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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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HISTORICAL NOVELS
GILLES LEGARDINIER A Sure Fire Thing, No More, I Promise!, Well Done!, Summer’s Lease,
When We Were Men, Exile of Angels
ÉRIC GIACOMETTI & JACQUES RAVENNE Antoine Marcas’ Freemason Investigations
FRANCK THILLIEZ Pandemia, Syndrome [E], Bred to Kill, ATOM[KA], [Angor], Puzzle,
Darksider
KARINE GIEBEL Satan Was an Angel, The Shadow, The Hungry Dark, The Innocence of the
Damned
CLAUDE IZNER Mysteries in Paris, Topsy Turvy
P. 37-38
100% DIGITAL
P. 17
FEEL GOOD
P. 39
EXPLOSIVE AND SURPRISING
P. 18
INITIATORY JOURNEY
P. 40-41
SF/FANTASY
P. 19
WOMEN’S FICTION
P. 4-5
EVENT
P. 6-7
NEW
P. 8-16
BESTSELLERS
GILLES LEGARDINIER Someone to Fear For
SEAN PLATT & DAVID WRIGHT Yesterday’s Gone
ANTOINE PAJE And She Spoke to Me of Maple Trees, the Smile of Water and Eternity, And
He Spoke to Me of Cherry Trees, Dust and a Mountain
JEAN-MARC SOUVIRA Black Mermaids, Away With the Wind, The Magician
JEAN-CLAUDE MOURLEVAT & ANNE-LAURE BONDOUX Shall We Dance ?
SOPHIE LOUBIÈRE Things Left Unsaid
AGATHE COLOMBIER HOCHBERG The Buoyant Lives of Lady M., Nothing Personal, Wild
Holidays
FRANCK THILLIEZ & LAURENT SCALESE Blood and Ink
MAXIME CHATTAM Carnage
DAVID KHARA Dawn’s Remnants, An Eternal Night
FRANÇOIS-XAVIER DILLARD Do it For Mummy
DAVID-JAMES KENNEDY The Avenging Sea
PATRICK GRAHAM Those Places Are Dead
P. 27-29 HISTORICAL CRIMES
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FABRICE BOURLAND The Detectives of Strange
JEAN D’AILLON A Study in Red
MICHEL MOATTI Back to Whitechapel
JEAN-PIERRE ALAUX Crime & Monuments
JEAN-LUC BIZIEN A Curious Psychiatrist
BRIGITTE AUBERT The Cinematograph Detective
SÉBASTIEN GENDRON Selective Recycling
JEAN-LOUS FETJAINE Guinevere, The Elf Chronicles
MICHAEL MOORCOCK & FABRICE COLIN Elric: Soul Drinkers
MICHEL ROBERT Darkness Agent, Slash
PIERRE LUNÈRE In the Guardian Angel’s Lodge
JULIEN GOSSELIN, PIERRE MARTIN & JOHANN TRÜMMEL The List
VIRGINIE DUMONT How Do You Fail at Raising Your Children? Smile, You Are Parenting a
Teenager!
OLIVIER MAGNY Stuff Parisians Like, Into Wine
The World Explained To Old Folks
JEAN-MICHEL ESPITALLIER Fame
JADDO Just After Bear Taming
CÉDRIC DASSAS Rare or Medium?
HERVÉ COMMÈRE Guess the End, Ripples in Water, Catching your Death, The Second Man
FRÉDÉRIC DARD Noir Novels, San-Antonio
LÉO MALET The New Mysteries of Paris
BARBARA ABEL Behind Hatred, Behind the Grief
SOPHIE LOUBIÈRE The Stone Boy, Black Coffee
THRILLERS
JULIEN HERVIEUX A Life at War
CAMILLE-LAURE MARI Awakening
JEAN-FRANÇOIS PRÉ Deadly August
Tour de France 2013
Short Crime Novels
Short Eroticas
P. 42-45 QUIRCKY DOCS
P. 20-23 NOIR
P.24-26
JEAN-PIERRE BOURS Indulgences
ANICK KIEFFER Lili’s Diary
VIVIANE MOORE The Headless Woman
NICOLAS RABEL A Liberation
JÉRÉMIE GUEZ The Last Red Tiger
JEAN-PIERRE RENOUARD My Stripes Were Earned in Hell
JACQUES RAVENNE The Marquis de Sade’s Seven Lives
HUGUES DE QUEYSSAC The Black Knight and the White Lady
SERGE BRUSSOLO The Archer’s Daughter, The Scarlet Shroud
JULIETTE BENZONI Marianne, The Gerfaut in the Mist, Catherine
P. 46-51
NON-FICTION
Little Dictionaries of Passions
THIERRY MAILLET Marketing and its History
ALEXANDRE MIDAL Design
ERYCK DE RUBERCY The Wagner Controversy
JEAN-PHILIPPE DOMECQ Critique’s Comedy , What Speed Tells Us
JEAN-MICHEL MAULPOIX Four Paths: Wanderings Through French Poetry
FABRICE MIDAL Why Poetry?
Introduction to Great Thinkers
PIERRE JACERME Introduction to the Occidental Philosophy
CHRISTOPHE BOURSEILLER The False Messiahs
FRANÇOISE SIMPÈRE The Art and Etiquette of Polyamory
JULIETTE GRANGE For a Philosophy of Ecology
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GILLES LEGARDINIER
Gilles Legardinier is the 4th bestselling French author and a all-around writer of
feel-good novels, thrillers (which won various awards) and children books as well.
First prin
t
run of
160,000
copies
Someone to Fear For
1 october 2015
How a happy band of straightforward and
endearing old people could help a father whose
daughter is already 20.
As he wanted to cure his neighbours, he
has become a doctor. As he was willing to
help people who are usually left aside, he
spent many years in conflict zones. But
when Thomas learns that he is the father
of a 20-year-old girl, his view of life and
certainties are shaken.
He knows he won’t ever make up for lost
time and refuses to trouble the life of the
one he knows nothing about. But a rush,
stronger than anything else, urges him to
discover Emma. For her, he will thus become
the helping hand of fate, the luck factor, the
secret and watchful guardian angel.
In his mission, he can rely on the five
residents of the retirement home he is now
heading, together with the nurse Pauline,
her son Théo, the guard of the nearby closed
down factory and –without him knowingEmma’s boyfriend.
This is the story of a man who, in order to
reach a goal he can’t clearly explain, will be
confronted with situations he doesn’t
control at all. This is a story about pure love
in every shape and form.
• Paternity and filiation are definitely universal topics.
• The most intimate novel of the author.
• In the vein of Jonas Jonasson, Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg: hilarious play-on-words,
misunderstandings and digs come one after another…
SEAN PLATT AND DAVID WRIGHT
Sean Platt and David Wright launched the bestselling post-apocalyptic serial Yesterday’s Gone in 2011 with one episode
published per week on Amazon.
Yesterday’s Gone
Publlication date TBC
English manuscript of the first 5 seasons available
Provisional cover
> EVENT
On October 15 2011 at 2:15 a.m., everyone on Earth
vanished. Well, almost everyone.
A scattered few woke in a world where there are no
rules other than survival… at any cost.
A journalist wanders the wretched reality of an empty
New York, in search for his wife and son.
A serial killer must hunt in a land where prey is now
endangered species.
A mother shields her young daughter from danger, as
every breath fills her with terror.
A bullied teen is thrilled to find everyone gone. Until
the knock on his door.
A fugitive survives a fiery plane crash. Will he be
redeemed, or return to what he’s best at: the kill?
An eight year old boy sets out on a journey to find his
missing family. What he finds will change him forever.
And there’s a few people who aren’t surprised that
this happened at all. In fact, they’ve been dreaming
about this day for years.
These survivors aren’t alone…
Someone, or something, is watching them.
And waiting…
Strangers unite.
Sides are chosen.
Will humanity survive what it never saw coming?
• Yesterday’s Gone is the bestselling, groundbreaking, post-apocalyptic serial thriller for fans
of The Stand, Swan Songs and TV Shows like Lost.
Readers’ Reviews
“Stephen King meets Lost.”
“If you love the mile a minute action and
adventure of Doctor Who, the suspense
and shock of The Walking Dead, the “oh Hell”
and “you’ve got to be kidding” of Lost, AND
the “What the Hell was that?!” of Fringe, then
this is the book for you.”
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> NEW
> NEW
ANTOINE PAJE
JEAN-MARC SOUVIRA
Antoine Paje managed a business and worked abroad for several years until he realized that he wasn’t happy. This is how
Jean-Marc Souvira is a Police Chief and has been working for the Criminal Investigation Department for 25 years as the
he decided to learn to get to know himself. His books are based on his personal experiences and aim at helping others.
