New Spanish Titles - Autumn 2010

‘Un lugar llamado Fracaso’ is an internal brainstorming exercise in the form of 23 short stories about life, literature, dreams and failure. Because life is a continuing failure to find any kind of success, a failure in which the characters in the stories that make up this collection survive while waiting for a better future, which sometimes comes and sometimes does not.

1913. The great European powers are taking sides in what seems an inevitable war. A young Spanish woman, Isabel de Alsasua, is the new arrival in the countyshire of Brunstriech - here, at the heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, she starts a new life under the tutelage of her aunt. It is a life more turbulent than she could have ever imagined.

An essential work from this expert sommelier, providing clear information on the special characteristics of these wines, assigning them individual personalities and rescuing them from oblivion to demonstrate all their historical and cultural richness.

Visión Salvaje, Fotógrafos 2006 is a limited edition with over 190 previously unpublished photographs by 107 photographers which give an overview of current Spanish photography. Luxury edition, 216 pages, hardback, size 26.5 x 25.5