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FICTION NOVELS 6 Le bal mécanique – Yannick Grannec 8 Avant les singes – Sibylle Grimbert 9 Roland est mort – Nicolas Robin 10 Quand je serai grand, je serai Nana Mouskouri – David Lelait-Helo 11 La rivière des doutes – Emmanuelle Becker-Papin 12 Les grandes et les petites choses – Rachel Khan

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THRILLER 13 Lux – Maud Mayeras HISTORICAL NOVEL 14 Là où rêvent les étoiles – Eric Marchal

ÉDITIONS AUX FORGES DE VULCAIN (in coedition with Éditions Anne Carrière) NOVEL 15 Une bouche sans personne – Gilles Marchand

ÉDITIONS LE NOUVEL ATTILA (in coedition with Éditions Anne Carrière) NOVEL 16 Camarade Papa – Gauz

NON FICTION NARRATIVE 18 Big John de Paname – Big John DOCUMENT 19 En dehors de la zone de confort – Melissa Chemam ESSAY 20 Sexpowerment – Camille Emmanuelle

ÉDITIONS PLEIN JOUR (in coedition with Éditions Anne Carrière) ESSAY 21 Houellebecq aux fourneaux – Jean-Marc Quaranta

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NARRATIVE 22 Comment construire une cathédrale – Mark Greene

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U.S.A. & U.K. NOVELS Purple Hibiscus – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (U.S.A. – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) Hope and other dangerous pursuits – Laila Lalami (U.S.A. – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) The Blackest Bird – Joel Rose (U.K. – Canongate Books) The Bouddha and the Terrorist – Satish Kumar (U.S.A. – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) The end of Mr Y – Scarlett Thomas (U.K. – Canongate Books) A Reliable Wife – Robert Goolrick (U.S.A. – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) The End of the World as We Know It – Robert Goolrick (U.S.A. – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) Heading out to wonderful – Robert Goolrick (U.S.A. – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) The Fall of Princes – Robert Goolrick (U.S.A. – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) Hubcaps – Robert Goolrick (U.S.A) The Eye of the Red Tsar – Sam Eastland (U.K. – Faber & Faber) The Red Coffin – Sam Eastland (U.K. – Faber & Faber) Siberian Red – Sam Eastland (U.K. – Faber & Faber) The Red Moth – Sam Eastland (U.K. – Faber & Faber) The Beast in the Red Forest – Sam Eastland (U.K. – Faber & Faber) The Red Icon – Sam Eastland (U.K. – Faber & Faber) The girl who fail from the sky – Heidi W. Durrow (U.S.A. – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) Till we have faces – C.S. Lewis (C.S. Lewis Company Ltd.) Vida – Patricia Engel (U.S.A – Grove Atlantic) Hikikomori and the Rental Sister – Jeff Backhaus (U.S.A. – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) Moth Diaries – Rachel Klein (U.S.A – Bantam) If You Could Be Mine – Sara Farizan – (U.S.A. – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) The Family Hightower – Brian Francis Slattery (U.S.A. - Seven Story Press Inc.) Two Across – Jeff Bartsch (U.S.A. – Grand Central Publishing) The Raw Man – George Makana Clark (U.K. – Jonathan Cape) Lord of Darkness – Robert Silverberg – (U.S.A – Arbor House Publishing Company) The Chidren’s Home – Charles Lambert – (U.K – Scribner) NON FICTION The Yellow House – Martin Gayford (U.K. – Penguin Books)

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LA BELLE COLÈRE (collection) Somebody up there hates you – Hollis Seamon (U.S.A. – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) The Potential Hazards of Hester Day – Mercedes Helnwein (U.S.A. – Simon & Schuster) Speak – Laurie Halse Anderson (U.S.A. – Macmillan) Wintergirls – Laurie Halse Anderson – (U.S.A – Macmillan) Summer of 42 – Herman Raucher (U.S.A. – Putnam Publishing Group) The Diary of a Teenage Girl – Phoebe Gloeckner (U.S.A. – North Atlantic Books) Grow up – Ben Brooks (U. K - Canongate) Lolito – Ben Brooks (U. K - Canongate) It’s Kind of a Funny Story – Ned Vizzini (U.S.A – Hyperion Books for children) 29 CANADA Le facteur émotif – Denis Thériault (Quebec – XYZ) L’iguane – Denis Thériault – (Quebec – XYZ) 29 ITALY C’est géant ! – Cristiano Cavina (Marcos y Marcos) Conclave – Roberto Pazzi (Edizioni Frassinelli) L’ombre du père – Roberto Pazzi (Edizioni Frassinelli) Soleil brûlé – Elvira Dones (Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore) 30

