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www.allary-editions.fr 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 60 titles published by Allary Éditions, there have been over 220 translations.

Our authors: Non-Fiction: Matthias Debureaux, Raphaël Glucksmann, Alexandre Lacroix, JeanNoël Liaut, Charles Pépin, Marylène Patou-Mathis, Pascal Picq, Bernard Pivot, Matthieu Ricard...

Fiction: Diane Brasseur, Jérôme Colin, Slimane Kader, Florent Oiseau, Jean Vautrin...

Graphic Novel: Riad Sattouf

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Essay | Psychology | Spirituality

Inner Freedom!

After the tremendous success of Three Friends in Search of Wisdom (Allary Editions/L’Iconoclaste, 2016, 450,000+ copies sold, rights sold to 12 territories) Christophe André, Alexandre Jollien and Matthieu Ricard are back with a new book, inspired, inspiring and useful, on one of the central themes of the human condition: inner freedom. This book presents a methodical path to leave our inner prisons and become available for service to all. “Here’s the task,” says Alexandre, “to zero in on our neuroses, the nails that paralyse us, so that we no longer burden others with the weight of our own blindness, for freedom always involves others.”

Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk and a photographer.

Alexandre Jollien is a philosopher and author of works whose reading public continues to grow. Christophe André is a psychiatric physician and one of France’s finest specialists in the field of the psychology of emotions.

Orig. Title: À nous la liberté !

Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions/Editions de l’Iconoclaste 530 pp. | January 2019 Territories handled by 2 Seas: World English, Dutch, Portuguese, Brazilian, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Icelandic, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Albanian, Croatian, Czech, Slovakian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Greek, Turkish, Arabic and Hebrew.

All other rights handled by Les Editions de l’Iconoclaste Rights Sold Romania, World English, Italy, Brazil 120,000+ copies sold #1 in the Bestseller List

Debut Novel | Literary Fiction

The Dedication

Her debut novel is about to be sent to the printers, but this author still can’t decide who to dedicate it to.

She has lunch with her mother, but realises that she doesn’t like her enough for a dedication; she meets up with a friend, goes to a party, pops into a bookshop, bumps into neighbours, sets out after a stranger… And gets nowhere. Like every other evening, she makes her way back to her apartment building in the north of Paris, which, like everywhere else, is home to a thousand solitudes. With the disillusionment and dark humor of a female Houellebecq, Leila Bouherrafa presents a ruthlessly accurate vision of the world.

Orig. Title: La Dédicace Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 290 pp. | January 2019 Territory: World excl. French

First print run: 4,000 copies

Leila Bouherrafa is 29 years old. She lives and works in Paris. The Dedication (La Dédicace) is her first novel.

Literary Fiction

The Battlefield This is the story of a couple pushed to a breaking point by the repeated offenses launched by their fifteenyear-old son. They have done nothing wrong. But war has broken out. And they are not ready. The school gives up and the father spins out of control, while the mother is trying desperately to calm everyone down.

Jérôme Colin is the host of Hep taxi, a weekly show on national Belgian TV. He also hosts Entrez sans frapper, a daily cultural program on national Belgian radio, and is a journalist for the weekly magazine Moustique. He published his first novel Avoiding Tolls (Évitez les péages) in 2015.

Orig. Title: Le Champ de bataille Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 220 pp. | March 2018 Territory: World excl. French Rights Sold Netherlands, Italy, Czech Republic, Romania 10,000+ copies sold

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Essay

The Noble Art of the Quarrel

Finding inspiration in well-known quarrels, this hilarious guide explains how to fall out with your friends for life. By staging famous cheerful and erudite friendships that have become stubborn rancors, this guide raises the quarrel to the rank of the fine arts. An art to be practiced with stabs and repartees, which are as funny as they are lethal.

Matthias Debureaux is the editor-in-chief of Citizen K magazine. His previous book, How to Bore People with Your Travel Stories (De l’art d’ennuyer en racontant ses voyages, Allary Éditions, 2015), unfortunately became a bestseller.

Orig. Title: Le noble art de la brouille Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 100 pp.

June 2018 Territory: World excl. French Rights Sold Germany 5,000+ copies sold

Essay | Biography

Alexandre Grothendieck Alexandre Grothendieck, who died in 2014, was seen by his peers as the last true mathematical genius. He invented modern geometry and left thousands of pages of notes that may contain keys to human existence. For over 25 years, he lived a solitary existence in a small village in the foothills of the Pyrenees, refusing all contact with his ex-fellow mathematicians, ex-wives and lovers, former students and even his own children.

Nevertheless, Philippe Douroux is able to tell this misanthropic genius’s life story.

Philippe Douroux is a journalist for Libération. With a long-term fascination for Grothendieck’s work and his life story, he spent several weeks in the village of Lasserre, observing the mathematician.

Orig. Title: Alexandre Grothendieck: Sur les traces du dernier génie des mathématiques Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 272 pp.

February 2016 Territory: World excl. French 12,000+ copies sold • 2016 Prix LiRE (Best Science Book)

Narrative Non-Fiction | Travel Writing

Climbing Mont Blanc When Jean-Christophe Rufin and Sylvain Tesson take an editor who suffers from vertigo up to an altitude of 4800 m, climbing Mont Blanc becomes an adventure marked by literature and friendship. This book tells the story of this climb. A mountain climbing story, of course, but also a story of friendship, a portrait of two magnificent writers, and a rule for living: never give up on your childhood dreams.

Ludovic Escande is an editor of French literature at Gallimard where he publishes Sylvain Tesson, among others. He is a member of the Gallimard reading committee and director of the Arpenteur collection.

Orig. Title: L’Ascension du mont Blanc Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 150 pp. | August 2017 Territory: World excl. French Rights Sold Italy, Germany, Korea, Netherlands, China 22,000+ copies sold

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Essay The Children of the Void. Breaking away from the Impasse of Individualism

dans ma vie. ristesses. Être quinze ans. s’épanouira. l’urgence de

radiophoniques Fallois, 2015) es miroirs de

Raphaël Glucksmann is a journalist and film director.

He is the author of Generation Hangover. A manual to fight against reactionaries, Our France – To tell and love what we are and The Children of the Void which has met with success with both critics and readers and positioned him as the most influential intellectual of his generation.

Rights Sold Germany, Greece, Italy

With a View below the Sea An exceptional testimony in which the author recounts his life as a modern slave in the hold of a gigantic cruise ship. One morning, Slimane Kader decides to get a job on a cruise ship in the Caribbean Sea. He ends up being a handyman in a floating city, which carries 8,000 passengers. 6,000 of them have a view of the sea: the tourists. The other 2,000 live below sea level. They are modern slaves, whose task it is to meet the desires of the upper floors.

Literary Fiction

Territory: World excl. French 60,000+ copies sold

After having lived in Seine Saint Denis, near Paris, Slimane Kader signed up two years ago to go work on cruise ships in the Caribbean Sea. With a View Below the Sea is being adapted to the big screen.

Orig. Title: Avec vue sous la mer Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 262 pp. | March 2014 Territory: World excl. French German translation available Rights Sold Korea, Germany, Taiwan Film adaptation by M6 Film International, shooting in 2019 5,000+ copies sold

Suzanne’s Mirrors SOPHIE LEMP

LES MIROIRS DE SUZANNE SOPHIE LEMP

ses pensées. e poubelle et e ramèneront

Orig. Title: Les enfants du vide.

Sortons de l’impasse de l’individualisme Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 220 pp. | October 2018

Narrative Non-Fiction

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e, un mari et st cambriolé. ont disparu. ain qui avait ncandescent,

Raphaël Glucksmann questions the lack of a collective outlook in the generations that have grown up in individualistic societies. “If our elders were born into a society that was saturated with meaning, we were born into the void. Their mission was to break the chains. Our own will be to reforge the connections.

Democracy is based on the rights of the individual, but not exclusively. Our generation has the task of dealing with the rest, too long neglected: the rights of the group. Because if we do not, the most authoritarian forces will do it for us.” — Raphaël Glucksmann

LES MIROIRS DE SUZANNE ROMAN

A novel about memory, adolescence and first love.

