- APPOINTMENT TO CRAWFISH CREEK OF NICKOLAS BUTLER
The empathic cowboy, whose France had crowned the "Return to Little Wing" of the Page / America prize, left his second book at 36 years old. Breaking news of justness, strength, faith in the human being. Stories of couples or individuals for whom always dominates a form of solidarity and hope. "Great!"
Ed. Otherwise, translated from English by Mireille Vignol, 19 €.
- THE DEVIL FIRE THE NOTTING HILL BY RACHEL JOHNSON
You enjoy the scuds in the curare of Boris Johnson, the lighted mayor of London? You will love Rachel, his sister, who pursues his fresco to sexo-trash escapades and other very British vilenies. A "Ab-Fab" raw 2015, with great lesbian spread to pepper the existence of Mimi, the heroine married (but not too much).
Ed. De Fallois, translated from English by Daphne and Henri Bernard, 20 €.
- A PRETTY GIRL AS ALFRED HAYES
A Hollywood screenwriter sees a girl drowning. Attempted suicide, probably. Between this beauty that tries unsuccessfully to become an actress and the disillusioned screenwriter will be born a burning and hopeless relationship. A dark novel, illuminated by the exceptional gaze of an almost unknown author.
Ed. Gallimard, translated from English by Agnes Desarthe, 17 €.
- PLACE COLETTE OF NATHALIE RHEIMS
We're not a prude when we're 13 years old. It is at this age that Nathalie Rheims fell in love with an actor of the Theater Francais ... thirty years her elder. A "misappropriation of major", as she writes it beautifully, she reveals today in one of the strongest autumn books, raw (el) and gripping portrait of woman.
Ed. Leo Scheer, 20 €.
- CONVERSATIONS FROM A CHILD FROM FRÉDÉRIC BEIGBEDER
He collects the caps of writer, filmmaker, agitator of the Paf and Parisian nights. Frédéric Beigbeder also brilliantly captures that of interviewer. His interviews with writers, from Houellebecq to Bukowski, break down those of most "pros" by their biting, cowardice, culture and humor.
Ed. Grasset, 20 €.
- THE AMORY CLAY LIVES OF WILLIAM BOYD
This story of a free woman, discovering photography in 1915, at the age of 10, and becoming one of the first photo-reporters of war, in 1940, her adventures, her love affairs, her crossing of the century ... it seems a pavement of 516 pages, but under the ample and rhythmic pen of Boyd, it is the irresistible waltz of time.
Ed. Du Seuil, 22,50 €.
- CLAIRE CASTILLON'S FISHERMEN
What is good with Claire Castillon is that we have already read (and appreciated), we are always surprised. Sawed by the explosive mixture of his pitiless clairvoyance and his grain of madness. There she scans three female characters, and it's explosive.
Ed. L'Olivier, 17,50 €.
- MOTHER OF THE NORTH OF JEAN-LOUIS FOURNIER
According to Pierre Desproges, Fournier is "a crumpled madman, surrounded by existential anguish, for whom everything was going well until that accursed day when he was born". a cheerful woman, then won over by melancholy, who raised her alone and whom he brings to life in this portrait, full of love and humor.
Ed. Stock, 17,50 €.
- LIGHTS OF CENTRAL PARK OF TOM BARBASH
The original title of this collection of short stories is "Stay up with me", "Stand up with me". Or how to try not to be too shaken by some discomforts of life, sentimental or family. Little common galleys, all of which are known, but which, thus recounted, become great art.
Ed. Albin Michel, translated from English by Hélène Fournier, 22,90 €.
- AT THIS STAGE OF THE NIGHT OF MAYLIS DE KERANGAL
A little jewel, which will not go to all hands: we can find it a little intellectual, certainly, while it is especially intelligent and poetic. Seventy-three short pages of a Mediterranean dream drifting from the first castaways of the island of Lampedusa. A high-flying writing for a weightless reading.
Ed. Verticales, 7,50 €.
