Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

Set in 16th century Spain, this historical novel recounts the dizzying life adventures of a boy and his wild survival with his only weapons: his talent in the kitchen and the ambivalent gift of hypermnesia, or inability to forget, which will lead him to become the master chef Alvar de Mondragón Cepeda. The first need of every living being—after breathing–, from the moment it is engendered, is food. Absorbing the energy of... - Read more

National Prize for Children & YA Literature If your birthday coincides with the Day of the Dead, get ready for a mortal surprise. That is what happens to Román Casas, who dreams of being a prestigious chef and asks for a cooking course for his tenth anniversary. Instead, he receives a black coffin with the instructions to activate Scarlet, a nineteen century cook and her inseparable Lady Horreur, a bloodcurdling spider with a French... - Read more

The great novel about the Madrid of 1953, when the postwar period depicted a Madrid in black and white. In Mrs. Amelia’a small hotel life throbs underneath a subjugated Spain. On the street, the expectation of the echos from the military boots ready to celebrate the Francoist victory drowns the sounds of life; but inside, human contact becomes, inevitably, a hotbed of desires and hope. Meanwhile, Ernesto Bacigalupe, a Spanish anarchist... - Read more

Indian Heart Lucas is an attractive young man who, after a heart transplant, begins to have extraordinary sensations and stunning memories that do not belong to his past life. Emerald green grasslands, horses, an eagle and the elongated eyes of an enigmatic woman. While the days pass by, in the City of the Sun different characters that come from far away start appearing. These characters will help Lucas discover that his body is trapped by... - Read more

Seville, October 1936. Crisanta is given a dangerous assignment. A 16th century triptych by Jan Van Eyck has disappeared amid the looting. If she tracks it down and hands it in, she’ll get help her get out of the country. She realizes that there is no place for her in a Spain shrouded in obscurantism, and accepts, regardless of the fact that her divination instruments have advised her to stay clear of that enterprise. Legend has it that... - Read more