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A publisher with authors’ interests at heart

Kero was born out of the conviction that the revolution in the book market called for a whole new type of

publishing company – one that reflected the way authors relate to their readers today.
Kero provides authors with a new way of working with their publisher: a different kind of relationship, based

around shared values and creative ambitions, for all types of media, both print and digital – and leading to a
unique new encounter between authors’ message and those who read it.
With a score of books already published, this new approach to publishing has hit the mark, gaining the
confidence of authors, attracting a wide range of works and enjoying huge public success.

A different way of relating to authors

 Kero releases a maximum of 25 titles a year – ensuring plenty of time is devoted to each book in an
increasingly tough market.

 Kero offers authors a new type of contractual relationship, enshrined in an appropriately new form of
contract (in terms of duration, percentages, advertising, and so on), rooted in a relationship of trust and

characterised by balance, transparency and freedom.

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their works.

All the potential of multi-channel publishing

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internationally, using print, digital and broadcast media.

 Kero can draw on a powerful distribution network in France and internationally, as well as its media
investments.

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Laurent Gounelle, Laurent Baffie, Philippe Vandel, Serge Hefez, Marek Halter, Michel Rostain (Goncourt First

Novel Award 2011), Catherine Charrier, Mitch Albom, Gayle Forman, Markus Zusak, Sonali Deraniyagala and
oth ers.

Average print run: 30,608 copies

Shortlisted for the « International Publishing Industry Excellence Awards 2014 »
Category: « International Adult Trade Publisher of the Year ».
The London Book Fair in association with The UK Publishers Association
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

London Book Fair 2014
Le jour où j’ai appris à vivre – Laurent Gounelle ...................................................................... 7
Celui dont le nom n’est plus – René Manzor ................................................................................ 8
La Tentation barbare – Pierre JB Benichou ................................................................................ 9
Un tout petit rien – Camille Anseaume ................................................................................... 10
Les Cavaliers afghans – Louis Meunier ....................................................................................... 11
Le droit d’aimer – Anne-Marie Mariani ...................................................................................... 12

Backlist
Le philosophe qui n’était pas sage – Laurent Gounelle ....................................................... 13
En finir avec le mal de dos – François Stévignon ................................................................... 14
Faites-le! – Marek Halter ................................................................................................................... 15

Recent acquisitions ........................................................................................................................ 16
Contacts ............................................................................................................................................... 17

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Le jour où j’ai appris à vivre

Laurent Gounelle
Manuscript status: to be delive red (June 2014)
Publication date: October 2014

40,000 words (approx.)
Novel

#7th bestselling French author

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Following on from his best-sellers “Le philosophe qui n’était pas sage”, “L’homme qui voulait être heureux” and
“Dieu voyage toujours incognito”, Laurent Gounelle is back with a new, uplifting and inspiring novel.
The story is that of an ordinary man who becomes his own hero. As a young father with a job as an insurance
agent, Jonathan’s life is unremarkable and on the whole successful.

Everything seems to be fine, until one day a spanner is thrown into the works: he meets a woman who reads his
palm and predicts that his life is shortly to come to an end. Jonathan is sceptical, but finds he cannot simply
carry on in his job as before. He starts wondering about the meaning of his life and how to make the most of the
time he has left.

His aunt – the feisty Margie, a former biologist who has founded an institute devoted to research into
neuroscience and paranormal phenomena, decides to take him in hand and put him through a series of
experiments.
These experiments (based on genuine scientific observations) end up transforming Jonathan’s view of his life
and completely revolutionising his approach to it – with a whole cascade of consequences. Although he is the
target of various schemes, he wins through and ends up becoming famous in spite of himself.

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PREVIOUS TITLES:
Le philosophe qui n’était pas sage, Kero (2012)
Dieu voyage toujours incognito, Anne Carrière (2010)
L'homme qui voulait être heureux, Anne Carrière (2008)

SOLD TO: Hay House (ENGLISH US) ; Sperling & Küpfer Editori (ITALIAN), Maeva “L’homme qui
voulait être heureux” ; Planeta “Dieu voyage toujours incognito” (SPANISH) ; Verlagsgruppe
Random House (Goldmann) (GERMAN); Futami Shobo (JAPANESE); Balgunsesang (COREAN) ;
Athena Press (The Eurasian Publishing Group) (CHINESE TAIWAN); China Citic Press (CHINESE);
Editora Objetiva (PORTUGUESE); Livanis (GREEK); Pegasus (TURKISH); Kinneret (HEBREW);
Sinisukk publishing (ESTONIAN) ; Shtëpia Botuese Toena (ALBANIAN); Ulpius Haz Kiado
(HONGRIAN) ; Bertelsmann media “L’homme qui voulait être heureux” ; Swiat Ksiaskzi “Dieu
voyage toujours incognito” (POLISH); Rybka (CZECH); Sinais de Fogo (PORTUGUESE) Uitgeverij
Archipel (DUTCH); Alma Littera (LITHUANIAN); Colibri publisher (BULGARIAN); Editura Philobia
(ROMANIAN) Dar Al Kitab Al Alami (LEBANESE); Fokus (CROATIAN)
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Celui dont le nom n’est plus

