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Cécile Cayrel - The Changing Colour of the Air

Carl Aderhold - In the Theatre of War

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Nathalie Azoulai - Juvenia

Patrick Modiano - Memory Lane

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Claire Berest - Nothing is Black

Luc Lang - Temptation

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Alfred Mo - Star of the Frontiers

Alexandra Dezzi - Rage

Colombe Schneck - Summer Nights in Brooklyn

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Nathalie Azoulai

JUVENIA

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An exhilarating feminist tale full of twists and turns.

Imagine a republic called “Juvenia”. On 27th January, in the near future, a law is passed: men are now forbidden from living with women more than twenty years their junior. Anyone who fails to comply will be subject to harsh punishment.

Juvena, a beautiful aspiring actress in her thirties, finds herself breaking the law because Pierre, the father of the baby she’s carrying, is twice her age. What will she do?

Will Pierre ever be able to abide by the law?Will Pierre’s ex-wife, fifty-three-year-old Laure, find renewed confidence

in her seduction? What if this law kindled a whole new eroticism?Any resemblance to existing situations is purely coincidental.

Nathalie Azoulai is a novelist whose highly acclaimed Titus n’aimait pas Bérénice won the 2014 Prix Médicis. Juvenia, a response to contemporary confrontations, is a welcome satire that opens up a whole new direction for her work.

NovelMarch 2020128 pages

English translation sample available

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Rhapsody of the lost time by the Literature Novel Prize Winner and the Legendary illustrator of the New Yorker.

Twilight memories redolent of illicit intrigues, nostalgia for a past remembered in fleeting glimpses that may well mask crises, formidable passions, fears and short-lived pleasures.

How better to illustrate Modiano’s unforgettable world than Pierre Le Tan’s illustrations?

This edition, first published in the 1970s, has been unavailable for many years. A jewel to discover and peruse.

Patrick Modiano is one of the greatest contemporary French writers: author of, among others, Place de l’Étoile, Villa Triste, Rue des Boutiques obscures, Dora Bruder, Accident nocturne, Un pedigree, Pour que tu ne te perdes pas dans le quartier... He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2014. His last work, Encre sympathique, was published by Gallimard in October 2019.Pierre Le-Tan was a writer and illustrator. He has written some ten books and, most notably, has illustrated many covers of the New Yorker.

Patrick ModianoIllustrated by Pierre Le-Tan

MEMORY LANE

RediscoveryJanuary 2020144 pages

Highlights

First edition in 1979

Under offer in China, Denmark, Korea and Spain

"Le-Tan’s drawings managed to encapsulate like no other the intrinsic and essential mystery of Modiano’s writings."

Vanity Fair

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Cécile Cayrel

THE CHANGING COLOUR OF THE AIR

Debut NovelMarch 2020198 pages

Commercial Fiction

Camille is a young woman who’s bored with her life and her relationship. One evening she cheats on her partner, and when he finds out he tries to strangle her. Deeply shaken, she runs away and is picked up on the roadside by Jen and Michel, a couple of misfits travelling around France in their van from one building development protest to another.

Along the way they meet Mamie, a lonely retiree who becomes a kindly protector for this impromptu trio. They start to see glimpses of the pleasures of communal life, eroticism, a rediscovery of their senses and – most importantly – self-acceptance.

An unforgettable road trip which will move you to tears.

Cécile Cayrel is thirty years old. La Couleur de l’air a changé is her debut novel.

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The love story between an actress and a frontline soldier in the Vosges during World War I.

Blanche Baulieu, a Parisian beauty, has been performing in the capital’s theatres since the beginning of the war and dreams of becoming a great actress. But times are hard and she struggles to make her mark, so when she’s asked to join a company to entertain the troops she doesn’t hesitate. Blanche arrives on the Vosges front in 1917 with a group of actors from Paris led by Sarah Bernhardt. Their objective is to raise morale among the troops and contribute to their country’s victory. Antoine comes to collect her at the station. A soldier. A quiet type. A young man. Her heart is captivated but around them the snow falls quietly. And enemy soldiers watch.

Carl Aderhold

IN THE THEATRE OF WAR

NovelJanuary 2020320 pages

Commercial Fiction

Carl Aderhold is the author of two previous novels that enjoyed considerable commercial success. His work was previously translated into Greek and German.

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Alfred Mo

STAR OF THE FRONTIERS

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L’étoile L’étoile des des frontièresfrontières

Alfred Mo

Debut Novel/AdventureMay 2020336 pages

Imagine travelling on foot across the Lebanon-Syria border in one of the world’s most dangerous regions.

There was no reason they were predestined to meet except for fate, which rolls the dice. Olivier Méri, a young photographer slightly adrift in life, arrives in Beirut hoping to secure a visa to cross the Syrian border. He meets a French international correspondent, Axel Monvoisin, who’s negotiating his next ar-ticle. An unexpected friendship evolves in the mountains and regions ravaged by violence. But then along comes the beautiful Nejma who captivates them with her presence, like a silent storm.

