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rights catalogue Plon | Les Escales Literature January 2016 Foreign Rights Manager Florence Maletrez florence.maletrez@ editions-plon.com CONTENTS PLON 4 Around the Sun karine silla 5 Monsieur is Dead karine silla 6 Wild Dunes marie dô 7 We Will Cross Together denis lemasson 8 No Ice on an Empty Heart patrick besson 9 Running after Shadows sigolène vinson 10 Our Solitary Souls luc blanvillain 11 Hold back the Night denis tillinac 12 The Deadly Alliance 16 Anne F. hafid aggoune 17 Rudik, the other Nureev philippe grimbert 18 Love him or Leave him delphine de malherbe 19 Lennon david foenkinos 20 A Country with no Entry isabelle condou 21 Shapes of the Coming Day leonora miano 22 Letizia R. Bonaparte patrick de carolis 23 The Victory of Napoleon’s army valéry giscard d’estaing 24 The Extravagant alexandra lapierre patrick weber 13 The Wolves of Sherwood nicolas digard LES ESCALES 14 The Chamber of Poison 26 Red sylvie gibert carl aderhold 15 Her Life through the Eyes of a Doll 27 The Captain ingrid desjours gérard gréverand Editions Plon In 1852 by Henri Plon and his two brothers founded Editions Plon, and were awarded the title of Imprimeur de l’Empereur (Emperor’s publisher). They published the correspondence of Louis XIII, Marie Antoinette and Napoleon I. Today, Plon still publishes numerous international stars, among whom the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, Jane Fonda, Andre Agassi, John McEnroe, and works from personalities such as Sir Winston Churchill or George W. Bush. In literature, Salman Rushdie, Norman Mailer, Nadine Gordimer, Anne Rice or Donna Tartt. PLON is a leader in France in the field of the political, economic and societal documents. Its prestigious collections count authors such as Claude Lévi-Strauss or Simone Weil. PLON and the works of several French Presidents such as the General de Gaulle, Georges Pompidou, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing or François Mitterrand, as well as titles from women around them, Claude Pompidou, Bernadette Chirac and more recently, Geneviève De Gaulle-Anthonioz.PLON belongs to Editis—the 2nd publishing company in France—and to the Spanish group Planeta. Both by its history and by the prestige of its publications, Plon is one of the flagship brands of the company. Florence Maletrez [email protected] +33 (0) 1 44 16 09 30 Agathe Bourachot [email protected] +33 (0) 1 44 16 09 66 - plon january 2016 Foreign Rights Assistant literature rights catalogue Foreign Rights Manager 3 Around the Sun karine silla 288 pages | January 2016 When Louise walks away from everything for a new love and a new life in Vietnam, she erases her past and everyone who was in it. In France, her daughter, Marie, thinks she’s dead. One rainy day, Louise meets a no; a mother who mumbles while man in a train. Within minutes, staring into the void of her memory; the young woman has decided to and a child, Marie, whose needs she leave her boringly comfortable life never seemed to understand and behind for the sake of this man who whose existence she has hidden smiles at her, whose green eyes from the man on the train. look straight into her own, and who Despite her conviction that she describes the names, the towns and has done the right thing, the secret the oceans of his country, Vietnam. gradually overwhelms Louise, Marie His happiness contaminates her, and their loved ones. sweeping her off her feet. After Monsieur est mort, Karine With him, she is reborn. In a tiny Silla continues to explore how little house at the southern tip of family secrets continue to echo and Vietnam, in the middle of vast ricochet. expanses of shimmering green marshland, she discovers true love, literature rights catalogue - plon january 2016 pleasure and joy, and gives birth to 4 a son who is as beautiful as the land of his father, which has become his mother’s home, too. But Louise has left behind a husband whom she married because she didn’t know how to say Playwright, filmmaker and screenplay-writer, karine silla is the author of Monsieur est mort, a critically acclaimed début novel published by Plon in 2014. FRENCH SALE — PAPERBACK (POCKET) Monsieur is Dead karine silla 208 pages | August 2014 Does the death of one’s father signify that it is time for the end of the secrets and the unsaid, time for forgiveness? Or is it the time for resurgent guilt? for a reunion dinner that turns into novel is Vincent, the second of with too many painful memories, all a free-for-all. And now he must four sons of the Rambaldi family. of which come back to him during confront still another ordeal: how Fifteen years ago, he conquered his distraught and solitary flight will he react when he must face his his addiction to heroin by himself, from the scene. Louis Rambaldi, a father’s corpse ? thanks to an energetic plunge into monster who insisted that everyone Pascal’s Pensées, and left for India, call him “Monsieur”, had reduced where he became a foreman in Mr his wife to a slave and did his sons Kumar’s workshop, in Calcutta. no service in their upbringing, There, he tried to find a simple kind giving each of them a monthly of happiness. allowance of 40,000FR on condition But once again, destiny comes that, following his example, they knocking at his door, in a phone should never work! This sinister call from his mother: “Your father is education completely demolished dead.” Vincent considers mourning them. Gabriel, the eldest, commit a mere « formality », since, in his suicide after his father had forced mind, he burned his bridges long him into perverse sexual acts. ago. And he could ignore the Julien, the youngest, who married whole thing, but instead he drops young to escape his family, has everything and returns to Paris for failed at everything and become the funeral. And yet, once he arrives a violent junkie. And last, Tristan, at the foot of the building where who is miserable, tries