New Spanish Titles - Spring 2012

It's night, and a group of Viking pirates are sacking a village, planning on returning to their ship with a few slaves. As they land on the beach they hear some strange sounds. Shortly afterwards, hundreds of arrows rain down upon them. The few survivors are taken prisoner by a demented-looking horde.

 This year Valeria is going to have a very special holiday, or at least that's what her mum says, a real specialist in finding original, out-of-the-ordinary locations. She chooses a peculiar, lonely spot in the north of Norway, and there, the present mixes with the past in Valeria's dreams.

'He was not a trouble-loving gentleman, nor so very particular perhaps about some of the company he kept.' So Henry James descibes the Master of Bly, the negligent and largely absent character who, in the immortal novella 'The Turn of the Screw', unwittingly initiates the drama in which the two innocents -- Flora and Miles, the nephew and niece the master was charged with lookin

José Antonio Marina tackles a topic which is central for families and schools: authority. But what authority? The permissive education practised in recent times has produced a situation in which children refuse both orders and suggestions.