SPAIN & LATIN AMERICA L’homme à l’accordéon – Marcio Veloz Maggiolo (Dominican Republic – Siruela) L’incendie du paradis – Antonio Alamo (Spain – Random House Mondadori) Sept histoires impossibles – Javier Argüello (Argentina – Editorial Lumen)

30 GERMANY Le goût des pépins de pomme – Katharina Hagena (Kiepenheuer & Witsch) L’envol du héron – Katharina Hagena (Kiepenheuer & Witsch) Le fabuleux menteur – Susann Pasztor (Kiepenheuer & Witsch) Jusqu’ici et pas au-delà – Joachim Meyerhoff (Kiepenheuer & Witsch) Vers l’abîme – Erich Kästner (Atrium Verlag) Durchbruch bei Stalingrad – Heinrich Gerlach (Kiepenheuer & Witsch) 32 ICELAND Ultimes rituels – Yrsa Sigurdardottir (Bjartur Verold) Bien mal acquis – Yrsa Sigurdardottir (Bjartur Verold) Je sais qui tu es – Yrsa Sigurdardottir (Bjartur Verold) 4

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Yannick Grannec LE BAL MÉCANIQUE (THE MECHANICAL BALL)

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T H E AU T H O R Yannick Grannec lives in Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Le Bal mécanique is her second novel. T H E BO O K One evening in 1929, the prestigious Bauhaus School in Dessau gave a fancy dress ball. It was before the Nazis had devoured Europe, those days when you could still believe in progress, Art and the meaning of History. During the ball, a young woman, Magda, danced, knocked back the drinks, and fell in love. What’s the connection with Josh Shors, host of a TV reality show in Chicago whose raucous recipe for success mixes interior design and family therapy? What’s the connection with her father, Carl, a forgotten painter living out his last years in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, haunted by the phantoms of the Korean War and the lies of an uprooted childhood? What’s the connection with Cornelius Gurlitt, this discreet gentleman in whose home the biggest hoard of the Third Reich’s stolen artworks was found in 2012? What’s the connection with art dealer Theodor Grenzberg, who follows his wife, Luise, through the wild Berlin night? What’s the connection with Gropius, Klee, Rothko, Marx, Scriabine, the obsession with resilience and Ikea? One century, one family, Art and time. You are cordially invited to the Bal mécanique. ‘She is not a beginner, but holds firm to her ambitions, acclaimed when her last book a The Goddess of Small Victories, appeared. Novelist Yannick Grannec brings us Le Bal mécanique (Anne Carrière), a saga of the avantgarde artistic world in interwar Germany.’ Le Figaro ‘In this ambitious 500-page, extremely well-documented saga, erudition plays hide and seek with fiction. The novelist has created multiple settings, voices, characters - both fictional and real - viewpoints and flashbacks. The book is adorned with missives and emails, powerful dialogues and well-tempered contemplations’ Le Figaro

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‘Prolific and erudite, Yannick Grannec’s second novel covers a century of art and history, making us as familiar with the students of Bauhaus, the famous German art school of the interwar period, as with a modern reality show. Her itinerary is the family tree of a painter from Saint-Paul.’ Le Monde

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Her first novel, La Déesse des petites victoires (Prix des libraires 2013, Prix Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco 2013), was widely and enthusiastically praised : ‘A first novel with real momentum and a flair for fiction rarely seen in French literature.’ Olivia de Lamberterie, Le Masque et la plume, France Inter ‘The most intelligent book I have read for a long time.’ Jean-Louis Ezine, Le Masque et la plume, France Inter ‘We’ve all got the message - La Déesse des petites victoires is precisely what we call a fantastic novel.’ Pierre Assouline ‘To put it mildly, La Déesse des petites victoires is an astonishing first novel.’ Le Point ‘The charm works like magic. We become passionately involved in the destiny of this man of science who is also captivated by the irrational, seeking the impossible to the point of paranoia, of madness.’ Télérama

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Sibylle Grimbert AVANT LES SINGES (BEFORE THE GREAT APES)

