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Susanna Lea Associates
PARIS - NEW YORK - LONDON
Frankfurt 2019
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FICTION NON-FICTION
Marc Levy Ghost in Love 6 Denis Mukwege The Power of Women 32
Sabri Louatah 404 8 Estelle Shirbon A Briefcase Full of Cash 34
Roland Portiche Ernetti's Machine 10 Ayaan Hirsi Ali Prey 36
Violaine Huisman Rose Désert 12 de Maigret & Mas Older but Better, but Older 38
Raphael Montes A Woman in the Dark 14 Charlotte Sarkozy Men Are Like Melons 40
Simon Van Booy Kentucky 16 Marie Phillips Create Your Own Midlife Crisis 42
Diane Ducret Walk of the Flamingo 18 Ole Sønnichsen One Dollar Man 44
Alice O'Keeffe On the Up 19 Séverine Auteserre The Frontlines of Peace 46
Andrea Carter Murder at Greysbridge 20 François Busnel America 47
Susan Spindler Surrogate 21 Fabrice Midal Three Minutes of Philosophy per Day 48
Owen Matthews Black Sun 22 Gabriel Perlemuter The Bacteria that Govern Our Brain 50
Marie Robert There's No Limit to What You Camus 52
Annabelle Roberts Suit Up Loser! 53
Malene Rydahl To Reply, or Not to Reply 54
Alexandre Mars No Bullshit 55
CHILDREN'S / YOUNG ADULT
Stefania Rousselle Amour 56
Nataël Trapp In Between Days 26 L'Officine Universelle Buly An Atlas of Natural Beauty 58
Simon Van Booy Dust Bunnies 28
Eli Anderson Mila Hunt 29 TMA NON-FICTION
Owen Matthews An Impeccable Spy 62
Ivan Krastev & Stephen Holmes The Light That Failed 64
Ivan Krastev The Future of Democracy 65
David Goodhart Head, Hand, Heart 66
Paul Morland Tomorrow's People 68
Ian Leslie Tough Talk 69
Ruth Brandon Duchamp in New York 70
Nicholas Humphrey Sentience 71
Armand D'Angour Socrates in Love 72
Nick Fry Survive. Drive. Win. 74
Jonathan Rowson The Moves That Matter 75
Joanna Jolly Red River Girl 76
Tobias Buck After the Fall 77
Marc Levy PRAISE FOR GHOST IN LOVE: PREVIOUS
PUBLISHERS:
”The new Marc Levy tugs at our heartstrings from the
GHOST IN first page to the last. We may all know that ghosts don’t
exist in real life, but we go along for the ride – and
Albania | Toena
Arabic | Al Tanweer
Azerbaijan | Qanun
LOVE laugh, often with tears in our eyes.” — LE PARISIEN
Bosnia | Bosanska Rijec
Bulgaria | Colibri
Brazil | Planeta
"Light and funny, Marc Levy's newest is reminiscent of China | China South Booky
Fiction / 373 pages the Golden Age of Hollywood's greatest comedies. The Croatia | Stilus Knjiga
Czech Republic | Mlada Fronta
Material: copies in French, manuscript in English reader will relish in its most hilarious moments. Beyond
Denmark | Turbulenz
Publication: May 2019 pure comedy, this novel has a personal touch, one that Estonia | Ersen
France | Laffont/Versilio
Marc Levy Fanpage - @marc_levy lies beneath the surface of many of Levy's books – that
Germany | Blanvalet
of his father's shadow. ” —AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Greece | Mati
Netherlands | Luitingh-Sijthoff
They have three days to get to San Francisco. “A really endearing ghost story. Marc Levy summons Hungary | Tericum
Indonesia | Bentang
Three days to fulfill the promise of a lifetime. the supernatural and builds a story you really want to
Israel | Yedioth
believe in.” —ELLE Italy | Rizzoli
Latvia | Kontinent
"Funny and moving. It’s the story of the love between Marathi | Mehta
What would you do if a ghost suddenly appeared in your living room and
a man and a woman, and a father and his son. It’s Montenegro | Nova Knjiga
asked you to do the unthinkable—so that he could fulfill his last wish? Norway | Panta Forlag
about love and belonging – it takes us back to the Poland | Sonia Draga
Would you be ready to drop everything and pack your bags, no matter how fundamentals.” — EUROPE 1 Portugal | Bertrand
Romania | Trei
crazy it seemed?
“A book dedicated to parental and filial love." Russia | Azbooka-Atticus
— FRANCE INFO Serbia | Laguna
And how about if this ghost was your father…? Spain | HarperCollins
Sweden | Sekwa
Thomas, a piano virtuoso, embarks on a whirlwind adventure with the ghost Thailand | Amarin
Turkey | Can Yayinlari
of his father: a life-changing journey to make up for lost time, and a chance
Ukraine | Hemiro
encounter... US & UK | Amazon Crossing
Vietnam | Nha Nam
In the tradition of Frank Capra and Billy Wilder, Ghost in Love makes you want MARC LEVY is the author of 20 novels, published in 49
to believe in the unbelievable. languages. With over 45 million copies sold, he is the most
read French author alive today. After winning the hearts of
European readers, his success has expanded to countries
"Funny, lighthearted, yet thoughtful – it's wonderful to
be haunted by this ghost in love." —LA VOIX DU NORD around the globe. In the past year, over 2.5 million copies of
his books were sold in China alone.
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Sabri Louatah an illegal ethnic survey revealed that 40.4% of its inhabitants were of Algerian
origin. The survey is fake, designed to divide the country and damage Allia,
404 who is also of Algerian origin.
But that which is fake can still be fertile: as 404 grows in popularity, the
unleashed fantasies fueled by this imaginary percentage give way to a series
of events and outbreaks of violence that spiral out of control.
Fiction / 300 pages 404 is the tale of a magnetic, powerful woman and the three men who
Material: manuscript in French inescapably gravitate around her: her ex, Malik, a rural doctor and mayor of a
Publication: February 2020 small town; Kader, a bitcoin billionaire who uses his pension funds to buy up
the farmlands in the Allier region; and finally Ali, an (overly) discreet member
of her 404 team who lives vicariously through Allia and is utterly obsessed
Imagine a technology that can undermine deepfakes with her ascension…
in a post-truth world torn apart by
separatism and segregation… A political and technological thriller, 404 is a compelling, razor-sharp
exploration of our blind spots: the things we choose – as a society – not to
The year is 2022. A wave of panic is sweeping across the globe in the wake see, and how those very same things come back to
of a new, unprecedented technological scourge: mirages. Previously known haunt us with a strength that is tenfold.
as deepfakes, these AI-engineered videos are indistinguishable from the real
thing, thanks to advanced AI that can mimic voice, movement, and image to
perfection. These mirages multiply more swiftly than the means to identify
“BRILLIANTLY COMBINES SHAKESPEAREAN
them, and soon hyper-realistic fake videos are everywhere. They are exploited
TRAGEDY AND POLITICAL THRILLER.”
for political gain, disrupting even the highest echelons of international power.