Alfred Mo is a war correspondent and drew on his first-hand experiences when writing this novel. He has crossed this extre-mely dangerous, stowaway’s border several times himself.

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Alexandra Dezzi

RAGE

Fiction

Paul M. Marchand

Sympathie pour le diable

AlexandraDezzi

La colère

An uppercut of a novel. The narrator, a young woman, spends a lot of time training in the boxing ring. The gym is both a safe space where she is in control and the place where she gets punched again and again. There, and in the more intimate ring of her sexual relationships, she watches herself from outside her own body as she both makes decisions and submits to what life throws at her. How does she experience the punches, is sex an assault or a pleasure, is she free or a pri-soner to her own desires? A raw and intense novel in which a young woman fights her own demons and tries to figure out where her desires originate, what primal scene sparked them.

Born in Paris in 1988, Alexandra Dezzi is a musician and novelist. She wrote her first music album, Sextape, in 2013, and her first novel, Silence, radieux, was published by Éditions Leo Scheer.

New VoiceApril 2020224 pages

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Colombe Schneck

SUMMER NIGHTS IN BROOKLYN

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August 1991 in a residential neighbourhood in Brooklyn. A Jewish man accidentally knocks over two black children playing on the other side of the street. A seven-year-old boy is killed. The neighbourhood where these two communities struggle to live side by side soon descends into violence, cries of “Death to Jews” and “Heil Hitler” ring through the streets, a Jewish student is stabbed to death, shops are looted and cars burned.

Amidst this turmoil, Esther, a Jewish girl from Paris, arrives in New York and falls in love with a black university professor called Frederick.

How can their relationship survive when the two communities are at dag-gers drawn?

Forbidden love between a young Jewish French woman and a black intellectual.

Through her work, Colombe Schneck has combined writing with family research: her publications to date include L’Increvable Monsieur Schneck (Stock), and La Réparation (Grasset) which achieved handsome sales and was translated into several lan-guages. Nuits d’été à Brooklyn is her first work of fiction and draws extensively on her experiences in New York at the time of the riots.

NovelMarch 2020304 pages

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Novel August 2019288 pages

Recent Highlights/Bestsellers

Claire Berest

NOTHING IS BLACK

Rights sold to Germany (Suhrkamp), Hungary (Libri Publishing), Israel (Keter), Italy (Neri Pozza), Koweit (Dar Kalemat, ALR) and Taïwan (Sun Color Culture)

43,000 copies sold in France


After her accident Frida Kahlo has lost everything: her body, her fiancé Alejandro and her bold spirit but, lying recuperating, she discovers the power of colour. And as if obsessed, she knows that her future is with Mexico’s most famous – and ugliest – muralist, the lady’s man Diego Rivera. And so she sets out to find him and gives him no choice but to love her in return. Together they will experience wild parties, success, scandal, travel and affairs. They will tear each other part and get back together. And they will paint.

Let’s live the life of Frida Kahlo ! Viva la vida. Claire Berest is the author of several novels and essays among which Gabriële (60,000 copies sold), cowritten with her sister Anne Berest.

Luc Lang has written a dozen books including Mille six cents ventres (winner of the Prix Goncourt des lycéens), La Fin des paysages, Mother and Au commencement du septième jour (over 50,000 copies sold).

François – a sporty fifty-something orthopaedic surgeon from Lyon – loves game hunting. He loves the fear of his prey, the danger and the defilement of it; and, though he wouldn’t admit it, he may also love the power of killing. When he is about to kill a magnificent stag, François hesitates and injures the animal in the leg. Instead of despatching it, he sedates it, hauls it into his pick-up and puts it back together, as he would a patient.

When his two children bring danger into the household, which François will take the upper hand: the surgeon or the hunter?

A family’s story of violence; part thriller, part exploration of the origins of evil.

Luc Lang

TEMPTATION

Novel August 2019360 pages

Prix Médicis 2019

Rights sold to Italy (Clichy) and Romania (Minerva)

Under offer in Israel

37,000 copies sold in France


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My Night in the Museum

Santiago Amigorena - There Is Only One Love

Léonor de Récondo - A Lesson From the Shadows

Kamel Daoud - The Painter Devouring the Female Nude

Lydie Salvayre - Walk On Till The Evening

Adel Abdessemed & Christophe Ono-Dit-Biot - Spanish Night

Enki Bilal - Behind Closed Doors With Picasso

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Narrative Non-Fiction

Saphia Azzeddine - My Father, Still Wondering

Cédric Gras - Stalin's Mountaineers

Julien Blanc-Gras - A Rather Special Envoy

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Yoann Barbereau - In Siberia's Prisons

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Midnight Express in Siberia. A gripping contemporary story of escape.