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T H E AU T H O R Avant les singes is Sibylle Grimbert’s ninth novel. T H E BO O K Sabine thought this week-end in a hotel lost in the middle of the mountains would mark the beginning of a new life. Her husband was to receive an award for his most recent miraculous invention. She would be associated with his triumph as she was with his work, and at last take revenge on a thwarted destiny. But in the first moments, the dream falls apart. Not only is his dreadful mother invited to the event for no reason, she is well placed in the congress agenda. An unknown woman seems strangely familiar to Sabine, she feels as though she’s looking in a mirror at a reflection that mocks her. Soon her unease affects the other guests. The doors close and they are all prisoners of a night where the borders between dimensions melt away, and time loses all logic. Should Sabine run away, or, on the contrary, find herself? Sibylle Grimbert creates a unique universe, at the crossroads of Loup des steppes by Hermann Hesse and Philip K. Dick’s Ubik. With a feeling for suspense and a wild sense of humour, she leads her characters and readers to the very borders of their humanity, where the great ape they meet many have a few revelations to make. Everything is possible in this novel, which invents a new way of reading the fragile beauty of existence on every page.  ‘In this brilliant novel, carried along by a visionary imagination that always seems to find a solution (…) Sibylle Grimbert confirms her tremendous talent.’ Marie Claire ‘In this book, Sibylle Grimbert explores with a freedom and humour that leaves the reader, after their trip to a bordering yet unknown territory, breathless and dazzled.’ Le Monde ‘You plunge into this deep fable with jubilation; reminiscent of Lewis Carroll’s universe.’ Télé 7 Jours

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Nicolas Robin ROLAND EST MORT (ROLAND IS DEAD)

TH E A UT HOR Nicolas Robin works in the tourist industry and travels the world.. TH E BOOK Roland is dead. His neighbour across the landing, a man nearing his forties, unemployed and very much alone, finds out from the man downstairs. Roland died eight days ago, head in his poodle’s dog biscuit bag. The neighbour can’t say he really knew him – but he should have guessed: he hadn’t heard Mireille Mathieu’s songs for days! The emergency services came to take the body away and solve the problem of the dog by giving it to a neighbour. Then the neighbour had a visitor: the man from the funeral parlour came to give him the urn containing the dead man’s ashes. What on earth was he supposed to do with these ‘gifts’ – more of a curse than a blessing? The neighbour spares no efforts to get rid of them, but deep down, does he really want to? This book is uncategorizable. Nevertheless, the force of the text and the immense sensitivity it emanates indisputably leave their mark, and we feel regret on reaching the last page.

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‘An exceptional novel, captivating, throbbing, with unexpected twists and turns’ Télé Z ‘Between a huis-clos and a road movie, this cynical yet tender comedy probes the theme of solitude with great delicacy. Droll, sincere, bathed in emotion (…) A gem.’ Metronews ‘Behind the often laconic style, sensitivity is always lying in ambush in this extremely original novel.’ L’Express ‘Outstandingly well-written, packed with natural mischief and a delightful imagination.’ Le Parisien ‘A treasure of black humour’ Paris Match ’The wit is sparkling, with a touch of ferocious irony that occasionally pauses to let a gleam of poignant tenderness appear.’ Marie France Sold in Germany (Blanvalet)

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David Lelait-Helo QUAND JE SERAI GRAND, JE SERAI NANA MOUSKOURI (WHEN I GROW UP, I’LL BE NANA MOUSKOURI)

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TH E AU T H O R David Lelait-Helo, 44, wrote Poussière d’homme, Sur l’épaule de la nuit, C’était en mai, un samedi, D’entre les pierres, several books of philosophical tales and numerous biographies (Eva Peron, Maria Callas, Barbara, Dalida, Romy Schneider…). TH E BO O K Even in his childhood, Milou had ambitions that never failed to surprise. In the schoolyard, this funny little guy loved to play at princesses, and made his little girlfriends his soldiers. He imagined his future in the shape of an orange monster, Casimir in L’île aux enfants; that was before he got it into his head that he was one of Egypt’s most powerful queens. But at the age of thirteen, it’s a voice that blows away all his plans – that of Nana Mouskouri. The decision is made: he’ll be that woman! There are so many setbacks… Milou isn’t Greek, he doesn’t wear glasses nor a long spangled dress, he can’t sing – and worst of all – he is horrified to discover that he’s a boy. But Milou always has another trick up his sleeve … What he does, as the years go by until the evening of his 40th birthday, is simply refuse reality and follow his dream. A dream that will take him much farther than he could ever have imagined … The story of a man whose childhood dream guided him and ultimately saved him. David Lelait-Helo poses the question of self-construction during childhood and adolescence. He tells of our quest for an ideal, the part of dream in us, the complexity of our identity, and the disturbing play of identification of the fan with a star.

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Emmanuelle Becker-Papin LA RIVIÈRE DES DOUTES (THE RIVER OF DOUBT)

FORTHCOMING IN NOVEMBER TH E A UT HOR Emmanuelle Becker-Papin is the author of short stories, poetry, a film script and songs (composer and performer). She worked as a journalist for a large French TV group. Le Rivière des doutes is her first novel.