to create an he grew up—Louis Rambaldi, heir identity by cross-dressing. Vincent, of a family of Italian industrialists, of course, took off in order to save once owned the entire building, himself. So, what if he were to just which he turned into a fabulous turn around and go back to India, museum to his own ego—Vincent without seeing anyone? Finally, he is incapable of going up to the decides to go upstairs, to go home, Karine Silla is a playwright, screenwriter, and director, and one can sense all three in this restrained first novel, in monologues, in flashbacks, an original and well-plotted work. A true story that has become fiction — one that Mauriac would have adored. FRENCH SALE — PAPERBACK (POCKET) - plon january 2016 apartment. He is suddenly flooded literature rights catalogue The narrator of this unusual 5 Wild Dunes marie dô 224 pages | March 2016 literature rights catalogue - plon january 2016 A funny and moving novel echoing to our lifelong quests for meaning, and our attempts to free ourselves from the contemporary individualist hubris. 6 Sebastian is an extremely busy new neighbors: a guru that speaks 40something. He goes fast, travels to his defunct wife; a cougar artist far, and works a lot. Too much? plagued by self-doubt along with Since he divorced Tess, nothing her abandoned husband and works out. Neither drunken nights his overwhelming good mood; a nor sleeping pills can shut down young, pretty and mysterious yoga his regrets, his guilt, and his arising teacher… existential crisis. Will Sebastian let go of his clothes? The alarming diagnosis of his How profoundly will be able to doctor is unquestionable: he reassess himself? needs a vacation. However, the Will this odd summer remain catastrophic state of his bank a nightmarish experience? Or account leaves no room for will it help him emerge from his extravagance. Ironically, he will devouring existential crisis? have to stay in a bungalow at camp This bittersweet novel, fun and Robinson, one that he bought to moving, filled with gleams of his wife ten years ago to make up sunshine, exposes a self quest for his recurring absence – and in against the backdrop of a midlife which he never set foot in. crisis. It also tells the story of an When he gets there, a big surprise attempt to escape from the hubris of awaits, Sebastian is appalled: Camp individualism in order to find new Robinson is in fact a naturist camp! horizons. A nightmare for this control-freak, obsessed by his appearance. Among the dunes in his birthday suit, Sebastian is at odds with the ghost of his ex-wife, his doubts and his regrets. To make things worse, he has to comply with his Marie Dô is a dancer, choreagrapher, and a comedian. Her former novel Fais danser la poussière, was adapted into a movie and met a wide audience. It sold 20.000 copies in France, and was translated to Italian by Piemme. We Will Cross Together denis lemasson January 2016 | 400 pages In the centre of Paris, Luc, a former French doctor, witnesses the murder of an Afghani refugee. Why did he have to die? On an April Sunday in Villemin Kabul to Paris, gradually unveiling Square, in the centre of Paris, Luc their truth about the murder, are is an eyewitness to the murder of woven into Luc’s investigation. an Afghani refugee. Why did he How can the story of two Afghans have to die? In order to answer the who have travelled halfway around dead man’s 4-year-old daughter’s the world in search of shelter have question, Luc launches into an dire consequences thousands of investigation that will revive kilometres away? How can a fight his own past as a humanitarian in a Parisian park echo in a village doctor, seven years after he left Nangarhâr Province? Afghanistan. This fascinating investigation Caught in his own separation and creates a crime-fiction atmosphere fatherhood issues, in attempting to while giving a face and a body explore the life of Zaher, the victim, to the issue of immigration, for a Luc is drawn into the previously multiple-narrator novel that calls unseen world of refugees and of our entire society into question. those who assist and guide them: celebrities, politicians, police officers and more… The stories of Mehdi and Wahid, two Afghans who describe their surreal travels from FRENCH SALE — PAPERBACK (POCKET) - plon january 2016 Currently a doctor in Paris, Denis Lemasson has worked for Doctors Without Borders, in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Les routes fantômes (published in 2004 by Folies d’encre) was his first novel. literature rights catalogue social workers, volunteers, doctors, 7 No Ice on an Empty Heart patrick besson 192 pages | January 2016 Vincent Lagarde attracts the most stunning women, despite his weak heart and repulsive looks. When the sublime Karima agrees to marry him, no one can understand why… Vincent Lagarde has a weak heart love story? In an atmosphere not and an equally weak character; yet unlike a Simenon novel, Patrick despite his many flaws–chronic Besson explores small and large congestive heart failure, an (overly?) lies, betrayal and guilt, stinginess close relationship to his mother, and family plotting, all over a while lack of education, ugliness—he offering a social critique that is no manages to seduce the most less ferocious for staying in the beautiful women, marry them, and background. turn them into his devoted full-time care-givers. His neighbour watches first Vanessa, then Sonia, each more beautiful than the last, move in next door—and tries to draw them to his bed and to resolve the mystery of their fascination with Vincent. When rich, beautiful, independent literature rights catalogue - plon january 2016 Karima’s turn comes, he becomes 8 obsessed with trying to understand how a woman like that could marry a man like Vincent. What event in her past could push her into his arms? Is it really just another An atypical and iconoclastic writer, Patrick Besson has had over 40 novels published. He won the 1985 Grand prix de l’Académie française and the 1995 Prix Renaudot. He has been a member of the Prix Renaudot jury since 2000, and is a feared literary critic. FRENCH SALE — PAPERBACK (POCKET) Running after Shadows sigolène vinson 208 pages | August 2015 Paul Deville works as a trader in Africa for a Chinese corporation, while also trying to find poems that Arthur Rimbaud never wrote. A gripping immersion in the mechanisms of globalisation, as well as an ode to poetry. 