. Title: Sorcière de la nuit Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Préludes Editions 360 pp. | September 2022 Territory: World excl. French M AT ERI A L AVA I L A B LE French MS

his best friend’s death. Partially responsible for the

Charline Malaval

tragic circumstances, he seeks refuge at the home of

Charline Malaval was born in Limoges in 1984 and grew up in Corrèze. After having taught in Brazil, Mauritius, Bulgaria, Vanuatu, and Latvia, she is now a teacher in Luexembourg.

his uncle in Ukraine. The taciturn man takes Pavel with him when he goes searching for relics of the Great Patriotic War. Deep in the forest one day, they discover a wrecked fighter plane, and inside, the pilot’s remains…

With this new novel, Charline Malaval sheds light on the tragic and flamboyant fates of some exceptional yet unsung heroines of one of history’s darkest hours.

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The Sailor from Casablanca

The Parrot’s Song The Parrot’s Song is an ode to sharing our stories, and to both love and resistance. A magnificent

Around the central male figure, who is both

tribute to the Brazil of both yesterday and

elusive and omnipresent, gravitates a band

today, its inhabitants, landscapes and history.

of emotive characters. Malaval’s first novel is captivating, full of secrets and revelations, and

A poignant story, unforgettable characters, lively

set in the heart of Morocco. A magnificent tribute Orig. Title: Le marin de Casablanca 360 pp. | 2019

to the Golden Age of Cinema in Hollywood and

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France, it is reminiscent of Otto Preminger’s troubling film Laura.

and compelling writing…

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HISTORICAL FICTION

The Amazons Take Flight What if a letter, written nearly a century ago, could challenge everything you know about your family?

After Solveig’s Winter, winner of the Kobo by Fnac Novel Prize, in L’Envol des amazones Reine Andrieu relates the story of a family secret buried deep in the twists and turns of the past. An incredibly moving tale, rich in intensity and emotion, that takes readers from Orig. Title: L’Envol des amazones Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Préludes Editions 420 pp. | May 2022 Territory: World excl. French M AT ERI A L AVA I L A B LE French MS

southwestern France to French Guyana.

1921: Leon, 19, is a convict of the penal colony in Cayenne, France’s overseas purgatory. The only things

Reine Andrieu After having obtained a degree in business, Reine Andrieu went back to school to become a librarian, a profession she enjoyed for 13 years.

She now lives in French Guiana, where she devotes herself full-time to writing. After Solveig’s Winter (L’Hiver de Solveig), L’Envol des amazones is her second novel.

that give him the courage to keep going are writing letters to his fiancée, Marguerite, reading newspaper articles about the Aéropostale pioneers, and dreaming about becoming a pilot when he is freed.

2015: Sorting her father’s papers after his death, Lola comes across a mysterious letter sent almost a century before from Saint Laurent du Maroni. The letter reveals an entire chapter in her family’s history that she hadn’t known about.

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Solveig’s Winter Winter, 1946, a little girl is found in a French village. Who is she? Where did she come from?

In a similar vein to Sarah Vaughn’s Farm at the Edge of the World, with its strong characters and unexpected plot twists, L’Hiver de Solveig is a deeply moving novel set in one of history’s most troubled periods.

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Orig. Title: L’Hiver de Solveig 448 pp. | February 2021 RIG H T S S O LD World English | Hodder & Stoughton

# OF COP I ES S OLD: 6,000+ PRESS & QUOTES You’ll be hooked after just a few pages of this book, with its addictive hook and its World War II setting.

— KO B O R E ADE R

The story is both tragic and extremely moving, a magnificent novel!

— 2 0 M IN U T E S

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DEBUT NOVEL

Forget the Wildflowers In the Haddad family, everyone knows that it takes a lot of courage and determination to escape a fate you didn’t choose. That’s how the parents raised all seven of their children. But of their four daughters, they have placed all their hopes in mischievous, intelligent Amal: she’s the one who will be sent to school in France, a distant horizon that she has always dreamed of. Until the day when the young woman meets handsome, wall-eyed Youssef, a man she is not allowed to love…

From the streets of a colorful but unstable country to the single-family, cookie-cutter houses in the suburbs of the provincial town of Nancy. From the warmth of Lebanon

Orig. Title: Oublier les fleurs sauvages Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Préludes Editions 352 pp. | August 2021 Territory: World excl. French

to the cold winters of eastern France. After a profusion of obstacles and having known both ecstasy and violence, Amal will discover both the bitter taste of exile and the infinite one of freedom.

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Loosely inspired by the story of her own family, Céline Bentz’s moving quest tells the story of the uncommon life of a woman torn between two countries. A remarkably

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Céline Bentz

mature début novel – carried by lively, embodied writing – that is also a magnificent tribute to Lebanon. It is a well-documented, inspired, and necessary tale that intertwines individuals’ personal lives with political events (thwarted love and exile

Céline Bentz’s father is French and her mother Lebanese. She grew up in eastern France, cradled by two cultures. With degrees from both the Sorbonne and Sciences Po Paris, she also spent some time as a student at Saint Joseph University of Beirut. She is currently working in public administration in Alsace.

against a backdrop of Lebanon in the 1980s) and is told with a dramatic style that will carry readers away.

PRESS & QUOTES A wonderful narrative that never lets you forget it is also a love story.

— S IN G UL ARS

Céline Bentz offers us a novel written in a style that is sometimes sober, sometimes spirited, recounting the problems Amal faces with great clarity.

— BER NA R D GR AVEL AT , C U LT U RE ’L , RCF RADIO

Through a heroine with a fiery temperament, Céline Bentz plunges into the heart of the rifts that divide Lebanon. A very moving first novel.

— L E PÈ L E RIN © Ohazar_balthazar / La Fringale Culturelle

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CRIME & THRILLERS

Deathly Tapas Deathly Tapas is set before Mala Vida, but it stands alone, and can be read before the trilogy.

Readers will remember Diego, Ana, Carlos, and the other bold and brave characters they were introduced to in the Mala Vida, Guerilla Social Club, and Bandidos trilogy. Relentlessly and determinedly, they revealed state secrets and fought against corruption and narco drug lords.

Mexico: Diego Martín, journalist on the police/justice Orig. Title: Tapas nocturnes Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Le Livre de Poche 160 pp. | April 2022 Territory: World excl. French M AT ERI A L AVA I L A B LE French MS

beat, is trying to meet with the head of a powerful drug cartel. But the mission is not without danger.

As Diego Martín is trying to interview the famous Don Fernando, a.k.a. El Matador, the head of a powerful drug cartel in Mexico, his girlfriend, Carolina, a professor of law specializing in criminal affairs at the University of Madrid, has been receiving more and more insistent

© Paolo Bevilacqua

Marc Fernandez Co-founder and editor-in-chief of the crime fiction magazine Alibi (2011-2015), Marc Fernandez has been a journalist for over 20 years. For much of that time, he covered Spain and Latin America for Courrier International. He works now as an editor. He has also co-written several books of investigation, including The City that Kills Women (La ville qui tue les femmes, Hachette Littératures).

Mala Vida is his first solo novel, followed by Guerrilla Social Club and Bandidos.

death threats. The young woman’s life is becoming a veritable nightmare. Will the narcos take things out on her if they feel like their business is threatened?

Carolina is counting the days until Diego’s return…

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Mala Vida

Guerrilla Social Club

Present-day Spain. In the midst of political

Two men go missing in Madrid. Another in

upheaval, a series of murders is committed,

Paris. A woman in Buenos Aires. Each time, the

from Madrid to Barcelona via Valencia. When

same modus operandi: the victims are taken

Diego Martín, a radio journalist specializing in

and then their mutilated corpses are found. All

criminal affairs, decides to look into the first

share a common past: fighting against the South

murder, he hasn’t got the faintest idea that the

American dictatorships in the seventies and

investigation will lead him far beyond the local

eighties. A dangerous investigation that will take

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crime scene and into the heart of an ongoing

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national scandal – the ‘stolen babies’ affair that

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them from Spain to Argentina through Chile, forcing them to confront the ghosts of history, those of Operation Condor.

R IGH TS SOL D: Turkey

— LE POINT

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CRIME & THRILLERS

KO Series A mix of Alias and James Bond, Largo Winch and Lara Croft. Eroticism and geopolitics.

Massacre in Odessa (KO, Vol. 1) - Ukraine Who wanted to kill Viktor and his pro-Russian comrades in Odessa? An explosive conflict sets the Ukrainian army against the separatists in Donbass. Kali Grant and her twin brother, Odys, investigate the dramatic events that could plunge Europe to the edge of a third world war.

Operation Mosul (KO, Vol. 2) - Iraq A tragic New Year’s Day in Cologne. Hundreds of Germans are assaulted. A wealthy Iranian woman, whose daughter is among the victims, charges Kali and her brother with discovering the truth. In Mosul, fallen to the hands of Daesh, a young Yazidi is about to experience a tragic fate.

Devil’s Claw in Etosha (KO, Vol. 3) - Namibia

Orig. Titles: — Massacre à Odessa — Opération Mossoul — Griffe du diable à Etosha — Messe noire à Naples — Panique à Bali — Piège à Istanbul — Pandémie à Long Island — Narco Jihad à Cabo Delgado Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Le Livre de Poche between 288 - 320 pp.

Vol. 1: January 2017 Vol. 2: March 2017 Vol. 3: October 2017 Vol. 4: June 2018 Vol. 5: November 2018 Vol. 6: August 2020 Vol. 7: June 2021 Vol. 8: June 2022

The body of an explorer, horribly mutilated, is delivered to jackals on the Coast of the Skeletons.

Who wanted to prevent him from sending his report? The Chinese and American companies who are exploiting the region? Or those crazy environmental survivalists?

Black Mass in Naples (KO, Vol. 4) - Italy A child sacrificed during a ritualized crime. A Camorra boss found dead in his bunker. A war of succession declared. Kali and Odys will plunge into the volcanic depths of Naples and track down a new form of money laundering through the El Dorado of bitcoin.

Hunt in Bali (KO, Vol. 5) - Indonesia A woman is live on Facebook. She has fled from her family who have ruled over a small country in the Persian Gulf for years. Masked men break into her room, gag her and cut off all communication.

Kali and Odys step in to try and recover her.

Trap in Istanbul (KO, Vol. 6) - Turkey Istanbul: Jamal Khashoggi, columnist for the Washington Post, never left the Saudi consulate.

Rumor has it that the kingdom’s “mad prince” had him dismembered. Assigned to negotiate the return of a British jihad fighter, first Kali, then Odys are ordered to assist the MI6.

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Pandemic in Long Island (KO, Vol. 7) – USA A billionaire seeks to know his illegitimate daughter before he dies… To find her, Kali crisscrosses the United States – despite restrictive measures linked to the coronavirus epidemic – in the footsteps of a young hippie who grew up in a poor and evangelical America that does not believe in the virus.

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Narco Jihad in Cabo Delgado (KO, Vol. 8) – Mozambique

Alex de Brienne Alex de Brienne is a pen name. The author’s job has won him the trust of some of the most powerful people, including the rebels. He studies the theater of war and conflict.

He frequents the halls of NGOs as well as ministries. He wants to stay anonymous so he can write freely about the major events that happen in the world.

