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Arturo Leal y el perro fantasma

  Arturo's aunt asks him to help her in her dog grooming salon. On the first day of work, the kid causes a small flood, and to escape from his aunt's scolding, he goes to the neighborhood park. It is there that he meets Paloma, a Chinese girl, who shows up with her cat that she happened to bring along so that Arturo's dad examines it at his veterinary clinic. Chatting away, the children discover that they go to the same school. One night, Arturo is visited by a ghost dog. He doesn't like animals, and he doesn't understand why a dog's ghost has chosen him to help him. The two children will try to find out what is happening and will live an exciting adventure.  

Familia a la fuga 3 (Cerrado por fantasmas)

The F. family hides in the Boonies Hotel (code name); an establishment closed and out of season. It is a quiet and lonely place, without disturbing guests. But soon the F.'s will detect strange presences. Who are the newcomers? Could they be Jaw's henchmen? Could they be ghosts? No one ever said that being in a witness protection program was easy. A new adventure for the F. family!  

Romero, Esmeralda

Esmeralda Romero is a writer specializing in romance novels, born in Madrid. In 2020, she self-published her first novel One More Turn Around the Sun, which opens the Firmament series, also composed of The Moon Knows Your Name (2020) and The Sky Is Only the Beginning (2021). In 2022, she decided to follow her passion for medical dramas and wrote a romance novel set in a hospital: To See You Smile.

Marta Barrio won XVII Tusquets Novel Editors Award with Small firewood which, according to the unanimous verdict of the jury, is a “startling and surprisingly mature account of the dramatic experience of a young woman and her unexpectedly frustrated motherhood.”It is, according to the statement released by the publisher, a story that “maintains at all times a difficult balance between pain and the strength of not being carried away by a premature loss”, and considers that the award for Barrio is “confirmation of a new voice with a whole future ahead ”.

Ýndigo Mar

Pablo is writer who retires to a deserted housing development on an island, in winter, to finish a novel that resist itself. The days go by in blank, lost amid the ghosts and the tensions of creation, till his isolation will be broken by terrible dreams and unexpected characters, none which will be whom they claim to be. Jungian manifestations of panthers that talk to him in dreams; a mysterious hunter for lost objects on beaches; hash smugglers; a young sensual women accosted by her ex; cleaning ladies with a terrifying past; empty homes whose windows light up at odd hours; couples exchanges under the rain; abandoned oil rigs, full of old stories, not all pleasant… And the same island, a telluric entity perforated by subterranean galleries, whose manifestations infect Pablo’s dreams, forcing him to intern himself in a labyrinth where reality and fiction are mistaken. An island in where, hour upon hour, a terrifying storm approaches, and one in which finally all the masks come off leading the characters to a nightmarish denouement. “Indigo Sea” is a meta-literary thriller that reflects upon the conflicts of reality and desire, the devils and fears that haunt creators, savage love, the fragility of friendship, unchecked sensuality, violence, taboos…  Undoubtedly, Ignacio del Valle’s most personal novel todate.   

Abad, Mercedes

Mercedes Abad estudió Ciencias de la Información en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Se estrenó como escritora con Ligeros libertinajes sabáticos (1986), un libro de cuentos que fue galardonado con el Premio La Sonrisa Vertical. Ha publicado los libros de relatos Felicidades conyugales (1989), Soplando al viento (1995), Amigos y fantasmas (2004), ganador del Premio NH Vargas Llosa, y Media docenas de robos y un par de mentiras (2009). Es autora de las novelas Sangre (2000) y El vecino de abajo (2007). Además de los libros de narrativa, es autora también del ensayo Sólo dime dónde lo hacemos (1991), y de guiones de radio y obras teatrales como Pretèrit perfecte, Se non è vero y Bunyols de Quaresma. Ha realizado la versión teatral de Las amistades peligrosas, de Christopher Hampton, y ha colaborado en la dramaturgia del espectáculo XXX con la adaptación de La Filosofía en el tocador, del marqués de Sade, producida por La Fura dels Baus. Es colaboradora habitual de diversos medios de comunicación. Sus crónicas para el suplemento Cataluña de El País han sido reunidas en el volumen Titúlate tú (2002). Sus libros de cuentos La niña gorda (2014) y Casa en venta (2020) han sido publicados por Páginas de Espuma.  Su obra ha sido traducida a varios idiomas.

Aparicio, Juan Pedro

Juan Pedro Aparicio nació en León. Desde 1975, año en el que publicó El origen del mono y otros relatos, ha escrito novelas (Lo que es del César, El año del francés, La forma de la noche, Malo en Madrid o el caso de la viuda polaca, El viajero de Leicester y La gran bruma) y libros de cuentos. Asimismo ha cultivado el ensayo, el libro de viajes y hasta ahora ha reunido en dos colecciones sus artículos periodísticos. En 1989 obtuvo el Premio Nadal con Retratos de ambigú y recientemente, en 2005, recibió el II Premio Setenil de Cuentos al mejor libro de relatos publicado en el año por La vida en blanco. Colabora con distintos medios de comunicación y actualmente es director del Instituto Cervantes de Londres. La mitad del diablo (2008) es su primer libro de minificción, o literatura cuántica, según él mismo propone.

The writer Gonzalo Giner has obtained the XXV Fernando Novel Prize Lara with the work "The green mist". The Jury for this Award made the decision public during an award ceremony held at the Casa Guardiola in Seville. The novel is a fast-paced adventure, a moving ecologist plea, a hymn to conservationism and a great love story in the legendary African jungle. In the words of the author, «The green haze It is a novel very different from the ones I have published to date. Its title evokes a natural phenomenon that is only visible in a setting as spectacular as it is unique: the Congo River basin; one of the last green paradises on Earth and the setting for this story starring the young woman, Bineka, whose life I hope will catch you from the first page. "

Piel de topo

The Little Africa of San Francisco becomes the setting for the adventures of our psychic detective. Upon returning to Bilbao, Touré will recover his previous relationships (Sa Kené, Osmán, Aliou, Xihab) with the goal of recovering his badly damaged existence. A harsh reality, the one of being without papers in the paradise of dreams, requires a clandestine life in a miserable and suffocating setting controlled by the authorities. There is no possibility of escape, from the xenophobia and the lack of human necessities; to ensure sustenance he joins the coercion, the demand to collaborate with the enemy, the police, denouncing those close to him, those who find themselves in the same situation. Touré and his teammates will fight any way to free themselves from the web of blackmail and extortion in which they are trapped. The detailed description of the hidden world of immigration, of the monotone day to day of those who “do not exist”, of their reality, is what Arretxe carries on with dynamic and brutal language.     

Madrid:Frontera, by David Llorente, winner of the Dashiell Hammett 2017

Madrid:Frontera, by David Llorente, winner of the Dashiel Hammett prize 2017 David Llorente (Madrid, 1972) has won the Dashiell Hammett Prize, awarded during the Semana Negra de Gijón, for his novel Madrid:Frontera (Alrevés). Madrid:Frontera is a disturbing dystopia, a condemning cry for the misery that consumes our present-day society, a disquieting novel that is radical in its approach. The judges note that the winning novel stood out for “its originality and stylistic audacity, as well as its capacity to use literature as a tool for criticism and interpretation of reality.” Llorente succeeds Marcelo Luján, Carlos Zanóno, and Alexis Ravelo with his win. Read more on  El País 

Ariza, Luis Miguel

Luis Miguel Ariza es periodista y escritor, se licenció en ciencias biológicas y es Máster de Periodismo de Investigación por la Universidad Complutense. Autor de cuatro novelas (La Sombra del Chamán, Kraken, Proyecto Lázaro y Los Hijos del Cielo), le encanta mezclar la ciencia con el suspense, el thriller y la historia, en cócteles prohibidos. Fue coguionista de la serie científica de RTVE 2.Mil, ha colaborado para la BBC, escrito para Scientific American y New Scientist, Muy Interesante, y fue jefe de ciencia de La Razón. En El País Semanal se asoma al mundo de la ciencia. Luis habla también en RNE, en el programa A Hombros de Gigantes, sobre ciencia y cine.

Hashtag

Eric is a teenager who has everything: parents that consider him to be the best son in the world, a mansion in Los Angeles, an unconditional friend and classmate who is as mysterious as she is attractive. Chava, on the other hand, has lost everything except his will to live. He’s been in the hospital for months, and from his bed he longs for the noise of the streets, his home, and a woman who has a dragonfly tattoo. The two never would have met, but life decided to put them together. What could such different guys have in common? Very little, besides that they have decided to hide their real feelings in order to survive. Will Chava be able to put together the pieces of his past and come to terms with the present? Will Eric be able to confess the terrible secret that torments him and which caused his parents’ accident? Armed with only a phone and Instagram, they will have to face their own demons, without filters or hashtags. 

Los secretos de Alba

His name is Marco Sanchís, he is a technology freak, a secret fan of TV series like Castle and Monk, and one of the youngest and smartest detectives in the city. Though he is only 14 years old, he has his own investigation agency. Maybe it’s not as glamorous as on TV, or with such a sophisticated team. But this doesn’t mean that it’s not able to solve a vicious case. Above all, the help of Mireia and Klaus, his two step-siblings, who are the bravest helpers in the world, is what counts. Alright, maybe he gets a bit distracted along the way, but put yourself in his place: Alba’s life, his best friend in the world, and the girl that is hopelessly in love, are hanging from a thread and only he can help. What would you do? 

Árbol, Víctor del

  Víctor del Árbol (Barcelona, 1968) fue mosso d’esquadra desde 1992 hasta 2012, cursó estudios de Historia en la Universitat de Barcelona y colaboró como locutor en Catalunya Sense Barreres (Radio Estel, Once). Es autor de las novelas El peso de los muertos (Premio Tiflos de Novela 2006), El abismo de los sueños (finalista del XIII Premio Fernando Lara 2008) y La tristeza del samurái (Prix du Polar Européen 2012), traducida a una decena de idiomas y bestseller en Francia. Sus últimas obras son Respirar por la herida (finalista en el Festival Internacional de Cine Negro de Beaune 2014 a la mejor novela extranjera), Un millón de gotas (ganadora en 2015 del Grand Prix de Littérature Policière), La víspera de casi todo (Premio Nadal de Novela 2016), Por encima de la lluvia (Destino, 2017), Antes de los años terribles (Destino, 2019) y El hijo del padre (Destino, 2021) . En 2018 fue nombrado Caballero de las Artes y las Letras de la República Francesa.  Crítica:  «Hay un autor español que puede plantar cara a la novela negra escandinava: Víctor del Árbol.» Jordi Basté, Rac 1  «Víctor del Árbol ha sido todo un descubrimiento.» Óscar López, Cadena Ser «Víctor del Árbol ocupa un lugar muy especial en las letras actuales.» El Mundo  «Las novelas de Víctor del Árbol van más allá de los códigos clásicos del thriller. Impresiona la destreza con la que maneja las idas y venidas de las distintas épocas.» Bastien Bonnefous, Le Monde des Livres  «Creemos firmemente que este autor merece más; sus obras se encuentran, si no por encima, en el rango de libros de autores como Stieg Larsson.» Mystery Tribune. «Víctor del Árbol construye vidas que se niegan a renunciar a sus principios y a resignarse a sus finales.» Javier Lahoz, El Periódico

Marcelo Luján wins the Dashiell Hammet Prize 2016 for “Subsoil”. Ignacio del Valle wins the Buenos Aires Negra in the same festival

The Argentine Marcelo Luján (Buenos Aires, 1973) has been awarded the Dashiell Hammett, the principal recognition awarded at the Semana Negra de Gijón, for his book Subsuelo (Subsoil), a disturbing and sober thriller that has been considered by the judges as the best book of the noir genre published in Spain in 2015. Luján won the Getafe award in 2009 for “La mala espera”. Visibly emotional, the winner has assured that one of his “childhood dreams has been fulfilled” and that it is a prize “for the risky decisions taken at the beginning of the writing of the novel.”  With this novel, the winner, whether he likes to go towards the margins of the genre or directly disaffiliate from it, shows that he is an excellent anatomist of daily evil. Three adolescents, three siblings, are sitting on the edge of a pool in a summer house. A fourth arrives late and has to go get ice but doesn’t feel like it. He doesn’t know that his contempt will be the beginning of the tragedy. From this nice and apparently anodyne point of departure, Luján unfurls a deep analysis of desire, envy, hatred, filial love and predatory sex and destruction. A book with a simple style, a thriller based on the strength of the characters and which pays tribute in its profundity to the master Patricia Highsmith. The author of “Moravia” succeeds Carlos Zanón in the list of winners, as well as Alexis Ravelo and Guillermo Saccomanno, the last three to have won it, along with a prestigious group of authors that include Ignacio Taibo II, Andreu Martín, Juan Madrid, and Jorge Reverte. In the same festival, Ignacio del Valle won the Buenos Aires Negra Award for Soles Negros (Black Suns) from the Arturo Andrade Series.

Olympia 9: Los juegos olímpicos de Atlanta

Olympia has accomplished her dream: she is going to participate in her first Olympic Games. Two weeks and a villa made of the best athletes of the five continents, who compete every four years in front of the entire world. She almost can’t believe it. Atlanta is waiting for her! Live along with Olympia in her first Olympic Games in a book full of happiness, deceptions, sportsmanship, and effort. 

Sergio Pitol wins the Alfonso Reyes Prize 2015

The Mexican writer and essayist Sergio Pitol will be awarded the International Prize Alfonso Reyes 2015, in virtue of his valuable cultural, artistic, and literary contributions, and his extensive experience. In a statement, the Organizing Committee of the International Prize Alfonso Reyes announced today that Sergio Pitol is the winner of the award this 2015. It also marks that Pitol is a citizen of the world and at the same time a profound expert on Mexican culture. “He’s the living example of passion for knowledge and implacable criticism, whose unmistakable voice amongst the Hispanic-American narrators is fundamental to the writing, owing to his originality,” declare the organizers. The prize was created by Francisco Zendejas in 1972. It aims to appreciate the work of the Monterrey-native writer Alfonso Reyes by distinguishing personalities with a vast trajectory in the field of humanities. Amongst the prize-winners are Mario  Vargas Llosa, Eduardo Lizalde, Ignacio Bosque, Fernando del Paso and Ida Vitale (previously). Pitol was born in Puebla, March 18, 1993. He studied law and letters at the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and is a member of the National System of Creators of Art, as creator emeritus, since 1994. He has received the Xavier Villaurrutia Award 1981 for “Nocturno de Bujara,” the Herralde Novel Award in 1984 for “El desfile del amor” and the National Literature and Linguistic Award 1993; as well as those of the Latin-American Literature and the Caribbean Juan Rulfo 1999, and the Cervantes of Literature in 2005. His work is translated into French, German, Italian, Polish, Hungarian, Dutch, Russian, Portuguese, and Chinese. And he as a translator has rendered into Spanish works of authors such as Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Robert Graves, Jane Austen, Witold Gombrowicz, Alexander Zeromsky, Kazimierz Brandys, Jerry Andrzejewski and Bruno Schulz. The Organizing Committee is formed by the Secretary of Culture of the Government of the Republic, the Government of the State of Nuevo León through the Council of Culture and Arts, the Alfonsina International Society, the Autonomous Univeristy of Nuevo Leon (UANL), the Monterrey Technological, The University of Monterrey and the University Regiomontana. (El Universal, Mexico)

Berman, Sabina

Sabina Berman fue inicialmente reconocida como dramaturga, ganando hasta cuatro veces el Premio Nacional de Teatro de México y una decena de premios de la crítica. Suele estrenar en México una nueva obra cada dos años y sus obras han sido remontadas profusamente en el interior del país, y también en Canadá, Estados Unidos, Centroamérica y Sudamérica. Algunas de ellas: "Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda", "Muerte súbita", "Moliére", "Feliz nuevo siglo doktor Freud", "eXtras". Ha hecho también cine. "Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda", codirigido por Berman e Isabelle Tardan, fue llevada al celuloide en 1994 y representó a México en los Oscares. "El árbol de la música" (1995), codirigido por otra vez por Berman e Isabelle Tardan, representó igual a México en los Oscares. "Backyard" (2009) escrito por Sabina Berman, producido por Tardan/Berman y dirigido por Carlos Carrera, ganó varios premios internacionales, entre los que destacan el Festival de la Habana y la medalla de plata del Festival de Toronto, así como varios Arieles. Se le considera el dramaturgo más estimado por el público y la crítica de México. Su estilo personal de dramatizar combina el recuento minucioso de hechos ocurridos con una visión cómica de los mismos. Se ha descrito a sí misma como una post humanista, “alguien que mira los hechos humanos desde afuera de lo humano. Si el resultado causa risa, los responsables son los humanos.”. En prosa ha escrito dos noveletas y dos libros de crónica periodística. "Un grano de arroz "y "La bobe. Democracia cultural" y "Un soplo en el corazón de la Patria". A partir del año 2006 es articulista de fondo de la influyente revista semanal Proceso y las dos revistas literarias más prestigiosas de México, Letras Libres y Nexos. También desde entonces conduce un programa de entrevistas, Shalalá, en la TV, cada miércoles. Ha recibido en dos ocasiones el Premio Nacional de Periodismo. A partir del año 2009 escribe un guión de cine para Alejandro González Iñarrritu (Babel, Biutiful). Su primera novela, "La mujer que buceó dentro del corazón del mundo", fue adquirida por editoriales de 30 países, antes de su primera publicación en España .