7000 copies sold already his tragic fate: Mariam, the Somali « A contemporary novel ; for a large Chinese company fisherwoman who feeds herself teaching us in magnificent prose based in East Africa. From the Bab with fish, not hope; Cush, a former that it is - sometimes - better to el Mandeb Straits to the Gulf of illegal immigrant whose only dream surrender. » Aden, he travels around the Horn of is to make it back to the West; | Telerama Africa in a “pearl necklace” strategy, Louise, a fellow Frenchperson, who building a network of naval bases is going back to Dunkirk with her « A poetic, wrenching and to guarantee access to the natural dissatisfaction about her life that sensitive narrative–not unlike the resources that China so desperately seems almost obscene in a place author herself. » needs. where people are dying of hunger; | Charlie Hebdo A talented economist, Paul is torn and finally, Harg, the Afar ancestor between his contribution to the who joins Paul in his quest for new Chinese imperialism and Rimbaud’s lost poems, but who can’t his dreams of poetry and fiction. ignore the damage the Western To keep from losing himself, he World has inflicted on his country searches tirelessly for Arthur and his culture. Having been driven Rimbaud’s «unwritten writing.» by poverty and war into piracy, Harg Aghast at the damage he is will be the instrument of Paul’s wreaking in a part of the world that tragic end. has fascinated him since he was a child, he flees from port to port, leading to encounters that are like pearls strung on the necklace of FRENCH SALE — PAPERBACK (POCKET) - plon january 2016 Born in 1974, Sigolène Vinson, a former lawyer, is a journalist (Charlie Hebdo, Causette and others) and a novelist. She was raised in Djibouti and now lives in Paris. literature rights catalogue Frenchman Paul Deville works 9 Our Solitary Souls luc blanvillain 336 pages | August 2015 literature rights catalogue - plon january 2016 In both his career and his couple, Clément analyses and calculates everything… Until the day he meets the emotionally damaged and unpredictable Meryl. 10 At Vogal Software, a high- try to appear normal. She is the tech company on the thirteenth boss’s daughter, and her power is floor of a skyscraper overlooking incalculable. Paris, ambitious Clément has been An unusual relationship soon managing his career skilfully. springs up between them. A new Super-adaptable, super-connected, alliance is possible, a Faustian Clément analyses, stocks, sorts and contract. Will Clément lose his takes advantage of the slightest freedom or win the place he so sign of weakness to surge past his ardently desires: a glass-walled rivals. His girlfriend, Myriam, is corner office, endless carpeting and his most faithful ally in his battle the luxury of silence. for power. Their evenings together With precision and delicacy, Luc have turned into affectionate Blanvillain reveals the absurdity debriefings about missed chances of our contemporary quirks, and and trying again. But the world isn’t questions the ties that hold us that cut and dry. Complex, messy back: the burden of parental love, life oozes in, slowing him down, all-consuming ambition, the soft overwhelming his thoughts… and fragility of couples, the tedium of leading him to meet Meryl. always having to be what people She is a young woman who expect. doesn’t go outside very much, and throws up a lot. Sensitive, strange, emotionally damaged, she doesn’t Luc Blanvillain has written several well-received YA novels. He is a professor of French and literature, and lives in Morlaix, Brittany. Hold back the Night denis tillinac 180 pages | September 2015 on the goncourt prize’s longlist 10.000 copies sold already Through the prism of a passionate affair between two lovers in their 60s, the sweetly cruel story of a generation – the lost children of the Baby Boom. This is the story of a youthful them. The tight little social circle of affair between two aging lovers. their provincial town will carry them François and Hélène are both in far away, with both crazy happiness their sixties. They are both married and deep sadness. and have children and parents in either elder-care or the ground. Split in two parts, this book is a long Indolent, absent-minded François letter written first by François, and is a doctor with an office in a village in the second hand, by Hélène. Each by the Loire River, with a view of tells about the same events, but with Chaumont Castle, and a blue-blood each one’s different point of view. spouse named Claire. Do they have the same? Bored Hélène, the disappointed wife of a nouveau-riche ad man, is the mother of a social-climbing 40-something on the verge of his first divorce. Love—the real thing—takes them a hard time believing it’s true. They dedicate their lives, body and soul, to this burning passion whose secrecy both protects and imprisons - plon january 2016 FRENCH SALE — PAPERBACK (POCKET) literature rights catalogue both by surprise. At first, they have Author of over 40 books – fiction, non-fiction and poetry – that have earned him many accolades, Denis Tillinac’s work includes Je nous revois… (I Can Still See Us… Gallimard, 2006, Folio, 2008), Le Dictionnaire amoureux de la France (A France Lover’s Dictionary, Plon, 2008) and La nuit étoilée (The Starry Night, Plon, 2013). 