Camille Laurens, Blandine Rinkel, Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Hervé Commère… The selection of books from “Sud Ouest”

Roman. Claire Lancel, a novelist with a well-established reputation, has experienced drama but has never given up on love, desire, sex. When she meets Gilles Fabian, a theater director, she becomes convinced that once again, passion is knocking at the door. But little by little, over the years, the shadow of a suspicion, an unease, creeps in between them. With “Your promise” (ed. Gallimard, 368 p., €22.50), Camille Laurens signs a great book of the feeling of love or rather its resentment, between betrayal and lies. Read more.

Literary story. “When I write the word family, who knows why, I eat the m – we read fault. » This crack is at the origin of the invigorating literary story of Blandine Rinkel, already noticed with her previous works “The Abandonment of Pretensions” or “Towards Violence”. In “La Faille” (ed. Stock, 240 p., €20), the thirty-year-old novelist and musician questions the relationship with family: how to escape from it, live in other places, imagine other links… Read more.

Polar. In his new novel “Dernier cri” (ed. Fleuve noir, 480 p., €21.90), Hervé Commère returns to the social thriller and dissects the fractures in our world. He investigates with his hero, a hunted ex-cop, behind the scenes of the textile industry with its poor workers. Read more.

Foreign novel. A tragedy, men and places. In “L’Âge fragile” (ed. Albin Michel, 272 p., €20.90), the Italian novelist Donatella Di Pietrantonio delivers a story imbued with the painful memory of a tragedy, in tense, powerful prose, carried by the landscapes of Abruzzo. She won the Strega and Strega Giovani prizes for this novel in her country, the equivalent, in France, of the Goncourt and Goncourt prizes for high school students. Read more.

Narrative. “A Perfect Collapse” by Jérôme Leroy is an ironic story about how little future our era holds. In a series of short texts to enjoy (ed. La Table Ronde, 180 p., €16), the novelist and poet gracefully evokes his tastes and his concerns. Read more.

Political essay. We need a common language to make democracy live. However, current political discourse is empty of meaning and flirts, when it does not delve into it, with the language of chaos inherited from the extremisms which have led Europe to the worst. In “Brown casting. How fascism floods our language” (ed. Héloïse d’Ormesson, 192 p., €16), Olivier Mannoni deciphers it to measure the risks. Read more.

Comic strip. A human immersion and an electroshock. This is what Mikael Corre and Bouqé propose. The first is a reporter at “La Croix” and has decided to spend a year embedded with the men of a police station. He entrusted the second, comic book author, with the task of illustrating this experience. This gives “Anatomy of a police station” (ed. Bayard Graphic’, 168 p., €23). Read more.

Nature and poetry. “Le Jardinier de Ronsard” is an ode to nature and poetry that we owe to the agronomist and ecologist Jacques Tassin. He delves into the work and personality of the prince of poets to analyze the progress of his relationship with plants and language, with the help of Amaury Hupenoire, this imaginary character, guardian of the Croixval garden in this native Vendômois where Pierre de Ronsard likes to take refuge. Read more.