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Susanna Lea Associates
PARIS - NEW YORK - LONDON
Spring 2021
PARIS
28 rue Bonaparte
75006 Paris
tel: +33 (0)1 53 10 28 40
Versilio
@versilio
NEW YORK
331 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011
tel: +1 (646) 638 1435
Susanna Lea Associates – NY
@SLANYC
LONDON
South Wing, Somerset House
Strand, London WC2R 1LA
tel: +44 (0)20 7287 7757
SLA London
@SLALondon
www.susannalea.com
FICTION CHILDREN'S / YOUNG ADULT
Marc Levy Twilight of the Beasts 8 Nataël Trapp In Between Days 36
Roland Portiche Solomon's Cube 10 Simon Van Booy Dust Bunnies 37
Emma Derushci The Woman We Are 12
Jeannie Zusy The Fredericks Sisters 13
de Clermont-Tonnerre Our Happy Days 14
Simon Van Booy Night Came With Many Stars 15 NON-FICTION
Dolen Perkins-Valdez If This is Peace 16
Stella Duffy Lullaby Beach 17 Denis Mukwege The Power of Women 40
Marie Robert Penelope's Voyage 18 Ayaan Hirsi Ali Prey 42
Susan Spindler Surrogate 19 Carole Cadwalladr Untitled 44
Sophie Divry Curiosity 21 Jessie Inchauspé Glucose Revolution 46
Violaine Huisman The Book of Mother 22 Séverine Autesserre The Frontlines of Peace 47
Maria Dahvana Headley Beowulf/The Mere Wife 24 Fabrice Midal The Three Minute Philosopher 48
Raphael Montes A Woman in the Dark 26 Ailton Krenak Life is Not Useful 50
Alice O'Keefe Skylark 27 Lisa Wells Believers 52
Tracey Lange We Are the Brennans 28 Maryanne O'Hara Little Matches 53
Anne-Gaelle Huon Happiness Has No Wrinkles 29 Malene Rydahl To Reply or Not to Reply 54
Megan Campisi Sin Eater 30 Annabelle Roberts Rejection Therapy 56
W.S. Winslow Northern Reach 31 Alexandre Mars Mission Possible 57
Andrea Carter The Body Falls 32 Gabriel Perlemuter The Bacteria That Govern Our 58
Brains
Charlotte Sarkozy The Parisian Survival Guide... 60
Luke Harding Shadow State 62
SPEIGEL & GRAU ACM NF
Catherine Raven Fox & I 66
Daniel Finkelstein Love and Murder 88
Neil Theise Notes on Complexity 68
David Harewood Maybe I Don't Belong Here 89
Ivan Krastev The Future of Democracy 90
Mark Leonard The Age of Unpeace 91
Richard V. Reeves Boys and Men 92
Owen Matthews An Impeccable Spy 93
KATHY ROBBINS FICTION Jonathan Yates Fractured 94
Ian Leslie Conflicted 95
David Grann Killers of the Flower Moon 72 David Goodhart Head, Hand, Heart 96
Kira Yarmysh The Curious Events in 74 Hannah Durkin The Last Slaves 98
Women's Cell #3 Dan Morrison The Prince and the Poisoner 99
Paul Morland Tomorrow's People 100
Isabel Losada The Joyful Environmentalist 101
Graham Lawton Ouch! 102
KATHY ROBBINS Chris Bickerton On the Brink 103
Jonathan Hillman The Emperor's New Road 104
John Gleeson The Gotti Wars 78
Jonathan Rowson The Moves that Matter 105
Elizabeth Kolbert Under A White Sky 79
Suzanne Wrack A Woman's Game 106
Susan Liautaud The Power of Ethics 80
Olivia Yallop Break the Internet 107
Richard Cohen The History Makers 81
Peter Singer Why Vegan? 82
Apuleius' The Golden Ass 83
Bari Weiss How to Fight Anti-Semitism 84 ACM FICTION
Owen Matthews Black Sun & Red Traitor 112
Aliya Whiteley The Beauty 114
J.L. Worrad Pennyblade 115
Siobhan MacGowan The Ghost of Chiswell Street 116
Marc Levy
TWILIGHT OF
IT HAPPENED THE BEASTS
AT NIGHT
Fiction / 400 pages
Fiction / 400 pages
Material: Manuscript in English
Material: Manuscript in French
Publication: September 2020
Publication: March 2021
Marc Levy Fanpage - @marc_levy
“A blend of Millennium and James Bond” "An episode of 'Casa de Papel' meets 'Mission Impossible'...
- RTL, BERNARD LEHUT if you’re not worried about an all-nighter, read Twilight of the
Nine. Nine outlaws, working together for the greater good. Beasts..."
They're friends, but they’ve never met. -BMFTV PREMIERE EDITION
Until …
Maya has disappeared.
It Happened At Night is a wild and terrifying chase through the streets of
Oslo, Madrid, Paris, Istanbul and London…
The nine are on a mission, to take on the sinister forces colluding to corrupt It’s a race against time for the Group 9 hackers – nine modern day Robin Hoods
the modern world. who risk their lives for the sake of the greater good – as they try to outwit
their opponents, a handful of powerful tech moguls with sinister intentions.
Gripping and immersive, in this novel Marc Levy tackles
Big Pharma, and Big Data… As one of his characters The sequel to bestseller It Happened At Night, Twilight of the
asks: How can we resist when our democracies are being Beasts by Marc Levy is a nail-biting political thriller which exposes
sabotaged, when our very notion of truth is under attack? the risk that Big Data poses to our society’s freedoms.
AN INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER
MARC LEVY is the author of 22 novels, published in 49
"Heart-racing, penetrating and timely. Impossible to put it down before it’s languages. With over 50 million copies sold, he is the most
been completely devoured." -PARIS MATCH SUISSE
read French author alive today. After winning the hearts of
European readers, his success has expanded to countries
"Even after selling 50 million books around the world, the writer still seduc- around the globe. In the past year, over 2.5 million copies of
es the reader like it’s the very first time." -RTBF his books were sold in China alone.
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Roland Portiche
SOLOMON'S
ERNETTI'S CUBE
MACHINE
Historical Fiction / 377 pages Historical Fiction / 320 pages
Material: copies in French / partial in English Material: Proofs in French
Publication: April 2020 Publication: April 2021
"This novel, as surprising as it is absorbing, has everything." The nail-biting follow up to the debut
—Femme Actuelle bestseller Ernetti's Machine.
Between 1955 and 1965, within the walls of the Vatican, a priest called Emilio When a team of researchers on a clandestine expedition in search of Solomon’s
Ernetti set out to build a machine that could look back in time. We don’t know Temple uncover a mysterious stone cube, the world is turned upside down.
exactly what Ernetti discovered – but we do know that the machine was later The cube is more than three thousand years old, and at its center is a secret
dismantled under the orders of Pope Paul VI and hidden in a cellar in the that could call the contents of the entire Bible into question.
