"Paradisier superbe," a first novel by Vincent Sarthou-Lajus, explores the life of a man separated, father of two teenagers, and without a fixed job, who seeks to understand his desires, beliefs, and loves through sessions with a psychiatrist. The narrative is marked by the image of the superbe paradise bird, a rare bird whose male exposes himself to seduce, paralleling the character's willingness to expose himself. The novel features various characters on the margins of society, all driven by a desire for life, while questioning the true meaning of living. The book is published by Grasset & Fasquelle and will be released on 7 October 2026. A 14-year-old girl's notebooks from the 1970s, discovered by Martine Faustin in 2021, document her experiences as a boarder at the Saint Paul Institution in Thiviers, Dordogne, including her friendships, first love, anger, and desires for freedom. The notebooks were written between 1974 and 1976. Pierre Abramovici's Monaco, the unknown history delves into the hidden history of Monaco, revealing 150 years of power struggles, wars, occupations, and shadowy episodes behind its postcard image. Philippe Séclier's Keith Jarrett, Japan 1976 explores the musical journey of Keith Jarrett's solo recitals in Japan in 1976, which led to the creation of the Sun Bear Concerts and several hours of improvisation. Camille Monceaux's The Scent of Tea Leaves continues the universe of The Secret of the Grapefruit Candies, following Akane and Mayumi as they leave Tokyo for a tea plantation at the foot of Mount Fuji, embarking on a new life rhythm centered around tea and the seasons. The book includes illustrations by Virginie Blancher. Gilles Baum and Csil's Winter Treasure is an illustrated book designed for young children, where animals and objects interact across pages, encouraging imagination through shapes, materials, and associations. It is suitable for children aged two and above. Fanny Sidney's The Crumb Party is a children's album where two little sisters organize a secret party in the absence of their parents, accompanied by illustrations by Dorothée de Monfreid. Hu Mu-ching's Sketch of a serial killer revisits a criminal case in Taiwan involving Lin Yu-ju, condemned to death for the murder of her husband, mother, and mother-in-law. The book explores the complexity of her story through a journalist's meeting with her in the death corridor. Coralie Grimand's The Ukrainian Choir gives voice to members of a Ukrainian choir dealing with exile and war, through the stories of Svitlana, Valentyn, Tetyana, and others, highlighting the interplay of trajectories, memories, and wounds. Goliarda Sapienza's The Great Lie and Other Texts collects writings for the theatre that have remained less known until now, including three plays and an adaptation project that rediscover the modernity of an author who questioned identity, gender, sexuality, and the condition of women long before The Art of Joy. Carine Pitocchi's The Cosy Christmas Mystery takes the team of St Mary Hill to Egypt for a Christmas mystery involving a missing groom on the Nile, a fugitive killer, and a hidden treasure. Clotka's Mom Alone - My Life as a Perfect Mother humorously captures the daily life of a single mother with two children, highlighting the small catastrophes and big moments of tenderness through a comic journal. Tiphaine Raffier's The Absence or Chimera of Morsan Country stages a family confronted with the last days of one of their own in a ruined village, where disease, the unsaid, and a mysterious presence create a space where death's landmarks tremble. Rébecca Déraspe and Yoakim Bélanger's The Ice tells the story of a mother forced to face a buried trauma when her son is accused of sexual assault, revealing a violence she thought she had left behind. Ernestine Garnier's The Collector of the Montparnasse Cemetery transforms one of Paris's most famous memory places into a mystery scene when a tomb raider targets the graves of disappeared personalities, prompting the dead to react. Cédric Meletta's Corinne Luchaire, her rays and her shadows revisits the career of Corinne Luchaire, a forgotten figure of French cinema and daughter of Jean Luchaire, who died of tuberculosis before her 30th birthday. Robert Louis Stevenson's A Journey with a Donkey in the Cévennes is being republished in an illustrated edition, revisiting the twelve-day journey he undertook in the Cévennes in 1878, accompanied by the donkey Modestine. Mark Lawrence's Daughter of the Crows opens a new dark fantasy saga, training young girls to become "avengers" before discovering the price to pay for justice. Sarah Marquis's The Art of Drinking Tea with Crocodiles recounts her expeditions to the far corners of the world, transforming them into a guide dedicated to self-knowledge. Daniel Picouly's Demba plunges into 1906 Marseille, focusing on a former Amazon surviving the war against French troops, facing slavery, exhibition in human zoos, and the ghosts of a past that keeps catching up with her. Melissa Lucashenko's The Fall of Eddie Blanket dialogues between two stories separated by five generations, exploring family memory, colonization, and contemporary struggles. The Francophone Writers Parliament's At the Table of the Writers mixes recipes and intimate stories, with each dish becoming the starting point of a memory, heritage, or meeting. Anacharsis's Grand-Guignol continues his exploration of popular and genre literature, while Vincent Platini's Krimi is an anthology of detective fiction under the Third Reich. Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's The Sands of Dune prolongs the Dune universe through four new unpublished stories, exploring the darkest areas of the saga. Guilhem Jean's Ending the Misconceptions about the Middle Ages challenges forty clichés about the Middle Ages, aiming to correct common misconceptions. Mistinguett's My Whole Life, reissued with a critical apparatus by Bruno Fuligni, recounts her life from the suburbs to stardom. Ian Manook's The Clay and the Fire explores the story of two families in Picardy at the dawn of the 20th century, dealing with hate and love between members of two families of glaisiers, one of minor nobility and the other anarchist and communist. Cécile Cabanac's Ricochets in Murky Waters is a dark police novel centered around an investigation after the discovery of human remains in a canal near Lille, with three investigators on the trail of a serial killer. Lola Lafon's first play, Thank you for your cooperation, gathers four friends in an airport where an incident causes their group to explode, reflecting on words, dialogue, and societal interactions. Delphine Jouenne's The Twelve Caesars compares twelve contemporary leaders with twelve figures of Roman power, exploring the mechanisms of power and the fascination with authoritative figures. Rhys Bowen's Her Royal Spy takes Georgie to Sandringham House for Christmas, where a royal visit turns into a murder investigation. Alix E. Harrow's The Thousand Deaths of Una the Eternal imagines a heroine who has become a national legend, whose official history does not correspond to reality, mixing time travel, memory, and historical narrative. Titiou Lecoq's And suddenly, the night is a novel set in Gabarny, where a series of vandalized graves brings back the memory of a mysterious necrophagic monster, plunging the inhabitants into fear. Mathias Moncorgé and Patrick Glâtre's Gabin from A to Z offers an alphabetical portrait of Jean Gabin, one of the great figures of French cinema. Carl Pierrecq's Love is Beautiful revisits the story of slavery through a short novel in free verse, focusing on a midwife in the village of Kayang witnessing her community fall into servitude. Samih Amar Tran's Bellevilles constructs a book like a walk with six voices, exploring the neighborhood of Belleville through the perspectives of Alma, Landrot, Marie, Omar, Jim, and Romy. Adrian Tchaikovsky's Alien Clay begins with a narrator waking up after thirty years of interstellar sleep, landing on a penal planet where science becomes a weapon of freedom. Christophe Esnault's If the wine does not make you brilliant, try another bottle explores the transformation of intoxication into poetry, moving from the bottle to thoughts about friends, loved women, the aging father, writers, songs, and the dead. Camilla Läckberg's The Weeper opens with a young girl struggling with a loss of control, setting the stage for a mystery in Fjällbacka that has been waiting thirty years to be solved. Maboule's Maboule is a trobairitz who collects rumors, glances, and sighs, turning them into stories, traveling from cities to villages, exchanging fables for meals or beds. Abdeljalil Lahjomri's Indocile Companions is an autobiography of a reader, exploring the relationship between books and the reader, highlighting how books resist, irritate, disappoint, and force re-reading. Hélène Cixous's Chat Larme is born from the contradiction of wanting to retain what is receding while knowing that writing does not resurrect, exploring memory through notebooks, photographs, dreams, voices, and beloved animals. Laure de Rivières's The Heart of the Child explores the vertigo of a foster child and a white family, with a narrative that recedes, changes voice, and opens files, memories, and versions. Diego's Checkpoint China follows a journalist about to leave China, a fixer who calls about a missing person, and a train westward, investigating a sensitive case. Kuschko, Maâyana, Sawannah, Nashree, Karadjian, Djessica, and Solongo are seven individuals with a specific mission to revive humanity, but nothing happens as planned. Thierry Paquot's The art of the nap explores the history and phenomenology of the sixth-hour nap, appearing in August as publishers prepare for the return of books. Philippe Broussard's The tragic odyssey of MC Ruby recounts the reportage of a group of African migrants thrown overboard by the crew of a container ship off the coast of Portugal. Yabar's The commander of the river is a novel that requires patience and listening to understand the story, set in Rome, Somalia, and silences. Jean-Pierre Spitzer's A beautiful deal? No, a great cause! discusses the limits of law in the name of the superior interest of the Nation, proving that law is above everything. Leïla Slimani's adaptation of Tolstoy's Resurrection confronts the present with the past, transforming Nekhlioudov into a recognized writer and a man protected by public admiration as much as accused. Hortense Miginiac's article discusses the posthumous novel The High Districts of Paul Gadenne, published in 1973, and its significance in literary history. Jean Clavreul's The Medical Order questions medicine as a discourse, its relations to knowledge, desire, disease, and the relationship between doctor and patient, with a psychoanalyst revisiting the work. The Booksletter features five books that offer different perspectives on the world, including the war memories of Arturo Pérez-Reverte, the erosion of reading in the smartphone era, the return of Francis Fukuyama on "the end of history," the precarious inhabitants of the bay of San Francisco, and the ecological gothic of Giovanna Rivero. Émilien Borie's Alaska explores cancel culture, shamanic freezing, and apartment bike, following a man whose life is unraveling after his wife leaves him. Michel Winock's Writers in the mix explores the role of writers in public debate from the French Revolution to the years of Sartre. Paul Leroux's The man below is a narrative from a cell, recounting the killing of neighbors and the contamination of memories. Home Sick Pilots' comic book transforms a haunted house into a punk war machine, following a group of high schoolers forming a punk band in 1994. Sarah Knafo's The Century's Heist continues to sell well, reaching 43,038 copies sold in the third week. A young woman's journey to become an actress in Russia, despite the political climate, is detailed in a narrative about her decision to enter the Moscow State Theatre School. Jean Gabin's We are surrounded by fools explores the life of Jean Gabin beyond the myth, focusing on his personal life and relationships. Galien Sarde's Judith's Ladder opens with a consciousness that recounts its own extinction, setting the tone for a narrative where the journey seems calm but every second is counted. Ian Manook's The Clay and the Fire explores the material of clay and its transformation through generations, highlighting what erodes and what remains.