11 The Deadly Alliance patrick weber 336 pages | février 2016 On May 6th 1938, the Fuehrer pays a visit to the Duce, in Roma while a young archeologist gets caught in the middle of peculiar events that could change the course of History. May 6th 1938, Mussolini welcomes rebel-at-heart daughter of Bianchi Hitler in Roma to celebrate the Bandinelli is part of the scheme. alliance of Fascism and Nazism. The The attack highly threatens Sandro, Duce has planned everything for the “black” brother of Rocchi, and a this day to be unforgettable. fervent backer of the regime. And unforgettable it will be, for Torn between his desire to Claudio Rocchi included: this impress Luisa and the call to save archeologist from Predappio - his brother’s life; fearing for his where Mussolini was born - is own career and foreseeing the trying to climb the career ladder, tragedies to come; the mission that raising no objections to the misuse Rocchi once saw as an amazing of Archeology by the fascist opportunity to get a promotion propaganda. When he and his turns into a nightmare. master the Professor Ranucio A hero in spite of himself, Rocchi is Bianchi Bandinelli—a Tuscan caught up in an episode that could aristocrat who abhors the regime— change the course of History. literature rights catalogue - plon january 2016 are assigned the mission to guide 12 the Duce and the Fuehrer through their journey in Rome, Rocchi sees it as his chance to shine. Soon, he discovers that an attack is impending to free Europe of the two dictators. Luisa, the beautiful and Patrick Weber is an Art Historian and an Archeologist specialized in royalty. Since 2011, he is the « royal contributor » of a belgian radio program. He has published numerous historical novels, essays and documents, as well as movies and graphic novels scenarios. He lives between Brussels, Paris and Rome. The Wolves of Sherwood The real Robin Hood nicolas digard 480 pages | April 2016 What if everything that has ever been written about Robinhood was false? In the stark reality of 1189’s England, here is the real story of Robin of Loxley, Prince of the thieves of Sherwood, from the birth of his legend to his tragic ending. Everybody knows Robinhood, deserved—ending, and of the birth the big-hearted thief, robbing from of his legend. the rich and giving to the poor, Robinhood is an enthralling figure, living in hiding with his merry men yet there are few novels about his in the forest of Sherwood, and the life, which has never been explored passionate lover of Marianne. What in its complexity. This novel if everything was false? uncovers the man behind the myth. Replacing Robin of Loxley in a real For the first time, an historical myth historical context, in the stark and is deconstructed and relocated in violent reality of the middle-age its much more realistic, somber and England, this novel sheds a more violent context. Fascinating. nuanced light on this legendary An effective and modern writing character. for a surprising narrative, leading to Robin of Loxley never was the a sizable final climax: who is the « romantic gentleman that he is real » Robinhood? usually depicted as. Marianne never was his lover: she played a Lionheart merely spent six months in England. Little-John and his comrades were not merry men. Here is the real story of Robin of Loxley, Prince of thieves of Nicolas Digard is an author and screenwriter for children’s books, graphic novels, and television. The wolves of Sherwood is his first novel. - plon january 2016 Sherwood, of his tragic—and maybe literature rights catalogue way more crucial part. Richard the 13 The Chamber of Poison sylvie gibert 352 pages | March 2016 At the end of the 19th century in Paris, women were attempting to make a mark on the art world – and on the world itself. In the wake of the charming Zélie Murineau, The Chamber of Poisons recounts a fascinating investigation. Paris, 1880. The Académie Julian refuse the assignment of the (now Penninghen School of Art) handsome Police Chief. From is the first to open its doors to shady public houses to upper class women. Yet, life is not easy for receptions, she will help him discern them. Learning the trade of a what only the great master painters painter is an arduous, long and are able to see: the truth hidden expensive process. Only talented behind appearances. – and persistent - young ladies will Elegantly written, this novel exposes overcome the obstacles along the two fascinating realms: the daily life way. of a police station and the art world Zélie Mourineau does not lack in the age of impressionism. talent, nor character. In the past, she proved that she was up for anything, and unveiled a real talent for pastiche. When Alexandre d’Arboug, the literature rights catalogue - plon january 2016 Police Chief of the Palais Royal 14 station, hires her to paint the portrait of his goddaughter, Zélie’s confidence is shaken: Is she threatened? Does this order masks somber intentions? No matter the risks, she cannot Sylvie Gibert is the author of three novels published by de Borée. She lives and works in Toulouse. Her Life through the Eyes of a Doll ingrid desjours 336 pages | March 2013 25.000 copies sold! A close cousin to Dorian Gray, Barbara’s answer to the murderous psychosis that has possessed her is to place her life in the hands of a porcelain doll. At twenty-four, Barbara has scars than Frankenstein’s. He is the forgotten the horror she lived first one to perceive the connection through one winter evening in a between the little aesthetician and deserted park. And yet, she did not the monster who tortures men at return unaccompanied from that nightfall. Ready to do anything incursion to the heart of pain and to catch her in the act, he will not terror, bringing with her a vision, a hesitate to run roughshod over tenacious hallucination that appears the rules to stop the escalation of in glimpses in the bits and pieces violence. of her nightmares. The young But during the investigation, he woman cannot escape from this realizes that Barbara may not image. Haunted, obsessed, she