And She Spoke to Me
of Maple Trees, the Smile
of Water and Eternity
12 November 2015
Reader’s report available
Life offers minutes of eternity that we let fly by.
Alexandre Kraunos thought he was living the perfect
life. The death of Elise, his elderly neighbor who
pampered him, makes him realize that the present
never existed for him, nor the past for that matter.
Every minute was just a step to the next one.
Thanks to reunions, new encounters and a little help
from destiny, he will be able to spot minutes of eternity
which can offer switch in a life…
• “What’s eternity? An excessively intense minute“
Drieu la Rochelle
Director of the Central Department against Human Trafficking and the Central Department against Financial Crime. He has
also worked with Luc Besson as a scriptwriter on the movie Go Fast.
Black Mermaids
12 November 2015
Africa in Paris: How to investigate on rituals, magic and
bewitchment?
As albinos’ dismembered bodies are found in the Goutte d’Or
neighbourhood in Paris (18th arrondissement), Mistral and his
team have to become familiar with a new thinking and analyzing
process. Fear and obedience being part of this reality, they will
be confronted with an international prostitution network.
The case of “the car park rapist” is another file that should
have been closed but the killer managed to escape. This is a
serious misconduct that Mistral has to justify especially since
the fugitive’s lawyer is an old enemy.
When his past suddenly catches up with him, how can he possibly
stay focused on his absorbing job?
• “Black Mermaids, this is how I call the African girls who are
working as prostitutes because there are many of them under
the Meditterranean sea”… Unfortunately, quite a current topic...
• Action, reflection but also procedure and paperwork… This is
the everyday life of a squad dealing with multiple investigations
that are connected...or not.
Away With the Wind
And He Spoke to Me of Cherry Trees,
Dust and a Mountain
Rights sold: Germany (Luebbe), Russia (AST)
Over 55,000 copies sold
“The author always succeeds in putting us in the killer’s
shoes, where we share his various crisis and fears.
A superb thriller.”Le Nouvel Observateur
2 January 2014
One may need a whole life to learn how to walk.
Paul Lamarche thought he was living the life he had always wanted
until the moment he is arrested for a rather surprising incident
while on a festive tour of the USA. There he meets someone who
will set him on a new course of life. Back in France, he will meet
two other people who will eventually provoke a total change in him
and liberate for good all the fears that had hindered his existence.
•
A novel, a tale of initiation, a modern parable, along the same
line as Laurent Gounelle, Matthieu Ricard and Elizabeth Gilbert.
• “There are more things to alarm us than to harm us.” Seneca
12 May 2010
Nearly 55,000 copies sold
“Jean-Marc Souvira uses his past experience to throw
the reader into a quasi-clinical narrative.” Télé 7 Jours
The Magician
14 February 2008
Sample English translation available
Rights sold : Germany (Luebbe), Russia (AST), Czech Republic (Beta)
“Masterstroke of a real cop.” Le Parisien
“This book, written by a police officer, is unquestionably one of
the deepest and most realistic delves into the troubled and
terrifying world of criminal investigation.” Le Magazines des Livres
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> BESTSELLERS
GILLES LEGARDINIER
The man who knows how to combine humour and emotion like no one else.
Over 2,5 million copies sold in total
Sample English translation and Reader’s report available
A Sure Fire Thing
2 October 2014
Rights sold: Germany (Goldmann), Spain (Planeta), Czech Republic
(Domino), Taiwan (Walkers Culture), Russia (Sindbad)
When all seems lost, maybe it’s time to figure out what’s really
worth living?
When Marie is dumped by her boyfriend she swears never to
trust another man neither in her private life nor at work. Sweet
Marie is gone, from now on, Evil Marie is in charge.
But one can’t completely change his/her nature. When she
becomes staff representative, she’ll be the voice of men and
women in her company, as everybody is going through troubled
times.
And when she receives letters from a secret admirer, she will
use impossible schemes to find out who he is.
“A sure success for this romantic comedy, every women who
has been dumped once can relate to it.” Femme Actuelle
No More, I Promise!
10 November 2011
Rights sold: Germany (Goldmann), Italy (Mondadori), Spain (Alfaguara),
Czech Republic (Domino), Hungary (Park), Poland (Sonia Draga), Greece
(Patakis), Russia (Sindbad), Turkey (Pegasus), China (Straits Multi-Media),
Korea (Sweet Books), Taiwan (Walkers Culture), Vietnam (Nha Nam), Bulgaria
(Hermes), Latvia (Zvaigzne), Lithuania (Alma Littera), Brazil (Arqueiro)
Film rights sold
The fabulous destiny of Julie, desperately romantic and utterly
clumsy.
What is the stupidest thing you have ever done in your life? After
getting her hand stuck in her mysterious neighbour’s mailbox,
Julie swore that she would quit acting crazy but she is about to
do much worse trying to get closer to this man…
“It is impossible to resist the extravagance
and charm of this literary Amelie Poulain!”
Well Done!
18 October 2012
Rights sold: Germany (Goldmann), Czech Republic (Domino), Poland (Sonia
Draga), Russia (Sindbad), Turkey (Pegasus), Taiwan (Walkers Culture),
Bulgaria (Hermes), Spain (Planeta), Latvia (Zvaigzne), Brazil (Arqueiro)
Film rights sold
Four intertwined destinies under the same roof that will learn to
settle in, get to know and eventually love each other.
Tired of a world that he no longer feels part of, Andrew Blake
leaves the head of his small company in London to find a job as a
butler in France. Upon his arrival at the Beauvillier Manor, he goes
beyond simply reinventing himself. He who was looking for a new
beginning, will first have to get back in touch with his past.
“Simple stories, driven by short fast paced chapters and a
great sense of humor, this is Gilles Legardinier’s remedy for
the blues.” Lire
“A jubilatory comedy.” RTL
Summer’s Lease
10 October 2013
Rights sold: Turkey (Pegasus), Taiwan (Walkers Culture), Poland (Sonia
Draga)
Remember your teenage years...
Camille, Lea, Axel, Leo and the gang have known each other since
kindergarten. A few months before graduation they are each
wondering which path to take…
They don’t know that by summer their destinies will change.
Supported by those close to them and their teachers they will
face illness, incertitude and illusions while at the same time
recognizing the value of friendship, love and pushing oneself to
the limit.
“A positive novel with a taste
of the Elixir of Youth.” Carrefour Savoirs
Aujourd’hui en France
“More than a book, this novel is a cure for melancholy, a
shot of humor, fantasy and tenderness that opens up the
door to happiness.” Carrefour Savoirs
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> BESTSELLERS
GILLES
LEGARDINIER
When We Were Men
13 January 2011
When Alzheimer’s disease threatens mankind.
“When We Were Men is about a world
that could soon be ours - after reading it
we are moved, with the feeling of having
received a humanity lesson.”
Le Magazine des Livres
ÉRIC GIACOMETTI
& JACQUES RAVENNE
Jacques Ravenne is the pseudonym of a high-ranking Freemason with intimate knowledge of the history and
culture of the Order.
Éric Giacometti used to be an investigative journalist who reported extensively on Freemasonic mores.
ANTOINE MARCAS’ FREEMASON INVESTIGATIONS
Over 2 million copies sold
A series of 9 suspenseful thrillers that introduce the reader to the secrets of Freemasonry and
offer an enlightening historical parallel to modern investigations.
English translation available
Rights sold: Brazil (Objetiva), Bulgaria (Millenium), Czech Republic (Dobrovsky), Denmark (Cicero),
Germany (Rowohlt), Hungary (IPC), Italy (Newton Compton), Japan (Kodansha), The Netherlands (De
Boekerij), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Portugal (Europa America), Russia (Veche), Spain (Random House
Mondadori), Turkey (Pegasus), Poland (Publicat), US (The French Book)
Volume 9.
The Illuminati’s Reign
12 June 2014
Freemason detective Antoine Marcas faces a secret society
that claims to come from the Illuminati.
Exile of Angels
15 January 2009
Rights sold: Portugal (Europa America),
Russia/Ukraine (Family Leisure Club)
SNCF French Thriller
Award in 2010
Marcas has to trace a conspiration whose roots can be
found in the French Revolution and that has crossed
time and places to the Silicon Valley. He would have to
find out what is right and what is wrong and escape
the trap of conspiracy theories.
“A new investigation even more enthralling
than the previous ones, instilling doubt (and fear)
about a possible manipulation of masses by
technological excesses.”
Le Point
When memory is stronger than death...
• The author succeeds in combining action,
original situations, diabolically orchestrated
developments and philosophical reflections.
“An exciting novel that stays
with you long after finishing it:
it is impossible not to recontemplate
the brilliantly constructed intrigue.”
