On the Centenary of Camilo José Cela
11/05/2016This year marks the first centenary of the birth of writer Camilo José Cela, and has been declared by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture as “an event of special public interest”. For forty-five years, Cela occupied the Chair Q of the Spanish Royal Academy of Language and won the Premio Principe de Asturias de las Letras in 1987, the Premio Cervantes in 1995 and, of course, the Nobel 1989. The jury on this last prize highlighted the “provocative vision of helplessness in all human being” present throughout all of the author’s output; a vision that soaks “The Family of Pascual Duarte”, where Cela brilliantly recounts the heart wrenching story of desolate soul. Destino published a new edition of it this year. This week, the same imprint published Cela, piel adentro, (Cela, inside skin) a book where the Nobel’s son tries to bring us closer to his father’s figure, to demystify him all while painting a more intimate picture. More about the Centenary: https://fundacioncela.wordpress.com/ Photo: © Instituto Cervantes
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Olympia 8: Barras y estrellas
It’s time for the moment of truth: the girls on the national team are all playing in the European Gymnastics Championship. Besides the demands of the training, the butterflies of her first love and her nerves for the competition, Olympia will start to feel the pressures of fame and of the expectations of others. Will Olympia and her teammates qualify for the Olympics in Atlanta?
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Alcalá, Fernando
Fernando Alcalá Suárez (Cáceres, 1980) loves nothing more than telling stories and consuming them, whether in books, TV series, movies, or video games. Although he prefers to live among elves and dragons, life has forced him to pretend to be an adult, and today he teaches English at a high school in Cáceres. He has three cats: Melon, Pineapple, and Lychee. He won the VII Iberian Cultural Prize for Young Artists in the literature category, an international competition for Spanish-speaking artists of all nationalities. Among other achievements, he has received the Extremadura Creation Grant three times, which encouraged him to write Ne obliviscaris and Summer Storm (Edelvives, 2010 and 2011), as well as Carlos, Paula, and Company, which took second place in the I HQÑ Contest and was published by Harper Collins Ibérica in 2013. Together with Geòrgia Costa, forming the Costa Alcalá duo, he won the Kelvin 505 and El Templo de las Mil Puertas awards with Heir, the first volume of The Second Revolution trilogy (Montena, Penguin Random House, 2017, 2018, and 2019). They have also written Good Sisters (Elastic Books, 2019) and the Prodigies series, three standalone novels set in the same universe, published by Nocturna Editorial between 2020 and 2022. Additionally, they are the authors of the children’s series Look Out, Lice (Montena, 2019 and 2020) and several novels published on Fiction Express, such as Journey to the Center of the Volcano, which won the readers’ choice award for best children’s novel on the platform in 2022. In autumn 2023, they published their first novel for adults, The Hunter’s Moon (Umbriel Editores), and in June 2024 Orphans of the Wanderer (Puck Editorial), the first part of Shadowweavers, a duology whose second volume will be released in Spain and Latin America in the first quarter of 2025. That same year, they will launch Nessa, Princess with Animallibres, Bromera, and Algar, a series of graphic novels for early readers. And that’s all for now... Fer has many projects underway, both with Geòrgia Costa and on his own, but he still can’t talk about them.