Vatican. Apparently, it is still there today.
There is only one way to avoid the chaotic fallout from this earth-shattering
This true story is the starting point of a page-turning thriller set against the discovery: to investigate the past. At the command of Pope Jean Paul II,
backdrop of the Cold War, at a time when the world was caught in a crisis of Father Pellegrino Ernetti takes an astonishing journey back in time with the
faith, and Christianity under siege. help of the Chronovisor, an extraordinary machine tucked away in the hidden
depths of the Vatican archives.
Father Ernetti soon finds himself embroiled in an international intrigue, after
being enlisted by the Pope to construct his time-traveling device. The Chronovisor takes Father Ernetti even further into the past than the age
of King Solomon, all the way back to ancient Egypt, to the days of the reign of
Everyone has a reason to want this machine. But it seems that no one has
the magnificent Queen Nefertiti. What does she know about the cube? And
stopped to think about the consequences of looking back in time.
can Father Ernetti find out in time?
Ernetti’s Machine combines quantum physics, biblical history, and Cold War ROLAND PORTICHE holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and
espionage into a gripping tale of what happens when we look into the past, has written and directed several of French television’s
and the truth is revealed. most viewed and respected science and history shows.
PUBLISHERS: France (Albin Michel | Versilio), Czech (Jota), Greece (Brainfood He has also written non-fiction books.
Publishing), Romania (Lebada Neagra), Spain (Grijalbo).
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Emma Deruschi Jeannie Zusy
THE WOMAN THE FREDERICKS
SISTERS ARE LIVING
WE ARE THE DREAM
Literary Fiction / 200 pages
Commercial Fiction / 318 pages
Material: Proofs in French
Material: Manuscript in English
Publication: May 2021
Publication: Spring 2022
"The more we look at our loved ones, A novel steeped in compassion and black humor.
the less we see them..."
Every family has its fault lines, and when Maggie gets a call from the ER
A stunning first novel, with a unique heroine. in Maryland where her older sister lives, the cracks start to appear: Ginny,
her sugar-loving, diabetic, and developmentally disabled older sister has
overdosed on strawberry Jell-O. Maggie realizes Ginny won’t survive without
A physical therapist, wife and mother living in Paris – Elisa’s life is not very
some help, and brings her to her town in upstate New York, much to the
different from that of millions of other women. She’s surrounded by friends,
protest of their sister Betsy, a professional surfer who is always conveniently
who are warm, lively and caring, who share tales of their daily struggles and
thousands of miles away in a crisis.
victories. But nobody notices that despite this material comfort, friends and
family, Elisa is facing her own challenge, one that is quietly wearing away at As Maggie delves into managing Ginny's care, while also navigating her
her. newfound singledom, struggling to keep her career afloat, and raising two
young adult sons, the lines of responsibility begin to blur: Who is saving
Told in turns by those lively women in Elisa’s life, the novel gives us a many-
whom?
faceted view of Elisa and her quest for a new beginning. And with the final
chapter of The Woman We Are, it becomes clear just how much Elisa’s
JEANNIE ZUSY has written several full-length plays, screenplays, short
struggles mirror and echo those of so many others.
stories and works of fiction. She has been involved with theater productions
off-Broadway and beyond, including Playwright’s Horizons, and her work has
EMMA DERUSCHI lives in Paris where she works as a copyright lawyer. After
been published on McSweeney’s. The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream
many years of writing for herself, The Woman We Are is her first novel.
is her first novel.
PUBLISHERS: France (Flammarion). PUBLISHERS: US/NA (Atria).
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Adélaïde de Clermont- Simon Van Booy
Tonnerre
NIGHT CAME WITH
OUR HAPPY MANY STARS
DAYS
Literary Fiction / 450 pages Literary Fiction / 360 pages
Material: proofs in French Material: manuscript in English
Publication: May 2021 Publication: Spring 2021
www.simonvanbooy.com
“For thirty years, Edouard Vian and Laure Brankovic were the
most notorious couple in European cinema. Amidst divorces and “Simon Van Booy’s spellbinding novel is told with an exquisite
remarriages, they made thirty films, and one child: that child was and poetic delicacy, imbued with a profound compassion for the
me. They are legends – and me, well, I’m another story.” humanity of its characters. It is a gorgeously written, deeply moving
triumph.”
Oscar dreams of escaping the all-consuming relationship of his parents.
—GABRIEL BYRNE, AUTHOR OF WALKING WITH GHOSTS
Keeping them at a distance has proven the only way to he can love them, until
one fateful February morning when, shivering in a freezing hospital waiting Carol was thirteen when her daddy lost her in a game of cards. A year later – pregnant
room, he learns that his mother's days on this earth are numbered. and with nowhere to go − she is taken in by Bessie and Martha, who run a secret
refuge for 'lost' women. Fifty years on, in the same small town, Carol's thirteen-year-
Oscar comes up with an absurd idea: he must convince his parents to rekindle
old grandson rides his BMX and watches wrestling, mesmerized by the excess of the
their love. There’s just one snag: for the past two years, Edouard Vian has
80s, while his community fights to stay employed in factories and on farms.
been seeing another woman...
Since the 1990s, Simon Van Booy has been collecting the stories, feelings, and
So begins a magnificent, romantic tale in the tradition of F. Scott Fitzgerald
confessions of one extended family from Grayson County, Kentucky, which he has
and Arthur Schnitzler. From Cannes to Hollywood, Paris to NY, and on these
woven into an intimate portrayal of American life. With vivid emotion, he depicts the
charming characters fall in and out of love with one another, against the
Depression, war, faith, the hardship of women, prejudice, and rural disenfranchisement
backdrop of a new era in Hollywood and the world beyond, unrecognisable in
– while capturing the distinctive voices of each character, and revealing the sacred
the three decades since Edouard and Laure first found the spotlight.
bonds of family and friendship in times of crisis.
ADÉLAÏDE DE CLERMONT-TONNERRE is a journalist and novelist based SIMON VAN BOOY is the award-winning author of works of fiction for adults,
in Paris. Her first novel, Fourrure, was published to much acclaim, won five novels for children, and anthologies of philosophy. He has written for the New
literary prizes and was a finalist for the Goncourt prize for début fiction. York Times, New York Post, and the Financial Times.
PUBLISHERS: North America (Godine), Audio (Recorded Books).
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Dolen Perkins-Valdez Stella Duffy
IF THIS IS LULLABY
PEACE BEACH
Literary Fiction / 256 pages
Historical Fiction / 380 pages
Material: copies in English
Material: manuscript in English
Publication: February 2021
Publication: Fall 2022
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Civil Townsend believed in her mission:
to do right by her patients. “A writer who never lets you down.”