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TH E BOOK Jeanne, a young Parisian just turned 30 with a hectic lifestyle, is awakened almost every night by a recurring nightmare in which a stranger pleads for her help. The mystery deepens when her bookseller informs her that an old lady is desperately searching for her, to give her a vitally important message. Sick to the teeth of the whole situation, on the advice of her boyfriend, Jeanne answers the woman’s messages and finds herself embroiled in a story that goes beyond everything she has ever believed in. In an exhilarating race against time and reason, Jeanne is obliged to summon all her courage and determination and plunge headlong into this ‘river of uncertainty’ to undertake a veritable initiatory quest. Will she come through the ordeal unscathed? An ode to intuition, wisdom and knowing when to let go …

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Rachel Khan LES GRANDES ET LES PETITES CHOSES (GREAT AND LITTLE THINGS)

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TH E AU T H O R Born in 1976 of a Gambian father, professor of English, and a French bookseller mother of Polish origin and Jewish, Rachel Khan is an actress today and a consultant in cultural affairs to the president of the Ile-de-France region. An accomplished athlete, in 1991 she was French champion of the 60 metre sprint, then French vice-champion of the 80 metre indoor event. Les grandes et les petites choses is her first novel. T HE BOOK Nina Gary is 18. As she strives to become a woman, she realises something isn’t right. With a Gambian father who lives to the rhythm of the tam-tam, her vodka-drinking grandfather with an accent like Popek, the excessive love of her mother who spent the war in hiding, rejection at the university and violence in the streets, she feels completely lost. Black, Jewish, Muslim, white and animist, she’s heartily sick of being taken for someone she isn’t, pushed into exotic categories she cannot identify with. So, she runs.  That’s the solution she has found to escape the injustices and the preconceived ideas of a society that is much too divided for her own intimate construction. She chooses speed to prove to herself that her body is her own and to free herself of her ancestors’ history, too heavy for her shoulders. Permanent movement to forget herself, forget everything from the Holocaust to slavery, from colonisation to the Queen of England. Run to lose yourself, trick yourself, to be duped, struck down and perhaps get up on your feet again. To believe in nothing, except the chronometer and the next 12 seconds. Feel her muscles, equality at last – all equal in the 100 metre race, naked in the face of time. Between the great and little things, the story of Nina Gary, a young girl who runs to become herself at last. 

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“Beautifully written, joyful and full of fun, well-paced and free of all miserabilism. You will devour this first (autobiographical?) novel from cover to cover’ Causette ‘With the punchiness of an Angela Davis and the sharp with of a Woody Allen, Rachel Khan describes her difference as suffering but also an asset.’ L’Obs

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Maud Mayeras LUX TH E A UT HOR Maud Mayeras is 34. Lux is her third novel. After the success of Reflex (Anne Carrière, 2013 / Pocket, 2015), Maud Mayeras’ new thriller is keenly awaited. Today she lives in Limoges. TH E BOOK This is the story of a return, a sentence and a wave that rises on the horizon. 2016. Antoine Harelde arrives in Ceduna, the arid lands of South Australia. Twenty years before, he had spent a summer in this little town in the middle of nowhere and in the space of three months that marked the end of his teens, he encountered joy, friendship, love and horror. Today he is a man. But he hasn’t forgotten, or forgiven, anything. Justice takes on strange and disturbing colours in the light of the apocalypse. A murderous promenade through an end-of-time setting, Lux is a novel that will confirm the reputation of a young author at the zenith of her art.

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Éric Marchal LÀ OÙ RÊVENT LES ÉTOILES

(WHERE THE STARS DO THEIR DREAMING)

