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      • XO Editions - OH ! Editions

        Publication of works geared toward a mass-market audience An intentionally small number of titles (15 to 20 titles per year) so as to give a maximum of attention and means to each work and thus optimise their sales potential, both in France and abroad. An ambitious strategy aiming to discover new talent and put French authors back at the top of bestseller lists around the world. In 20 years: 421 titles published, 302 made it on the best-seller lists, 250 have been widely sold abroad.

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      • Editions Denoël

        Founded in 1930, Editions Denoël publish quality fiction and non fiction, as well as graphic novels and illustrated books.

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      • The Lost Collection
        True stories: discovery / historical / scientific
        September 2020

        The Lost Collection

        by Pauline Baer de Perignon

        Paintings by Monet, Degas, and Renoir… Imagine a magnificent family collection mysteriously vanishing during WWII! The narrator, Pauline, knows from family rumours that one of her great-grandfathers, Jules Strauss, was an art collector. A considerable aura has grown up around this figure. Despite his unfailing eye, he sold his acquisitions too soon. One day, a distant cousin hands Pauline a scribbled list of the paintings that once belonged to Strauss. There is no trace of these pieces in the family apartment. Where are they now? What happened in 1942? Pauline, a homemaker looking for a subject for a book, is no art historian. But, driven by insatiable curiosity that soon borders on obsession, she develops a passion for these missing paintings. Her search takes her from the Louvre to a museum in Dresden, via Gestapo archives.

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      • The Tailor of Relizane
        True stories: discovery / historical / scientific
        August 2020

        The Tailor of Relizane

        by Olivia Elkaim

        “Algeria, 1958: my grandfather was Jewish and a tailor by trade. He had to give up everything.” When someone knocks at Marcel’s door in the middle of the night, he fears for his life and those of his wife and children. A bag is pulled over his head, he is bundled into a truck and driven into the desert. Will he be killed or released? Three days later, he returns to Relizane safe and sound. His family wonder what his safe return means. What forfeit has he paid and who to? His wife Viviane, his brothers, mother and neighbours all question him. But he says nothing. When a young Arab apprentice turns up outside his shop, Marcel realises that sooner or later he will have to leave his country. But even in France, where he makes a new life for himself, he never gives up the wild hope of returning to his shop in Relizane…

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      • The Society of Fine Folks
        August 2020

        The Society of Fine Folks

        by Tobie Nathan

        A saga set between Cairo and post WWII Paris, imbued with magic realism. Born into poverty in a destitute Jewish quarter of old Cairo, Zohar arrives in France with no family, no friends and no money. His only companion is the ghost of Dieter Boehm, his Nazi torturer. He leaves behind a war-torn Egypt: a land as unhealthy as its king, Faruk, who is softened by a life of luxury; a country poisoned by the rise of the Muslim Brother, by former Nazis infiltrating its army, pogroms against the Jews and the rebellion lead by the powerful Nasser.Once in France, he shares his obsessions with Aaron, Lucien and Paulette, three people bound by their determination to break with an oppressive past. They treat their former tormentors to the same procedure: two bullets to the head, the first for revenge, the other as a signature.This is the story that Zohar’s son François uncovers. It will help him understand the mysterious promise his father made to the “Society of Fine Folks” – a promise François decides to honour.

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      • The Great Ordeal
        Fiction
        August 2020

        The Great Ordeal

        by Etienne de Montety

        An ordinary couple, Laure and François Berteau. Their adopted son, David, a cheerful teenager who wonders about his origins. Father Georges Tellier, a priest with an unyielding fate in a context of clerical decline. Frédéric Nguyen, a cop resolved to action and silence, in order to preserve his private life. Hicham, a reckless show-off who ends up in prison. Hurtful comments, unlucky encounters. A growing influence of Islamism and an ever more radical rage. And everything unravels. Towards this little village church in the southwest of France, tragedy attracts, like an explosive magnet, men who were initially worlds apart

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      • Stalin's Mountaineers
        True stories of heroism, endurance & survival
        May 2020

        Stalin's Mountaineers

        by Cédric Gras

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

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      • Sabre
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        August 2020

        Sabre

        by Emmanuel Ruben

        Once upon a time there was a sabre… When his grandfather dies, Samuel Livdweiss returns to his grandparents’ house. Everything seems normal but the sabre that had pride of place in the dining room has disappeared. Samuel decides to investigate this childhood memory with the help of his aunt Esther, a retired bookseller. It’s not so much the sabre with its curved blade itself that fascinates him, but the history it saw, the succession of men and wars. Which ancestor did it date back to? Who was the heroic – or, perhaps lawless – impostor VLRL (Victor Livdweiss Rex Livorum) who once ruled over a Baltic archipelago? A family myth endlessly reinvented by ageing uncles. A picaresque novel with shades of Raspe’s The Adventures of Baron Münchhausen and Calvino’s The Baron in the Trees. It is a giddying quest that takes us right back to the Napoleonic wars and invites us on an outlandish journey in pursuit of pipedreams.