"The scene unfolds not far from Lake Baikal, where I live and love and am lucky enough to be loved, in Irkutsk, the capital of eastern Siberia. It’s morning, men in balaclavas appear out of nowhere. My daughter screams. She’s five years old. I’m arrested right in front of her, then beaten – expertly – and interrogated. Worst of all I’m branded with that ignominious word I struggle to commit to paper: paedophile. These men hidden behind balaclavas and shadows want my skin. They have set in motion an implacable and brutish process of destruc-tion that has a name, a name I know, invented by the KGB: Kompromat. Inside Siberia’s prisons, I try to understand. In the psychiatric hospital where I’m later interned, I try to understand. I’m guaranteed fifteen years of a gruelling camp. The story of my escapes can begin."

Born in 1978, Yoann Barbereau worked in Russia for over ten years, including running the Alliance française in Irkutsk. To escape his captors, he used every modern method available, outmanoeuvring the signals from his electronic tag and travelling hundreds of kilometres across Siberia using the carpool app BlaBlaCar and then on foot. A film freely based on his story will be brought to the big screen by Jérôme Salle, the director of Zulu which was distributed internationally.

Yoann Barbereau

IN SIBERIA'S PRISONS

Prison escape book/True storyFebruary 2020 324 pages

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Film rights sold

"A staggering testimony"

Livres Hebdo

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Saphia Azzeddine

MY FATHER, STILL WONDERING


A daughter’s beautiful declaration of love to her father.

Saphia Azzeddine shares her father’s story with us: he was raised by wo-men in the heart of Morocco’s largest palm grove, which was then a protected enclave, eventually he landed up in Paris in the 60s, to find a place for himself in the world. But he never really did. Caught between two countries and two cultures, proud but also ashamed, by turns a nurse and a dressmaker, it was as a stay-at-home father that he was happiest, throwing himself headlong into raising his daughter, his treasure.

With great zest and emotion but also humour, Saphia Azzeddine retraces her relationship with her father, its blessings, rebellions and excesses.

Saphia Azzeddine was born in Morocco in 1979 to a French- Moroccan mother and a Moroccan father. She is the author of the acclaimed Confidences à Allah and Bilqiss which enjoyed commercial success and were published in translation. She is also an actress, screenwriter and director.

Francophone VoiceApril 2020256 pages

Cédric Gras

STALIN'S MOUNTAINEERS


Travel Writing/AdventureMarch 2020 324 pages

The unpublished story of the Abalakov brothers, two mountaineers working for the glory of the Soviet regime.

Vitali and Evgeni were Siberian orphans who enjoyed rock climbing before becoming expert mountaineers. They carried out many expeditions between Caucasus and Central Asia, culminating in the 1930s with their ascents of the impressive “Stalin Peak” and “Lenin Peak” in the name of power. In a culture where mountaineering was dictated by the ideology of a new world, by conquering new territories and war, Vitali Abalakov would still become a victim of the Great Terror and the purges in 1938. He was eventually released. Despite having lost several fingers to a high-altitude snowstorm, he returned to mountaineering and achieved elite status again, heading up Spartak. His brother Evgeni meanwhile was found dead in 1948 when he was preparing to climb Everest.

Born in 1982, Cédric Gras studied geography all over the world. Bewitched by the vast Eurasian expanses, he travelled the former Soviet Union for ten years. He is one of the rising voices in French travel writing, producing books as well as documentaries. His well-received book L’hiver aux trousses was published by Stock.

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Julien Blanc-Gras

A RATHER SPECIAL ENVOY

Travel WritingMay 2020 Approx. 180 pages

An off-the-beaten-path trip round the world illuminated by a quirky attitude and irrepressible humour.

Halfway between a “professional tourist” and a “part-time reporter”, Julien Blanc-Gras has invented the concept of the “rather special envoy”. Ob-serving, interacting and sharing but never passing judgements, proving points or pontificating.

His peregrinations add up to a round-the-world trip, covering the five continents and a total of some thirty countries. Granted, he is sometimes overwhelmed by poverty and violence, but more than anything else he is enthused by the joy of the unknown. Because every arrival is a rebirth, and anything can happen on a journey.

The journalist, novelist, globe-trotter and documentary maker Julien Blanc-Gras has written some ten books, including Touriste, In utero and Comme à la guerre, which were well received by readers and critics alike.

A dreamlike night in the private world of the great master of the Spanish School at the El Greco Museum in Toledo.

During a dreamlike night, Léonor de Récondo looks for the most original painter of the Sixteenth Century: Dominikos Theotokopoulos, known as El Greco, in his museum in Toledo.

In this overheated museum which recreates the artist’s home, her heart beats faster.

Will El Greco, who died in 1614, be there to meet her?

