WanderingsSuzanne Cloutier
This little book-object was born from the collaboration between the artist Suzanne Cloutier and 11 Quebec writers and poets, including Joséphine Bacon, David Goudreault, Rodney Saint-Éloi, Catherine Mavrikakis and Perrine Leblanc. Alongside vivid color illustrations, the texts explore in a unique way the issues of wandering, territory sharing and socio-economic inequalities.
Wanderings
Editions of the passage
172 pages
ScreenwriterYves Poirier
A screenwriter scammed by a broker imagines a thousand and one ways to kill him. But when he disappears, the screenwriter becomes the first in the list of suspects, targeted by an SQ investigator and a crooked lawyer. An entertaining treasure hunt where the author could well become the character of his own scenario.
Screenwriter
Fides
204 pages
The wedding portraitMaggie O’Farrell
This is a novelty that will please fans of historical novels like The golden house, by Jessie Burton. The author, a former British journalist who won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2020, for her novel Hamnettakes us to the heart of the Italian Renaissance through the tragic destiny of the young Lucrezia de Medici, just married.
The wedding portrait
Belfond
416 pages
WilliamStéphanie Hochet
The author, who is an essayist and cultural journalist in France, imagined in this novel the “lost years” of William Shakespeare, of which there is no trace, while, in his twenties, the future playwright dreams of becoming an actor. A fascinating foray into 16th century Englande century, around a mythical figure of literature.
William
Shores
192 pages
A madographLuc Provost
Luc Provost, the man behind the flamboyant character of Mado Lamotte, set out to revisit his double life in this autobiography, recounting the tasty anecdotes and the absurd stories that made the famous drag queen a monument of Montreal cabaret .
A madograph
Editions La Presse
200 pages