Por encima de la lluvia

Miguel and Helena meet in a nursing home in Tarifa, at an age in which they believe that they already lived everything. Miguel is afraid to fly. Helena is terrified of the sea. Both have adult children and feel that they have relegated them to an almost ornamental existence. The dramatic suicide of a fellow resident opens their eyes. They don’t want their last days to be spent remembering and yearning for supposed better times.  And together they will decide to set out on the trip of their lives, in which they will discover that nothing is final as long there are still dreams to chase. Meanwhile, in the faraway Swedish city of Mälmo, the young Yasmina, daughter of Moroccan immigrants who dreams of being a singer, lives trapped between the control of her authoritative grandfather Abdul and the disdain of her mother, for whom Yasmina is an embarassment because she works for a Swede with a murky past. And she manages a secret romance with the deputy superintendent of the Swedish Police, an older and important man. These three characters draw a story about the feeling of love and about extraordinary people that can end up becoming common people. Past, present and future mix together in this journey from Tangier in 1955 to Mälmo in 2014, a metaphor for a much more important journey: that of always living intensely. 

A thousand drops, winner of the 2015 Grand Prix de Literature Policière

‘Un millón de gotas’ has been awarded the most prestigious French literary award appointed for the noir genre. Its author, Victor del Árbol, repeats once again the great feat of conquering the most distinguished reviews of the noir genre in France. Previously, in 2012, he was the first Spaniard to obtain the Prix du polar Européen, awarded by the prestigious French publication Le Point. Le Grand Prix de literature policière, founded in 1948 by the author and literary critic Maurice Bernard Endrèbe, is given annually to the best French novel [and foreign novel]. This year the French winner was “Derrière les panneaux il y a des homes,” by Joseph Incardona. The winners are determined by a jury of up to 10 members, which also includes authors. Each of the judges preselects a combination of works that they bring to discussion, for later making a voting list that they present before the jury. Amongst the acclaimed authors from the last decades that have been worthy of the prize are Jean-Patrick Manchette, Didier Daeninckx, Mary Higgins Clark, Elizabeth George, Thomas Harris, Patricia Highsmith, Arnaldur Indridason, P.D. James, Léo Malet and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. As of today, Victor del Àrbol joins a grand line-up of authors with “Un millón de gotas,” in French, “Toutes les vagues de l’océan”, published last February by Actes Sud in France and Destino [in Spain] in May 2014. It’s a novel to which the French media have dedicated entire pages and their best praise.

Brune, Raquel

Raquel Brune es una escritora y comunicadora especializada en literatura nacida en Madrid, aunque su familia procede de un pequeño pueblo de Castilla y León. En 2019 Publicó su primera trilogía: Brujas y Nigromantes, que inaugura una saga de fantasía Urbana en la que hechiceras, fantasmas y toda clase de seres paranormales recorren las calles de La Capital española. Tras su éxito le siguieron otros tres libros dirigidos al público juvenil: Los dones de la muerte, Las heridas de la magia (ambas de la bilogía Nigromantes) y Los guardianes de almas, una reinterpretación del mito de Don Juan Tenorio llevada a la actualidad y al mundo del arte.   En 2023 dio el salto a la literatura adulta con Oscura es la noche, una novela de misterio ambientada en el norte de la península ibérica.  Su obra ha sido traducida al rumano y publicada en nueve países.  

Contra Trump

How did Donald Trump make it to president of the United States? His electoral victory says much about the most powerful country in the world and its people, but also about us as a society. Now, faced with xenophobia, misogyny, nationalism, populism and other characteristic Trump offenses, how should the rest of the world defend itself? With the best style of political pamphlets and libels from the 19th and 20th centuries, Jorge Volpi raises his voice against the new president of the United States, his ideas and actions, proposes a clear and rational understanding of his dangerous thinking, and also politics, counterbalanced and measured to confront the worst consequences of his administration. Contra Trump (Against Trump) is an urgent pamphlet written by the prestigious Mexican author Jorge Volpi, which alerts of the extreme danger that Donald Trump represents for our civilization.

Castigo Divino, by Sergio Ramírez, appears in English for the first time

Divine Punishment  was published back in 1988 and has been translated into many languages, but never before into English. Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor, it is launched today by McPherson & Co. This publication will be celebrated with appearences of the author and translator at the Americas Society in New York City in association with the Instituto Cervantes. Tomorrow there will be a panel for Sergio at the Instituto Cervantes. Both events are officially part of the PEN World Voices Festival. Upon its original publication, Carlos Fuentes declared Divine Punishment to be the quintessential Central American novel. In this, the greatest work of a storied literary career, Sergio Ramírez transforms the most celebrated criminal trial in Nicaraguan history—the alleged murders in 1933 of two high society women and their employer by a Casanova named Oliverio Castañeda—into an examination of the entire Nicaraguan society at the brink of the first Somoza dictatorship. Passion, money, sex, gossip, political intrigue, medical malpractice and judicial corruption all merge into a novel that reads like a courtroom drama wrapped in yellow journalism disguised as historical fiction posing as a scandal of the first order. “This is a big, beautiful novel –a compelling historical drama of competing narratives and colorful characters that is self-aware and tigned with black humor.” - Publishers Weekly

Castro, Luisa

Luisa Castro nace en Foz (Lugo) en 1966 y es licenciada en filología hispánica por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. A los 21 años recibe el premio Hiperión de Poesía, por Los Versos del Eunuco, y con 24 años resulta finalista del Premio Herralde de Novela por El Somier. Desde entonces ha ejercido la crítica literaria y la colaboración periodística en medios como ABC, El País, El Periódico de Catalunya, El Mundo, La Voz de Galicia, y Radiotelevisión de Galicia. Recibió una beca Fulbrigth para realizar estudios de cine en Columbia y New York University, y a su regreso de Nueva York impartió cursos de guion cinematográfico en el Institut d´Humanitats de Barcelona, y posteriormente ha enseñado escritura creativa en la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. Ha sido directora del Instituto Cervantes de Nápoles durante cinco años. Actualmente dirige el I.C. de Burdeos, y mantiene su colaboración con el suplemento de Viajes de El País. Como poeta cuenta con siete libros publicados. Odisea Definitiva (Arnao, 1984) Los versos del eunuco (Hiperión, 1987), Baleas e Baleas (finalista del premio Esquío, Fundación Valle-Inclán, 1988), Los hábitos del Artillero (Premio Rey Juan Carlos I de Poesía, ed. Visor, 1990), De mí haré una estatua ecuestre (Hiperión, 1997), Amor mi Señor (Tusquets, 2004) y Actores vestidos de calle (Visor, 2018). Toda su obra poética está reunida en el volumen Señales con una sola bandera (Hiperión, 2004).  Como narradora, ha recibido el Premio Biblioteca Breve por su novela La segunda mujer (Seix-Barral, 2006), el premio Torrente Ballester por su libro de cuentos Podría hacerte daño (Ediciones del Viento, 2004) y el premio Azorín por El secreto de la lejía (Planeta, 2001). Además, publicó Viajes con mi padre (Planeta, 2003), La fiebre amarilla (Anagrama, 1996), y el Somier (Anagrama, 1990). Parte de su obra periodística en español está recogida en el volumen Diario de los años apresurados (Hiperión, 1998) y en el libro Melancolía de sofá (Xerais, 2009), que recoge sus colaboraciones en gallego, su lengua materna. Por sus colaboraciones en prensa ha recibido el premio Puro Cora de periodismo. Por la totalidad de su obra recibió el premio Vieira de Plata en 2006, el Premio Quaderni Iberoamericani en 2016, y la Cruz de la Orden de Isabel la Católica en 2017 por su labor de difusión cultural. Está considerada por la crítica como una de las voces más renovadoras de los años noventa, y parte de sus novelas y libros de poemas están traducidos al francés, italiano, inglés, alemán, holandés y hebreo. Foto de Lisbeth Salas

The English edition of “The Last Passenger” is a hit in its first week on sale!

We bid farewell to 2014 mentioning the smashing pre-sale success of “The Last Passenger” by Manel Loureiro and with this we also begin 2015 with the incredible news about the latest novel by this Galician author. “The Last Passenger” published in both the USA and the UK by Amazon Crossing, has been warmly acclaimed by the public on its first week of publication. “The Last Passenger” was included in Amazon Prime’s catalogue, a service that permits its subscribers to download outstanding titles (that include titles by the likes of Lee Child or Stephen King, among others) from the moment of publication. The novel by Manel Loureiro obtained over 70.000 loans by users of Amazon Prime and is listed as one of the top sellers in the following categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Science Fiction & Fantasy and Literature & Fiction.

Cerrada, Cristina

Cristina Cerrada nació en Madrid. Doctora en Estudios Literarios por la UCM, licenciada en Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada por la UCM, y en Sociología por la UNED, es coordinadora de varios cursos de narrativa breve y de novela. Ha escrito las novelas Calor de hogar, S.A. (2005), Premio de Novela Ateneo Joven de Sevilla, Alianzas duraderas (2007), La mujer calva (2008), Premio Lengua de Trapo de Novela, Anatomía de Caín (2010), Cenicienta en Pensilvania (2010), Premio Internacional Ciudad de Barbastro, Cosmorama (2015) y Europa (Seix Barral, 2017). Su narrativa breve incluye Noctámbulos (2003), Premio de Narrativa Casa de América, y Compañía (2004), Premio de Narrativa Caja Madrid. Sus relatos han sido incluidos en diversas compilaciones y antologías, y es autora de la comedia El club Mythic (2015). Colabora en diversos medios y forma parte del colectivo artístico «Hijos de Mary Shelley».

La saga de los longevos

The Immortal Collection When Adriana, a brilliant young archaeologist, accepts a position at the Museum of Archaeology in her hometown of Santander, Spain, she never imagines that her new boss has lived through the history she can only study. Iago, the charismatic technical director of the museum, is more than ten thousand years old but appears to be only thirty-five. Iago and his family are longevos—people who never seem to age after reaching adulthood. The ancient family is divided: Iago’s brother and sister seek the source of their longevity in hopes of creating more like themselves, while Iago and his father fear the repercussions of the true Fountain of Youth. A dangerous game of power and knowledge that has played out over eons becomes even more complicated when Adriana attracts both brothers’ attention—and learns their secret. Filled with science, history, and passion, The Immortal Collection transports the reader through time and space, from the days of cavemen, through the Roaring Twenties, to the charming plazas of contemporary Spain. Ancient history meets cutting-edge research in this modern love story and sweeping historical saga.

Chávez Castañeda, Ricardo

Ricardo Chávez es maestro en creación literaria por la New Mexico State University y licenciado en Psicología. Ha publicado literatura infantil y juvenil: Los ensebados (1993, Premio Nacional de Novela Juvenil FILIJ), El secreto de Gorco (1994, Premio Nacional de Cuento Infantil FILIJ), Miedo, el mundo de al lado (1994, Premio Nacional de Novela Juvenil FILIJ), Las montañas azules (1998), La valla (Everest, 2000), La niña que tenía el mar adentro (2001); Fernanda y los niños secretos (Premio Nacional de Literatura Infantil «Juan de la Cabada», 2000), Mañanario (Everest, 2006), Salvavidas ( SM, 2006) y Las peregrinas del fuisoyseré (FCE, 2007). Entre sus obras para adultos, en narrativa, se incluyen: El día del hurón (México, 1997), Estación de la vergüenza (México, 1999), Y sobrevivir con las manos abiertas. Una historia de todos los fines del mundo (México, 2001), El final de las nubes (RBA, 2001), La Conspiración Idiota (México, 2003), El fin de la pornografía (México, 2005), El libro del silencio (Alfaguara, 2007) y Georgia (FCE, 2011). Cuentos suyos han formado parte de antologías de narradores mexicano y/o latinoamericanos publicadas en Cuba, México, Chile, España y Estados Unidos. Además de varios premios en México, Ricardo Chávez Castañeda ha obtenido reconocimientos internacionales como: el Premio Borges de cuento (Argentina, 1987), el Premio Latinoamericano de Cuento (México, 1994) y el Premio Aresti de cuento (Bilbao, España, 2002). Ha sido finalista en el Premio Internacional de Novela Planeta-Joaquín Mortiz (México, 1994) y por dos ocasiones (1998 y 2002) en el Premio Internacional de Novela Negra Dashiel Hammet (Gijón, España). También, obtuvo una mención honorífica en el Concurso Casa de las Américas, novela, en 1999.

Laura Gallego and her novelties for the next season: "Encyclopedia of Idhun" and "All the Kingdom Fairies"

Laura Gallego has done nothing but grow in these last few years. A couple of them ago, she won the National Prize for Young Adult Narrative for her book Donde los árboles cantan (Where Trees Sing), and it seems she won't stop after achieving this high honour: she plans not one but two releases for the following nine months. The first one, that will arrive on the 14th of October, is the Enciclopedia de Idhún (Encyclopedia of Idhún): it will be released by SM and includes all the information about the trilogy as well as many interesting additional data about Idhun's universe. The second one is even more exciting: it's called Todas las hadas del reino (All The Kingdom Fairies) and it's Laura's new novel, which will be released by Montena on March 2015. Everything there is to know about the book is still a well kept secret, but there are some clues we can give you because Laura did so on her official webpage: it's a young adult novel; it occurs in a fairytale world; the name of its main character is Camelia; it won't have a sequel. How good is that for an advance? Will it be enough until March 2015? If the answer is no, don't worry: we'll keep you posted...

Negra

Nirvana del Risco is the first black Cuban heroine that shows herself naked, open and brutal faced with that which, because of prejudice, many hide: bisexuality, racism, politics, fear and close intimacy with the enemy. A daughter of the 60s generation and a rebellious Havanan protagonist in the 2000s, she takes the path between the prohibited and the sacred, revealing occult recipes established in an Afro-Cuban culture (Regla de Ocha). Rituals that go from the dynastic Cuban witchcraft, that which few openly accept and which are used in daily rituals and incantations, to the complex balancing act between race, sex, politics, and religion. Nirvana leaves the oracle convinced that the Afro-Cuban cult is retaining the legend of her life, but decides to free herself and to change the rules, to disobey the words that the Orishas dictate, retiring from her life all the antidotes to the terrible plans that have accompanied her since birth. Endemic seasonings, native and sensual accents, bittersweet and tropical flavors reveal a hidden part of the mixed Cuban nationality. This creole and enlightened model is presented with an epic, unique, and dark journey that she takes fearlessly, a passionate route between Cuba and France, where she plans to settle, knocking down clichés and breaking stigmas about what it means in the world today to be a beautiful Cuban woman and black like the night. The tragic fate of the heroine narrates a profound and little-explored part of female Latin-American literature.  With a magical and contemporary language, the author invites us on a singular trip bathed in sublime black tears. The word “Negra” (black woman) is for some a taboo term; for the protagonist of this splendid novel it contains all the music, the flavor, and the feeling of her body, her soul, and her nation.