Narrative Non-Fiction/ArtJanuary 2020160 pages

Series: "My Night in the Museum"

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Santiago H. Amigorena

THERE IS ONLY ONE LOVE

Léonor de Récondo

A LESSON FROM THE SHADOWS

Deep in a sleeping museum, questions about love become state-ments, and statements questions. Clinging resolutely to the thread of love, Amigorena waits through sleep and dreams for the paintings to guide him and give him answers. During this night of enforced solitude – peopled by Picasso, Giacometti or perhaps Vermeer and Bataille – he gently but in great depth explores love, writing, art and the inextricable links between them.

Narrative Non-Fiction/ArtMarch 2020120 pages

Santiago Amigorena’s love letter to paintings and the woman he loves.

Born in Buenos Aires in 1962, Santiago H. Amigorena is an Argen-tine writer, director, screenwriter and producer who lives in France. His books are published by P.O.L. His tenth novel, Le Ghetto intérieur, was a renowned success in France and was sold all over the world.

Writer and violinist Léonor de Récondo has recorded some fifteen albums and published six novels, including Amours (winner of the Prix des Libraires and the Prix RTL/Lire) and Point cardinal (winner of the Prix du Roman France-Culture/Télérama).

"Only few people have written so sensitively about El Greco."

Le Figaro littéraire

Rights sold to Korea (Mujintree)

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Enki Bilal

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS WITH PICASSO

Kamel Daoud

THE PAINTER DEVOURING THE FEMALE NUDE

Lydie SalvayreWALK ON TILL THE EVENING

Adel Abdessemed & Christophe Ono-Dit-Biot

SPANISH NIGHT

October 2018220 pages

April 2019220 pages

October 2019224 pages

With illustrations

May 2020104 pages

With illustrations

A supernatural night at the Picasso Museum for Enki Bilal, one of the greatest and most popular creators of comic books.

Two contemporary artists are on a quest for Picasso’s legendary work, Guernica. A book that celebrates art and friendship.

One of the greatest Arabic writers revisits the theme of nudes, desire and women.

With Giacometti’s statue The Walking Man as a starting point, the author undertakes an emotional re-exploration of her indignation and her family’s story.

Enki BilalNu(it) avec Picasso

ENKI BILAL

Rights sold to Germany (Kiwi), Italy (La Nave di Teseo), Korea (Mujintree), the Netherlands (Ambo/Anthos) and Taiwan (Utopie)



The concept: an author is invited to spend a whole night in a museum and writes afterward a book on his/her experience.

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Non-Fiction

Nathalie Gontard & Hélène Seingier - Plastic, the Whole Package Régis Arnaud & Yann Rousseau - The Fugitive Leïla Mustapha - Women, Life and Liberty

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Marie-Dominique Lelièvre - Scandal in a Bottle

Brigitte Benkemoun - Finding Dora Maar

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Michel Cymes & Patricia Chalon

ON LOVE

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Michel Cymes Patricia Chalon

stock

FÉMININ/MASCULINEt si on commençait à se comprendre ?

Conversation entre un médecinet une psychologue

Popular ScienceApril 2020 Approx. 232 pages

A psychologist and a doctor discuss everything about love.

“We definitely don’t understand each other… we might as well be speaking different languages!” This is more or less how a good many heated conver-sations between men and women end. Eventually, once the crisis is over, we realise that – despite our love, our good faith and our best efforts – it was all a huge… misunderstanding.

It’s in an attempt to clear up this very misunderstanding (because we are old friends, one a man, the other a woman, one a doctor, the other a psychologist), that we felt we wanted to try to get to know each other so as to have a real chance of better understanding each other’s language, despite our obvious differences.

We searched through our respective professional practices for anything that might explain behavioural differences from a psychological or medical point of view. We also interviewed people around us, particularly the younger generation, because we wanted to understand how their vision of the world differed from our own.

Michel Cymes and Patricia Chalon

Michel Cymes is a specialist doctor as well as a popular television presenter. Stock has published his commercial successes inclu-ding Vivez mieux et plus longtemps (more than 450,000 copies sold), Votre cerveau and Chers hypocondriaques.Patricia Chalon is a psychologist and psychotherapist who spe-cialises in interactive therapy. As a man and a woman, both specialists in their fields, they went about challenging each other's point of view with determination, empathy and humour.

Option: Germany (Goldmann/Random House)

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Nathalie Gontard & Hélène Seingier

PLASTIC, THE WHOLE PACKAGE

Non-Fiction

NATHALIE GONTARDavec Hélène Seingier

PLASTIQUELE GRAND EMBALLEMENT

Un document choc, dérangeant

et combatif

Investigation/ Pop ScienceApril 2020 Approx. 220 pages

A necessary book about our society’s addiction to plastic.

Nathalie Gontard has been exploring and studying plastic in her laboratory and all over the world for 30 years. Initially fascinated by this magic material’s potential, she watched as it stealthily invaded the planet, making traditional materials look dated. She found its footprints on beaches, deep in the soil and even inside countless animals.

