Archives de catégorie : Nos incontournables

THIS SIDE OF GONE de Saundra Mitchell

Celebrated children’s novelist Saundra Mitchell makes her adult debut with the thriller THIS SIDE OF GONE—a police procedural for people who don’t trust the police.

THIS SIDE OF GONE
by Saundra Mitchell
Morrow, January 2026
(via Dystel, Goderich & Bourret)

Vanetta (Vinnie) Taylor isn’t a cop anymore. After 25 years in service, she retired from her job in spectacular fashion—working undercover for Internal Affairs to bust a sex trafficking ring in her own Homicide Unit. Nearly beaten to death by her former colleagues to prevent her testimony from crossing the thin blue line, Vinnie is now living a small-town life, far from the police who tried to kill her. Vinnie is determined to put her past behind her, but the story of a teenager missing in her new hometown catches her attention.

Avery Adair’s family is notorious in Wills Harbor, Maryland. If there’s a burglary, a scam, or a drug deal in this town, it’s safe to assume an Adair was involved. Which is why no one was particularly concerned when Avery went missing. But Vinnie feels a kinship to this teen she’s never met. Vinnie also grew up poor, surrounded by hard circumstances and harder people.

Celebrated children’s novelist Saundra Mitchell makes her adult debut with the thriller THIS SIDE OF GONE—a police procedural for people who don’t trust the police, it follows Vinnie as she becomes increasingly involved in a case that she has no right to be investigating while fearing for her own safety and attempting to stay as far away from any police officer as humanly possible. This terrific novel is perfect for fans of Tana French and Rachel Howzell Hall.

Saundra Mitchell has been a phone psychic, a car salesperson, a denture-deliverer and a layout waxer. She’s dodged trains, endured basic training, and hitchhiked from Montana to California. She now lives in Maryland with her wife, daughter and two terrible, perfect cats. THIS SIDE OF GONE is her first novel for adults.

HOW TO AI de Christopher Mims

A frank, hands-on guide to harnessing AI and leveling up your business, revealing the tools that companies of every size are relying on and how they can dramatically alter your bottom line and free up your time—from a Wall Street Journal tech columnist.

HOW TO AI
by Christopher Mims
Crown Currency, January 2026

Imagine a freelancer suddenly having access to a sophisticated legal team for red-lining contracts; a data analyst on a small team who can suddenly transform spreadsheets full of numbers into sophisticated, bulleted insight; a mini-business consultant to help them adapt in the face of changing market conditions. Artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize our workplaces, our day-to-day realities, and our lives. But you can’t just ask AI to do these things for you—in fact, you can’t even know what it’s capable of. Most of the abilities of AI have been discovered through trial and error. Users may be surprised by how improbably, magically good today’s best AIs can be at some things—and how terrible they can be at others.

Christopher Mims argues that it is this tension between the power and inscrutability of today’s AI tools that is at the heart of people’s awe and befuddlement at just how to incorporate AI into their work. HOW TO AI resolves that tension: it’s an accessible, narrative guide to how regular people are getting the most out of these systems, from the flashiest forms of generative AI to the dozens of other flavors that are often overshadowed. Brought to life by hundreds of interviews with people who rely on AI in their work, as well as Mims’ in-depth case studies of a trio of handpicked businesses, readers will see how everyone from construction companies to independent lawyers to healthcare startups are using AI tools to transform their businesses.

Animated by the humor and brilliant explanatory power that have earned Mims’ columns a devoted following, HOW TO AI will arm readers to become a part of the AI revolution—and, more importantly, give them the tools to make it work for them.

Christopher Mims writes Keywords, a weekly technology column, for the Wall Street Journal. Before joining the Journal in 2014, he was the lead technology reporter for Quartz, and has written on science and tech for MIT Technology Review, Smithsonian, Wired, Atlantic, and Scientific American, among other outlets. He is the author of Arriving Today (Harper Business, 2021).

THE TRIANGLE OF POWER d’Alexander Stubb

At the end of the Cold War, we in the West assumed that our values were destined to become universal. Instead, they are in danger.

THE TRIANGLE OF POWER:
Rebalancing the New World Order
by Alexander Stubb
on submission, Spring 2026
(via Levine Greenberg Rostan)

The forces that were supposed to bring us together—open trade, technology, information, and global financial markets—can also pull us apart. Economic interdependence does not guarantee peace. Liberal democracy is not a universal desire.

The Global West, until now led by the United States, wants to maintain the old liberal international order. The Global East, led by China, wants to change it. But the balance of power is no longer bi-polar. The ascendence of the Global South – led by a range of states from Asia, Africa, and Latin America – has created a Triangle of Power.

The Global South has the power to tip the new world order toward West or East, democracy or autocracy, free trade or state control, shared rules or none. The next few years will decide the dynamics of the new international order for the rest of the century, or at least for decades to come.

This is the 1918-, 1945- or 1989 moment of our generation. What’s certain is that the world order as we know it will be reborn. The question is what kind of order it will be—and where the values of freedom and democracy will stand within it.