A nurse at the Family Planning Clinic in Montgomery Alabama, Civil Townsend
-Ali Smith
is passionate about putting choice into women’s hands. No more days, no more times, no more tides. No more secrets. When Lucy
discovers the body of her great aunt Kitty, with a puzzling note and empty
When she is assigned to administer birth control to two school age Black girls,
pill bottles by her bed, she can't believe that the woman who held her family
the Williams sisters, who live in a shack without running water, she suspects
together is gone – or understand why this formidable woman has taken her
that something is amiss. She grows close to the family and becomes invested
own life.
in their well-being. One day, she learns with horror that the girls have been
involuntarily sterilized. Civil vows to get to the bottom of it. She soon discovers The note lists a series of dates without any explanation and so Lucy sets out
that this is no isolated event – but a pattern, targeting poor Black women. No to discover what Kitty's final message means. What Lucy finds will overturn
matter how ugly, Civil is determined for the truth to be brought to light. everything she thought she knew about her family, and takes the reader on a
journey through three generations of a complicated, close-knit family whose
Based on true events, and raising questions of culpability and ethics in a
joys and misfortune track many of the most pressing conflicts and concerns
society that deems the poor, Black, and disabled unfit for motherhood, IF THIS
of post-war Britain, from the promise and hypocrisies of 1950s London to the
IS PEACE brims with hope, compassion, and the burning pursuit of justice.
political divides and risky freedoms of the present day.
DOLEN PERKINS-VALDEZ is the author of New York Times bestselling novel
Wench, and was a finalist for two NAACP Image awards and the Hurston-Wright STELLA DUFFY has written seventeen novels, over seventy short stories, and
Legacy award. She is chair of the board for the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and fourteen plays. She has twice won the CWA Short Story Dagger and twice
teaches literature at the American University in Washington, D.C. won Stonewall Writer of the Year.
PUBLISHERS: US/NA (Berkley), UK (Orion/Phoenix). PUBLISHERS: UK (Virago).
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Marie Robert Susan Spindler
PENELOPE'S VOYAGE: SURROGATE
AN ODYSSEY THROUGH
PHILOSOPHY
Literary thriller / 300 pages
Philosophy / 272 pages Material: copies in English
Material: copies in French Publication: April 2021
Publication: November 2020
"An existential road-trip reminiscent of Sophie’s World." "A darkly humorous, thoughtful and thought-provoking novel,
—ELLE along with being an absolute 'up all night' compulsive read."
—KATE HAMER, AUTHOR OF THE DOLL FUNERAL
"You want to feel something, your heart burns, your mind is beset with
thoughts, but you refuse to go any further, you refuse to dive in. You Beth Furnival is a successful television executive with a perfect life: a nice
remain a spectator, deliberating. Is this your great journey? You know, house in London, a lawyer husband and two grown-up daughters. But at 55,
each individual has a role to play, and can use their unique spirit to take with an empty nest and menopause behind her, she feels restless.
charge of their own existence and leave a mark on the world around them.
Together, we can build a palace from these ruins.” After multiple rounds of failed IVF, her eldest daughter Lauren has been
told that the only chance for her and her husband to have their own child
This is an Odyssey. A journey to the heart of our doubts, our wanderings.
is surrogacy. Overwhelmed by the legal grey zones and expense, they are
Penelope is overwhelmed with questions. Who am I? Where am I going? Do
running out of options. So when Beth discovers that even at her age, with the
my choices matter? Leaving her love, work, and home to go to Greece, she
embarks on an internal voyage, but also one through the history of philosophy. right hormones, she could carry their baby, out of desperation they agree.
As Beth’s unlikely pregnancy progresses, her life disintegrates. Her husband
MARIE ROBERT is the new face of philosophy. She is the author of When You
moves out, her TV company is near bankruptcy, and Lauren can’t contain
Kant Figure it Out, Ask a Philosopher, which was translated into 15 languages,
and runs the podcast and Instagram account @philosophyissexy. her corrosive envy. Isolated and suffering from complications, Beth starts to
unravel, with life-threatening consequences…
PREVIOUS PUBLISHERS: ANZ (Penguin Random House), Brazil (Planeta), France
(Flammarion/Versilio), Germany (Mosaik/Goldmann), Netherlands (Balans), Japan
(Futabasha), Korea (Dongyang books), Poland (Foksal), Romania (Baroque), Spain SUSAN SPINDLER is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker.
(Ariel), Taiwan (Athena Press), Turkey (Ayriksi Kitap), UK (Scribe), US/NA (Little, Brown),
Vietnam (Tre Publishing). Surrogate is her first novel.
PUBLISHERS: France (Flammarion/Versilio). PUBLISHERS: Russia (Corpus), UK (Virago).
- 18 - - 19 -Susan Conley Sophie Divry
LANDSLIDE CURIOSITY
Literary Fiction / 288 pages
Literary Fiction / 112 pages
Material: copies in English
Material: copies in English
Publication: February 2021
Publication: March 2021
" A truly beautiful and unforgettable love story of
a family on the brink.” —LILY KING, AUTHOR OF WRITERS AND LOVERS Curiosity is alone on Mars.
After a fishing accident leaves her husband hospitalized across the border For years, NASA’s robot has been working in the cold, red, dust. But Curiosity
in Canada, Jill is left to look after her teenage boys – “the wolves” – alone. is not like other rovers. He longs for friendship, and to speak to God, this
Nothing comes easy in their remote corner of Maine: money is tight, her son strange creature who lives on Earth who, each morning doles out Curiosity’s
Sam is getting into more trouble by the day, her eldest Charlie has a new tasks.
girlfriend, and Jill begins to suspect her marriage isn’t as stable as she once
In the grips of his loneliness, Curiosity is convinced of one thing: a mission
believed. As one disaster gives way to the next, she begins to think that it’s
awaits him. But one morning, he learns that his death is pre-programmed.
not enough to be a caring wife and mother anymore – not enough to nudge
Doubt encases Curiosity. What good is living if we are deprived of our destiny?
her boys in the right direction, believe everything will be okay. But how to
Desperate, Curiosity begins to write his story. The next three nights are full
protect this life she loves, this household, this family?
of revelations.
Landslide ushers us into a modern household where, for a family at odds,
In this tender extraterrestrial testimony, Sophie Divry examines solitude,
Instagram posts, sex-positivity talks, and old fishing tales mingle to become a
humanity, and our desire for transcendence.
kind of love language. It is a stunning portrait, as compelling as it is moving,
and raises the question of how to remain devoted when the eye of the storm
closes in. SOPHIE DIVRY is the author of five novels. Her books have been translated
SUSAN CONLEY is the author of five books. Her 'Tedx' talk on the “Power of into English, Spanish, Swedish, Italian and German and are being adapted to
Story” has been widely viewed, and she is the co-founder of the Telling Room, film and TV. La Condition Pavillionnaire won the Prix Wepler’s Special Mention.
a creative writing center for youth.
