New release : « Le cœur du Pélican » by Cécile Coulon. Rocky meets Forrest Gump !

10 days after its publication, this nvel has already entered the French bestseller’s list.
We have a first German offer in our hands.

The text has been warmly praised as ”a delicate, cruel and physical novel ” (Lire), highlighting “the pleasure, which it seems is innate in her, in telling stories ; the relaxed stride of those who trust in their imagination to invent entire lives” (Livres Hebdo).

Take an impeccable, punchy style, and a main character who is both engaging and repelling but so human that you cannot help but identify with him. Mix these ingredients with rage and courage, and you have The heart of the Pelican : a wonderful tale by one of the most gifted French authors of her generation.

« Arab jazz » by Karim Miské : let the adventures continue ! (Full English translation available)

Set in the 18th arrondissement in Paris, the peace of this cosmopolitan and multi-religious district is shattered, when a woman is found murdered…

Grand Prix de Littérature Policière 2012, Grand Prix des lecteurs de Points 2014, Winner of the English Pen Award. Listed in Die Zeit bestsellers list in 2014.

This long seller has now reached 30,000 copies in France and has already been translated into 5 languages with success. Foreign rights are still free in many countries notably Holland, Scandinavia, Russia…etc.

In February, « Arab jazz » will be released in the UK by MacLehose Press. In the Independent, Karim Miské, born from a Mauritian Muslim father and a French leftist mother gives his enlightened perspective on the Charlie Hebdo Events. To read the article, click here.

« The Archangel of chaos » by Dominique Sylvain :
deep into the Gehenna of your worst nightmares !

German rights sold to Piper Verlag in Germany before publication !

The martyred body of a nurse is found in a warehouse : the victim has been chained up and tortured to death, and her tongue torn out. But the killer has carefully prepared and laid out the body ante-mortem. The torturer’s obsessive profile suggests he will not stop there… A woman, Franka Kehlmann, is investigating within the very masculine Commandant Carat’s section. She will have to prove herself in the field.

In its pre-publication review, the Figaro Littéraire underlined : “a suffocating rhythm, sentences like lasers […]. It is not intrigue which makes this a good story. No, the atmosphere, the relations between colleagues, the humanity, and the errors in the investigation reveal something else altogether more thrilling […]. It only remains to be said that The Archangel of Chaos, despite the darkness surrounding the case, successfully slips in a lot of tenderness and some poetry”.