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Uk Panel's Choice - Spring 2011

We bring you the latest selection by our panel of experts. In this edition the panel was formed by: Briony Everroad, Kate Griffin, Lorna Scott, Marek Laskowski, Melissa Ulfane and Nick Caistor.

The books have been reviewed by the following experienced and independent readers: Ollie Brock, Daniel Hahn, Lise Jones, Martin Schifino, Margaret Jull Costa, Jonathan Dunne, Rosalind Harvey, Christina MacSweeney, Laura McGloughlin, Nick Caistor, Peter Bush, Catherine Forrest, Kirsty Hooper, Alex Ibarz and Lorenza García.

  • Agosto, octubre
    August, October
    August, October
    Author:
    Andrés Barba
    Publisher: Editorial Anagrama S.A.
    Read report: AGOSTO, OCTUBRE (August, October)
    Tomás' adolescent tension reaches a point of no return when he travels with his family to the small holiday town where they usually spend their holidays. It all starts to happen suddenly in an unstoppable series of events: the discovery of sex and violence, death, and transgression… Tomás discovers himself in a flash, as if unable to avoid his intelligence being one step behind his actions, until the dynamics of what is happening lead him to take part in an act he cannot forgive himself for. It is then that he feels obliged to sit down with the only person who can judge and pardon him.
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  • Amo, luego existo
    I love, therefore I am
    I love, therefore I am
    Author:
    Manuel Cruz
    Publisher: Espasa
    Read report: Amo, luego existo: Los filósofos y el amor (I Think, Therefore I Am: Philosophers and Love)
    How did the great thinkers love? The stoics, patiently; the vitalists, enthusiastically; the nihilists, pesimistically. For a philosopher, love is as exciting and as painful as it is for the rest of us mortals. Plato's eroticism, Saint Augustine's lust, Spinoza's frustration, Abelard and Heloïse's passion and the strange relationship of Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir have all contributed towards our concept of love.
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  • Azul serenidad
    Blue serenity
    Blue serenity
    Author:
    Luis Mateo Díez
    Publisher: Alfaguara
    Read report: AZUL SERENIDAD O LA MUERTE DE OS SERES QUERIDOS (Blue serenity or the death of loved ones)
    In telling the story of the death of our loved ones, we can discover something about the meaning of their lives. This story is written from the immediacy of some family deaths that raised the serious dilemma of understanding death and the need to comprehend it.
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  • Buenas noches
    Good Night
    Good Night
    Author:
    Àngels Navarro
    Publisher: COMBEL EDITORIAL S. A.
    Read report: BUENAS NOCHES, JUEGOS TRANQUILOS PARA ANTES DE IR A DORMIR (Good Night! Calming games to play at bedtime)
    A book of quiet games about night which helps you to gain a more in-depth knowledge of the world of dreams. This play-based project for before bed, all about night, the constellations, the moon, the stars and the creatures of the night, includes stickers, phosphorescent inks and a cut-out origami figure.
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  • Escipión
    Scipio
    Scipio
    Author:
    Pablo Casacuberta
    Publisher: 451 Editores
    Read report: ESCIPIÓN (Scipio)
    The difficult relationship between father and son: the burden of inheritance. Hannibal, the rebellious son of the historian, Brener, wastes his life on the fringes of academia, with only alcohol and his frustrations for company. He is weighed down by his commitment to opaque truth, in opposition to his father, who has been able to build his fame as a historian on embellished truths.
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  • Leyendas y milagros del camino de Santiago
    Legends and Miracles from the Way of St James (of Compostela)
    Legends and Miracles from the Way of St James (of Compostela)
    Author:
    Xosé Ramón Marinno Ferro
    Publisher: Ellago Ediciones
    Read report: LEYENDAS Y MILAGROS DEL CAMINO DE SANTIAGO (Legends and Miracles of the Way of Saint James)
    As is well-known, in the Middle Ages the Way of St James provided the perfecct conditions for the greatest, most continual concentration of people from different countries, and for rich cultural exchange.
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  • Los 10 mejores juegos del mundo
    The 10 Best Games in the World
    The 10 Best Games in the World
    Author:
    Àngels Navarro
    Publisher: COMBEL EDITORIAL S. A.
    Read report: LOS 10 MEJORES JUEGOS DEL MUNDO, (The World’s Ten Greatest Board Games)
    Combel presents a selection of the best board games in the world. You'll find new ways of enhjoying yourself in this game-book for the whole family. It includes the boards, counters and dice: everything you need to discover a world of games!
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  • Mil millones de tuberías
    A Thousand Million Pipes
    A Thousand Million Pipes
    Author:
    Diego Arboleda
    Raúl Sagospe
    Publisher: Grupo Anaya
    Read report: MIL MILLONES DE TUBERÍAS (A Hundred Thousand Pipes)
    The country where M lives is not like yours. M lives in a kingdom of metal criss-crossed by a thousand million pipes, in a metal house whose garden has a shiny grey lawn. In this country, in this house, on this lawn, a meteorite is about to fall. If you ever see one falling on you, do what M does: first, get out of the way, next, don't let anyone take it away.
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  • Nosotros los no escritores
    We, the non-writers
    We, the non-writers
    Author:
    Lorena Chanes
    Publisher: Punto de Lectura
    Read report: NOSOTROS LOS NO-ESCRITORES (We, the would-be writers)
    We, who have written nothing yet, who have not managed to finish anything, had already taken on the role of writers, and we couldn't have been anything else. Life was our route to writing, our daily activities the prelude to our future and definitive occupation: writing. The non-writers came out into the streets in search of the necessary lines, prepared to become real writers. In the same city, Sala was falling in love with the most beautiful woman in the world and a story of escapes and encounters was starting for him.
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  • Tres ataudes blancos
    Three White Coffins
    Three White Coffins
    Author:
    Antonio Ungar
    Publisher: Editorial Anagrama S.A.
    Read report: TRES ATAUDES BLANCOS (Three White Coffins)
    Three White Coffins is a thriller in which a solitary, unsociable guy is forced to take on the dentity of an opposition party leader and go through a variety of risky situations in an attempt to overthrow the totalitarian regme of a Latin American country called Miranda. This bizarre thriller plot is, however, a sort of empty structure, a skeleton in which the novel grows widly and unpredictably, gushing from the mouth of the hero. The outrageous, unhinged, hilarious narrator uses all his words to question, ridicule and destroy reality (and to reconstruct it like new from scratch).
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