An earthly paradise that was off the beaten track… until one of Africa’s largest natural gas fields was discovered off its coast, leading to Total building an off-shore platform there. Tasked with extracting a British secret agent along with three SAS men, Kali is going to find out what’s going on behind the scenes.

PRESS & QUOTES A new genre, halfway between SAS and James Ellroy.

— C HR IS T INE DE VILLIER S , WIDOW O F GÉR A RD DE V IL L IE RS , BES T S ELLING FR ENC H AUT HO R O F T HE SAS S E RIE S

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ESSAY | SOCIETY

What If Princes Wore Dresses?

This essay is the product of a teenaged girl’s surprise: why are women still not equal to men in 21st-century France?

Even in childhood, the author noticed disparaging, misogynistic comments tossed off lightly at the dinner table; as a teen, she was struck by the violence of inappropriate speech in the street.

Candice decided to survey taboo topics (including menstruation and masturbation) that hold girls back and did her best to document it all clearly. In twelve clear and factual chapters, and through a personal, embodied account, the author points out how Orig. Title: Et si les princes portaient des robes ?

Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Le Livre de Poche TBC pp. | May 2022 Territory: World excl. French

tenacious girl-boy inequality is.

In a determined but serene tone, she provides constructive suggestions for resolving the problem, with men’s assistance.

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A very incisive analysis from a teen who admires Virginie Despentes, Titiou Lecoq, and Gisèle Halimi, and a critical assessment that is constructive and upbeat.

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The highly talented author is being supported by the Female-Male Equality House and has already started speaking in high schools.

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NATURE | PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

A Short Philosophy of the Sea After the success of A Short Philosophy of Birds, which has been translated in 20 foreign countries and has sold 10,000 copies in France alone, here is the second title in this collection that shares deep wisdom with the general public. Here are nearly two dozen life lessons that the sea and its natural phenomena can give us, if we know how to observe them.

Provisional cover

This book is the second volume in a collection that is teaching us to listen to the lessons in wisdom that

Orig. Title: Petite philosophie de la Mer Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de la Martinière Littérature 160 pp. | May 2022 Territory: World excl. French

nature can give us. Through its ebb and flow, its way of covering the world and being so silently necessary to us, the great blue lady that is the sea can teach us a lifestyle that is more respectful of our natural rhythms, and more profound as well.

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Laurence Devillairs With a PhD in Philosophy, Laurence Devillairs is a philosophy professor and a publisher. As both the author of a great number of philosophy books – whether scholarly or for the general public – and someone who has always been fascinated by the sea, she has combined her two loves in this uplifting book.

A Short Philosophy of the Sea delivers nearly two dozen short and sweet life lessons that help us rediscover the natural being that’s breathing deep inside us.

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A Short Philosophy of Birds Twenty-two short lessons from the secret lives of birds on living harmoniously and reconnecting with nature.

This charming volume on bird behavior invites us to take a step back from our busy lives and to listen to the tiny philosophers of the sky. From the delicate sparrow to the majestic eagle, birds are among the most fascinating species on earth, and there is much to be learned from these paragons of beauty and grace that can be applied to our lives.

English translation available

Orig. Title: Petite philosophie des oiseaux Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de La Martinière Littérature 160 pp. | 2018 Territory: World excl.

French

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PRESS & QUOTES This book is a pure marvel.

— O PE N M IN D

This exciting bestseller reveals to us that birds have much to teach us if we take the time to observe them.

— V E R S IO N F E M IN A

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COZY MYSTERY

In Marie Antoinette’s Secret Service series vol. 7 The 100% French cozy mystery series! An oh-soglamorous heroine (Marie Antoinette!), two hilarious amateur detectives, and a seventh novel that joins the six previous ones (which are all stand-alone): perfect for binge readers of the genre! In this volume, Marie Antoinette has to prove that the Chevalier d’Eon, a French diplomat who likes cross-dressing and who

Orig. Title: Au service secret de Marie Antoinette Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de La Martinière Littérature 352 pp. | April 2022 Territory: World excl. French

has been accused of having assassinated one of the kingdom’s secret agents, is actually innocent. The two amateur detectives, Rose and Léonard, respectively the Queen’s milliner and her hairdresser, are going to have to pair up once again. Get ready for another irresistibly

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funny and feud-filled investigation!

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Frédéric Lenormand Winner of the Historia and Arsène Lupin Prizes, Frédéric Lenormand is an established writer of historical fiction. The idea of writing about Marie Antoinette had been on his mind for quite some time before he suggested it to Éditions de La Martinière. The Du Barry Investigation (L’Enquête du Barry) is the first volume in the In MarieAntoinette’s Secret Service series.

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A novel with surprising plot twists, a dash of style, a tasty dose of humor, and a well-constructed plot: who could ask for anything more? — CO S MO PO LITA N

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In Marie Antoinette’s Secret Service offers a delightful tour through the many secret passages and tunnels of the Palace of Versailles.

Volume 1: The Du Barry Investigation – May 2019 Volume 2: No Rest for the Queen – October 2019 Volume 3: The Bride Wore Rose Bertin – May 2020 Volume 4: The Woman with the Golden Pistol – October 2020 Volume 5: The Queen Is in Quarantine! – March 2021 Volume 6: The Hairdresser Always Curls Twice – October 2021

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Each volume in the series sells between 3,500 and 8,500 copies.

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CRIME & THRILLERS

Summit Inuit-Danish

cop

Qaanaaq

Adriensen

returned

to

Greenland a few years ago. Now chief of the national police force, he knows better than anyone the country’s divide

between

indigenous

traditions

and

Danish

modernity. A splendid and immaculate territory, yet the theatre of the most serious crises of our century: ecological, societal, political.

© Alexandre Isard

Qaanaaq carries his investigations in this setting, in a novel which combines the descriptive talent of the greatest Scandinavian thrillers to the qualities of a harrowing and fearsome detective novel.

Orig. Title: Summit Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de La Martinière Littérature 380 pp. | June 2022 Territory: World excl. French

This is the fourth part of the “Murders in Greenland” book series, following Qaanaaq, Diskø and Nuuk, which

Mo Malø Born in 1968, Mo Malø has written a number of books under other names. He lives in France.

has sold 100,000 copies in France and has already been published in several countries.

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Each book can be read independently.

UNDER O P T I O N Italy, Korea

ALSO AVAIL ABLE AT EDITIONS DE L A MARTINIÈRE LITTÉRATURE Orig. Title: Qaanaaq 496 pp. | May 2018

Orig. Title: Diskø 416 pp. | March 2019

Orig. Title: Nuuk 416 pp. | May 2020

AWAR DS 2020 Prix Découverte des Mines Noires (winner)

English sample available

2019 Prix Michel Lebrun (shortlisted) English sample available

Qaanaaq

Nuuk

Diskø This time, a corpse found frozen in an iceberg

After a few months when he was made to go

Life in Greenland seems peaceful enough. But

disrupts

white

back to Denmark against his will, Qaanaaq has

beyond the landscapes’ virginal snow lies tension

island. Following the likes of Ian Manook’s

gotten his job as chief of the Greenland police

between the natives and the settlers and the

Yeruldelgger and Olivier Truc, Mo Malø pens

force back. Qaanaaq’s neuroses catch up with

threat of inherent danger. When a series of

a new atmospheric and completely different

him anyway: behind a series of youthful suicides

unexplained murders occurs, a Danish inspector of

crime novel. In the middle of adrift icebergs,

Qaanaaq suspects the influence of a strange

Inuit descent is dispatched to the scene. His name?

Qaanaaq and his team are trying to identify

shaman. But maybe the danger is really coming

Qaanaaq. Having renounced his Inuit ancestry,

the motives for this crime when a second

from inside himself?

returning to his country of origin brings back

murder takes place, and this time the victim is

ghosts from the past.

Greenland

one of their colleagues. Ferocious and wild,

suicide rates in the world. But during Qaanaaq

Greenland’s Mother Nature has not said her last

Adriensen’s routine rounds to different towns

word yet...

on the great white island, he is confronted with

RIG H T S S O LD : Iceland, Italy, Korea # O F CO P I E S S O LD : 40,000+

the

serenity

of

the

UNDER OPTION : Italy, Korea # OF COPIES SOL D: 35,000+

large

has

one

of

the

highest

youth

several deaths very close together… too close together, in Qaanaaq’s opinion.

U N DER OPTION : Italy, Korea # OF COPIES SOL D: 25,000+

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ENVIRONMENT | SOCIETY

Legacy Heritage of a Life For the first time ever, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, the environmentalist-humanist photographer and founder of the GoodPlanet Foundation, reveals a more personal side of himself in a book written in the first person. He explores the legacy that his generation will be leaving to today’s youth – the Greta Thunberg generation – takes stock of the state of the planet, and looks back over a life rich in experiences, pitfalls, and occasions for starting over.

It all started in Kenya. Discovering the country and its population was a revelation to Orig. Title: Legacy. L’héritage d’une vie Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de la Martinière Littérature 256 pp. | November 2021 Territory: World excl. French

him. The young wildlife photographer, who had been working in a nature reserve near the French Alps, headed off to Africa with his wife to devote three years to studying the behavior of a lion family. It would be a transformative experience, instilling him with a sense of purpose: the beauty and fragility of the world must be protected right away.

The idea – or rather the necessity – of supporting a humanist form of ecology dawned

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on him gradually. Along with the publishers Editions de La Martinière, he invented a kind of photography book that had never existed before: Earth from Above became an international bestseller. Then the state of the planet convinced Arthus-Bertrand to

Yann ArthusBertrand

re-evaluate his own way of life and to take things even further. In 2005, he founded

Born in 1946, Yann Arthus-Bertrand is a photographer, reporter, filmmaker and environmentalist, as well as the founder and president of the GoodPlanet Foundation.

He has published a number of photography books with Editions de la Martinière, including Earth from Above, an international bestseller, and Woman, his most recent book, related to the film of the same name that he co-directed.

GoodPlanet, an NGO that strives for a more sustainable and equitable world.

He has had his share of controversy and doubts, of course; and there have been times that he was ready to give up. But his visceral beliefs in a fairer, cleaner, and more beautiful world have won every time. Now more than ever, they are urging him to pass the baton on to the next generation.

The inspiring first-person account of an ardent defender of a noble cause who relates his personal experiences for the first time.

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DEBUT NOVEL

Stony Silence What if death were preferable to life? Cut off from everything, in a village that even the digital revolution forgot, the Dugasts have turned suicide into their family specialty.

They all seem to be committing it, one after the other, for no obvious reason. When will the hecatomb cease? Against all odds, the family’s only son chooses to live.

With its striking and poetic style, a tragicomic début novel from a talented young author – just 28 years old at the time of publication – who already has a large following online.

They’re dying like flies in the Dugast family. First the grandfather hangs himself in the Orig. Title: Les Chiens de faïence Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de la Martinière Littérature 341 pp. | August 2021 Territory: World excl. French

barn, then the grandmother crashes her car into a tree. Next, the other grandfather jumps

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do best: ignoring things. At age 18, their son, Christophe, is determined to escape what

off a cliff, and so on and so forth. Each and every death is a suicide. Incomprehensible.