is necessarily be the one controlling compelled by an undying thirst for her madness, and that others close vengeance she transfers to the doll to her may benefit from its ongoing she has just bought. consequences. And that he must And that is how the sweet and save her too. unassuming Barbara is gradually who commits the most hideous atrocities in her name. Close on her heels is Marc Percolès, a provocative and all-knowing cop whose body and soul have more - plon january 2016 FRENCH SALES — PAPERBACK (POCKET) FOREIGN SALES — SPAIN (MALPASO) | GREECE (VASDEKIS) | CZECH REPUBLIC (HOST) Born in 1976, Ingrid Desjours is a psychologist who specializes in psychocriminology. Having practiced in Belgium, where she worked with sex offenders, today she is a novelist and screenwriter. Her previous works are Echo and Potens (Plon, 2009 and 2010), both well received by critics and the public. literature rights catalogue possessed by an evil double 15 Anne F. hafid aggoune 162 pages | August 2015 After one of his students commits a terrorist attack, a young teacher turns to Anne Frank, his « Jewish little sister ». A novel that explores our contemporary identity crisis, radicalisation, the role of education in transmitting democratic principles. After one of his students commits the light? « A genuine praise of tolerance a terrorist attack, the narrator, While reminding us of the power and transmission, this beautiful an idealistic writer and teacher of books and of words, our still and introspective novel hits who was devoted both to the youthful forty-something teacher home » transmission of knowledge and to will examine his own existence, his | L’obs literature, is devastated. As a son of vocation and his country’s youth, immigrant parents who achieved many of whom are torn between integration through education, he tragic events and an identity crisis feels overwhelmingly guilty and that reverberates with the darkest unable to shoulder the burden of pages of modern European history. literature rights catalogue - plon january 2016 a failure that he sees as entirely 16 his. So he burrows into his worn He also portrays a father who was old copy of Anne Frank’s Diary, essential to his son’s education which he hadn’t opened since his about both civic and secular school days. In a desperate bid to principles, a father who ran find meaning in his life once again, marathons to try to hold back the he decides to write a letter to his passage of time. But above all, “Jewish little sister,” bringing her he looks directly at the dirty little back to life in his pages. Will his secret that no one in his family ever moving letter bring this man – who mentions: his mother’s Jewish roots. is searching for a way to make Unmentioned until that point, they peace with both himself and his era will form the heart of the tale, until – out of the darkness and back into the final, liberating outcome. Born in Saint Etienne in 1973, Hafid Aggoune has written several well-received novels, including Les Avenirs (“The Futures”, Fénéon Prize and L’Armitière Prize). He lives and works in Paris. Rudik, the other Nureev philippe grimbert 180 pages | January 2015 15.000 copies sold already! A journey into the life story of a living legend Tristan Feller, a Parisian psychoanalyst…The aura of this « An easy and often funny read, psychoanalyst, is reputed to singular man imposes such an Philippe Grimbert’s novel subtly have received a great number unusual pace in the therapeutic challenges the questions raised by of celebrities from the world of relationship that Feller rapidly the existence of those who refuse performance or literature in his finds himself destabilized by his any form of self-analysis. » consulting room. Wiser after these encounter with the star. | le monde years of practice, he enjoys this Which one will actually lead the reversal of the situation in which dance and become the analyst of these inaccessible idols strip the other? themselves of their mask to become once again, through psychoanalytic transfer, trembling children who place their destiny in his hands. One encounter with an uncommon patient will nonetheless upset his usual analytic behavior and bring him, against his will, to different light. Returning from his first visit to Russia since his famous leap towards liberty, Rudolf Nureyev confides the reasons for his profound depression to his - plon january 2016 Philippe Grimbert is a psychoanalyst, writer, and essayist. His former novel, Un secret (Grasset, 2004 – Prix Wiso and Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle), was translated into 15 languages and met popular and critical success. He is also the author of several essays, about psychoanalysis. literature rights catalogue experience his practice in a 17 Love him or Leave him Colette’s Latest Love Affair delphine de malherbe 129 pages | August 2011 literature rights catalogue - plon january 2016 Delphine de Malherbe imagines the moving confession of the greatest French writer of the 20th century, Colette. 18 1920. Crowned with success, wearing men’s suits, or displaying a young writer given to bridging Colette had been married for breast. She opened her home to the taboos, journalist and recent author the past eight years to Henry de wounded of World War I, became of a steamy play, herself the child Jouvenel, politician and editor in a court reporter and theatre critic, of a forbidden love, treats the life of chief of the newspaper Le Matin, won recognition when she was the great writer like a treasure hunt, when she first discovered his elected to the Académie Goncourt, one upon which she embarks armed infidelity. Stunned and dismayed, and launched her own cosmetic with a scalpel. she invited Henry’s 17-year-old son, line. Her loves were many and Bertrand, to her home in Brittany— varied, men and women, her actions and promptly fell in love with him. judged so scandalous she was Acting decisively, Colette denied