Le Magazine des Livres
See Gilles Legardinier on page 4, 8 and 9.
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> BESTSELLERS
FRANCK THILLIEZ
FRANCK THILLIEZ
FRANCK SHARKO & LUCIE HENEBELLE
STAND ALONES
Over 1.8 Million copies sold
Rights sold: US (Penguin), Spain (Destino), Spain Catalan (Columna), Germany (Goldmann),
The Netherlands (Sijthoff), Brazil (Intrinseca), Russia (Atticus), Taiwan (Solo Press), Portugal (Sextante),
Turkey (Pegasus), Japan (Hayakawa), China (Hachette Phoenix), Slovakia (Artforum), Hungary (Gabo), Korea
(Eunhaeng Namu), Thailand (Welearn)
Film rights sold to Indian Paintbrush/Paramount
Pandemia
4 June 2015
Puzzle
3 October 2013
Rights sold: Russia (Atticus), Spain (Destino)
First rule: Nothing you’re about to live is true.
This is a game.
Second rule: One of you will die.
Over 120,000 copies sold in two months!
Action, extreme tension, moral dilemma, hidden secrets,
ambiguous characters, unexpected developments, and
amazing twist… A favorite for the genre’s lovers.
!! Watch Out !! Viruses surround you !!
•
Puzzle has been introduced as a serial in the daily
newspaper “Les Echos” from 8th July to 4th September
2013.
Viruses and germs are central in people’s minds and the
epidemics such as plague, flu or recently Ebola are hot
topics.
Sharko & Henebelle team up with scientists from the Institut
Pasteur to track down the invisible while more and more
people fall sick, contagion spreads and Evil in any form
makes progress…
“With hellish settings, among which a closed down
psychiatric asylum, characters manipulated like
puppets, Franck Thilliez has all the key to a great
suspense. And all the pieces of the puzzle fit
perfectly.”
• A massive press and media coverage for Franck who is
becoming a key author!
Aujourd’hui en France
Franck Thilliez is the author of a dozen successful thrillers including La
Darksider
Chambre des morts, awarded the Quai du Polar Reader’s Prize in 2006 and
the SNCF French Thriller Award in 2007. See Franck Thilliez on page 24.
13 October 2011
Rights sold: China (Beijing Booky), Korea (Eunhaeng Namu),
Turkey (Pegasus), Russia (Atticus)
Film rights sold
Some secrets are shameful. But would you be willing to
die to keep them hidden?
Syndrome [E] Bred to Kill ATOM[KA]
14 October 2010
14 April 2011
11 October 2012
[Angor]
3 October 2013
“Crichton fuses with True Detective in a hammering hard-science thriller where the heart
of darkness lies not in the soul, but in the genes. Thilliez engineers a winner.”
Scott Sigler, New York Times bestselling author of the Infected trilogy about Bred to kill.
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Three men wake up at the bottom of an abyss. One is
chained at the wrist, the second is chained at the ankle
and the third is free but his head is covered by a horrible
mask that will explode if he moves away from the others.
How far will they have to go to survive?
“A huis-clos that is both stuffy and chilling
at the same time.”
Ici Paris
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> BESTSELLERS
KARINE GIEBEL
Satan Was an Angel
13 November 2014
Rights sold: Korea (Balgeunsesang)
Two lost souls on a bloody road-trip
which could lead to atonement.
François has a successful life until he
is diagnosed with an incurable brain
tumour. Unable to face the reality of
his life and the reaction of his too few
beloved ones, he drives his car aimlessly. On the road, he takes on Paul,
a 20-year-old hitchhiker. Neither of
them have a precise destination, they
only want to flee but none of them
know what his other fellow traveller
wants to escape from.
When Paul’s troubled past resurfaces,
the two men, as friends or as father
and son, head on to the only outcome
possible: death or redemption.
• A masculine Thelma & Louise.
• An homage to classical gangster
novels.
> BESTSELLERS
The Innocence of the Damned
5 May 2012
Rights sold: Poland (Sonia Draga), Korea (Balgeunsesang), Turkey (Pegasus)
Film rights sold
Beat at their own game.
After spending many years in jail, Raphaël is released and soon leads
his younger brother to a jewellery heist on Place Vendôme. But the
initial plan goes wrong and William is seriously injured. The fugitives
end up in an isolated farm where Sandra, a vet, is taken hostage and
forced to cure William. But the boys ignore that they are in the Devil’s
House. From predators, they’ll soon become targets of a pitiless monster.
“In this oppressive and closed environment, the author gives
life to complex, even inhuman characters that she refuses to
condemn, the reader is the only judge. We finish the book
exhausted and seriously shaken up.”
Version Femina
The Shadow
8 March 2012
Rights sold: Germany (Berlin Verlag), Poland (Sonia Draga),
Korea (Balgeunsesang), Turkey (Pegasus), Vietnam (Maison d’édition
des femmes)
Cognac & Marseille Detective Novel Award 2012
The perfect crime exists. It is deceitful, it takes its time and, most
of all, it doesn’t appear to anyone… but the victim.
“ A bewitching dark novel.”
Direct Matin
“ Karine Giebel, a master in chilling
French thriller, hits the mark once again.”
Version Femina
Karine Giébel was born in 1971. Her first novel,
Terminus Elicius (La Vie du rail, 2004) won the
Marseille Detective Novel Award in 2005. It was
followed by Meurtres pour Rédemption
(republished by Fleuve Éditions in 2010).
“SUCCESS!! Relentless
plot line coupled with
a fascinating portrait
of a woman.” Metro
The Hungry Dark
8 November 2007
Sample English translation and Reader’s Report available
Rights sold: Germany (Berlin Verlag), Italy (BUR), Spain (Circulo
de Lectores), The Netherlands (The House of Books), Ukraine/Russia
(Family Leisure Club), Korea (Balgeunsesang)
SNCF French Thriller Award in 2009
Cognac & Frontignan Detective Novel Award 2008
A trapped man. A woman thirsty for revenge. An oppressive
plot behind closed doors.
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> BESTSELLERS
CLAUDE IZNER
SERIE
COMPLE S
TED
Claude Izner is the pen name of two sisters, Liliane
Korb and Laurence Lefèvre, who are both second-hand
booksellers along the Seine.
MYSTERIES IN PARIS
12 titles available
Over 800,000 copies sold in France
English translations available
Rights sold: US (St Martin’s Press),
UK (Gallic Books), Italy (Nord/TEA), Germany
(Pendo), Russia (AST/Astrel), Sweden (Kabusa
Böcker), Brasil (Nemo)
Each investigation is set in a famous place of
Paris.
Paris, at the end of the 19th Century. Victor
Legris is in his 30’s and works as a bookseller.
He regularly finds himself confronted with
mysteries and that’s good luck because he
loves acting as a detective. Embark with the
author Claude Izner on an unusual walk across
the Capital of Lights.
By the same author:
Topsy Turvy
21 February 2013
Rights sold: Russia (AST/Astrel)
Paris, 1998. A bookseller has been
killed in his shop. The only clues to be
found by the corpse are two Jules
Verne’s original editions that have
been mangled. Milo Jassy, bouquiniste
along the Seine, must solve the case
for he might become a victim himself...
JEAN-CLAUDE MOURLEVAT
AND ANNE-LAURE BONDOUX
Shall We Dance?
12 March 2015
Rights sold: Germany (Zsolnay), Spain
(Planeta), Italy (Longanesi), Lithuania (Alma
Littera), Taiwan (Ten Points Publishing), Latvia
(Zvaigzne), Czech Republic (Argo), Russia
(Sindbad)
The game of love, email and chance.
Pierre-Marie Sotto was awarded the
Goncourt Prize some years ago but is
now suffering from writer’s block. This is
when he receives a large envelope with
only an e-mail address written on it.
Assuming it’s a manuscript and unwilling
to give his opinion on someone else’s
work, he tries to know where he could
send this back.
Thus begins a correspondence with
Adeline Parmelan, a tall big brunette who
says she isn’t a reader like others. They
slowly get to know each other through
their computer screens revealing their
pasts, their lives, their hopes and dreams.
In the meantime, the envelope is left
untouched and soon Adeline doesn’t want
Pierre-Marie to open it… Who knows
where this could lead them?
• Everything started as a game between
the authors. Jean-Claude Mourlevat sent
the first E Mail as Pierre-Marie Sotto to
Anne-Laure Bondoux and the book is the
correspondence that followed.
Jean-Claude Mourlevat has published thirty or
so children books. The rights of his novels have been
sold in twenty countries.
Anne-Laure Bondoux is an actress, journalist
and author. She has written a dozen of children
books and she has been awarded several times in
France and abroad.