We now need to face the facts: millions of recyclers and hundreds of in-venters of “new materials” won’t be able to stop the steady contamination of our environment. We must eradicate the source of the danger and question politicians and industrialists blinded by their belief in purely material progress.

It’s up to us to mobilise ourselves and bring an end to this catastrophic overproduction. It’s up to us to find a way of ensuring our comfort without destabilising this little planet whose tenants we are. We must acknowledge our addiction in order to reduce our consumption to what is strictly neces-sary. A perfectly accessible challenge that this book encourages us to take up straight away.

Nathalie Gontard, a researcher at INRA (the French national ins-titute for agronomic research), is one of the world’s top experts on plastics. She came to the attention of the general public in 2018 in the popular French television programme Cash Inves-tigation devoted to plastic. She has continued to further her understanding by combining her research with her experience as a consumer.Hélène Seingier is a journalist on the editorial board of the weekly magazine Le 1.

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Non-Fiction

Régis Arnaud & Yann Rousseau

THE FUGITIVEThe SecreTS of carloS GhoSn

Investigative Journalism February 2020 270 pages

As the all-powerful head of the car industry’s Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi alliance, for twenty years Carlos Ghosn personified globalisation, good fortune and success.

Having headed up Nissan, Renault then Mitsubishi Motors, he was at the peak of his career when, on 19th November 2018, his most ardent supporters threw him in prison in front of the international media. Banned from seeing his nearest and dearest or from traveling freely, he lived under surveillance while awaiting a lengthy trial before escaping to Lebanon.

Régis Arnaud and Yann Rousseau have thoroughly explored Ghosn’s life from his cell in Tokyo to the benches of the private school he attended in Beirut. They’ve met the key players in his exceptional trajectory – schoolfriends, loyal supporters, sworn enemies, investigators, business contacts and ministers – and had access to unpublished documents to draw up their portrait of Carlos Ghosn.

Régis Arnaud and Yann Rousseau are correspondents in Japan for Le Figaro and Les Échos, respectively. Well versed in the arcana of Japanese economics and the Ghosn clan, they carried out a grass-roots investigation that no other journalist has succeeded in completing, and have established the truth about events sending shockwaves through the international automobile industry.

An exceptional investigation into Carlos Ghosn: the truth about his downfall and escape.

Rights sold to Japan (Toyo Keizai)

"A fascinating insight in the life of Carlos Ghosn."

Les Échos

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The untold story of the woman who wants to rebuild Raqqa, in war-stricken Syria.

"The people of Raqqa chose me to give them a life, a voice and a democracy, not to add my tears to the torrent of theirs."

On 17th April 2017, Leïla Mustapha was appointed mayor of the former Islamic State capital; she was the only woman in an assembly of 130 men.

Who better than her – a daughter of Raqqa, a freshly qualified civil engineer, three times top of her year, not isolated but committed out of choice and necessity – to rebuild bridges, schools, hospitals, mosques, the 25,000 buil-dings flattened by bombing and the 30,000 more damaged by artillery fire? Who better than her – a Kurd who grew up among Arabs and attended their universities – to restore both the city and peace?

An exceptional trajectory, for woman who brings hope.

A Kurd born into Arab culture in Raqqa, Leïla Mustapha is in her thirties and is currently mayor of the Caliphate’s former capital in Bachar el-Assad’s Syria, not far from Erdoğan’s Turkey. She raises high and strong the standard for "another" Syria, a tolerant open Syria. Her personal destiny is bound up with the region as she guides it towards peace or chaos. Marine de Tilly is a journalist for Le Point. She travelled to Raqqa to witness Leïla Mustapha’s day-to-day life first-hand.

Leïla Mustapha

WOMEN, LIFE AND LIBERTY

Memoir/Current EventsFebruary 2020234 pages

Non-Fiction


"An outstanding document"

Le Point

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Marie-Dominique Lelièvre is a journalist and writer. She has written countless articles about Haute couture. Her first article about Chanel No 5 dates back to the 1980s. Having been haunted by the perfume ever since, she gained access to previously unseen archives.

Marie-Dominique Lelièvre

SCANDAL IN A BOTTLE

HistoryOctober 2019288 pages

Recent Highlights

Rights sold to Italy (Baldini+Castoldi), Romania (RAO), Russia (AST) and Spain (Superflua)

"A fascinating investigation"

Madame Figaro

Chanel N°5 is descended from an avant-garde perfume created in 1913. The house of Chanel was approached by the nose who conceived it, and decided to market the fragrance in a laboratory bottle, a revolutionary idea, so that all its value would lie in the rare essences in its composition rather than a showy container.

Thanks to the knowhow of the cosmetics exporters Bourgeois, run by the Jewish Wertheimer family, the perfume enjoyed tremendous international success. But Gabrielle felt she was being repeatedly robbed of her profits. After a trade war and a legal battle, she eventually reclaimed possession of revenue from her brand around the world. In the shadow of this success we discover a disturbing figure and self-declared anti-Semite, the fascinating Gabrielle Chanel.