René Manzor
Manuscr ipt status: available (French)
Publication date: May 2014
94,000 words
Thriller

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Dawn breaks over London. On a kitchen table lies a man’s body – All rights available for this
minus its internal organs. The murderer is an old lady of book.
impeccable standing. How could she have come to kill the man
she brought up as her own son? It makes no sense – and yet PREVIOUS TITLES:
everything points to her as being guilty. Les Âmes rivales, Kero
Two days later, the same thing happens again: a man is killed in (2012)
similar fashion by the person who loves him more than anyone
else in the world. SOLD TO:
And so it goes on, with a new victim every twenty-four hours. Pocket (FRENCH),
All the murders are linked by a common thread: distraught Chaek-Se-Sang Pub
suspects and epitaphs in letters of blood: (COREAN)
“May this sacrifice bring peace to the soul of He whose Name is
no more”.
Amid these inexplicable murders, three destinies become
Born with the storytelling
interwoven.
urge, René Manzor originally
McKenna is an Irishman: a policeman, the father of four boys,
widowed a year ago and still grief-stricken. pursued his passion in
Dahlia Rhymes is an American criminologist who specialises in cinema. His first two films
ritual and satanic murders, assigned to fathom out what makes caught the attention of
killers tick.
Hollywood. After working as a
Nils Blake is a semi-retired barrister who is willing to return to
scriptwriter and director on
court to defend these unlikely perpetrators.
major US productions (The
Three destinies – and three lives irreversibly changed.
Adventures of Young Indiana

The tale is packed with breath-taking suspense, larger-than-life Jones: Demons of Deception)
characters and a completely unexpected plot twist at the end. as well as for French TV, his
Halfway between the works of Chattam and Grangé, on the
first novel, Les Âmes rivales
borderline between love and death, this thriller will make its
(‘Rival souls’), was published
mark on you.
in 2012.

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La Tentation barbare

Pierre JB Benichou
Manuscript status: available (French)
Publication date: March 2014
352 pages – 104,000 words
Debut

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After an uneasy night, Max wakes with a start, and is horrified to SOLD TO:
discover that she is there again, watching him from his bedside. Pocket (FRENCH)
Movie : Outside films
Fleeing a rather mediocre career as a ghostwriter – and a failed
marriage – Max has come to try his luck in New York. He soon
rediscovers love in the arms of a beautiful redhead, Maureen; and
also agrees, in the utmost secrecy, to write the latest novel by Emilie
Roubaix, the fashionable author of the moment.
But the nightmares he thought he had left safely on the other side of
the Atlantic are assailing him once again. Not only that, his worst
fears have been realised: the young girl is back. Who is this silent
child who haunts his nights? Is her return something to do with the
Pierre JB Benichou was
new novel he’s writing?
born in 1952. In addition to
To find out, Max will have to dig through his memories and face up being a ghostwriter, just like
to his past. his hero, he has also worked
in the film industry as a
Devilishly put together, La Tentation barbare (‘The barbaric
distributor, director and
temptation’) is an engrossing read tinged with both delight and
producer, as well as a festival
anxiety. Pierre JB Benichou takes us from one revelation to another
organiser. After spending
as the scene shifts between Paris, Marseille and New York, in the
four years in New York, he
footsteps of a man in search of his memory.
now lives in Tel Aviv, where
he devotes himself entirely to
writing. La Tentation

barbare is his first novel

under his own name.

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Un tout petit rien

Camille Anseaume

Manuscript status: available (French)

Publication date: February 2014
252 pages – 33,000 words
Debut

Long-listed Prix de la Closerie des Lilas 2014
Long-listed Prix du Roman Version Femina 2014
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At 25, Camille’s world falls apart when she finds out that she’s SOLD TO:
pregnant by the man with whom she shares her bed – but little else. Pocket (FRENCH)

“The biggest commitment we’d ever made to each other was to say
we’d be in touch at the weekend – and that was on a Tuesday. […] It’s
about much more than sex, but a lot less than love. We’re stuck

somewhere in the middle.”

When her lover hears the news, he walks out and doesn’t come back.
And so begin twelve weeks of hesitation – amidst meetings with
friends, shouting matches with her family, and doctor’s
appointments. Camille draws up lists of pros and cons, despairs as
she climbs the seven floors to her garret flat, and bursts into tears
when one of her yoghourts plunges to a sticky end below. The clock is
ticking, but she just can’t make up her mind: should she keep the Camille Anseaume is a
baby and bring it up on her own, or get rid of it and try and pick up
journalist for women’s
where she left off?
magazines. She also runs

the blog “Café de filles”,
Camille Anseaume has written an endearing – and poignantly
accurate – novel about the painful yet joyous transition from one way voted ‘star blog’ by ELLE
of life to another. At the end of the day, this tender, poetic and magazine’s editorial team.
amusing narrative says more about the birth of a mother than the
birth of a baby.

Review
« Lots of energy and plenty of drive. » – ELLE
« Next to nothing is appealing, amusing, poetic and moving: the story
of a woman who gradually becomes a mother before our eyes.
Superb. » – Questions de femmes
« One of the most sensitive novels so far this year. » – Cosmopolitan
« This contemporary sociological portrait manages to be witty, tender
and sensitive all at once. » – France 2
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