— TÉLÉRAMA
The time for believing your eyes is over.
Allia, a graduate engineer who had left for the Silicon Valley, returns to France
with what she is convinced is the antidote: 404, a livestreaming platform that
prevents any editing or recording of videos. 404 makes images unfalsifiable, SABRI LOUATAH lives in Philadelphia. He is the author The Savages, from
for they exist purely in the moment they’re streamed. which he cocreated the Canal+ TV series.
Allia tests out 404 in Allier – the region where she was born, situated precisely PREVIOUS PUBLISHERS: Algeria (Chihab), France (Flammarion/Versilio),
in the middle of France. Allier has become the stage of fierce debate ever since Germany (Heyne Hardcore), Italy (Mondadori), Netherlands (Luitingh-Sijthoff),
Poland (Foksal), Serbia (Evro), Spain (RH Mondadori), Turkey (Trend), UK
(Corsair/Little, Brown), Film/TV (Chic Films & Canal+).
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Roland Portiche Ernetti needs help in building the machine and calls upon top-class physicists
from around the world to come to the Vatican. The operation is kept top secret
ERNETTI'S – no one else in the Vatican knows what is going on behind closed doors, and
even the physicists who are flown in are told only part of the scheme.
MACHINE But this surge of secret activity in the Vatican immediately raises suspicions.
The KGB and the CIA separately come to the same conclusion: the Vatican
must be trying to build its own atomic bomb – because why, otherwise, would
Historical Fiction / 377 pages
they need so many physicists?
Material: manuscript in French
Publication: 2020 Carvalho, a fanatical Brazilian high-ranking bishop – who has his own personal
ambitions within the Vatican – is convinced that the Pope is plotting something
big, and he is determined to find out what it is before the Pope succeeds.
Based on the incredible true story of a priest Meanwhile, the Mossad is keeping a close eye on the mysterious comings and
who invented a machine to look back in time... goings in St. Peter’s Square. It is not long before the Israelis decide to send
in their own undercover agent, a brilliant young archaeologist called Natasha.
Between 1955 and 1965, within the walls of the Vatican, a priest called Emilio
Ernetti set out to build a machine that could look back in time. We don’t know From the restless pews of the Catholic church to the depths of the Amazon
exactly what Ernetti discovered – but we do know that the machine was later jungle and the arid sands of the Judaean Desert, Father Ernetti finds himself
dismantled under the orders of Pope Paul VI and hidden in a cellar in the caught up in an international intrigue and on the run.
Vatican. Apparently, it is still there today.
Everyone has a reason to want this machine. But it seems that no one has
This true story is the starting point of a page-turning thriller set against the stopped to think about the consequences of looking back in time. What
backdrop of the Cold War, at a time when the world was caught in a crisis of happens when a true image is held up against our imagined one; what
faith, and Christianity under siege. happens when faith is confronted with reality?
It all begins when the Pope receives a strange letter from an Italian quantum
physicist that tells of a mysterious formula. The Pope approaches Father Emilio
ROLAND PORTICHE holds a PhD in philosophy and has
Ernetti and asks him to bring this formula to life.
written and directed several of French television’s most
Behind this mad plan is an even madder one: if the machine can look back in viewed and respected science and history shows. He
time, could it peer back as far as the era of the Gospels? What better way to has also written non-fiction books. The Ernetti Machine
win people over to the Church than to show them that the Bible is true? is his first novel in a trilogy featuring Father Ernetti and
Natasha, the Mossad undercover agent.
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Violaine Huisman PRAISE FOR ROSE DÉSERT:
ROSE DÉSERT “Sumptuous… combines refined classicism and implacable crudity. This
second novel attests to Huisman’s rare talent.” — MARIE CLAIRE
”A work of great elegance.” — VOGUE
”Abrupt, intense, passionate – sparkling so brightly that it hypnotizes the
Literary Fiction / 240 pages reader.” — LE POINT
Material: copies in French
”Her style has an almost hypnotic power. At times gentle, at others abrupt,
Publication: September 2019 even roughly erotic, she conveys equally well the beauty of wilderness and the
agony of desire, the havoc of madness and the pain of loss.” — L’EXPRESS
“Violaine Huisman confirms her unique talent… This is a
boldly literary work, an account of a metamorphosis.”
—LE MONDE PRAISE FOR FUGITIVE PARCE QUE REINE,
WINNER OF THE PRIX MARIE CLAIRE AND PRIX FRANCOISE SAGAN:
After a breakup that leaves her devastated and depleted, Violaine ”It’s poignant, terribly alive… Dignified and devastating, a superb monument
leaves New York to travel across the Sahara, from Morocco to Senegal. to a woman who spent her whole life in flight.” — LE MONDE
Underlying this improbable and dangerous journey is grief for the loss
of her extraordinary mother, and the need to reclaim her identity. ”A sparkling debut.” — ELLE
"A magnificent ode. Her prose abounds with literary force.” — LE POINT
The journey is a call to revisit her past relationships, in a fearless confrontation
of the taboos around desire and the search for love.
”What is the female condition? […]
VIOLAINE HUISMAN was born in Paris
This book is a remarkable illustration of it.”
in 1979 and has lived and worked in
— LIBÉRATION
New York for the past twenty years. Her
translations into French include David
PREVIOUS PUBLISHERS: France (Gallimard), Germany (Fischer), Netherlands Grann’s True Crime and Ben Lerner’s The
(De Geus), Korea (Sigongsa), Italy (Bompiani), Spain (Hoja de Lata), UK (Virago), Hatred of Poetry.
US/NA (Scribner).
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Raphael Montes “Raphael is an author who masterfully controls
tension during the narrative... An electrifying pace,
A WOMAN IN full of shocking and macabre twists and turns.”