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Caliani, Alberto
ALBERTO CALIANI was born in Ceuta during the era of black-and-white television, though he has been living in Madrid since 2021. In 2013, he published El secreto de Boca Verde, an adventure thriller that became an Amazon #1 bestseller. In 2015, he followed up with La conspiración del rey muerto, a historical novel based on the legend of King Sebastian of Portugal. In 2017, he released La iglesia, a supernatural noir. In 2021, Ediciones B published El puño del emperador, which won the double HISLIBRIS award for Best Historical Novel and Best Spanish Author of the Year. In 2023, the same publisher released La sombra del impostor, set in a Renaissance filled with violence, conspiracies, and secret wars. Some of the characters from La sombra take center stage in Siempre vienen de noche (Ediciones B, 2024), a dark and oppressive thriller set around the Monastery of Piedra. In 2024, he co-wrote the script with Juan Gómez-Jurado for the Reina Roja prequel in audio fiction format: Reina Roja: Origen, El primer caso, available exclusively on Audible. In 2025, he returns to contemporary thrillers with El cazador de libros, once again published by Ediciones B. An active presence on social media, he always appreciates and responds to any comments or reviews on his Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter accounts. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amartinezcaliani Twitter: @AlbertoMCaliani Instagram: @alberto_m_caliani
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Valió la pena reaches the spot in the top of the sales
09/10/2015The publication of Valió la pena (It was worth it), the book of memoirs by the diplomat and ex-director of the CNI Jorge Dezcallar, has not left anyone indifferent. Three days after its launch, the second edition came out just as it reached the spot in the top 100 general sales on Amazon.es, ranking in what in the last few days climbed to number 7. But Valió la pena has not been distinguished only for the great number of sales. The book has secured a space in a great number of Spanish media and also has provoked reactions of important figures from the political sphere, mainly as a consequence of the declarations that the author made in his memoirs about the government’s management of the March 11, 2004 terrorist attack in Madrid Some of the highlighted press links about Jorge Dezcallar’s work: http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/24-horas/24-horas-jorge-dezcallar-lealtad-tiene-limites-01-10-15/3307761/ http://www.lasexta.com/programas/el-intermedio/revista-medios/jorge-dezcallar-comunicado-cni-11m-creo-que-gobierno-manipulo_2015100800361.html http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2015/09/30/actualidad/1443641174_514625.html http://www.cope.es/player/escucha-la-entrevista-a-jorge-dezcallar-en-herrera-en-cope&id=2015100514170001&activo=10
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Basta con vivir
Pepa is a mature woman that has spent much of her lifetime looking after her mother and who widowed prematurely and subsequently fell into a great depression. She gave up her job so to take even better care of her mother, but has now overcome her depression and is rebuilding her life. However, she believes she has missed her train. Her employers do not readmit her as promised and is faced with no other choice than to work in old folk’s home as a care provider. She feels frustrated, thinks that she has wasted her life and an armor full of sorrow prevents her from being happy. During a compulsory holiday, Pepa is forced to reflect and take stock of the mistakes that have taken her where she is. Concurrently, an old friend brings to her attention Crina, a young pregnant Rumanian woman on a bench on the plaza, who does not speak a word of Spanish. Crina arrived in Spain deceived by a ring of sex slaves that has forced her into prostitution and now, about to give birth, does not “work” and is more or less looked after because this network plans on selling the baby. Pepa slowly approaches her, finds out her story and decides to bend backwards to help her. An intense novel that speaks to us about growth, overcoming and resilience. That shows us the truth of what we are and how helping others can be our own salvation. A rhapsody to life and to the strength of solidarity between women
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A Thousand Drops by Víctor del Ýrbol, shorlisted for the Grand Prix de Litteratures Policières 2015
02/07/2015The novel A Thousand Drops by Víctor del Árbol is still a success a year after its publication. After 5 editions in Spain (Destino) and 2 editions in France, (Actes Sud) its nomination for one of the most prestigious awards in France: Le Grand Prix de Litteratures Policières 2015 was announced this week. The book by Victor del Árbol has achieved great reviews from the press and is shortlisted for this Prize along with works by other renowed authors of the noir and detective literature like James Ellroy, William Bayer or Don Winslow. The winner will be announced on September 23, but just being shortlisted is a great honor.
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Un libro de familia
A novel full of memorable scenes and wonderful characters, written with great sensibility. An extraordinary story that oozes with the love for books in each of its pages. One of the most captivating voices in present-day literature, translated into a dozen languages and praised by the international critique, Santiago Pajares returns to bookstores with this novel that deals with, among much else, the power of writing as a means to change our lives. Orencio is a thirty-some who, on the day of his grandfather’s funeral, discovers a strange family tradition: for generations, the family’s first born have to write their own version of a novel entitled “Through the Wall”. Disconcerted and lacking self-confidence, he tries to elude the challenge by all possible means, all while trying to put order into his life, although deep down he knows that he has no other choice but to face the blank page. What the press has said about “Ionah’s Rain”: “With a polished prose, Santiago Pajares draws a story of life’s learning.” Le Monde
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Cela Conde, Camilo José
España, 1946 (Madrid, 1946) Camilo José Cela Conde has been a professor of anthropology and director of the Laboratorio de Sistemática Humana of the Universidad de las Islas Baleares. He is currentlya a visiting professor at the University of California, fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, member of the Center for Academic Research and Teaching in Anthropogeny (San Diego) and member of the Centro de Estudios Vicente Lombardo Toledano (México). He is the author, together with Francisco Ayala, of Senderos de la evolución humana (Paths of human evolution) (Alianza, 2002), La piedra que se volvió palabra (The rock that became words) (Alianza, 2006), Human Evolution (Oxford University Press, 2007) and Evolución humana (Human evolution) (Alianza, 2013). The only child of Camilo José Cela, he maintained a strong relationship with him, making him an excepional witness to speak about how Cela truly was.