PUBLISHERS: US/NA (Knopf). PUBLISHERS: France (Notabilia).
- 20 - - 21 -Violaine Huisman PRAISE FOR THE BOOK OF MOTHER
THE BOOK OF “Sumptuous… combines refined classicism and implacable crudity. This
second novel attests to Huisman’s rare talent.” — MARIE CLAIRE
MOTHER ”A work of great elegance.” — VOGUE
Literary Fiction / 250 pages ”Her style has an almost hypnotic power. At times gentle, at others abrupt,
even roughly erotic, she conveys the beauty of wilderness and the agony of
Material: copies in English
desire, the havoc of madness and the pain of loss.” — L’EXPRESS
Publication: October 2021
“A sparkling debut. Any sadness in the telling is countered by the panache
and surprise of the writing infused in these pages. Love wins out in a life of
WINNER OF THE PRIX MARIE CLAIRE AND PRIX FRANCOISE
struggle--the struggle of a monarch without a kingdom.” —ELLE
SAGAN
“A magnificent ode. Her prose abounds with literary force.” —LE POINT
A gorgeous, critically acclaimed debut novel about a young
woman coming of age with a dazzling yet damaged mother "The grit Huisman has in retelling her story, both as a young girl and as a
who lived and loved in extremes. writer, is as beautiful as it is brave… Dignified and devastating, the book is a
superb monument to a woman who spent her whole life in flight." —LE MONDE
Beautiful and charismatic, Catherine, aka “Maman,” smokes too much, drives
too fast, laughs too hard, and loves too extravagantly. During a joyful and
VIOLAINE HUISMAN was born in Paris in 1979
chaotic childhood in Paris, her daughter Violaine wouldn’t have it any other way.
and has lived and worked in New York for the past
twenty years. Her translations into French include
But when Maman is hospitalized after a third divorce and breakdown,
David Grann’s True Crime and Ben Lerner’s The
everything changes. Even as Violaine and her sister long for their mother’s
Hatred of Poetry.
return, once she’s back, Maman’s violent mood swings and flagrant disregard
for boundaries soon turn their home into an emotional landmine. As the
story of Catherine’s own traumatic childhood and adolescence unfolds,
the pieces come together to form an indelible portrait of a mother as
PUBLISHERS: France (Gallimard), Germany (Fischer), Netherlands (De Geus),
irresistible as she is impossible, as triumphant as she is transgressive.
Korea (Sigongsa), Italy (Bompiani), Spain (Hoja de Lata), UK (Virago), US/NA
(Scribner).
- 22 - - 23 -Maria Dahvana Headley THE MERE WIFE
BEOWULF: A NEW A NOVEL
TRANSLATION
Poetry / 176 pages Literary Fiction / 320 pages
Material: copies in English Material: copies in English
Publication: August 2020 Publication: July 2018
www.mariadahvanaheadley.com
A modern retelling of the literary classic Beowulf, set in
A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author American suburbia as two mothers - a housewife and a
of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere Wife.
battle-hardened veteran - fight to protect those they love.
Nearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf and fifty
For Willa, the wife of Roger Herot (heir of Herot Hall), life moves at a charmingly
years after the translation that continues to torment high-school students
slow pace. She flits between mommy groups, playdates, cocktail hour, and
around the world, here is a radical new verse translation of the epic poem
dinner parties, always with her son, Dylan, in tow. Meanwhile, in a cave in the
by Maria Dahvana Headley, which brings to light elements that have never
mountains just beyond the limits of Herot Hall lives Gren, short for Grendel,
before been translated into English, recontextualizing the binary narrative of
as well as his mother, Dana, a former soldier who gave birth as if by chance.
monsters and heroes into a tale in which the two categories often entwine,
Dana didn’t want Gren, didn’t plan Gren, and doesn’t know how she got Gren,
justice is rarely served, and dragons live among us.
but when she returned from war, there he was. When Gren, unaware of the
borders erected to keep him at bay, ventures into Herot Hall and runs off with
“Brash and belligerent, lunatic and invigorating, with Dylan, Dana’s and Willa’s worlds collide.
passages of sublime poetry punctuated by obscenities
and social-media shorthand…The over-all effect is MARIA DAHVANA HEADLEY is a #1 New York Times-
as if Headley, like the warrior queen she admired as bestselling author and editor. Her novels include
a child, were storming the dusty halls of the library, Magonia, Aerie, and Queen of Kings. With Kat Howard,
upending the crowded shelf of “Beowulf” translations she is the author of The End of the Sentence, and with
to make room for something completely new.” Neil Gaiman, she is co-editor of Unnatural Creatures.
— Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Shirley
Jackson, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards.
PUBLISHERS: US/NA (MCDxFSG).
- 24 - - 25 -Raphael Montes Alice O'Keefe
A WOMAN IN SKYLARK
THE DARK
Thriller / 289 pages Literary Fiction / 315 pages
Material: copies in Material: copies in English
Publication: May 2019 Publication: June 2021
A stunning new psychological thriller from the Brazilian Their ideals brought them together, but how closely should
bestselling author. you follow your heart?
When Victoria’s terrible past resurfaces, she It is the mid-nineties, there is sense of excitement and social change in the air.
knows there are only three people she can trust. Free spirited Skylark is an anti-roads activist who has fled her stifling suburban
The problem? One of them is a killer. background and is set on making the world a better, brighter place. Trapped
in an unhappy relationship, she meets handsome and dependable Dan, a
Victoria Bravo was four years old when a man broke into her home and stabbed
fellow rebel whose love and support turns her life around. But over time she
her family to death. The sole survivor, she is now a shy, solitary young woman
starts to wonder: is Dan quite who he says he is?
in Rio, with recurring nightmares and serious relationship issues.
Drawing on real stories that emerged as part of the Spycops scandal, SKYLARK
But when the past comes knocking on her door, Victoria is forced to face her
depicts the personal and political legacy of Britain's undercover policing
own personal tragedy and embark on a voyage that throws open her own
of environmental protest, while at its heart lie more universal questions: How
darkest recesses, but also the possibility of a new beginning.
well do we ever really know the person we love? And can love be true, even
A Woman in the Dark reinforces Raphael Montes’s status as one of the world’s when based on deception?vv
most original suspense writers. ALICE O'KEEFE is a freelance writer and journalist. She was deputy editor of
RAPHAEL MONTES is alawyer and a writer, whose his novels include Roulette, the Guardian‘s Saturday Review section, and writes book reviews, interviews
Perfect Days, The Village and Secret Dinner, all of which are currently being and features for the Guardian, Observer and New Statesman. She has been
adapted for film by RT Features (Call Me By Your Name). Raphael regularly a speechwriter at the Department for Education and literary programmer at
writes screenplays for film and television. the Brighton Festival.