religious rites at her burial. confronted her own contradictions Delphine de Malherbe gives the and decided to take subtle revenge reader an intimate glimpse into for the past. For the naïve 20-year the head and the heart of this old whose talent and virginity were woman of passion and subtle stolen by Willy, her first husband, contradictions in the space of an who signed the books she wrote imagined session of psychoanalysis. with his own name and paraded She ascribes a disturbing truth his mistresses under her nose. to this icon who was so ahead of When she left him to earn her her times, more outrageous than own living, (rather than his), she Vivienne Westwood and Patti Smith refined her writing skills and took combined, friend of Cocteau and to doing audacious things, like Proust. Delphine de Malherbe, a Delphine de Malherbe, one of the most talented and sensual pens among young French writers, is the author of two remarkable novels, La femme interdite (Lattès, 2006), and Vie Érotique (Robert Laffont, 2008). She is also a literary critic and a successful playwright. FOREIGN SALE — TURKEY (EVEREST PUBLICATION) Lennon david foenkinos 238 pages | November 2010 MORE THAN 30.000 COPIES SOLD IN FRANCE! TRANSLATED INTO 6 LANGUAGES David Foenkinos draws an intimate and original portrait of John Lennon, musical icon of the 20th century, imagining what he might have said during a series of fictive psychoanalytic sessions and concentrating on a little-known period of his life. After a rough childhood and a The result is an imagined series of precocious plunge into enormous psychoanalytic sessions, between celebrity, the decisive encounter September 21, 1975, and December with Yoko Ono and the years of 7, 1980, the eve of his assassination drug-fogged aimlessness, John by a mentally disturbed young man. Lennon decided to interrupt his In the form of an extended career in 1975, at 35, to take care of monologue, David Foenkinos takes his son, Sean. the universal symbol represented For five years, in New York, he did by a lead artist of the Beatles and not produce an album and shied offers the reader an intimate portrait away from a media-dominated of the man. Much more than a existence, finding pleasure in the biography, this book is above all the simple things. It was during this work of an accomplished writer. period that he took the time to reflect upon the madness of his life until then. literature rights catalogue - plon january 2016 FRENCH SALES — PAPERBACK (MARABOUT) | BOOKCLUB (FRANCE LOISIRS) FOREIGN SALES — ITALY (NEW BOOK) | SPAIN (SANTILLANA) | RUSSIA (AST) | POLAND (ZNAK) | KOREA (THE OPEN BOOKS CO) ROMANIA (RAO). David Foenkinos is the author of several novels, including La délicatesse, 2009, Nos séparations, 2008, Qui se souvient de David Foenkinos ? (Prix Giono 2007) and Le potentiel érotique de ma femme, published in 2004, for which he was awarded the Prix RogerNimier. 19 A Country with no Entry isabelle condou 312 pages | August 2013 literature rights catalogue - plon january 2016 A stowaway on a freighter threatens to impede the voyage of three Europeans. What will prevail, the desire to help him or the inclination to ignore any humane instinct and just get on with their trip? 20 A stowaway on a freighter whose life is at stake. « In the bay, the freighters at threatens to impede the voyage Leaning over the ocean mirror, anchor turned their prows into of three Europeans. What will Bohdan, Marek, and Josephine, all the wind (….) From here, the prevail, the desire to help him or the three of them loners, individuals stowaway could have swum inclination to ignore any humane at once complex and monstrously to shore, it was still possible instinct and just get on with their banal, heave the man into the sea, to throw him overboard from trip? drowning as well their desires here » Aboard a freighter travelling and their fears. This is a tale that | Le Monde des Livres between Europe and the Pacific, explores a sadly familiar subject, the discovery of a clandestine the problem of clandestines and the « Isabelle Condou’s Un pays qui passenger creates a problem for inhuman treatment that sometimes n'avait pas de port an instant three travelers who have paid their leads to their simply being thrown favorite. » way. What should they do? Turn overboard. Having spent several | Cosmopolitan him in? Help him to attain his months on a freighter, the author dream? Or just get rid of him? Their is familiar with the unique ocean- consciences stirred, relationships going atmosphere that soon engulfs are formed, ones that involve each the reader’s imagination. one’s past, but whatever their respective and fluctuating positions regarding this man who has no right to expect anything of them, the personal concerns of each take precedence over those of the man Plon has already published three works by Isabelle Condou: Il était disparu (2004), Solitude de l’aube (2007), and La Perrita (2009). This novel has been chosen by major French bookstore chains and was also awarded the Grand prix des lecteurs du web for the French novel. Shapes of the Coming Day leonora miano 280 pages | August 2006 The initiatory journey of a little girl who continues to believe in the future of an Africa that no longer knows how to love its children 80.000 COPIES SOLD IN FRANCE! TRANSLATED INTO 6 LANGUAGES GUEST OF HONOUR FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR 2015 War has ravaged Mboasu, this All along her arduous journey, she imaginary African state that is only talks to her mother, who symbolizes too true to life, bleeding the country an Africa that has lost its bearings. dry. Families no longer able to care Musango embodies the generation for their children accuse them of of those who must build without being the source of misfortune and past references. chase them from home. And so little Musango becomes a street kid. Will her encounter with the young Kidnapped, then sold by traffickers Mbalé signal a new dawn for the in child trade, she is sequestered entire continent? by pimps who use the activities of a religious sect to mask their unspeakable commerce in flesh. Determined to return to her mother, Musango escapes, fleeing across a country gone mad, victim of unprecedented moral and material - plon january 2016 FRENCH SALES — PAPERBACK (POCKET) FOREIGN SALES — BRAZIL (PALLES EDITORA) | ITALY (EDIZIONE EPOCHE) | PORTUGAL (EUROPRESS) | SWEDEN (SEKWA) | CHINA (YINPANG BROTHER PUBLISHING ) literature rights catalogue poverty. Léonora Miano grew up in Cameroon and now lives in Paris. Her first novel, L’Intérieur de la nuit, was immensely successful, garnering two literary prizes and leading the list of Lire magazine’s « Best French novels of the year ». Her latest work is, once again, devoted to Africa and demonstrates anew the power of an incisive and entrancing style. 