Meet the authors at the Montreal Book Fair!

If you intend to go to the Montreal Book Fair, you will be able to meet all the foreign authors whose novels are presented here.

Crazy love

Denis Michelis, Editions Noir sur Blanc, 416 pages

If you want to treat yourself, there’s no need to look any further. This novel is a real delight! Because at first glance, Barnabé is really the ideal culprit: he is strange, has already been suspected of murder in the past and has returned from a long stay in an institution. In everyone’s eyes, there is no doubt, it was he who killed Rosalie, a local woman. But when you look a little closer, there is no shortage of suspects. This is what Thomas, who works for the municipal police, will eventually understand. Except that honestly, we have already seen a much better police officer than him…

• Signings: November 29 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. and November 30 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. at booth 1417
• Denis Michelis will also participate in the round table Investigations against a backdrop of social issues: novels to raise awareness on November 29 from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. at the Literary Space.

Petite Lisa

Rachel Mourier, Éditions du Seuil, 350 pages

For more than 60 years, Lisa Vidmar lived in Slovenia. Better late than never? At 86, she decided to return to France for a short stay. Too bad if she has never taken a plane in her life or if she no longer knows anyone in Paris. In any case, she wants to go to Dijon. Dijon, the city of his childhood. But fragile as she is, it would have almost been impossible if she had not met Évelyne, a flight attendant on the verge of retiring. The two women will become friends and little by little, Lisa will recount her heavy past: her loving parents of Jewish origin, the war, the Occupation, her deportation to Auschwitz, the horrors that took place in hell. of Block 10.

A read that will leave no one unscathed.

√ Signings: November 30 from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. and December 1 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at booth 1617.

√ Rachel Mourier will also participate in the round table These novels that go back through time on November 30 from 1:45 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. at the Espace littéraire.

Challenge the night

Brigid Kemmerer, Éditions Rageot, 608 pages

Aimed at teenagers and young adults, this first volume of a trilogy takes us to the kingdom of Kandala, where a terrible fever is dispersing the population. The only known remedy is an elixir made from moonflower. The problem ? This plant is expensive and does not grow on every street corner. But to obtain it and treat the poorest, Tessa Cade, a young apothecary, is ready to do anything. Even to go stealing one. Except that in doing so, his precious accomplice will be arrested by one of the patrols of the king and his very cruel brother, Prince Corrick. For Tessa, the time for revenge has come…

• Signings: November 30 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and December 1 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at booth 1451
• Brigid Kemmerer will also participate in a Grand Interview on November 30 from 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. at the Agora.

The Crossing of Times Volume 4 – The Light of Happiness

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Éditions Albin Michel, 608 pages

In this fourth opus of The crossing of timesthe Franco-Belgian man of letters Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt continues his history of humanity and for that, he takes us far, far, far back: in ancient Greece, between the 5th and 4th centuries BC . We will thus be able to witness the birth of democracy and medicine, the emergence of philosophy, the arrival of theater and the first Olympic Games. All told in a lively and captivating way.

• Signings: November 29 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. and November 30 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at booth 717

La ballerine in Kyiv

Stéphanie Perez, Éditions Récamier, 256 pages

February 23, 2022: Svitlana and Dmytro, ballet stars of the Kyiv National Opera, dance to the music of Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky. February 24, 2022: by order of Putin, the first Russian missiles fall on the city, thus opening the dance to the Ukrainian war. For Svitlana, Dmytro and all their compatriots, the horror begins. And thanks to this book which recently won the Talent Cultura prize, we will almost be there, alongside them, to see how everyone will have to quickly adapt to this terrible reality. And as a result, we will also discover with emotion the courage of a people put to the test.

A read that will leave no one unscathed.

• Signings: November 28 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., November 29 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., and November 30 from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at booth 1429
• Stéphanie Perez will also participate in the round table In Russia’s crosshairs on November 28 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Espace littéraire.

The Lost Children’s Club

Rebecca Lighieri, Éditions POL, 352 pages

This novel is not a romance at all. In fact, it shakes up, upsets and haunts those who read it for a long time. So place Armand and Miranda, a father and his daughter. The first is a famous, confident actor whose wife, Birke, is also a renowned actress. As for Miranda, she could hardly be more different from her parents. Shy, retiring and often in a gloomy mood, she usually goes unnoticed wherever she goes. But there are explanations for all this and, surprise, we will discover them in the second part of the book. Very good!

• Signings: November 29 from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., November 30 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. and December 1 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at booth 1417
• Rebecca Lighieri will also participate in the round table Coming of age: between doubts, torments and resilience on November 29 from 3:15 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. at the Literary Space.

List 2 my desires

Grégoire Delacourt, Éditions Albin Michel, 256 pages

It was in 2012 that the Frenchman Grégoire Delacourt published the novel The list of my desireswhich quickly met with immense success (more than a million and a half copies sold). That said, it is not necessary to have read it to appreciate this sequel, in which we find Jocelyne Guerbette. A former haberdasher in Arras, in the north of France, she has already paid dearly for winning an 18 million EuroMillions jackpot and now she has only one goal in mind: finding the way to get rid of all these millions by doing good around her if possible. Unfortunately, the task will be much more complicated than expected!

• Signings: November 29 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., November 30 from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., and December 1 from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. at booth 717
• There will also be a tête-à-tête between Grégoire Delacourt and Myriam Vincent on the theme “does money buy happiness?” » November 30 from 1:15 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the Agora.

The only culprit

Jacques Saussey, Éditions Fleuve, 432 pages

In this fantastic thriller, the Frenchman Jacques Saussey brings back to life Paul Kessler, a retired police commander whom we had the pleasure of meeting last year in The black eagle (another terrific thriller, by the way).

His house has just been set on fire and thanks to a neighbor’s camera, the culprit will be quickly arrested. Or rather, the culprit. Laurence Dumas. A name that Kessler knows well since 10 years ago, it was he who investigated this woman’s daughter, found murdered not far from a recycling center. At the time, a man was charged with the murder and sent to prison. Except that the mother is now convinced that the real murderer is still at large…

• Signings: November 28 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., November 29 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., November 30 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and December 1 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. p.m. at booth 1429

The Jaguar’s Dream

Miguel Bonnefoy, Éditions Rivages, 304 pages

This novel won the Grand Prix du roman of the French Academy and the Femina Prize this fall. Which undoubtedly makes it one of the back-to-school essentials. The story? It recounts in a colorful way the incredible journey of Antonio Borjas Romero, whose life nevertheless began very badly: abandoned on the steps of a church in Maracaibo, in Venezuela, he was taken in by the mute Teresa, a beggar with a heart of stone. At that point, no one could have guessed that one day, this street urchin would become a surgeon and marry the country’s first female doctor.

• Signings: November 29 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m., November 30 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., and December 1 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at booth 1417
• Miguel Bonnefoy will also participate in a Grand Interview on November 30 from 4:15 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Espace littéraire.

Children of the sea

Virginia Tangvald, Éditions JC Lattès, 216 pages

In this autobiographical story, Virginia Tangvald delved deeply into her family history. His father, the famous adventurer Peter Tangvald, who drowned in 1991 when his sailboat sank on the island of Bonaire. His older sister, died the same day at the age of seven because she was also on this sailboat. His brother Thomas, the only survivor of this maritime accident, but who also ended up disappearing at sea in 2014, while his small sailboat was heading towards Brazil. A story that made quite a few waves in France.

• For signings: November 29 from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., November 30 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., and December 1 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at booth 1441