— THE GUARDIAN
THE DARK ”Raphael Montes takes crucial risks, and PREVIOUS
they always pay off. He makes the reader PUBLISHERS:
Czech Republic | Albatros
an accomplice, expertly shuffling the cards,
Thriller / 280 pages Denmark | Gyldendal
taking us backwards and forwards through
Material: copies in Portuguese, manuscript in English France | Editions du Masque
time, keeping us hooked from start to finish.” French Canada | Hurtubise
Publication: May 2019
— O GLOBO Germany | Blanvalet
@raphael_montes
Netherlands | Cargo/De Bezige Bij
Italy | Einaudi
A stunning new psychological thriller from Norway | Cappelen Damm
Poland | Filia
the Brazilian bestselling author.
Portugal | Objectiva
Spain | Penguin Random House
When Victoria's terrible past resurfaces, she knows Taiwan | Fantasy
there are only three people she can trust. Turkey | Dogan
The problem? One of them is a killer. US | Penguin Press
UK | Harvill Secker
Victoria Bravo was four years old when a man broke into her home and stabbed
her family to death. The sole survivor, she is now a shy, solitary young woman
in Rio, with recurring nightmares and serious relationship issues.
But when the past comes knocking on her door, Victoria is forced to face her
own personal tragedy and embark on a voyage that throws open her own
darkest recesses, but also the possibility of a new beginning.
A Woman in the Dark reinforces Raphael Montes's status RAPHAEL MONTES was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1990.
as one of the world's most original young suspense writers. A lawyer and a writer, his novels include Roulette, Perfect
Days, The Village and Secret Dinner. His four novels are
currently being adapted for film by RT Features (Call Me
PUBLISHER: Brazil (Companhia das Letras). By Your Name). Raphael regularly writes screenplays for
film and television.
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Simon Van Booy PRAISE FOR SIMON VAN BOOY:
KENTUCKY “It’s rare that reading, typically a solitary exercise,
makes you feel so connected to other people."
— TIME OUT NEW YORK
“Van Booy can give you back that night, sketched in short, sharp strokes, pit-
iless in its emotion but gorgeous in its evocation.” — NPR
Literary Fiction / 360 pages
Material: manuscript in English
“Pitch-perfect… shows how love rights the world.” — KIRKUS
www.simonvanbooy.com
"Resilient characters often emerge from bleak circumstances with an unex-
The epic 100-year saga of one family's struggle pected and completely engaging optimism in the strongest ones [stories].
to survive in the rural United States. [Van Booy] shows an uncanny ability to create intense moods and emotions
within the space of a few poetic paragraphs."
Carol was thirteen when her daddy lost her in a game of cards. A year later — AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
– pregnant and with nowhere to go − she is taken in by Bessie and Martha,
“So accomplished that it’s hard to imagine what he might do next.”
who run a secret refuge for 'lost' women. 50 years on, in the same small town,
— THE IRISH WORLD
Carol's thirteen-year-old grandson rides his BMX and watches wrestling,
mesmerized by the excess of the 80s, while his community fights to stay "Simon Van Booy knows a great deal about the complex longings of the hu-
employed in factories and on farms. man heart, and he articulates those truths in his stories with pitch-perfect
elegance. Love Begins in Winter is a splendid collection, and Van Booy is now
Since the 1990s, Simon Van Booy has been collecting the stories, feelings,
a writer on my must-always-read list." — ROBERT OLEN BULTER,
and confessions of one extended family from Grayson County, which he has PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF A GOOD SCENT FROM A STRANGE MOUNTAIN
woven into an intimate portrayal of American life. With vivid emotion, he
depicts the Depression, war, faith, the hardship of women, prejudice, and rural
disenfranchisement – while capturing the distinctive voices of each character,
SIMON VAN BOOY is the award-winning author of works
and revealing the sacred bonds of family and friendship in times of crisis.
of fiction for adults, novels for children, and anthologies
With stark, poetic clarity, this book is a breathtaking journey over a single of philosophy. He has written for the New York Times,
century, revealing an America that is rarely seen. New York Post, and the Financial Times. His books have
been translated and optioned for film.
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DIANE DUCRET ALICE O'KEEFFE
WALK OF THE ON THE UP
FLAMINGO
Fiction / 250 pages
Fiction / 192 pages
Material: manuscript in English
Material: copies in French, manuscript in English
Publication: November 2019
Publication: February 2018
@AliceOKeeffe
By turns hilarious and poignant, this novel ”I love the way this book makes the domestic
explores a powerful, impossible, unforgettable political and vice versa.” — POLLY SAMSON
love between a mother and her daughter.
Enaid is standing on a street in Gdansk when her telephone rings and her Sylvia lives in a small flat on a council estate with her not-quite-husband and
boyfriend dumps her. As if his pathetic, clichéd explanations weren't enough, their two children. But she has grand plans: she grew up in a terraced house
her phone rings again. This time it’s a call from a hospital in Paris and Enaid on a leafy street, and she's determined that her kids will do the same.
hears the weak voice of a stranger telling her that they’re about to die.
It’s not ideal that she is about to lose her job, or that her partner will never
The woman on the other end of the phone is none other than Enaid’s mother earn more than minimum wage. But when the estate is earnmarked for
– who abandoned Enaid when she was a little girl. Most of what she knows redevelopment, the threat to her community gives Sylvia a renewed sense of
about her mother comes from the awkward silences of her childhood – there purpose.
were rumors that she was beautiful, that she was crazy, that she was a stripper.
Warm, witty, and brilliantly observed, On the Up is about relationships and
Enaid has been searching to fill the gaping hole that her mother’s absence home, and figuring out what is really worth fighting for.
created inside her ever since she could remember. But now that she has a
chance to be reunited with her, she has no idea what to do.
DIANE DUCRET is a best-selling novelist and essayist. Her books include ALICE O'KEEFFE is a freelance writer and journalist. She was deputy editor of
Wives of Dictators (Perrin, 2011), translated into twenty-one languages, and the Guardian’s Saturday Review section, and writes book reviews, interviews
The Ideal Man Exists… (Albin Michel, 2015). and features for The Guardian, The Observer and The New Statesman.
PUBLISHER: France (Flammarion). PUBLISHER: World English (Hodder & Stoughton).
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MURDER AT SURROGATE
GREYSBRIDGE
Mystery / 300 pages
Material: copies in English Literary thriller / 300 pages
Publication: October 2017 Material: manuscript in English
@andysaibhcarter
“Haunting, atmospheric, and gripping. One of the For fans of Apple Tree Yard, Surrogate is a
finest Irish mystery debuts of recent years. Tana French compelling and topical psychological drama that
has some serious competition.” — JOHN CONNOLLY explores marriage, fertility and female identity.