Suzanne is forty, she leads a quiet life with her husband and two children. One morning, their apartment is burgled and her teenage diary is nowhere to be found. Martin is a delivery man. Riding his bike around the city helps him think. One evening, Martin finds Suzanne’s diary in the garbage bin. The words strike him as he devours the book… and through the book he comes back to life.

Orig. Title: Les miroirs de Suzanne Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 200 pp.

March 2019 Territory: World excl. French

Sophie Lemp is a novelist and author of radio drama for France Culture. After Le Fil (Éditions de Fallois, 2015) and Their Separation (Allary Éditions, 2017), Suzanne’s Mirrors is her third novel.

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Biography

Nancy Mitford. The Lady of Rue Monsieur

Enriched with hitherto unpublished testimonies, this biography of Nancy Mitford plunges us into the intellectual and artistic hub of Paris in the 1950s and 1960s.

Thanks to hitherto unpublished testimonies from two of the Mitford sisters, Jean-Noël Liaut casts new light on the story of Nancy Mitford. Transporting us to rue Monsieur, where Nancy’s salon was one of the spiritual hubs of 1950’s Paris, he presents a plethora of anecdotes, jokes, unusual situations and extraordinary characters, all part of the “Mitford spirit”.

Jean-Noël Liaut is a writer and translator. He has published several biographies including The Many Lives of Miss K: Toto Koopman - Model, Muse, Spy and Elsa Triolet and Lili Brik, The Rebellious Sisters, which was awarded the Académie française historical biography prize in 2015.

His work She, Edmonde (Allary Editions, January 2017) is

Orig. Title: Nancy Mitford. La dame de la rue Monsieur Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 250 pp. | February 2019 Territory: World excl. French English sample available • 2019 Prix Goncourt de la biographie (shortlisted) • 2019 Prix Jean d’Ormesson (shortlisted) • 2019 Prix Le Vaudeville (shortlisted) • 2019 Prix Tour Montparnasse (shortlisted)

concentrated on Edmonde Charles-Roux and his latest biography is Nancy Mitford (Allary Editions, January 2019).

Essay | Nature Writing

Life in the Woods JENNIFER MURZEAU

LA VIE DANS

LES BOIS

Assumed city-dweller Jennifer Murzeau went off to live in the woods for a week, without water or food, in order to reconnect with nature.

“The ecological crisis is at the heart of our concerns today. Yet we fail to take full measure of it, to truly ‘feel’ it, because the way we live has never been so disconnected from nature. [...] I came back with only one desire: to leave again.” — J. M.

Orig. Title: La Vie dans les bois Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 240 pp. | April 2019 Territory: World excl. French

Jennifer Murzeau (1984) is a novelist and journalist specializing in environmental issues.

Essay | Politics

New Ideas to Understand the 21st Century Where do the concepts of ‘universal income’, ‘the commons’, ‘transhumanism’, ‘antispecism’, ‘heteropatriarchy’, ‘blockchain’, ‘digital currency’, ‘uberisation’ and ‘degrowth’ come from, and where are they leading us? Removed from contemporary partisan politics, this book gives a complete, objective and accessible introduction to these concepts. Its aim is to help the citizens of today understand the 21st century.

Rémi Noyon, 28, is a journalist at l’Obs.

Orig. Title: Les idées nouvelles pour comprendre le XXIe siècle Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 250 pp. | September 2018 Territory: World excl. French Rights Sold Korea, Greece

Philippe Vion-Dury, also 28, is the editor of Social-ter, a print and online magazine on the new social economy.

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Fiction

Paris-Venice Inspired by real life events, Paris-Venice displays the talent of Florent Oiseau with his admirable blend of humor and sensitivity. Roman has just got a job on the Paris-Venice, the night train with the most delays in Europe. It’s a sign. His life is running behind schedule too. At almost 30, getting this job as a steward is like a confirmation…

Florent Oiseau, 28 years old, has been a gas station worker, unemployed, barman, dishwasher, night receptionist, bread factory worker, crepe maker, and a steward on the Paris-Venice night train. His first novel Showing Up (Je vais m’y mettre, Allary Éditions, 2016) was praised as one of the funniest books of the year.

Orig. Title: Paris-Venise Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 240 pp. | January 2018 Territory: World excl. French

• 2018 Prix Orange du Livre (shortlisted) 4,000+ copies sold

Essay | History

The Neanderthals from A to Z The reference book that will return the Neanderthal to its rightful place in human history. From abscesses to Zafarraya, via cave lions and toothpicks, this de-

Orig. Title: Neandertal de A à Z Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 600 pp.

January 2018

tailed dictionary presents the latest scientific discoveries. The Neanderthal will never again be seen as an ape-like creature, inferior to our species.

Marylène Patou-Mathis is a prehistorian and research director at the CNRS, leading the team for ‘Behaviours of Neandertalians and anatomically modern Humans’. She curated the exhibition on the Neanderthals on show at the French Natural History Museum from 29th March, 2018.

Territory: World excl. French 6,000+ copies sold

Personal Development

Self-Confidence: A Philosophy

An accessible essay on the mechanisms and secrets of self-confidence. Drawing on the great philosophical texts, ancient wisdom, positive psychology and psychoanalysis, inspired by the experience of sports champions, great creators, but also unknown people such as a fighter pilot or an urgent care doctor, Charles Pépin brings to light the strange alchemy that is self-confidence. By doing so, he gives us the keys to having more confidence in ourselves.

Charles Pépin is a writer and a philosopher, whose books have been published in about 20 languages. He teaches philosophy at the Lycée d’Etat de la légion d’honneur in SaintDenis, near Paris, and hosts “Philo Mondays” at the MK2 Odéon movie theater in Paris. His most recent essay, The Virtues of Failure (Allary Editions, September 2016), sold close to 65,000 copies and rights were sold to 14 countries.

Orig. Title: La Confiance en soi, une philosophie Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 220 pp. | March 2018 Territory: World excl. French Rights Sold Arabic, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Korea, Romania, Russia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, World English 100,000+ copies sold

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Psychology | Science | Spirituality

Beyond the Self Matthieu Ricard has been a Buddhist monk for forty years. Often invited to universities all over the world to take part in brain studies, he is one of the world’s most experienced meditators. A neurobiologist, Wolf Singer is one of the world’s leading brain specialists.

For eight years, they have been sharing their knowledge and together questioning how the mind works.

On each point, Matthieu Ricard and Wolf Singer confront two schools of thought.

Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk, a bestselling author and a photographer. A molecular geneticist, he has served as an interpreter for the Dalai Lama.

Wolf Singer is director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt and Founding Director of both the FIAS and the ESI for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society.

Orig. Language: English Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 235 pp.

February 2017 (French edition) Territory: World excl. French and German English, French and German MS available Rights Sold Germany, Spain, USA, Korea, the Netherlands, Brazil, Czech Republic, Italy, Vietnam, Romania 30,000+ copies sold

Society | Psychology | Spirituality

Power and Care. Towards Balance for Our Common Future— Science, Society and Spirituality in Dialogue with the Dalai Lama An urgent and groundbreaking work, which deconstructs the widespread thought that the concept of power and care are opposites. With the aim for a balanced, common future, 19 renowned researchers and leaders including biologist Frans de Waal, Nobel Prize winner Jody Williams, and Harvard associate professor of psychiatry, Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., present their work to the Dalai Lama, within the context of the forces of “power and care”.

In this provocative and inspiring book, the nature of the fundamental forces of power and care are comprehensively examined, as well as their expressions and the relations between them.

This book serves to inspire readers and as a significant catalyst for the formulation of new research ideas and for imagining societal and governance structures that will contribute to a better world.

Dr. Tania Singer was Director of the Department of Social Neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. She is the principal investigator of a meditation based mental training study, The ReSource Project, and investigates how psychology can inform new models of Caring Economics.