The unauthorised biography of Chanel No 5 whose destiny is intimately bound with that of the Twentieth Century.

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Brigitte Benkemoun

FINDING DORA MAARan arTiST, an addreSS Book, a life

ArtMay 2019336 pages

Recent Highlights

Brigitte Benkemoun is a journalist and writer. She is the author of two previous books, La Petite Fille sur la photo (2012) and Albert le Magnifique (2016).

By complete chance, Brigitte Benkemoun bought a diary online, and in it she found private notes dating back to 1952. Twenty pages of telephone numbers and addresses for Cocteau, Chagall, Eluard, Giacometti…. the greatest artists of the post-war period.

When she finds out that the address book belonged to Dora Maar, she decides to track down information about this muse of Picasso. Two years of research helped her understand the role each of these artists played in Dora Maar’s life, and she homes in on the mystery and secrets of a woman who gave herself to Picasso before giving herself to God.

A retrospective of Dora Maar's work is ongoing at the Tate Modern, and one at the Getty in Los Angeles will be showed later this year.

Imagine holding the address book of Dora Maar, Picasso’s muse, in your hand!

"Wonderfully written and captivating"

Paris Match

Full English translation available

Rights sold to China (Guangxi Normal UP), Czech Republic (Grada), Germany (BTB/Random House), Italy (Skira) and USA (Getty Publications, WEL)

EssentialBacklist

FICTIONAutissier, Isabelle

Soudain, Seuls(2015)

Translated in: Czech Republic (Argo), Germany (Mare Verlag), Italy (Rizzoli), Japan (Shueisha), Korea (Jaeum & Moeum), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Romania (RAO), Russia (Phantom Press), Slovakia (Inaque), Spain (DeBolsillo)

Film rights sold to Les Productions du Trésor

Binebine, Mahi

Le Fou du roi(2017)

Translated in: Greece (Agra), Italy (La Nave Di Teseo), Lebanon (Hachette Antoine), Morocco (Le Fennec), Spain (Penguin Random House), Switzerland (Lenos Verlag), UK (MacLehose Press)

Claudel, Philippe

L’Archipel du Chien(2003)

Translated in: Croatia (Bozicevic), Israel (Sendik), Italy (Ponte Alle Grazie), Lithuania (Baltos Lankos), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Poland (Otwarte), Portugal (Sextante), Russia (Eksmo), Slovakia (Inaque), Spain (Salamandra for Castillan/Angle for Catalan), Taiwan (Ecus), Turkey (Yapi Kredi), UK & Commonwealth (Maclehose Press), USA (Little, Brown and Company).

Please check www.editions-stock.fr for further works by Philippe Claudel.

Cocteau, Jean

Le Potomak(1919, 2013)

Translated in: Brazil (Autentica), Italy (Clichy), Spain (Cabaret Voltaire)

Le Grand Écart(1923, 2013)

Translated in: Hungary (Europa), Spain (Cabaret Voltaire), UK (Peter Owen)

Orphée(1927, 2005)

Translated in: Italy (Einaudi)

La Voix humaine(1930, 2002)adapted for the big screen (“Voce umana” by Edoardo Ponti, 2013)

Translated in: Italy (Einaudi), Japan (Kobun-Sha), Sweden (Atrium)

Opium(1930, 1999)

Translated in: Czech Republic (Rubato), Estonia (EYS), India (Bingsha Shatabdi for Bengali), Russia (Agraf), Spain (Planeta), UK (Peter Owen)

Decoin, Didier

Le Bureau des Jardins et des Étangs(2017)

Translated in: China (Zhongyue Media), Czech Republic (Albatros), Germany (Klett Cotta, at auction), Greece (Stereoma), Italy (Ponte Alle Grazie, preempt), Lithuania (Alma Littera), Netherlands (Meulenhoff), Poland (WAB Foksal), Romania (Humanitas), Russia (Eksmo), Serbia (Geopoetika), Spain (Alfaguara, at auction), Taiwan (Chi Ming), UK (MacLehose Press, WEL, preempt)

Durand, Jacky

Le Cahier de recettes(2019)

Translated in: Brazil (Record), Czech Republic (Host), Estonia (Täpanäev), Finland (Otava), Germany (Rowohlt/Kindler, preempt), Greece (Patakis), Hungary (Park Kiado), Iceland (Forlagid), Israel (Achuzat Bayit), Italy (Solferino, at auction), Lithuania (Alma Littera), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij/Cargo), Romania (RAO), Russia (Arkadia), Serbia (Laguna), Slovakia (Albatros), Spain (Grijalbo), Taiwan (Chi-Ming), UK & Commonwealth (Hodder)

Harpmann, Jacqueline

Moi qui n'ai pas connu les hommes(1995)

Translated in: Spain (Alianza for Castillan/Periscopi for Catalan), UK (Vintage)

Le Clézio, J.M.G.