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TH E AU T H O R Eric Marchal has often been called ‘France’s Ken Follet’. His first three novels, Influenza, Le Soleil sous la soie and La Part de l’aube were highly successful. TH E BO O K The 19th century saw a new generation of cathedral builders. They worked with steal, iron and copper as well as stone, and they aimed to reach the heavens as no one had ever dreamed of doing before them. Their magic is called ‘engineering’ and their creations are seemingly impossible bridges and viaducts, factories and stations, constructed with wooden trusses of prodigious dimensions, giant statues and towers made of metal. All of these men venerated the same God; they called it Progress. In this book, Éric Marchal pays tribute to them in an astonishing story of a family, friendship and human genius. June 1863. In the immensity of the Andalusian desert plain, two men meet. They are very different in character, but united in their passion for progress. One of them, Clément Delhorme, pioneer of high altitude balloon flights, was to give us the first weather forecasting models. The other, Gustave Eiffel, an ambitious young engineer newly married, dreams of working independently as a builder. From that day on, their genius is the link between their lives and their dreams of breaking records. Delhorme places the world in a huge equation and tries to solve all its unknowns, while Alicia, his wife, deals with renovating the abandoned palaces of the Alhambra. The birth of their three children, each with a different temperament, shapes the destiny of this unique family. Meanwhile, Eiffel is forging his future like a myth, from the Maria Pia bridge to the Tower that bears his name and the Statue of Liberty. Between Paris and Granada run the intersecting paths of these two families who experienced the magic of progress. ‘Do you like Ken Follett? You’re going to love this big book brimming with stories.’ Télé 7 Jours

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Sold in Spain & Latin America (Penguin Random House/Grijalbo)

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ÉDITIONS AUX FORGES DE VULCAIN (IN COEDITION WITH EDITIONS ANNE CARRIÈRE)

Gilles Marchand UNE BOUCHE SANS PERSONNE (THE VOICE OF NOBODY)

TH E A UT HOR Gilles Marchand was born in 1976 in Bordeaux. Une bouche sans personne is his first novel. TH E BOOK An accountant takes refuge in his figures during the day and in a bar in the evenings, where he has been meeting the same friends for the last ten years. No one knows anything about the past of this mysterious figure who wears a scarf wrapped around his face. But one evening, he cannot avoid the unveiling; and everyone discovers he is disfigured. Who or what did this to him? He starts to tell his story to his friends and a few regular customers in the bar that night. He continues the next night, and the night after, and so it goes on. Each evening, the number of customers in the bar increases, listening to his story as keenly as if it were a cabaret. And this man who had clung to his certainties as a means of forgetting himself now sees them disintegrate one by one, as his daily life spins out of joint. He looks afresh at his career, and life in the building he lives in, which seems to be a product of the fanciful mind of the grandfather who – until now - has protected him so well from the trauma of his childhood. Apparently light and ethereal, this novel surprises us by unlocking the gates of memory. We find the Beatles, the narrow existence of an accountant shut up in his office, a pretty waitress, a tunnel of garbage bags, gypsy musicians, messages from beyond the grave, a grandfather with his head in the clouds… and the memoires we bury that never fail to resurface. A book about friendship, the past and what we decide to make of it. There are echoes of Vian, Gary and Pérec, shades of magical realism in this story of a man who remembers and survives – and becomes the incarnation of a nation that survives the trauma of History. ‘A powerful seduction emanates from this droll but serious novel (…) Altogether, it reveals a rather original inspiration and a stunningly talented storyteller.’ L’Express

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ÉDITIONS LE NOUVEL ATTILA (IN COEDITION WITH EDITIONS ANNE CARRIÈRE)

GAUZ CAMARADE PAPA (COMRADE PAPA)

FORTHCOMING IN JANUARY 2017

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TH E AU TH O R After graduating in biochemistry, (for a certain time) an illegal immigrant, Gauz is a photographer, film-maker of documentaries and director of a satirical economics review in Ivory Coast. He wrote the scenario of a film on the immigration of young Ivoirians, Après l’océan… His first novel, Debout-payé, published in 2014, was a great success with the public and is still winning the hearts of new readers today. T H E BO O K ‘Comrade Papa’- that’s what children in Communist families call their father in Africa. An immigrant child, born in Amsterdam, goes off to live in Ivory Coast, his parents’ homeland. Once there, he discovers the history of colonization through stories handed down by French colons who settled in the country at that time. In 1890, a century before, a conscript - hesitating between the factory and the army - set foot in Africa and became a colon in Grand-Bassam, the country’s first capital city. Comrade Papa recounts the beginning of French colonization as it is told to a little boy today: the truth about colonization in a novel. What the papers say about Debout-payé (50 000 copies sold in France): ‘A shrewd observer, a protestor with no illusions’ Elle ‘A mocking pen, dipped in acid’ Le Canard Enchaîné ‘A new, bold kind of writing rarely encountered today: sharp yet finely-tuned, scathing yet warm-hearted, corrosive yet generous’ La Croix ‘A talented story-teller’ Livres hebdo

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Big John BIG JOHN DE PANAME (BIG JOHN FROM PARIS)

