As for the tests, many changes, as usual, with no less than seven entries this week. With, in the first place, Salomé Saqué and her Resist (Payot). The 29-year-old journalist, author in 2023 of Be young and shut up: Response to those who criticize youth, alerts on the rise of the extreme right and its themes which impose themselves on people’s minds. “There is still time to reverse this trend,” she said, “provided we understand the workings of this progression and react quickly.”
Then comes Mickaëlle Paty, helped by Emilie Frèche, who publishes Mr. Paty’s Course (Albin Michel, 3rd row). Four years after the tragedy, the professor’s sister intends to “restore the truth about the administration’s flaws and political failings.”
Maryse Burgot, well known to France Télévision viewers for her reports in war zones, publishes Far from home. Great reporter and daughter of farmers (Fayard), a work in which the 60-year-old journalist returns in particular to the hostage-taking of which she was a victim in 2000, in the jungle of the island of Jolo, in the Philippines.
In 10th place, appears the book by Baptiste Morizot and Suzanne Husky Return water to the earth. Alliances in the rivers facing the desert that comes (South Acts). The writer and lecturer in philosophy at the University of Aix-Marseille explains that to bring water back to life, we must investigate the deep time of rivers. He is followed by our columnist, Julia de Funès, author of The Dangerous Virtue. Business and the trap of self-righteousness (L’Observatoire) and Fabien Olicard (The Harp of the Four Seasons. Decide your destinyFirst).
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Finally, in 20th row, Pierre Judet de La Combe and his journey through mythology entitled When the gods roamed the Earth (Albin Michel/Belles Lettres/France Inter); a book which covers the first season of the France Inter show When the gods roamed the Earth.
Four women enter the fiction charts
Few movements in the fiction charts in this week of October 14 to 20, except the appearance of four women. So, in 5th place arises Powerless (Olympe), the first part of a trilogy by American author Lauren Roberts, published on October 17, a real phenomenon across the Atlantic, for a long time No. 1 in sales in the New York Times. In 15th place, place for the British Julia Chapman with volume X of her famous series The Yorkshire Detectives. meeting with destinyn (Robert Laffont), while in 19th place the American fantastic literature writer Holly Black points with The Prisoner’s Throne (Rageot).
And finally, a Frenchwoman, in the person of Mazarine Pingeot, who evokes in 11 quai Branly (Flammarion) the apartment on Quai Branly where she lived with her mother and her father, François Mitterrand, from the age of nine to sixteen. A large, ephemeral official accommodation that she describes as a “tomb”. “The Alma is the place of disappearance,” writes the author of Stitched mouth (2005) and Good little soldier (2012) but it is also the location of the trio formed with his parents…
We will end by recalling that two prizes were awarded this week, a preview of the week of November 4 when the Goncourt, Renaudot, Femina and Médicis prizes will be awarded. Wednesday October 23, Kamel Daoud was awarded the Landerneau Readers’ Prize, for Houris (Gallimard), already sold more than 70,000 copies. And on Thursday 24, it was Miguel Bonnefoy’s turn to benefit from the attention of a jury, that of the French Academy, which crowned him after a close vote: eight votes for his Dream of the Jaguar (Shorelines), versus seven for Last on the list (Grasset) by Grégory Cingal and seven for Cabin (The Observatory) by Abel Quentin. Note that The Jaguar’s Dream has so far sold nearly 20,000 copies and that the Quai Conti prize should give a nice boost to the 4th novel by the Franco-Venezuelan writer.
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