Kate Karius is a writer and a multidimensional artist. She serves to make the world a healthier, more beautiful place by supporting luminaries, mission-driven organizations, and businesses in bringing their messages out into the world.

Orig. Language: English Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions October 2018 (French edition) Territory: World excl. French World rights for images cleared English MS available 10,000+ copies sold Rights Sold World English, Korea, Germany A Mind & Life Conversation: Founded in 1987, the Mind & Life Institute arose out of a series of conferences held with the Dalai Lama and a range of scientists that sought to form a connection between the empiricism of contemporary scientific inquiry and the contemplative, compassion-based practices of Buddhism.

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Narrative Non-Fiction

Becoming Christian Dior

FRANÇOIS-OLIVIER ROUSSEAU

DEVENIR CHRISTIAN DIOR

Allary Éditions

In an elegant style, this biography tells the story of Christian Dior, plunging us into the cultural and artistic avant-garde of the first half of the twentieth century. In Paris, in the twenties, a young man was seeking out his path. Christian, not yet Dior, did not know how to express his talent. After the WWII Liberation he presented his first collection. The Dior house became the embodiment of French chic, and Dior himself at once became myth.

François-Olivier Rousseau has authored Edward’s Child (Prix Médicis 1981), Sébastien Doré (Marcel Proust Prize 1986), Wannsee Station (Grand Prix du Roman de l’Académie française 1988) and The Ferryman (Stock, 2001). He is also a screenwriter.

Memoir | History | Narrative Non-Fiction

The Yan Family. A Family at the Center of One Hundred Years in Chinese History YAN LAN

CHEZ LES YAN YAN LAN

CHEZ LES YAN UNE FAMILLE AU CŒUR D’UN SIÈCLE D’HISTOIRE CHINOISE

In recounting her family history, Yan Lan brings to life a century of Chinese history from the last emperor to the present day, including the Cultural Revolution which tore her childhood apart. The little girl who was crushed by the Cultural Revolution has become one of the most active businesswomen in her country.

Yan Lan was born in 1957 into a big communist family.

She has a Ph.D. in international law, to and since 2011 she heads the Lazard bank for Greater China (Beijing, Hong Kong, Taiwan).

Orig. Title: Devenir Christian Dior Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 200 pp.

November 2016 Territory: World excl. French Rights Sold Bulgaria, Russia, Czech Republic, Taiwan, Poland; Film Rights • 2016 Prix Renaudot Essay (longlisted) 5,000+ copies sold

Orig. Title: Chez les Yan Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 530 pp. | October 2017 Territory: World excl. French English translation available Rights Sold World English 8,000+ copies sold • 2018 Prix Simone Veil

Essay | Society | Technology

The New Age For Humanity. The Challenges of

Posthumanism Explained to a High School Student Will new technologies change the course of human evolution? Will humanity survive? In this lively and accessible text, Pascal Picq, a well-known paleoanthropologist, examines the key questions of human evolution and takes a closer look at this changing era

Orig. Title: Le nouvel âge de l’humanité. Les défis du posthumanisme expliqués à une lycéenne Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Allary Editions 300 pp. | May 2018

for humanity.

A paleoanthropologist and lecturer at the Collège de France, Pascal Picq is an expert in the evolution of humans, large primates, businesses and societies. His most recent book, Qui va prendre le pouvoir ? Les Grands singes, les hommes politiques ou les robots, was published by Editions Odile Jacob in 2017.

Territory: World excl. French 6,000+ copies sold Rights Sold Spain

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www.livredepoche.com 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.

www.preludes-editions.com A unique brand name to welcome new striking voices from all around the world with around 10 publications per year. A perfect mix of general fiction and crime & thrillers.

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Marc Fernandez C harles épin Co-founder andP 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.

Crime Fiction

Bandidos

The latest novel from the writer of the acclaimed Mala Vida is a thriller set with a fascinating historical background.

A woman’s body, burnt, handcuffed and with a bullet in her neck is found in a park in Madrid. Diego Martin, an investigative radio journalist met the victim 20 years earlier… in Argentina. A young reporter at the time, he covered the assassination of the victim’s brother: Alex Rodrigo, a photographer for a big weekly newspaper who was killed in exactly the same way. Two decades later and thousands of kilometres and apart he has stumbled across an identical murder. It does not take much to convince Martin to embark on an investigative journey that will take him to Buenos Aires where he will once again find a woman he has never been able to forget…

Orig. Title: Bandidos Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Préludes Editions 320 pp.

October 2018 Territory: World excl. French • 2018 Grand Prix des Lectrices ELLE (finalist)

Guerrilla Social Club Two men go missing in Madrid. Another in Paris. A woman in Buenos Aires. Each time, the same modus operandi: the victims are taken and then their mutilated corpses are found. All share a common past: fighting against the South American dictatorships in the seventies and eighties. A dangerous investigation that will take them from Spain to Argentina through Chile, forcing them to confront the ghosts of history, those of Operation Condor.

Mala Vida Present-day Spain. In the midst of the political upheaval, a series of murders is committed, from Madrid to Barcelona via Valencia. Over a backdrop of both the economic crisis and a return to a certain moral order, Diego Martin, a radio journalist specializing in criminal affairs, is trying to keep his head above water despite the coming purge in the media. When he decides to look into the first murder, he hasn’t got the faintest idea that the investigation will lead him far beyond the local crime scene and to the heart of an on-going national scandal – the ‘stolen babies’ affair that started under Franco.

Orig. Title: Guérilla Social Club Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Préludes Editions 288 pp.

March 2017

Orig. Title: Mala Vida 256 pp. | September 2015 English translation available Rights Sold USA (WEL), Italy 22,000+ copies sold • 2016 Prix Plaidoiries pour un polar at Festival Clameur(s) of Dijon • 2016 Grand Prix des Lectrices ELLE (finalist)

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Historical Crime Fiction

Tortured on the Rhone Tortured on the Rhone is a historical crime novel set in Lyon at the end of the 19th century, at a time when forensic medicine was only just beginning to be used, and Alexandre Lacassagne was in charge. The aim of the investigation is to track down a serial killer who

Orig. Title: Les suppliciées du Rhône Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Préludes Editions 354 pp.

February 2019

targets young women wanting to have an abortion.

Coline Gatel is from Saint-Etienne, but she has a passion for the Haute-Loire, as it is the region of her ancestors. She now lives in the Morvan, where she has made a home for herself and devotes herself to writing.

Territory: World excl. French • Winner of the prix Kobo by Fnac-Préludes-Le Point writing competition

Women’s Fiction

Good Girls Go to Heaven, Bad Girls Go Everywhere Zoey’s life is fairly simple. Even more so when she meets Matthew Ziegler, the most influential food critic in New York, an utterly unbearable guy who seems set on putting her food to the test, right down to the smallest details… A novel about friendship, family and steamy passion: what if Elizabeth Bennet was reincarnated in the 21st century as a young American cook?

Elie Grimes just has one recipe for a beautiful life: a big kitchen, slightly mad friends, a few spontaneous cocktails, good music and a steady supply of books. Inspiration that one day she decided to turn into stories…

Orig. Title: Les gentilles filles vont au paradis, les autres là où elles veulent Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Préludes Editions 448 pp. | May 2017 Territory: World excl. French English translation available Rights Sold Spain, Czech Rep., Poland, USA 21,000 copies sold

Fiction

The Sailor of Casablanca He was tall, brilliant, ambitious and he adored Jean Gabin, his idol. He had worked his way up the Navy ranks, and wanted to explore the world. In April 1940, he disappeared in the explosion of La Railleuse, a warship parked in the harbour of Casablanca. Malaval’s first novel is captivating, full of secrets, revelations and set in the heart of Morocco. A magnificent tribute to the Golden Age of Cinema in Hollywood and France, and it is reminiscent of Otto Preminger’s troubling film Laura.

Orig. Title: Le Marin de Casablanca Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Préludes Editions 360 pp.

April 2019 Territory: World excl. French Rights Sold World English

Charline Malaval was born in 1984 in Limoges. After a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature based around the theme of travel, she wanted to have a go at travelling herself, following the stories that had soothed her since she was a child.

