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DEBUT NOVELPALLADIUM is my account of this crossing, an expedition to the land of the dead and through thesubconscious. PALLADIUM delves into the very roots of pain and literature, to a place where our life forceitself is huddled alongside the myriad different stories it has to tell.” B. RBoris Razon is 37. He studied history before embarking on a career in journalism. He was editor ofmonde.fr for ten years. He now runs the new writings and mixed media services for France Télévision, andteaches at the School of Journalism at Sciences-Po, France’s top university for social sciences.Macaux, Ivan: IL BABBO(Stock, August 2013, 224 pages)Ø A week travelling the roads of France between the Var region and Paris, following in the tracks of aclapped out old car on its last legs.Il Babbo is driving. His son, in the passenger seat, peers into the wing mirror watching memoriesspooling past – memories of childhood, of escapades and poker games played by his father who has such acomplex and spectacular life story. Who exactly is this Babbo, this ebullient interloper? A certifiable idealist or anine-to-five crook? And who is the narrator really? More than an adolescent but not yet a man. This journeyspent alone together is a rare gift. Father and son watch each other, eye each other, try to find each other, butnever quite succeed.As they trundle along the B-roads, the author shows us the full weight of their silences and of what isleft unsaid, elliptically revealing the story of this French family that he wants to explore. In the course of theirtravels they come across Africa and Barbara, the cartoon character Musclor and Stephan Zweig, Soviet generalsas performed by Jacques Tati, Lee Harvey Oswald and pornography…Ivan Macaux was born in 1984. A former film critic, he is now a television reporter. IL BABBO is hisfirst novel.Taki, Jean-Claude: SOTCHI INVENTAIRE(Intervalles, October 2013, 219 pages)Ø The author is a film director, and that experience comes across in his very visual, sound-filled and poeticwriting style. He conveys Guillaurme’s moods and feelings – nostalgia and melancholy as well as joy andrevelations – with great skill.Ø The novelist paints a realistic portrait of a city that has become a symbol of today’s Russia, with its blendof Soviet-era vestiges, high financial stakes, and corruption. This extremely contemporary text addressesimportant political, social and economic themes that affect us all.Ø The author also offers an insightful and moving analysis of the stages and difficulties of grief.A reflection on traces, memories, symptoms and time, SOTCHI INVENTAIRE is an imaginative andvery subtle first novel.In the city of Sochi (Russia), a French cartoonist wanders around the tracks left by a friend who died inthe Black Sea. In this city that combines the deepest memories of the Soviet system and the most recentrevolutions of the capitalist system, with the Olympic Games to be held there soon, the journey that begins isalso an inner journey.Jean-Claude Taki is a film director, a sound engineer, and a writer. His films have won numerousinternational awards. After LETTRES KAZAKHES, an illustrated epistolary novel published in 2007, SOTCHIINVENTAIRE is his first novel.Lériadec, Yves: JARDINIERE DU SEIGNEUR(Editions Anne Carrière, August 2013.132 pages)Ø A short, highly poetic novel, written in a delicate and touching style.Ø An ode to all sorts of love, glorifying self-sacrifice.Ø An endearing narrator who gets no satisfaction from his brilliant career or his love life, and onlyachieves maturity through self-sacrifice and renunciation.A moving first novel that, in the guise of a love letter, addresses the theme of renouncing passionatelove. In a church in Paris’s Latin Quarter, a university student falls in love with a young woman who is about to32Contact: Mrs Anastasia Lester ; Email:anastassia.lester@gmail.com