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Elena Moreno presents "Wherever You Are" in a mass event in Bilbao
25/02/2014Elena Moreno gathered an impressive crowd of more than 250 readers and friends in an event held last Thursday in the Carlton Hotel (Bilbao) that served as a presentation of Dondequiera que estés (Wherever You Are), her second novel, recently published by Planeta. Moreno, who was born in Bilbao and has worked in Basque media such as Radio Euskadi, Euskal Telebista, Canal Euskadi or Bilbaovisión, confessed that, for what it concerns to space in fiction, she needs the confort provided by places that she knows and loves. Wherever You Are deals with love and with the past through a plot in which mistery and romance intertwine in the story of a woman that has to discover the truth hidden behind the enigma of her husband's passing.
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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.
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Costa, Geòrgia
Geòrgia Costa Villaró (Tarragona, 1984) holds degrees in History and Classical Archaeology from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, since the only thing she enjoys almost as much as writing stories is hearing them. She writes children’s and middle-grade books, including the recent Ada Tormentas series: Something’s Up with Ada Tormentas (Salamandra, 2024) and Ada Tormentas is Up to Something (Salamandra, 2024). She also writes children's non-fiction, such as 22 Mysteries of History (Montena, 2015) and the illustrated bestiary Monsters of the World (Montena, 2018). Together with Fernando Alcalá, with whom she forms the writing duo Costa Alcalá, she won the Kelvin 505 Award and the El Templo de las Mil Puertas Award with the novel Heir, the first volume of The Second Revolution trilogy (Montena, Penguin Random House, 2017, 2018, and 2019). They have also written Good Sisters (Elastic Books, 2019) and Prodigies, a series of three standalone novels set in the same universe, published by Nocturna between 2020 and 2022. Additionally, they are the authors of the children's series Look Out, Lice (Montena, 2019 and 2020) and several novels published on Fiction Express, such as Journey to the Center of the Volcano, which won the readers’ choice award for the best children's novel on the platform in 2022. In autumn 2023, they published their first novel for adults, The Hunter’s Moon (Umbriel Editores), and in June 2024 Orphans of the Wanderer (Puck Editorial), the first part of Shadowweavers, a duology whose second volume will be released in Spain and Latin America in the first quarter of 2025. That same year, they will launch Nessa, Princess, a series of graphic novels for early readers, to be published by Animallibres, Bromera, and Algar. And that’s all... for the time being. Fer has many projects underway, both with Geòrgia Costa and on his own, but we’ll have to wait until he’s allowed to talk about them.
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De la melancolía
Espido Freire builds a wonderful novel about the transforming action of love to overcome sadness. Elena and Sergio make-up a united couple, but the impossibility of becoming parents brings about the lack of love between them and Sergio decides, after twenty years of living together, to leave Elena. She falls into a deep depression that shakes all aspects of her life. Time goes by and Elena receives a request from a distant relative to host Lazarus, her uncle, while he convalesces after a recent operation. Elena not only welcomes Lazarus into her house, but, as she has to rent it to survive, other characters soon arrive, along with their vision as to how one should live with sadness or how to flee from it: Sonsoles, an older woman who must sell her house, full of books and memories; Vanesa, a thirty-year-old girl who refuses to grow, because the world of adults is terrifying; Teresa, who comes into the story to procure a kitten for Lázaro and who stays along, like some kind of urban fairy that relieves pain every time she shows up. Or Cristian, an old friend who reappears into her life, a winner type, who conceals as many secrets as he does sins. A story that tells the wounds left behind by the crisis; the ways to survive, and how, in the face of everything, the human being’s strength prevails; how love saves us from many things, and life keeps teaching us lessons, as long as we are willing to carry on learning.
