LITERARY FICTION | DEBUT NOVEL A stunning first novel, with influences ranging from Truffaut’s 400 Blows to Zola’s L’Assommoir, via Romain Gary’s Madame Rosa. The story starts in the present day, in Paris’s Goutte-d’Or neighborhood near the Barbès metro station, where North African and African immigrants congregate. Influenced by Zola’s L’Assommoir, which describes daily life […]
HISTORICAL FICTION 1791: Wolfgang Mozart dies at age 34. Overwhelmed by grief – as well as by debt – Constanze Mozart pulls herself together and decides to defend her late husband’s work for posterity. She proves herself to have an iron will; nothing will stop her quest for recognition and wealth. To pay off her […]
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT How can you be happy and confident at an age when major life choices are to be made, and succeeding is an obligation? S. Le Ménahèze writes in a reader-friendly style, offering shrewd advice she would have liked to have been given at that age, about how to succeed and how to be […]
GIFT BOOK Illustrated by Anne Boudart What do women think about when they’re making love? At the instant that I am writing these lines, six thousand people are making love. As the minutes tick by, the number is growing; people are hugging, kissing, and intertwining. Maybe they’re bored, maybe they’re coming. They may have gotten […]
DEBUT NOVEL The parallel lives and fates of three fragile, powerful women. A debut novel received in the mail, with a unique tone intertwining scathing humor and surprising sensitivity. After thirty years of marriage, Laure’s husband ditches her for a woman on their household staff. Irina, an ambitious Ukrainian, is married to a man from […]
LITERARY FICTION The father was one of Hollywood’s greatest filmmakers. The son was a child star in the Nazi film industry. A novel about the true story of their wrenching separation. The father, Douglas Sirk, was theatre director in Germany the 20s and one of Goebbels’s favorite filmmakers in the 30s. Married to a Jewish […]
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT| POP CULTURE Seiya, Shiryu, Hyoga, Shun & Ikki give you the keys to live better in everyday life! After Agir et penser comme un chat (200 000 copies translated into 28 languages) discover the new book of the collection: Agir et penser comme un chevalier du Zodiaque! Balance, learning, courage, sensitivity, time optimization, […]
LITERARY FICTION An unusual and touching story rooted in a reality that is both harsh and poetic. Told with both humor and affection, these extremely moving portraits of men and women just like us prove that Nicolas Delesalle is one of those writers who knows how to help those who are suffering to rise above. […]
NOVEL There is no other Dutch writer who can make life shine and sparkle the way Sander Kollaard does. — De Groene Amsterdammer A rich book, full of marvellous phrases, metaphors and observations; at the same time it is all implicit, calm and small. That is what Kollaard is all about: showing greatness in the […]
BUSINESS | PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT “Smart, insightful, life-reorienting…Some books demand your attention. If you are ready to reject conventional definitions of success and bring consonance to your life, invest the time to read this book.” – Shawn Achor, New York Times Best-Selling Author of The Happiness Advantage and Big Potential “Laura Gassner Otting relieves us of […]