Second edition of "That Was Life", by Carmen Amoraga, which is included in the best seller lists
21/02/2014When 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 number ten spot in the best seller list of the newspaper ABC. You can read some interviews with Carmen Amoraga in El País, La Vanguardia or El Mundo.
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Waiting for The Last Passenger, by Manel Loureiro.
18/12/2014Great expectations in the english world for the translation of The Last Passenger, the last novel by Manel Loureiro. AmazonCrossing bought the English World rights of The Last Passenger, which was published in Spain in 2013 (Planeta).The book will be released on January 1, 2015 and it's now avaiable on presale. It has been for the last week at the Top 3 of the Amazon Best Sellers. Moreover, the Kindle editions of all three volumes of the Apocalypse Z series have been included in the December Monthly Deal on Amazon.com. The trilogy has been a world phenomena on the internet, as you can see on the author's profile in Amazon.
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Malaluna
Every legend has an origin. And the fateful legend of Malaluna tells the story of Rayén and Rosa, two sisters who began long time ago a story full of bad love, passion and death. With totally opposite personalities, each one walks until the end of the world in search of a place where to live. Will Rosa and Rayén survive in a world full of magic, mysteries and dangers? Malaluna is the very anticipated prequel of the best seller Trilogia del Malodor.
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Valenzuela, José Ignacio
Jose Ignacio Valenzuela made history in his native country, Chile, at 20 years old, when he wrote his first Telenovela, Amor a domicilio. After that, he began an international career, writing about 20 successful telenovelas for Chile, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the United States. He is the scriptwriter of the successful series Who Killed Sara?, one of NETFLIX’s most popular foreign-language series of all time. He has published more than fifteen books for adults, teens, and children, and many of them have become best sellers in different countries. This is the case of “Trilogía del Malamor” (Heartbreak Trilogy), which is considered the first Latin American Spanish fantasy trilogy. In 2012, the magazine of the “New York Times”, About.com, selected him as one of the 10 best American writers under 40 years old. In 2012, the magazine of the “New York Times”, About.com, selected him as one of the 10 best American writers under 40 years old. Among his published works stand-out The Edge of your Skin (2009), Tina Modotti: The Endless Woman (2010), and The Case of the Actress No One Wanted or Liked (2007), which is the beginning of a YA detective series, followed by another three books. With My crazy Grandma (2015) Valenzuela started “The Family Series” for children, which has been a great success in Latin America and Spain
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"The Wrath of the Just", last part of the "Apocalypse Z" trilogy, published in the United States
14/05/2014A week ago, the American publishing house Amazon Crossing published The Wrath of the Just, the last volume of the Apocalypse Z trilogy by Manel Loureiro; the first one, The Beginning of the End, was published in 2012, and it was followed by Dark Days last year. Just three days after its release, The Wrath of the Just reached number one in three different best seller lists: dystopian fiction, post apocalytic fiction and Spanish literature in its Kindle version; in this last one, the first and second volumes of the trilogy got the silver and bronze medals. And this is just the beginning...
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Los hijos de Adán
The Sons of Adam is the highly anticipated sequel of the International Best Seller The Immortal Collection, the first installment of A Saga of the Ancient Family, which has captured the hearts of millions of teen and adult readers in the US, UK and Europe.The story begins with the unexpected return of Gunnarr, the son that Iago thought had died in the battle of Kinsale in Ireland in 1602. Gunnarr will change the peaceful life that Iago del Castillo and Adriana Alameda had built for themselves in Santander, Spain. Prehistory, Europe: Lür travels across a devastated land looking for the clan of The Sons of Adam and their legendary matriarch, Adana, who, it is said, never grows old. 800 AC, Denmark: Gunnarr tells Adriana about his youth and how he became a berserker, a member of a dangerous and legendary group of Viking warriors. 1620 AC, New England: Urko boards the Mayflower, where he meets Manon Adams, a strong woman who will leave her mark despite the passing of time. The Ancient Family travels through time to discover that they have been persecuted since before their birth. This riveting story will leave you begging for the next chapter of The Immortals Series. The past always comes back to haunt a longevo.
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María Pilar Queralt conquers Portugal with "As Mulheres do Marquês de Pombal"
17/03/2014Released less than a month ago, María Pilar Queralt's latest book, As Mulheres do Marquês de Pombal, has become a great success in Portugal. Two weeks ago it was placed at number seven in the Non Fiction category of the best seller list by the bookstore chain Bulhosa, and last week it reached number one among History books in FNAC Portugal. Diario de Noticias echoed the news of the splendid public reaction to the book with an interview with Maria Pilar in which she commented on her interest in Portugal's history, about her ambition to write about history from a feminine point of view and the problems she had to find information about "Portugal's least romantic man"'s private life. She also appeared in the tv station RTP1; you can watch the interview (which we're sure won't be her last about the book) in this link.