Bitna, sous le ciel de Séoul(2018)

Translated in: China (Shanghai 99), India (Bingsha Shatabdi for Bengali), Italy (La Nave Di Teseo), Korea & USA (Seoul Selection), Lebanon (All Prints), Russia (Eksmo), Spain (Lumen), Taiwan (The Commercial Press), Turkey (Can), Vietnam (Nha Nam)

Orsenna, Erik

L’Entreprise des Indes(2010)

Translated in: Germany (C.H. Beck), Greece (Diamantis), Hungary (Ab Ovo), Portugal (Teorema), Serbia (Laguna), Spain (Tusquets), Taiwan (Ye-Ren), UK (Haus), Ukraine (Ecem)

Sagan, Françoise

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Bonjour tristesse (e-rights) (1954, 2014)Un certain sourire (e-rights) (1956, 2014)Toxique (1964, 2009)Un peu de soleil dans l’eau froide (1969, 2010)Des bleus à l’âme (1972, 2009)Un profil perdu (1974, 2010)Des yeux de soie (1975, 2009)Le Lit défait (1977, 2010)Le Chien couchant (1980, 2011)Un matin pour la vie et autres musiques de scènes (1981, 2011)Un orage immobile (1983, 2010)La Fourmi et la Cigale (2010)

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Berest, Anne

Sagan 1954(2014)

Translated in: Israel (Sendik), UK (Gallic, WEL)

Boltanski, Christophe

La Cache(2015)

Translated in: China (Beijing Red Dot), Germany (Hanser), Greece (Utopia), Italy (Sellerio), Netherlands (Cossee), Poland (Oficyna Naukowa), Romania (Casa Carti de Stiinta), Spain (Siruela), USA (University of Chicago Press, WEL rights)

Bosc, Adrien

Constellation(2014)

Translated in: China (People’s Literature), Germany (Ullstein), Italy (Ugo Guanda), Netherlands (Cossee), Romania (Humanitas), Russia (AST), Serbia (Geopoetika), UK (Serpent’s Tail), USA (Other Press)

Fournier, Jean-Louis

Où on va, papa ?(2008)

Translated in: Albania (Ombra), Armenia (Actual Art), Brazil (Intrinseca), Bulgaria (Kama), China (Shanghai 99), Croatia (Znanje), Czech Republic (Computer Press), Denmark (Arvids), Egypt (GEBO), Estonia (Loomingu Raamatukogu), Finland (Siltala), Germany (DTV), Greece (Melani), Hungary (Ab Ovo), Israel (Matar), Italy (Rizzoli), Japan (Hakusuisha), Korea (Yolimwon), Netherlands (De Geus), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Poland (Ksiaznica), Portugal (Guerra & Paz), Romania (Nemira), Russia (Eksmo), Serbia (Stylos), Slovakia (Q111), Spain (Destino), Sri Lanka (Samayawardhana), Sweden (Oppenheim), Taiwan (Aquarius), Turkey (Yapi Kredi), USA (Other Press, WEL), Vietnam (Nha Nam)

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NON-FICTIONAlthusser, Louis

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L’Avenir dure longtemps, suivi de Les faits (1992, 2007)

Écrits sur la psychanalyse (1993)Écrits philosophiques et politiques I (1994)Écrits philosophiques et politiques II (1995)

Bloch-Dano, Évelyne

Jardins de papier(2015)

Translated in: China (SDX), Italy (ADD), Taiwan (China Times), USA (University of Virginia Press, WEL)

Mes maisons d'écrivains(2019)

Translated in: China (Shanghai Culture Publishing House), Italy (ADD Editore)

Chagall, Marc

Ma vie(2003)

Translated in: Croatia (Sareni Ducan), Czech Republic (Metafora), Germany (Hatje Cantz), Korea (Da Vinci), Lithuania (Versus), Macedonia (Congress Service Center), Poland (Irsa), Russia (Azbooka-Atticus), Slovenia (Studentska Zalozba), Spain (Quaderns Crema), Turkey (Jaguar Kitap), UK (Peter Owen), USA (Da Capo)

Cieutat, Michel Rouyer, Philippe

Haneke par Haneke(2012)

Translated in: Argentina (El Cuenco de Plata), Brazil (Cosac Naify), China (Beijing World), Germany (Alexander Verlag), Italy (Il Saggiatore), Japan (Wind Rose – Suiseisha), Spain (Amaurota), Taiwan (Yuan Liou), Turkey (Everest), USA (U.P of Mississippi)

Cymes, Michel

Vivez mieux et plus longtemps(2016)