Sabina Berman and her new success: "Darwin's God"

Soon it will be over two months since El dios de Darwin (Darwin's God), by Sabina Berman, was published, and the book has been receiving excellent reviews since then. Among them is the one that appeared in the Spanish newspaper La Razón a couple of weeks ago, in which Lluís Fernández wrote: "Berman's novel combines with expertise its distinct layers. (...) Masterful, at times. (...) Berman is a meticulous writer that avoids the magic realism of her previous novel and tries to experiment (...) A surprising thriller of theological intrigue". Sabina Berman, that presented El dios de Darwin in Madrid in an event in the Instituto de México the last 23rd of January, is among the nominees for the renowned International Impac Dublin Literary Award 2014 for her first novel The woman who dove into the heart of the world. The shortlist for the prize will be announced on the 9th of April, and the name of the winner will be made public on the 12th of june: we wish Sabina good luck and hope to continue to follow and enjoy her career as it develops. 

Costas, Ledicia

Esta escritora gallega ha conseguido el aplauso unánime de crítica y público desde el momento de la aparición de Escarlatina, la cocinera cadáver. Esta obra ha recibido multitud de premios (entre otros, el Premio Nacional de Literatura en 2015) y ha cosechado un enorme éxito de ventas primero en Galicia y luego en el resto de España, además de diversas traducciones en otros países. A ello han contribuido la exitosa precuela Esmeraldina, la pequeña fantasma y el libro de gran formato Los archivos secretos de Escarlatina, que conforman una trilogía única. Ledicia ha sido dos veces ganadora del Premio Merlín de literatura infantil en lengua gallega, la última en 2022 con el título "El niño de fuego".  Además, es la única autora que cuenta con tres premios Lazarillo, el galardón más antiguo de las letras españolas. Las obras galardonadas fueron Jules Verne y la vida secreta de las mujeres planta, La balada de los unicornios y La liebre mecánica. Nacida en Vigo, Ledicia fue una lectora voraz desde una edad muy temprana, escribiendo su primer libro (Unha estrela no vento) con 16 años. Tras acabar la carrera de derecho y ejercer durante varios años como abogada, dejó esta profesión para dedicarse exclusivamente a la escritura, centrándose sobre todo en el público infantil y juvenil. En su ya dilatada carrera como autora destacan títulos como El corazón de Júpiter (que trata el tema del acoso escolar y los peligros de las redes sociales), Las peripecias de Extravagannza Pérez, La señorita Bubble, Un animal chamado néboa (durísimo libro de relatos basado en algunas de las historias más escalofriantes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial) y la serie Los Minimuertos. En 2019 publicó Infamia, su primera novela para adultos, a la que siguió Golpes de Luz en 2021. 

A señorita Bubble

People from the small village hated Ms. Bubble from the very moment she arrived. The inventor appeared one sunny morning, driving a convertible that ran on steam, and settled in a house that had been empty for years. They rejected her for her work, her inventions, for her way of living. No one suspected what really went on inside the Ms. Bubble’s mansion.

María Pilar Queralt publishes in Portuguese "As Mulheres do Marquês de Pombal"

María Pilar Queralt is still investigating about the most important female characters in history; As Mulheres do Marquês de Pombal has been recently published in Portuguese by A Esfera dos Livros. The work deals with the decisive role of a group of women in the life of the Portuguese statesman Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo: his mother, Maria Teresa Luiza de Mendonça e Melo, his first wife (the widow Teresa de Mendonça e Almada, ten years older than him, which he kidnapped and married in secret), his second one (Maria Leonor Ernestina Dau) or some other women that acted as protectors (Maria Ana de Austria) or enemies (la Marquesa de Távora, D. Leonor). The book will be presented on the 10th of March in Salão Nobre do Palácio do Marquês de Pombal in Largo Marqués de Pombal, Oeiras (Portugal), in an act that will count with the presence of the author and of the city councilor of Culture of Oeiras, doctor Marlene Rodrigues.

Una novela criminal

  Winner of the Alfaguara Award 2018 All that is written in this novel are actual facts. All its charac-ters are of flesh and blood, and the story, skillfully unraveled and with light cast on in all its nooks and corners thanks to thorough research, is real.On December 8, 2005, south of Mexico City, federal police arrests Israel Vallarta and Florence Cassez, accusing them of kidnapping and belonging to a criminal organization. On the following day, at 06:47 AM, the TV stations Televisa and TV Azteca broadcast live the break-in of federal agents at the ranch Las Chinitas, the freeing of three hostages and the de-tention of Israel and Florence. On the following days, the de-tainees will be tortured, denied their basic rights and the num-ber of charges will grow. But when the defense lawyers point out the inconsistencies between the arrest reports, the tele-vised videos and the defendants’ version, a race against time ensues to uncover one of the biggest police setups in the his-tory of Mexico, whose development rocked the foundations of Felipe Calderón’s government and ended with a diplomatic incident between Mexico and France.A ruthless narration when it comes to depicting the ins and outs of power, the deepest roots of corruption and its reach, as well as the muddled mechanisms of justice, “A Criminal Novel” is also a brave denunciation of the social price of the policies that declare war on crime without putting a stop to its causes.

Crespo MacLennan, Julio

Julio Crespo MacLennan (Madrid, 1970) es licenciado y doctor en Historia por la Universidad de Oxford. Ha enseñado en universidades de España, el Reino Unido y Estados Unidos y ha sido profesor visitante en la cátedra Príncipe de Asturias de la Universidad de Tufts y Santander Iberian Studies Fellow en el St. Antony´s College de la Universidad de Oxford. Fue agregado cultural y director del Instituto Cervantes en Estambul y en Dublín. En la actualidad es profesor de Historia de las Relaciones Internacionales en la IE University. Enseña también en el Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset y representa a esta institución ante la organización Europaeum. Es autor de varios libros y numerosos artículos sobre la historia contemporánea de España y Europa entre los que cabe destacar Forjadores de Europa (Destino, 2009), España en Europa del ostracismo a la modernidad (Marcial Pons, 2004) y Spain and the process of European integration, (Palgrave, 2000). Colabora asiduamente como articulista con el periódico ABC al igual que con diversas revistas culturales y medios de prensa internacional. En los últimos años se ha centrado en el estudio de la historia imperial europea y el legado de las grandes potencias de Europa en el mundo.

Siete son tus razones

A businessman has been murdered and Ciprianao Zuzunaga is in charge of the case, without police sup-port, as a sort of private eye. He will soon discover that nothing is what it looks like, especially because in the dossier it appears that the presumed murderer died in a raid, but his tomb is empty. Why did his superiors put him in charge of a case that has already been solved? Who assured the relatives that that murdered was dead and how did they know that there was no body in the grave? The investigation will put Zuzunaga with a fami-ly’s long-standing quarrel and put him in touch with characters with whom he will have to learn to trust.Nelson the Yellow, his friend and accomplice from an-other period, has asked him for help to get revenge from those responsible for the death of his family. Besides, Zuzunaga must solve his relationship with Nat and her little baby. Lola completes the picture, an attractive em-ployee of an internet café. .From an innovative narrative voice, Gudiño widens the action range of the detective story; this second install-ment of the saga paints Zuzunaga as a complex charac-ter, steeped in an evil world, but with winks of humanity that perhaps redeem him. “Jorge Alberto Gudiño is a tenacious writer who is well acquainted with the reality of Mexico, that includes the good, the bad and the worst. His prose is poignant and only he has the secret knowledge to use it as expertly in his narrative.”Élmer Mendoza

Sabina Berman releases "El dios de Darwin" ("Darwin's God"), her long-awaited new novel

Four years after the release of her first novel, The Woman Who Dove Into the Heart of the World, was published in 33 countries, Sabina Berman returns with El dios de Darwin (Darwin’s God), published by Destino and available on the 23rd of January. Focusing again on Karen, her first’s novel charismatic and lovable main character, and conveying an ecologist message as well, El dios de Darwin is a frenetic thriller based on philosophical ideas, in which the call of a missing biologist leads to a surprising revelation: that Darwin converted into Christianity on his latter days, uniting again science and religion. Sabina Berman will be in Madrid the 22nd and 23rd of January. El dios de Darwin will be presented the 23rd of January at 19:30 in Instituto México (Madrid).

De las Muelas, Javier

Empresario y cocktailsman, inició su carrera empresarial en el mundo de la hostelería en 1979, fecha en la que creó el cocktail bar Gimlet, el mítico local de la calle Rec de Barcelona, que se convirtió en seguida en un local de referencia de la ciudad. Le siguieron la apertura del Gimlet de Santaló y posteriormente locales como el Nick Habana o Casa Fernández, y también establecimientos recreados como la cervecería Montesquiu y la ya legendaria coctelería Dry Martín, creada en 1978 por el que ha sido su maestro, Pedro Carbonell. Este último local, reconocido internacionalmente como uno de los diez mejores bares del mundo según Tyler Brûlé, periodista y editor fundador de las prestigiosas revistas Wallpaper y Monocle, desde 2002 alberga en su almacén el restaurante clandestino Speakeasy que rinde homenaje a los locales clandestinos de la época de la Ley Seca, y al que Javier de las Muelas define como su «factoría de ideas». Participa como ponente en diversos encuentros profesionales del mundo del bar y de la coctelería –entre los que destacan el Bar Show de Londres, El Barzone de Berlín, el Hotel Cavallieri Hilton de Roma, el Four Seasons de Tokio, Madrid Fusión o el Bar Slow de Ýmsterdam-, realiza habitualmente presentaciones y trainings.

Juan Pedro Aparicio presents "Nuestros hijos volarán con el siglo" (Our Sons Will Fly with the Century) in Madrid's Instituto Cervantes

Juan Pedro Aparicio changes the direction of his career, lately focused on short stories, and publishes the work on which he has been working for the last 10 years, Nuestros hijos volarán con el siglo (Our Sons Will Fly with the Century) (Salto de Página), the story of the turbulent escape from Spain of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, in a ship, the Volante, that had to face a wild storm and the assault of a group of pirates in what became an 8-day odissey. The portrait of the statesman, a mixture of historic and adventure novel and biographical profile, allows us to track the seeds of the present in events that took place more than 200 years ago, and details us the complex personality of a politician that rejected the francophilism that was customary in those times, influenced instead by British politics and confronted to the Church because of his views. The book was presented last 20th of November in Madrid’s Instituto Cervantes, in an act that counted with the intervention of renowned personalities such as the novelist and filmmaker Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, the professor and Cervantes’ president Víctor García de la Concha and Pedro de Silva Cienfuegos-Jovellanos, descendent of the politician. Writers such as Luis Mateo Díez or José María Merino were amongst the audience. 

Las hijas del capitán

New York, 1936. The small restaurant named The Cap-tain opens on 14th Street, one of the small ghettos popu-lated by the Spaniards who were then living in the city. The accidental death of its owner, Emilio Arenas, forces his young twenty something daughters to take over the business while the judges debate the payment of a promising compensation. Broken and in the urgent need for survival, the temperamental Victoria, Mona and Luz Arenas will have to learn to live among skyscrapers, com-patriots, adversities and love affairs, with the sole need of making their dreams come true .A moving page turner, THE CAPTAIN’S DAUGHTERS nar-rates the story of three young women that were forced to cross the Atlantic, to live in a big city and bravely struggle to make their way in life. A tribute to all those women who put up a fight under adverse circumstances, and a homage to those brave men and women who ex-perienced the difficulties and uncertainties of immigra-tion.María

De Vega, Mercedes

Mercedes de Vega es escritora, licenciada en Sociología y Ciencias Políticas. Ha residido y trabajado en Nueva York, Barcelona y Madrid. Actualmente vive en Montreal. Ha cursado estudios literarios en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y participado en numerosos talleres de escritura. Colabora habitualmente en varia revistas literarias y es miembro del jurado del Concurso Resonancias de Cuento. Ha publicado el libro de relatos Cuentos del sismógrafo, Ediciones Atlantis, y varias publicaciones colectivas, como las antologías de cuentos: El hilo de Sofía (2011), traducido y editado por la Universidad de Sofía de Bulgaria, Madrid golpea la crisis (2012) y Madrid golpea la corrupción (2013), los tres libros publicados por Ediciones Atlantis, Madrid. El profesor de inglés fue su primera novela, publicada por Huerga y Fierro Editores. En 2015 publicó Cuando estábamos vivos (Plaza&Janés), un libro al que le seguirían Todas las familias felices (Plaza&Janés, 2018), El largo sueño de Laura Cohen (Plaza&Janés, 2020) y Una historia desconocida: Marie Jelen (Huso, 2021).  Escribe habitualmente en su blog Escribir…, uno de los más leídos en la red. Su escritura es bien conocida en Internet y en las redes sociales.

Sort que et tinc a tu

Pedro and Eduardo met in medical school in Barcelona during the last years of Francoism. Although they couldn’t be more different from one another, their friendship never ceased to grow as they shared thousands of hours of study, long conversations, political hiding and a run or two by the cops. Later on, the friendship would withstand the onslaught of politics, of couples, of their different way of practicing medicine, of their culinary abilities and, even, of the arguments as to how whiskey must be drunk, with or without ice. At the height of their lives, this quarry-like friendship would run into a dangerous hurdle by the name of Thais, a red-headed, green-eyed seductress with provocative hips. Will they be able to overcome it? Perhaps—only perhaps. Behind the covers of the book lies the answer. “Lucky that I have You” is the story of a profound friendship and a loving passion, in the unrivalled setting of the Alt Empordà, that takes one to the most profound nooks and corners of humankind’s contradictions. 

Del Río, José Manuel

José Manuel del Río (A Coruña, 1982) reside en Barcelona y ejerce como abogado penalista y periodista cultural. Su debut con la novela total sobre narcotráfico Marea Roja (Ediciones B, 2019) supuso un éxito de crítica que continuó con La Milicia de la Noche (Ediciones B, 2020) cuando se confirmó como una de las voces más eclécticas del panorama editorial actual. Brillante prosista y dialoguista, Del Río se vale de contextos históricos apasionantes para mostrarnos el lado más oscuro del ser humano con personajes fronterizos y realismo descarnado. Su último libro, A bocajarro, es una novela policiaca de las de antes, en la que la bondad se mezcla con la mezquindad y, gracias a su excepcional estilo, la crueldad roza la delicadeza.  

Latest International Publications

We're pleased to see how our author's titles keep on seeing the light of day in other countries. The last ones we have received in the agency are the following: * Misión Olvido, by María Dueñas, has been published in The Netherlands under the title De wereld vergeten by Wereldbibliotheek. * Prométeme que serás libre, by Jorge Molist, has been published by S. Fischer in Germany. The title chosen for the translation is Am Horizont die Freiheit. * Bertelsmann, in Russia, has published a translation of El susurro de la mujer ballena, by Alonso Cueto. * La luz difícil, by Tomás González, has appeared in Brasil under the title A luz difícil, published by Bertrand Brasil.

Espinosa, Julio

Julio Espinosa Guerra (Santiago, 1974) es un autor chileno que reside en España desde 2001. Ha publicado las novelas El día que fue ayer (Mago, Chile, 2006) y La fría piel de agosto (Alfaguara, Chile, 2013), los libros de poemas La soledad del encuentro (Mosquito, Chile, 1999), Las metamorfosis de un animal sin paraíso (LF, Béjar, 2004, Premio Villa de Leganés), NN (Gens, Madrid, 2007, Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz), Sintaxis asfalto (Olifante, Zaragoza, 2010), La casa amarilla (Pre-Textos, Valencia, 2013), De lo inútil (Candaya, Barcelona, 2017). Ha practicado la crítica literaria en medios como literaturas.com, La estafeta del viento, Revista de libros, Turia y Heraldo de Aragón. Dirige en Zaragoza el Espacio literario MilMadres, que cobija la editorial y la libería del mismo nombre, y los cursos de escritura creativa de Estudio de Escritura. En marzo de 2023 Pre-Textos editará su nuevo libro, Secuoya. 