PUBLISHERS: Brazil (Companhia das lettras), TV/Film (O Globo). PUBLISHERS: UK (Hodder & Stoughton).
- 26 - - 27 -Tracey Lange Anne-Gaëlle Huon
WE ARE THE HAPPINESS HAS
BRENNANS NO WRINKLES
Women's Fiction / 330 pages Women's Fiction / 384 pages
Material: manuscript in English Material: copies in French
Publication: Winter 2022 Publication: 2017
www.annegaelle-huon.com
In the same vein as J. Courtney Sullivan and Mary Beth Keane, A first novel that has sold over 170,000 copies
We Are the Brennans explores the staying power of shame
and loyalty in an Irish Catholic family torn apart by secrets. 85-year-old Paulette has the perfect plan: lean into her act as a batty old
lady who's completely lost her marbles, and convince her son to pay for the
When 30-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, retirement home of her dreams in the south of France. Unfortunately things
bruised and battered after a drunk driving accident she caused, she swallows don't exactly go to plan, and she finds herself stranded in a country inn in the
her pride and goes home to her family. But it’s not easy. She deserted them middle of nowhere.
all-and her high school sweetheart-six years ago with little explanation, and
they've got questions. Still, Sunday is determined to rebuild her life in the Now she only wants one thing: to get the heck out of there, and as quickly as
suburbs of New York, even if it does mean tiptoeing around resentful brothers possible. But she underestimates her own curiosity and doesn't realize how
and an ex-fiancé. fascinated she'll be by the other residents - and in uncovering their secrets.
What's in the mysterious letters that Georges keeps in his room? Who is the
When a dangerous man from her past brings her family’s pub business to author of the strange journal she finds in the library? One thing is certain:
the brink of financial ruin, the only way to protect them is to reveal the brutal Paulette can't begin to imagine how these encounters will change her life, and
assault that drove her away years ago. In the aftermath, they’re all forced to perhaps, finally give it meaning.
confront painful mistakes – and ultimately find a way forward, together.
"Luminous."—COSMOPOLITAN
TRACEY LANGE was born and raised in New York City. She owned a
behavioral healthcare company in the Pacific Northwest with her husband for ANNE-GAËLLE HUON has a passion for lists and an affinity for old ladies. She
fifteen years, and currently lives in Bend, Oregon. spent several years in New York before moving back to Paris.
PUBLISHERS: US/NA (Celadon Books). PUBLISHERS: France (Albin Michel), Korea (Cheongmi).
- 28 - - 29 -Megan Campisi W.S. Winslow
SIN EATER THE NORTHERN
REACH
Literary Fiction / 300 pages Commerical Fiction / 208 pages
Material: copies in English Material: copies in English
Publication: April 2020 Publication: March 2021
www.megancampisi.com
The Handmaid’s Tale meets Alice in Wonderland in A heart-wrenching first novel about the power of
this gripping and imaginative historical novel. place and family ties, the weight of the stories we
choose to tell, and the burden of those we hide.
For the crime of stealing bread, fourteen-year-old May receives a life sentence:
she must become a Sin Eater–a shunned woman, brutally marked, whose fate Frozen in grief after the loss of her son at sea, Edith Baines stares across
is to hear the final confessions of the dying, eat ritual foods symbolizing their the water at a schooner, under full sail yet motionless in the winter wind and
sins as a funeral rite, and thereby shoulder their transgressions to grant their surging tide of the Northern Reach. Edith seems to be hallucinating. Or is
souls access to heaven. she? Edith’s boat-watch opens The Northern Reach, set in the coastal town of
Wellbridge, Maine, where townspeople squeeze a living from the perilous bay
Orphaned and friendless, apprenticed to an older Sin Eater who cannot speak
or scrape by on the largesse of the summer folk and whatever they can cobble
to her, May must make her way in a dangerous and cruel world she barely
together, salvage, or grab.
understands. When a deer heart appears on the coffin of a royal governess
who did not confess to the dreadful sin it represents, the older Sin Eater At the center of town life is the Baines family, land-rich, cash-poor descendants
refuses to eat it. She is taken to prison, tortured, and killed. To avenge her of town founders, along with the ne’er-do-well Moody clan, the Martins of
death, May must find out who placed the deer heart on the coffin and why. Skunk Pond, and the dirt farming, bootlegging Edgecombs. Over the course
of the twentieth century, the families intersect, interact, and intermarry,
MEGAN CAMPISI is a playwright, novelist, and teacher. She has been a forest
grappling with secrets and prejudices that span generations, opening new
ranger, sous-chef in Paris, and a physical theater specialist around the world.
wounds and reckoning with old ghosts.
Megan lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her family.
W.S. WINSLOW is a ninth-generation Mainer, who now lives most of the year
PUBLISHERS: US/NA (Atria), Czech Republic (Host), Germany (TK), in a small town Downeast. Her short fiction has appeared in Yemassee Journal
Hungary (Libri), Italy (Nord), Lithuania (Baltos), Poland (Swiat Ksiaz-
ki), Portugal (Saida de Emergencia), Romania (Litera), Russia (AST), and Bird’s Thumb.
Spain (Duomo Ediciones), Taiwan (Global Group), US/NA (Atria). PUBLISHERS: North America (Flatiron).
- 30 - - 31 -Andrea Carter
THE BODY
FALLS
Crime Fiction /312 pages
Material: copies in English
Publication: April 2020
@andysaibhcarter
“Her best yet... Andrea conjures up a phenomenal sense of place.
She is such an assured, stylish writer.” — JO SPAIN
When Ben O’Keefe returns to Glendara, Inishowen from a tropical stint with her
old law firm in Florida, a relentless, torrential downpour strands participants in
a local charity cycling race in the town overnight.
In the middle of the night Sergeant Tom Molloy is called out to Mamore Gap,
where a body, dislodged from a high bank by the heavy rain, has been found.
It is identified as Bob Jameson, a well-known local charities boss, and the
organiser of the cycling event. Stunned, the GP confirms that the man has
suffered a snakebite.
The terrible weather persists and Glendara is completely cut off, with a killer at
the heart of the community. Who is responsible for Bob Jameson’s death – a
stranger or someone closer to home? It’s left to Molloy, with Ben’s assistance,
to find out what is going on.
ANDREA CARTER worked as a solicitor on the Inishowen Peninsula where she
ran the most northerly solicitor’s practice in the country. Her books are being
adapted into a TV series called "The Inishowen Mysteries" by Zanzibar and
Hold the Page.