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      • On Love
        Popular culture
        October 2020

        On Love

        by Michel Cymes and Patricia Chalon

        A psychologist and a doctor discuss everything about love. “We definitely don’t understand each other… we might as well be speaking different languages!” This is more or less how a good many heated conversations between men and women end. Eventually, once the crisis is over, we realise that – despite our love, our good faith and our best efforts – it was all a huge… misunderstanding. It’s in an attempt to clear up this very misunderstanding (because we are old friends, one a man, the other a woman, one a doctor, the other a psychologist), that we felt we wanted to try to get to know each other so as to have a real chance of better understanding each other’s language, despite our obvious differences. We searched through our respective professional practices for anything that might explain behavioural differences from a psychological or medical point of view. We also interviewed people around us, particularly the younger generation, because we wanted to understand how their vision of the world differed from our own.

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      • A Smell of Flowers in The Night
        Literary essays
        January 2021

        A Smell of Flowers in The Night

        by Leïla Slimani

        Leïla Slimani, winner of the 2016 prix Goncourt, doesn’t like leaving home and prefers solitude to entertainment. So why agree to spend a sleepless night in the Punta della Dogona Museum in Venice? Reflecting upon the “impossibility” of a book whilst subtly digressing in the Venetian night, Leila Slimani talks about herself, about imprisonment, intimacy, identity, being caught in the middle, between East and West. A discreet, sensitive confession in which the author mentions her father who was once imprisoned. But this book – with its intensity and inner fire – is also about beauty disappearing and how urgently we must make the most of it. It is about the glory of the ephemeral. At dawn, although awake and alert, the author emerges from the building as if from a dream, and all that is left of her night is the smell of flowers.

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      • Woman Doctor
        Biography & True Stories
        November 2020

        Woman Doctor

        A Specialist in Infectious Diseases in the Time of Corona

        by Karine Lacombe and Fiamma Luzzati

        What is daily life like in a hospital during the coronavirus crisis? A ground-breaking graphic documentary. Karine Lacombe, a doctor, opens the doors to her infectious diseases department in one of the largest hospitals in Paris as it confronts a virus no one there had seen under a microscope: Covid-19. How do you prepare for this battle? How do you run the department? What surprises does daily life have in store? Does it make a difference if you’re a woman doctor? Thanks to Fiamma Luzzati’s clear, spontaneous draughtsmanship, we follow Karine Lacombe’s thoughts and her experiences working in a hospital under tremendous pressure. The perfect incarnation of an educational and informative graphic reportage that puts the Coronavirus crisis in perspective.

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      • In Siberia's Prisons
        Biography & True Stories
        February 2020

        In Siberia's Prisons

        by Yoann Barbereau

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

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      • The One and Only
        Biography: arts & entertainment
        January 2021

        The One and Only

        Maria Casarès

        by Anne Plantagenet

        The little-known story of Maria Casarès, a Spanish exile in France, actress, free spirit and Albert Camus’s lover. With her monstrous appetite, raucous laugh and scorching sensuality, Maria Casarès was born and grew up in Galicia, fled Franco in 1936, and came to Paris at 14. She very soon wanted to learn the unforgiving French language, become an actress, express herself physically, dance, love… Nothing could stop her, not rejection from the Conservatoire, nor Paris etiquette. Her talent swiftly earned recognition, and she became one of the greatest tragedians of the second half of the Twentieth Century. She was also Albert Camus’ “One and only”. They had a sixteen-year relationship, a tormented love kept in the shadows, but it flourished through a fascinating correspondence.

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      • The Painter Devouring the Female Nude
        Literary essays
        October 2018

        The Painter Devouring the Female Nude

        by Kamel Daoud

        One of the greatest Arabic writers revisits the theme of nudes, desire and women. Kamel Daoud spent a night alone in the Picasso Museum, a singular experience that inspired him to write this essay in which he juxtaposes the image of a female nude with the painter and a Jihadist. To Picasso, a woman was a body that could be truly captured only in terms of desire and erotic associations. The nude is also like a self-portrait imprinted on his subject’s flesh. In fact, she devours him, like a cannibal. But how does a Jihadist view this painting? In his view, the woman painted by Picasso is a scandalous anticipation of dream woman who awaits him in paradise, when he dies. She therefore incites disobedience and sin. For the former, she evokes dying of desire. For the latter, killing desire itself or dying in order to satisfy it.

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      • Plastic
        Waste management
        October 2020

        Plastic

        The Whole Package

        by Nathalie Gontard and Hélène Seingier

        A necessary book about our society’s addiction to plastic. Nathalie Gontard has been exploring and studying plastic in her laboratory and all over the world for 30 years. Initially fascinated by this magic material’s potential, she watched as stealthily invaded the planet, making traditional materials look dated. She found its footprints on beaches, deep in the soil and even inside countless animals. We now need to face the facts: millions of recyclers and hundreds of inventers of “new materials” won’t be able to stop the steady contamination of our environment. We must eradicate the source of the danger and question politicians and industrialists blinded by their belief in purely material progress. It’s up to us to mobilise ourselves and bring an end to this catastrophic overproduction. It’s up to us to find a way of ensuring our comfort without destabilising this little planet whose tenants we are. We must acknowledge our addiction in order to reduce our consumption to what is strictly necessary. A perfectly accessible challenge that this book encourages us to take up straight away.

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