José María Merino awarded with the National Narrative Prize (Spain's Culture Ministery)

The Literary Agency Antonia Kerrigan wants to congratulate the author José María Merino for receiving, the well deserved,  Premio Nacional de Narrativa 2013 (National Narrative Award 2013) for his novel; The River of Eden (El río de edén) published in 2012 by  Editorial Alfaguara. José María Merino is a member of the Real Academia Española  (Spanish Royal Academy) and has received various awards for his works that include, narrative, young adult literature, short stories, essays and poems. His first novel, The Novel by Andrés Choz, (La Novela de Andrés Choz)  published in 1976, won the Novel and Short Story Award. In 1985 he was distinguished with the Critics Awards for his novel; The Dark Shore, (La orilla oscura). In 1993 he was given the National Young Adult and Children’s Literature Award for; I’m Not a Book, (No soy un libro). The novel Lucrecia’s Visions, (Las visiones de Lucrecia) (1996) received the Miguel Delibes Narrative award. In 2004, the novel The Heir, (El heredero) won the Ramón Gómez de la Serna Award and The Place without Guilt, (El lugar sin culpa), won the Torrente Ballester Award. The River of Eden; (El río del edén) has also won the critic Award of Castilla and León. The jury highlighted The River of Eden as: “a book in which the author has adopted a second auto-reflexive voice in order to bring life to a familiar micro-cosmos, that revolves around a boy with a disability and the crisis that his appearance provokes on family life. It is a technically risky work that has been well resolved, and that gains tension as the story advances and its crucial problems, like the right to a dignified death, find themselves perfectly exposed.”

La verdad no termina nunca

Alfredo is a young man in the Barcelona of the 1950s, orphaned of his father and with a mother who lives immersed in a vital silence and her dedication to knitting. Alfredo knows practically nothings of how his parents met, and even less why she won’t return to that period to explain to him who he was. Many are the secrets that shroud this woman’s sad face. But need to discover one’s roots is unstoppable, and fate will lead Alfredo to investigate, on the one hand, a series of characters who lived in the 1930s, the same period in which his parents met, and, on the other, to establish a relationship with the daughter of one the city’s wealthiest families. The Queralt family will reveal the brave and committed person that his mother at a time in which working women were invisible characters for society, and they will help him to understand why she has protected him from the truth for so long. A moving story that allows us to travel across the decades of the 30s through to the 50s, key years in the history of Spain, and to make a journey through the postwar silence; the explosion of art in the 1920s, the emergence of the black market, the world of journalism and the atmosphere of the orchestras and cabaret.

La maleta de Ana

In the sixties and seventies of the past century, hundreds of thousands of Spanish women immigrated to Germany in search of work. They were anonymous heroines that faced a new world and many a time hostile one, in an effort to help their families. This extraordinary novel is the story of one of them, but it could be that of all of them. It is the harsh but moving story of Ana, from leaving her native village in Ávila with a small cardboard suitcase to go to work at a perfume factory. It is the story of her youth, her hardships, her complicity with the other female workers and her struggle against social inequalities, but it is also the story of her great love story. Many decades later after having returned from Germany, Ana meets Cora, a present-day woman who decides to tell her experience before it is too late. Through the eyes and contemporaneous sensibility of Cora, we will delve into the adventure of a courageous young woman who was capable of taking the reins of her life to get ahead.

Farias, Paula

Paula Farias es médico, trabajadora humanitaria y contadora de historias que desgrana en cuentos, libros, canciones y poemas. Tras unos años navegando con Greenpeace, comenzó a trabajar para Médicos Sin Fronteras en la guerra de los Balcanes, lo que después la llevó a coordinar emergencias en catástrofes naturales, epidemias y conflictos armados, incluyendo la guerra de Kosovo, una experiencia que se trasluce en su primera novela, "Dejarse llover" (2005), que más tarde Fernando León de Aranoa llevaría al cine con el título "A perfect day" y que merecería el Premio Goya al Mejor Guion Adaptado. En 2004, publicó el libro de relatos "Déjate contar un cuento" y, en 2021, "Fantasmas azules", ambientada en la guerra de Afganistán. Tras presidir Médicos Sin Fronteras, puso en marcha las operaciones de rescate que la organización desplegó en el Mediterráneo para dar respuesta a una crisis que aún hoy continúa y subyace en las páginas de "Piel de deriva". 

International and national deal news (October 2013)

Here there are the latest deals done after and during the Frankfurt Book Fair:   Rights of El paso de la hélice by Santiago Pajares has been acquired by Destino (World Spanish), Objetiva (Brazil – two book deal in pre-empt), Rizzoli (Italy – pre-empt), Signatuur (The Netherlands - pre-empt), and Libri (Hungary – pre-empt).     La lluvia de Ionah (Ionah´s Rain) by Santiago Pajares has been acquired by Destino (World Spanish), and Objetiva (Brazil – two book deal in pre-empt). Czech rights of El Mapa del Cielo (The Map of the Sky) by Félix J. Palma have been sold to Host Publishing. Russian rights of Tiempo de cenizas (The ashes of time) by Jorge Molist have been sold to Bertelsmann Media. World Spanish rights of Het bloed in onze aderen (The Blood in our veins) by Miquel Bulnes have been acquired by Grupo Planeta. World Spanish rights of Girl Runner by Carrie Snyder to Alfaguara in a pre-empt.

New thriller by Juan Gómez-Jurado

The 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

Freire, Espido

Espido Freire (España, 1974) estudió música desde su infancia y se licenció en Filología Inglesa por la Universidad de Deusto, donde también se diplomó en Edición y Publicación de Textos. Debutó como escritora con “Irlanda” (Planeta, 1998), novela que fue galardonada con el premio francés Millepage. En 1999 apareció “Donde siempre es octubre” (Seix Barral, 1999). Y, seis meses más tarde consiguió el Premio Planeta por su obra “Melocotones helados” (1999) convirtiéndose en la ganadora más joven del galardón. Con esta obra obtuvo también el “Premio Qué Leer 2000” a la mejor novela española. Posteriormente ha publicado “Diabulus in musica” (Planeta, 2001), “Nos espera la noche” (Alfaguara, 2003, segunda parte de una trilogía iniciada con “Donde siempre es octubre”) y “Soria Moria” (Algaida, 2007), que obtuvo el premio Ateneo de Sevilla 2007. En 2011 publicó la novela histórica "La flor del Norte", a la que siguieron "Llamadme Alejandra" (2017) y "De la melancolía" (2019).  Ha escrito cinco ensayos: “Primer amor” (Temas de Hoy, 2000), sobre los cuentos de hadas y el amor; “Cuando comer es un infierno” (Aguilar, 2002), sobre los trastornos de la alimentación; “Querida Jane, querida Charlotte” (Aguilar, 2004), sobre la vida y obra de Jane Austen y las hermanas Brontë; “Mileuristas, la generación de los mil euros” (Ariel, 2006), sobre la juventud española actual; “Mileuristas II, la generación de las mil emociones" (Ariel, 2008), donde se ocupa de las relaciones personales de dicha generación. Espido es también una prolífica cuentista y ha publicado las siguientes recopilaciones: “El tiempo huye” (2001), que ganó el premio NH relatos; “Cuentos malvados” (Punto de Lectura, 2003); “Juegos míos” (Alfaguara, 2004). También es autora de una novela juvenil: “La última batalla de Vincavec el bandido” (SM 2001), del poemario “Aland la blanca” (Debolsillo, 2001) y de una novela policíaca escrita a cuatro manos con Raúl del Pozo“La diosa del pubis azul”. Colabora con varios medios de prensa nacionales, como Público, ADN, El Mundo, Onda Cero, (Julia en la Onda) y en televisión (Paramount Comedy, Tele Aragón), así como en revistas como Yo Dona, Jano, o Psychologies. También ha trabajado como traductora literaria. Durante la última década ha impartido cursos de creación literaria en las principales universidades españolas y varias internacionales, ha creado su propio método pedagógico y ha abierto en Madrid su propia escuela literaria.

Rexcatadores 2. Las minas de la perdición

Max, Rex and Pia are enjoying some pleasant days after having rescued grandfather Godofredo when, suddenly, a wounded Pterodactylus appears. It can hardly talk, but with its faltering voice transmits a clear message: mayor of Sauria requests the grandparents Agatha and Godofredo’s help. A catastrophe has occurred and it is urgent that they travel there. Thus begins a new and chilling adventure for the entire team.  

International deal news

1. “Dr. Roberto Canessa and author (and fellow Uruguayan) Pablo Vierci's THE DOCTOR FROM THE MOUNTAIN, whose teachings in neonatal heart medicine stem from his "impossible" survival, as a pre-med student and rugby player, in the devastating 1972 Andes plane crash, to Atria, on exclusive submission, by Thomas Colchie at The Colchie Agency (world English and North American Spanish).” Publishers Lunch, September 27, 2013 Rights in Spanish (except for USA), France, Holand, Germany, Portugal and Brazil are available through Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency on behalf The Colchie Agency.   2. "Novelist and career diplomat Edgard Telles Ribeiro's Brazilian PEN Prize winner (2011), HIS OWN MAN, a Machiavellian tale of a charismatic young diplomat in Brazil's Foreign Ministry who renounces his past ideals and becomes an informer after the military coup of 1964, navigating the shadow world of international deception and surveillance in a chilling depiction of political ambition, power, and betrayal, to Judith Gurewich at Other Press (US English rights) by Thomas Colchie of the Colchie Agency on behalf of Henry Rosenbloom at Scribe Publishing in London and Melbourne, with world English (Melbourne, April 2014; London, June 2014; and New York, Sept 2014) and Spanish publication set for next year's 50th anniversary of the 1964 coup in Brazil. World Spanish rights to Pilar Reyes at Alfaguara by the Antonia Kerrigan agency in Barcelona on behalf of the Colchie Agency." Publishers Lunch, September 30, 2013 Rights in France, Holand, Germany, Portugal and Brazil are available through Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency on behalf The Colchie Agency. 

García Hernández, Ýlvaro

Álvaro García Hernández es escritor y profesor de educación secundaria en el área de Lengua Castellana y Literatura. Desde su infancia ha estado ligado al mundo de las letras y es autor de varias novelas dirigidas al público adolescente. Ana Ynada (EDISENA, 1997) fue su primera obra literaria, publicada tras quedar finalista en el I Premio de Novela Emilio Murcia.   García Hernández también es conocido por su blog Diario de un Dios Equivocado, que puso en marcha en 2007 con el objetivo de conectar con los lectores mediante relatos cortos, una modalidad que él mismo reconoce haber aprendido y perfilado en este soporte y que hoy en día está entre los más leídos en español. Tanto internet como las redes sociales han jugado un papel fundamental en su desarrollo como escritor. Así lo demuestra TQMC? Te quiero mucho (Sansy, 2011), una novela por entregas que consiguió un gran éxito gracias a su difusión en la red social Tuenti. Y también sus secuelas, publicadas bajo el sello de la misma editorial: Te echo de menos (Sansy, 2012) y El propósito de Ana (Sansy, 2014). En 2019 publicó Enero y tú desnuda (Alianza). Ha sido galardonado con el Gran Angular 2016 y el Premio Hache 2018 por su novela infantil León Kamikaze.  Fuera del ámbito literario, Álvaro es un hombre sencillo entregado en cuerpo y alma a su familia y un colaborador habitual de FEDER (Federación Española de Enfermedades Raras). © Foto: José Atienza Ha sido galardonado con el Gran Angular 2016 y el Premio Hache 2018 por su novela juvenil León Kamikaze.

El mercenario que coleccionaba obras de arte

The  charismatic mercenary who narrates this story is a real character under the pseudonym Adrián Falcón, although throughout his active years he used others, such as El Parse, Garfio, Strelkinov ... Tender and diabolical, Falcón is now in his sixties and has survived his complex life story with a peculiar sense of humor. One must keep in mind that he was persecuted in the United States and in several Latin American countries for terrorism, was the linchpin of cases as scandalous as the Iran-Contra, and operated with the Colombian cartels to finance counterrevolutionary actions. Considering himself a "freedom fighter", he fought against the command of the Soviet Union, Sandinismo and Fidel Castro. Although at one point he was the FBI's target, he ends his fighting days as a condottiero for the CIA and unbelieving of everything. Disenchantment leads him to fight for his fate and to find an ally in Valentina, whom he meets in Paris and with whom he begins a relationship of interests; in her own way, she is too a survivor mercenary. This work offers a point of reference for those who wonder about the enemies that the Latin American left faced, and is the result of interviews with Falcon and the study of files carried out by Wendy Guerra, daughter of guerrilla idealism who has jumped the fence to take a look at the other side. What the critics have said about the author and her work: "'Everyone leaves is one of the great sentimental educations of Latin American literature." Christopher Domínguez Michael, Letras Libres «Nirvana del Risco is the first black Cuban heroine who is depicted naked, open and blatant before what many hide because of prejudices: bisexuality, racism, politics, fear and close intimacy with the enemy# The tragic fate of this heroin narrates a sensitive and little explored part of Latin American women's literature. With a magical and contemporary language, the author invites us to a unique journey bathed by sublime black tears.» (Sobre Negra) Viceversa «Sunday of Revolution moves between autobiography and metafiction, between the anguish of the writer and the examination of the construction of her work. This novel is even more incisive than all the rest that Wendy Guerra had written earlier." Maikel Ramírez, oigopalabra

In Vino Veritas

Inspector Oteiza faces the most important case of her career. History, Nazi plundering, intrigue and wine, in a fast-paced investigation that will change her forever. The theft of one of the best preserved mosaics in Europe leads Inspector Oteiza, from the Historical Heritage Brigade of the Judicial Police, to move to a small town in Burgos to investigate the case. Everything changes for her when her boss decides to include her in a highly complex investigation: the disappearance of some valuable bottles of wine from vintages prior to World War II. This kicks off a journey that begins in Madrid, continues in San Sebastian during the Film Festival and ends in the Bordeaux vineyards. A fascinating journey in which Oteiza will count on the collaboration of Édouard DeauVille -wine expert and owner of a château-, with whom an undeniable chemistry will emerge. As her investigation progresses she will not only discover a passion for wine, but also the struggle of French winemakers to defend themselves from Nazi plundering during the war, their collaboration with the Resistance during the occupation, and the existence of works of art that hid and still hide great mysteries. A complex maze that will pit her against the dark ghosts of her own past, and in which her routine and solitary life will take a surprising turn: nothing will ever be the same for her. History, wine, art, action and eroticism become the parameters of a novel of great intensity that captivates from the first to the last page.   Reviews: «The author creates a very interesting mix of crime novel with the right touches of eroticism, all wrapped up in the exciting world of wine. Highly recommended. » Amazon «The investigation that one needs to get reacquainted with suspense.» Glamor «This novel has ingredients that make it a captivating work from the first to the last page.» Vinetur Magazine