“I read Shall We Dance, and I fell in love. The
book is funny, witty, touching and engrossing
at the same time. I love the characters (all of
them!) and I’m sure our readers will love the
book as much as I did.”
Bettina Woergoetter – Zsolnay
“I really feel this book is a little gem. For me
it’s been like a revelation, since I started
reading in the middle of a busy morning at the
office and, despite all the fuss and urgencies
around me, I was totally carried away by the
story, by these two incredible characters who
made me completely forget the world. And
it’s been quite a while since I had this
wonderful feeling and so, I would be more
than honored to be Jean-Claude and AnneLaure’s publisher in Spain.”
Miriam Vall – Planeta
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> INITIATORY JOURNEY
> WOMEN'S FICTION
SOPHIE LOUBIÈRE
AGATHE COLOMBIER HOCHBERG
Things Left Unsaid
Agathe Colombier Hochberg writes successful novels dedicated to urban women and families
confronted with modern concerns.
8 January 2015
The initiatory journey of a remorseful
grandfather and his rebellious grandson.
François Valent, a 82 year-old retired
journalist, doesn’t expect anything from
life anymore. But a trip with his rebellious
grandson Antoine will help him unveil the
secrets that have shattered his whole life
and have always fed his pain and shame.
He’ll thus have to confront the ghosts of
his childhood that abruptly ended in the
Aveyron region during a bloody and untold
episode of WWII.
A trip down memory lane or a journey of
initiation, the road-trip will definitely be a
way for grandfather and grandson to fill in
the generation gap.
The Buoyant Lives of Lady M.
15 May 2015
Rights sold: Russia (Eksmo)
There is no age to change one’s life.
Hit by the economic crisis, 70-year-old Emma Mareuil has to leave
her splendid apartment with a view on the Eiffel Tower for the
family house in South-West France. Together with Edgar, her butler,
and Juliette, her granddaughter, Emma has decided to open a B&B.
Used to a luxury way of life, she will have to learn how to roll up
her sleeves.
When she starts disappearing without any reason, steals some
food and spends endless hours in the garage, her housemates start
to worry : has she really managed the transition?
Nothing personal
• A beautiful novel on the passing down
from one generation to the next.
9 January 2014
• An unknown tragedy of WWII unveiled.
Can a mother be loved only through her movies and magazines?
When Elsa suggests to her publisher to write a biography of the elusive actress Vera Miller, he founds the idea brillant. But he doesn’t
know that Elsa has an ulterior motive: Vera Miller is actually her
mother who abandoned her to dedicate herself to her carreer.
Now a mother herself, Elsa needs to learn more about her mother
and her family to understand where she comes from.
Author of five novels, detective short stories and a
children’s book, Sophie Loubière also made a name
for herself in the publishing community thanks to a
unique literary program (Parking at Night, France
Inter) and her reviews at France Info (Thriller Info).
See Sophie Loubière on page 23.
• A novel that explores the importance of family ties and roots, and
the complex nature of love and sacrifice.
• A multilayered and human exploration of a difficult, unusual relationship between a mother and her daughter.
Also available
WILD HOLIDAYS
These disastrous holidays that we tend to remember
forever…
CEO, happily remarried, Geraldine juggles her
professional and family life with surprising facility. But
even the best organised summer holiday could turn
into a nightmare and this is Geraldine’s tribe gift!
• Brilliant comedies on how people show their true
colours and come closer during disastrous holidays.
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> NOIR / CROSSED DESTINIES
> NOIR / VINTAGE
HERVÉ COMMÈRE
FRÉDÉRIC
DARD
Hervé Commère was born in Rouen. He is the author of four suspense novels
and now lives in Paris.
Frédéric Dard (1921-2000) wrote a
great number of works, using either his
own name or that of one of his numerous
aliases – especially San-Antonio, with a
total of over 220 million copies sold.
Guess the End
12 June 2014
Rights sold: Japan (Shueisha)
Noir Novels
«Everyone wants to be a piece of a puzzle, not the best nor the most
beautiful, just a piece; fitting into the puzzle, that’s what we all are
looking for, and when we do, we feel good and strong, or at least alive.»
“Beautiful as James Dean
driving at full speed on a
coast road and unsettling
as a Silvia Avallone’s
novel because we know
it’s not going to end well
but we can’t stop reading.”
Le Point
29 titles available
Rights sold: UK (Pushkin Press)
Guess the End follows four individuals who try to do their best to
fulfill their dreams or relive the past. They think they are making
choices but they are mistaken and their lives finally take shape despite
themselves. The four characters’ destiny will eventually become
intertwined, and marked by revenge, love, friendship, fear, hope and...
Rock n’Roll!
• Genre : Psychological
Suspense
• Recurrent Characters : Dual
and captivating femmes fatales
/ Men mistreated by life
• Recurrent Topic : Manipulation
• Tone : Dark, even desperate
Ripples in Water
10 March 2011
Rights sold: Japon (Shueisha)
SAN-ANTONIO
Provisional cover
Marseille Detective Novel Award 2011
Ocean’s Eleven meets Usual Suspects.
Two stories, two pieces of a real-life jigsaw that are just
waiting to be put together… to the misfortune of all.
Catching your Death
8 November 2012
Rights sold: Italy (E/O), Romania (Univers)
A series of 175 noir novels published from 1949 to 2001 written by Frédéric Dard under the
pen-name San-Antonio, that is also the name of the main character, a bon-vivant and seductive
police chief who tells his investigations.
It has become cult thanks to a specific universe and language.
« So many twists and
turns but you might well
enjoy getting lost. »
Michel Bussi
A modern Arsène Lupin.
Paul Serinen has just achieved a master stroke and the loot has been
safely hidden under his new veranda. Some years later, there are new
inhabitants in his house in Etretat. But the past is not supposed to remain
buried...
Also available
The Second Man
11 October 2012
Rights sold: China (Beijing Books)
A man, a woman, a dark love story.
A simple, almost classic love story until the man comes across a photo of him and his wife.
Only it is not him on the photo, but a man who looks exactly like him.
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LÉO MALET
THE NEW MYSTERIES OF PARIS
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> NOIR / DOMESTIC SUSPENSE
> NOIR / DOMESTIC SUSPENSE
BARBARA ABEL
SOPHIE LOUBIÈRE
Barbara Abel is a renowned author of thrillers formerly
See Sophie Loubière on page 18.
published at Editions du Masque. She is also the author of two
comedies Le Bonheur sur Ordonnance and La Brûlure du
chocolat.
The Stone Boy
14 April 2011
English translation and Reader's report available
Rights sold: US (Grand Central), UK (Sphere)
Film rights sold
• The cocoon-like atmosphere in protected suburbs,
where the pace is easy, serves as a backdrop to
tragic stories where madness and the evil flourish.
We suffocate in the open !
• In her thrillers, Barbara Abel tells the story of
everyday people who are flung into a daily hell
from one moment to the next.
A Hitchcockian suspense.
Madame Préau feels that something isn’t right with
her neighbours. They have two perfectly healthy
children, but a third one appears from time to time
and seems to be calling in for help by throwing
pebbles at her window. The police refuse to listen.
Behind Hatred
12 April 2012
Film rights sold
“The Stone Boy is an absorbing
psychological thriller.”
The ennemy next door.
On one side there is Tiphaine, Sylvain and Maxime,
and on the other there is Laetitia, David and Milo.
When Laetitia witnesses a tragic accident which
takes the life of little Maxime, she spirals into a
dangerous paranoia: is it just a figment of imagination or her neighbour has become her worst
enemy?
The Times
“This novel demonstrates that with such writers
as Loubière, Fred Vargas and Pierre Lemaitre,
French noir is in the ascendant.”
Financial Times
“If you like “Desperate Housewives”,
you will like Derrière la Haine”.
Elle
Also available
Sequel
Behind the Grief
14 November 2013
Tiphaine and Sylvain have lived together for almost
20 years. Today their couple is struggling and
raising their 15 year old son Milo isn’t making things
any easier. A classic situation except that Milo is
the son of their ex-neighbours who committed
suicide 8 years before and was the best friend of
their son Maxime who died suddenly at the age of
7. The day a new neighbour and her little boy move
into the townhouse next door, the past resurfaces…
Black Coffee
14 February 2013
Sample English translation Reader’s report available
A serial killer whose confessions have been transcribed, a vanished husband, a man haunted by his
past and a woman desperate to reunite her family. A
breathless tracking game along Road 66.
“Through a well constructed
investigation two destinies, that of Desmond and
of Lola, unfold and intersect along the mythic
Route 66.”