Malaval has been a French teacher in Brazil, Mauritius, Bulgaria and Vanuatu. She teaches today in Riga, Latvia.

Her travel experiences feed her writing and The Sailor of Casablanca is her first novel.

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Fiction

Red Cashmere In the steppes of Mongolia, surrounded by her parents and brothers, Bolormaa leads a nomadic life and is at one with nature. But when a terribly cold winter kills off their flock of cashmere goats, the family must leave their home on the mountain and search for jobs elsewhere. Bolormaa finds a job in a cashmere production factory in the Chinese city of Ordos. With empathy and a great sense of romance, Christiana Moreau has created a vibrant and emotional story, that is a true ode to friendship and courage. It is the story of two women who are ready to do anything in order to take back control of their own lives.

Orig. Title: Cachemire Rouge Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Préludes Editions 280 pp.

June 2019 Territory: World excl. French Rights Sold Spain, Italy, Poland

Christiana Moreau is a self-taught artist, a painter and sculptor. She lives in Seraing, in the province of Liège, Belgium. The Lost Sonata was her debut novel.

Fiction

The House to the Right of My Grandmother’s An ode to life’s small joys and simple pleasures, all wrapped up in a mischievous and lively style. That is how our young hero, a mischievous, daydreaming translator, returns to the island of his childhood, where his grandmother’s health is failing. And even though he has a deadline to meet, suddenly the whole of Sardinia is keeping him there. From a hidden cove to the picturesque streets lined with brightly coloured houses, between a mouthful of dolci and doctor Ignazio’s magic lozenges, would Giacomo be able to leave?

Inheriting Sardinian origins from his father, Michaël Uras grew up in Besançon and is now a French literature professor. After Chercher Proust (finalist of the prix de l’Inapercu in 2013), Nos souvenirs flottent dans une mare poisseuse and Aux petits mots les grands remèdes, La Maison à droite de celle de ma grand-mère is his fourth novel.

Orig. Title: La Maison à droite de celle de ma grand-mère Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Préludes Editions 352 pp. | March 2018 Territory: World excl. French Rights Sold World English 7,000+ copies sold • 2018 Prix Marcel Aymé (shortlisted) • 2018 Prix Méditerranée (shortlisted)

Take Two Chapters and Call Me in the Morning A novel that makes you want to read lots more novels!

A subject for our time: how to find happiness through books. Alex, the biblio-therapist tries to cure his patients’ ills with literature. The patients include Yann, a handicapped teen who gets bullied at school and who refuses to open up to the world, and the cynical Robert Chapman – crushed by his job, he has forgotten how to talk to his wife. Can fiction help the biblio-therapist help himself? Is the key to happiness to be found between the lines of the books he so loves? An invigoratingly up-to-date tale that pays tribute to words – both other people’s and those we set to our own inner songs.

Orig. Title: Aux petits mots, les grands remèdes Author: Michaël Uras 384 pp. | September 2016 Rights Sold Italy, Korea, Czech Republic, China, Taiwan, Russia 15,000+ copies sold • 2017 Prix Marcel Aymé (shortlisted)

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Philosophy | Social Sciences

Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences

Louis Althusser

Two essential texts by Louis Althusser, one of France’s most well-known 20th-century philosophers, on the origins and potential future of radical political theory. Althusser is distinguishing psychoanalysis from psychology and especially psychiatry, which long resisted Freud’s analytical concepts of the unconscious and overdetermination. The result is an enlivened methodology for comprehending social organization and change.

Louis Pierre Althusser (1918-1990) was a French philosopher. He studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy.

Orig. Title: Psychanalyse et les sciences humaines Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Le Livre de Poche 128 pp.

1996 Territory: World excl. French English translation available Rights Sold Argentina, China, Japan, Turkey, USA (WEL), Greece

Fiction

The Woman Who Ran Away Amazing — Télématin Extraordinary — L’Express Heartbreaking — Elle

Eighty-five years of art and history seen through the eyes of a woman who fled her family – as re-imagined by her granddaughter. Her name was Suzanne Meloche. She was with Borduas, Gauvreau and Riopelle when they signed the Refus Global Manifesto, in 1948. She started a family with the painter Marcel Barbeau. Then she abandoned her two children at a young age.

The 2012 Artist for Peace, Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette has made several feature-length documentary films that received numerous awards. She has also directed two feature films, Le Ring (2008) and Inch’allah (2012, Fipresci Prize in Berlin). She is the author of a travel book and two novels.

Orig. Title: La femme qui fuit 384 pp. | March 2017 Territory: World excl. French + World English English translation available Rights Sold Canada (Eng), Germany, The Netherlands, Spain 75,000+ copies sold in Canada 62,000+ copies sold in France • 2016 Quebec Booksellers’ Prize, France-Quebec Prize and the City of Montreal’s Grand Prix du livre

Biography | History

To You I Owe All My Life’s Happiness – Virginia & Leonard A wonderfully illustrated new book to mark the hundredth anniversary of Hogarth Press. Drawing on her lifetime passion for the Bloomsbury group and Virginia and Leonard Woolf in particular, Carole d’Yvoire recounts the story of two of the greats in English literature and told in a lively, passionate style, with extracts from letters by Virginia and Leonard Woolf, illustrations (paintings, photos, etc.) and two short stories.

Orig. Title: Je te dois tout le bonheur de ma vie – Virginia & Leonard Woolf 224 pp. | November 2017

Carole d’Yvoire is a reader and literary translator. She has translated Tim Burton, Quentin Tarantino, Eve Ensler and Adam Ross, among others. To You I Owe All My Life’s Happiness is her first book.

10,000 copies sold

Territory: World excl. French Rights Sold Turkey

Includes a previously unpublished short story by Leonard Woolf

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Practical Guide | Spirituality | Parenting

Grow Up Alongside Your Emotions.

Orig. Title: Grandir avec ses émotions Practice Meditation with Children Orig. Language: French Meditation is a successful way of securing emotional Orig. Publisher: Le Livre de Poche stability in children. It teaches them to express them- 192 pp. | September 2018 selves in ways that will help them understand and control their emotional being. A large range of emo- Territory: World excl. French tions, such as happiness jealousy, anger and fear are constantly confronting children, and this can also be a challenge for their caretakers and teachers.

Clarisse Gardet is a relaxation therapist, with a degree from the prestigious School of relaxation therapy. She has practiced meditation across the world, teaches at the occidental school of meditation and leads a number of workshops for children.

Illustrated Gift Book

Love is… A Jack Koch Collection The book’s illustrator, Jack Koch, has a large social network following and invited 200 authors from all over the world and in varying literary genres to define love.

There are authors who are very well known and those just making a name for themselves. Jack Koch then illustrated the book, giving 400 pages of poetry and humour.

Born in Strasbourg, Jack Koch was a teacher before he decided to work full time as an illustrator. His first drawings are of the school he worked in, which he displayed in the master suite. He works mostly on the universe and dreams.

7,000+ copies sold Rights Sold Spain Preface by Fabrice Midal

Orig. Title: L’amour, c’est Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Le Livre de Poche 432 pp.

November 2018 Territory: World excl. French Rights Sold Korea Preface by Baptiste Beaulieu 30,000+ copies sold World rights for text & illustrations have been cleared

Crime | Suspense | Thriller

KO Series

A mix of Alias and James Bond, Largo Winch and Lara Croft.

Thriller, geopolitics and a hint of eroticism, the KO Series is considered the sucessor of the famous SAS

by Gérard de Villiers. Each volume is a dive at the heart of the challenges of the contemporary world. KO are the initials of the two protagonists, Kali Grant and her twin brother, Odys.

A new genre, halfway between SAS and James Ellroy. — Christine de Villiers

Orig. Titles: — Massacre à Odessa — Opération Mossoul — Griffe du diable à Etosha — Messe noire à Naples — Panique à Bali Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Le Livre de Poche between 288 - 320 pp.

