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In 2009, Hachette Livre (# 3 publishing group worldwide) and Librairie Antoine (one of the most renowned Lebanese bookseller groups) joined their strengths to set up Hachette Antoine, a joint-venture based in Beirut, Lebanon. The aim of the JV between Hachette Livre and Librairie Antoine was to create a leading trade publisher in the Arabic speaking world, covering the Middle East (Levant and GCC) and North-Africa regions, with a business focus on high potential markets. Our strength: • Large-scale distribution channels in the MENA region with warehouses in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt. • Strong PR and Media connections throughout the region with efficient online and offline marketing tools. • The only Arab publishing house to provide professional and exhaustive editing on both translated and original Arabic books. • Full financial transparency: All audit assertions and financial statements are served by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Our imprints Naufal: is dedicated to fiction and non-fiction. Our list includes well established classical and contemporary authors from the Arab world among which the best-selling/phenomenon Algerian author, Ahlem Mosteghanemi, Syrian novelist Khaled Khalifa, and Lebanese journalist and women’s rights activist, Joumana Haddad. Fiction/translated: In translated fiction, our strategy consists of publishing authors from Arab origins who write in languages other than Arabic, alongside international best-selling authors. We also leave room for a few “coups de cœur” by debut authors. Thrillers and suspense: Include names such as J.K. Rowling aka Robert Galbraith, Mary Higgins Clark, Harlan Coben, Anthony Horowitz and others, and providing quality translations. Non-Fiction: Biographies and Memoirs: Becoming, A promised land. HA Kids: Licenses: Hachette Antoine is the official licensee of Disney, Marvel, Star Wars, Nickelodeon, Ferrari... in the MENA region, with more brands to come. History and Topical books, Illustrated, Inspirational stories, HA Lifestyle, HA Education, HA Reference
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FictionSeptember 2017A Vision of Battlements
by Anthony Burgess
by Andrew Biswell, Paul Wake
A Vision of Battlements is the first novel by the writer and composer Anthony Burgess, who was born in Manchester in 1917. Set in Gibraltar during the Second World War, the book follows the fortunes of Richard Ennis, an army sergeant and incipient composer who dreams of composing great music and building a new cultural world after the end of the war. Following the example of his literary hero, James Joyce, Burgess takes the structure of his book from Virgil's Aeneid. The result is, like Joyce's Ulysses, a comic rewriting of a classical epic, whose critique of the Army and the postwar settlement is sharp and assured. The Irwell Edition is the first publication of Burgess's forgotten masterpiece since 1965. This new edition includes an introduction and notes by Andrew Biswell, author of a prize-winning biography of Anthony Burgess.
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Children's & YAGray Wolf & Wolfette
by Gilles Bizouerne, Ronan Badel
Our favorite anti-hero is back and tries to win a lady’s heart... A real fiasco!Spring has come. Mice hug each other, sparrows kiss... Gray Wolf also wants to find love! Like a real handsome guy, he applies a little slug slime to make his hair smooth and shiny, and off he goes… When he meets a beautiful wolf lady, Gray Wolf is ready to do anything to charm her, but she is not so easy to impress! Ronan Badel’s expressive illustrations and Gilles Bizouerne’s talent as a storyteller offer us a hilarious sequel of the humorous best-selling series featuring a clownish character. An extra dose of silliness sure to make little ones giggle with every page.
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FictionNot All Himbos Wear Capes
by C. Rochelle
Xander Big City is supposedly the place where dreams come true. As someone just trying to live my life, it’s more like a recurring nightmare where dreams get blocked at every turn. Especially if you’re a supervillain like me. The irony is that I have zero powers, despite coming from purebred villain stock, but try telling that to Big City’s beloved hero, Captain Masculine. This himbo is ruining my research, and if his firepower doesn’t kill me, the sight of him in Lycra surely will. Luckily—or unluckily, my bestie just signed me up for the Bangers dating app and found my perfect match. If this isn’t the start of my villain arc, I don’t know what is. Butch It’s hard feeling like I have to wear a mask every day—that the only value I bring to the table is the sparkling image created for me. Such is the life of being Captain Masculine, Big City’s greatest superhero. I will gladly defend this city against every threat to its people. Except Doctor Antihero. I’ve seen countless villains come and go, but something about Antihero intrigues me more than the usual hero-villain encounters should. It’s because of him that I impulsively signed up for a dating app, hoping a meaningless fling with a local normie will help get my head back in the game. The truth is, what I really want is someone who sees me—the man behind the mask. This is not your usual superhero book. This is Deadpool and The Boys having a love child.