Soon to be adapted for television. Beth Furnival is a successful television executive with a perfect life: a nice
house in London, a lawyer husband and two grown-up daughters. But at 55,
Summer has arrived in Inishowen, and solicitor Ben O’Keeffe is sorely tempted with an empty nest and menopause behind her, she feels restless.
by a job offer from an American law firm. But before making any life-changing
decisions, she has her assistant Leah’s wedding to attend at the newly restored After multiple rounds of failed IVF, her eldest daughter Lauren has been
Greysbridge Hotel, with its private beach and beautiful pier. It’s the perfect told that the only chance for her and her husband to have their own child
location, but the festivities are brutally cut short when a young American is surrogacy. Overwhelmed by the legal grey zones and expense, they are
staying at the hotel drowns in full view of the wedding guests. running out of options. So when Beth discovers that even at her age, with the
right hormones, she could carry their baby, out of desperation they agree.
When a second death is discovered the same evening, Ben finds herself
embroiled in a real country house mystery, where all the guests are suspects... As Beth’s unlikely pregnancy progresses, her life disintegrates: her husband
moves out, her TV company is near bankruptcy, and Lauren can’t contain
ANDREA CARTER worked as a solicitor on the Inishowen Peninsula where she her corrosive envy. Isolated and suffering from complications, Beth starts to
ran the most northerly solicitor’s practice in the country. The books are being unravel, with life-threatening consequences…
adapted into a TV series called The Inishowen Mysteries by Zanzibar and Hold
SUSAN SPINDLER is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker.
the Page.
She worked for the BBC on flagship series such as Horizon, Tomorrow’s World,
PUBLISHERS: Germany (Goldmann), UK (Constable/Little, Brown), US/NA and QED and went on to be become Deputy Director of Drama, Entertainment
(Oceanview), Film/TV (Zanzibar). & Children’s Programmes. Surrogate is her first novel.
- 20 - - 21 -Owen Matthews PRAISE FOR BLACK SUN:
“A glorious book, a tour-de-force. It drips with authenticity from every page
BLACK SUN and yet the author’s encyclopaedic knowledge of the Soviet Union – from his
impressive journalistic pedigree – doesn’t get in the way of a page-turning,
thumping good read. It’s not just up there with Robert Harris, Tom Rob Smith
and Martin Cruz Smith, but better – by some distance.” — DAVID YOUNG
Crime/Thriller / 416 pages “Matthews is an excellent storyteller, and the plot moves at a brisk pace that
Material: copies in English keeps us interested throughout... Black Sun is the kind of thriller you want to
Publication: July 2019 savor as you turn the pages, suspenseful and thought provoking.”
— NY JOURNAL OF BOOKS
“Black Sun is fascinating and has fearsome authenticity.”
“Welcome to Arzamas-16. The city that doesn’t exist.“
— FREDERICK FORSYTH
It is the dawn of the 1960s. Alexander Vasin, a KGB Major in the department
Book 2: RED TREASON
of “Special Investigations“, travels across the Soviet Union to Arzamas-16, a
city that does not appear on any map. He has been sent to investigate the Vasin’s second assignment takes him into the heart of the Cuban Missile
gruesome death of a young physicist. Crisis. There are whispers of a spy at the highest levels of Soviet intelligence.
But as Vasin gets closer to the truth, the question of treason becomes
There, he finds a scientific community of eccentrics, patriots, and dissidents
more complicated. What if the spy is trying to save the USSR from certain
who’ve been ordered to build the most powerful atomic bomb ever made.
destruction? What if the real traitor is anyone who gets in his way?
It is a project of such vital national importance that unlike their fellow Soviet
citizens, they have the freedom to think, act, live, and love as they wish. Book 3: UNTITLED
Some of them, it seems, even believe they can get away with murder. On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated. Vasin gets
a call from his superiors. They have one question: did we do this?
Owen Matthews’ thriller is based on an incredible sequence of true events
and inaugurates a major new series set in Moscow in the early 1960s featuring
OWEN MATTHEWS was born in London in 1971. He
Alexander Vasin, a homicide detective seconded, against his will, to the KGB.
is the author of the non-fiction book Stalin’s Children:
Three Generations of Love and War (Bloomsbury, 2008),
which was shortlisted for that year’s Guardian First
PUBLISHERS: Germany (Lubbe), UK (Transworld), US/NA (Doubleday). Book Award and the Orwell Prize for Political Writing
and translated into 27 languages.
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Nataël Trapp and starts mocking him mercilessly, humiliating him in front of everyone.
IN BETWEEN Leo wakes up the next morning, relieved that he has returned to the present
– but his respite does not last long. For every other day he will wake up in the
DAYS body of someone new, thirty years in the past. It becomes clear that Jessica
was a complex character, far from angelic, and that many people could have
wanted to kill her. In the countdown to the party, each day will bring another
clue, edging Leo towards the culprit.
Young Adult Crossover / 250 pages
Material: copies in French, partial in English But on day 7, the morning of the party, Leo wakes up in the body of Jessica.
Publication: October 2019 He knows that he – she – is to be murdered. He still doesn’t know by whom.
More importantly: he doesn’t know if he can change the course of fate.
In Nataël Trapp’s brilliant, page-turning novel, the To what extent are we free? Or are we bound by the mirror of destiny?
philosophical question of “free will versus destiny”
takes on a gripping, life-or-death urgency. “In less than an hour, I will be dead.
Leo is a film-loving, solitary seventeen-year-old, leading an uneventful life in a It's almost midnight, and I've done everything in my power
nondescript French town. He has little to look forward to except for the end- – everything – not to end up here, in this place, at this time.
of-year school party that will take place in seven days’ time.
The shadowy lake rippling in front of me, the pine trees
Like everyone at school, Leo notices the posters that are being hung on the shuddering in the wind, the stars scattered across the sky:
walls to commemorate Jessica Stein. In 1988, Jessica was murdered on the they're all proof that I've failed.
night of the end-of-year party, her murderer never found. The posters show
Every second I expect to hear a soft footstep in the pine
the face of a beautiful, angelic-looking girl with the caption “#thirtyyearsago”.
needles, the snap of a branch, some indication that I'm not
When Leo wakes up the next morning, he doesn’t understand what has alone. That I'm being watched.
happened: he doesn’t recognize his bedroom – or his face when he looks in
the mirror. He has woken up in the body of someone else – a plump, sullen I'm going to die – and the worst part is, it won't be for the
seventeen-year-old named Daniel Marcuso. The year is 1988, and in seven first time.“
days there will be the end-of-year party.
