Serge Joncour

When a flock of crows invades their apartment block, Parisian neighbours Aurore and Ludovic speak for the first time. Outwardly the fashion designer and debt collector share little in common, but they both lead isolated lives, she in a loveless marriage, he recently widowed and new to Paris. There is an immediate spark between them, and when Aurore is threatened by her business partner it is Ludovic she turns to for help. As events begin to spiral out of control, they begin a passionate affair ... Winner of the prestigious Prix Interallie, Lean on Me is both a touching love story, an insightful look at the alienating effect of contemporary urban life.

Lean on Me

On n'imagine pas l'embarras de ne plus pouvoir prononcer ce simple mot : non. C'est pourtant ce qui arrive à Beaujour, employé modèle dans un institut de sondage. Grâce à un atelier d'écriture, il part à la recherche du mot perdu, quitte à remonter toute l'histoire. Avec la sensibilité qu'on lui connaît, Serge Joncour multiplie les scènes cocasses et compose un véritable roman des origines.

L'homme qui ne savait pas dire non

Delphine de Vigan

Philippe Jaenada

Alexandre Dupouy

Anna Rozen

from Alexandre Dupouys Collection, short stories by Philippe Jaenada, Serge Joncour, Anna Rozen and Delphine de Vigan

Erotic French postcards

Winner of the Prix Roman France Télévisions On a hot and lazy sun-drenched afternoon, when one affluent family are at their most docile, most vulnerable, most ripe for the picking, a handsome stranger unexpectedly turns up, and lingers poolside. A master of the art of deception, Boris introduces himself as an old school friend of Philip, the feckless brother. No matter that Philip has been unreachable for days and yet to arrive for the summer holiday, Boris is welcomed with open arms. As the island's spectacular Bastille Day fireworks celebration looks ever nearer, and Philip's arrival feels increasingly imminent, Boris is embraced wholeheartedly into the family fold. No one seems to notice as he carefully exerts a powerful and sinister influence over them all...

A house on a French hillside. Two couples: the wife of a doctor presumed killed on the battlefields of the First World War, and a mysterious German lion tamer hiding his circus animals from requisition; and Parisian Franck and his wife Lise, who has booked them into the isolated gite to escape twenty-first century life. When a hungry wolfdog emerges from the forest, Franck begins to discover dark secrets about the house, and himself.

Wild Dog

'[A] deservedly award-studded delight' Strong Words Magazine ‘A smart, scathing and bleakly funny cross of folk horror, satire and historical fiction’ Toronto Star ‘Reads like a modern fairy tale’ New York Journal of Books 'Eerie and sensual' The Guardian 'So original, so beautifully done, and sinister and savage. I didn’t want it to end' Chris Whitaker Franck and Lise, a French couple in the film industry, rent a cottage in the quiet hills of the French Lot to get away from the stresses of modern life. In this remote corner of the world, there is no phone signal. A mysterious dog emerges, looking for a new master. Ghosts of a dark past run wild in these hills, where a German lion tamer took refuge in the First World War … Franck and Lise are confronted with nature at its most brutal. And they are about to discover that man and beast have more in common than they think. A literary sensation in France, Wild Dog is a dark, menacing tale of isolation, human nature and the infinite savagery of the wild.

Wild Dog: Sinister and savage psychological thriller

English Screenplay

Sarah's Key

Gilles Paquet-Brenner

SARAH'S KEY

A prize-winning bestseller in France, this is the unlikely love story of two lonely people in present-day Paris.

Emma Glass

Laurent Seksik

Jennifer Clement

David Trueba

Christine Angot

Simonetta Greggio

Franzobel

Matthieu Mégevand

Amélie Cordonnier

Thomas B. Reverdy

Catalogue de la rentrée littéraire 2018 des éditions Flammarion : Christine Angot - Amélie Cordonnier - Simonetta Greggio - Serge Joncour - Matthieu Mégevand - Thomas B. Reverdy - Laurent Seksik - Jennifer Clement - Franzobel - Emma Glass - David Trueba

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Idol

La France est noyée sous une tempête diluvienne qui lui donne des airs, en ce dernier jour de 1999, de fin du monde. Alexandre, reclus dans sa ferme du Lot où il a grandi avec ses trois sœurs, semble redouter davantage l’arrivée des gendarmes. Seul dans la nuit noire, il va revivre la fin d’un autre monde, les derniers jours de cette vie paysanne et en retrait qui lui paraissait immuable enfant. Entre l’homme et la nature, la relation n’a cessé de se tendre. À qui la faute ? Dans ce grand roman de « la nature humaine », Serge Joncour orchestre presque trente ans d’histoire nationale où se répondent jusqu’au vertige les progrès, les luttes, la vie politique et les catastrophes successives qui ont jalonné la fin du XXe siècle, percutant de plein fouet une famille française. En offrant à notre monde contemporain la radiographie complexe de son enfance, il nous instruit magnifiquement sur notre humanité en péril. À moins que la nature ne vienne reprendre certains de ses droits...

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