Absurd. Is it a nightmare? A curse? While the series of suicides is causing tongues to wag in town, the Dugasts themselves don’t discuss it. They just go on doing what they

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would seem to be his fate. But where can you go when you’ve only ever known an intrusively close-knit family?

Strewn with poetical aphorisms and flaunting a keen sense of irony, Thomas Louis’s social fable has hints of absurdity, where fate strips people’s incapacity to communicate

Thomas Louis Born in 1992, Thomas Louis is a freelance journalist best known for his podcast, “La Quille,” in which he interviews writers, artists, and other people from the world of culture.

With his debut novel, Les Chiens de faïence, he stands out as one of the new voices in contemporary French literature, between the disenchanted humor of Jean-Paul Dubois and the absurd poetry of Samuel Beckett.

down to the barest of bones.

PRESS & QUOTES At the Dugast’s, dying with the family is a team sport.

— JEA N -PAUL DUBO IS

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A brilliant debut novel, in a quirky and poetical style imbued with black humor, by a talented young 28-year-old writer.

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An author with a major presence on social media, particularly Instagram: 60,000 followers.

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A theme that is always current, in the wake of Nicolas Mathieu’s Leurs enfants après eux (Actes Sud, 2019 Goncourt Award): life in small, overlooked towns on the outskirts of cities, and the impact of social determinism.

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An accursed family, hounded by fate, worthy heirs to the one featured in Jean Giono’s tragicomedy Le Moulin de Pologne (Gallimard, 1952).

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NOIR

The Pit of Souls Leaving the quixotic, chaotic realm of organized crime, Christophe Molmy dove into literature. The lethal terrorist attack that opens the novel is clearly reminiscent of the one on the Bataclan theatre. But the subject of the book lies elsewhere: how a survivor of the horror perches on the cusp between holding himself together and sliding into madness.

Fabrice is a coward. So he goes to the movies with his girlfriend, Juliette, without finding the nerve to tell her what’s been preying on him for a while: he doesn’t love her any more, and hasn’t for quite some time. But in the

Orig. Title: La Fosse aux âmes Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de la Martinière Littérature 304 pp. | August 2021 Territory: World excl. French

theatre, a terrorist attack takes place. Juliette lies at his feet. He is the widower of a woman he no longer loved.

Fabrice finds in the female police officer who interrogates him a beam of light he can cling to. A love story like a

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life drive.

Christophe Molmy Christophe Molmy is the head of the Paris Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI), a.k.a. the Anti-Gang and Counter-Terrorism Brigade, a unit of the French National Police.

His first novel, Wounded Wolves (Les Loups blessés, Editions de La Martinière, 2015), was selected for four literary awards (the Prix Landerneau, Prix du meilleur polar des lecteurs de Points, Prix du polar de Cognac and the Prix du Goéland Masqué). The Pit of Souls is his fourth novel.

But fate has it in for him, and the police officer disappears. He is Suspect Number One. Lying low for a while would be the thing to do, but Fabrice hasn’t got a clue how to go about it. Neither how to hide, nor how to run away. Nor how to rebuild a life that has been blasted to smithereens.

ALSO AVAIL ABLE AT EDITIONS DE L A MARTINIÈRE LITTÉRATURE CRIME & THRILLERS

CRIME & THRILLERS

After the Day

Somewhere Between Good and Evil

François Legal, an extremely meticulous and equally violent robber, has almost finished a 10-

A masterfully realistic crime novel. The eagerly

year sentence.

awaited second book by the French Police

Philippe Lelouedec, an old hand from Paris’s

Divisional Commissioner, Christophe Molmy, is

police headquarters, and Coline, a shy and

a triumph.

unhappy young cop, have been trying to solve a series of burglaries targeting elderly people.

Orig. Title: Après le jour 368 pp. | 2020

P RES S & Q UOTES A very successful book of realistic crime fiction.

— FRANÇOIS BUSNEL, L A GRA NDE L I BRA I RI E

PR ESS & QU OTES Orig. Title: Quelque part entre le bien et le mal 352 pp. | 2018

Christophe Molmy has always dreamed of a life: his own…. Robberies, hostage situations, frenzied … interfere in his daily – inevitably novelistic – life.

— L IB É R AT IO N

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After 15 years spent in the French publishing industry, Valérie Miguel-Kraak founded her own literary agency, Agence Hyphen VMK, in 2018. Specialized in French-speaking authors—both from Belgium and France—Hyphen takes its name from the Latin which means bond. The agency aims at building bridges between French-speaking countries and the world, between literary agencies and publishers. AHVMK list includes French bestselling author Agnès Ledig (both her commercial fictions and children’s books (FR)), who has been translated into 19 languages, as well as crime novels, plays (Paul Colize (BEL), published in Polish and English, Alain Lallemand (BEL)), up market fictions (Mathilde Alet (BEL-FR), commercial fictions (Valérie Cohen (BEL), Christian Carayon (FR)), and fantasy (Michel Robert (FR)).

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COMMERCIAL FICTION

The Next Seasons Some secrets cannot stay forever behind memories’ doors.

Just after turning 45, Charlotte, a French literature teacher, lost her husband to a long and painful cancer. This drama triggers something inside her and she decides to change everything and to leave her past behind: she resigns—to the deepest despair of hers parents—she sells her house and applies to a Writer’s Residence Program based at Trébeurden, on the French (wild) West Coast in Brittany. She is not a young writer, so to speak, as she has already published two thrillers, but they did not sell quite well and she lost her faith.

Orig. Title: Les Saisons d’après Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Hervé Chopin Éditions 463 pp. | February 2022 Territory: World excl. French

Finally, she is the only one to be taken for nine months to this Residence and she believes that there will be no better opportunity for her to again write a good book. This place is called “Lighthouse” and was created by a bestselling and mysterious author (a

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mix between Stephen King and Paul Auster), William-Xavier Mizen, known as WXM, his initials. He was the author her husband kept on reading before dying. This author disappeared some years ago, and lot of stories about his life have been told ever since.

Christian Carayon

During her stay, Charlotte will meet some colorful characters, settle an amazing movie

Christian Carayon is a French crime novelist born in the South of France. He is the author of five novels, including the historical crime novel The Devil’s Den (Le Diable derrière les épaules, Pocket, 2013), short-listed for the Ça m’intéresse Histoire prize; A Shade, A Breath (Fleuve Éditions, 2016); the original audiobook Malefosse (Audible, 20192020); and the graphic novel Charly Malfède (Steinkis, 2019). Fond of cinema, he also has a PhD in History and has been teaching high school for more than 17 years. He began his journey as a writer ten years ago.

program for her students, and challenge herself. She will face her fears and push her boundaries by swimming at dawn in the sea every day, having the feeling of being watched from a distance. And most of all, she will investigate WXM’s disappearance, keeping a diary and meeting up with the story of her life.

Christian Carayon’s writing is very atmospheric; it conveys specific cinema references together with in-depth analysis of characters’ feelings. Readers are behind closed doors with perfect strangers at Lighthouse and at the same time locked in the narrator’s mind and obsessions.

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One of the author’s previous titles, A Breath, A Shade sold in Germany, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands.

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COMMERCIAL FICTION

Under Any Sky If family trees had enough room for best friends, past lovers, mentors, and personal heroes, what would yours look like?

Before retiring, Sybille was a well-known midwife, beloved by her patients. But she’s had to keep her deepest wound hidden inside her entire life: she was not able to carry a child herself. She was meant to help other mothers instead. Even if she could not raise her own family, she chose her “heart family.” Especially her Orig. Title: Qu’importe la couleur du ciel Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Flammarion 300 pp. | March 2022 Territory: World excl. French M AT ERI A L AVA I L A B LE French MS

goddaughter, Barbara, to whom she has also been very close. Even more so since she gave birth to Mila, her daughter, alone, without any man by her side. But this family story of women without men is only repeating itself, keeping its secrets for decades…

Valérie Cohen Valérie Cohen was born in Brussels, where she still lives with her husband. A mother of three, she was a lawyer until 2009 when she turned to writing. While practicing meditation and studying self-help, she has written seven novels, first published by a Belgian publisher (Luce Wilquin) and then since 2019,

by Flammarion and J’ai Lu in France.

Family can be such a lovely bunch of flowers or such stinging roses.

Valérie Cohen’s writing enhances the resilience of human spirit against life’s changes in a light, witty, and elegant style, with that special and tasteful Belgian touch.

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When My Heart Skips a Beat A heartwarming, tender, and witty novel about breaking free from the past.

What kind of impact does a true and first love have on your entire life?

Is the underground world of an extramarital dating site the way back to a first, lost love?

She’s gorgeous, blond, and 40 years old. With a glowing career running a fashion label and happily married for 20 years to Yvan, Emma’s life from the outside looks like a fairy tale. But sometimes, having everything isn’t enough.

PRESS & QUOTES Orig. Title: Depuis, mon cœur a un battement de retard Orig. Publisher: Flammarion 352 pp. | 2019

Valérie Cohen perfectly depicts the trouble of a woman in the middle of her life.

— PS YC HO LOGIE S M AG AZ IN E

A beautiful story that reminds us to leave the past behind and live here and now.

— L E S O IR It is entertaining, the characters are lovely and a little bit crazy but do not expect to find out how all this ends as it is unexpected.

This is really good.

— RT BF A Madame Bovary online.

— N O S TAL G IE

Emma is the opposite of Bridget Jones.

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CHRIME & THRILLERS

What a Wonderful World Paul Colize is at the height of his writing skills: in a 1970’s scenery, he conveys a very subtle, stunning and moving face to face. He reveals the light and shadow in mankind and that even if we cannot change the past, we have the power to change the present October 1973.

In the Mercedes 220D driving, behind the steering

Paul Colize

wheel, Daniel Sabre, a giant wearing a well cut and dark

PAUL COLIZE is a Belgian crime novelist, born in Brussels. He is the author of fifteen novels including Back Up (La Manufacture de Livres, Folio), translated in English (Oneworld 2018), German (Nautilus) and Czech and was shortlisted for the Victor Rossel Prix and won the Prix Saint-Maur en Poche. He has contributed to Akashic Books’ noir series Brussels Noir. His awards include the Landernau Prize, the Polars Pourpre Prize, Boulevard Prize for Fantasy, Arsène Lupin Prize, and the Plume de Cristal Prize. His last novel, Such Violent Mankind (Toute la violence des hommes) received the Michel Lebrun Prize and the Reader’s Prize from Villeneuve-lezAvignon Festival. He lives in Waterloo, Belgium.

moustache, tries very hard to calm down. His orders: do Orig. Title: Un monde merveilleux Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Hervé Chopin Éditions 315 pp. | March 2022 Territory: World excl. French M AT ERI A L AVA I L A B LE French MS

whatever his passenger will ask him to do. Go wherever the lady sitting at the back asks him to go. For how long? Who knows ? Does she even know?

At the rear of the car, Marlène seems to have a lot to deal with. What is the purpose of this trip ? Why does she have to rush to Lyon before night is coming ? When will Daniel be back home to his family ?

In the following hours, Daniel does not know how deeply his believes, his world – of Man, of Officer – will fall apart: this road trip through Europe (Belgium, Germany, France, Spain) will turn out to be more an inner and “coming of age” journey that will change Daniel and Marlène forever. Within a week they will travel in Europe but also through time, memories and will both find answers to personal questions shut for decades.