NATAËL TRAPP was born in 1982 and never quite recovered
Leo leaves the house – Daniel’s house – and heads into town, towards a café.
from it. He likes walks in the mountains, metaphysics and
When Leo walks in, he sees Jessica in the crowd. Jessica comes towards him
stories with happy endings. He lives in France with his
PUBLISHER: France (Robert Laffont/Versilio), Italy (Mondadori), Film/TV. partner and their three children.
- 26 - - 27 -Simon Van Booy ELI ANDERSON
DUST MILA HUNT
BUNNIES
Chapter Book / 138 pages Young Adult Fiction / 600 pages
Material: manuscript in English Material: copies in French
www.simonvanbooy.com Publication: February 2019
“The day of the big sale was coming, when What if you could make people do whatever you wanted?
almost every animal in the secondhand shop
hoped a miracle might happen.” Mila, 17, lives in the Center, far from the misery and danger of the Periphery
− a lawless territory where no one dares to wander. She has a dark secret:
In an old, magical secondhand shop in Brooklyn, among the dusty books, she possesses the power to make those around her do whatever she wants.
musical instruments, obsolete electronics, racks of clothes from bygone eras, She's sworn to herself that she will never, ever use it.
and abandoned toys, there are four stuffed rabbits awaiting a second chance.
Every year, on the day of the big sale, Tuesday, Lester, Little, and Rhubarb But when she's kidnapped and blackmailed by the Center's secret police, she
dream of being adopted. But this year is different. no longer has a choice. She will have to infiltrate the Periphery and use her
terrible power to take down their leaders.
When their friends are all purchased by a pair of dangerous villains for a most
horrible purpose, the feisty and resourceful Dust Bunnies must embark on a However, she discovers that the Periphery is far from the sinister ghetto they
quest through New York City to rescue them. The fate of the entire animal warned her about. It's a hidden world where teenagers are in charge...
kingdom rests on their furry shoulders.
“An ode to the teenage experience, to freedom,
The first in a series, with humor that will delight children and captivate adults against a backdrop of civil rebellion.
– from Karl’s Catwalk, to dancing crabs in Chinatown, to a trash-talking pizza Mila Hunt is a novel both lively and profound.”
rat – Dust Bunnies is a tribute to true friendship and all it can accomplish. — NICE MATIN
ELI ANDERSON is the author of Oscar Pill, which was sold in 18 territories.
SIMON VAN BOOY is the award-winning author of works of fiction for adults,
novels for children, and anthologies of philosophy.
PUBLISHER: France (Albin Michel/Versilio), Russia (KompasGuide).
- 28 - - 29 -NON-FICTION
Denis Mukwege Dr. Mukwege’s work has led him to South Korea, Latin America, the Middle
East, and elsewhere in Africa, as well as college campuses in the West, where
THE POWER he has found striking similarities in women’s testimonies.
OF WOMEN Dr. Mukwege’s also addresses men, encouraging and guiding them to
become allies in the fight against sexual abuse, both in war and in peace.
Building more inclusive, gender-balanced societies will require developing
what he calls “positive masculinity” – a systemic change in male behavior and
Non-Fiction
attitudes towards women. Dr. Mukwege hopes to inspire other men to speak
Material: proposal in English
out and join the struggle, rather than leaving women to fight the battle alone.
www.drmukwege.com
He will also make the case that when women are involved as economic and
political decision makers, all of society benefits.
In his Nobel acceptance speech,
The countless women that Dr. Mukwege has worked with call him their savior.
Dr. Mukwege dedicated the prize to “all victims of sexual
violence across the world. (…) Taking action is a choice. Dr. Mukwege is quick to point out, however, that they, the women, are the
Taking action means saying ‘no’ to indifference.” heroines of this story.
Dr. Mukwege has seen unimaginable destruction, witnessed pain that should “Dr. Denis Mukwege is my hero.” — EMMA WATSON
never be felt – and has saved countless lives, even at the high risk of losing “Adamant despite the odds, a tireless defender of women's
his own. His tireless work to heal survivors of sexual violence in his war-torn dignity, Dr. Mukwege is beginning a new phase: without
country of Congo has led him to become a global champion of women’s slowing his medical activities, from now on he will also be
rights. fighting to spread awareness of sexual violence as a weapon
Through the stories of the extraordinary women who have shaped him, of war.” — TÉLÉRAMA
Dr. Mukwege explores how corruption, violence, and rape as a weapon of PUBLISHER: World English (Flatiron Books).
war are inextricably linked – and how the global community has an urgent
DENIS MUKWEGE was born in the Belgian Congo in 1955. His life has been
responsibility to take action and demand accountability.
marked by the transformations and tragedies of his home country. Now a
Dr. Mukwege has seen darkness, but he has also seen hope and resilience. He renowned surgeon, he is recognized as the world’s leading expert on treating
has seen women on the brink of death, physically and psychologically – and rape injuries, and his holistic approach to healing has inspired other initiatives
he has also seen them heal, buy land, start businesses, and rebuild healthy around the world. In 2014, he was invited to the White House by Barack Obama.
communities. The Power of Women amplifies the stories of women worldwide In Europe, he was awarded the Sakharov Prise for Freedom of Thought.
to provide an arresting and deeply compelling call to action. In November 2018, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with Yazidi
human rights activist and sexual violence survivor Nadia Murad.
- 32 - - 33 -Estelle Shirbon For fans of Netflix’s Narcos or HBO’s Chernobyl, and in the vein of Katherine
Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Barbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy,
A BRIEFCASE A Briefcase Full of Cash is a vivid account that confronts the true cost of
FULL OF CASH
corruption and the challenges of bringing the powerful to justice.
A STORY OF CORRUPTION
AND JUSTICE
Current Affairs
Material: proposal in English
How do you hold the powerful to account
when everyone has their price?
In April 2012 a Nigerian ex-governor, James Ibori, was sentenced to 13 years
for fraud at Southwark Crown Court. He had stolen so much money from the
state he governed that he could afford a private jet, a portfolio of opulent
homes across the world, and a fleet of luxury cars. His victims were the millions
of Nigerians living without running water or electricity, and his collaborators
the British lawyers, bankers, car dealers, and estate agents who at best turned
a blind eye to his plundering and at worst actively assisted it.