PUBLISHERS: UK (Little, Brown), US (Oceanview), TV (Zanzibar), Audio (Tantor).
- 32 -CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT
Nataël Trapp Simon Van Booy
IN BETWEEN DUST
DAYS BUNNIES
Young Adult Crossover / 250 pages Chapter Book / 138 pages
Material: copies in French, partial in English Material: manuscript in English
Publication: October 2019 www.simonvanbooy.com
NETFLIX TO BEGIN FILMING SPRING 2021
“The day of the big sale was coming, when almost every animal
Leo is a film-loving, solitary seventeen-year-old, leading an uneventful life in the secondhand shop hoped a miracle might happen.”
in a nondescript French town. Like the rest of his peers, he has little to look
forward to but the senior prom, which is in seven days. Everyone is excited for In an old, magical secondhand shop in Brooklyn, among the dusty books,
the big event, but the dance is haunted by the memory of Jessica Stein, the musical instruments, obsolete electronics, racks of clothes from bygone eras,
popular, angel-faced girl who was murdered on prom night 1988. 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 Leo’s life is suddenly turned upside down when he wakes up in the body dream of being adopted. But this year is different.
of a plump, sullen seventeen-year-old named Daniel Marcuso. The year is
1988, and in seven days there will be the end-of-year school party. Every When their friends are all purchased by a pair of dangerous villains for a most
other day of the week, Leo wakes up in the body of someone new, thirty years horrible purpose, the feisty and resourceful Dust Bunnies must embark on a
in the past, uncovering clues about the culprit of the infamous murder – until, quest through New York City to rescue them. The fate of the entire animal
the day before the prom, he wakes up as none other than Jessica Stein. Can kingdom rests on their furry shoulders.
he change the course of fate and save Jessica’s life?
The first in a series, with humor that will delight children and captivate adults
In this brilliant, page-turning novel, Leo must discover just how strict the — from Karl’s Catwalk, to dancing crabs in Chinatown, to a trash-talking pizza
bounds of destiny are, for his life depends on it. rat — Dust Bunnies is a tribute to true friendship and all it can accomplish.
NATAËL TRAPP was born in 1982 and never quite recovered from it. He likes
walks in the mountains, metaphysics and stories with happy endings. He lives
SIMON VAN BOOY is the award-winning author of works of fiction for adults,
in France with his partner and their three children.
novels for children, and anthologies of philosophy.
PUBLISHER: France (Laffont/Versilio), Italy (Mondadori), Film/TV (Netflix),
Spain (Montena/PRH).
- 36 - - 37 -NON-FICTION
Denis Mukwege land, start businesses, and help rebuild their shattered communities. The
Power of Women is an arresting and deeply compelling call to action that
THE POWER reinforces the messages of the #MeToo movement. Dr. Mukwege explains
that corruption, cruelty and global indifference have sustained two decades
OF WOMEN of conflict in his country, but he argues throughout that the rape crisis in
Congo is inextricably linked to the mistreatment of women in homes and on
streets in all parts of the world.
Non-Fiction
Material: manuscript in English Dr. Mukwege also addresses men, encouraging and guiding them to become
Publication: Fall 2021 allies in the fight against sexual abuse. Through his personal example and his
www.drmukwege.com ideas, he hopes to inspire a new form of “positive masculinity” – a change
in male behavior and attitudes that will help build more inclusive, gender-
AN OPRAH BOOK balanced societies. He believes other men must join the struggle.
In an era of Putin, Trump and Bolsonaro, it’s easy to lose your faith in humanity. The countless women that Dr. Mukwege has worked with call him their savior.
But every once in a while, someone like Dr. Mukwege comes along and renews Dr. Mukwege is quick to point out, however, that they, the women, are the
it. heroines of this story.
2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Mukwege has seen unimaginable “Dr. Denis Mukwege is my hero.” — EMMA WATSON
destruction, pain that should never be felt – and has saved countless lives
“A tireless defender of women's dignity, Dr. Mukwege is
at the risk of losing his own in several assassination attempts at his home
beginning a new phase, from now on he will also be fighting
and hospital. His tireless work to heal survivors of sexual violence in his war-
to spread awareness of sexual violence as a weapon of war.”
torn country of Congo has gained him recognition as a global champion of
— TÉLÉRAMA
women’s rights.
DENIS MUKWEGE was born in the Belgian Congo in 1955.
The Power of Women prompts us to challenge our attitude towards sexual Now a renowned surgeon, he is recognized as the world’s
violence. Part autobiography, part rallying cry against sexual violence in leading expert on treating rape injuries, and his holistic
peace-time and in war, Dr. Mukwege explores how he became an activist by approach to healing has inspired other initiatives around
accident, but has stayed one out of necessity, seeking throughout to spotlight the world. In November 2018, he was awarded the Nobel
the extraordinary women who have shaped and inspired him. Peace Prize along with Yazidi human rights activist and
sexual violence survivor Nadia Murad.
It is a story about struggle and suffering, but it is also one of hope and
resilience. Dr. Mukwege has seen thousands of women on the brink of death PUBLISHER: World English (Flatiron Books), Under negotiation elsewhere,
and heard their harrowing stories – but he has also witnessed them heal, buy Preempted in China (Shanghai Insight Media).
- 40 - - 41 -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: copies in English rest of the world… Yet today it is a tragedy that history is in reverse for women,
Publication: February 2021 and not just immigrant women, all women in the West.” —AYAAN HIRSI ALI
@AyaanHirsiAli
PRAISE FOR PREY:
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, “Prey warns us that if we do not rethink our philosophy for protecting women
but for all women in liberal democracies. and children, we risk losing one of Western civilization’s most precious asset:
the rule of law.”
In Prey, Ayaan Hirsi Ali weaves together personal testimonies and hard facts to
—HENRY A. KISSINGER
show how the Western world is experiencing a significant setback in women’s
"This is a book that no-one should have to read - but that everyone needs
rights. Underscoring the role of religion, demography, conflict, television, and
to" — TREVOR PHILLIPS
social media, Hirsi Ali explains that today there is one major factor causing
"Once again Ayaan Hirsi Ali goes where others do not dare."
a decline in women’s safety and independence: massive immigration from
— DOUGLAS MURRAY
Muslim majority countries with a radically different view of the place of women
in society. This change is setting back women's rights alarmingly fast, and in AYAAN HIRSI ALI is the bestselling author of Infidel, Nomad, The Caged
some places, by decades. Virgin, and Heretic, which have been translated into 38 languages. Born in
Somalia and raised a Muslim, she grew up in Africa and Saudi Arabia before
With extensive research and insight, Hirsi Ali flags this dangerous decline, seeking asylum in 1992 in the Netherlands, where she
addressing issues ranging from immigration and Islam to the apologetic went from cleaning factories to winning a seat in the Dutch
multiculturalism of Western liberal democracies. Her message is clear: we Parliament. A prominent speaker, debater, and journalist,
cannot turn a blind eye to violations of women's rights carried out in the name she was chosen as one of Time Magazine's “100 Most
of religion in our own backyard. Influential People in the World.” She is a fellow at Harvard
University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and
PUBLISHER: Denmark (Politikens), Germany (Knaus), Holland (Atlas Contact),
Romania (Polirom), Spain (Debate), Sweden (Fri Tanke), US (HarperCollins). the founder of the AHA Foundation.
