Books, best sellers: the Sarkozy-Philippe-Juppé battle

And one, and two, and three ! After Nicolas Sarkozy, the first on the starting line with The Time of Fightingpublished on August 19, two of his “challengers” arrive this week, Edouard Philippe, whose book on the state of France, Des Lieus Qui Dict, was released on September 13, just like, within a day, the Memoirs of Alain Juppé under the title A French story. A former President of the Republic and two ex-Prime Ministers, all from the late UMP: the winners of the tests this week certainly take on the colors of a political forum… reserved for the right. Even the journalist Alain Duhamel gets involved, who sees his portrait of the current occupant of the Elysée, The Scarred Prince. Emmanuel Macron and the (very) refractory Gaulsenter the Top 20. While waiting for the imminent arrival of the left-wing sociologist, Monique Pinçon-Charlot, whose title The Despiser of the Republic says all the good things she thinks of the 8th President of the Republic.

11. What I know about you

By Eric Chacour

What a pleasure, yes, what a pleasure to see the first novel by Quebecer Eric Chacour appear at 11th place in our list. We sang you the praises of What I know about you from the end of August. First Feather Prize, this fiction taking place largely in Egypt in the 1970s within the Levantine community is as delicate as it is instructive.

1. Living with your past. A philosophy for moving forward

By Charles Pépin

We heard him all summer on France Inter with his Under Plato’s sun, then, in the momentum, his faithful listeners follow suit. Very nice start indeed for the 50-year-old philosopher, author of several successes (Self-confidence, The Virtues of Failureetc.), which today intends to teach us how to move forward with what comes to us from the past and “establish a peaceful and fruitful relationship with our memory”.

Italy

Una ragazza d’altri tempi

By Felicia Kingsley

She has not yet crossed the Alps, but is crowned queen of romantic comedy among our Italian friends. Coming from self-publishing, in 2016, Felicia Kingsley, pseudo of Serena Artioli, monopolizes the first places in the list of Corriere della Sera. This time, she imagines a brilliant student of Egyptology finding herself projected into the London of 1816.