Ibori’s conviction is unique: no corrupt foreign politician laundering their dirty ESTELLE SHIRBON is half-French, half-English and grew up in Paris.
money through the UK had been prosecuted in a British court before him, and After studying Spanish and Modern History at Oxford, she completed a
none have been successfully prosecuted since. The story of how it happened postgraduate diploma in Journalism at City University in London in 1999, then
is as extraordinary as the conviction itself: a David and Goliath tale of a lowly moved to Jerusalem where she freelanced for two years. She moved back to
British copper who followed a briefcase full of cash from South London to Paris in 2001 and got a job in the Reuters bureau. She has worked for Reuters
Abuja, where he linked up with Nigeria’s foremost anti-corruption crusader, ever since and has had long-term postings in Italy, Spain, France and Nigeria.
and embarked on an 8-year investigation which comprised outlandish She is now a senior correspondent in the UK bureau, based in Canary Wharf.
disguises, arson, secret compartments, car chases, assassination attempts, She is married and has two young children.
$15 million bribes, and remarkable reversals in fortune.
- 34 - - 35 -Ayaan Hirsi Ali “Until recently, women in Western liberal countries have taken safety in the
streets for granted. As a Somali arriving in The Netherlands in 1992, I had
PREY grown up knowing that to step outside the house without covering my head
and body, or walking alone, would make me a target for harassment and
IMMIGRATION, ISLAM, assault… As I acclimatized to life in a Western city, I learned that women’s
AND THE EROSION OF rights were radically different from the world I had come from. In the 1990s,
WOMEN’S RIGHTS it looked like the momentum that had brought liberties for Western women
would trickle down to newly arriving immigrants, and then spread out to the
Current Affairs / 250 pages
Material: manuscript in English rest of the world… Yet today it is a tragedy that history is in reverse for women,
Publication: April 2020 and not just immigrant women, all women in the West.” —AYAAN HIRSI ALI
@AyaanHirsiAli
PRAISE FOR AYAAN HIRSI ALI:
In an incisive and timely new book, Ayaan Hirsi Ali argues “This woman is a major hero of our time.” — RICHARD DAWKINS
that immigration and Islam are leading to a significant
setback in women’s rights – not just for immigrants, “There is no one in a better position to remind us that tolerance of intolerance
but for all women in liberal democracies. is cowardice.” — SAM HARRIS AND SALMAN RUSHDIE
In Prey, Ayaan Hirsi Ali weaves together personal testimonies and hard facts to “Isn’t it extraordinary that it should be a Somali woman who should be the
show how the Western world is experiencing a significant setback in women’s one to defend with such conviction and passion the culture of freedom.”
rights. Underscoring the role of religion, demography, conflict, television, and —MARIO VARGAS LLOSA, EL PAIS
social media, Hirsi Ali explains that today there is one major factor causing
“Truly a hero of our time.” — POLITICO
a decline in women’s safety and independence: massive immigration from
Muslim majority countries with a radically different view of the place of women
AYAAN HIRSI ALI is the bestselling author of Infidel, Nomad, The Caged
in society. This change is setting back women's rights alarmingly fast, and in
Virgin, and Heretic, which have been translated into 38 languages. Born in
some places, by decades.
Somalia and raised a Muslim, she grew up in Africa and Saudi Arabia before
seeking asylum in 1992 in the Netherlands, where she
With extensive research and insight, Hirsi Ali flags this dangerous decline,
went from cleaning factories to winning a seat in the Dutch
addressing issues ranging from immigration and Islam to the apologetic
Parliament. A prominent speaker, debater, and journalist,
multiculturalism of Western liberal democracies. Her message is clear: we
she was chosen as one of Time Magazine's “100 Most
cannot turn a blind eye to violations of women's rights carried out in the name
Influential People in the World.” She is a fellow at Harvard
of religion in our own backyard.
University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and
PUBLISHER: US/NA (HarperCollins). the founder of the AHA Foundation.
- 36 - - 37 -Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan,
Caroline de Maigret, Sophie Mas
OLDER BUT BETTER,
BUT OLDER
Humor/Illustrated / 250 pages
Material: galleys in English
Publication: February 2020
From the bestselling authors of How to be Parisian,
what smart, savvy, fabulous women think, feel, PRAISE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
and advise on life and love as they hit forty. HOW TO BE PARISIAN WHEREVER YOU ARE:
Older but Better, but Older has the playful wit and worldly advice we have “Four whip-smart, successful French women poke fun at the stereotypes of
come to expect from these bestselling authors, but now that advice is focused the ‘Parisienne’ and give genuine beauty and lifestyle tips, recipes, and fashion
on a woman’s mindset as she hurtles towards forty. Caroline de Maigret and dos and don’ts. A witty, wise, and often tongue-in-cheek delivery.”
Sophie Mas are back to amuse you with how they find themselves modifying — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
their favorite bad-girl behavior as they address beauty, love, seduction as well “Told in a concise and a playful manner. . . The book
as lifestyle, family, work, and living alone. decodes the myth of Parisian women in a way, but it
keeps intact the irresistible charm and unique sex
They are still bohemian iconoclasts saying the unexpected. They remind you appeal that they all possess.” — VANITY FAIR
that things aren’t what they used to be–when a thirty-year-old guy arrives at
a party and doesn’t even glance at you; when you wake up feeling great and “Very, very funny. While reading, I actually felt
everyone tells you how tired you look; when you’re excited just to go home. chicer, wittier and très Parisienne. I was laughing out
loud by the end. Every girl needs this book.”
Neuroses vs. confidence, resistance vs. acceptance, passion vs. serenity: — PLUM SYKES, AUTHOR OF BERGDORF BLONDES
de Maigret and Mas, through these spirited vignettes, capture the different
stages of aging as nostalgic but modern women. From the privately absurd to
the strangely universal, this book captures moments of everyday life that will PUBLISHERS: ANZ (Random House Australia), China (Shanghai 99), Czech
make the reader nod, cringe, and laugh out loud. Republic (Jota), Germany (btb), Netherlands (Atlas Contact), Japan (Hayakawa),
Taiwan (Ping's Publications), UK (Ebury), US/NA (Knopf/Doubleday).
- 38 - - 39 -Charlotte Sarkozy
MEN ARE LIKE
MELONS
"All my life, for as long as I can remember, my family and
friends have called me 'un coeur d‘artichaut' – an artichoke
A FRENCH WOMAN'S GUIDE heart.