Interview with Luis Artigueauthor of The Sorbonne Club

Realized for Alianza Editoral, April 2013. The Sorbonne Club is a essentially humoristic novel. In times of crisis are you looking for an escape through humor? We have to be careful with humor that, in some way, it’s always included in whatever we do, whether we are in times of crisis or calm, it’s the medicine that synthesizes our bodies with the will to keep fighting, to live and to add life to life. However there is no doubt that in times of crisis humor is conductive for challenges and for a desire to Excel. This is why I, aware that I owed my birth place a novel, and also that, as was written by Valle-Inclán, in literature the most difficult writing tasks are humor and lyrical poetry. So I gave myself the challenge to write a novel that had a lot of humor, some poetry, a smidgen autobiographical and with a high level of invention. What literary or cultural references were the most important during the concept of the novel? The Sorbonne Club proposes something impossible: find the least common multiple denominator between the schemes of Agatha Christies enigmatic novels, the magnetic humor of John Kennedy Toole and Eduardo Mendoza, the rooted and timeless worlds of Miguel Torga and Antonio Pereira, the realism mixed with fantastic impregnations of Julio Cortázar and José María Merino and the dramatic poetry of Valle-Inclán… Yes, this novel proposes to fail marvelously. The alternate Globetrotters, the psychology, alternative medicine, pedagogy, the theater, a dectivesque investigation and Mozart… How does one relate and combine all of these elements at once? Linda Hutcheon, the prestigious literary theorist and professor at the University of Toronto, in her novel Post-modernist Poetry, defined as one of the primary characteristics of postmodern fiction being parody and pastiche structure (both of which are very useful while describing the world today). In fact we are living in dizzying times where reality seems to be substituted for the present and these type of times aren’t derived from decantation only form accumulation. This is why, in my opinion, the novel of today, like life today, shouldn’t present a theme but rather arguably attend to this diversity and multiplicity that conforms our identity and our day to day…. In this case the mortar that relates and combines these themes is humor, understood as a refined invitation to prudent drunkenness… Or maybe not so prudent. The novel creates a very particular world that you are very familiar with. How much of this was based on real events? I was born and raised with peaceful idealism in the frame that this novel occurs however, I have represented it as I see it reflected in the mirrors of a grotesque alley… It’s like taking the basic nature of someone and distorting it and augmenting it. It’s like dissimulating auto fiction. In The Sorbonne Club many different kinds of characters appear and disappear, do you have any special memories of a concrete character? The teacher Mrs. Enriqueta- a homage of sorts to rural teachers from the Free Institution of Education- she is one of my favorite characters from this book, followed very closely by a studded soul healer and named Arnau. In both, along with a moving interest for the others and for the other, there is an aspect that interests me very much: they have created an austerity that is terribly seductive. The story uses a very elaborate language mixing the cultured with popular, was it complicated to write and mix these different registers? This mixture represented, overall, in the confrontation between victorianism and the English detective Mr. Tatel with the prostates and the rude locals, I believe that they don’t manifestate so much in the narrative in itself as much as in the dialogues. It’s possible that a writer is in essence a listener of voices. The contrasts in the voices of this novel are funny because most of them come from listening or that haven’t lost their freshness. In fact, observing the dedectuve and wandering investigator, Mr. Tatel, night after night and in brothel after brothel, the reader can discover that so called English humor but in reality, the English don’t have a sense of humor: it’s just the way they are and we find it funny. Will you “revisit” the universo of Violincia in the future? I hope so! But whatever happens what I really want is to always be engaged in a creative fight with a certain amount of dementia.

Gonzalo, Paula

Paula Gonzalo es una periodista y escritora gallega cuya trayectoria profesional ha estado marcada por su compromiso con la literatura. Una parte destacada de su carrera profesional ha transcurrido en la Cadena SER, donde ha dirigido y presentado programas siempre vinculados a la cultura y los libros. Actualmente combina su labor como escritora con la locución, el coaching literario y la dirección de PeriodismoCiudadano.com, un observatorio sobre el poder del contenido generado por el usuario para la defensa de los derechos humanos. Paula ha publicado con anterioridad libros de no ficción. En el ámbito de la literatura infantil y juvenil ha publicado Tex Patton y la isla de plástico (Destino 2021). En 2024 publica en coautoría, bajo el seudónimo de Arden Montag, Terradraga (Minotauro). 

González Antón, César

Licenciado en periodismo, ha trabajado en las redacciones de As, La Vanguardia, El País o Canal +, entre otros medios. Con 29 años lo nombran director de los recién nacidos informativos de laSexta, cargo que continúa ocupando en la actualidad.  Bajo su dirección y junto a su equipo ha creado programas emblemáticos de la televisión como Al Rojo Vivo, Más Vale Tarde, laSexta Columna, laSexta Noche, laSexta Clave o Xplica.  La Academia de las Ciencias y las Artes de Televisión le otorgó el premio Talento por su exitosa trayectoria profesional detrás de las cámaras. Burgalés de corazón y madrileño de adopción, es padre de dos criaturas y 83 segundos es su primera novela. 

AKDigital presents the new novel by Matthew Tree: SNUG

Matthew Tree was born in London but has lived in Barcelona since 1984. For literary reasons of his own, in 1990 he stopped writing in English and switched to Catalan, in which language he has published ten books. He has published in English a collection of articles titled “Barcelona, Catalonia. A View from the Inside” and now he presents us with a novel written in English; “SNUG”, published through this agency’s AKDigital project in Amazon for KINDLE and Print on Demand format. "An utterly compelling, uncompromising, visceral and unflinching look at racism, anti-Semitism and the legacy of colonialism. The adult protagonists are drawn with a deft accuracy and the resultant emotional impact of a heat seeking missile. The book bewitches the reader...it is touching, deeply moving and very funny." KS Lewkowicz - composer and lyricist of Goodbye Barcelona and Release The Beat. Amazon.com (Kindle and PoD)

Reyes Calderón, wins the IV Lawyer Award for Novels

The Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency wishes to congratulate the author Reyes Calderón for winning this year’s IV Edition Lawyer Award for Novels. On the 1st of March the panel of judges comprised of writers; Lorenzo Silva, Silvia Grijalba, Maxim Huerta andNativel Preciado as well as José Calabrús Lara (voice of the Governing Board, president of the Benefits Committee and Vice-President of the Legal Funds Foundation) and Carmen Fernández de Blas (Editorial director for Ediciones Martínez Roca, Grupo Planeta); ruled unanimously that the winner of this year’s edition is the novel; “El jurado número 10” (Trial Number 10) by Reyes Calderón “In this book, the trial has been highlighted, it’s fantastic literary factor, it’s easy comprehension, the ability to surprise the reader, in an extraordinarily armed plot and that with a sense of humor provides a vision of the ups and downs of the legal system from the point of view of a small office.” Reyes Calderón has published seven novels among those stands out the saga featuring the judge Lola Machor with: “The Last Patient of Doctor Wilson”, “The Prime Number Crimes”, “The Canaima File” and “The Revenge of the Pare Murderer.” El jurado número 10 (Trail Number 10) will be published by the Editorial Planeta (Martínez Roca) the 9th of April. More information (in Spanish): Más noticias: Diario ABC Europa Press Diario de Navarra Planeta de Libros - Noticias

Voraces

  A novel about poets, romantics and exiles who fought for freedom La Coruña, 1854. The arrival of a strange ship triggers a cholera epidemic in the city. Juana de Vega, widow of General Espoz y Mina, hero of the War of Independence and passionate liberal, is one of the few people who can face the disease's virulence and tackle devastation and death. Juana has lived through this situation before and knows that with cholera there is another epidemic, something even darker and more dangerous that has arrived on the ship and that only she knows. London, 1831. The Spanish liberals survive as best they can there, beset by royalist spies. In the wake of his beloved, Teresa Mancha, and fleeing the repression of King Felon, José de Espronceda meets Generals Espoz y Mina and José María Torrijos, obsessed with Spain's freedom and willing to risk their lives to put an end to absolutism. Both have the support and collaboration of their wives, Juana de Vega and Carlota Álvarez de Torrijos. Both plots come together in an ending in which the yearning for freedom and the thirst for blood will compete to win a deadly battle to in which romanticism will be the true protagonist.

Gómez Rufo, Antonio

Antonio Gómez Rufo (España, 1954) experimentó su vocación literaria desde sus primeros años de adolescencia y de su frecuencia universitaria data su primer libro, un ensayo titulado "Aproximación al concepto de Revolución Cultural" que no fue publicado hasta muchos años después bajo el título de "El hombre asustado". Gómez Rufo estudió Derecho en la Universidad Complutense y durante sus estudios empezó a colaborar en distintos medios con artículos periodísticos. En 1978 inició su trayectoria laboral como abogado y asesor de la Dirección General de Cine del Ministerio de Cultura. Poco a poco fue consolidando su actividad literaria y publico dos libros: una biografía de Karl Marx y el ensayo “Ecología y Constitución”. En 1979 se incorporó a la Filmoteca Española, fundó una plataforma de debates, el Club Cultura y Sociedad, y participó en la fundación de diversas asociaciones y ONG,s. En 1983 fue reclamado para dirigir el Aula de Cultura del Ayuntamiento de Madrid y el Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid. En este mismo año publicó los libros de relatos “Ópera 5” y “El último verano de la familia Manela”, y la novela “El último goliardo”, que resultó finalista del Premio La Sonrisa Vertical (Editorial Tusquets). Asimismo continuó su actividad periodística colaborando en El País, al que se había incorporado años atrás. De 1987 hasta 1992 publicó varios libros: “Así es Madrid”; las novelas “Natalia”, “El Club de los Osos Traviesos” y “Aguas tranquilas, aguas profundas” y “El carnaval perpetuo”; los ensayos “Madrid, bajos fondos” y “Juegos eróticos de salón” y el cuento infantil “El cazador de nubes”. De 1991 hasta 1994 trabajó en su novela “La leyenda del falso traidor” y colaboró en diversos medios de comunicación. Durante los últimos siete años había dictado conferencias, participado en coloquios y mesas redondas e intervenido en seminarios relacionados con la literatura. De aquellos años quedan sus colaboraciones, entre otros medios, en las revistas Leer, La Gaceta del Libro, la sección de Libros de la Guía del Ocio y la Revista del Sur, que se publicaba en Mälmoe, Suecia. La novela “La leyenda del falso traidor" ha seguido reeditándose desde 1994 hasta la actualidad y se ha convertido en un referente sobre la Roma de Julio Cesar. En 2005 ganó el premio de novela Fernando Lara, con "El secreto del rey cautivo". Sus siguientes obras son: “La noche del tamarindo” (Planeta, 2008), “La abadía de los crímenes” (Planeta, 2011), "La más bella historia de amor de Paula Cortázar" (Planeta, 2012), "La camarera de Bach" (Planeta, 2014) y "Madrid, la novela" (Ediciones B, 2016).    Gómez Rufo forma parte del Comité Editorial de la revista GALERNA (Montclair State University, New Jersey, EEUU). Es Caballero de la Orden Literaria Francisco de Quevedo y vicepresidente de la Asociación Colegial de Escritores de España (ACE). Fue presidente del Círculo Literario de Madrid y miembro del patronato de la Fundación IPADE (Instituto para el Desarrollo). En la actualidad es miembro de la Sección española de la Alianza Mundial Contra la Pobreza (fundador y coordinador de la plataforma Escritores Por la Paz) y miembro de la Asociación Española de Escritores Policíacos.

The novel “Las paredes hablan” (The Walls Talk) by Carmen Boulosa adapted to film

Monday the 3rd of December the film The Walls Talk, based on the novel homonym by the Mexican author Carmen Boullosa, will primer in theaters in Mexico City. The full-length film, directed by Antonio Zavala Kluger, will soon be accompanied by a new edition of the novel from the publishing house Ediciones Siruela (1st edition, 2010) Sinopsis: This fascinating novel combines historical events that have marked the destiny of this nation with its small miseries and the tragic destinies of its people. It initiates with the construction of the beautiful “Casa Espíritu” Spirit House in the prime of Mexico’s Independence (1810), and it’s bricks speak to us of its first habitants: A revolutionary priest, his artist friends and intellectuals and of his valiant daughter. One hundred years later, an identical construction is erected wall against wall; “Casa Santo” Saint’s House. Now living in the two houses, inevitably confronting each other, are General Porfirio Díaz and his neighbors who are more inclined to the new tendencies that have brought the Revolution of 1910. Finally arriving to current times, the twin houses will be inhabited by families representatives of the social and ideological polarities of this country; the disgustingly recently rich, whose money comes from corruption and shady businesses, and a family from the ancient lineage that is unable to adapt to the current changes…

Enero y tú desnuda

  January's life seemed to run smoothly along a path marked in advance: studies, work, wedding, mortgage ... until everything went haywire and he ended up locked up in a psychiatric hospital for five years. Ever since, the medication produces memory lapses, and to counteract it he combines the tranquilizers with speed. He survives following an eccentric routine which purpose he no longer recalls: on Mondays he travels by train to the town of his childhood, where no one lives anymore, on Tuesdays he visits an old man in an old folks home, on Wednesdays he shoots rats with a catapult in the pool at his ex's chalet, on Thursdays he goes to karate classes, on Fridays he drives a tractor through the city at rush hour, on Saturdays he participates in a radio program and on Sundays he forces himself to be a plant and does nothing. But when a squatter moves into the apartment opposite his and he becomes obsessed with her, his precarious balance falls apart.  

Gurpegui Palacios, José Antonio

José Antonio Gurpegui (San Adrián, Navarra. 1958). Catedrático de Estudios Norteamericanos y profesor de Literatura Norteamericana en la Universidad de Alcalá. Profesor Visitante en el Departamento de Literatura Comparada de Harvard University (1994-96). Colaborador de El Cultural desde 1988 en la sección de Crítica Literaria. Autor de la novela Dejar de recordar no puedo (Huerga y Fierro, 2017) y, entre otros, de los volúmenes académicos: John Steinbeck: escribir en el Edén (Palas Atenea, 2006) y Hemingway and Existentialism (PUV, 2013). En 1996 editó para Cátedra Cuentos de la Alhambra de Washington Irving. En la colección Austral de Espasa Calpe ha editado Hojas de hierba de Walt Whitman (1999); La narrativa de Arthur Gordon Pym de Edgar A. Poe (2001); y Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn de Mark Twain (2006).  En 2021 publicó la novela Ninguna mujer llorará por mí (Ediciones B).

Palma again achieves the high standard set by “The Map of Time”

Yesterday, September 4, Atria/Simon&Schuster launched the new novel by the great author Félix J. Palma: “The Map of the Sky” The New York Times bestselling author of The Map of Time returns with a mesmerizing novel casting H.G. Wells in a leading role, as the extraterrestrial invasion featured in The War of the Worlds is turned into a bizarre reality. A love story serves as backdrop for The Map of the Sky when New York socialite Emma Harlow agrees to marry millionaire Montgomery Gilmore, but only if he accepts her audacious challenge: to reproduce the extraterrestrial invasion featured in Wells’s War of the Worlds. What follows are three brilliantly interconnected plots to create a breathtaking tale of time travel and mystery, replete with cameos by a young Edgar Allan Poe, and Captain Shackleton and Charles Winslow from The Map of Time. Some reviews: “"The Map of the Sky" keeps the reader guessing, checking and thinking, all the while providing many sidelights on the literary history of sci-fi itself.” The Wall Street Journal, September 1st, 2012. “The unreal becomes real, fantasy becomes history, and the reader is thoroughly entertained by an unending parade of bafflements and surprises. This book is a complete delight.” --K.W Jeter author of Infernal Devices TULSA WORLD DARK FAERIE TALES GENRE GO ROUND REVIEWS TOR.COM CROSSROADSREVIEWS.COM MISFIT SALON Amazon

Infamia

  The best news for lovers of literary psychological thriller: The irruption of the novelist Ledicia Costas in the panorama of Spanish fiction. Emma Cruz is a lawyer and professor of criminal law. She moves to the small Galician town of Merlo, to teach at the university, ignorant of the fact that the place is marked by misfortune. Her arrival coincides with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the disappearance of the Giraud sisters, who at the time seemed to have vanished into thin air. Thus, Emma, will discover that the inhabitants of Merlo keep unspeakable secrets. What happened to the Giraud sisters? Are they dead? And if so, who is to blame? And why did they never find their bodies? Infamy is a psychological thriller where nothing is what it seems. A fast-pace novel that seizes the reader till the limits of the human condition. A story of love, hate and madness.

