Antoine Gallimard knows it already: he is going to have an excellent holiday season. After Le Clézio in 2008 and Modiano in 2014, Annie Ernaux has just brought home her third Nobel Prize in fifteen years – a consecration that goes hand in hand with numerous assignments of rights abroad and the reprinting of the author’s books. of La Place.
The first half of the year had already been excellent for Gallimard with the expected successes of Karine Tuil and Leïla Slimani (100,000 copies each) and the surprise take-off of Le Mage du Kremlin by Giuliano da Empoli, which is said to be on track to land a big prices this fall. On the various lists, between the Gallimard books (Monica Sabolo, Pierre Adrian) and those of the Madrigall subsidiaries (Grégoire Bouillier, Brigitte Giraud or Olivia Rosenthal), the group is omnipresent and can hope for several laurels. Finally, let’s add that Blanc, the new story by Sylvain Tesson, and London, the second unpublished by Céline, have just been released. That’s a lot of bestsellers to come by the end of December. Will Santa Claus think of other publishers?
3. The Cazalet Saga (vol. V). The End of an Era
Par Elizabeth Jane Howard
Barely out, the fifth and final volume of La Saga des Cazalet is already snapping up in bookstores. The many fans of Elizabeth Jane Howard will be delighted to return to Home Place in Sussex one last time, this time in the late 1950s. An ideal read to accompany the All Saints’ Day holidays by the open fire. country.
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9. Live and be reborn every day
By Patrick Sebastien
The stainless Brive showman was already the author of The joyful always heal (title stolen from Rabelais). Ten years later, his mantra has not changed. In Living and reborn every day, he talks about his eviction from France 2, his cancer and a painful separation – and the way in which he was able to straighten his head. Boris Cyrulnik does not have a monopoly on resilience.
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The Bullet That Missed
By Richard Osman
M. C. Beaton having died in 2019, who would take over? It’s English game show host Richard Osman who continues to dominate cozy crime with the new Thursday Murder Club investigation: The Bullet That Missed tops the Sunday Times fiction sales while the two previous volumes rank first in pocket.
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