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Autumn seasonPublished Sep 3, 20261 min readSep 3, 2026 · 1 min

Two rentrée novels turn to lakes and vanishings, on France Culture's Le Book Club

Pierric Bailly and Sylvain Prudhomme are the guests of the literary radio program, each with a new novel built around disappearance and remote landscapes.

A misty alpine lake at dusk with an empty, silent shoreline.
A misty alpine lake at dusk with an empty, silent shoreline.

France Culture's Le Book Club devotes its September 2 episode to two novelists publishing this rentrée, Pierric Bailly and Sylvain Prudhomme, according to the program's own description.

Bailly's new novel sends a brother and sister to a lake in the Jura, where an unresolved case of disappearances from twenty-five years earlier resurfaces, per the program summary. Prudhomme's book follows the search for a missing photographer inside an Alpine nature reserve closed to human visitors.

No titles, publishers or further plot details were given in the material available. Listeners can hear both authors discuss the books on the France Culture broadcast.

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