Llorente, David

David Llorente nació en Madrid en 1973. En esta ciudad publica las novelas Kira, premio Francisco Umbral de novela corta en 1998, y El bufón, premio de narrativa Ramón J. Sender 2000. En el año 2002 se trasladó a Praga (República Checa), donde escribe las novelas Ofrezco morir en Praga y De la mano del hermano muerto, esta última también traducida al checo. En esta ciudad crea el grupo de teatro Séptimo miau, cuyas obras escribe y dirige él mismo. Ha representado por casi todos los países de Europa Central y del Este y ha obtenido diversos premios en varios festivales internacionales. Algunas de sus obras han salido publicadas en el libro Los árboles dormidos. Sus últimos libros son Te quiero porque me das de comer (Alrevés 2014), Madrid: Frontera (Alrevés 2016), y Kira (nueva edición de Alrevés, 2017).

Loureiro, Manel

Manel Loureiro es licenciado en derecho por la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. Mientras estudiaba en esta ciudad compatibilizó sus estudios con algunos trabajos en televisión: primero como presentador de diversos programas y más tarde como guionista, momento en el que descubrió su faceta como escritor. Su primera novela, Apocalipsis Z, un éxito casi inmediato y fenómeno de culto en Internet, ha sido leída por cientos de miles de personas en todo el mundo. Apocalipsis Z. Los días oscuros que continúa con los mismos protagonistas y su lucha por la supervivencia en un mundo dominado por los No Muertos, ha consagrado a Manel Loureiro como el primer autor de novela de terror zombi ambientada en España. La ira de los justos es el cierre de la trilogía. En 2017 publicó Veinte y en 2020 La puerta, su novela más reciente. Sus libros han sido traducidos a más de diez idiomas y publicados en cerca de una veintena de países. Actualmente vive y trabaja en Pontevedra, donde ejerce como abogado y colabora con los periódicos Diario de Pontevedra, ABC y en Cadena SER. 

Magro, Baltasar

Baltasar Magro Santana es Licenciado en Historia del Arte por la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid y Diplomado en Periodismo. Hace más de treinta años que trabaja en la televisión como guionista de programas culturales, documentales y de entretenimiento, y como director de diferentes espacios informativos, entre los que destaca su vinculación al mítico “Informe Semanal” de Televisión Española. En 1984 creó el programa "Teleobjetivo", espacio de Televisión Española introductor del periodismo de investigación en el medio audiovisual. En este programa elaboró varios reportajes-documentales sobre acontecimientos de la transición y descubrió, entre otros asuntos de gran importancia, el tráfico de armas químicas españolas a Irak o las redes de financiación de ETA. Cuando investigaba a los GAL y el envenenamiento de los productos de la agricultura, fue destituido en sus funciones y el programa dejó de emitirse. Su actividad como escritor comienza con El círculo de Juanelo (2001). Esta novela de intriga histórica obtuvo un gran éxito, con diversas ediciones, y está considerada como una obra fundamental para el conocimiento de los secretos que ocultaba la ciudad de Toledo. Le siguieron: La sangrienta luna (2002), Carrosanto: Tras la pista de un científico nazi en la España de los sesenta (2002) y Los nueve desconocidos (2004). Con motivo del trigésimo aniversario de "Informe Semanal" se encargó de la edición del libro conmemorativo Informe Semanal: 30 años de historia (2003).

La bruma verde

  Premio de Novela Fernando Lara 2020   A love story  and the wish to improve the world. A grand adventure in the heart for Africa. Bineka, born in the depths of one of the last “green lungs” on the planet, is captured by Maxime and his men, who have taken over her village. But mother nature protects her and she is adopted by a clan of chimpanzees and lives with them for several months. In the meantime, Lola Freixido, a successful executive, travels to the Congo to rescue her best friend, Beatriz Arriondas, a corporate in climate control who has been kidnapped. Bineka and Lola face a complex corrupt plot and go through hardships together with  Colin Blackhill, a British executive who crosses their path and who will help the young woman fight to save her environment. A fast pacing thriller. An ecological plea, a cry for conservationism and a moving love story in the legendary African jungle.

Missana, Sergio

Sergio Missana estudió periodismo en la Universidad de Chile y obtuvo un doctorado en literatura española y latinoamericana en la Universidad de Stanford. Es autor de las novelas El invasor (1997), Movimiento falso (2000, Finalista del Premio Rómulo Gallegos 2001), La calma (2005) y El día de los muertos (2007), y del ensayo La máquina de pensar de Borges (2003). Actualmente es profesor de literatura en el Programa en América Latina de la Universidad de Stanford, en Santiago, Chile. Es colaborador habitual de diversas revistas y suplementos culturales de Chile, Estados Unidos y México.

Demasiado Odio

  In her wanderings across four continents, Beatriz will experience the vertigo of violence in some of its grimmest forms, and will surrender to a world that rewards the most dastardly and selfish acts and punishes innocence and solidarity. Sara Sefchovich has published a moving novel about the search for meaning in the midst of the grisliest circumstances. If in "Too Much Love", she took us to the bright side of our country; in "Too Much Hate" she displays its darkest side. It story narrates the radical transformation of the world from pain and shock, with a deep longing to believe in humanity and in love, seconds before plummeting into hatred. GUILLERMO ARRIAGA An intelligent and funny novel, which makes use of the layers of mockery in a spectacular fashion, to take aim at society’s social-cultural shortcomings without falling into didacticism. Its pages are nimble, full of black humor and unexpected adventures. JULIÁN HERBERT

Montes, Barbara

Licenciada en Psicología y diplomada enturismo. Trabajó como responsable de marketing y comunicación para diferentes destinos turísticos y compañías aéreas hasta que decidió dar el salto a la psicología, especializándose en niños y adolescentes.Tiene cuatro novelas infantiles publicadas (serie Amanda Black, Rexcatadores, B de Block), Julia está bien es suprimera novela dirigida a un público adulto. En la actualidad vive en Madrid. Foto: © José Jeosm

Pepa Guindilla

  Pepa Guindilla has two parents, a mother, two houses and an unbearable neighbor. She divides her life between her two homes, and life is she has no complaints. Her only problem is Hateful Snitch, the downstairs neighbor, her irreconcilable arch enemy. Pepa does not intend to revolutionize the peaceful life of those around her. She only follows her personal logic step by step, but each step leads to some funny mischief, whose consequences she will have to deal with. With an optimism that brings about laughter, Pepa Guindilla’s adventures follow the tradition of the stories of Little Nicolás or Christine Nöstlinger. A succession of hilarious adventures that also invite reflection thanks to a mixture of tenderness, surprise and chutzpah.

PEN FRIENDS 1. CARTAMIGOS DE LEYENDA

  Anna is a gamer who has just moved with her family to another city and is punished without being allowed to play. Ricardo is a blacksmith apprentice who feels fortunate because he helps in that the ultimate sword, that which will kill the dragon that is besieging his village, be in good condition.They both join the Pen Friends program and begin to correspond. Anna soon discovers that Ricardo’s universe is familiar to her. All she must do is look at her computer`s screen... Join the Pen Friends program, grab a pencil and a piece of paper and get ready for the fun to begin.

Montfort, Vanessa

Vanessa Montfort, es novelista y dramaturga, licenciada en Ciencias de la Información y está considerada una de las voces destacadas e internacionales de la reciente literatura española. Como novelista ha publicado El ingrediente secreto (XI Premio Ateneo Joven de Sevilla, 2006); Mitología de Nueva York (XI Premio Ateneo de Sevilla, 2010); La leyenda de la isla sin voz (Premio Internacional Ciudad de Zaragoza a la mejor novela histórica. Plaza y Janés, 2014), y Mujeres que compran flores (Plaza y Janés, 2016), con 29 ediciones en España, ha triunfado también en Italia y Latinoamérica y cuyos derechos han sido vendidos a más de 15 países, entre ellos Francia, Portugal, Alemania, Noruega, Corea o Bulgaria, entre otros; El sueño de la crisálida (Plaza y Janés, 2019) y La mujer sin nombre (Plaza y Janés), en la que recupera a la escritora María Lejárraga. Esta novela como en Firmado Lejárraga, la obra de teatro que la precede, han obtenido una gran repercusión en la crítica y ha culminado en su participación en el documental sobre la autora María Lejárraga: a las mujeres de España de TVE, dirigido por Laura Hojman. Dentro de su variada obra teatral que va desde el teatro documento, al radiofónico o musical,destacan Flashback, La cortesía de los ciegos y Tierra de tiza, escritas para el Royal Court Theatre de Londres; la adaptación libre de La Regenta (Teatros del Canal,2012); El galgo (Teatro Anfitrione de Roma y con múltiples traducciones) Sirena negra, llevada al cine por Elio Quiroga (Festival de Sitges, 2015); El hogar del monstruo (CDN, 2016), o Firmado Lejárraga (CDN,2019, finalista a los Premios Max2020 a la Mejor Autoría Teatral). En 2022 estrena tres montajes: El síndrome delcopiloto (Festival de Málaga y Teatros del Canal, Madrid), Saúl, mediometraje de teatro radiofónico para la BBC, dentro de la serie One five seven years y La Toffana (Festival Internacional de Teatro Clásico de Almagro, 2022/ Teatro La Abadía Madrid, 2022). Como productora funda en 2016 BEMYBABYFILMS junto al director Miguel Ángel Lamata con quien produce el largometraje Nuestros Amantes (2016) y el documental Heroes, Silencio y Rock & Roll (Estrenado en Netflix, nominado a los Premios Goya como Mejor Documental). La teatralidad de los diálogos, el lirismo, la humanización de las ciudades y sus conflictos, espejo de la actualidad con un pie en lo extraordinario, convierten sus novelas en una montaña rusa emocional protagonizada por personajes inolvidables.

Palova, Mariana

Mariana Palova (Mariana Paola Urzúa Pulido) es una escritora y artista digital nacida en Jalisco, México, en 1990. Su trabajo visual, una mezcla personal de ocultismo y mitología, ha sido galardonado a nivel nacional y presentado en más de cincuenta exposiciones artísticas alrededor del mundo. Su primera novela (La Nación de las Bestias: El señor del Sabbath) fue primero autopublicada en español logrando posicionarse como un éxito de ventas gracias a su increíble originalidad. Posteriormente, en 2018, ésta fue adquirida por Editorial Océano México para su reedición en español y por la editorial Mage’s Lantern en Los Ángeles (EEUU) para su traducción y publicación en inglés. Dicha novela fue ganadora del premio a Mejor Libro de Fantasía del Año otorgado por la prestigiosa revista Foreword Magazine en los Estados Unidos, enmarcando a Mariana Palova como una de las escritoras de literatura juvenil actual más interesantes de Latinoamérica. Instagram: @marianapalova

Madres e hijas

  An anthology of extraordinary stories that reflect on motherhood and its ways. Mothers and daughters: a universal reality, a crucial relationship, and yet a theme almost absent from the history of literature. It is only in the twentieth-century when the mother-daughter duo begins to gain prominence: the first works that do so, such as Sido, by Colette, or A Very Easy Death, by Simone de Beauvoir, establish a genre—the evocation of the dead mother—which will then multiply till it becomes a commonplace in writing and inspire many a writer, who in turn begin to write about their parents. The mother or daughter figure, or that of motherhood itself, arouses in each of the stories in this anthology (those by Chacel, Laforet, Martín Gaite and Ana María Matute, previously published; the rest, written expressly for this book ) very different visions: declarations of love, fights to the death, fantasies between the angelic and the terrifying, radical criticism of the values ​​of the society in which we live, differentiations between mothers and moms or analysis of ambiguous feelings around a mother whose death splits in two the life of her daughter. Stories by Rosa Chacel, Carmen Laforet, Carmen Martín Gaite, Ana María Matute, Josefina R. Aldecoa, Esther Tusquets, Cristina Peri Rossi, Ana María Moix, Soledad Puértolas, Clara Sánchez, Paloma Díaz-Mas, Mercedes Soriano. Almudena Grandes and Luisa Castro. ------------------------------- "Beautiful collective reflection on that complex and strange relationship between mothers and daughters. A comforting book, for we all have a void there of questions: what was not said on time, what was not shared." (Lourdes Ortiz, El Mundo.) “Quality is assured here. The variety of voices and themes is extraordinary.” (Juan A. Masoliver Ródenas, La Vanguardia.)  

La liebre mecánica

  Lazarillo Prize 2021 Nana is not well. Her boyfriend, Cuervo, hasn’t been the same for a while. He doesn’t speak to her, he’s nowhere to be seen outside of school, and seems to be getting further and further away from her. In the group of friends, nobody understands what is wrong with him. When Kike has a motorcycle accident, which he badly needs for his job and to bring a little money home, Cuervo decides to take charge of the situation and take those small bets that until now were only a matter of having a little fun, to the next level. One needs to do whatever it takes to help one’s buddy, right? But all that glitters is not gold and he will be trapped in a web of lies and trickery from which he will be unable to get out of on his own, destroying his relationship, his friends and his family along the way.  

Queralt, María Pilar

María Pilar Queralt del Hierro, licenciada en Historia Moderna y Contemporánea por la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, ha sido profesora universitaria y editora. Desde el año 2000 se dedica exclusivamente a la divulgación histórica mediante colaboraciones en distintos medios de comunicación a fin de acercar la historia hasta el gran público y para ello aborda indistintamente el ensayo biográfico y la novela histórica. Lo hace en ambos casos con un único eje discursivo: el estudio de la figura femenina. Entre sus obras destaca la trilogía de novela histórica Inés de Castro, Leonor y La rosa de Coimbra, en torno tres figuras capitales de la historia de Portugal. La primera, ha merecido ser objeto de estudio en diversas universidades portuguesas y es de lectura obligatoria en la Escuela Superior del Profesorado de la Universidad de Lisboa. Su última novela es Las damas del rey (2011) calificado por la crítica como “un ameno e instructivo viaje por la Europa del Renacimiento escrito con gran preciosismo literario y cuidado lenguaje sobre una documentación bien fundamentada “ En 2012, su ensayo biográfico “Las mujeres de Felipe II. Deber y pasión en la casa del rey” ha sido galardonado con el IX Premio Algaba de Biografía e Investigaciones Históricas.  

Por desobedecer a sus padres

  Darío Galicia was a poet close to the Infrarealists with an extravagant personality and a wit that quite a few compared to that of Oscar Wilde. According to a rumor provoked in part by a poem by Roberto Bolaño, Darío Galicia San Epifanio was subjected by his parents to a lobotomy to "cure" him of homosexuality and, while at it, of his poetry. Dragged by that myth, and because Darío was an admirer of Lewis Carroll and went as far as signing Darío G. Alicia, Ana Laurel follows his trail like a March hare, jumping on the other side of the mirror in both a narrative and labyrinthine game. She chases him through the Mexican literary world of the past decades, in the recollections of those who knew him, in the poetry of Darío himself, in The Wild Detectives, in photographs, medical records and newspaper articles that bear witness to his disastrous trail before disappearing—and reappearing—as in an act of illusionism in the top hat of a sinister magician.

Quílez, Carlos

Carlos Quílez Lázaro, licenciado en Periodismo por la Universidad de Barcelona, máster en Periodismo Judicial por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, es director de Análisis de la oficina Antifraude y Contra la Corrupción de Catalunya, y autor de las siguientes novelas y relatos de no ficción: Atracadores, Asalto a la Virreina (junto a Andreu Martín), Psicópata, Piel de policía (también junto a Andreu Martín), Mala vida (ganador del premio Rodolfo Walsh de la Semana Negra de Gijón, 2009), La soledad de Patricia (premio Crims de Tinta, 2009), y Cerdos y Gallinas (Editorial Alrevés, 2012). 