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PAUL COLIZE

TOUTE LA VIOLENCE DES HOMMES

Such Violent Mankind Between Brussels and Vukovar, Paul Colize fills the gaps of History.

Who is Nikola Stankovic? An artistic genius, a breathtaking performer who feels lively the higher he gets, at night, climbing up the most unlikely monument and buildings of the Belgian Capital, for the adrenaline’s sake? An over gifted painter who leaves coded messages and hidden meanings in his ultra violent and giant murals? A fool? A liar? A murderer? Nikola is the last one who saw alive a young woman who has been murderered by knife in her apartment. The Belgian police found drawings of the murder scene in Nikola’s own studio.

PRESS & QUOTES Orig. Title: Toute la violence des hommes Orig. Publisher: Hervé Chopin Éditions 352 pp. | 2020

Paul Colize signs a fascinating novel.

We love this book : characters are well done, mysterious and witty.

— JEA N-MA R IE WYN AN T S – L E S O IR — AU DR EY VERBIS T – L ’AV E N IR

A fascinating and breathtaking novel holds by two wonderful characters: Nikola Stankovicand Pauline Derval.

— A LEXA NDR A S C HWA R T ZBR OD – L IBÉ RAT IO N

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HarperCollins Publishers is the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world.

Headquartered in New York, HarperCollins has publishing operations in 17 countries.

With two hundred years of history and more than 120 branded imprints around the world, HarperCollins publishes approximately 10,000 new books every year in 16 languages, and has a print and digital catalog of more than 200,000 titles. Writing across dozens of genres, HarperCollins authors include winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, and the Man Booker Prize.

The house of Mark Twain, the Brontë sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein, and Margaret Wise Brown, HarperCollins has a long and rich history that reaches back to the early nineteenth century and offers our publishing team a depth of experience that few others can rival—from the modest print shop that James and John Harper opened in 1817 to the global house we are today.

HarperCollins was founded by brothers James and John Harper in New York City in 1817 as J. and J. Harper, later Harper & Brothers. In 1987, as Harper & Row, it was acquired by News Corporation. The worldwide book group was formed following News Corporation’s 1990 acquisition of the British publisher William Collins & Sons. Founded in 1819, William Collins & Sons published a range of Bibles, atlases, dictionaries, and reissued classics, expanding over the years to include legendary authors such as H. G. Wells, Agatha Christie, J. R. R. Tolkien, and C. S. Lewis.

Today, the company consists of the HarperCollins General Books Group, HarperCollins Children’s Books, HarperCollins Christian Publishing, HarperCollins UK, HarperCollins Canada, HarperCollins Australia/New Zealand, HarperCollins India, HarperCollins Germany,

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HarperCollins is a subsidiary of News Corp.

At HarperCollins, authors and their work are at the center of everything we do. We are proud to provide our authors with unprecedented editorial excellence, marketing reach, long-standing connections with booksellers, and industry-leading insight into reader and consumer behavior. Consistently at the forefront of innovation and technological advancement, HarperCollins also uses digital technology to create unique reading experiences and expand the reach of our authors.

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LITERARY FICTION

The Peripheral Woman Against a backdrop of nostalgia (nostalgia for East Germany), La Femme périphérique

is

a

fascinating

investigation

into

the

world

of

art

and

a

vibrant first novel that asks about the forgotten women in artistic creation.

Modern, gripping, and intelligent: a real page-turner.

Peter and Petra Wolf have been the hottest couple on the German art scene since the 1990s. He is a provocative East German artist who has disappeared; she, a former professor of visual arts from the West who the art world sees as the guardian of her husband’s reputation as a genius. An untalented woman who divides public opinion in a divided country.

Orig. Title: La femme périphérique Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: HarperCollins France 368 pp. | January 2022 Territory: World excl. French

Thirty years after the fall of the Wall, as a biography is being written about the cult couple, mystery still surrounds Peter’s disappearance. And the possibility of an exciting breakthrough is making waves on the museum circuit.

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Who killed the painter? Was it a case of identity theft, fraud, and forgery? All the clues

AWA RD S Prix de la Closerie des Lilas (longlisted) Prix Première 2022 (shortlisted)

point to Petra. The investigation, from Paris to Berlin to New York, will reveal what the legend has kept under wraps until now.

La Femme périphérique is a fascinating dive into the art world and a vibrant first

Reminiscent of films like The Lives

novel that asks about the forgotten women in artistic creation.

of Others and Big Eyes.

PRESS & QUOTES A delight.

Sophie Pointurier Sophie Pointurier is a researcher, professor, and director of the Sign Language and Interpretation department at ESIT (Higher School for Interpreters and Translators) – Sorbonne-Nouvelle University.

— INT ER NAT IO NA L BES T -S ELLING AUT HO R M O N A CHO L L E T

It’s really exciting... It’s a book you won’t put down!

— S UD RADIO

This thrilling societal thriller offers a rare dive into the world of contemporary art, addressing the sexism that reigns there, generously delivering delicious details that tell the story of the Iron Curtain era.

— PA R IS MATCH BE L G IQ UE

This thrilling novel, built like a thriller, mixes universal themes such as the place of women in the world of creation, the ambiguous relationship between artists and politics, and immerses us in our recent history. A success for a first novel!

— N OT RE T E M PS

Perfectly constructed, very funny, and supported by historical references, this first novel is devouring.

— PO IN T DE V UE

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Make Your Drum Beat A novel intertwining ecology, belief in a new form of autonomy, and contemporary disillusionment.

Not long ago, Ciara still believed in her vocation: guiding firms through their ecological transition. That was also the case for Inès, her best friend and ally, who is about to be informed that she has an incurable disease. But failed relationships, a tyrannical boss who believes his own lies, and the absurdity of a one-size-fits-all program applied over and over gradually shattered their illusions. Leaving everything behind and starting over appears to be the only solution. But where?

When Dennis, a respectable family man and ideal colleague, disappears without a trace

Orig. Title: Fais battre ton tambour Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: HarperCollins France 320 pp. | March 2022 Territory: World excl. French

after a team seminar near France’s border with Spain, the two young women decide to set out on his trail.

A cross between a survivalist fantasy and a description of life in the woods and of some wacky alternatives to the hollowness of ultra-modern loneliness, this is

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an ecological and poetic novel in which joy rubs shoulders with melancholy and the winners are not who you think. The odyssey of a trio that should shake our certitudes.

PRESS & QUOTES Audacity, commitment, savagery, politics and tenderness. Louise Browaeys is impressive.

— JUL IA K E RN IN O N

Louise Browaeys Louise Browaeys has written a number of books relating to ecology. An agronomist, facilitator and keynote speaker, this is her second novel, after La Dislocation (HarperCollins, 2020).

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Louise Browaeys confirms her singular style and talent for describing the world mordantly.

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The Anonymous Gluttons A chilling dystopia set against a backdrop of a leftist totalitarian regime that advocates self-regulation in all things, starting with food.

Toma used to dream of becoming a private eye. He wound up being a food critic.

In a Paris that marches to the beat of an autocratic state apparatus that has pushed the cult of health and well-being to the highest possible point, he is trying to find a way to exist. His role: dictate to his fellow citizens what they’re supposed to eat. And although he does allow himself the odd lapse, this killjoy zealously follows the wishes of the newspaper he works for, oppressed by a scornful boss.

Orig. Title: Les Bouffeurs anonymes Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: HarperCollins France 272 pp. | April 2022 Territory: World excl. French

But one evening, as he’s out for his ritual stroll, a gleam of light catches his eye. Behind the closed metal curtain of a local snack shop, a meeting is taking place. A shamefaced group, drinking in the words of one man. Their secret: a fierce addiction to food.

Like a Kessel of his time, Toma will clandestinely join the secret group, which offers him

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material for the investigation of a lifetime. In addition to having found an inexhaustible source of inspiration, in observing these converts, he will discover his own true nature.

Intertwining anthropology and a coming-of-age tale, this thought-provoking and facetious first book explores our untamed side and displays incredibly sharp insight

Marie Aline Marie Aline was born in 1979. A jack-of-all-trades and an inveterate traveler, she has been an ice-cream saleswoman, an artist’s model, a prop woman on film sets, a dresser at the Paris Opera, and a weaver in Morocco. After all that, she wound up in journalism, writing for GQ, and Fooding, as well as Vanity Fair, Marianne, and Glamour. She has been the food critic at M - Le Monde’s magazine, since 2018. She divides her time between Paris and the Cévennes.

when it comes to blowing up constraints and taboos.

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Marie Aline explores desire, obligation, humanity, and our animal nature.

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A style that keeps a touch of humor even though it’s serious.

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LITERARY FICTION | NOIR

Nueve Cuatro A wild page-turner of an odyssey through the 9-4, code numbers that identify an overlooked territory on the outskirts of Paris. A rogues’ gallery of unforgettable characters.

Who really knows the 9-4, stuck between its attention-grabbing neighbors, the wealthy 9-2 and the infamous 9-3? Who really knows the people who live and get by there?

And above all, who knows its inverted reflection, the 9-4 within the 9-4, the nueve cuatro? A wonderland inhabited by lost souls, drug lords, pimps, wild beasts, and all the extraordinary stories that go with them.

Among them: Henri, a retired accountant who lost his wife, and then a toe to diabetes.

Orig. Title: Nueve Cuatro Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: HarperCollins France 448 pp. | February 2022 Territory: World excl. French

His daily life has been flowing along smoothly enough, until the day his neighbor Clara suddenly disappears. Soulaymane, a debt collector who’s just getting by, used to dream of becoming a cop. Trying to find the young woman is exactly what he needs to get his heart beating again. And finally, Brahim, the nueve cuatro’s crime lord. His reign seems eternal, but is he starting to lose it? He’d be more than happy to burn his town

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to the ground in order to go out in style.

Not all of the characters have the outsized ego required to want to leave their mark on history, but with the disappearance as a catalyst, they will all experience an epic adventure.

A dark odyssey and urban tale suffused with wild humanity, Nueve Cuatro offers a view

Nicolas Laquerrière

of the working-class, immigrant suburbs like no other. An explosive new urban voice

Having attended the Fémis, France’s most prestigious film school, Nicolas Laquerrière, 32, co-wrote the screenplay for the highly successful TV series Validé. He has lived his whole life in Choisy-le-Roi, in the heart of the 9-4 that is the heroine of his first novel.

is born.

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CRIME & THRILLERS

Cinnabar Intertwining

legends,

pop

culture,

and

real-life

events, with this fourth book, Nicolas Druart serves up a grippingly over-the-top thriller. Delightfully entertaining.

Cinnabar is the color of the fanciest hotel in Toulouse, a velvet vise for a wealthy clientele. It’s a deep, bloodred hue. Hôtel Ferdinand was the scene of a quadruple homicide back in the 1980s. The director of the hotel, Eugène Ferdinand, murdered his entire family before being killed by the police. His entire family except for Orig. Title: Cinabre Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: HarperCollins France 464 pp. | March 2022 Territory: World excl. French M AT ERI A L AVA I L A B LE French MS

Richard, the baby, who miraculously survived. Richard himself decides to re-open for business thirty years later… But even major renovation work can’t erase a reputation as sulfurous as that!