21 Letizia R. Bonaparte patrick de carolis 400 pages | October 2014 After his two best-sellers, Les Demoiselles de Provence and La Dame du Palatin, Patrick de Carolis presents the fictionalized diary of Napoleon’s mother, based upon original archives to which he was granted access. 30.000 COPIES ALREADY SOLD! HIS PREVIOUS BOOK LA DAME DU PALATIN SOLD 60.000 COPIES! « Who could have foreseen such too fragile to rule. My daughters loved them all so much, but I have a glorious future? How can one were flighty or ambitious, brilliant suffered so. Am I not the mother of imagine giving birth to so many and fickle. Jerome was immature all sorrows? » Patrick de Carolis kings and queens, princes and and a spendthrift. My heart bleeds princesses, and to this demi-god for all of them. They enjoyed the who made all of Europe tremble? greatest honors, and today they are The flight of the eagle. The Battle stateless. They turn to me for help, of Italy and the 18 of Brumaire, a source of support. My thriftiness, the Consulat and then the Empire, this miserliness of which all accuse and we, his family, caught up in me, allows me to soften their the wake of his fabulous destiny. burdens. Named Imperial Highness by the Mater Napoleonis I have been, to grace of my son, I shall never forget, the point of exhaustion. I’ve seen it despite all the wealth and glory, all — the farewells of Fontainebleau, that the initials of my title were the retreat to the Island of Elba, limited to L.R.B (Letizia Ramolino the Hundred Days and the final Bonaparte). fall, and exile to Saint Helena. I I never allowed myself to be wanted to join him there, but he impressed by the finery of the refused. In desperation, I wrote to Empire, the only thing that mattered all the crowned heads of Europe. to me was the future of my children. Nothing. Not even an answer. I was Those who suffered the most were inconsolable. And then this death my favorites. The fate of Lucien was without honor, of which I learned the source of my greatest despair. later on. Elisa was no longer with Refusing to take orders from his us, Pauline was nearing the end brother, he would be removed from of her days, and then the Duc de the succession. Joseph, the eldest, Reichstadt and still others. My lot hesitated in his choices; Louis was of misfortunes seems limitless. I literature rights catalogue - plon january 2016 th 22 FRENCH SALES — PAPERBACK (POCKET) | BOOKCLUB (FRANCE LOISIRS) Patrick de Carolis is a journalist, producer, and host of «Des racines et des ailes» and «Le Grand Tour», programmes on France 3 television. President of France Télévisions from 2005 to 2010, he is the coauthor, with Bernadette Chirac, of Conversation (Plon, 2003). His two historical novels Les Demoiselles de Provence (2005) and La Dame du Palatin (2011) have both been best sellers. The Victory of Napoleon’s army valéry giscard d’estaing 320 pages | January 2011 What if Napoleon had won the campaign of Russia? 25.000 COPIES SOLD IN FRANCE! TRANSLATED INTO 3 LANGUAGES On September the 14th 1812, the Niémen. The Russian army Napoleon makes an entrance is defeated – which inaugurates a Moscow. His Generals are urging new era. Back in France, Napoleon him to leave immediately to avert abdicates in favor of his adoptive catastrophe. He therefore gives an son, Eugene de Beauharnais, and astonishing order to his Marshalls: focuses on peace. the Great Army will leave Moscow Two hundred years after the facts, and return to France the very next Valéry Giscard d’Estaing rewrites day. History in this original and Far from fleeing, he is actually convincing novel, shedding light on maneuvering to ambush Koutouzov, the life of the times, the war, and two and force him to attack. passionate love stories. François Beille—the real hero of this book—will stay in touch with the enemy, leading them to believe that the rearguard of the Great Army is dangerously close. Koutouzov rushes in the footsteps of the Emperor, hoping to prevent him from leaving the country. The battle will happen where Napoleon planned it, near Vilna, not far from - plon january 2016 FRENCH SALES — PAPERBACK (J’AI LU) FOREIGN SALES — ARGENTINA (EDHASA) | POLAND (SONIA DRAGA) | RUSSIA (POLITICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA) Born in Coblence (Germany) on february 2nd 1926, he won the french Presidential election in 1974. He continues to be a fervent advocate of the European Union, both polical and monetary. literature rights catalogue Once the misconception evaporates, 23 The Extravagant alexandra lapierre 264 pages | May 2010 To dare to live is to triumph over all. In the waning 18th century when Marie Antoinette presided over Versailles, amid the embers of a century of danger, abuse, and sensuality, a grand lady of England created a scandal. A true story. literature rights catalogue - plon january 2016 40.000 COPIES SOLD! 24 Her name was Elizabeth went through disasters only she « Lively, funny, bubbling, this Chudleigh. A member of the lesser could have survived. Indomitable, true» novel by Alexandra nobility, she