Amanda Black 7 - El bastón del cuervo

I wish everything had happened differently. I don't know if I was overcome with pride or a bad mood because of my argument with Eric and Esme. What I do know is that everything got messed up. Big time! Director Lennon, the leader of a mysterious secret organization, showed up a few days ago with a tantalizing mission for me: to retrieve a Viking staff that allows me to see the future from the hands of Molrovia, a country ruled by a gang of criminals. This was the first time I was going to work for someone other than ourselves. And without the help of my best friend. I was hoping I was not making the biggest mistake of my life… Will Amanda be able to retrieve the magical Viking staff without Eric by her side?

Reimóndez, María

  María Reimóndez es una de las autoras y traductoras más destacadas y prolíficas de Galicia. Aunque su primer libro fue un poemario (Moda galega, Ed. Positivas 2002) y haya publicado cinco más desde entonces (uno de ellos en alemán), es más conocida por sus obras en prosa para adultos y niños y por sus libros de no ficción.  Ha sido galardonada con algunos de los premios más prestigiosos de Galicia, como el San Clemente por O club da calceta (Xerais 2006), el Premio Xerais de Novela por Dende o conflito (Xerais 2014), el Premio Autora del Año en 2014, el Frei Martín Sarmiento por Lía e as zapatillas de deporte (Xerais 2008) y el Agustín Fernández Paz por Fóra do Normal (Xerais 2018). Reimóndez ha dado conferencias y clases en diferentes universidades y países, incluyendo estancias en Villa Waldberta en Múnich, en la Hofstra and Colgate University de Nueva York, la Universidad de Varsovia o la Universidad de Madrás en Tamil Nadu, por mencionar algunas.  Ha sido traducida a varios idiomas y su obra ha sido objeto de estudio de numerosos trabajos académicos. Es conocida por su estilo único, radical y creativo; su aproximación feminista y descolonizadora a la literatura y su firme compromiso social.  Ahora mismo, está trabajando en el ambicioso proyecto O ciclo dos elementos, una serie de novelas (7 en total, de las cuales 5 ya han sido publicadas) que pueden ser leídas individualmente pero, si se leen todas juntas, revelan un universo de mujeres que se apoyan las unas a las otras para superar diferentes obstáculos. Al mismo tiempo, continúa escribiendo literatura infantil, no ficción, poesía y teatro.

Amanda Black 7 - El bastón del cuervo

I wish everything had happened differently. I don't know if I was overcome with pride or a bad mood because of my argument with Eric and Esme. What I do know is that everything got messed up. Big time! Director Lennon, the leader of a mysterious secret organization, showed up a few days ago with a tantalizing mission for me: to retrieve a Viking staff that allows me to see the future from the hands of Molrovia, a country ruled by a gang of criminals. This was the first time I was going to work for someone other than ourselves. And without the help of my best friend. I was hoping I was not making the biggest mistake of my life… Will Amanda be able to retrieve the magical Viking staff without Eric by her side?

Reverter, Emma

Licenciada en Derecho y Periodismo, Emma Reverter vive en Nueva York, donde trabaja como asesora de comunicación del Instituto Cervantes de Nueva York y como periodista para diversas publicaciones, entre las que destacan La Vanguardia y National Geographic. Reverter se ha especializado en cuestiones vinculadas a derechos humanos. Desde 2001 escribe sobre derechos humanos para el diario catalán AVUI y en 2004 publicó el libro Guantánamo, prisioneros en el limbo de la legalidad internacional (Editorial Península), una reflexión de su visita a la base naval de Guantánamo, que visitó invitada por el Pentágono. Desde la publicación de Guantánamo ha colaborado activamente con el Centro de Derechos Constitucionales de Nueva York (CCR en sus siglas en inglés) –una de las fuentes del libro- y con The Innocence Project; una organización que ha conseguido liberar a más de 200 condenados a muerte mediante pruebas de ADN que han demostrado su inocencia, y para la que realiza traducciones para sus clientes hispanos. En 2005 participó junto con Paul Auster, Sulman Rushdie y otros diez autores miembros del PEN Club en una lectura en el auditorio del Cooper Union de Nueva York a favor de los derechos humanos y del cierre de las cárceles americanas de Guantánamo e Irak.

Richardson, Vincas

  Vincas Richardson (seudónimo) es un escritor de raíces venezolanas y lituanas. Licenciado en Filología Hispánica por la Universidad de Salamanca, continuó sus estudios realizando el Máster en Edición del BSM (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Desde 2014 ha trabajado en el sector editorial, primero como jefe de prensa y posteriormente como editor. Wody (Minotauro, 2022) es su primera novela.

Te encontraré en el silencio

Amy is like a lost puzzle piece, with smooth, rounded contours, who has never fit into the square mold her parents forced her into. Alan is full of sharp, rough edges, and can only see life in black and white. She leaves New York in search of the light and color she longs for. He leaves London to carry out a promise before finally surrendering to the darkness. When they meet in a bay of infinite beaches south of San Francisco and embark on an unexpected journey down the California coast, they discover that they are two very different pieces that complement each other, no matter how much they struggle against it. Sometimes, a camera is all one needs to capture the truth that silence insists on hiding.

Ríos San Martín, Manuel

Manuel Ríos San Martín (1965) es licenciado en Ciencias de la Información y ha trabajado en importantes productoras de televisión como Globomedia, BocaBoca y Diagonal, en las que ha ejercido de productor ejecutivo, director o guionista. Ha participado, entre otras, en Colegio Mayor, Médico de familia, Menudo es mi padre, Más que amigos, Compañeros, Mis adorables vecinos, Soy el Solitario, Raphael, Rescatando a Sara, Historias robadas y Sin identidad. Ha dirigido un largometraje, No te fallaré, y ha colaborado en la escritura de los guiones de Amigos... y Maradona, la mano de Dios. Ha coordinado y coescrito el libro El guion para series de televisión, publicado por el Instituto de RTVE. También es autor de las novelas Círculos y La huella del mal, que ha sido traducida al italiano y está siendo adaptada a la televisión como una serie de ocho capítulos por el mismo Ríos San Martín junto a Victoria Dal Vera y la productora LAZONA. https://www.instagram.com/mriossanmartin/?hl=it 

El verano en que llegaron los lobos

Winner Premio Gran Angular It's hard to fit in in a bird town when you're a deer. The summer I saw lights on the island, I expected lots of things. Some big and some small. I was hoping my father would agree that I leave the village; I was hoping Samuel would come down to the beach; I was hoping Alicia and Clara would see me as I was, and not as they wanted me to be; I was hoping I would fit in somehow, if only to say goodbye....

Rodriguez, Juan Jose

Nace en Mazatlán, Sinaloa, en 1970. Cursó la carrera de Ciencias de la Comunicación en la Escuela de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa. Actualmente se desempeña como Promotor Cultural en la Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa y forma parte del consejo de redacción de varias revistas mexicanas, además de ejercer el periodismo independiente. Autor de el libro de relatos Con sabor a limonero (1988), y las novelas El náufrago del mar amarillo (1991), Asesinato en una lavandería china (1996), El gran invento del siglo XX (1997) y Mi nombre es Casablanca (2003). Ha obtenido el Premio Nacional de Poesía Ignacio Manuel Altamirano (1989), el Premio Estatal de Crónica (1997) y el Premio Nacional de Cuento Gilberto Owen (2002).

Ciudad de cenizas

In the Barcelona of the Tragic Week of 1909, a young night watchman and an experienced inspector must solve a crime in which the body and the city are covered in ashes. In Barcelona in the year 1909, Enrique Hernández, a young night watchman, encounters a strange burning smell while patrolling the streets of the La Seca neighborhood. Upon entering the residence, the police discover a mountain of ashes on a pair of women's shoes in front of an armchair. The rest of the furniture is intact and both the door and the windows were closed from the inside. How could such a tragedy occur? Eloy Pavía, a reputed inspector of the new surveillance force and a former commissioner of the Scotland Yard, takes charge of the case. Pavía's keen insight and unconventional style will make an excellent match with the enormous passion and youth of Hernández, who, from the first moment, will be involved in the investigation. Together, they embark on a tireless search for clues, entering into the shadows of a working-class city agitated by the Tragic Week. City of Ashes is a fascinating detective novel that will immerse you in the Barcelona of the beginning of the 20th century, a beautiful and wild city that becomes another proganist of the story. Kike Corella, with his unforgettable characters and ability to recreate the atmosphere of the time, transports us to a world full of intrigue and surprise that will captivate readers. 

Amanda Black - Escape Book

The Amanda Black escape book has arrive! Solve the riddles and mysteries to escape the Black Mansion.   Irma Dragon want to steal the Gargantilla Dark, a jew that is able to manipulate people's will. If it falls into her hands, we're doomed! She has sent her men to the Black Mansion and they won't stop until they find it. I have to take the relic and escape without being seen, but I can't use doors or windows because they would see me. Luckily, this house has its own mechanisms. In order to open every secret door and go through every passage, we need a numeric key. However, we only have some clues that Aunt Paula has prepared to keep the secrets of the mansion safe and preserve the artifacts inside that may be dangerous to humanity. I'm going to need your help to unravel the secret of the Black Mansion. Will you join this interactive adventure?  Don't miss the Amanda Black escape book! An interactive book that will put to the test your abilities to escape danger. Will you be able to solve the riddles and mysteries to help Amanda protect the relics of the Black Mansion? Find out in The Secrects of the Black Mansion!

Rodríguez, María Paz

María Paz Rodríguez was born in Santiago, Chile. She studied literature and completed a Master’s in Latin American Literature at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. In 2011, she debuted with her first novel, El Gran Hotel (Cuarto Propio), which received very good critical reception, also winning the Literary Creation Grant from the Book Council. Then, in 2015, she published Mala Madre (Alfaguara), a novel that led her to participate in the “Latinoamérica Viva” panel at the FIL Guadalajara 2015 and the Lima Book Fair as a guest of honor. Furthermore, Mala Madre is now in its third edition. In 2018, she published her first book of short stories, Niñas ricas (Alfaguara), where, like in her other books, she proposes a pop aesthetic intersected with feminism and the problematic place of women in contemporary Chile. This book reached a more massive audience and had two editions in less than three months. ARCA is her fourth novel and will be published by Tusquets in 2024 in Chile.

Amanda Black - Escape Book

The Amanda Black escape book has arrive! Solve the riddles and mysteries to escape the Black Mansion.   Irma Dragon want to steal the Gargantilla Dark, a jew that is able to manipulate people's will. If it falls into her hands, we're doomed! She has sent her men to the Black Mansion and they won't stop until they find it. I have to take the relic and escape without being seen, but I can't use doors or windows because they would see me. Luckily, this house has its own mechanisms. In order to open every secret door and go through every passage, we need a numeric key. However, we only have some clues that Aunt Paula has prepared to keep the secrets of the mansion safe and preserve the artifacts inside that may be dangerous to humanity. I'm going to need your help to unravel the secret of the Black Mansion. Will you join this interactive adventure?  Don't miss the Amanda Black escape book! An interactive book that will put to the test your abilities to escape danger. Will you be able to solve the riddles and mysteries to help Amanda protect the relics of the Black Mansion? Find out in The Secrects of the Black Mansion!

Ródenas, Gabri

Gabri Ródenas es escritor, doctor en Filosofía y docente en la Facultad de Comunicación Audiovisual de la Universidad de Murcia. Colaborador habitual en Zenda y otros medios académicos y culturales.   Entre sus trabajos destacan La abuela que cruzó el mundo en una bicicleta (Urano, 2018), traducido a una decena de idiomas y convertido en superventas internacional y El artificiero y la mariposa (Diana, grupo Planeta, 2022).   El fabuloso destino de Makatae-Witko y Diego Murrieta (Edebé, 2024) fue su debut en el universo de la literatura infantil y juvenil.   Su estilo sencillo y poético supone un clara apuesta por el realismo mágico, la sensibilidad, el optimismo y el sentido del humor, con pequeñas dosis de filosofía accesible a todos los públicos.

Lambskin

Catarina belongs to a line of witches. She inherited the trade from her grandmother and delves into the secrets of medicinal plants. She is raised in a medical practice, where patients with all kinds of ailments come to seek her and her grandmother’s help. In the last years of the Spanish Inquisition (19th century), in the midst of hunger and misery, the two of them are the closest thing to a doctor that exists in Merlo, but with one difference: they are necessary, but they are also hated. Lola is a 21st century woman going through a personal crisis. She comes into contact with forces she does not understand. The breakup with her partner, her doubts about motherhood, and the unblocking of memories long since forgotten cause her to collapse. In Lambskin, Ledicia Costas delves into sexual awakening, violence, and magic, accompanied with large doses of fantasy. A hypnotic novel that explores eroticism and darkness and envelops us in an atmosphere as terrible as it is beautiful. Rights sold: Bulgaria (Tonipress)  

Delirium

Renata has a premonition: a vision of a savage and cruel murder. She doesn’t recognize the victim but does recognize the place where the crime is going to be committed: Delirio, a hotel located in the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, owned by Juanjo, an old friend and literature professor. Kika, a young transgender woman and Renata’s best friend, arrives at Delirio with the need to hide. She is fleeing from her lover, an influential politician. Because of his position, she knows he has unleashed the dogs to hunt her down; that and because of the bag full of money with which she arrives at Delirio. And with that money, she intends to buy herself a new life; but first, she must preserve the one she has. Risking her reputation and even her marriage, Renata decides to do whatever it takes to prevent the homicide. The problem is that destiny always wins the game even if it shows us its cards. Natalia M. Alcalde debuts with this overwhelming noir novel where violence, social criticism, and magical realism are masterfully mixed in an intoxicating cocktail that passes through the reader’s stomach to ascend to their heart and linger in their brain. Hypocrisy and social prejudices, systemic police and political corruption, sensationalism in the media, and a rotten judicial system are present on every page of Delirio. Alcalde portrays contemporary Mexico with universal elements such as the search for justice; although it is difficult to find when your life is worth less than the coins that jingle in your pocket.

Rubio, Salva

  Salva Rubio es guionista, escritor y algunas cosas más. Miembro asociado del Writers Guild of America y de la Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España, fue finalista del prestigiado premio SGAE Julio Alejandro, y su trabajo ha sido nominado a un Eisner Award y al Goya a Mejor Película de Animación. Máster en Guión de Cine y Tv por la UC3M, como guionista de cine ha trabajado en cinco películas para diferentes productoras españolas, entre ellas, el largometraje “Deep”, nominado al Goya. También ha escrito para Disney Channel. Es también analista de proyectos cinematográficos y ha trabajado para Alta Films, Colomo PC, Instituto Cervantes, F. Carolina, ICAA, etc. Como guionista de novela gráfica, ha publicado “El Fotógrafo de Mauthausen” (3 ediciones y 5 traducciones) y “Monet, Nómada de la luz” (8 traducciones), nominada al Eisner. Actualmente escribe para las más importantes editoriales europeas, como Dupuis, Delcourt, Glénat y LeLombard. Ha publicado con Planeta Cómic el spin off de “El Tango de la Guardia Vieja” de Arturo Pérez-Reverte. En 2012 publicó la novela “Zíngara: buscando a Jim Morrison” para Suma de Letras (Penguin Random House) y acaba de terminar su cuarta novela, “Barcelona Swingers”. Como ensayista, es el autor del libro pionero “Metal Extremo: 30 Años de Oscuridad” (6 ediciones), la obra más extensa sobre el tema publicada en el mundo. A ella le siguió una segunda parte, “Metal Extremo: Crónicas del Abismo” y fue elegido continuador de la exitosa serie “Salva al gato!” con la publicación en EEUU de “Save the Cat! Goes to the Indies”. Es también colaborador habitual en Jot Down.