L’Amour des Livres
“A plot behind closed doors, characters
close to us, Barbara Abel delivers a chilling
story as it looks so real.”
Point de vue
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> THRILLERS / NOVELLAS
> THRILLERS / ATMOSPHERIC
FRANCK THILLIEZ
& LAURENT
SCALESE
DAVID KHARA
Volume 1 : Dawn’s Remnants
Volume 2 : An Eternal Night
Laurent Scalese wrote Le Baiser de Jason, Le Sang de
A surprising duo.
Blood and Ink
• Modern thrillers tinged with fantastic and gothic atmosphere.
• An unexpected friendship between two utterly different characters
la mariée, La Cicatrice du diable and La Voie des âmes
(Éditions Belfond).
See Franck Thilliez on pages 12 and 13.
6 June 2013
An author has been betrayed by his publisher.
Will his sole imagination allow him to rewrite
history?
Barry Donovan, a NYPD officer, is tormented since his wife and daughter
died in the 09/11 attacks. Werner von Lowinsky is a man unlike any other,
and perhaps no longer even a man. These two lonely people will eventually
become friends and succesfully team up to investigate.
who have both been confronted with loss and pain.
“Beyond a fast-paced thriller, David Khara depicts with humour and
tenderness the meeting of two men separated by centuries but
joined together by the loss of a loved one. Surprising.”
Métronews
“This novel updates the genre. Never have the adventures of
Dracula’s descendants been more exciting.”
Point de Vue
David Khara a former journalist, high level athlete and CEO, is now a full-time writer.
He is the author of the acclaimed trilogy : Le Projet Bleiberg, Morgenstern and Shiro
(Editions Critic).
FRANÇOIS-XAVIER DILLARD
Do it For Mummy
MAXIME CHATTAM
Maxime Chattam published a trilogy (Michel Lafon)
followed by “Le Cycle de la vérité” and a series
“Autre-monde” (Albin Michel). Pocket publishes all of
Maxime Chattam’s works in paperback.
Carnage
12 May 2010
Rights sold: UK (Gallic Books), Russia (Ripol)
A high-school student shoots his classmates: a tragic
and isolated event in New York… that is multiplying.
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13 March 2014
When a mother lead her child to take the blame for her own
crime, what kind of grown-up could he become?
Early 70’s, Sébastien lives with his mother and teenage sister.
One argument too many and his sister is sent to a psychiatrist
hospital and his mother to prison.
Years later, Sébastien leads a normal life as a doctor, raising
his two daughters after the tragic death of his wife. The
seemingly perfect life shatters when children patients of
Sébastien die, and fears from the past thus resurface.
“A 100% French thriller which restores the prestige of
the genre with a gripping story depicting, through the
viewpoints of different characters, present lives
haunted by a past tragedy, until the shocking finale!”
Trends in Riviera
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> THRILLERS / ATMOSPHERIC
> HISTORICAL CRIME / REINTERPRETATION
DAVID-JAMES
KENNEDY
FABRICE BOURLAND
Sang d’Encre Award 2014
THE DETECTIVES OF STRANGE
The Avenging Sea
9 January 2014
A former monastery, now a military hospital on the Basque
Coast, a roaring storm, people going missing and a curse... A
bewitching atmosphere!
Jean-Christophe d’Orgeix, an intern, finds out that one of
his patients has been attacked within the hospital. He goes
after the aggressor and will never be seen again.
Tom, another intern, investigates alongside the police and
discovers that other people have disappeared in the hospital
- among which another intern, seven years earlier, who bears
a strong resemblance to Jean-Christophe...
David-James Kennedy was born in
1969. He is a chemist in the Northern
France. Ressacs is his first novel,
sponsored by Franck Thilliez.
“An efficient first thriller.”
Fabrice Bourland is a great admirer of Edgar Allan Poe, Jean
Ray, Robert Louis Stevenson and E.T.A. Hoffmann.
English translations available
Rights sold: UK (Gallic Books)
5 volumes available
A pair of heroes that tends to remind us of the most
famous detectives of all times in a series of extraordinary investigations in which supernatural mixes
with real life.
“It’s as if you’re reading an Edgar Allan Poe
corrected by Conan Doyle; or the other way
around.”
Point de Vue
Madame Figaro
JEAN D’AILLON
A Study in Red
PATRICK GRAHAM
5 February 2012
Those Places Are Dead
15 May 2014
When Paris was under English control.
1421, Edward Holmes befriends another
English-man Gower Watson, an archer
wounded in Azincourt. Holmes soon discovers
a conspiracy against the King of England that
he will have to thwart if he wants to save his
friend.
A neuropsychiatrist whose only link to his kidnapped
daughter lies in a patient in a coma: is he prepared to
go beyond the dead places of her conscience?
Eric Searl is a doctor specialized in helping people
in a coma. Shaken by the death of his wife, he has
devoted his time to his patients instead of his family.
On Christmas break, he stays in Los Angeles instead
of going with Rebecca, his new partner, and his three
children to their recluse house in the Rockies, where
he is supposed to come later.
On their way up, Rebecca takes a young hitchhiker,
Liam, who turns out to be a psychopath. He leaves
Rebecca and Searl’s two eldest children on the verge
of death and kidnaps Kirsten, the youngest.
Eager to reunite his family, Searl will have to become
the hero or the plaything of a story that escapes him.
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• A clever reinterpretation of Holmes and
Watson.
Jean d’Aillon is the cult author of historical crimes
with 5 series and 35 novels with 750,000 copies sold.
Patrick Graham is the author of several
thrillers, among which L’Évangile selon Satan,
L’Apocalypse selon Marie whose rights have been
sold in nine countries.
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> HISTORICAL CRIME / 20TH
> HISTORICAL CRIME / 19TH
MICHEL MOATTI
JEAN-LUC BIZIEN
Jean-Luc Bizien used to be a teacher. He published numerous
Back to Whitechapel
children’s and adults’ books.
The true story of Jack the Ripper: Conclusions of an
in-depth investigation
A CURIOUS PSYCHIATRIST
In a London devastated by the Blitz, Amelia Pritlowe,
a nurse, finds out she is the daughter of Mary Jane
Kelly, Jack the Ripper’s last victim. Burned by such
a background, she decides to investigate the cold
case.
This is how profiling started…
A Sherlock Holmes specialist in psychology and his
dauntless assistant form a daring duo who reminds
us of "The Avengers" series.
• This novel is based on the author’s own quest.
During 3 years, Michel Moatti dissected the records
(press reviews, forensic reports, investigation
documents from Scotland Yard, testimonies etc…)
and thus gives a more than plausible face to the
famous Victorian serial-killer.
• The narrator is the only character who did not exist.
• As a sociologist, Michel Moatti brilliantly describes
life at the time of Jack the Ripper in some London
underprivileged quarters.
"With an unyielding plot that is as sharp
as a knife, Jean-Luc Bizien tells
a fast-paced story about the pursuit
of a criminal mastermind."
Dauphiné Libéré
Michel Moatti is an academic and a journalist. Retour à
3 volumes available
Whitechapel is his first novel.
JEAN-PIERRE ALAUX
Previously in radio and television, Jean-Pierre Alaux is the
co-author of an oenodetective series, “Le sang de la Vigne”
(Éditions Fayard), which has become a major TV show in France.
BRIGITTE AUBERT
Brigitte Aubert works as a program planner for the cinema and
has published fifteen or so thrillers (Le Seuil), as well as detective
novels for young adults.
CRIME & MONUMENTS
THE CINEMATOGRAPH DETECTIVE
Join Séraphin Cantarel for a tour of France’s most
beautiful monuments (Albi, Cordouan lighthouse,
Reims Cathedral, Mont Saint-Michel, Rocamadour)
on the trail of antique looters, villainous gravediggers
and other dubious auctioneers!
This series covers the years 1890 to 1900 and the
highly original plots are based on the cinema, the
opium of the decade that totally remodeled the 20th
Century’s imaginary.
“A series of investigations with France’s most
beautiful monuments as a background.”
“Orchestrating unstoppable suspense
and skillfully manipulating the art
of the cliffhanger and the unexpected,
Brigitte Aubert has begun a promising series.”
Ciné Live
La Dépêche du Midi
5 volumes available
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5 volumes available
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> HISTORY / WOMEN’S DESTINY
> HISTORY / WOMEN’S DESTINY
JEAN-PIERRE BOURS
VIVIANE MOORE
Jean-Pierre Bours has published several books. Now retired,
Of Irish-Italian origin, Viviane Moore is completely French, despite her name. Her first novels were published in 1997,
to immediate success.
he focused on his two favourite subjects xvith century Germany
and the myth of Faust.