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FictionTHE CEREMONY
by Wang Lixiong
In Tiananmen Square, twenty-eight days before the ceremony commemorating the Party’s anniversary, a bee changed China and the world. The more tightly monitored the society, the stronger the backlash. The smallest crack can break the biggest dam. The newest political thriller from Wang Lixiong, the author of Yellow Peril. The Party is busy with preparations for its anniversary celebration and the World’s Fair, expecting the two events to be emblems of the Party’s achievements. Every Party bureaucrat from the chairman on down is focusing on making these two events even better. One member of the National Security Committee, looking to advance his career, raises the warning level of a flu epidemic. On the top levels of the party, epidemic prevention efforts are being leveraged to bring down political opponents. These machinations result in the intervention of the World Health Organization, whose investigation eventually shows that no unusual mutations of the influenza virus are present. Director Su of the National Security Committee Office seems to have been a hero throughout the effort, but in truth he has become a common target for all sides. Even the Chairman has started to distance himself from him. Director Su knows that he will become a scapegoat after the celebrations. Backed into a corner, he decides to leverage high-tech internet monitoring technology orchestrate to assassinations of the Party’s top brass, helping him get out of his difficult situation and come back stronger than ever… There are no ambitious antiheroes in The Ceremony, no conspiracies, no mutinies, no sign that everything is about to come crashing down. One bureaucrat trying to save himself, one policeman out on the border, and one politically unaware engineer is all it takes to bring down an immense authoritarian machine. As the power of dictatorships grow ever-reliant on new technology, the dictators are less and less capable of either understanding the technology or using it directly. They can only rely on the professionals and delegation to their inferiors. The people who on the intersection between technology and the authoritarian apparatus find themselves wielding outsize power. No one knows who they are, and yet they can bring the political system down to its knees. With modern technology, authoritarians today can do what authoritarians in the past could not; resistance fighters in the past could do what resistance fighters today cannot. The Ceremony begins with China as it is today, extrapolating to a world when dictatorship has grown so overreaching, and the opposition so weak, that authoritarianism seems never-ending and impervious to change. And yet the rulers of The Ceremony are fragile: just a few people, acting in their own self-interest, can easily bring it down. A empire that seems solid and unshakable can crumble under a single well-calculated blow.
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The ArtsOctober 2020RIDLEY SCOTT
A Retrospective
by Ian Nathan
Illustrated with images as iconic as they are stunning and including the author’s first-hand experiences on set and interviews with Scott himself, this book charts the extraordinary journey of Britain’s greatest living director.Telling the stories behind Alien and Blade Runner, Gladiator and Black Hawk Down, and many more, it also goes in search of the themes and motifs that unite such different films, and the methods and madness of Scott’s approach to his medium.This is the account of a director who has never been less than stubbornly, brilliantly, unforgettably his own man. Author Ian Nathan is one of the UK’s best-known film writers. He is the author of eight previous books, including Alien Vault, the bestselling history of Ridley Scott’s masterpiece, and Terminator Vault. He is the former editor and executive editor of Empire, where he remains a contributing editor.
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Barbarella
by Jean-Claude Forest & Kelly-Sue DeConnick
Jean-Claude Forest’s timeless Erotic Sci-Fi series recounting the spatial adventures of the beautiful titular character is now available in a brand new English-language adaptation. In Book 1 (first collected in 1964), Barbarella’s spaceship breaks down, she finds herself trapped on the planet Lythion. There, she has a series of adventurous, and bawdy, encounters with a variety of strange beings, from robots to angels.In Book 2, "Wrath of the Minute-Eater" (first published in 1974), Barbarella’s traveling Circus Delirium enters another dimension, led by the mysterious and alluring aquaman, Narval, whose machinations catapult Barbarella & Co. into a complex battle for the planet Spectra.Featuring a brand new, contemporary English-language adaptation by writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Marvel’s "Captain Marvel," "Avengers Assemble," Dark Horse’s "Ghost," Image’s "Pretty Deadly").
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FictionMarch 2016Reader Meet Author
by N. S. Calcutt
We have a precious, finite life on this planet and I've spent a healthy percentage of it masturbating and watching Coronation Street. Reader Meet Author is a semi-autobiographical novel set in Manchester in the 1970s and 1980s. Through sincere, adept observations and humorous recollections, the young protagonist tries to come to terms with dysfunctional family life and two life shattering blows: the death of his mother and the infidelity of his girlfriend. Beyond what appears to be a light-hearted rant at society, is a tale of depth and fragility. With humour, insight and pathos, the author conveys the story of an adolescent searching for stability and belonging.