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Méndez, Roxana
Roxana Méndez (San Salvador, 1979). Writer and translator. She holds a degree in English Philology and a Master's in Spanish and Latin American Literature. In 2023, the New York Public Library included her book The Market on its list of Best Books for Kids of 2022. That same year, she won the José Hierro International Poetry Prize in Spain for her book The Bathers. In 2019, she received the Cuatrogatos Foundation Award in Miami for her book Flying Machines, and that same year, she won the Ciudad de Melilla Christmas Story Award in Spain and the Central American Children’s Story Award from the Books for Children Foundation. In 2012, she received the Alhambra American Poetry Prize in Spain, and in her country she was awarded the Grand Master of Poetry prize, along with national narrative and children's poetry awards. She has published books such as Caro and Lucy on Garbage Island (Children’s Fiction, Fiction Express, 2024), The Bathers (Poetry, José Hierro University and RTVE, 2022), The Market (Children's Fiction, Books for Children, Nicaragua, 2022), The Mechanical Cat (Children's Fiction, DPI, El Salvador, 2021), Olivia and the Screeching Cart (Children's Fiction, Piedrasanta, Guatemala, 2021), Flying Machines (Children's Poetry, Valparaíso Ed., 2018), The Rain of 1979 (Valparaíso Ed., Spain, 2018), The Secret Book (Children's Poetry, DPI, El Salvador, 2017), The Sky in the Window (Poetry, Valparaíso Ed., Spain, 2012 and Valparaíso USA, 2017), Clara and Clarissa (Children's Fiction, Loqueleo, Guatemala, 2012), Mnemosyne (DPI, El Salvador, 2008 and Bombadil Ed., Sweden, 2011), and Memory (Poetry, DPI, El Salvador, 2004). Upcoming: Ana Glass (Children’s Fiction, El Naranjo Publishing, Mexico, 2025) WEBSITE: roxanamendez.net
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House of Anansi wins the Giller
07/11/2013Lynn Coady’s short story collection Hellgoing won Canada’s biggest prize for fiction, the Scotiabank Giller Prize. House of Anansi Press, her Toronto-based publisher, had also published Coady’s novel The Antagonist, which was shortlisted for the prize in 2011.She has also been shortlisted to the Gobernor General’s Literary Award and the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humourm, and has four times made The Globe and Mail’s annual list of Top 100 Books. Spanish rights for the short story collection are available through the Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency.
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Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End, published in Poland
22/10/2013The first book of the bestselling trilogy written by Manel Louriero, Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End, was published in Poland at the beginning of the October, by MUZA Publishing House (Apokalipsa Z, Poczatek Konca, translated by Joanna Ostrowska y Grzegorz Ostrowski). With its release, the publishing house invited the author to visit the city of Warsaw and to inaugurate the promotion for this novel. During his stay Manel Loureiro was able to visit with his editors and speak with the press. MUZA is extremely optimistic about the zombie trilogy and is already preparing for the next two releases.
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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.)
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International deal news
01/10/20131. “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.
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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)
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Reyes Calderón, wins the IV Lawyer Award for Novels
04/03/2013The 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
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Everything dies
"Not in a million years could you imagine an ending like this." — Zenda The most-read Spanish author returns. THE GREATEST THRILLER UNIVERSE EVER WRITTEN Publisher's Note:This novel is the key to the Red Queen Universe, the narrative project that Juan Gómez-Jurado has dedicated the last fifteen years to. At the author’s express request, this book does not include a traditional synopsis of the story.