Nicolas Druart Cinabre is Nicolas Druart’s fourth novel after Nuit blanche (2018 Psychological Suspense Grand Prix), Jeu de dames (2019), and L’Enclave (2021 Embouchure Prize). A 35-yearold nurse in Toulouse, he describes the cracks in people’s minds with the precision of a surgeon’s scalpel, serving up a dark, suffocating, and masterful thriller.

The Kings of Spades are a group of six nursing-school classmates who fled the hospital environment to open their own practice. When one of them disappears after having cared for a client at Hôtel Ferdinand, no one seems to take notice. Only Elliot Akerman, a sensitive and uncompromising nurse, will try to find him.

In the meantime, the city of Toulouse is living in fear of the “saber killer” who decapitates his victims with a sword. Is he alone? Who should feel threatened? For Police Captain Aubert and his team, it’s the beginning of an endless battle against a hydra veiled by sheets of blood.

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The Enclave What is the Enclave hiding? A monster worthy of ancestral legends or a macabre truth? On the Enclave, everything has been said: that it is a white zone lost in the Lot valley, that people live there in perfect autonomy, that a creature reigns there without sharing... Everything has been said, but we prefer to shut up.

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LITERARY FICTION

The Ambush Based on a true story, this powerful novel looks at the army from an atypical perspective: from the point of view of soldiers’ wives.

It reveals the existence of a little-known unit of elite soldiers: the 13th parachute dragoon regiment.

One August night: Cedric’s scent is still hovering in the air of their bedroom. The elite special-forces soldier has been on a mission for a month and a half now. A month and a half that Clémence, his wife, and their three sons have been waiting for his return.

Just past dawn, a military delegation rings the doorbell. Sergeant Major Cédric Delmas fell into an ambush with five of his comrades-in-arms.

Orig. Title: L’Embuscade Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: HarperCollins France 304 pp. | August 2021 Territory: World excl. French

Alongside other women, other soldier’s wives, Clémence has been drawn unintentionally into France’s secret war in the Levant. She is beset by some nagging questions: what really happened during the ambush? And why is the army being so tight-lipped about

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With subtlety, insight and emotion, L’Embuscade portrays a woman, mother, and spouse’s powerful and courageous battle to learn the truth.

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The author’s career is meaningful: she knows the army from the inside and has interviewed a number of soldiers’ widows. The book has caught the eye of the Ministry of Armies’ Cinema Mission.

Émilie Guillaumin Having studied literature at the Sorbonne and criminology in New York, Émilie Guillaumin spent two years in the French Army, an adventure that inspired her first novel, Féminine. L’Embuscade is her second novel.

PRESS & QUOTES It’s an absolutely brilliant portrait of a woman, an absolutely brilliant portrait of the army. Emilie Guillaumin spent two years in the army, she knows very well what it is like. [When reading L’Embuscade] I felt like I was in an American movie, except it is a French movie.

— F RAN CE 2

This is a second novel of an absolutely remarkable precision and emotion.

— T É L É M AT IN

With sensitivity and emotion, this novel explores shadowy zones in today’s wars and the shockwaves they represent for contemporary souls.

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TRUE CRIME

Crimes and Mysteries of Paris Paul El Kharrat invites you on a terrifying journey through time to discover a legendary and mysterious side of Paris.

Thirty-seven detailed, illustrated chronicles of crimes that took place in Paris; a reader-friendly style with lots of popular references.

The capital of both splendor and fantasy, Paris has always fascinated people. Yet the city also has a dark side: its crimes and mysteries.

A crime and history buff, Paul El Kharrat decided to learn more about the crimes that shocked the City of Lights over the 150 years from the French Revolution to World War

Orig. Title: Crimes et mystères de Paris Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: HarperCollins France 336 pp. | October 2021 Territory: World excl. French

II. Because although murders affect individuals, sometimes they can change the course of history, too.

By exploring the lives of these men and women – determined, blood-thirsty monsters or desperate assassins – Paul El Kharrat indirectly paints a portrait of 19th- and 20th-

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century France. We experience the Terror of the Revolution with Jourdan Coupe-Tête; we meet “Raoul Villain,” the aptly named man who murdered Jean Jaurès; and we

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shiver in Marcel Petiot’s antechamber of death during the Occupation.

Paul El Kharrat

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In the 21st century, this is a major challenge for the human sciences: to bring together the pieces of the puzzle into a coherent whole, to put the pieces of knowledge back together, to regain the momentum of the founders while drawing on the rich material of accumulated knowledge and being guided by the problems and questions of today. Éditions Sciences Humaines ofers readers a state of knowledge in the diferent disciplines that make up the “human sciences” - psychology, communication, philosophy, sociology, history, anthropology, ethnology, education and training, political science, as well as on the various related themes: organizations, the brain, religion, the individual, adolescence, power... Éditions Sciences Humaines is aimed at all those (students, trainers, teachers, decisionmakers, amateurs and the curious) who wish to understand and know the contemporary world and the people who shape it, through demanding and rigorous works but alwaysguided by the concern to preserve the pleasure of reading and discovery.

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PSYCHOLOGY

Psychology of Animals What makes man such an exceptional creature, so unique that some claim we are forged in the image of God himself? We are the only ones to have dreamed of walking on the Moon. The only ones crazy enough to have decided that we were capable of doing it, and to have done it! We are also the only ones capable of making ourselves sick to death by brooding over the things we shouldn’t have done. It is the nature of Orig. Title: Psychologie des animaux Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Sciences Humaines 424 pp. | February 2022 Territory: World excl. French

mankind to wonder what is the nature of our species.

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psychology in general come in, to understand why other

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and how we differ.

And of others!

This is where animal psychology, ethology, and

animals fascinate us, how we are similar to each other,

Jean-François Marmion (ed.)

Jean-François Marmion is a psychologist and former editor-inchief of the journal Le Cercle Psy, and the editor of Psychology of​ Stupidity (translated in the US by Penguin and in 1​9​other countries), Universal History of ​ Stupidity, Psychology of S ​ tupidity in Politics, Psychology of Beautiful and Ugly Ones, and Psychology According to Squid Game. He also wrote the comic book Cervocomix (Les Arènes, 2019).

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The Psycho that Drives You Crazy Psychology is full of diverse and varied practices and sometimes, it must be admitted, borders on the crazy.

This book is both funny and instructive, written in a lively style that will allow you to enter into the heart of the most extreme therapies and psychological experiences while staying warm and cozy on your sofa… or your couch.

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The yoga of laughter Connected meditation Robot therapy The infiltration of a secret society The near-death experience

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SOCIAL SCIENCE

Anthropology Born institutionally with the colonial empires and the advent of nationalism, anthropology has never ceased to search itself. On which string should it pull to understand the diversity of human customs, societies, and cultures? On that of natural history, physical sciences, mental sciences, political or economic sciences?

Fueled by ethnographers, the ideas of anthropology have acquired their autonomy by isolating objects favourable to their deployment as bases for comparison between cultures and societies, and very often, between the Others and ourselves.

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If today these objects are renewed, it is because the picture of the world’s political and cultural otherness has changed since the second half of the 20th century. This is why we felt it was important to take stock of this discipline, which is ultimately poorly known, yet so fundamental. The major currents (functionalism, structuralism, but also cultural ecology and evolutionary psychology…) and the classic objects (kinship, arts, language…) of anthropology, embodied by researchers such as Marcel Mauss, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, Margaret Mead, Françoise Héritier, Philippe Descola, etc., are discussed, as well as its topicality, which is the great asset of this work. The new favorite subjects of anthropology anchored in our present time are thus

Gérald Gaillard

dealt with: tourism, scientific activity, political and memorial rites, or even hot topics

Gérald Gaillard is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Lille 3. He is the author, among others, of Répertoire de l’ethnologie française, 1950-1970 (CNRS Éditions, 2017) and Dictionnaire critique des ethnologies et des anthropologues (Armand Colin, 1997). .

such as artificial intelligence and migrations.

Nicolas Journet Nicolas Journet is an anthropologist and science journalist.

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PHILOSOPHY

Four Questions on Philosophy What can I know?

What should I do?

What can I hope for?

What is humankind?

Kant claimed that these four questions cover almost the entire field of philosophy.

– The first question refers to the theory of knowledge. It can be understood as the search for an ultimate truth, a method for good thinking or as a school of doubt.

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– The second question refers to the meaning we give to our life: do we find it in happiness, the accomplishment of things, or the desire to do good?

– The third question raises the issue of salvation. It leads some to wonder about the existence of eternal salvation, others to hope for a better life.

– Finally, as Kant said at the end of his life, a last question: “What is humankind?” could integrate the previous questions, for this fourth question invites reflection on the human condition.

These four questions will serve as a guide to explore the twists and turns of 2,500 years of philosophy. Each question is a gateway to several possible answers. Each answer is

Jean-François Dortier

illustrated by a reference author, a theory, or a canonical school of thought.

Jean-François Dortier is the founder and director of the magazine Sciences Humaines. He is the author of Humans, Instructions for Use (2009), The Human Being, This Strange Animal (2012). He has edited the Dictionary of Human Sciences (2004, pocket edition 2008) and the Dictionary of Social Sciences (2013), all published by Editions Sciences Humaines.

The different philosophical discourses will therefore be listened to with benevolence, without bias, but without fawning. We will not hesitate to push them to their limits, to underline their weaknesses as well as their absences, teasing them in the process.

For nothing should be more alien to the philosophical spirit than the dogmatic spirit.

In this way, everyone can make their own way and follow their own path.

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PSYCHOLOGY | HISTORY

The History of Psychology in 101 Dates These key references in the history of psychology have one thing in common. What is it?

– To consolidate his power, Louis XIV issued the “Great Renferment” of the insane (or those presumed to be so).

– After the Revolution, Philippe Pinel freed the mentally ill from their chains.

– He then invented the “moral treatment,” the forerunner of psychotherapy, which heals effectively by talking.

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– Sigmund Freud discovered the unconscious.

– Then Anna O.’s recovery inspired him to develop the psychoanalytic cure.

– His Interpretation of Dreams was a huge thunderclap.

– Through its rigor, experimental psychology made us forget the approximations of psychoanalysis.

– Electroshock therapy disappeared.

Jean-François Marmion

What is it? What do they have in common? Here it is: these common assumptions are

Jean-François Marmion is a psychologist and former editor-inchief of the journal Le Cercle Psy, and the editor of Psychology of​ Stupidity (translated in the US by Penguin and in 1​9​other countries), Universal History of S ​ tupidity, Psychology of S ​ tupidity in Politics, Psychology of Beautiful and Ugly Ones, and Psychology According to Squid Game. He also wrote the comic book Cervocomix (Les Arènes, 2019).

complex and nuanced.

all false. The overview we are offering will show you why psychology is much more

In addition, you will learn, for example, that: – The author of the first scientific law in psychology also wrote about the comparative anatomy of angels.

– The Coué method was popular all the way to the White House.

– A dream gave rise to research on REM sleep.

– Neuroleptics were discovered by chance.

– A Harvard psychologist was considered a major threat to the United States.

– A phantom limb is tamed with a cotton swab.

– 549 perversions are said to exist.