- 42 - - 43 -Carole Cadwalladr Cadwalladr turns over stone after stone to reveal a world of dark money, dirty
data and corporate skulduggery. A world where billionaires can buy power
UNTITLED and influence and politicians will cover it up.
While her enemies dismiss her as a “conspiracy theorist”, her reporting has led
to investigations into electoral fraud, data abuse and corporate malfeasance
in the US, UK and across the world. Nominated as a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize
and featured in a Netflix documentary, "The Great Hack", she continues to
chase the answers to these questions and to call to account “the Gods of
Silicon Valley” – as she described them in her viral TED talk.
Current Affairs
We are at an inflection point, she warns. Facebook is a clear and present
danger. Are our elections safe? Are yours? Are we witnessing the beginning
You may think you know the facts. of the end of democracy?
But you don’t know the story.
In this book Cadwalladr weaves her personal journey through the story she
After exposing the world-changing Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data uncovered during her investigative reporting. She describes the misogynist
scandal in 2018, Carole Cadwalladr became a globally recognised voice on attacks, physical threats and legal assaults that have dogged her path. And
data manipulation and the risks to democracies across the world. helps readers understand how the devices in our pockets have led to tech
companies becoming “the handmaiden to authoritarianism” across the world.
It was her in-depth investigation with The Observer and The New York Times
that forced Mark Zuckerberg to testify before Congress and that led to PUBLISHERS: UK (Faber), US/NA (Penguin Press).
Facebook being fined $5 billion. But despite Cambridge Analytica's demise
and a global movement to #DeleteFacebook, the scandal has left us with far
more questions than answers. CAROLE CADWALLADR is an internationally renowned journalist who,
What was Facebook's role in Brexit and the election of Donald Trump? Why alongside reporters from The New York Times, was a finalist for the 2019
won't Mark Zuckerberg testify in Britain? What was Cambridge Analytica Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for her work on the Facebook-Cambridge
doing in dozens of countries across the world? And what on earth were the Analytica scandal. Other awards she has won include the 2018 Orwell Prize,
'Bad Boys of Brexit' doing inside the Russian embassy on the day before they the 2018 Polk Award, the 2018 Stieg Larsson Award, and the 2019 Gerald
launched their campaign? Loeb Award for Investigative Reporting. Her TED Talk in June 2019 has
been watched by millions of people and she appeared in the award winning
When Cadwalladr stumbled across the “fake news ecosystem” in December documentary "The Great Hack." Cadwalladr’s debut novel, The Family Tree,
2016, she was a feature writer interested in tech. But to pursue this story – and was published by Random House in 2005 and shortlisted for several literary
take on some of the most powerful individuals and corporations in the world prizes. It was a New York Times notable book and adapted into a five-part
including Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and Steve Bannon – she had to turn miniseries on the BBC’s Radio 4. Cadwalladr is currently a features writer at
herself into an investigative reporter who wouldn't give up on the story. The Observer.
- 44 - - 45 -Jessie Inchauspé Séverine Autesserre
GLUCOSE REVOLUTION: THE FRONTLINES
ON RECONNECTING
WITH OUR BODIES OF PEACE
Current Affairs / 210 pages
Health / 170 Pages Material: proofs in English
Material: Manuscript in English Publication: March 2021
www.severineautesserre.com
Publication: Spring 2022
Jessie Inchauspe does for glucose what "Not just another book about international politics.
Giulia Enders did for the gut… It will change the way you see the world around you."
— LEYMAH GBOWEE, NOBEL PEACE PRIZE LAUREATE
Our bodies talk to us all the time, but often we don’t know how to listen. How
we feel in the morning largely depends on what we ate the night before… It’s always the same story told in a different setting. Violence breaks out, foreign
And our glucose levels are key. nations are scandalized, aid comes rushing in, peace is declared, and within a
month the situation is back to where it started. Sometimes worse.
In this ground breaking book on glucose, Jessie Inchauspé explores how
important it is to keep our glucose levels steady. Because in the short term In The Frontlines of Peace, Séverine Autesserre, award-winning peacebuilder,
glucose affects our energy levels, the way we sleep, our complexion, our opens our eyes to the well-intentioned but systematically flawed peace industry.
cravings… but it also has long term impact on our health and can contribute She sheds light on how typical peace interventions have been getting it wrong
and – more importantly – how a few of them have been getting it right.
to chronic illnesses like dementia and diabetes.
Weaving science through an engaging narrative, Inchauspé shows us the With examples from across the globe, in a lively narrative, Autesserre reveals
importance of glucose, how it functions in our bodies and how to avoid glucose that peace can grow in the most unlikely of circumstances, with the help of
the most unlikely heroes. She makes the very compelling case that we must
spikes. This book helps us reconnect with our bodies and live healthier lives.
radically change our approach if we hope to build lasting peace.
JESSIE INCHAUSPÉ is the founder of the popular instagram nutrition account
@GlucoseGoddess. She holds a Mathematics degree from Kings' College, SÉVERINE AUTESSERRE is a professor of Political Science at Barnard College,
London, a Master of Science in Biochemistry from Georgetown University, and Columbia University and has worked for aid organizations including the United
Nations and Doctors Without Borders. She has been a featured speaker at the
has published her research in leading journals. Her work at a genetic startup
World Summit of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, and her TED talk on solving
in Silicon Valley made her realize that nutrition beats genetics to determine mass violence has close to 800,000 views.
health and happiness.
PUBLISHERS: Australia (PRH), Brazil (Objetiva), France (Robert Laffont), PUBLISHER: US/World English (Oxford University Press), Audio (Audible).
Germany (Heyne), Holland (Fontaine), Spain (Diana), UK (Short Books), US/NA
(Simon & Schuster)
- 47 -
- 46 -Fabrice Midal ARE YOU
THE THREE-MINUTE HYPERSENSITIVE?
PHILOSOPHER THE POWERS OF AN
UNDERRATED GIFT
Non-Fiction / 160 pages Non-Fiction / 300 pages
Material: copies in French, proofs in English Material: proofs in French
Publication: September 2020 Publication: February 2021
www.fabricemidal.com www.fabricemidal.com
Do you feel different from other people? Do your emotions,
40 inspiring quotes to help you think differently, thoughts and feelings get the better of you?
from the author of international bestseller Do you blame yourself for not being rational and zen?
