Salomé Saqué finally dethroned on the testing side? – The Express

It’s going very quickly at the moment in our charts. With the literary season, with 507 novels, newcomers are flocking, and it is the same with the essays. Let’s start with fiction. While last week, we welcomed the arrivals of Vanessa Springora, Camille Laurens, Philippe Besson and Lola Lafon, this week (from January 13 to 19) also sees the emergence of four new authors. Starting with Jean-Christophe Grangé who places the two volumes of his diptych Without sun, Disco inferno And The king of shadows (a whopping 832 pages) in 2nd and 5th place.

The bet was damn risky on the part of its publisher, Albin Michel. Should we publish the two thrillers of this confrontation with death in the Parisian 1980s three months apart? Or, concomitantly? Finally goes for simultaneity. With success, for now.

Second arrival, that of the “young French author studying in London” (as her profile indicates) Léa Nemezia, who made a splash on Wattpad and is doing it again with her short story “Romance dark academia”. Its campus story set in Oxford, The Royal Thorns (volume I). Insomnia (Hugo Roman), infiltrates directly to 3rd row. Another novelist of the genre, but of “sport romance” this time, and more softif we are to believe its publisher, Chatterley, the American Liz Tomforde. Volume 2 of his series Windy City, The Right Movewith the Chicago NBA team as a backdrop, takes 18th place. Between them, a regular on the charts, Michael Connelly, takes 13th place with To those who know how to wait (Calmann-Lévy). A story of a cold case and a serial killer that raged in Los Angeles, soon solved by the famous Harry Bosch.

A lot of fury also on the testing side. The lawyer and writer Gilles-William Goldnadel is, in fact, fuming. He imagines his own trial in a France where La Transe insoumise (translate La France insoumise) would have taken power in a country plagued by woke ideology and where right-thinking is imposed on everyone. The work, located in 2nd place, is entitled Diary of a prisoner (Fayard) and is signed by “an anguished captive”. Jean Sévilla is not far, it seems, from thinking the same thing as he offers a new updated and expanded edition of his success from the year 2000, The New Clothes of Intellectual Terrorism (Perrin) who moved to 14th place. In his added chapters, he considers that intellectual terrorism has not weakened and has even worsened. Distorted European project, forgetful of the personality of each people; explosion of delinquency; encouragement of communitarianism and development of Islamism; loss of immigration control; far-left wokism and racialism; extensive attribution of the extreme right label, etc. The list of complaints is long.

Luc Ferry is calmer, but no less anxious. In AI. Great replacement or complementarity? (The Observatory), which enters the 3rd step of the podium, the philosopher questions the upheavals brought by artificial intelligence from the point of view of ethics, politics and philosophy. “An issue that is vital,” he warns, “for the future of our children.” After all these exclamations and questions, we see with relief the story of Pope Francis, Hope (19th). The Holy Father’s autobiography (a first of its kind) is inspired, its publisher Albin Michel tells us, “by the sincere desire to transmit a message of hope to future generations”. Phew!