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PHILOSOPHY | ILLUSTRATED NF

Plato versus Aristotle A joyful introduction to philosophical controversy Plato and Aristotle… They are two giants, and in a way we are all their children. Even if they lived in antiquity, even if we have not read them, even if we do not know much about them, they still influence our everyday ways of reasoning, imagining, classifying, and arguing. These two immense and different intelligences have built a foundation on Orig. Title: Platon vs Aristote. Une initiation joyeuse à la controverse philosophique Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Sciences Humaines 200 pp. | November 2021 Territory: World excl. French RIG H T S S O LD Greece | Kaktos (auction)

which all Western philosophy has developed. Although they disagreed profoundly, the two of them nevertheless laid the groundwork and established the rules of the game of thought as we have been playing it ever since.

But why spend time with these two philosophers who were just as wrong as the other scholars of their time? Because what we must share with Plato and Aristotle is not their ideas, but the rigorous approach with which they wanted to elaborate them.

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In this book, Luc de Brabandere takes us on a philosophical journey, a joyful initiation, demonstrating that Plato and Aristotle are today, and always have been, essential for

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thinking about the great questions of the world, and that their rigor can shed light on

Luc de Brabandere is a business philosopher, fellow of the BGC Henderson Institute, and author of numerous books, including Petite philosophie des arguments fallacieux (Eyrolles, 2021).

the problems that concern us today and will concern us tomorrow.

Table of contents: Introduction: Learning to think with Plato and Aristotle CHAPTER 1: One territory, many maps CHAPTER 2: The spectacle of change CHAPTER 3: Plato vs Aristotle CHAPTER 4: Sometimes one, sometimes the other CHAPTER 5: The inevitable chessboard CHAPTER 6: Learning to think for yourself CHAPTER 7: Learning to think today Afterword: On the Internet, one cannot learn to learn

Anne Mikolajczak With a background in literature and philology, Anne Mikolajczak has been collaborating with Luc de Brabandere since 1984, both in writing and in the creation of seminars.

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PSYCHOLOGY | HISTORY

Freud’s Patients A Book of Lives Originally published in 2011 in France, the English edition of Freud’s Patients was published in September 2021, which shows the timelessness of the topic. The English edition includes 7 new, additional vignettes written by the author.

Everyone knows the characters described by Freud in his case histories: ‘Dora,’ the ‘Rat Man,’ the ‘Wolf Man.’ But what do we know of the people, the lives behind these famous pseudonyms, Ida Bauer, Ernst Lanzer, Sergius Pankejeff? Do we know the Orig. Title: Les Patients de Freud.

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circumstances that led them to Freud’s consulting room, or how they fared – how they really fared – following their treatments?

And what of those patients about whom Freud wrote nothing, or very little: Pauline Silberstein, who threw herself from the fourth floor of her analyst’s building; Elfriede Hirschfeld, Freud’s ‘grand-patient’ and ‘chief tormentor’; the fashionable architect Karl Mayreder; the psychotic millionaire Carl Liebmann; and so many others?

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In an absorbing sequence of portraits, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen offers the stories of these men and women – some comic, many tragic, all of them deeply moving. In total, thirty-eight lives tell us as much about Freud’s clinical practice as his celebrated case studies, revealing, too, a darker and more complex Freud than is usually portrayed: the doctor as his patients and their friends and families saw him.

Mikkel BorchJacobsen A philosopher by training, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen is a Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington and a leading theorist and historian of psychoanalysis and psychiatry. A regular contributor to the London Review of Books, he is the author of some sixteen titles that have been translated into nine languages.

PRESS & QUOTES Freud’s Patients separates the fact from the fiction with stunning and sobering effect and makes this book a must-read for anyone who wants to know the truth about these cases. It is a landmark publication.

— C HR IS TO PHER BA DCOC K, AU T HO R O F T HE IM PR IN T E D BR AIN

Borch-Jacobsen, one of the world’s great Freud scholars, has done a masterful job in allowing readers to peek behind the curtain and sample the real lives of these illustrious patients.

— ELIZA BET H F. LO FT U S , DIS T INGU IS HED PR O FES S O R , S TA NFO R D UN IV E RS IT Y, A ND AUT HO R O F EYEWIT NE S S T E S T IM O N Y A ND (WIT H KAT HER INE KETC HA M) T HE M YT H OF REPRE S S E D M E M O RY

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LUX is one of the leading independent radical publishing houses in the French-speaking world, with a catalogue that spans social history and political thought in America and Europe – a community of writers who have made unique contributions to understanding and changing the world.

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POLITICS | SOCIETY

Mores From the Cannibal Left to the Vandal Right This book questions the difficulty of conceiving collective emancipation in a world dominated by capitalist technocracy and individualism. Alain Deneault pursues the ideas found in his previous essays La médiocratie Orig. Title: Moeurs. De la gauche cannibale à la droite vandale Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Lux May 2022 Territory: World excl. French

and Politique de l’extrême center. He invites us to break with the dynamics of identity-based quarrels where everyone uses their own conscience as a stick to hit

Alain Deneault Alain Deneault is a writer, philosopher, and academic known for his exposés of off-shore tax havens and mining giants. He is a Director of the Collège international de philosophie in Paris and teaches Sociology at the Université Moncton.

others, and in which everyone seems to let the world run to its ruin, as long as his or her cause and interest

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advance here and now. He deplores the degradation of important categories into slogans and clichés, and

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reminds us that underneath these debates lie precious issues and desires that must be urgently brought out of the rubble.

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Mediocracy

The Politics of the Extreme Center

In this book, Alain Deneault offers an incisive and at times caustic analysis of the reign of

“What is to be done?” Lenin’s question once

mediocrity, which sterilizes the human mind

initiated reflections for building a new order. It

by spreading a reckless love for cultural and

is now rhetorical: Tell me I can’t do anything as

political tepidness. Mediocrity is a social order

I don’t have the strength to actively engage in

that permanently threatens to collapse in the

the act of resistance the circumstances call for.

middle.

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We pitifully look for a De Gaulle to respond to,

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or a Ghandi to massively imitate — but each of us in his own corner. At this stage of political dereliction, indeed, what is to be done? Stop the indignation and move on to the next question.

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HISTORY | SOCIETY

Letters to a Black Woman In the France of the 1960s, hundreds of young girls and women arrived from the West Indies to become domestic servants for white, bourgeois families. Everything about the relationship between these maids and their employers is reminiscent of slavery: the state agency that organises their recruitment, the exhausting and endless tasks, the deplorable living conditions, the racism, and the sexual and racial division of labor.

Françoise Ega, a typist and mother from Martinique, arrived in Marseille in the mid1950s. There, she heard stories of “girls from her country” that were so incredible and scandalous that she decided to check them out for herself. She then worked as a cleaning lady, an “experience” that she recorded in this posthumously published diary,

Orig. Title: Lettres à une Noire Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Lux 200 pp. | October 2021 Territory: World excl. French & Portuguese

in a style that is as moving as it is strikingly realistic.

This text is as much an intimate narrative as it is a piece of combat literature. It is a plea against racism and for black sisterhood, community support, and true social

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equality.

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Preface by Elsa Dorlin

Françoise Ega

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Françoise Ega (1920-1976) was a Martinican worker, writer, and social activist known for her participation in the struggle for equality.

Her writing is unapologetic about reality and absolutely brilliant in its social and political analysis.

— R IC HA R D GO D IN , L IBÉ RAT IO N

Neither entirely reduced to her status of housemaid, nor entirely fooled by her wish to assume that of a writer, Françoise Ega remains a free, irreducible conscience. Just like her writing, full of opens spaces and play.

— JU LIET T E CE RF , T É L É RAM A

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Founded in March 2017 with the publication of L’Impérial Socialiste by Didier Van Cauwelaert a.k.a Louis Badinguet, Massot Éditions is a generalist publishing house that accompanies evolutions in society, whether practical, scientific, or spiritual, and provides the tools to participate in this change.

Massot Éditions is directed by Florent Massot, independent editor for 35 years and discoverer of numerous authors in France. With this new house, he is continuing his lifelong commitment to publishing works that create breakthroughs and build bridges to help everyone get through the world’s crises. He also always aimed to create a space where up-and-coming generations of writers can express themselves.

The publishing house intends to publish 20 to 30 titles per year in a variety of novels, essays, and comic strips. The catalogue is multifaceted, as is current social change. That’s why you will find a range of options from calls to action – like the Dalai Lama’s A Call for Revolution, The Crazy Toad Manifesto, and How We’re Going to Save the World for Climate Justice – to militant-feminist comics and graphic novels, like the Another Look on... series by the blogger Emma, and Zainab Fasiki’s Hshouma, as well as disturbing texts like Juan Branco’s Crepuscule, co-published with Le Diable Vauvert.

But Massot Editions’ books also accompany our inner evolutions, like Malory Malmasson’s Soul Dating,

and

explore

the

invisible

world:

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by Patrick Burensteinas and Go You Know Not Where by Laurence de La Baume.

Extraordinary reading experiences are also proposed, from a metaphysical novel (Pascal Bacqué’s two volumes) to a deep-learning textbook, which was translated into French by A.I. These texts will make people think, shake them up, and inspire them.

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FICTION

King Sacrifice The true novel of Bobby Fisher

KING SACRIFICE

Fifty years later, this novel reveals one of the best-kept secrets of the 20th century: the one behind the fall of Bobby Fischer, crowned king of chess in 1972, while the Cold

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War was raging.

The world chess champion title – a symbol of intellectual excellence – turned into one of the stakes during the Cold War. In the shadow of their respective secret services, two

A TRUE NOVEL

nations clashed, not on 64 squares, but through machinations targeting the reigning champion, the American Bobby Fischer, considered the greatest player of all time.

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This book reveals the heinous ploy put into place by the Kremlin to defeat the man who had humiliated the Soviet Union in 1972 by snatching the supreme title away from Boris Spassky. In 1975, that state-led conspiracy led Fischer to abandon his title without even facing Anatoly Karpov, a match at which simply sitting down opposite his challenger would have earned him $5 million, a colossal sum at the time.

Had Bobby Fischer lost his taste for life? Had he lost his mind? Was he afraid of Anatoly Karpov? The truth is far more frightening. It will have taken nearly 50 years to resolve

Audiovisual rights have been optioned by a major Hollywood studio.

the mystery, and an entire life of determination, knowledge, and lucky coincidences for the author to be able to deliver this gripping tale. The parabolic trajectory of a boy

Livie Hoemmel (pseud.)

from Brooklyn who became an international idol in the world of chess, who spent time

From a very young age, the author of this book was initiated into both mathematics and chess by his father, who was also a serious chess player.

Together they would analyze games played by grandmasters, with a particular interest in those of the greatest of them all: Bobby Fischer.

Nearly a half a century ago, the author promised his stunned father – who was almost grief-stricken in 1975, after Fischer’s fall – that he would solve the mystery someday.

With access to the worlds of both high-level chess and intelligence services, the author was able to pursue his investigation. After two decades of chipping away at the enigma, he uncovered proof that the little boy from Brooklyn who had been crowned World Champion had not lost his mind, as they tried to make us believe. He had actually been the victim of an extraordinary government conspiracy that led to his downfall.

in the spotlight before slipping back into the shadows. In this irresistible page-turner and emotional novel, the author leads us from the chess boards of Central Park to the orphanages and psychiatric wards of the Soviet Union, from the halls of the Kremlin to behind the scenes at the most important chess championships on the planet, all the way through to the wildest game of them all, which has remained shrouded from view until now.