Arca

The novel presents a complex and multifaceted plot that narrates the life of Laura, a talented musician and lesbian activist around 35 years old, who lives with her alcoholic father, Roberto, and works for ARCA, an NGO dedicated to investigating the massive stranding of Zei whales that occurred in southern Chile in 2015. Laura carries the weight of a dark episode of abuse in her childhood, which took place in a sect known as the Refugio, deeply affecting her character and relationships. During a concert, Laura meets siblings Alia and Lucas, who are actively involved in ARCA. This encounter triggers a bizarre and existential love triangle that intensifies throughout the story through the desires and crossed projections among the three characters. Alia, a 40-year-old journalist who has left behind a failed marriage and multiple unsuccessful attempts at assisted reproduction, feels deeply attracted to Laura, discovering new facets of herself and finding inspiration to write a science fiction novel. Lucas, in turn, becomes a fundamental support for Laura, with whom she eventually moves to a remote island in southern Chile. The novel also explores Laura’s relationship with her sister Camila and their father Roberto, an alcoholic with mystical inclinations, who has left deep scars on his daughters, influencing their decisions and adult relationships. The omniscient narrator, with a humorous and reflective tone, structures the novel in three parts. In the first part, the story of Laura, Alia, and Lucas is told in a realistic tone that alternates times and memories as their relationships develop and complicate. The second part follows the journey of ARCA members to the Gulf of Penas and Melinka Island, where they investigate the deaths of the Zei whales. The third part focuses on Camila’s search for her father, now part of a biblical group in northern Chile, revealing details of the traumatic experiences that marked the sisters’ childhood and youth. Additionally, it narrates Camila’s tumultuous adventure with Gabriel. The novel weaves an intricate mosaic of stories where the past and present intertwine, exploring themes of trauma, love, self-discovery, and redemption, in the context of environmental activism and complex human relationships.

Santirso, Jaime

  Jaime Santirso (Gijón, 1990) es escritor y periodista. Reside en China desde hace casi una década, donde en la actualidad ejerce como corresponsal en Asia para el diario ABC. También informa para Telecinco y la Cadena SER. Antes trabajó para El País. Durante este tiempo ha cubierto acontecimientos históricos como la pandemia de covid-19, las manifestaciones prodemocracia de Hong Kong o el centenario del Partido Comunista Chino. En enero de 2020 fue uno de los pocos periodistas que permaneció en Wuhan cuando el Gobierno chino decretó el cierre de la ciudad. En su cobertura narró sobre el terreno el avance del coronavirus, el colapso de los hospitales, la reacción de la población y la posterior repatriación de los españoles atrapados allí. Esta experiencia está recogida en su segundo libro, titulado ‘Los primeros días’ (Ed. Altamarea). En 2021 recibió el Premio APM al Periodista Joven del Año 2020. El jurado subrayó que Santirso “encarna la valentía de los periodistas que, en un país tan difícil para la prensa como China, no dudó en viajar a Wuhan para ser testigo del estallido de la crisis sanitaria y realizar una cobertura multimedia -crónicas en texto, vídeo y fotografías- del confinamiento de la ciudad en los primeros días de la pandemia”. En 2018 salió a la luz ‘Encuentro’ (Ed. Trea), su primera obra, un poemario construido a través de la combinación de verso y prosa. Ha participado en eventos literarios como el II EU-China International Literary Festival, para el que fue seleccionado como representante español; el Festival Internacional de Poesía de La Habana 2021; The Bookworm Literary Festival 2019 o la XXXI Semana Negra. Es graduado en Periodismo por la Universidad de Navarra y máster en Relaciones Internacionales por Tsinghua University.

The Immortal Collection 1: A Saga of the Ancient Family

After the successful “The White City Trilogy” and the Detective Kaken Series, Eva García Sáenz de Urturi - winner of the 2020 Planeta Award - publishes for the first time the complete trilogy with which she began her career. NEVER FORGET THAT BEING LONG-LIVED DOES NOT MAKE YOU IMMORTAL When Adriana, a brilliant young archaeologist, accepts a position at the Museum of Archaeology in her hometown of Santander, Spain, she never imagined that her new boss could have lived through the history she can only study. Iago, the charismatic technical director of the museum, is more than ten thousand years old but appears to be only twenty-five. Iago and his family are longevos: people who never seem to age after reaching adulthood. The ancient family is divided: Iago’s brother and sister seek the source of their longevity in hopes of creating more like themselves, while Iago and his father fear the repercussions of the true Fountain of Youth. A dangerous game of power and knowledge that has played out over eons becomes even more complicated when Adriana attracts both brothers’ attention and learns their secret. Filled with science, history, and passion, The Immortal Collection transports the reader through time and space, from the days of cavemen, through the Roaring Twenties, to the charming plazas of contemporary Spain. Ancient history meets cutting-edge research in this modern love story and sweeping historical saga.

Sara Sefchovich

Sara Sefchovich es licenciada y maestra en Sociología y doctora en Historia de México por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Desde hace más de treinta y cinco años es Investigadora en el Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales de la misma UNAM en donde trabaja sobre temas de ideas, cultura y discurso. Constantemente imparte conferencias y cursos en México y en otros países sobre los temas de su especialidad. Ha publicado quince libros de ensayo, más de cien artículos en revistas y suplementos culturales y más de mil artículos periodísticos. Paralela a su carrera académica, es narradora. Ha publicado tres novelas: Demasiado amor  (Planeta 1990, Alfaguara 2003, 2010 y edición conmemorativa 2015), La señora de los sueños (Planeta 1993, Alfaguara 2001, 2010 y 2015), Vivir la vida (Alfaguara 2000 y 2015) así como relatos y cuentos en revistas y libros colectivos. Su obra ha sido traducida a seis idiomas y llevada al radio, al cine y al teatro. Ha recibido premios de ensayo y de novela, entre ellos el Plural de Ensayo, el Premio Agustín Yáñez de novela por “Demasiado amor”, la beca Guggenheim y la Leona Gerard Endowed Lecture de la Universidad de California. Sara Sefchovich es una de las mentes más brillantes de nuestras letras mexicanas. Es el conjunto de muchos factores y la fuerza de una pasión. Su capacidad de análisis y síntesis es de los más destacados a nivel nacional. Daniel Emilio Pacheco, crítico literario.  

When the storm passes

Manel Loureiro redefines the thriller genre with his latest novel, winner of the 2024 Fernando Lara Award. Stranded on Ons, a small island off the Atlantic coast of Galicia, Roberto Lobeira has no way to reach the mainland or communicate with the outside world due to a storm that feels like a harbinger of tragedy. When he finds a mysterious bundle washed ashore, its contents ignite decades-old resentment, jealousy, unresolved grudges, and a thirst for revenge among the island's few inhabitants. To make matters worse, a sinister, lurking presence leaves a bloody offering at his doorstep, a cryptic message he can’t decipher. Caught in a whirlwind of hatred, unspeakable secrets, and unrestrained ambition, Lobeira must survive on the island… until the storm passes. Rights sold:  English World Rights (Amazon Crossing)

Sardá, Juan

Estudia periodismo y empieza a publicar en revistas gratuitas juveniles escribiendo sobre música. A principios de 2000 comienza a colaborar con el diario La Vanguardia. Poco después, salta a las páginas de La Luna, suplemento juvenil de El Mundo, al tiempo que escribe para otros medios como Fotogramas o Rockdelux. Tras una temporada en las páginas de cine de On Madrid, suplemento sobre el ocio de la capital que publica el diario El Pais, regresa a El Mundo para hacerse cargo de las páginas de cine de El Cultural, labor que desempeña durante cuatro años. Actualmente, Juan Sardá trabaja como colaborador en El Cultural y corresponsal de Screen Internacional en España. En 2010 Suma de letras publica su primera novela, Dinámica de los cuerpos eléctricos, con gran éxito de crítica y público. Taksim es su segunda novela.

The Fairies' Great Swindle

THE GREATEST LITERARY MAGICIAN RETURNS WITH A NEW AND SPECTACULAR WORLD FULL OF ILLUSION AND MYSTERY. From the author of the internationally acclaimed “Victorian Trilogy,” with over 600,000 readers.If the heart wishes to believe in something, reason cannot prevent it. London, 1922. Alan and Violet Schofield are England’s leading experts in magical photography; a rogue couple taking advantage of the fever for capturing fairy beings that spread throughout gullible London society after the Great War, following the Cottingley girls’ having convinced none other than Conan Doyle that they had photographed fairies. Bombs no longer fall from the sky, and the entire city awaits its turn at the famous Schofield studio to obtain the prized photograph that will prove to family and neighbors that one’s attic or garden has been blessed with the presence of one of these mysterious creatures. Unfortunately for the Schofields’, their luck will change when a new client knocks on their door: the feared and powerful Percival Drake, lord of London’s underworld. A man of great cunning, brutally ruthless, and above all, a man who does not believe in magic. As they embark on a dangerous race against time to save their lives, Alan and Violet will discover that to outwit a gangster who doesn’t believe in fairies, they must be smarter than the fairies themselves. Only Félix J. Palma could combine fairies and gangsters in a novel brimming with love and magic. A delightful and thrilling cross between Peter Pan and Peaky Blinders. Rights sold:  Czech Republic (HOST)

Sánchez, Bianca Estela

Bianca Estela Sánchez nació en Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz, España) en 1982. Su último libro, La artesana de las nubes, publicado por Fondo de Cultura Económica, obtuvo el Premio de la Fundación Cuatro Gatos y fue finalista del Premio Hispanoamericano de Poesía Infantil de la Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas. Anteriormente, había publicado el libro Un mundo sin palabras, que recibió el más importante galardón de las letras colombianas para un libro de poemas infantil, el Rafael Pombo en el año de su centenario. Doctora en Didáctica de la Literatura por la Universidad de Granada y licenciada en Filología Hispánica y Filología Románica, es especialista en la literatura infantil anglófona de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX y comienzos del XX. En palabras de Luis García Montero, la poesía infantil de Bianca Estela Sánchez está hecha “con la inteligencia y la imaginación de la buena literatura”. En el mismo sentido, Benjamín Prado ha destacado su “profunda delicadeza y su exacto conocimiento del poder simbólico de la escritura”.

Sierra, Javier

Javier Sierra (Teruel, 1971) es el único autor español contemporáneo que ha logrado situar sus novelas en el top ten de los libros más vendidos en los Estados Unidos. Sus obras se traducen a más de cuarenta idiomas y son fuente de inspiración para muchos lectores que buscan algo más que entretenimiento en un relato de intriga. Formado en el mundo del periodismo –fue director de la revista Más Allá de la Ciencia durante siete años, además de presentador y director de espacios en radio y televisión en España-, ahora invierte su tiempo en investigar arcanos de la Historia y escribir sobre ellos. Ha dado a imprenta títulos muy populares entre los que destacan La cena secreta(publicado en 43 países), La dama azul (editado en otros 20), La ruta prohibida, Las puertas templarias, El ángel perdido, El maestro del Prado (que fue la ficción española más vendida en 2013) o La pirámide inmortal. Ganador del Premio Planeta 2017

Your Nights and My Days

For Unai, she was always the most beautiful girl in the world: the sun of every summer. Now, she’s a woman who has given up on too many things. For Lorena, he was the boy with a hundred smiles: as shameless as he was charming. Now, he’s a man who doesn’t know which path to take. Unai Azurmendi and Lorena Segarra met at the Voramar campsite on the shores of the Mediterranean, back when vacation days seemed endless. On one of those starry nights, they promised each other eternal friendship. Years later, when their paths cross again in the same place, much has changed for both of them. Yet the beach remains, along with shared memories and secrets they dare not reveal, fearing it might cloud the skies and unleash a wild storm. Your Nights and My Days is the story of a boy who has been dazzled by the sun for many years and a girl who has always fled the subtle spell of the moon.

Red Moon

"When the moon is full and has a red halo inside, a terrible crime will be committed that night." Madrid, 1954. Young Margot Sanz Peters returns to Spain after studying fashion journalism in London. As a member of a distinguished family of diplomats and a close friend of the most elegant ladies of the time—from Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart to Aline Griffith, the future Countess of Romanones—Margot quickly gains access to the most exclusive circles in a city moving beyond the worst years of the post-war era and beginning to embrace modernity. But Margot is much more than a fashion expert. A voracious reader of Sherlock Holmes novels, she's been fascinated by the criminal mind since childhood. So when the mysterious murder of a marquise shakes Madrid’s high society, she seizes the opportunity to join the most popular crime magazine of the time and begins collaborating with the police, testing her investigative skills in an increasingly dangerous game. In this novel that weaves glamour with threads of mystery, Nieves Herrero introduces us to a sharp-witted journalist trying to solve a series of murders in the captivating Spain of the 1950s. A true homage to the golden age of crime reporting.

Vásconez, Javier

Javier Vásconez nació en Quito. Realizó estudios de Literatura en la Universidad de Navarra. Posteriormente estudió en París. En 1982 inició su trayectoria narrativa con Ciudad lejana, y en 1983 ganó la Primera Mención en la revista Plural de México con «Angelote, amor mío». Su obra comprende: El hombre de la mirada oblicua (1989), «Café Concert» (1994), y la novela El viajero de Praga (1996) que tuvo gran reconocimiento del público y de la crítica tanto en Hispanoamérica como en Europa. Ese mismo año, publicó la nouvelle El secreto. Su antología de cuentos, Un extraño en el puerto (1998) significó un momento de madurez de su narrativa. En 1999 publicó La sombra del apostador, la cual quedó finalista en el Premio Rómulo Gallegos. En 2003 el cuento «Thecla teresina». Al año siguiente publicó Invitados de honor y en 2005 su novela de espionaje, El retorno de las moscas. En 2007 la novela Jardín Capelo. En 2009 apareció en España una selección de sus cuentos bajo el título de Estación de lluvia. En 2010 se publicó una edición especial de El viajero de Praga con prólogo de Juan Villoro. La piel del miedo es su última novela. Algunos de sus cuentos han sido traducidos al alemán, francés, inglés, hebreo, sueco, griego y búlgaro. * Avance de la novela en curso del autor, La vida por delante, en el diario Hoy de Quito: http://ow.ly/w4rXZ. * Lectura del capítulo «Hoteles» de La vida por delante en Radio Visión de Quito: http://ow.ly/w4u7z. * Completísimo dossier sobre el autor en la revista digital Otro lunes:http://ow.ly/w4sWk. * Reseña de La piel del miedo en el suplemento Babelia de El País: http://ow.ly/w4tUd. * Artículo sobre La piel del miedo en Letras Libres: http://ow.ly/w4seE. * «Divagaciones acerca de una línea imaginaria»: artículo del autor en la revista Aurora Boreal: http://ow.ly/w4sAq.

Vierci, Pablo

- Representado por Thomas Colchie - Pablo Vierci nació en Uruguay en 1950. Su primera novela, Los tramoyistas (1979), se tradujo al portugués (Os trampolineiros, 1983) y al inglés (The imposters, 1987), y fue reeditada como Los gringos (2000). Escribió las novelas Pequeña historia de una mujer (1984), Detrás de los árboles (1987, segundo Premio Nacional de Literatura de Uruguay), 99% asesinado (2004, segundo Premio Nacional de Literatura de Uruguay), Artigas - La Redota (2011) y El desertor (2012). En 2009, se publicó su libro testimonial La sociedad de la nieve, Premio Libro de Oro de la Cámara Uruguaya del Libro, que se tradujo al portugués y se convirtió en un best seller en Latinoamérica y España. En 2010, publicó el libro de humor De Marx a Obama en México y Uruguay. Escribió guiones para los largometrajes Aqueles dois (Brasil, 1985), El viñedo (Uruguay, 1999, Premio Fona), Matar a todos (Uruguay, Argentina y Chile, 2007, galardonado con el Premio al Mejor Guión en el 29° Festival de Cine de La Habana 2007 y el Premio al Mejor Guión en el 14° Festival de Cine de Lérida 2008) y Artigas - La Redota (Uruguay, España y Brasil, 2011). También escribió el guión de Contámela en colores, una serie histórica emitida en la televisión uruguaya durante 2012. En periodismo escrito, trabajó en cargos de dirección y en redacción. En Uruguay dirigió el noticiero de un canal de televisión durante cinco años. En 2003, obtuvo el Citi Journalistic Excellence Award en la Universidad de Columbia de Nueva York.