New Spanish Books: The online guide of titles from Spanish publishers and literary agents with rights for translation in the UK. To consult titles available in other markets please click on the above links.
Ginés Martín works in the thanatopraxy department of Forensic Anatomy. Single and with no living relations, he only allows himself to remember Susana every 7th of November. On that date he carries out a small ritual in remembrance of his friend who died ten years before.
The School of Gadgets and Professions accepts only the most brilliant young students. They are capable of creating motorised houses, flying hats and other such feats. Ágata McLeod is one of the school's best students, but there are a lot of things she doesn't know about the school... or its past.
After the disastrous outcome of the Armada, Baltasar de Zúñiga manages to reach the Spanish coast accompanied by Juan Lobo, his bodyguard and comrade. Their mission: to update the king. After completing it, they will be able to rest.
Thirty-five metres underground is Madrid's best kept secret, ninety tons of gold and other treasures of incalculable wealth, protected by extraordinary security measures (armoured doors, moat, unbreachable security system...) Nobody has ever tried to enter inside.
The House is not a history book or a tract on architecture. And neither is it an anthropological essay or a manual on interior design.It is a collection of stories that date from the dawn of human existence.
Clara, a young woman fallen on hard times, has suffered from agoraphobia since the sudden death of her father. Thanks to her amazing cookery she wins a position at the court of Castamar, and her arrival disrupts the lethargic life of Don Diego, the duke. Since he lost his wife in an accident, Don Diego has lived alone in his huge mansion with only his staff for company.
This is the story of Mano Verde (Green Hand), a cheerful and creative hand who used to get together every Sunday with other hands to do what she likes best - chatting to her friends and painting in the Painting Cave - until problems at school led to her becoming distant and forgetting about the things she loved.
The Moscardó family decide to spend a weekend at the coast to leave behind their humdrum lives which are ever more dominated by the economic crisis, loneliness and lack of communication. At the Solymar hotel, they come up against the misfortunes and conflicts of the other guests and employees, over all whose lives tragedy looms, inexorable and merciless.