The French Art of Not Giving a Sh*t. If so, you have a gift. And you can learn to make
the most of it.
During your last family dinner, you almost threw a plate at your charming
brother-in-law, in a fierce debate over politics while everyone else sat there I am hypersensitive. To understand this part of my identity better, I set out
silently. Now you regret it. Don’t worry, this is actually a good sign: you are to explore its different facets. I met with specialists from a wide range of
tapping into a deeper understanding of your existence. disciplines -- scientists, neurologists, physicists, anthropologists, psychologists,
philosophers and historians. This book is the result of my journey to the heart
Starting with a quote from one of the great minds of philosophy, each of
of this misunderstood power. It will give you the tools to turn this supposed
these 40 chapters then goes into a true life experience. These experiences
weakness into your strongest advantage.
will transform you, enlighten you, and invite you to see the world in a new way.
PRAISE FOR FABRICE MIDAL:
FABRICE MIDAL has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Paris. The
“With conviction and clarity, Fabrice Midal shows us how to make a lasting
founder of The Western School of Meditation and author of several bestsellers, place in our hearts for generous Love.”
he is one of France’s leading teachers of dharma and meditation. He travels
— CHRISTOPHE ANDRÉ
around the world to give conferences.
“A joyful plea, a call to reaffirm our inner freedom.” — ELLE
PUBLISHERS: Arabic (Tarieq), France (Flammarion), Germany (dtv), Greece
“Fabrice Midal's book is powerful, yet playful, challenging and at the same
(Psichogios), Holland (A.W. Bruna), Romania (Curtea Veche), Taiwan (Lucent
time comforting. It can transform the way you look at your life as a whole, and
Books), Turkey (Orenda), UK/ANZ (Orion Spring), US/NA (Running Press). the way you live this moment.“ — TAL BEN-SHAHAR
- 48 - - 49 -Ailton Krenak LIFE IS NOT
IDEAS TO POSTPONE USEFUL
THE END OF THE
WORLD
Non Fiction / 104 pages Non Fiction / 128 pages
Material: copies in English Material: partial translation in English
Publication: July 2019 Publication: August 2020
Provoked by the COVID-19 pandemic, Krenak powerfully
"We need this right now!" — MARGARET ATWOOD points out the destructiveness of so-called “civilization.”
For centuries, Brazil’s Indigenous peoples have bravely faced threats of total
Krenak is winner of the 2019 Juca Pato Award annihilation and have reinvented their lives and communities. At a time when
From renowned Brazilian Indigenous activist and leader Ailton Krenak the COVID-19 pandemic forces the rest of the world to reconsider its lifestyle,
comes an urgent and necessary appeal to save the planet. Ailton Krenak’s ideas emerge with newfound impact and bring fundamental
contributions to deal with the challenges we face today.
In this book, which sold over 50,000 copies in Brazil alone, Indigenous
leader Ailton Krenak criticizes the idea of humanity as removed from nature, Krenak questions the value of “going back to normal”, when “normal” is a
of a “humanity that doesn’t recognize that this comatose river is also our vision of humanity divorced from nature, actively devastating the planet and
grandfather.” digging deep trenches of inequality between peoples and societies. His
criticism is aimed at the “world’s consumers”, and he questions the idea of
This premise is the starting point for the socio-environmental disaster of sustainability itself. Krenak envisions the wake-up call of the pandemic as an
this era, the Anthropocene. Indigenous resistance shouldn’t be based on opportunity to create deep and meaningful change in the way we live. But
accepting the idea that we are all the same. Only by recognizing diversity returning to a more profound connection with nature is a battle that will be
and refusing the idea of humans as superior to other beings can we give our hard fought for the West.
existence new meanings and refrain our foolish march towards the abyss.
AILTON KRENAK has been heralded as one of the foremost Brazilian thinkers,
and established a lifelong career as a political representative for Brazil’s
PUBLISHERS: Argentina (Prometeo), Brazil (Comphania das Letras), France
indigenous peoples.
(Editions Dehors), Germany (btb), Holland (under negotiation), Italy (Ediziones
Aboca), World English (House of Anansi Press). PUBLISHERS: Germany (btb), Holland (Ten Have), Portugal (PRH Portugal).
- 50 - - 51 -Lisa Wells Maryanne O'Hara
BELIEVERS LITTLE
MATCHES
Nature / 352 pages
Material: proofs in English Memoir / 368 pages
Publication: July 2021 Material: copies in English
Publication: April 2021
https://9livesnotes.com/
We find ourselves at the end of the
world; how then shall we live?
An emotionally raw and inspiring memoir that illuminates a
Like many of us, Lisa Wells has spent years overwhelmed by news of mother’s grief over the loss of her adult child and considers
apocalyptic-scale climate change and a coming sixth extinction. But what can the hope of soulful connections that transcend the boundary
be done? Wells embarked on a pilgrimage, seeking answers in dedicated of life and death.
communities—outcasts and visionaries—on the margins of society.
When their only child was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis (CF) at the age of two,
Wells meets Finisia Medrano, an itinerant planter leading a group of nomadic Maryanne O’Hara and her husband were told that Caitlin could live a long life
activists to rewild the American desert. She finds a group of environmentalist or be dead in a matter of months. Thirty-one years later, Caitlin lost her battle
Christians practicing ‘watershed discipleship’ in New Mexico, another group with this devastating disease.
in Philadelphia turning guns into plowshares. She watches the world’s greatest
The sudden spiral of events left Maryanne in an existential crisis, searching to
tracker teach how to read a trail and visits botanists who are restoring land
find an answer to the eternal question: Why we are here?
overrun by invasive species and destructive humans. She talks with survivors
of catastrophic wildfires in California as they try to rebuild in ways that Weaving together a series of interconnected meditations with illuminating
acknowledge the fires will come again. glimpses of life rendered via text messages, e-mails, and journal entries, Little
Matches is a profound reflection on life and death, motherhood, the pain
Blending reportage, memoir, history, and philosophy, Wells opens up
of chronic uncertainty, and finding inspiration in the unexpected sparks that
seemingly intractable questions about the damage we have done and how
light our way through the darkness.
we might reckon with our inheritance.
MARYANNE O'HARA is the author of Cascades, and several short stories.
LISA WELLS is the author of The Fix (2018), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize.
She is a certified end-of-life doula and the former associate fiction editor of
Her poems and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Believer,
the literary journal Ploughshares. She has taught creative writing at Emerson
and N+1. She is an editor for The Volta and Letter Machine Editions.
PUBLISHERS: US/NA (FSG). College and Clark University.
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