TO LIVING AND LOVING
The phrase comes from a 19th century French proverb:
AFTER DIVORCE
'Coeur d’artichaut, une feuille pour tout le monde', which
Lifestyle translates as 'An artichoke heart has a leaf for everyone.' It
Material: proposal in English was obvious why my family decided to call me this: they saw
Pulication: 2020 that I was a hopeless romantic. They weren’t wrong. I am a
hopeless romantic, but I am also a hopeful one.
There's an old French saying: When I separated, I was 39 and my 'competition' was 25.
Men are like melons. Now I’m 48 and my competition is still 25. It’s unfair, but
Out of ten, you'll find one that's good. that’s how it is.
Lifestyle writer Charlotte Sarkozy thought she’d found her melon, until her At first, I wondered: how would this artichoke heart react to
twelve-year marriage ended in divorce. Suddenly single at 39 years old, the challenge of being single again? Would it be crushed
Charlotte was faced with the unfathomable: plunging into the dating jungle into an artichoke dip?
of New York City. She quickly learned that American “dating” was nothing like
the French amour she was familiar with. Whether you are an artichoke, a squash, or a peach (or insert
your own personal fruit or vegetable metaphor here), love is
With humor and vulnerability, Charlotte, a self-defined “hopeful romantic,” an experience worth having – once or over and over."
takes us on her journey. From dating apps to ghosting and DTRing, Charlotte
explores the messy, lawless world of midlife dating, always with charm and
heartening optimism.
A candid look into the search for a second happily ever after, Men Are Like CHARLOTTE SARKOZY moved to New York City in 1997 for love, and stayed
Melons will resonate with readers of any marital status—married, single, there after divorce. She has written for French fashion and lifestyle magazines,
divorced, single and divorced, It’s Complicated, or all of the above. She and has worked as a freelance producer in the fashion world. Her ex-husband,
promises not to make you tick any boxes. Olivier Sarkozy, happens to be the half-brother of the former president of
France.
PUBLISHER: ANZ (PRH Australia).
- 40 - - 41 -Marie Phillips PRAISE FOR MARIE PHILLIPS:
CREATE YOUR OWN “An ingenious activity book which invites you to choose
different pages according to how you want your
MIDLIFE CRISIS midlife crisis to unfold... both funny and clever.”
— THE BOOKSELLER
“There are so few genuinely funny novelists around that this stands out…
Humor / 100 pages
Phillips, like all of the best comic writers, dares to make a serious point..”
Material: finished copies in English — NEW STATESMAN
Publication: November 2019
“Bathos, bawdy, and the absurd – a combination of uncommon felicity, as if
Jane Austen were rewriting Terry Pratchett.” — THE GUARDIAN
To run away to Brazil, turn to page 34. “Very, very funny and delightfully original as well as acutely clever in a
To get a tattoo, turn to page 147. makes-you-think-about-contemporary-morality-without-realising-it kind of
To burn down your house, turn to page 145. way...” —THE INDEPENDENT
We’re all grown-ups. We’ve all had desperate moments. Midway through our “What makes the novel stand out - and it really does stand out – is its original-
lives, we wonder how we ended up here – and whether there’s a way out. ity and lightness of touch.” — DAILY TELEGRAPH
There must have been a crucial turning point but there’s no way to start again
“It is all very, very funny...this book charms and provokes in a paragraph.”
in the hope of a better result. — THE TIMES
Or is there? Here’s your chance to try all the roads not taken: polyamory,
ayahuasca, younger men, enlightenment, infidelity, Botox, or just telling your MARIE PHILLIPS is the author of the international
boss once and for all where she can shove her job. But beware: all decisions bestseller Gods Behaving Badly, which was translated
come at a cost … into over 20 languages and made into a film starring
Sharon Stone and Christopher Walken. Her other
Yelpingly funny, horribly relatable, here are the predicaments of modern
novels are Oh, I Do Like to Be… and the Baileys Prize
midlife, brought together in a compulsively readable book-as-game that – just
longlisted The Table of Less Valued Knights. As part of
like real life – you can never truly win.
a shadowy cabal of like-minded women, she published
the erotic spoof Fifty Shelves of Grey, under the name
Vanessa Parody. With Robert Hudson, she wrote the
BBC Radio 4 series Warhorses of Letters and Some Hay
PUBLISHER: UK (Profile Books).
In a Manger.
- 42 - - 43 -Ole Sønnichsen the success of Chevrolet, and became the President of General Motors with
250,000 employees. In Washington, he was made a three-star General and
ONE DOLLAR soon emerged as a key figure in the war effort: thanks to his production genius
he ensured that America was equipped to fight—and defeat—Nazi Germany.
MAN This is the rags-to-riches story of an immigrant, the American dream par
excellence. And it’s also a story of honor, of a man who was willing to give
back, to make sacrifices for a country to which he owed his life.
Biography / 432 pages
Material: copies in Danish, partial in English
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headstrong vision overcame political wrangling 4
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OLE is a journalist and author. He
graduated from the Danish School of Journalism and
One Dollar Man is the forgotten story of a bicycle mechanic who arrived to
San Francisco State University. Today he is the publishing
Ellis Island from Copenhagen in 1900, with only $30 in his pocket. Knudsen
director of Storyhouse, a new non-fiction imprint under
climbed his way up from the bottom of American society and became one of
Lindhardt & Ringhof. Since 2010, Ole Sønnichsen has
the country’s most powerful and best-paid businessmen, before he was called
focused on telling the stories of the 300,000 Danes who
to the capital to help the President.
emigrated to America between 1850 and 1920. His two-
William S. Knudsen had an unusual talent for organising both men and machines. volume The Journey to America was published in 2013.
He established assembly-line production for Ford, he was responsible for
PUBLISHER: Denmark (Lindhardt og Ringhof).
- 44 - - 45 -Séverine Autesserre François Busnel
THE FRONTLINES AMERICA
OF PEACE
Current Affairs / 210 pages
Material: manuscript in English Literary Journalism
Publication: March 2021 Material: partial in English
www.severineautesserre.com Publication: July 2020
It’s always the same story told in a different setting. Violence breaks out, foreign Trump's presidency as explored, dissected and decried
nations are scandalized, aid comes rushing in, peace is declared, and within a by award-winning writers both in the US and around the
month the situation is back to where it started. Sometimes worse. world. "America like you've never read it before."