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"Baudelaire's Flowers", by Gonzalo Garrido, reissued in DeBolsillo
08/03/2014Las flores de Baudelaire (Baudelaire's Flowers), the first novel by Gonzalo Garrido, published in 2012 by Alrevés, was reprinted last month in its paperback edition by DeBolsillo, which is part of Penguin Random House group. This news just goes to prove how Garrido's career is growing. His first novel, a blend of mistery and history that deals with treason and its presence as a guiding force in our lives, became an unexpected success. The novel (now, in its third edition) has appeared repeatedly in the best seller lists, has been finalist of awards such as the Memorial Silverio Cañada (granted by the Semana Negra de Gijón) and has received the praise of brilliant authors such as Eduardo Mendoza. Las flores de Baudelaire is just the first step in a career that we predict as more than solid, and that has a bright future.
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Javier Sierra and María Dueñas were two of the best selling authors in 2013 in Spain
19/02/2014We're happy to see two of our titles in the best seller lists of 2013 published by Nielsen Bookscan. Javier Sierra, with his latest novel El maestro del Prado (The Master of El Prado), appears, in the sixth position, as the first Spanish author in the list, with almost 150.000 copies sold of this last book. María Dueñas is in the tenth position with Misión Olvido (Mission Oblivion), that sold almost 120.000 copies. Rights to El maestro del Prado (an intriguing mixture of fiction, essay and biography in which a mysterious master explains the works of the museum to the author) have been sold to the United States, Brazil, Russia, Poland and Romania, in translations that are in the works and will see the light of day at the end of this year. Misión Olvido blends love, intrigue and appealing characters through the story of Blanca Perea, a teacher that will come to surprising conclusions while working on a project that was thought to be boring and unsubstantial. The book has repeated the astounding success of El tiempo entre costuras (The Seamstress) and has been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, Serbian, Swedish, Norwegian and Catalan.
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"El maestro del Prado" ("The Master of El Prado"), by Javier Sierra, the most sold national novel in Spain in 2013
04/02/2014El maestro del Prado (The Master of El Prado), sixth and last novel by Javier Sierra, was the most sold among the national fiction books in Spain in 2013, as revealed by Nielsen Bookscan. Published in February 2013 by Planeta, it has sold more than 150.000 copies in Spain and the same amount in Latin America, reaching its seventh edition and remaining on the best seller lists for more than 25 weeks in the sales lists. The novel, a mixture of art, history, suspense and conspiracies, crosses the limits between reality and fiction by placing Javier Sierra in the center of a mysterious tour around the Prado in which he is accompanied by an enigmatic master, who will show the author the secrets hidden in paintings by artists such as Raphael, Tiziano, El Bosco, Juan de Juanes, Botticelli, Brueghel or El Greco. By the end of 2014, El maestro del Prado (which has revived the attraction of the public for the museum, and aspires to become a book of reference for all those interested in it) will be published in English, Portuguese, Russian and Hungarian.
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"Marina", by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, enthusiastically reviewed in "The Guardian"
13/12/2013Marina, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, has been enthusiastically reviewed in the teen books section of the prestigious british newspaper The Guardian. Published in England by Weidenfeld & Nicholson last September (in Spain it came out in 1999 in Edebé), the novel (the fourth written by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, just before his best seller The Shadow of the Wind in 2001) has been deemed by alanahbee as «a fine piece of well-crafted, intriguing, chilling literature». Ruiz Zafon's style has also been celebrated, being deemed as «a feat in itself» and highlighting its «beauty». Its treatment of teenage angst is compared to the one in such important books as The Catcher in the Rye; the review ends with a clear statement: «Marina should soon become a modern classic and I can't sing its praises enough». The review can be read in the newspapers' webpage.
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New thriller by Juan Gómez-Jurado
07/10/2013The international best seller author, Juan Gómez-Jurado, God´s Spy, The Mosses Expedition and The Traitor´s Emblem comes back with a new frenetic book, TIPPING POINT, that in author´s words is described as: “A frantic and vibrant thriller, that won’t give you time to catch your breath and that will make the reader question their position regarding work, honor and family.” Foreign rights: “Author of GOD'S SPY and THE MOSES EXPEDITION, Juan Gomez Jurado's TIPPING POINT, in which a brain surgeon, victim of a criminally terrifying rogue surveillance, is forced to choose between ending the life of the president of the United States or witnessing a horrifying death for his kidnapped daughter at the hands of his implacable pursuer, again to Johanna Castillo at Atria and again to Kirsty Dunseath at Orion, by The Colchie Agency on behalf of the Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency in Barcelona. Foreign rights to Planeta in Spain, and to DTV in Germany, in a preempt, by the Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency.” Source: Publishers Lunch, October 07, 2013
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