2017-2020 30,000+ copies sold in total

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www.editionsdelamartiniere.fr/thematique/litterature The publications of La Martinière LittÊrature are a collection of modern and audacious fiction titles loved by booksellers, critics and readers alike and are developed by committed men and women who share a vision for passionate books, French and foreign novels with a taste for beautiful stories, full-bodied and powerful characters, and the beauty of language. Their titles are marked by energy, desire, pleasure, experience sharing, and an impulse towards the world. Join us; you are here at home.

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Personal Development | Nature

A Short Philosophy of Birds

There is a lot birds can teach us. Through twenty-two little lessons of wisdom, short and sweet, inspired by how they live, this book invites us to re-centre our lives and pay closer attention to our natural inner needs.

Philippe J. Dubois is an ornithologist and writer. He has written several books on climate change and biodiversity, and heads Editions Delachaux et Niestlé, the oldest publisher of wildlife books in France.

Elise Rousseau is a journalist and has written about nature and animals. She has spent several years working in environmental protection.

Orig. Title: Petite philosophie des oiseaux Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de La Martinière Littérature 160 pp. | September 2018 Territory: World excl. French English translation available Rights Sold Catalan, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Korea, Netherlands, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, World English

Personal Account

First They Erased Our Name. A Rohingya Speaks Up Habiburahman is a Rohingya, a member of this ethnic group that has suffered exclusion from the eight socalled ‘national’ ethnic races by the Burmese authorities since 1982. In this book, Habiburahman describes the violence he endured since childhood. Now, granted political asylum in Australia, he is fighting to speak out against the ethnic cleansing the Rohingya people have endured for decades.

Habiburahman, born in 1979, Rohingya, lives and works as an interpreter and social worker in Melbourne (Australia).

He founded the Australian Burmese Rohingya Organization to advocate for his community.

Orig. Title: D’abord ils ont effacé notre nom. Un Rohingya témoigne Orig. Language: French 240 pp. | March 2018 Territory: World excl. French English translation available Rights Sold World English

Sophie Ansel is a journalist, author and director. She lived in Asia for several years. It was during a five-month stay in Burma that she met Habiburahman and decided to help tell his story.

Fiction

The Day I Truly Loved Myself An enchanting psychological fairy tale. Obsessed with brain cancer, Maryse clings to her identity as an eminent pediatric neurologist, desperately seeking recognition. But Charlot, her atypical son, forces her to ask herself awkward questions, backing her into a corner.

Charlot, 9, is confronted with surprising philosophical and existential questions: what meaning does life have when you have a fatal disease? How can we resist intimidation, stupidity, fear of the other? And above all: what is the ego, that thing that seems to make everyone suffer so?

Orig. Title: Le jour où je me suis aimé pour de vrai Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de La Martinière Littérature 256 pp. | May 2017

A specialist in community health as well as a consultant on mental health in the workplace, Dr. Serge Marquis is a popular international speaker both at conferences and in the media.

40,000+ copies sold

Territory: World excl. French Rights Sold Italy, Romania

In the French bestseller lists for 7 weeks

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Classic | Literary Fiction

Birth and Death of the Housewife Subject to Fascist censorship before its first publication in 1945, Birth and Death of the Housewife offers a surrealist criticism of Fascism and the rigid notion of womanhood it promoted. In her depiction of a woman’s struggle to play a role that simply does not correspond to her desires, Masino expresses a frustration and a rebellious instinct rarely found among her contemporaries.

A complex intellectual and a remarkable figure in twentieth-century literary and artistic circles, Paola Masino (1908–1989) wrote novels, short stories, poems, librettos, and worked as a translator and as a journalist.

Essay | Society

Orig. Title: Nascita e morte della massaia Orig. Language: Italian 256 pp. | August 2018 Territory: World excl. French & English English and French translation available Rights Sold World English, Italy, Spain German rights sold, but reverted and available again

The Sex Life of the French

Crime Fiction

What are French people getting up to in bed? MossuzLavau explores the parts of people’s lives that are usually kept private, making pillow talk audible. All taboos are gone. Except one: those couples who do not make love anymore. Through these experiences, Janine Mossuz-Lavau strips away preconceptions and gives us an unprecedented, realistic investigation on sexuality and love in France.

Orig. Title: La Vie sexuelle en France Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de La Martinière Littérature 352 pp.

September 2018

Janine Mossuz-Lavau is CNRS emeritus research director at CEVIPOF (the centre for political research at Sciences Po). Political specialist and sociologist, she has focused her work on sexuality for many years. She directed the Dictionnaire de la sexualité for Robert Laffort and was a member of the observatory for gender parity from 1999 to 2005. She now edits the Gender collection at Presses de Sciences Po. She has written several books and directed documentaries.

Territory: World excl. French Author’s previous book sold 20,000+ copies

The Girl Who Disappeared at Altamont A classically crafted crime novel inspired by Altamont festival, the failed and chaotic “anti-Woodstock” organised by the Rolling Stones. Fifty years on, one of the Hell’s Angels who looked after the festival’s (catastrophic) security is found dead with a gunshot wound in the head. Inspector Don Martin, soon at the scene of the crime, finds what looks like the first clue: a photo taken by Scott at Altamont festival. In it he can make out a young girl with a sad stare and two boys. Who are these people? Simple spectators or troublemakers? Was Scott involved in the violence at the festival?

Orig. Title: La Disparue d’Altamont Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de La Martinière Littérature 240 pp.

October 2018 Territory: World excl. French

Jean-Alphonse Richard is police-justice editor at RTL radio. The Girl Who Disappeared at Altamont is his first novel.

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www.massot.com 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 considers changes in society, whether practical, scientific, or spiritual, and provides the tools to participate in this change. The publishing house intends to publish fifteen to twenty titles per year in a variety of novels, essays, and comic strips.

Massot Éditions is directed by Florent Massot, independent editor for 35 years and discoverer of numerous authors in France.

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Personal Development | Spirituality

An Alchemist Speaks

Are there still alchemists in the modern world?

Very rare, there are only around ten in a century.

Patrick Burensteinas is one of them, but he does not correspond to the classic image of a bearded old man

Orig. Title: Un alchimiste raconte Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Massot Editions 320 pp.

May 2017

dressed in a violet cape. Trained as a scientist, he has spent years carrying out operative alchemy experiments in his laboratory. First to prove to himself that alchemy doesn’t work, and then because it did. The impossible became possible.

While our society is exploring spirituality from all

Territory: World excl. French Rights Sold Korea, Italy 12,000+ copies sold

over the world, this book explores a way to reconnect with a form of spirituality that has been practiced in France for centuries.

Patrick Burensteinas is the author of several successful books on the subject and took part in the documentary series The Alchemy Journey – On the Trail of the Philosopher’s Stone, by Georges Combe.

Graphic Non-Fiction

The Mule and the Boar

On June 23rd 2018, twelve boys and their 25-yearold coach – all on the Wild Boars football team from a province in northern Thailand – disappeared inside the Tham Luang cave system, one of the largest and most mysterious ones in the country. Through these pages we can relive the rescue step by step… all the way to the happy ending! All the ingredients for a successful children’s book: soccer, heroic children, a tale about a princess,

Orig. Title: La mule et le sanglier.

L’incroyable aventure des enfants de la grotte Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Massot Editions 128 pp. | March 2019 Territory: World excl. French

ghosts, and more. A story that illustrates the importance of meditation, team spirit and sticking together to get through a crisis. The first comic-book version of the incredible story of Thailand’s extraordinary cave rescue.

Léa Hybre is a young illustrator who lives in Paris. She graduated from Ecole Duperré in 2016, and has had illustrations published in magazines.

Thierry Falise is a free-lance photo-journalist who has been living in Bangkok since 1991. He covers south-east Asia and India for newspapers from around the world, as well as French television stations. He has written several books about Burma, and is the author of the book that inspired this comic-book version of the rescue tale: Trapped (Massot Éditions, October 2018).

