New Spanish Titles - Year 2014

The world is ending. The rust-coloured sky drips acid rain over covered cities incapable of communicating with each other. Peter lives in Madrid, one of the few big cities that have survived a series of natural disasters and wars. His girlfriend is kidnapped and he confronts the kidnappers, a criminal organisation and his father-in-law's anger, the mayor of Madrid.

Daughter of Emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and Maria of Austria, archduchess Margaret is the central figure of this historical and literary novel, together with the composer Tomás Luis de Victoria.

During the four hours that go by as he waits for the moving van to pick him up, the Málaga painter Jorge Díaz goes over his life up to that moment, spent since he was a child imitating - in even the most minute details - his countryman Pablo Picasso. This obsessive necessity to be like his idol has led him into pathetic, and sometimes comical, situations.

Nagasaki, August, 1945. Kazuo, a young Westerner who has settled in Japan, and Junko, the beautiful daughter of a flower arrangement designer, have agreed to meet on a hill to seal their teenage love with a haiku that hides a secret about their relationship. Minutes before the time for their meeting arrives, the atomic bomb turns the city into the worst of all hells. Tokyo, February 2011.