The Headless Woman
Indulgences
6 February 2014
15 December 2014
Paris, 1581. Jean de Moncel, a young policeman,
looks for a prostitute killer. The corpse of a
headless woman leads him to Théophraste Le
Noir, a doctor working on the alchemic secret
of Life with his daughter Sybille. Thanks to the
investigation, the young woman will be able
to leave the house that she hasn’t left since
the Saint-Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.
The struggle of two women eager to fulfill their
destinies.
1500, Holy Roman Empire. In a world devastated
by plague, starvation and war, Eva Mathis abandons
her child in the church in Coswig, before being
arrested for witchcraft and subjected to an
inequitable and barbaric trial.
Fifteen years later, as the Reformation is starting
in Germany, Gretchen is growing up in a peasant
family. When she learns that she’s been taken in,
then starts her identity quest that will lead her on
the path of the greatest spirits and artists of her
time: Martin Luther, Lucas Cranach or Doctor Faust.
• Be sure you’ll be captivated by the parallel fates
of these 2 strong and independent personalities
who will stop at nothing to look for each other and
be reunited again.
• An astonishing novel between heaven and hell
filled with ideology, bravery and love; but also
realism, cruelty and suffering.
“A fascinating thriller with the wars of
religion as a backdrop.”
Page des libraries
Also available:
Mysteries in 12th century europe
“Impressive. Very clever!”
Amélie Nothomb
NICOLAS RABEL
A Liberation
ANNICK KIEFFER
Lili’s Diary
1 December 2013
After deciding to do her own pilgrimage on the way of St James
during a cancer remission, Clémentine falls in love with a derelict
hotel, where she finds, amid rumbles, the diary of the former
proprietor, Liliane. Page after page she finds the secrets and the
wound of Liliane’s past and becomes closer to Patrick a man of
irresistible appeal and kindness who proves to be intimately linked
with the Hôtel des Pèlerins.
1 Decembre 2013
Paris, August 1944 : Freed ?
A young policeman comes to a retirement home
following the murder of one of the resident. There,
he meets Odette Dulac, an inoffensive old woman.
Their meeting is the chance for Odette to let go her
past.
Paris, 1940. She is nineteen years old when she is
arrested and tortured by the SS. Freed, her
commitment to the Resistance is strengthened but
the liberation of Paris could cost her much as love
is blind when it comes to war…
Annick Kieffer enjoys her early retirement to focus on her two passions: writing
and drawing. Le Carnet de Lili is her first novel.
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Nicolas Rabel works in cinema. Une libération is his first novel.
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> HISTORY / 50’S
> HISTORY / XXth CENTURY
JÉRÉMIE GUEZ
JEAN-PIERRE RENOUARD
The Last Red Tiger
Jean-Pierre Renouard was born in 1922. He received the Legion of Honour, the Medal of the Resistance and the
3 March 2014
Cross of War 39-45.
Historical Crime Historia Award 2014
A soldier on the track of a dissident
fighting with the Viet Minh.
March 1946. French troops are sent
to South-East Asia to regain control
of this part of the world.
Dispirited after the death of his wife,
Charles Bareuil enrolls in the French
Foreign Legion to serve in Indochina.
This war will become personal when
Charles decides to investigate on an
Occidental sniper nicknamed «The
Red Tiger» who seems to have moved
over the ennemy’s side but who has
decided to protect him.
•
A story of friendship, love and
betrayal with the Indochina war in
the background.
• A novel in the vein of Apocalyspe
Now and Enemy at the Gates.
“An unexpected novel that you
cannot put down until the end.”
My Stripes Were Earned in Hell
6 November 2008
Rights sold: US (Rowman & Littlefield)
A powerful testimony of undeniable greatness.
May 1944. As the Landing approaches, Jean-Pierre Renouard enters into the unimaginable
hell of Nazi concentration camps.
“With vivid prose and striking
details, Renouard renders scenes
like a master storyteller.”
Publishers Weekly
“Renouard writes in a curiously
detached, almost passionless
manner, when one might expect
a scream of rage. Yet, the sheer
power of his experiences makes
for a moving chronicle.”
Booklist
Page des libraries
“Fascinating and well
documented.” Livres Hebdo
Jérémie Guez is 25 and lives in Paris. Le Dernier Tigre Rouge is
his fourth novel after Du Vide plein les Yeux, Paris la Nuit and Balancé
dans les Cordes (awarded the Prix SNCF du Polar 2013).
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> HISTORY / XIV TH CENTURY
JACQUES RAVENNE
HUGUES
DE QUEYSSAC
The Marquis de Sade’s Seven Lives
9 January 2014
Rights sold: Poland (Publicat)
Sade as never seen before…
Who really knows the true story
of the Marquis de Sade? Only
one man, Joseph Fouché, the
Minister of Police.
He will reveal to the Marquis’
eldest son the whole story of
Sade and his seven lives: a
libertine under Louis XV, a
prisoner under Louis XVI, a
politician during the French
Revolution, a writer during the
Directory, a madman during the
Empire era, Sade was also a
lover madly loved in return.
As for his seventh life, it’s yet
to be discovered….
• Everybody knows the Marquis
de Sade’s infamous reputation
but who knows about his life?
This fictionalized biography will
give you all the details.
• Jacques Ravenne recreates
with brio the trouble times
around the French Revolution.
Hugues de Queyssac teaches management and corporate
finance in a prestigious Parisian university.
THE BLACK KNIGHT
AND THE WHITE LADY
8 November 2012
“In the middle of winter in the year of Our Lord
1345, I glimpsed in a dream a fairy so unforgettably
beautiful that I decided to go on a quest for her. In
my great naivety I dreamt of love, courtesy, bravery
and chivalry but my journey is to be wrought with
felony, crimes, treachery and blood.”
“The author took the time to immerse himself in
the immense history and language of the
Occitan to better forget and reinvent them with
a spontaneity and vigor of language that makes
up the charm, fluidity and originality of his
book. To be followed.”
4 volumes available
Historia
“A detailed, entertaining,
fictionalized and well
documented biography.”
Midi Libre
SERGE BRUSSOLO
Jacques Ravenne is the pseudonym of a high-ranking Freemason
with intimate knowledge of the history of and culture of the Order.
He is, together with Eric Giacometti, the author of the Antoine Marcas’
Freemason Investigations series whose rights have been sold in
16 countries (see p.11)
The Archer’s Daughter
The Scarlet Shroud
During the Hundred Year’s War, a clan of carnies
will stop at nothing to survive, not even using a
cursed gift.
Serge Brussolo was born in 1951 and is a prolific writer. Gifted
with a surprising imagination, he is considered by the critics to
be an exceptional storyteller and the best in his genre, somewhere
between Stephen King and Mary Higgins Clark.
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> HISTORY
> 100% DIGITAL / SERIAL
JULIETTE BENZONI
JULIEN HERVIEUX
A LIFE AT WAR
Juliette Benzoni was born in Paris. Fervent Alexandre Dumas reader, she
began her own career as a novelist in 1964 with the Catherine series that
has been translated into 22 languages. She has since written almost 60
novels. The Catherine series, The Florentines, The Gerfaut and Marianne have
been made into televised versions.
A blog and a digital series on WWI.
Antoine Drouot is 24 in 1914. He starts a diary in which he writes
down his, his family’s and friends’ everyday life.
• Seen through the eyes of the female characters, History
• The first weekly episode thwas published on 3rd of July 2014 and
MARIANNE 5 volumes available
CAMILLE-LAURE MARI
the series will last until 25 December but could last… 4 years!
(from the Middle Ages to the thirties) is brought back to
life through these fast paced adventures fueled with
passion.
• One of France’s most read authors, Juliette Benzoni has
captured 50 million readers in over 22 countries.
Awakening
The prodigious life of Marianne d’Asselnat de Villeneuve
begins in England, at her aunt’s place, who has taken her in
after her parents were guillotined during the Reign of Terror.
Her adolescence suddenly ends the day that she marries
the handsome Francis Cranmere, whom she had secretly
been eyeing for a long time. After a terrifying wedding night
Marianne must flee and return to France where a man whom
she had been taught to hate day after day is the ruler:
Napoleon.
The first digital and apocalyptic series
published in real time!
Martin Hurston is a doctor and researcher in neuropsychiatry.
He wakes up from a coma whose real causes are unclear and
consequences huge and disturbing.
Is he an Awake? But who are the Awakes exactly?
• 21 episodes were posted (without DRM) from 1st to 21st December
2012, rumored date for the end of the world.