became the King of indestructible, she stood every Lapierre is one of THE books England’s protégé and the Empress setback and then inevitably of the summer. » | Le Nouvel of Russia Catherine II’s friend. bounced back, transforming her Observateur Married secretly at 23, she hid the debacles into triumphs. Elizabeth fact in order to marry the love of Chudleigh’s will, courage, panache, her life, the wealthiest duke in all and free spirit were stronger than of England. When the secret was the forces of destiny. discovered, she faced trial and Alexandra Lapierre follows the judgment at Westminster and the traces of this splendid adventuress threat of branding with a red hot to the castles of England and on iron. History’s most eventful and the roads of Italy, France, and tumultuous bigamy trial had begun! Russia, for she left her mark on Her passion for life was equal nearly every European court. For to her passion for love, pleasure ‘Miss Chudleigh’ everything was and power. Elizabeth Chudleigh possible. Everything, that is, except never did anything half-way and indifference towards life. refused to limit her desires.She knew what she wanted by instinct, and, instinctively, she knew how to fight to get it. She weathered low blows, defeat and humiliation and FRENCH SALES — PAPERBACK (POCKET) | BOOKCLUB (FRANCE LOISIRS) FOREIGN SALES — SPAIN (EDITORIAL PLANETA | ITALY (IL SAGGIATORE) Alexandra Lapierre’s tales of adventure are always backed up by solid research as she breathes life into the grand ladies History seems to have forgotten. She is the author of Fanny Stevenson (250 000 copies sold), which was awarded the « Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle »; Artemisia, which won the Sorbonne’s « Prix du XVIIe siècle » and was elected “Book of the Week” by the BBC, and Elles ont conquis le monde : les Grandes aventurières 1850-1950, which has been translated worldwide. Her latest work, published by Plon, Tout l’honneur des hommes, received the « Prix des Romancières ». Les Escales Domaine français The only true voyage of discovery, as Proust wrote in The Prisoner « would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others ». To possess other eyes to enter the secret lives of men and women like us, in any place or time: this is the challenge taken on by our new imprint, Les Escales, under which the first authors to be published are Carl Aderhold, Vincent Engel, Diane Peylin, Gérard Gréverand and Jérôme Chantreau. From the tremors of History to somber family secrets Les Escales recounts modern odysseys in dazzling prose, unveiling lands of dream and escape. We hope you enjoy the books! Red carl aderhold 320 pages | March 2015 In dazzling prose, Red recounts the incredible story of a French family caught up in the turmoil of the 20th century. A LANDMARK PUBLISHING EVENT TO LAUNCH OUR NEW IMPRINT: LES ESCALES – FRENCH LITERATURE While emptying the house of his life and that of his family into his deceased father, Carl recovers political theater? a notebook from his childhood. On the front page in his own Brought up with the contradictions handwriting, the title is: “History of ideology and its need for an of my family”, and below “From underlying fiction, Carl Aderhold Köln to Paris, four generations tells us the story of French youth, of Aderholds”. Slowly, memories but also that of the birth of a writer, come to the surface: those of for whom the remembrance of his childhood, his family and its failure is both a consolation and a malediction. serenade of love. literature rights catalogue - plon january 2016 What kind of curse did Peter— 26 this ancestor who deserted Red is the most intimate and the German army right before powerful novel yet by Carl World War I to become a French Aderhold, inaugurating a turn in citizen—bring upon the Aderhold his writing career. In the same family? How about Georges, the vein as editorial successes such stern grandfather? Was he not as Le Chagrin by Lionel Duroy condemned to failure – he who and Rien ne s’oppose à la nuit by attempted one drunken night to Delphine de Vigan, Red draws the stop a whole SS regiment? And portrait of a French family and its what is there to say of the father, misfortunes. Pierre Decazes, a comedian and flamboyant communist who turned A trained historian, Carl Aderhold was for a long time an editor, before dedicating himself to writing. He is the author of numerous acclaimed novels, Mort aux cons (Hachette Littératures) tremendously successful selling 170.000 copies, Les poissons ne connaissent pas l’adultère, Fermeture éclair (both published by JC Lattès). The Captain gérard gréverand 300 pages | April 2016 An extraordinary journey through the 20th century, following the destiny of a Dutch sea captain across oceans. 1932. As he turns 15, Archibald In this novel of entangled Van Kortrijk, enrolls himself as adventures, love stories and ship’s boy on the Black Star, a memories, from the mists of the freighter that connects Amsterdam Low Country to sultry Jakarta, you to Cape Town. Onboard, he will will encounter Rackham the Red discover the roughness of the days and Jacques Brel. at sea, the promiscuity with of the crew, the bad food, but also the beauty of the world. One afternoon, a violent fight breaks out with the second in command on the ship, Andriezsoon. Bart may have won the fight, but he also won himself an enemy for life. 1949. Having spent a few years on land, Bart is finally able to sail without knowing that on this warm and mellow Island, he will meet the delightful Kusuma. Yet, some say that sailors marry no women but the sea herself… - plon january 2016 A former literature professor, Gérard Gréverand has worked for the Alliance Française in Amsterdam and Ankara. He now runs the Alliance Française of Nanjing. An author of children’s books and essays on language, this is his first novel. literature rights catalogue again. 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