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CONTEMPORARY UP-MARKET COMMERCIAL TRENDS“My name is Anders Behring Breivik, and I don’t regret anything.” Oslo Courthouse, August 24, 2012.On July 22, 2011, forty kilometers from Oslo, a 32-year-old man was arrested on the island of Utøya at6:34 P.M. He had just slaughtered 77 people. Police reports, criminal records, the murderer’s private writings,interviews with the killer’s friends and family, as well as with experts and survivors, and more. LaurentObertone conducted the first investigation into the life of Anders Breivik, in order to provide, sometimes in theprotagonists’ own words, the electrifying and pitiless narrative of the largest mass shooting in contemporaryhistory. From within the mind of the Norwegian murderer, Obertone lifts the veil over the private life andpsychological production of a killer, right up to those deadly hours in the summer of 2011.Born in 1984, Laurent Obertone is a journalist. He is seen by Michel Houellebecq as one of the mostpromising French writers. In 2013, his non-fiction book FRANCE ORANGE MECANIQUE, about violence inFrance today, sold 100,000 copies in the first three months.Weitzmann, Marc: UNE MATIERE INFLAMMABLE(Stock, August 2013, 368 pages)Ø Corruption and integrity, respectful relationships and domination, pretence and being true to oneself –these are some of the themes in this bold, funny and brutal book.Ø True to his usual obsessions, Marc Weitzmann reveals his vision of a French reality through hisexplosive fiction.In the 1990s, as his eventful teens come to an end, the narrator Frank is trying to step into line. Tosucceed, he accepts help from family friends, Patrick and Paula Zimmermann. Former Trotskyite militant Patrickis an economist and a successful author. His wife Paula is Israeli by birth and she throws herself into theirParisian social life to escape the weight of her history. They are both members of the liberal left which was thenclose to power. Frank becomes Patrick’s ghost writer out of necessity and Paula’s lover out of love, and followsthem into intellectual and political circles at the height of their power, an environment that fascinates anddisgusts him.Now 2013, against a background of social decay and very public scandals, people’s true colours arebeginning to show. After twenty years apart, Frank meets up with the Zimmermanns again. The personaltragedies that come to light force each of them to confront unexpected truths.Marc Weitzmann is a novelist. His most significant works to date are MARIAGE MIXTE (2000), UNEPLACE DANS LE MONDE (2004), FRATERNITÉ (2006) and QUAND J’ÉTAIS NORMAL (2010). He is acontributor to Le Monde des livres.Langénieux-Villard, Philippe: LA POMME D'ALAN TURING(Éditions Héloïse d'Ormesson, October 2013, 224 pages)Ø A biographical tale involving such universal contemporary issues as homosexuality, the marginalizationof people who are different, and scientific progress.ØIn osmosis with Alan Turing’s mother, readers gather testimonials from Alan’s friends in an attempt tobetter understand the son she knew so poorly when he was alive.Ø The plot follows the rise and fall of this atypical genius, gradually revealing the key events in AlanTuring’s life.A novel based on the life of the British scientist Alan Turing, the father of computer science. The plotalternates between the poignant tale of a mother who comes to know her son after his death and the story of thescientist who, at the height of his career, burned his wings, beginning a terrible downward spiral.Alan Turing was one of those people who is too far ahead of their times to get the recognition theydeserve during their lifetimes. A peerless mathematician, he challenged the greatest scientists of his day – Johnvon Neumann, Albert Einstein and Charles Galton Darwin – and became a member of the London MathematicalAcademy and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was a key player in one of England’s greatest military secrets,and helped the Allies win World War II by creating the first “intelligent machine,” able to decrypt codedmessages. Obsessed with the idea of creating artificial intelligence, he was thought of by the rest of the scientificand mathematical community as something of a mad scientist, and was not taken seriously. In addition to hisavant-garde ideas, he tended to defy authority and refused to play the social game. Found guilty of homosexualacts, he committed suicide by taking a bite of a poisoned apple that he had soaked in cyanide.42Contact: Mrs Anastasia Lester ; Email:anastassia.lester@gmail.com