THE GERFAUT IN THE MIST 4 volumes available
JEAN-FRANÇOIS PRÉ
CATHERINE 6 volumes available
• Each Thursday in August 2013, 12-21 readers made a gruesome discovery in a pleasant
Amidst the 100 year war, Catherine Legoix is desperately in
love with the noble Arnaud de Montsalvy, but Phillipe le Bon,
Duke of Burgundy, is courting her with his desire. After
marrying the Duke’s silver cleaner, Catherine’s destiny seems
sealed. However, as she becomes a victim of her own destiny,
Catherine blindly follows her dream of love.
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Camille-Laure Mari is 23, she’s an Arts student. She has won a writing contest
Gilles Goello, bastard destined for priesthood, escapes from
university in Vannes after meeting a young poor aristocrat
named Judith who gives him three years to become worthy
of her. One year later, he embarks for America, to join
Lafayette’s troops and becomes a war hero. Gilles thus
discovers the power he has over women and how much he
needs them, especially after the passion that Site, a beautiful
Native American woman, incites in him.
organised with the website WeLoveWords.
DEADLY AUGUST
Jean-Francois Pré invites you to Deauville, Paris-Plage, La Baule, Biarritz and Nice to
investigate with a retired commissioner who only dreams of holiday.
environment.
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> EXPLOSIVE AND SURPRISING
TOUR DE FRANCE 2013
SÉBASTIEN
GENDRON
To celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Tour de France, 12-21 has put 5 detective stories
on line based on the tour, the quintessential sporting event of the summer.
May My Injury Be Fatal by Jean-Bernard Pouy
An Inescapable Smile by Gilles Legardinier
The Tour from Father to Son by Benoît Séverac
Deathbone Kneecaps by Jean-Marc Souvira
One Last Tour by Franck Thilliez
According to the «Six Degrees of Separation»
theory, Sébastien Gendron, born in 1970, is one
handshake away from George Clooney, and thus
only two handshakes away from Barack Obama.
Selective Recycling
6 February 2014
Discount Contract Killer.
After spending several years as a hit man,
Dick Lapelouse decides to start working in
the discount industry. He offers a complete
catalogue at reduced prices for his assassination skills to anyone who feels
threatened by any number of hassles:
judicial officer, neighbour, violent husband,
insensitive mistress, etc…
SHORT CRIME NOVELS
A hundred noir novellas.
Most of the texts by Sophie Loubière have
been broadcasted during the author’s radio
program on France Inter. Those by Gérard
Moss are original titles.
“By writing a book that brilliantly uses
the codes of the genre while at the
same time bringing a true touch of
novelty, Sébastien Gendron may just be
a very promising young author.”
Evene
“Fantastic, funny, quirky, ominous:
Selective Recycling conceals a fierce
critic of his contemporaries. The
author has hit the target: his shot is
precise and powerful, and his cartridge
is full of irony and explosive humor.”
Moisson Noir
SHORT EROTICAS
A series dedicated to sexy breaks.
Very short (4,500 characters) to short (up
to 40,000 characters), these 27 easy-toread and easy-to-access short stories are
declined in different colors depending on
the erotic content :
1 - Sweet Pleasures
2 - Spicy Pleasures
3 - Hot Pleasures
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> SF / FANTASY
> SF / FANTASY
JEAN-LOUIS FETJAINE
MICHEL ROBERT
Born in 1956, Jean-Louis Fetjaine has diplomas in Philosophy and
Medieval History. Journalist and editor since 1985, he has written numerous
works. With the success of his trilogy, Jean-Louis Fetjaine has quickly
imposed himself as one of the main representatives of French Fantastic
Fiction.
Former high-level handballer, Michel Robert is
now a journalist and a writer who collaborated with
Pierre Grimbert on the “Malerune” series.
Guinevere
13 February 2014
Thanks to Merlin, Arthur has reclaimed his father’s throne
and marries Guinevere, the daughter of King Leo of Great
Carmelide. But Merlin soon discovers that she is a demon,
a White Lady harbinger of great disasters.
THE ELF CHRONICLES
Rights sold: Portugal (Europa America), Russia (Hemiro)
A prequel to “The Trilogy of the Elves”.
“An efficient style capable of recapturing the magic
and passion of ancient times.” Le Monde
“And what if Fetjaine had invented political fantasy?”
Le Magazine littéraire
DARKNESS AGENT
Cellendhyll of Cortavar used to be trained
to serve the Empire of Light. Left for dead
by his former friends, he was rescued and
cured by Lord Morion of Chaos.
10 years later, Cellendhyll has become a
pitiless mercenary for the Forces of Chaos
and is entrusted with a mission that could
satisfy his desire for revenge.
• Cellendhyll of Cortavar, the Angel of
Chaos is a tough and nearly invicible
warrior. Between Chaos and Light, he will
cross the paths of friends, ennemies,
lovers. Duels, revenge and a lot of sex, we
bet you’ll want more!
• A fantasy series colored with violence,
eroticism, and dark humour.
• 8 volumes available + 1 Stand Alone.
”[...] short, condensed
and concise chapters [...]
simple, precise and plain
turn of phrase.”
ActuSF
MICHAEL MOORCOCK
& FABRICE COLIN
Also available:
German bombardments punctuated Michael Moorcock’s childhood
which may explain his somber and apocalyptic vision of the world. He has
been the king of heroic fantasy ever since the first "Elric" appeared in
1961.
Fabrice Colin has written over thirty novels for both adults and teenagers.
Awarded on many occasions, his works include comic book scenarios as
well as radio plays.
Soul Drinkers
19 May 2011
This episode takes place after the fall of Melniboné, more
precisely between “While the Gods Laugh” and “The Singing
Citadel” in The Weird of the White Wolf.
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> QUIRKY DOCS
> QUIRKY DOCS
PIERRE LUNÈRE
OLIVIER MAGNY
In the Guardian Angel’s Lodge
9 January 2014
If your building manager is always right
with weather forecasts, be careful for he
might be a fortune teller!
Pierre Lunère, under a pen name, is describing
his own life.
JULIEN GOSSELIN, PIERRE
MARTIN & JOHANN TRÜMMEL
Julien, Pierre and Johann created a blog in 2011. They also have their own column
in a trendy cultural magazine and they now have their own book.
Stuff Parisians Like
4 November 2010
Rights sold: Taiwan (My House Publishing), Germany (Blanvalet)
This book describes like no other what truly makes Parisian life
so unique thanks to a collection of short anecdotes.
Olivier Magny is a real Parisian: he was born and raised in
the City of Lights and shares here his spot-on analyses and
priceless insights about his city. And he does all that with
great humor and wit.
So if you want to know Paris as it is, understand things beyond
clichés, learn the tricks and phrases that will make you blend
in and have a good laugh all at the same time - this might
just be the book for you.
“Hilariously perceptive.” New York Magazine
“Indispensable and irresistible.”
Le Point
The List
8 November 2012
Who has never imagined the life of passers-by while sitting on the
terrace of a café?
“The ultimate politically incorrect book.” Avantages
“A dictionary that is badly funny.” Métro
VIRGINIE DUMONT How Do You Fail at
Virginie Dumont
Psychologist and author,
is
currently head teacher in a prevention association.
Raising Your Children?
10 February 2011
Rights sold: Russia (Sindbad)
A survival guide for parents who are imperfect
and proud to be!
Into Wine
21 November 2013
Rights sold: Taiwan (Cube Press)
An invitation to enjoy one of life’s greatest pleasures:
drinking!
What if wine was not so complicated? Olivier
Magny invites us to rediscover wine with humour
and a breath of fresh air; and shares his expertise
in order to show us that treating yourself to
pleasure is not only easy, but absolutely necessary.
• Olivier Magny is to wine what Jamie Oliver is to
food!
• A book full of optimism and practical solutions
to boost your health, bring happiness and joy.
“A pleasant and instructive read.”
Le Monde
Smile, You Are Parenting
a Teenager!
12 April 2012
Rights sold: Russia (Sindbad)
How do you define the parent of a teenager?
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Olivier Magny founded hiw own wine-tasting company that has taught French wine to 50,000 people. A native
Parisian himself, he lives part-time in the United States. When he is in Paris, you could easily find him in his wine
bar, Ô Chateau located 68 rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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> QUIRKY DOCS
> QUIRKY DOCS
STÉPHANE LOIGNON, ANNE DE MALERAY,
FABIEN BENOIT, CÉCILE COILETTE
The authors are all contributors to the trendy magazine Usbek
& Rica, a publication that aims understanding the things in our
present day that contain the seeds of tomorrow.
JADDO
Through the blog www.jaddo.fr, Jaddo uses a pseudonym to
comment on the joys, sorrows, the flaws and the beauty of the
profession.
Just After Bear Taming
THE WORLD EXPLAINED
TO OLD FOLKS
6 October 2011
4 October 2012
Confessions of a suburbian GP.
