They were present at the Autumn Book Festival

Sury-le-Comtal. They were present at the Autumn Book Festival…. Among the fifty authors and a number of local publishers present at the 28 ^e edition of the Automnale du livre, a diversity of styles, contents, origins… allowed visitors to dialogue, consult, buy novels, essays, comics… Among them, Chris Duclos-Junique, watercolor painter, member of Tupins, Montbrison association of amateur painters. She signs, with her daughter, Mylène Duclos, who created the cover, Blow the wind a collection of illustrated poetry. Céline Roussel lives in Ambert in Puy-de-Dôme but is a traveler at heart and shares her discoveries in travel diaries that she creates from her notes, photos she takes, transport tickets, maps and other documents collected during his wanderings. She takes the reader from India to Turkey via Greece, Nepal, Reunion, Colombia, Laos and… Puy-de-Dôme with a notebook produced in partnership with 17 artists – and everything recently in Sicily.

The 2024 theme, “To each their own art of living”, was illustrated through the presence of the event’s godmother, Marianne Sauzet, and a choice of Books loaned by the Loire Departmental Media Library.

More than 400 people, often families, walked the aisles and benefited from the activities. During the inauguration, the 2025 theme was revealed: it will be “Our heroes: firefighters, medical personnel, police, Superman”.