They say that behind every great man is a great woman. That goes for the man’s fall, too. Recruited by a mysterious Kremlin cell that included both Leonid Brezhnev and Yuri Andropov and whose existence is revealed in this book for the first time, Olga is the embodiment of Russian genius at its apogee. She would bring the greatest chess player the planet had ever known to his knees by challenging him on the chessboard of life. This book describes the king of chess’s sacrifice for his queen. The titanic battle between those two heroic figures shook the world as we knew it. Through that battle, the author gives the chess world its honor back, and rehabilitates its deposed king, the

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LITERARY FICTION

All My Lovers’ Wives “Married men can’t help talking about their wives. I knew their secrets, their troubles, while they knew nothing at all about me. I was invisible. I had always liked that, to feel invisible.”

A writer receives a series of messages from a mysterious correspondent who claims to be one of three women, the wives of the married men with whom she has had affairs.

She begins to write about the experience as it unfolds in real time, reflecting on her intimate knowledge of these women and the intimate culture of adultery in which they exist. Curiosity becomes compulsion. As the writer tries to discover which of the

Orig. Title: All My Lovers’ Wives Orig. Language: English Orig. Publisher: Massot Editions 292 pp. | May 2022 Territory: World excl. French and English

women it is, the messages become darker and more threatening.

Danger or paranoia? Honesty or expiation? As the situation becomes nightmarishly taut, the reader must determine the stakes along with the writer in a scathingly forensic

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account of the hypocrisies of modern life as lived by a contemporary woman.

Gripping, dark, unnerving and transgressive, the story has been described as “totally

One of the author’s previous work, “Maestra”, is optioned by Sony and sold as a series to HBO.

compelling,” “hypnotic,” and “addictive yet repulsive.”

In a culture where no one can remain invisible, All My Lovers’ Wives is a ruthless exposure of married men and the secrets they continue to keep.

L.S. Hilton As L.S. Hilton, Lisa Hilton has authored the Maestra Series (Bonnier Zaffre), Maestra (2016), Domina (2017) and Ultima (2018). Maestra was a number one Sunday Times Bestseller, a New York Times bestseller and a number one bestseller in 8 European territories. To date, it is on sale in 43 countries, and 1 million copies have been sold worldwide. Lisa has often taken inspiration from the lives of women who shaped the world, and has written six historical biographies: Athenais: The Real Queen of France (Little, Brown, 2002 – shortlisted for the Somerset Maugham Prize), The Horror of Love (Orion, 2011), Elizabeth, Renaissance Prince (Orion, 2014), The House with Blue Shutters (Atlantic, 2010 – shortlisted for the Commonwealth Fiction Prize), and a history of art book, The Death of Cleopatra (Skira, 2017).

“I wanted to push myself, to try at least to make something brave, and the subject of this book is something which is all around us and yet which no one ever talks about in detail. Were I to write it as a conventional thriller, it might be assumed it was a roman à clef, but this way as an ‘auto-fiction’ it has real edge.” — Lisa Hilton

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GRAPHIC NOVEL

Super Cyprine A Corrosive Vengeance Cyprine is a teenager growing up in a small suburb of Dijon. She likes boys (a lot), athletics, and chatting with her friend Sara, and she’s also top of her class – a bright future seems to beckon. Once she has her baccalauréat, she begins to study medicine, but her heart is not really in it. And she has a secret that is ruining her life: her cyprine (vaginal fluid) is corrosive – all the men she has touched have had their skin burned and have ended up in the hospital. So overnight, she decides to leave her parents, home city, and university behind to head for Paris. The young woman works as barmaid in an Orig. Title: Super Cyprine. Une vengeance corrosive Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Massot Editions 144 pp. | May 2022 Territory: World excl. French

offbeat cabaret called ‘Mme Joséphine’ in the heart of Pigalle and strikes up friendships with the dancers and nighttime artists.

But all alone in the capital, Cyprine is also vulnerable to harassment and violence at

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the hands of men. Finally, after one insult too many, she decides to make use of her cyprine. Why not use this power she has to avenge women?

Featuring contemporary-style drawings and an appealing imaginary world, this is the coming-of-age tale of a heroine who tries to fight on behalf of women as she carves out her own place in society.

Tess Kinski Tess Kinski is a feminist author and illustrator. After being harassed in the street, she came up with the idea for a vengeful female superhero with a destructive superpower. She took up the comic book form specifically to tell this story. She lives in the heart of the Grenoble mountains.

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A politically engaged graphic novel that denounces sexual harassment and the daily acts of violence perpetrated against women.

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The first volume of a series that has all the ingredients for success: the Montmartre district, adolescence and sexual awakening, colourful characters and superpowers.

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A young illustrator who is a rising star, with lots of followers on social media and a book launch that will be strongly promoted.

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Massot’s reputation for discovering new talent: after Emma and Zainab Fasiki, they are now publishing the first comic book by this author.

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ESSAY

War Games French Corruption and the Hidden Face of Terrorism An explosive investigation!

On the night of 13-14 November 2015, three Islamist terrorist cells attacked Paris.

Orig. Title: Jeux de guerre.

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For the perpetrators, it was the culmination of meticulously planned operation; for the rest of us, it was a consequence of the moral turpitude of our leaders.

Marc Eichinger Marc Eichinger was a head trader for banks and now runs his own investigative and security firm called APIC, which protects companies operating in hostile environments.

The Areva affair brought his investigative activities to the attention of a wider public.

Who are the European accomplices of these terrorists?

How could oil companies take part in this deadly trade while being well aware of what was at stake? What did the government and the intelligence services know?

And why was nothing done to dismantle these criminal networks?

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The Man Who Knew Far Too Much A Secret Agent at the Heart of the Areva Scandal Trader, fighter, secret agent… Who really is Marc Eichinger? All of those things at once, you might say. In early 2011, Marc Eichinger, a specialist in mines and finance, was running a consultancy firm called APIC when Areva’s holdings department asked him to audit the company’s purchase of Uramin. What he found was explosive. In this book, he describes his investigation, which took him to Kazakhstan, India, and Russia.

Orig. Title: L’homme qui en savait beaucoup trop. Un agent secret au coeur du scandale d’Areva 300 pp. | 2020

PRESS & QUOTES An affair of state.

— ART E

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Created in 2009, Editions de l’Opportun publish 60 non-fiction titles per year. The main subjects covered in our books are history, humor, pop culture, pets and personal development. With this wide range of topics, the motto of Editions de l’Opportun is: discover, laugh and surprise!

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How to Live Like Batman The Dark Knight becomes your personal coach!

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A new film release in March 2022

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25 life lessons to live your daily life better

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Be inspired by one of the most famous superheroes

What if Batman became your best coach? Superhero by night, philanthropist by day, devoid of superpowers, Batman is the most popular character in the DC Comics universe. Endowed with foolproof self-control and a strong

Orig. Title: Agir et penser comme Batman Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun 216 pp. | February 2022 Territory: World excl. French MATER IAL AVA IL AB LE French MS

Gwendal Fossois Pop culture specialist Gwendal Fossois has sought to explore philosophy and culture through Star Wars, Batman, The Little Prince, and more.

sense of morality, Batman (alias Bruce Wayne) is your best ally!

Gwendal Fossois offers you 25 life lessons to accept your inner Bruce and become a vigilante in your daily life!

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How to Think Like Hannibal Lecter • A unique personal development book: what if we were inspired by a villain?

Orig. Title: Agir et penser comme Hannibal Lecter Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun 208 pp. | March 2022 Territory: World excl. French MATER IAL AVAIL AB LE French MS

• 30 recipes in order to decipher the legendary cannibal of cinema On the menu of this book, the in-depth exploration of one of the most legendary characters in cinema. Stéphane Garnier invites you to follow in the footsteps of Hannibal Lecter, the gourmet monster, to draw inspiration not from his actions, but from his mind. Perhaps the cannibal’s strange psyche could tell you a bit more about yourself, your relationship to the world, and what you’d like to do (or not do)?

By the author of How to Live Like Your Cat – 300,000 copies sold.

Stéphane Garnier Stéphane Garnier is an author and a columnist. His other experience includes: sound-engineer, web designer and financial adviser. Since then, because he decided to be happy, he devoted himself entirely to his life-long passion: writing as a novelist, essayist and songwriter. He is the author of the best-seller How to Live Like Your Cat.

To be enjoyed without moderation!

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How to Live Like the Queen of England What would the Queen of England do in my place?

She is the longest reigning monarch, a woman of power

Orig. Title: Agir et penser comme la reine d’Angleterre Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun 240 pp. | January 2022 Territory: World excl. French MATER IAL AVA IL AB LE French MS

who enjoys being in the field, a committed citizen, a wife, a mother, a grandmother and a great-grandmother… The Queen of England wears, in addition to the crown, several hats that attract admiration!

Tenacious, cultured, resilient, Elizabeth II has a lot to teach

Lucaci Dorica Fascinated by animals and history, Dorica Lucaci is also a proof-reader for many publishing houses.

you. Dorica Lucaci, passionate about history, does honor to this popular and brilliant figure. She analyses her main characters traits, her successes and failures, in order to help you better live your everyday life and get inspired by the longest reigning monarch! Discreet, but stylish, loving yet unyielding, natural yet iconic…the Queen of England never ceases to amaze you!

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How to Live Like Plato Wise, intellectual, and fair, Plato is an unmissable philosopher. Take inspiration from his ideas every day to become the best version of yourself!

Orig. Title: Agir et penser comme Platon Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun 152 pp. | June 2022 Territory: World excl. French MATER IAL AVA IL AB LE French MS

Nathanaël Masselot is a Philosophy PhD, a teacher, and a philotherapist. He relies on the thought but also on the life of Plato to feed this personal development book.

How to Live Like Plato is a powerful and timeless life lesson.

Nathanaël Masselot Nathanaël Masselot is a Philosophy PhD, a teacher, and a philotherapist.

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AGIR ET PENSER COMME HOW TO LIVE LIKE

A collection translated in 35 languages and in 38 territories

+ 800 000 copies sold all over the world

Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada (French), Catalan, China, Czech Republic, English UK, English US, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam.

Titles available Your cat (Seasons 1 & 2) Darth Vader Knights of the Zodiac Animals James Bond Nietzsche Wonder Woman Tyrion Lannister

New titles Coco Chanel Batman Roger Federer Le Petit Prince® Arsène Lupin A Zen Master The Queen of England Freud Harry Potter

Hannibal Lecter Greek Heroines A tree Mandalorian Jesus Plato

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How to Live Like Freud The human brain aims to create sense: we make assumptions about the intentions of people we meet. We tend to establish links between causes and effects, which are sometimes not justified. But when faced with our dreams or our Freudian slips, we don’t necessarily know how to react. This is where Freud takes action. He helps us find meaning where we see “disorder.” Freud helps us find items of interest in things that seem, at first glance,

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uninteresting.

