New Spanish Titles - Year 2013

In March 1936, Madrid is a city in turmoil after the recent electoral victory of the Frente Popular. In an alleyway in the city centre a fourteen year-old girl is found strangled, and her body shows unusual decorum: a perfect bow around her neck, her hands crossed on her chest, her dress neatly arranged over her rigid legs. And she won't be the last.

Wamba is an eleven-year-old captive boy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He and his family are constantly controlled by soldiers who force them to work in the dangerous coltan mines, a highly-prized mineral in the first world. Wamba's parents are hit the hardest when their son is snatched from them to be recruited by a guerrilla group which will turn him into a real boy soldier.

A novel set in 20th century France, about dreams, triumphs, defeats and the infinite ways of loving. Belmanso is a house situated in a village with no name because the sign at the entrance has been torn down to be made into a gun or the helmet of a fighter. Just as people survive war, places can also survive neglect, but they need new souls to breathe the life they lost back into them.

The feast day of the Holy Innocents is as good a day to die as any other. This must have been what Gervasio Álvarez thought when he heard the news of the appearance of a body. Andrea Mérida, the widow of a soldier, mother of three children, a pensioner, has died from a cocaine overdose. No one heard or saw anything.