Translated in: Germany (Goldmann), Italy (Rizzoli), Japan (Daiwa Shobo), Korea (Open Books), Lebanon (Centre Culturel Arabe), Poland (Andromeda), Portugal (Lua de Papel), Russia (Ripol Classics), Spain (Paidos), UK (Quercus, WEL)

Finkielkraut, Alain

Un cœur intelligent(2009)

Translated in: Albania (Tirana Times), Argentina (Leviatan), Brazili(Record), Catalonia (DE 1984), China (Nanjing Yilin Press), Croatia (Litteris), Italy (Adelphi), Netherlands (Contact), Poland (Uniwersytet Warszawski), Romania (Nemira), Spain (Alianza)

Le Caisne, Garance

Opération César(2015)

Translated in: Finland (Art House), Germany (C.H. Beck), Italy (Rizzoli), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Poland (Sonia Draga), Romania (RAO), Russia (AST), Spain (Ediciones B), UK (Polity, WEL)

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FictionAlcott, KathleenAmerica Was Hard to Find (The Wylie Agency)

Butler, NickolasLittle Faith (Lippincott, Massie & McQuilk-in)Godspeed (Lippincott, Massie & McQuilkin)

Cheek, ChipCape May (Curtis Brown Ltd via La Nou-velle Agence)

Cognetti, PaoloLe Otto Montagne (MalaTesta agenzia)

Comencini, CristinaEssere Vivi (Susanna Zevi Agency)Da Soli (Susanna Zevi Agency)

Fuller, ClaireSwimming Lessons (Lutyens & Rubins-tein)Bitter Orange (Lutyens & Rubinstein)

Hornby, NickState of the Union (RCW)

Hozar, NazanineAria (Curtis Brown UK)

Johnson, DaisyEverything under (Aitken Alexander)Sisters (Aitken Alexander)

Kitamura, KatieA Separation (Trident Media Group)

Kushner, RachelThe Mars Room (Susanne Golomb Agen-cy)

Miyashita, NatsuA Forest of Wool and Steel (RCW)

Niemi, MikaelKoka Björn (Hedlund Literary Agency)

North, AnnaOutlawed (The Book Group via Jenny Meyer)

Nunez, SigridThe Friend (Brandt & Hochman via La Nouvelle Agence)What You Are Going Through (Brandt & Hochman via La Nouvelle Agence)

Oksanen, SofiThe Dog Park (Salomonsson)

Olyslaegers, JeroenWil (Bezige Bij)

Poschmann, MarionDie Kieferninseln (Suhrkamp)

Puenzo, LuciaLos Invisibles (Mertin Literatur Agentur)

Reeves, VirginiaWork Like Any Other (RCW)The Behaviour of Love (RCW)

Riordan, KateThe Heatwave (AM Heath)

Singer, Isaac BashevisYarme & Keila (Susan Schulman Agency)The Charlatan (Susan Schulman Agency)

Sotiropoulos, ErsiJe crois que tu me plais (Walkabout Literary Agency)

Stanišic, SašaFallensteller (Random House Germany)Herkunft (Random House Germany)

Stonex, EmmaThe Lamplighters (Madeleine Milburn Agency)

Wieringa, TommyDe Heilige Rita (De Bezige Bij)De Dood van Murat Idrissi (De Bezige Bij)

Woodson, JacquelineAnother Brooklyn (WME)Red at the Bone (WME)

Yazbek, SamarThe Blue Pen (RAYA via ILA))

Non Fiction

Åsbrink, Elisabeth1947 (Partner in stories)

Cognetti, PaoloSenza mai arrivare in cima (MalaTesta agenzia)New York è una finestra senza tende (Laterza editore)Tutte le mie preghiere guardano verso ovest (Edt editore)

De Wever, Anuna & Gantois, KyraWij zijn het klimaat (De Bezige Bij)

Hachemi, MunirCosas vivas (MB Agencia Literaria)

Jaramillo Klinkert, SaraComo maté a mi padre (Random House Spain)

Levine, Barry & El-Faizy, MoniqueAll the President's Women (La Nouvelle Agence)

Lilla, MarkThe Once and Future Liberal (The Wylie Agency)

Mellili, TommasoI conti con l'oste (ILA via La Nouvelle Agence)

Power, MarianneHelp Me ! (Furniss Lawton Literary Agency)

Stepanova, MariaPost-Memory (Suhrkamp)

Temelkuran, EceHow to Lose a Country (Caskie Mushens)

Tuszynska, AgataRomain Gary (World rights: Stock)

Wassef, NadiaAdventures of a Bookseller in Cairo (PFD)

Westerman, FrankWij, de Mens (Singel)

Wong, JoshuaUnfree Speech (PRH)

Yazbek, SamarThe Crossing (RAYA via ILA)Ninenteen Women: Tales of resilience from Syria (RAYA via ILA)

Young, RosamundThe Secret Life of Cows (Faber & Faber)

Foreign acquisitions

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