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EDITIONS DE L’OPPORTUN

www.editionsopportun.com Created in 2009, Editions de l’Opportun publish 60 non-fiction titles per year.

The main subjects covered in our books are history, humor, health, 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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Humor | Personal account

My Sincere Condolences When reality goes beyond fiction! Memorable times during funerals.

Based on my extensive experience as an undertaker, I wanted to share some small things that went wrong along with great moments of some of the burials I’ve witnessed.

Funerals are intense, solemn and unique moments... But the last tribute to a loved one can sometimes go down in history! Between laughter and tears, the author opens the doors of a career choice that generally prefers to keep secrets. This book, based 100% on real-life experiences, allows you to gently discover these unimaginable stories with unlikely scenarios... And yet, everything is true!

Orig. Title: Mes sincères condoléances Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun Author: Guillaume Bailly 576 pp.

Territory: World excl. French Rights Sold Romania, Czech Republic, Poland 70,000+ copies sold

Humor | Animals

Catissimo! The Cat Encyclopedia The cat’s Bible! 1001 facts about your favorite animal The cat is the French’s favorite animal and they’re billions to worship them to no ends.

Author of best-seller How to Live Like Your Cat, Stéphane Garnier gathers in Catissimo! every piece of information that cat-lovers may enjoy knowing.

Miscellaneous news items about cats, cats with famous owners, inspirational quotes about felines, incredibles charts, anecdotes... every pages of this book is written at the cat’s glory! Among those 1001 facts, lots of them are going to surprise the most knowlegable cat-lovers!

Orig. Title: Catissime! L’encyclopédie du chat Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun Author: Stéphane Garnier 368 pp.

October 2018 Territory: World excl. French Rights Sold Poland

An ideal gift-book for those who want make all cat-fans go “Meow!”

Humor | Society

Off! Your Life Can Finally Begin 101 solutions to FINALLY get off your phone!

“What I’m offering here is to learn again how to look up from your cell phones, to start detoxing ourselves slowly, to discover again the true beauty of real life.

I did too spend numerous evenings where I looked exasperatedly at the four people present, eyes glued on their phones, smiling at their last incoming SMS. In the end, I started doing exactly the same: endless zapping, juggling with emails, networks, news, hashtags, SMS and phone calls... alone.

Has my smartphone become my cuddly toy? Why do I always have to be on my phone 24/7? Am I a victim of its tyranny?

Without denying the utility of these machines, I offer you to equilibrate the game to lower our dependence and come back to life!” — Stéphane Garnier

Orig. Title: Off ! Ta vie commence quand tu raccroches Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun Author: Stéphane Garnier 288 pp.

October 2018 Territory: World excl. French Rights Sold Korea, Greece

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Animals | Personal Development

Understand your cat? A Behaviourist Tells You All You Need to Know Understand your cat better and avoid the most common mistakes!

Sonia Paeleman is not a veterinarian but has an uncommon job: behaviourist for cats! For several years, she has offered her services to families who have problems with their cat...

Her expertise: knowing how to decode the cat’s attitudes in a human environment and chasing away the most common anomalies by your favorite animal (aggressiveness, cleanliness problems, phobias, depressions...)

In this book, she talks about thirty solved cases that will enlighten many cat owners. She explains her approach and her profession, still little known in France and around the world.

Orig. Title: Comprendre votre chat. Les secrets d’une comportementaliste Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun Author: Sonia Paeleman 256 pp.

September 2018 Territory: World excl. French

Health

Prostate. The mysterious organ that wants you to be well Tips and techniques to take care of your prostate at any age!

The prostate is THE subject of anxiety shared by all men ...

For the first time, a doctor and a patient discuss it as two friends and address all the questions men ask ... or don’t dare to ask!

How does it work? What is it really for? When should you start worrying? How to take care of it? Which foods should be avoided or favoured? Dr. Papazian clearly answers – with illustrations - the never innocent questions of Edouard Klein who is the spokesperson of all men in this book!

The result is a modern, tonic, honest and very informative book on a subject that usually rhymes with anxiety and taboo...

Orig. Title: Prostate. L’organ mystérieux qui vous veut du bien Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun Authors: Patrick Papazian and Edouard Klein 256 pp.

September 2018 Territory: World excl. French Rights Sold Poland

Atlas | Geography

Illustrated Atlas of Unattainable Places The world keeps lots of treasures beyond our reach.

If the explorers’ time is over, the world still has some far away lands, quite difficult to get to or simply unreachable.

In this book, which is a true love-declaration to these unattainable places, François Thierry tells us about those far away lands, full of stories and history. He gives us the opportunity to dream, just like a 21st century explorer.

Spread throughout the world, these 30 unattainable places all have an historical and geographical interest that François Thierry enlightens.

With more than 100 maps, travel takes on a new dimension...

Orig. Title: Atlas illustré des lieux inaccessibles Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun Author: François Thierry 176 pp.

November 2018 Territory: World excl. French World rights for illustrations have been cleared

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True Crime

Mrs. Serial-Killer Frédérique Volot leads an incredible investigation to help us understand better the paths and personalities of theses 30 women serial-killers who were the talk of the town all around the world...

Who are those murderers? What are their motivations?

How did they get disrupted? How did they (sometimes) explain their crimes? Frédérique Volot tries to answer every questions in her book by putting to light these women’s cruelty who, most of the time, didn’t awaken any suspicion before their acts.

Orig. Title: Tueuses en série Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun Author: Frédérique Volot 250 pp. | November 2018 Territory: World excl. French

How to Lose Weight with Self-Hypnosis Sandrine Belmont’s book will give you tips to control your relationship with food and will help you to find a long-lasting all-encompassing balance, that is essential to any weight loss – without any diet plan!

This type of Hypnosis, used to lose weight, is very different from hypnosis used as a trick on stage. It is not about overpowering the other. Hypnosis is in fact a natural state of your being that you already know and that you will learn to develop further using your thoughts and your imagination.

Orig. Title: Maigrir grâce à l’autohypnose Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun Author: Sandrine Belmont 224 pp. | January 2019 Territory: World excl. French

The Praise of Hemp What if this taboo plant, banned in many countries, became the plant of the third millennium? Glorified by some and attacked by others, hemp certainly has the power of not leaving anyone indifferent.

In light of the latest scientific discoveries, hemp is becoming increasingly clear that we need to turn our attention back to hemp. This plant’s incredible therapeutic and nutritional power, as well as its various technological and ecological uses, positions hemp as a possible future solution to many of society’s ills, be they medical, nutritional or environmental.

If we set aside our prejudices, we will soon realise we need revise the legislation that is currently defining hemp’s use and limiting its scientific and even industrial exploitation.

Orig. Title: Stupéfiant ! Le chanvre va-t-il sauver le monde ?

Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun Author: Dr. Franck Gigon 352 pp.

January 2019 Territory: World excl. French

Humor

Why Are Bananas Bent?

If you’re curious about life, this is THE book for you!

Why do we not feel the Earth rotating? Why does glue not stick to the tube? Why do forks have four prongs? Why do mosquitoes bite? Why are bananas bent?

Jean-Baptiste Giraud answers more than 250 (almost) existential questions with precision, humour and cleverness.

We ask ourselves these questions at least once in our lives!

Each answer will enrich your general knowledge, provide you with surprising trivia and deconstruct our preconceived ideas.

Orig. Title: Pourquoi les bananes sont-elles courbées ?

Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Editions de l’Opportun Author: Jean-Baptiste Giraud 462 pp. | January 2019 Territory: World excl. French 5,000+ copies sold

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www.hollandsdiep.nl Hollands Diep is devoted to publishing the best of Dutch and international literary fiction and non-fiction, focusing on areas such as literature, history, politics, current affairs, culture and art. The list includes works by internationally renowned authors such as Max Hastings, Atticus Lish, Leslie Jamison, Leon de Winter and Tommy Wieringa.