In THE TRIANGLE OF POWER, Finland’s President Alexander Stubb argues that the West can only maintain its central role—and preserve the liberal world order—by adopting an approach he calls “values-based realism” in dealing with other countries and with the key challenges of our time economic, climate, and technology.

Alexander Stubb is the 13th President of the Republic of Finland, inaugurated on 1 March 2024. He has previously served as Prime Minister, Finance Minister, Foreign Minister, Trade and Europe Minister of Finland (2008-2016). He was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2008 and national parliament (2011-2017). He was the Chairman of the Finnish National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) from 2014 to 2016 and Vice President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) from 2017 to 2020. Stubb worked as a civil servant from 1995 to 2004 as an advisor at the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Helsinki and Brussels and in President Romano Prodi’s team at the European Commission. He was involved in the negotiations of the EU Treaties of Amsterdam, Nice and Lisbon.

LUCKY THING de Tom Baragwanath

In this follow-up to his award-winning debut novel Paper Cage, Tom Baragwanath delivers another bone-deep exploration of life in the margins of small-town New Zealand. LUCKY THING is a thrilling new instalment in the Lorraine Henry series.

LUCKY THING
by Tom Baragwanath
Text Publishing, September 2025

When brilliant young student Jessica Mowbrie is found beaten nearly to death in a remote patch of New Zealand bush, nobody has a clue what happened— or how to begin piecing it together. Except long-serving police records clerk Lorraine Henry.

Lorraine knows the Mowbries, like she knows everyone in her part of Masterton, and soon she’ll know a lot more. Because as something of an institution at Masterton police station, Lorraine is a woman people don’t expect much from. But sometimes, that’s an advantage. When her colleagues are busy stomping around making threats and accusations, Lorraine is listening and observing, quietly piecing together a different understanding of what happened to Jessica—an understanding that threatens everything she thought she knew about her community, her friends, and even her own family.

To get to the bottom of things, Lorraine must navigate fractured neighbourhood allegiances, and unearth all kinds of long-buried secrets—secrets that could provoke a danger hiding in plain sight and threaten those she loves the most.

In this follow-up to his award-winning debut novel Paper Cage, Tom Baragwanath delivers another bone-deep exploration of life in the margins of small-town New Zealand. Lucky Thing is a thrilling new instalment in the Lorraine Henry series.

Praise for Tom Baragwanath and Paper Cage:

‘Just the kind of dark, disturbing, gritty, and unusual treat thriller lovers are looking for.’ ―Kirkus [starred review]

‘Magnetic…This beautifully constructed plot has already won awards, and it is easy to see why with a protagonist who is impossible not to root for…Breathtakingly compelling.’ ―Daily Mail

Tom Baragwanath is originally from Masterton, New Zealand, and now lives in Paris. His debut novel, Paper Cage, published in 2022, introduced the world to records clerk Lorraine Henry. It was the winner of the 2021 Michael Gifkins Prize, shortlisted for Best International Crime Fiction in the 2023 Ned Kelly Awards and shortlisted for Best First Novel in the 2023 Ngaio Marsh Awards.

BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA de Joseph Ogilvy

A cautionary tale of human exploitation and the consequences for our oceans.

BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
by Joseph Ogilvy
Bloomsbury, Spring 2026
(via Sterling Lord Literistic)

Look west from San Francisco, or Monterey, or Long Beach, past the pleasure boats and the surfers and the cargo ships. This is the California Current, the ocean system that made the Golden State; 1900 miles of the most productive waters on earth, flowing all the way from the Salish Sea to the furthest tip of the Baja Peninsula. For more than ten millennia generation after generation of Native Californians built their lives on the Current—delicately managed and exceptionally productive—home to innumerable sardines, tuna, and abalone galore.

But it was not to last. As modernity beckoned we could not resist the urge to plunder. As each stock collapsed we moved to seek another, reconstituting our economies around each new creature we found in plenty, until all were gutted in turn. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is the untold ocean story that brought California violently into the modern world, helped build its major cities, and brought thousands to its shores. At the heart of tremendous growth lay a remarkable boom-bust cycle, not just of the ocean, but of the human cultures that wrought it unwittingly on themselves, from Russian fur hunters tearing through territory in search of fresh otterskin, to the Chinese refugees seeking advantage in the ecological turmoil the Russians left behind, to the canning aristocracy born and destroyed by the sardine trade.

The world has vanishingly few untouched waters left to move into. At some point, we might want to start learning from our mistakes. BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA is a history of how we got here and a warning for what we may not wish to repeat.

Joseph Ogilvy is a writer and chef from London, based in Austin, TX. After graduating from Oxford University he spent several years working in London restaurants including Bocca di Lupo, while writing on his days off. His experience in kitchens led him to investigate both the tangled human and ecological history of food. He will do for the oceans what John Vaillant did for fire and has all the makings of the next Barry Lopez while appealing to the same readership as Mark Arax’s The Dreamt Land and Earl Swift’s Chesapeake Requiem.