In The Frontlines of Peace, Séverine Autesserre, award-winning researcher and America demonstrates how literature might be the antidote to "alternative
peacebuilder, opens our eyes to the well-intentioned but systematically flawed facts" and provide a compelling form of resistance against Donald Trump's
peace industry. The author sheds light on how typical peace interventions have world.
been getting it wrong, and — more importantly — how a few of them have
The first year has included in-depth exclusive interviews with Toni Morrison,
been getting it right.
James Ellroy, Don DeLillo, Tom Wolfe and Paul Aster, writing from Ta-Nehisi
With examples drawn from across the globe, in a lively narrative, Autesserre Coates (on Obama), Louise Erdrich, Stephen King, Chimamanda Ngozi
reveals that peace can grow in the most unlikely circumstances, with the help Adichie, John Irving, Colum McCann, and many more... Covering subjects as
of the most unlikely heroes. She makes the very compelling case that we must wide-ranging as the inventor of barbed wire and the National Parks to the FBI
challenge prevailing wisdom about foreign intervention and radically change and gun violence, the editor-in-chief François Busnel says: "This is a map of
our approach if we hope to build lasting peace. America, but also a memoir of its time."
SÉVERINE AUTESSERRE is a professor of P.S. and professor at Barnard A resounding success in France with over
College, Columbia University, and has worked for aid organizations including 120,000 copies sold in the first year, America
the United Nations and Doctors Without Borders. She has been a featured is for all readers trying to come to grips with
speaker at the World Summit of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, among others, the current Trumpworld.
and her TED talk on solving mass violence has over 770,000 views.
PUBLISHER: US/World English (Oxford University Press). PUBLISHERS: France (America Mag), US/NA (Grove Atlantic).
- 46 - - 47 -Fabrice Midal FA B R I C E M I DA L
PRAISE FOR FABRICE MIDAL:
3 minutes
THREE MINUTES de philosophie
“With conviction and clarity, Fabrice Midal shows us how to make a lasting
place in our hearts for generous Love.” — CHRISTOPHE ANDRÉ
OF PHILOSOPHY pour redevenir
humain “A joyful plea, a call to reaffirm our inner freedom in spite of other
PER DAY demands.” — ELLE
Non-Fiction / 220 pages “Fabrice Midal's book is powerful, yet playful, challenging and at the same
Material: manuscript in French time comforting. It can transform the way you look at your life as a whole, and
Publication: January 2020 the way you live this moment.“ — TAL BEN-SHAHAR
www.fabricemidal.com Flammarion
“Author Midal suggests you stop obeying (you are intelligent), stop holding
yourself back and stop forcing yourself to do things you don’t want to do…
40 inspiring quotes to help you think differently, instead, it’s about living your life and just being…the rest will follow no matter
from the author of international bestseller what life throws at you.” — EMERALD STREET
The French Art of Not Giving a Sh*t. 12.5mm
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it’s time you take a page from the French and give yourself a break. Allow 3. Pare de ser sábio no livro como
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yourself to be angry, be tired, be silly, be passionate—to stop giving a shit, and Não se estresse, largue o celular, faça ioga, cultive o bem, sorria. SEJA ENTUSIASTA colocá-los em
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politicamente correto. São tantas as obrigações que sempre achamos
An international bestseller (now in English for the first time), The French Art FIQUE EM PAZ
que estamos “devendo”. Autor do best-seller A arte francesa de mandar
of Not Giving a Sh*t by Fabrice Midal gives readers permission to:
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* Stop obeying—you are intelligent e simplesmente ser o que somos. Em 15 capítulos curtos e dinâmicos, Midal
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of Not
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da The Western School of Meditation, a chave para encontrar a verdadeira paz de espírito.
be passionate – to give yourself a break, and just simply be. SEJA PRESENTE
* Stop rationalizing—let things be
The French Art
brother-in-law, in a fierce debate over politics while everyone else sat there
é considerado internacionalmente
como um dos professores do tema. 8. Pare de querer ser perfeito
Fabrice Midal offers us a new solution to the perennial problem of * Stop being ashamed—be vulnerable “A chave para a meditação? Comece lendo este livro e clareando
Autor de vários livros, viaja o mundo ACEITE AS ADVERSIDADES
a sua mente” Jornal Le Figaro
our too-much, too-fast modern life. It’s OK, he urges us, to say no.
of dando palestras sobre meditação.
FAB RICE MIDAL
One of the world’s leading teachers of meditation and mindfulness, Midal
Giving a Sh*t
It’s fine to quit the things that don’t fulfill you. It’s necessary, in fact, 9. Pare de procurar compreender tudo
offers us a new solution to the perennial problem of our too-much, too-fast “Fabrice Midal faz um apelo contra a tirania do perfeccionismo DESCUBRA O PODER DA IGNORÂNCIA
to give yourself a break and say, simply, c’est la vie.
‘Powerful, yet playful, challenging
Letting Go modern life. It’s OK, he urges us, to say no. It’s fine to quit the things that
don’t fulfill you. It’s necessary, in fact, OTHER
c’est la vie.
to give yourself a break and say, simply,
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e a severidade da sociedade moderna. O mote deste livro – dê um
tempo para si mesmo – talvez seja a mais radical resolução
de ano novo.” Revista Elle
10. Pare de racionalizar
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and at the same time comforting . . . it can
silently. Now you regret it. Don't worry, this is actually a good sign : you are
11. Pare de se comparar com os outros
transform the way you look at your life’
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Cut the Crap and Live Your Life
Meditation radikal anders
“A arte francesa de mandar tudo à merda é convincente, mas também
Tal Ben-Shahar, New York Times bestselling author FA B R I C E M I D A L has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Paris,
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Starting with a quote from one of the great minds of philosophy, each of
these 40 chapters then goes into a true life experience. These experiences
will transform you, enlighten you, and invite you to see the world in a new way.
FABRICE MIDAL has a PhD in philosophy from the
PREVIOUS PUBLISHERS: ANZ (Allen & Unwin), Brazil (Planeta), Czech University of Paris. The founder of The Western School of
Republic (Metafora), French Canada (Edito), France (Flammarion/Versilio), Meditation and author of several bestsellers, he is one of
Germany (dtv), Italy (Newton Compton), Korea (Dongyang Books), Lithuania France’s leading teachers of dharma and meditation. He
(VAGA), Poland (Foksal), Romania (Curtea Veche), Serbia (Evro Book), Spain/ travels around the world to give conferences.
LA (Paidos), UK (Orion), US/NA (Hachette Books).
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