The literary world knows it well, publishing is not a science. And it holds many surprises. Size. Not sure that by publishing the unknown (for French readers) Italian-Swiss Giuliano da Empoli on April 14, 2022, Gallimard thought for a second that The Mage of the Kremlin would survive the summer, win the Grand Prix de l’Académie française, come close to the Goncourt and be the record holder for longevity in our Top 30 while accumulating 400,000 copies sold. Nor is it certain that in 1978, the boss of Minuit Jérôme Lindon could have imagined that The Workbench by Robert Linhart would experience a second youth in 2023. We have to believe that the four episodes devoted to the story of the sociologist and philosopher about his year spent in a Citroën factory, broadcast at the end of February by France Inter (The blue Hour), have borne fruit. Similarly, by acquiring the rights in 2009 to The Bridgerton Chroniclewas it difficult for J’ai Lu to envisage the fairy tale to come: worldwide success of the Netflix series adapted from the saga of Julia Quinn, reissue of the nine volumes, until this queen charlotteall for a small million copies sold.
1. The Seven Sisters (t. VIII) Atlas. Pat Salt’s Story
By Lucinda Riley and Harry Whittaker
Irish Lucinda Riley died of cancer at the age of 56 on March 11, 2021, but her work continues under the pen of her son Harry. In this last volume of the saga with 50 million copies, the seven sisters of Aplièse are reunited in homage to their father, an enigmatic billionaire, whose true identity they may finally know.
3. Life, old age and death of a woman of the people
By Didier Eribon
In 2009, the philosopher and sociologist successfully published Back to Reims, a work of family introspection undertaken following the death of his father. It would seem that his new work, devoted to his mother, ex-housekeeper and worker, in which he analyzes his aging and his death, knows the same salvation.
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Johnson at 10
by Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell
This captivating document on the backstage of Boris Johnson’s mandate takes 2nd place in the list of Sunday Times. Journal which questions with humor: after having written on Blair, Brown, Cameron, May and Johnson, will the historian Anthony Seldon manage to draw an entire book from the forty-four days of Liz Truss’ mandate?