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TH E AU T H O R Big John is a former professional basketball player, a huge man of mixed race who was often ‘judged by appearances’ until fate took a sardonic hand and made him the judge. Today, he is physiognomist of Le Baron, an exclusive Parisian night club. His narrative talents are every bit as impressive as his frame. TH E BO O K For night dwellers, he is Cerberus. The man whose ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ can admit you into the beautiful people’s paradise or send you hobbling back to the hell of the ordinary. Every night for hours on end, he stands at the entrance to a night club whose prestige is as great as its surface is small, the target of seduction in all its guiles and the recipient of angry outbursts of rage. While those in waiting scrutinize his face in search of approbation, he has the best seat in the theatre. Because the few square metres of tarmac on the pavement of a select Parisian street, on which he plays his role, is a stage unlike any other. In this hilarious, monstrous book, Big John from Panama, just this once, invites you to enter. And if you thought you knew the limits of human folly, prepare yourself for a shock as you turn these pages, dumbstruck at the spectacle of how crazy people can be just to get through a door. Unless this door is saying something else, as Big John cleverly suggests in this frenzy of stories – one funnier than the last. Unless this ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ represents something deeper: recognition, belonging, an identity… Those queuing in front of the door are in fact in the front line of violent discrimination, because the very idea they have of themselves is being challenged.

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Mélissa Chemam EN DEHORS DE LA ZONE DE CONFORT (OUTSIDE THE COMFORT ZONE)

FROM MASSIVE ATTACK TO BANKSY, THIS IS THE STORY OF A GROUP OF ARTISTS, THEIR HOME TOWN OF BRISTOL AND THEIR REVOLUTIONS. TH E A UT HOR Mélissa Chemam has been a journalist since 2004. She settled in Bristol after passing through Paris, Prague, Miami, London, Nairobi and Bangui. She went to meet all these artists in their homes and on the paths they are travelling. TH E BOOK What do Isambard Brunel’s Clifton Suspension Bridge, the actor Cary Grant, the trip-hop group Massive Attack and the street artist Banksy have in common? They are all Bristolian. Bristol - a mid-sized city in the South West of England with a rich and complex history that has never been told! Blessed by good fortune early on, due to the opening of England towards the Americas, it became one of the nerve centres of the triangular trade. And it is precisely this history that nourished, in a totally new and radical manner, the generation of artists that blossomed in Bristol from the end of the 1970s onwards. It all started when a young Anglo-Italian graffiti artist by the name of Robert Del Naja signed his first street work on a wall in the city in 1983, using his pseudonym ‘3D’. Before founding the group Massive Attack in 1988 with the black DJs Grantley Marshall and Andrew Vowles, he met the pioneers of London and Bristol post-punk, the fans of West Indian reggae in the St. Pauls quarter, then the singer Neneh Cherry and the rapper Tricky. An unexpected blend of hip-pop, reggae, soul and rebel guitars, Massive Attack’s first album, Blue Lines, came out in 1991 and sparked off a revolution in British pop culture. Massive Attack became the incarnation of Brit cultural mix, always succeeding in renewing itself. In the wake of this unbridled creativity, fusing music, art and heavy social involvement, the groups Portishead et Roni Size were born, the movements known as trip-hop and dubstep, and the brilliant Banksy, who was inspired from an early age by Robert Del Naja’s graffiti. Through rebellion, art, music and commitment, Bristol has synthesized an alternative history of the United Kingdom.

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Camille Emmanuelle SEXPOWERMENT E S S A Y

TH E AU TH O R One day, on Twitter, a hater called Camille Emmanuelle a ‘journaslut’ after she wrote an article on the theories of the ‘Manif pour Tous’, a huge demo in Paris assembling all those opposed to gay marriage. Camille loved the hateful neologism and made it her standard. So now an author, columnist and ‘journaslut’, she writes about erotic culture, porn culture, gay culture, sexualities, gender and feminism for the Huffington Post, Slate, Le Nouvel Obs to mention but a few… T HE BOOK For a long time, I lived in a kind of schizophrenia. Femininity vs feminism, body vs mind. It wasn’t really my fault – I had a dual education. On the one side, a communist primary schoolteacher stepfather who thought seduction and ultra-femininity were out of bounds for me, unworthy of my intelligence. On the other side, a midwife mother who took me shopping every Saturday and slipped condoms into my suitcase when I was leaving on holiday. Today, I would define myself as a pro-sex feminist. I feel that the real sexual liberation, feminine and masculine, is an integral part of women’s emancipation. If the body is political, so is sex. It’s high time we had a free, clear and open discussion about sexualities, hetero and LGBT, the body and pleasures. It’s time we accepted diversity in sexual and romantic identities. Time we observed that the borders have shifted: between the old rigid notions about femininity and virility, between the standard and the non-standard. It’s time to fight against these stereotypes of male and female sexuality. Because if women become misogynous, because of pay inequalities, domestic violence and everyday sexism, the perpetuation of sexual clichés would be just as harmful to women as to men. There, I raise one small clenched fist. My other hand takes yours; come along with me and let me tell you about my liberation, that of a woman born in 1980. How I learned to be ‘ladylike’, a ‘dirty girl’ and a ‘sex-positive feminist’ all rolled into one. And it wasn’t easy…

