Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

In his novel In Spite of It All (Dolmen, 2010), Juan de Dios Garduño portrays a world turned into a wasteland after the Third World War. In Bangor, Maine, there are only three people left; and these three people (Peter, his daughter and his much hated neighbour Patrick) will have to face a threat coming from things that are not precisely people (things in whose existence chemical weapons have had much to do). The French public will get... - Read more

The Italian publishing house Lapis will relaunch this year the first three volumes of the Manolito Gafotas' saga, which had been previously published in Italy, in a new translation and with a new design. Manolito Gafotas (1994), Pobre Manolito (1995) and ¡Cómo molo! (1996) become, respectively, Ecco Manolito, Bentornato Manolito and Che forte Manolito : the first of the three is already available in bookstores all around the... - Read more

When not a month has passed since the publication of  That Was Life , by Carmen Amoraga (winner of the last Nadal Prize), Destino will launch a second edition of a book that has been widely praised since the beginning. Last week, Spanish newspaper  La Vanguardia  included  That Was Life  in the eight position of its best seller list, based on data from bookstores all over Catalonia. The book has also appeared in the... - Read more

The novel, whose lead character is the neurosurgeon David Evans, will be published this month of December in the U.K. The Patient is the fifth novel by the Madrid-born author, published this year by Editorial Planeta. The thriller, that narrates the count down for a prestigious doctor who only has 55 hours to save his daughter from the hands of psychopath, will be in British bookstores on the 11th of December. The publishing house Orion Books,... - Read more

Today Valió la pena reaches bookstores, the memoirs of the diplomat Jorge Dezcállar. The notes and memories of Jorge Dezcállar include his years as ambassador in the Vatican; in Lebanon, after the assassination of the former Spanish leader Pedro de Arístegui, or his mission in the United States and his participation in the Dayton Conference for pacification of the Balkans. Dezcállar was also director of the... - Read more