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The author Víctor del Ýrbol starts off the new year with important news
03/01/2013The novel La tristeza del samurái, (The Sadness of the Samurai) (Editorial Alrevés, 2011) continues its voyage around the world; accumulating success and recognition. The novel already known and recognized with the award Le Prix Polar Européen in France, has been recently published in paperback format by the publishing house Actes Sud; (La Tristesse du Somouraï). In the upcoming month of February this thriller with accents of historic novel will see the light in Italy through the publishers Arnoldo Mondadori and coming in autumn the novel will be published in Brazil (Companhía das letras), Macedonia (Club Matica) y Poland (Albatros). In Spain, coming on 26th of January the publishing house; Editorial Alrevés will publish the latest novel by Víctor del Árbol; Respirar por la herida (Breath for the pain/ wound). A story where pain and guilt are mixed with the anxiety to live. “It’s possible that god plays dice with our destiny, scattering the pieces of a puzzle that always comes back together one way or another. Respirar por la herida borders the limits of its protagonists with the pressure and psychology dignified of the master that its author, Víctor del Árbol, has converted himself into.” 2013 presents itself as a year filled with great challenges for this author and excellent releases for the readers that follow his work. Interesting links: La tristeza del samurái- Editorial Alrevés La Tristesse du Samouraï- (Babel Noir) Actes Sud La Cause Litteráire
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In the Beginning Was the Sea
The author of the hit The Difficult Light returns with a story of love and heartbreak, the chronicle of a paradise that turns into hell. J. and Elena decide to put an end to the bohemian and disordered life they lead in the city and start anew in a remote corner on the coast: a small house nestled between the shoreline and the jungle, an hour’s walk from the nearest village. However, the promise of a peaceful existence in this idyllic setting soon begins to crumble. As the brutal climate, growing debts, and even the sea itself seem to conspire to drive them away, the relationship between Elena and J. becomes more and more tempestuous, and the paradise they thought they had found starts to resemble hell. Recognized as one of the great works in Spanish of our time, Tomás González’s first novel, inspired by real events, tells a universal story: the reckless disregard of one’s own limits, which inevitably ends in tragedy. Written in vivid and immersive language and with a narrative that meticulously constructs the collapse of a dream from the first page, reading In the Beginning Was the Sea reminds us that the belief that we are masters of our destiny is but a vain illusion. "A story that builds its unique intrigue with subtlety, with a touch of sinister threat in the manner of Patricia Highsmith." - Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times "The expression ‘tour de force’ could have been coined for this bold novel... The vivid descriptions of a glorious and terrible nature make the atmosphere of this novel extraordinarily evocative."- Kirkus Rights sold to: Brazil (Bertrand); The Netherlands (Meridiaan Uitgevers); English World (Pushkin Press); Germany (Fischer); Turkey (Nora Kitap); Czech Rep. (Dybbuk)
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You and Me
If you had the chance to talk to the Earth, what would you ask? What do you think it would say? Through the author’s words, children express their concerns and curiosity by asking questions—eager to uncover the secrets, origins, and fate of this blue planet. And the Earth, with firm and honest yet hopeful answers, responds to all their inquiries.
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“The Map of the Sky” a fascinating read
13/09/2012“Spanish author Felix J. Palma, with an amazing translation by Nick Caistor, has delivered a cross-genre masterpiece… The writing immerses the reader in another world that resembles our recent past, but not quite. Palma seeks the motivations behind the authors and their creations, and comes up with a tale that defies description. Readers of Palma's "The Map of Time" will find a worthy sequel,and newcomers will have no problem following the events in his latest book.” —Associated Press The reviews from various US press and electronic press media confirm the quality of the delivery of the second novel from the trilogy by Félix J. Palma; “El mapa del cielo” (The Map of the Sky, Atria, 2012). The novel was released to the North American market on the 4th of September and has raised the attention of the media who confirm that it has been well received. The publishing house Atria has launched a grand publicity campaign for the book including a spectacular billboard in Times Square. We wish all the best and further success inSpain, USA and in the many other countries that the novel is about to be published during the next few months.
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The Master Plan
The highly anticipated return of the master of mystery to bookstores. In 1990, Javier Sierra had an unexpected encounter at the Prado Museum with an enigmatic figure. This person revealed the existence of a secret society that, for centuries, had been safeguarding select works of art that serve as gateways between worlds. That revelation led to the creation of El maestro del Prado (Planeta, 2013). Since then, the author has been attempting to meet that mysterious figure once more and, along the way, has uncovered the existence of a "master plan" that gives art a profound meaning. For centuries, enigmatic masters have shaped humanity in unimaginable ways. Some myths refer to them as divine instructors, others as daimons, angels, or spirits. Their knowledge has been instrumental in developing agriculture, astronomy, mathematics, and artistic expression. But who are they, really? A captivating novel that will take you on a journey through art to uncover a hidden chapter of civilization.
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Toffana
In 17th-century Rome, where women's voices were suppressed and marriage often meant subjugation, emerges the enigmatic figure of Giulia Toffana. Inheriting her mother Theophania D’Adamo's alchemical knowledge, Giulia refines the Acqua Toffana, an undetectable poison that provides abused wives a lethal means to reclaim their autonomy. Together with her daughter Gironima and confidante Giovanna De Grandis, she orchestrates a clandestine network that challenges the patriarchal order and instills fear among Rome's elite.? Awarded the 2025 Premio Primavera de Novela, Vanessa Montfort crafts a historical and judicial thriller that delves into themes of justice, vengeance, and female solidarity amidst societal darkness. Through immersive storytelling, the author invites readers to ponder whether Giulia was a cold-blooded killer or a vigilante who empowered women in an era that sought to silence them.?
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