‘In Sexpowerment, journalist Camille Emmanuelle brings us a well-documented, liberated and joyful viewpoint of sexuality. But more than that: a 20 new feminine dialogue.’ Glamour

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EDITIONS PLEIN JOUR (IN COEDITION WITH EDITIONS ANNE CARRIÈRE)

Jean-Marc Quaranta HOUELLEBECQ AUX FOURNEAUX (HOUELLEBECQ IN THE KITCHEN)

TH E A UT HOR Jean-Marc Quaranta, born in 1970, is an associate professor of French literature and literary creation at Aix-Marseille University. He authored Génie de Proust (Honoré Champion, 2011). TH E BOOK Both a recipe book and a profound analysis of Michel Houellebecq’s work, this study of a totally new kind reintroduces us to the author of Particules élémentaires and Soumission. The author reveals an obvious feature that no one, until now, had revealed: there is, alongside the amorous cravings, another emotion, even more radiant (here, the meals all end well), a zone of happiness in that apocalyptic work: the cuisine.

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Jean-Marc Quaranta makes a systematic exploration; identifying, through his novels, all the meals that the characters eat from the dishes lovingly prepared by Bruno’s grandmother (Les Particules élémentaires) to the agape feasts in Dordogne (Soumission), not forgetting Michel’s meal at Valérie’s parents’ home (Plateforme). He interprets their signification, places them in perspective, defines their role in Houellebecq’s universe: in a word, gives them the academic treatment in a meticulous yet accessible style. However, as a cook himself (for many years he worked in a restaurant in the South of France) Jean-Marc Quaranta also puts theory into practice with 80 recipes, a motley selection that includes Tuna à la Catalan, Peppers in Oil, Pot au Feu – the French version of beef stew and veg – and apple tart, as well as rarer dishes such as Chicken with Crayfish, Eel in Greens, Croustade des Landes, Duck’s Neck Tartelette… In every possible way, he invites us to devour Houellebecq’s books, make our way to the library via the kitchen, to become the replete connoisseurs of this inexhaustible creation that still holds so many surprises.

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Mark Greene COMMENT CONSTRUIRE UNE CATHÉDRALE (HOW TO BUILD A CATHEDRAL)

‘LES INVRAISEMBLABLES’ – a new series from Editions Plein Jour. Reality doesn’t need fiction to be fanciful. All you have to do is look around you, go out and meet people – grandiose or absurd, flamboyant or mysterious - who live in our midst. This series of stories, true although incredible, a cross between investigation and the tale, aims to offer a terrain for those stories we find written in the margins of the world, where literature is reinvented by life.

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TH E AU TH O R Mark Greene, a FrancoAmerican writer born in Madrid in 1963, has authored a selection of short stories: Les Plaisirs difficiles (Le Seuil, 2009) and four novels, including Le Ciel antérieur (Le Seuil, 2013) and 45 tours (Rivages, 2016). TH E BO O K For fifty years, Justo Gallego has been building – alone, but for the help of a man he calls a loyal friend, like Don Quixote’s Sancho Panza - a cathedral. A crazy, pointless project, it now looms in the middle of a Madrilenian suburb: ugly, colossal but somehow moving. Mark Greene, who was born in Spain and lived there during his childhood until his teens, observes this mystic whose creation, a gift he wants to offer to God, will most probably never be finished. It stands there, an embarrassment to the all around, and no one more than the Church. So emerges a fantastic digression embodied in this great hero of the absurd, metaphysical or poetic gesture: they are all part of the same, superfluous grandeur - as good a definition of life as any. On the list for the Wepler Prize.