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How to Live Like a Zen Master Find out about impermanence with Bodhidharma, happy sobriety with Dogen, good and evil with Ikkyu, determination,

perseverance,

and

patience

with

Hakuin, compassion with Ryokan …

François Busson has practiced Zen for more than 40 years. He leads you on the path of wisdom thanks to

Orig. Title: Agir et penser comme un maître zen Orig. Language: French Author: François Busson Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun 224 pp. | October 2021 Territory: World excl. French MATER IAL AVA IL AB LE French MS # OF COPIES SO LD 3,500+ R IGH TS SOL D Italy | Odoya Romania | Niculescu

six different Zen masters. United by one philosophy of life, they will be your best coaches to beat the odds.

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How to Live Like Harry Potter The most famous wizard in the world becomes your coach! Fighting against evil forces, turning his friends into his family, honest, hardworking, and brave. Able to face the worst trials and to pick himself back up after falling. Harry Potter is a hero who has a lot to teach you!

He knows what he wants and is willing to take great risks when necessary. Nothing is too hard to face when you are surrounded by your friends!

Orig. Title: Agir et penser comme Harry Potter Orig. Language: French Author: Carla Schiappa-Burdet Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun 192 pp. | October 2021 Territory: World excl. French MATER IAL AVA IL AB LE French MS # OF COPIES SO LD 10,000+ R IGH TS SOL D Netherlands | Kosmos Hungary | Partvonal Kiadó Italy | Odoya Romania | Niculescu

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Psychology According to Squid Game More than just a series, Squid Game has become a phenomenon. Aesthetic for some, purely scandalous for others, Squid Game is a machine that questions us about human psychology, its forces, and its depths.

Hwang Dong-Hyuk has hit the nail on the head! Discover the psychological keys to global success Squid Game, which

Orig. Title: La psychologie selon Squid Game Orig. Language: French Author: Jean-François Marmion Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun 144 pp. | March 2022 Territory: World excl. French MATER IAL AVAIL AB LE French MS

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has not finished spilling as much ink as blood…

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Psychology According to Star Wars

Orig. Title: La psychologie selon star wars Orig. Language: French Author: Jean-François Marmion Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun 200 pp. | April 2022 Territory: World excl. French

Discover psychology through the work of George Lucas.

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Embark on a fun and intergalactic journey!

Jean-François

Marmion

offers

you

a

brand-new

understanding of Star Wars through psychology: a poetic, political trilogy, Star Wars is a story that highlights real psychological precepts.

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Friendship According to the Series FRIENDS The secrets of friendship thanks to the cult series!

Orig. Title: L’amitié selon Friends Orig. Language: French Author: Gisèle Foucher Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun 160 pp. | February 2022 Territory: World excl. French MATER IAL AVA IL AB LE French MS

Build and keep your friendships with advice from your favorite characters.

We all dream of a friendship that stands the test of time. Gisèle Foucher offers you an analysis of the concept of friendship and its decryption based on the most timeless series!

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Mythology According to Star Wars Star Wars was built on mythology. George Lucas himself admitted it. The objective is twofold: to better understand the strengths of a saga that became an emblem in pop culture and in the cinema and to immerse ourselves in the stories of the ancients that have accompanied us since

Orig. Title: La mythologie selon Star Wars Orig. Language: French Author: Gwendal Fossois Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun 160 pp. | June 2022 Territory: World excl. French MATER IAL AVAIL AB LE French MS

childhood.

Prepare your lightsaber and embark on the ship to explore the magic of myth, the quest for the fundamental hero, the Manichean struggle between the Force and the legendary icons that populate the story.

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Mythology According to The Lord of the Rings Tolkien is the father of modern fantasy. But what are his influences? Which myths accompanied him during the writing? What stories from Scandinavian mythology can

Orig. Title: La mythologie selon Le Seigneur des Anneaux Orig. Language: French Author: Ian Ferry Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun 192 pp. | May 2022 Territory: World excl. French MATER IAL AVA IL AB LE French MS

we relate to its elves, goblins, trolls, and all the wonderful creatures who inhabit Middle-earth? Where did his white mages and the terrible Sauron come from? How did he build his elven and runic alphabet, his cosmology, and everything that makes The Lord of the Rings a brilliant and eternal series?

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Genetics Explained by Naruto, Jurassic Park… & the Superheroes The collective imaginary feeds on scientific advances.

Fantastic mutant monsters, terrifying hybrids, modified or

Orig. Title: La génétique expliquée par Naruto, Jurassic Park… & les super-héros Orig. Language: French Author: Alex Fouilleroux Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun 208 pp. | February 2022 Territory: World excl. French MATER IAL AVA IL AB LE French MS

improved human beings - fiction constantly uses science and genetic codes to build more or less real universes.

Alex Fouilleroux invites you to learn the (long) history of genetics, heredity, and DNA by taking concrete examples of fiction such as Avatar, the X-Men, and many others…

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Philosophy According to Naruto The philosophy hidden in the work of Masashi Kishimoto decrypted!

For the 20th anniversary of Naruto, discover the main philosophical principles deciphered in the famous manga.

Orig. Title: La philosophie selon Naruto Orig. Language: French Author: Arnaud Jahan Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun 336 pp. | March 2022 Territory: World excl. French MATER IAL AVAIL AB LE French MS

Philosophize with your favorite manga!

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Philosophy According to The Little Prince

Orig. Title: Philosophie du Petit Prince. Sagesse, identité et bonheur Orig. Language: French Author: Gwendal Fossois Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun 160 pp. | September 2021 Territory: World excl. French

A great initiatory book, The Little Prince is one of the most

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inspiring works of literature. But did you know that it is full of philosophical references? Ephemerality, spiritual loneliness,

imagination,

absurdity,

and

humanism

are concepts that we find in the famous tale by Saint-

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Philosophy According to Squid Game Squid Game is a phenomenon. A tangy and ultraviolent

universe.

A

“democracy”

that

accepts

servitude, cruelty, violence, and death.

What value can be given to human existence? How can it be trusted? Can democracy lead to servitude? With

Orig. Title: La philosophie selon Squid Game Orig. Language: French Author: Olivier Dhilly Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun 128 pp. | April 2022 Territory: World excl. French MATER IAL AVA IL AB LE French MS

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the help of Rousseau, Kant, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Hobbs… Let’s try to answer all these philosophical questions (and many others) posed by Squid Game.

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Freud and the Superheroes How are the masked identities of our favorite vigilantes constructed?

Superman, Wonder Woman, the X-Men, Spider-Man, the

Orig. Title: Freud et les super-héros Orig. Language: French Author: Anthony Huard Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun 320 pp. | February 2022 Territory: World excl. French MATER IAL AVAIL AB LE French MS

Invisible Woman… All these characters with superpowers that make us fantasize are finally lying on Doctor Freud’s famous couch to explore their flaws and their complexes (and ours!).

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Back to the Future 350 Secrets & Fun Facts 350 anecdotes and filming secrets about one of the most beloved cult sagas!

Orig. Title: Retour vers le futur: 350 secrets & anectodes Orig. Language: French Author: Chris Pavone Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun 169 pp. | February 2022 Territory: World excl. French MATER IAL AVAIL AB LE French MS

Discover the filming secrets of Back to the Future! Chris Pavone reveals 350 filming anecdotes from the hit trilogy.

Become unbeatable on your favorite saga! An essential book for all pop culture fans.

ANIMALS | HUMOR

Cat-astrophe!

153 Murphy’s Laws for Cats 153 fundamental laws for understanding your cat.

A cat’s life is litter-ally not as simple as we thought.

Cats also suffer from Murphy’s law. Ziggy, the very

Orig. Title: Chat suffit ! 153 lois de l’emmerdement maximal du chat Orig. Language: French Author: Ziggy Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun 120 pp. | April 2022 Territory: World excl. French MATER IAL AVAIL AB LE French MS

famous feline narrator from the bestseller How to Live Like a Cat has compiled for you 153 laws for cats.

To put in everyone’s paws!

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LIFESTYLE

The Secrets of the Japanese Way of Life Enjoy the secrets of Japanese manners to stay zen. What is Japanese etiquette? Which values define and represent Japan? What does it mean to “be Japanese”? Explore the four main principles of the secret to Japanese wellness: the ‘mujō,’ the praise of impermanence, the ‘wa,’ the quest for harmony, the ‘wabi sabi,’ the praise of starkness, and

Orig. Title: Les secrets du savoir-vivre nippon. Adoptez la japoniture Orig. Language: French Author: June Fujiwara Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun 180 pp. | October 2021 Territory: World excl. French MATER IAL AVAIL AB LE French MS # OF COPIES SO LD 5,000+

even the ‘okiyome’, the ritual of purification.

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I Don’t Give a F***!

Orig. Title: Je m’en fou ! Libérezvous Orig. Language: French Author: Sabine Duhamel Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun 224 pp. | April 2022 Territory: World excl. French

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Free Yourself

Enjoy the present, think positive, press pause, relax, think about yourself…

Stress, tiredness, lack of self-confidence… all of these are

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burdens that we carry around in our daily lives. You have to learn how to not give a damn thanks to methods that will give you the keys.

Sabine Duhamel helps you to let go in order to focus on the essentials and be more serene in your everyday life.

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The Last Mysteries of Lovecraft

An unprecedented investigation into the mysteries of Lovecraft.

Known for his fantasy, horror, and science fiction tales, Lovecraft is an American writer, creator of the literary myth

Orig. Title: Les derniers mystères de Lovecraft Orig. Language: French Author: Christian Doumergue Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun 320 pp. | January 2022 Territory: World excl. French MATER IAL AVA IL AB LE French MS

of Chthulhu. Almost unknown in his lifetime, Lovecraft has become an essential reference. But behind the writer of supernatural stories, there are mysteries. Lovecraft would have had access to secret knowledge transmitted within occult groups. Christian Doumergue offers you a new investigation into the mysteries of Lovecraft and offers you a real “passing through the mirror.”

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HISTORY

The Monsters of History Rediscover history through its greatest monsters…

Politicians, soldiers, intellectuals… all the monsters in this book are stirred up by the ambition to dominate and

Orig. Title: Les Monstres de l’histoire Orig. Language: French Author: Philippe Valode Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun 320 pp. | April 2022 Territory: World excl. French MATER IAL AVAIL AB LE French MS

the taste for blood. Discover, through these portraits, all the dark characters who marked their names in history with a hot iron… through horror.

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

(Real) Science or (False) Belief?

Orig. Title: Médiums, (vraie) science ou (fausses) croyances ?

Orig. Language: French Author: Patrick Sbalchiero Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun 300 pp. | April 2022 Territory: World excl. French

What is a medium? What are they most often accused of?

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Psychics

What is the difference between mediumship and spiritism?

Patrick Sbalchiero is a historian. He offers you a real study on psychics so you can form your own opinion.

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

“What Death Told Me…” The Incredible Confessions of an Embalmer Near-death

experiences,

levitation,

unexplained

Orig. Title: “Ce que la mort m’a dit”.

Les incroyables confessions d’un embaumeur Orig. Language: French Author: Olivier Emphoux Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun 192 pp. | February 2022 Territory: World excl. French MATER IAL AVAIL AB LE French MS

phenomena related to death and the afterlife… Olivier Emphoux tells of his incredible destiny with death, which led him to become an embalmer. He also describes the paranormal experiences he has faced.

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