We are all “old” to someone.
Funny and full of emotion, these intimacies downplay
the doctor / patient relationship.
Rights sold: Germany (Ullstein), Italy (Vallardi)
A collection of small books that address various
subjects in order to describe, explain and play down
the importance of phenomena that some have
difficulty understanding, or that they distrust a priori.
“The series aims at bridging the generation gap."
Elle
“A good way to explain that the term “old”
does not mean anything anymore.”
Télérama
Titles availables:
Facebook
Lady Gaga
Violence
Loneliness
Video Games
Vintage
Renewable Energy
JEAN-MICHEL
ESPITALLIER
Jean-Michel Espitallier is a writer, poet and musician.
Fame
2 February 2012
CÉDRIC DASSAS
Cédric Dassas is 36 and lives in Rouen where he works
as an Emergency Doctor. He also sometimes leaves on
humanitarian missions with the NGO Doctors without
Borders.
Rare or Medium?
15 November 2012
Raw and not fictionalized stories of an emergency
doctor.
“Our job isn’t easy, we are paid peanuts, but
we have fun doing it!”
If you liked this topic, you will like
Caustic or moving, we laugh – forced sometimes – at this new
spectacle of the “show biz” society, in which we have become
actors (accomplices), more or less voluntarily.
Valérie Agha, Didier Lestrade and Gilles Pialoux
“A little book that is both pop and incisive which illustrates
the paradoxes of celebrity at any cost.”
Les Inrockuptibles
“Aphorisms and questions, lists, analysis and miscellany
all nicely fit in this work that refuses didacticism
and stimulates the thought process.”
Télérama
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> NON-FICTION / POPULARISATION
>NON-FICTION / POPULARISATION
LITTLE DICTIONARIES
OF PASSIONS
THIERRY MAILLET
16 condensed titles finally available at Pocket
70 titles available at Éditions Plon
Le Nouvel Économiste and a teacher. He also leads a seminar
at the Science-Po University in Paris. As early as 2001, he
invented the terminology “consum’actor”, which is now
commonly used.
Over 1 million copies sold
The “Dictionaries of Passions” compile wanderings
by those fervent about their favorite subject in the
form of alphabetically ordered articles. These works
are not intended to be encyclopedic, but rather
subjective essays (hence the term “passion”).
Thirteen years later, these reference works have
been reinvented in a more compact format at Pocket
under the name of “Little Dictionary of Passions”.
The best known in their field have contributed to this collection,
published at Éditions Plon since 2000, which is gathering nearly
70 titles: Max Gallo and Claude Allègre of the Academy of
Sciences, Frédéric Vitoux from the Académie Française,
Christian Millau, co-founder of the Gault-Millau culinary
guides, Bernard Pivot and Didier Decoin of the Académie
Goncourt and other stars.
Thierry Maillet is a marketing consultant, a columnist at
Marketing and its History
2 september 2010
The eternal search for the ideal consumer.
The book’s objective is to describe the advances
in marketing by demonstrating how the frontrunners in the field have always attempted to
adapt to society’s expectations.
“Spirit, humor, modesty (…)
inimitable style, lively and spicy, rebellious.”
Liberation
“[Claude Allegre]’s portraiture, demonstrates,
amazes. Long live Science! “
L’Express
“We go back through History as if perusing
a menu, with anticipation.”
Paris Match
“His France is heroic and resistant.
More than his past, it is his legend that
is brought back to life. This book is a
declaration of love.”
Paris Match
Titles availables:
Gastronomy
Science
History of France
Rock
Trains
Napoleon
Judaism
Bible
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India
Catholicism
Cats
Spain
France
Sky and stars
Venice
Languages
ALEXANDRA MIDAL
Alexandra Midal is a design historian and theoretician.
She has diplomas from both the Sorbonne and Princeton
University School of Architecture. She used to be an
assistant to Dan Graham. She is now a professor at the
Geneva University of Art and Design.
Design
5 November 2009
An Introduction to the History of a Discipline.
Based on an absolute belief in an object’s
power to permanently transform and improve
the world we live in, the author demonstrates
the ways in which design has proposed to
reform political, social and artistic circles and
how it has, in certain cases, become a genuine
political tool.
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> NON-FICTION / ART
> NON-FICTION / POETRY
ERYCK
DE RUBERCY
JEAN-MICHEL
MAULPOIX
Eryck de Rubercy was born in 1951. He is an essayist,
Former student of the École Normale Supérieure, Jean-Michel
Maulpoix teaches modern poetry at the University of Paris
X-Nanterre. He has written poetic works and critical studies,
as well as general essays on poetry.
literary critic and translator of German writers and poets.
The Wagner Controversy
Four Paths: Wanderings
through French Poetry
1st June 2011
A series of reviews on Wagner and his work.
On 13 March 1861 the composer presented a
French version of Tannhäuser called “The Paris
Version”. Wagner himself cancelled the performance after only the third representation.
In addition to laudatory and incendiary reviews
we can find in this book a review that Wagner
himself wrote about Tannhäuser in Paris.
30 May 2013
Saint-John Perse, Henri Michaux, Francis Ponge
and René Char are four of the most influential
poets of the XXth century. Each in their own
manner, they reflect the diversity of approaches
and forms that are characteristic of contemporary
poetry projects. Each of these works opens up its
own horizon into the world of contemporary French
poetry.
• Jean-Michel
Maulpoix is an acclaimed poet
himself and one of the foremost authorities in his
field.
JEAN-PHILIPPE
DOMECQ
FABRICE MIDAL
Jean-Philippe Domecq is a novelist and an
Why Poetry?
essayist.
Painter, editor and poet, PhD in Philosophy, Fabrice Midal teaches
at the University of Paris VIII.
7 October 2010
Critique’s Comedy
5 November 2015
A key reflection on the history of contemporary
art, its criteria and its wanderings.
The Heritage of Orpheus.
What if we knew nothing about poetry? “Poetic”
today is often associated with incidental, beautiful
or even soppy. Poetry, however, allows one to look
upon words, the world, even existence from a
completely different perspective, and it is the poets
who guard the harmony between man and his
environment. Through the exploration of poetry’s
founding myth, Fabrice Midal shows us how to listen
to and read a poem.
• Quotations from poets from all ages and from all
continents.
If you liked this author, you will
like Understanding Modern Art
by Fabrice Midal
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> NON-FICTION / PHILOSOPHY
NON-FICTION / SOCIETY
INTRODUCTION
TO GREAT THINKERS
Titles availables
Gilles Deleuze
Claude Levi-Strauss
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jacques Derrida
Pierre Bourdieu
Martin Buber
Jean Malaurie
A very clear overall picture of key concepts by great
thinkers from the second half of the 20th century
These guides mainly target students willing to adapt,
thanks to one single volume, to the essential points
of authors that may be difficult to grasp.
These titles have been written by a new generation of
specialists.
CHRISTOPHE BOURSEILLER
Christophe Bourseiller is an actor, journalist, writer and teacher.
The False Messiahs
25 September 2014
The portrait of 180 false Messiahs among which Raël, Inri Christo,
Shoko Asahara, Yahweh ben Yahweh, Marina Tsvigun, from 1 AD
until the beginning of the XXI century.
JEAN-PHILIPPE DOMECQ
See Jean-Philippe Domecq on page 48.
What Speed Tells Us
26 September 2013
Formula One is the most watched sport on the planet, almost on par
with football. Highly technical, entrusted to a few demigods who are
the drivers, these modern chariot races fascinate and reflect our image
as a society that is more and more dependent on the technology. The
Grand Prix, circuits, drivers write yet another page about the sociology
of the second half of the XXth century.
FRANÇOISE SIMPÈRE
Françoise Simpère is a journalist and a writer. She has published 13 books, among
which the bestseller Des désirs et des hommes.
PIERRE JACERME
Pierre Jacerme is a philosophy teacher.
Introduction to the
Occidental Philosophy
26 September 2013
Rights sold: Italy (Marinotti)
An introduction too the four pillars of the
Occidental Philosophy: Heraclitus, Parmenides,
Plato and Descates.
Without being to erudite, but not too simple
either, the author comments the fundamental
texts of Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plato and
Descartes.
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The Art and Etiquette of Polyamory
20 May 2009
Rights sold: US (Skyhorse Publishing)
This book is not a pamphlet about libertinage or the open couple like in
the 70’s, but the testimony of a complete change in our vision of love.
Also available
JULIETTE GRANGE
Juliette Grange, Ph.D, is a Professor at the University of Nancy.
For a Philosophy of Ecology
2 september 2010
This book offers to integrate the ecological dimension into modern political
philosophy and into the political regulation of the economy.
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