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U.S.A. & U.K

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie PURPLE HIBISCUS

(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

N O V E L S

Laila Lalami HOPE AND OTHER DANGEROUS PURSUITS (U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

Joel Rose THE BLACKEST BIRD (U. K – Canongate Books)

Satish Kumar THE BOUDDHA AND THE TERRORIST (U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

Scarlett Thomas THE END OF MR Y (U. K - Canongate Books)

Robert Goolrick A RELIABLE WIFE

(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

Robert Goolrick THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT (U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

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Robert Goolrick HEADING OUT TO WONDERFUL (U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

Robert Goolrick THE FALL OF PRINCES

(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

Robert Goolrick HUBCAPS

(U. S. A – Robert Goolrick)

N O V E L S

Sam Eastland THE EYE OF THE RED TSAR (U.K - Faber & Faber)

Sam Eastland THE RED COFFIN (U.K - Faber & Faber)

Sam Eastland SIBERIAN RED

(U.K - Faber & Faber)

Sam Eastland THE RED MOTH (U.K - Faber & Faber)

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Sam Eastland THE BEAST IN THE RED FOREST (U.K - Faber & Faber)

Sam Eastland N O V E L S

THE RED ICON

(U.K - Faber & Faber)

Heidi W. Durrow THE GIRL WHO FAIL FROM THE SKY (U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

C.S. Lewis TILL WE HAVE FACES

(U. K – C.S. Lewis Company Ltd.)

Patricia Engel VIDA

(U.S.A - Grove Atlantic)

Jeff Backhaus HIKIKOMORI AND THE RENTAL SISTER (U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

Rachel Klein MOTH DIARIES (U.S.A – Bantam)

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Sara Farizan IF YOU COULD BE MINE

(U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

Brian Francis Slattery THE FAMILY HIGHTOWER (U. S. A – Seven Story Press Inc.)

Jeff Bartsch TWO ACROSS

(U.S.A - Grand Central Publishing)

N O V E L S

George Makana Clark THE RAW MAN

(U.K – Jonathan Cape)

Robert Silverberg LORD OF DARKNESS

(U.S.A – Arbor House Publishing Company)

Charles Lambert THE CHIDREN’S HOME (U.K – Scribner)

Martin Gayford THE YELLOW HOUSE NON FICTION (U.K – Penguin Books)

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LA BELLE COLÈRE (collection)

Hollis Seamon SOMEBODY UP THERE HATES YOU (U. S. A – Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

Mercedes Helnwein N O V E L S

THE POTENTIAL HAZARDS OF HESTER DAY (U.S.A - Simon & Schuster)

Laurie Halse Anderson SPEAK

(U.S.A – Macmillan)

Laurie Halse Anderson WINTERGIRLS

(U.S.A – Macmillan)

Herman Raucher SUMMER OF 42

(U.S.A – Putnam Publishing Group)

Phoebe Gloeckner THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL (U.S.A – North Atlantic Books)

Ben Brooks GROW UP

(U. K - Canongate)

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Ben Brooks LOLITO

(U. K - Canongate)

Ned Vizzini IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY (U.S.A – Hyperion Books for children)

CANADA

Denis Thériault LE FACTEUR ÉMOTIF

N O V E L S

(Quebec – XYZ)

Denis Thériault L’IGUANE

(Quebec – XYZ)

ITALY

Cristiano Cavina C’EST GÉANT ! (Marcos y Marcos)

Roberto Pazzi CONCLAVE

(Edizioni Frassinelli)

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Roberto Pazzi L’OMBRE DU PÈRE (Edizioni Frassinelli)

Elvira Dones N O V E L S

SOLEIL BRÛLÉ

(Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore)

SPAIN & LATIN AMERICA

Marcio Veloz Maggiolo L’HOMME À L’ACCORDÉON (Dominican Republic - Siruela)

Antonio Alamo L’INCENDIE DU PARADIS

(Spain – Random House Mondadori)

Javier Argüello SEPT HISTOIRES IMPOSSIBLES SHORT STORIES (Argentina – Editorial Lumen)

GERMANY

Katharina Hagena LE GOÛT DES PÉPINS DE POMME (Kiepenheuer & Witsch)

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Katharina Hagena L’ENVOL DU HÉRON (Kiepenheuer & Witsch)

Susann Pasztor UN FABULEUX MENTEUR (Kiepenheuer & Witsch)

Joachim Meyerhoff JUSQU’ICI ET PAS AU-DELÀ (Kiepenheuer & Witsch)

N O V E L S

Erich Kästner VERS L’ABIME (Atrium Verlag)

Heinrich Gerlach DURCHBRUCH BEI STALINGRAD (Kiepenheuer & Witsch)

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ICELAND

Yrsa Sigurdardottir ULTIMES RITUELS

(Bjartur Verold)

N O V E L S

Yrsa Sigurdardottir BIEN MAL ACQUIS (Bjartur Verold)

Yrsa Sigurdardottir JE SAIS QUI TU ES (Bjartur Verold)

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