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Literary Fiction

The Waffle Factory The workers at the waffle factory have been living to the rhythm of their waffle machines for years. Until one day Arka Narovski appears, a tall and charismatic ex-soldier. Not long after his arrival, the workers lay down their tools. A protest ensues. But against whom or what exactly, and why? The Waffle Factory is a timeless novel about how easy it is to mislead the masses, but also about the desire to be misled.

Roman Helinski has written stories and articles for various literary journals. He made his debut in 2014 with the novel Bloemkool uit Tsjernobyl, which Wim Brands selected for the anthology Dutch Literature of the 21st Century as one of the most important debuts since 2000.

Orig. Title: De wafelfabriek Orig. Language: Dutch Orig. Publisher: Hollands Diep 176 pp. | September 2017 Territory: World excl. Dutch English & German samples available Rights Sold Czech Republic • Selected for the Dutch Literature Foundation’s “10 Books from Holland” brochure for Fall 2017 • Bookspot Literatuurprijs (longlisted)

Literary Fiction

Eclipse How can the decision of one person impact the futures of so many, to such a harrowing extent? The struggle of two people to keep their heads above water, as a world of infinite possibilities closes in on them: Martijn struggles with his father’s dementia, and a gaping family secret.

Sofie wants answers from a grandmother she’s never known. Separately, they unravel a history that gradually ties them together. Until a meeting is unavoidable.

Suzan Hilhorst debuted in 2017 with Sara and Liv, an

Orig. Title: Eclips Orig. Language: Dutch Orig. Publisher: Hollands Diep 304 pp.

October 2018 Territory: World excl. Dutch English sample available

autobiographical story on the untimely disease and passing of her two young daughters. Eclipse is her fiction debut.

Furthermore, Hilhorst writes poetry, short stories and columns, and is employed as a journalist and television producer.

Literary Fiction

North

A stunning debut novel about the search for direction and artistic freedom, with wonderful, atmospheric descriptions of the rugged North Canadian setting. In the early 1980s, Sarah, a young silversmith, finds herself at a turning point in her life. Travelling north, she ends up in a small goldmining town and meets Mary.

Gradually, Sarah will come to realise that Mary’s life has been a foreshadowing of her own, and what it means to be free.

Sien Volders (1983) studied art history and anthropology.

Balancing between her work as an editor and interior designer, she recently finished her debut novel North (Noord).

Sien is married to Belgian TV presenter and comedian Lieven Scheire. She lives in Ghent, Belgium.

Orig. Title: Noord Orig. Language: Dutch Orig. Publisher: Hollands Diep 240 pp. | November 2017 Territory: World excl. Dutch English sample available Rights Sold Germany • Hebban Debuutprijs (shortlisted) • Bronzen Uil (shortlisted) • ANV Debutantenprijs (longlisted)

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w w w. m e u l e n h o ff b o e k e r i j . n l Meulenhoff Boekerij publishes both commercial and literary titles. We publish upmarket and genre books and have married the marketing sales power of a commercial fiction publisher to the quality controls and good taste of a literary house. We have published many titles that sold over 100,000 copies, no mean feat in a language area of 20 million.

Meulenhoff has a great tradition in publishing translated literature from all over the world. Our list features more Nobel Prize laureates than any other Dutch publisher.

Boekerij is especially strong in quality commercial fiction and is the market leader in translated fiction. The women’s fiction and thriller list features international bestselling authors.

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Literary Fiction

In Every City

A cheerful dystopia about a world where only the right of the strongest prevails. What does the future hold for a society based on fear and without any compassion? In Every City tells the story of true optimist Bennie: fired from his job and an alcoholic, but in good spirits. With his social status reduced to zero, he strays from job to job. He tries to find his way back to a better life, assisted by a wide array of companions. With the hand of a master, Weverling depicts the life of a man who must process setback after setback but refuses to throw in the towel.

Biography

Orig. Title: In alle steden Orig. Publisher: Meulenhoff 256 pp.

September 2017 Territory: World excl. Dutch English sample available • 2018 Bookspot Literature Prize (shortlisted)

Aukelien Weverling is an author and columnist. Her previous novels were nominated for various Dutch literary prizes. In Every City (In alle steden) is her fourth and latest book.

Sam Goudsmit. The Hunt for Hitler’s Atom Bomb The remarkable story of Sam Goudsmit, the DutchAmerican physicist who discovered the phenomenon of electron, traced Hitler’s atomic bomb and came up with the best scientific magazine in the world. In World War II, Goudsmit led the American search for Hitler’s atomic bomb on the European front. This story, about brilliant science, heroic courage, tragedy and leadership, needs to be told to a larger audience. Van Calmthout worked closely with Goudsmit’s family in the US, who was eager to collaborate on Goudsmit’s first biography.

Orig. Title: Sam Goudsmit. De jacht op de atoombom van Hitler Orig. Publisher: Meulenhoff 288 pp.

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Martijn van Calmthout is science editor and commentator for Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant. He studied physics in Utrecht and writes about the sciences.

Classic

Turkish Delight The story of a tempestuous love affair―and the basis for Paul Verhoeven’s Oscar-nominated film―Wolkers’s controversial masterpiece, published in 1969, Turkish Delight was a sensation and a scandal. Its graphic language and explicit sex scenes had an explosive effect, but just as revolutionary was its frank, colloquial style. The story of a sculptor’s relationship with Olga and the dark days that followed, the two only reunite during Olga’s inexorable and tragic decline into cancer, when she would only eat the soft, sweet Turkish Delight that her ex-lover brings to her bedside.

Jan Wolkers was an author, painter, sculptor, and one of the “Great Four” writers of Dutch literature.

Orig. Title: Turks fruit Orig. Publisher: Meulenhoff 214 pp.

1969 Territory: World excl. Dutch English translation available Rights Sold USA, France , Germany, Korea, Greece, Turkey, Lithuania, World Spanish

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www.vanoorschot.nl Van Oorschot is Holland’s oldest surviving independent publisher. Ever since its foundation in 1945, by the legendary publisher G.A. van Oorschot, it has been building a list of the most renowned and respected Dutch literary authors, such as A. Alberts, M. Vasalis, Rutger Kopland, W.F. Hermans, Gerard Reve, and J.J. Voskuil.

Over recent years the company, still proudly independent, has been publishing a new generation of talented writers like Nico Dros, Ester Naomi Perquin, Miek Zwamborn, Otto de Kat, Stephan Enter, Marijke Schermer, Gilles van der Loo, Martin Michael Driessen, Maria Barnas, Nicolien Mizee, Erik Lindner, Sander Kollaard, all of which were published to great acclaim.

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Kiss Room 11, intensive care, children’s ward. A father keeps vigil at the sickbed of his nine-year-old son, who is lying in a coma. Night after night he talks to his child. He tells the boy about his own father and the son that he once was… until that defining moment.

Kiss is a gripping story about a father-son relationship, the beauty and tragedy of it. As the son fails to wake from his coma, the father’s longing grows for a

Orig. Title: Kus Orig. Language: Dutch Orig. Publisher: Van Oorschot 240 pp.

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place where time doesn’t affect them anymore.

Julien Ignacio (1969) studied European Studies and Literature at the University of Amsterdam. For four years he travelled through Asia and Australia, West-Africa, the Caribbean, South-America and the Middle East. He has published theatre plays, short stories and is editor of the literary magazine Tirade. He lives in Amsterdam and has two sons.

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When the personal effects of one of the most important post-war Dutch poets, Hanny Michaelis, were found to include her diary from the German occupation of the Netherlands, it caused a literary sensation. Like Anne Frank, Michaelis was Jewish and forced into hiding. Inevitably, the diary is being compared with Anne Frank’s. The large number of notebooks have been published earlier in two annotated volumes: the first covering 1940 and 1941; the second 1942-45. By special request, there has finally been made a selection of those two publications: the best of Michaelis’ war diaries in 400 pages.

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Orig. Title: Oorlogs-Dagboek Orig. Language: Dutch Orig. Publisher: Van Oorschot 400 pp.

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Hanny Michaelis (1922–2007) was born in Amsterdam.

She graduated in 1941 and shortly afterwards she and her parents went, separately, into hiding. They never saw each other again. Hanny’s parents were arrested in 1943 and were taken first to the camp at Westerbork and then to Sobibor, where they were murdered. Shortly after the liberation of the Netherlands, Michaelis returned to Amsterdam, where she stayed for the rest of her life. For years she worked in the Amsterdam city council’s department of artistic affairs. She also published six collections of poetry. Her wartime diaries recently appeared in two volumes, both of which were enthusiastically received.

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Individual Authors French Jeanne Damas, Lauren Bastide

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Jeanne Damas with Lauren Bastide Parisian socialite, fashion icon, and actress, Jeanne Damas is also the founder of the Parisian-inspired apparel line Rouje and the new face of the French Girl in the fashion industry. She starred in Guillaume Canet’s last movie and entered the very prestigious Forbes “30 under 30” list, thanks to the success of her brand. With more than 600k Instagram followers, the number of fans gets bigger every day.

Former editor of French Elle magazine and former TV columnist on the famous French TV show Le Grand journal, Lauren Bastide is the founder of the independent podcast production studio Nouvelles écoutes and the host of the feminist podcast La Poudre, where she interviews inspiring women from diverse backgrounds. La Poudre is the number 1 French independent podcast.

Lifestyle | Fashion | Gift Book

In Paris Witty, elegant, and modern, In Paris is a musthave for anyone who loves fashion, Paris, and the ever-chic Parisiennes. With its hardcover and its luxurious paper, it’s also the perfect coffee table book to gift or keep for yourself.

Orig. Title: À Paris Orig. Language: French Orig. Publisher: Grasset 232 pp.

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It Girl with more than a half million followers, Jeanne

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Damas is the epitome of the Parisienne. From Vogue to Marie Claire to Elle, and from Paris to New York to Asia, journalists keep asking her what makes her The French Cool Girl. She always answers that she’s just one Parisienne among many and that there are as many Parisiennes as women living in Paris. That is the starting point of this book: not to dissect the myth of La Parisienne for the hundredth time, who is as real as they come, but to portray 20 real and different Parisiennes, who, each in their own manner, embody the elegance, casualness, and spirit of the legendary Parisian woman.

They are booksellers, singers, writers, activists, and antique dealers. They are aged 14 to 70 years old.

They live in small studios, spacious apartments, and péniches. They invite us into their homes to tell us

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about their lives, their love of Paris, and what being a Parisian means to them. Written with grace and talent, each portrait is illustrated with 5 to 6 beautiful pictures and is followed by funny appendices, all illustrated, in which Jeanne and Lauren give us their addresses, tips, and their eye on the French art de vivre.

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Index Allary Éditions (France) Christophe André, Alexandre Jollien, Matthieu Ricard Inner Freedom! 4 Leila Bouherrafa The Dedication 4 Jérôme Colin The Battlefield 4 Matthias Debureaux The Noble Art of the Quarrel 5 Philippe Douroux Alexandre Grothendieck. In the Footsteps of the Last Mathematical Genius 5 Ludovic Escande

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Raphaël Glucksmann The Children of the Void 6 Slimane Kader With a View Below the Sea 6 Sophie Lemp Suzanne’s Mirrors 6 Jean-Noël Liaut Nancy Mitford. The Lady of Rue Monsieur 7 Jenniver Murzeau Life in the Woods 7 Rémi Noyon & Philippe Vion-Dury New Ideas to Understand the 21st Century 7 Florent Oiseau Paris-Venice 8 Marylène Patou-Mathis

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Charles Pépin Self-Confidence: A Philosophy 8 Matthieu Ricard, Wolf Singer Beyond the Self. Dialogues between a Neuroscientist and a

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Matthieu Ricard, Tania Singer Power and Care 9 François-Olivier Rousseau Becoming Christian Dior 10 Yan Lan The Yan Family. A family at the center of one hundred years in Chinese history 10 Pascal Picq The New Age For Humanity. The challenges of posthumanism explained to a high school

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Le Livre de Poche - Préludes Editions (France) Marc Fernandez Bandidos 12 Coline Gatel Tortured on the Rhone 13 Elie Grimes Good Girls Go to Heaven, Bad Girls Go Everywhere 13 Charline Malaval The Sailor of Casablanca 13 Christiana Moreau Red Cashmere 14 Michaël Uras The House to the Right of My Grandmother’s 14 Michaël Uras Take Two Chapters and Call Me in the Morning 14 Louis Althusser Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences 15 Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette The Woman Who Ran Away 15 Carole D’Yvoire To You I Owe All My Life’s Happiness – Virginia & Leonard Woolf 15 Clarisse Gardet Grow Up Alongside Your Emotions 16 Jack Koch Love Is... 16 Alex de Brienne KO Series 16

Editions de La Martinière Littérature (France) Philippe J. Dubois and Elise Rousseau A Short Philosophy of Birds 18 Habiburahman with Sophie Ansel First They Erased Our Name. A Rohingya Speaks Up 18 Serge Marquis The Day I Truly Loved Myself 18 34

Editions de La Martinière Littérature (France) - continued Paola Masino Birth and Death of the Housewife 19 Janine Mossoz-Lavau The Sex Life of the French 19 Jean-Alphonse Richard The Girl Who Disappeared at Altamont 19

Massot Editions (France) Patrick Burensteinas An Alchemist Speaks 21 Léa Hybre, Thierry Falise The Mule and the Boar 21

Editions de l’Opportun (France) Guillaume Bailly My Sincere Condolences 23 Stéphane Garnier Catissimo! The Cat Encyclopedia 23 Stéphane Garnier Off! Your Life Can Finally Begin 23 Sonia Paeleman Understand Your Cat. A Behaviourist Tells You All You Need to Know 24 Patrick Papazian and Edouard Klein Prostate. Everything You’ve Always Wanted to Know 24 François Thierry Illustrated Atlas of Unttainable Places 24 Frédérique Volot Mrs. Serial-Killer 25 Sandrine Belmont How to Lose Weight With Self-Hypnosis 25 Dr. Franck Gigon The Praise of Hemp 25 Jean-Baptiste Giraud Why Are Bananas Bent? 25

Hollands Diep (the Netherlands) Roman Helinski The Waffle Factory 27 Suzan Hilhorst Eclips 27 Sien Volders North 27

Meulenhoff-Boekerij (the Netherlands) Aukelien Weverling

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Martijn van Calmthout Sam Goudsmit. The Hunt for Hitler’s Atom Bomb 29 Jan Wolkers

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Van Oorschot (the Netherlands) Julien Ignacio Kiss 31 Hanny Michaelis War Diary 31

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Clients & Co-Agents WORLDWIDE REPRESENTATION Selected titles presented in our Fall 2019 Rights Lists

France Allary Editions | Editions de La Martinière Littérature | Le Livre de Poche (paperback originals only) + Préludes Editions | Massot Editions | Editions de l’Opportun | Editions Sciences Humaines

The Netherlands Bertram + de Leeuw | Hollands Diep | Meulenhoff Boekerij | Van Oorschot

United States Ideapress Publishing | Scribe Media

Authors (in our Fall 2019 R ights Lists) Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi | Jeanne Damas & Lauren Bastide (via Editions Grasset) | Patrick & Ellen Galvin | Cliff Lerner | Dan Norris | Brian Scudamore

EXCLUSIVE CO-AGENTS For our world rights titles Brazil: Villas-Boas & Moss Agency | China: CA-Link (English titles) | China: The Artemis Agency (French & Dutch titles) | Baltic States, Central Europe (excl Poland), Balkan & Southeastern Europe, Eastern Europe (excl. Russia, Belarus, Ukraine): Livia Stoia Agency | Greece: Ersilia Agency | Israel: The Deborah Harris Agency | Japan: Tuttle-Mori Agency | Poland: Graal Agency | Russia, Belarus, Ukraine: Anastasia Lester Agency | Spain: SalmaiaLit | Taiwan: The Artemis Agency | Turkey: AnatoliaLitAgency

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