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FICTION
- JAVIER HERNÁNDEZ - CRIME NOVEL - PG. 2
- YANET ACOSTA - CRIME NOVEL - PG. 3
- SERGIO MIRA - CRIME NOVEL - PG. 4
- EZEQUIEL TEODORO - THRILLER - PG 5-6
- JUAN TALLÓN - LITERARY FICTION - PG 7-10
- MATÍAS CROWDER - LITERARY FICTION - PG 11
- RAFAEL HERRERO - LITERARY FICTION - PG 12
- DANIEL P. ESPINOSA - FANTASY - PG 13
- DIEGO PÉREZ - HUMOUR - PG 14
- JAVIER ABASOLO - HISTORICAL NOVEL - PG 15
- ROSER PROS-ROCA - NON FICTION - PG 16
- DANIEL GÓMEZ VISADO - NON FICTION - PG 17
- MATÍAS CROWDER - NON FICTION - PG 18
- NAIARA DOMÍNGUEZ - FAN FICTION - CHICK LIT - PG 19
- AINHOA REBOLLEDO - LITERARY FICTION - PG 20
- CARLOS LÚRIA - HISTORICAL NOVEL - PG 21
- FERNANDO TRAVESÍ - LITERARY FICTION - PG 22
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TITLE: EL CHEF HA MUERTO
Synopsis: The most famous
chef in the world has died
under strange circumstances
and Ven Cabreira has to
investigate it. The chef was an
i n t e r e s t i n g ch a ra c t e r : h e
doesn’t worry about fashion,
he is a widower, he loves stew
and he uses to collect Barbies.
As well as the chef, many
o t h e r c u r i o u s ch a ra c t e r s
appear in this book: ambitious
chefs who arrange murders in order to get a
Michelin star, restaurant owners with financial
problems, a vengeful gastronomic critic,
journalists addicted to social networks and even
sham Michelin Guide inspectors. All of them
create a perfect and humorous plot in which the
reader discovers the different characters’ interests.
The novel also has a delicious series of comments
about fashion, taste and
s n o b b e r y, t h r e e b a s i c
ingredients in actual select
restaurants.
Furthermore, the detective
Ven Cabreira is a great
character who will allow the
author to solve new plots in
future novels.
This novel is perfect for
crime novel lovers interested
in the gourmet and chef’s
world.
YANET ACOSTA
Writer and journalist, author
of ‘El chef ha muerto’ and
coordinator and founder of
the
gastronomy
fanzine ‘enCrudo’.
Yanet is a columnist at the
Cadena Ser, in the section
Tinta de Calamar, and has
worked
for
the
newspapers ‘El Mundo’, ‘El
País’ y ‘Público’. She also has collaborated with the
national magazines
‘Sobremesa’, ‘Spain
Gourmetour’, ‘Distribución
and Consumo’, and ‘El
Gastronómico’, and the
international magazines
‘Status’ (Brasil) and ‘Mundo
Gastronómico’ (México).
She has a degree in
Journalism and a Ph.D. in
History of the Press from the
Universidad Complutense de
Madrid. She specialized in
Social Media from at
the Columbia University in
New York.
Yanet Acosta
Noches sin sexo
Ilustrado por Ariadna Acosta
www.adeshoras.com
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© Jorge Gutiérrez Narro
Noches sin sexo
Ariadna Acosta nació en Tenerife en
1992. Actualmente cursa cuarto curso
en el grado de Bellas Artes por la Universidad de La Laguna.
Ha participado en varias exposiciones colectivas: “Marcados” El Epóca,
La Laguna (2012); “El sujeto fragmentado” La Fonda Medina, Güimar
(2012); “El Proceso Creativo”, Fundación Maphre Guanarteme, La Laguna
(2013); “Ater” Dos y Una, La Laguna
(2013); y “El frágil equilibrio” Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (TEA), Santa
Cruz de Tenerife (2014).
Las ilustraciones de este libro están
hechas con técnicas mixtas, y se han
usado tanto acuarelas como acrílicos.
En las cuarenta y tres piezas que compone Noches sin sexo,
la escritora Yanet Acosta combina relatos breves con microrrelatos, muchos de ellos brevísimos, para describir de forma
directa e intensa las reacciones irracionales, anómalas e incluso
violentas de unos personajes condenados a sus propias pesadillas. Mujeres, hombres y niños recurren a la destrucción, la
propia y la ajena, como única forma de canalizar su soledad,
frustraciones, miedos o deseos no consumados.
Los cuentos de Noches sin sexo apelan a los sentimientos y a
los sentidos, estableciéndose entre éstos un límite sutil y prácticamente inapreciable. Así, el amor, el desamor, el miedo, la
frustración o el deseo se mezcla con los olores, sabores, texturas y sonidos para conformar un universo cercano a lo onírico, en el que también tiene cabida el sentido del humor y la
ironía.
Complementan los cuentos las bellas ilustraciones a dos colores
de Ariadna Acosta, ofreciendo a los lectores su sugerente punto
de vista o contrapunto a este universo trágico y visceral.
Yanet Acosta
In 2014
Adeshoras
Editorial
published
her tales
c a l l e d
“Noches sin
sexo”.
Yanet Acosta nació en Garachico (Tenerife)
en 1975 y es periodista y docente. Es autora
de numerosas publicaciones académicas,
ha trabajado como redactora en la Agencia
EFE y ha colaborado con diversos medios
de comunicación, entre ellos El Mundo,
Público y Cadena Ser. Se ha especializado
en periodismo gastronómico y nutricional
e imparte clases en esta disciplina.
Es autora de las novelas El Chef ha Muerto
(2011) y No hay trabajo bueno (2013),
así como de un capítulo de la obra colectiva La Vida es un Bar. Cuentos de Noche.
Malasaña (2011).
También ha participado con el relato Furtiva
en la antología 44 mundos a deshoras publicada por esta editorial en diciembre de 2013.
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201 pags.
Publisher: AMARGORD
SPANISH
ISBN: 9788492560899
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TITLE: EL ASESINO DEL PENTAGRAMA
SERGIO MIRA
Sergio Mira Jordán (Novelda,
1 9 8 3 ) i s a g ra d u a t e o f
Hispanic Studies from the
University of Alicante and
Grado Medio Trumpet at the
Conservatory ‘Mestre Gomis'
of his hometown, where he
p r e m i e r e d h i s fi r s t
compositions.
Since 1998 he has
published poems, articles and
stories in various media, local
and provincial. His poems
h ave b e e n c o l l e c t e d i n
anthologies such as ‘Hablan
los poetas’ (2004), 'Con
plumas y pinceles' (2007)
and 'Coloquio de las
artes' (2009), all published by
the Editorial ECU.
In 2007, the journalist and
writer Mariano Sánchez Soler
included his story 'Un trabajo
bien hecho' in a selection of
detective stories: 'El taller de
los cuentos oscuros', editorial
ECU. In 2011 Sergio
p a r t i c i p a t e d i n Po e t r y
Collection in the Distance,
published by South Corona,
within the volume ‘Silencios
encontrados’.
In 2012, the editorial
Cuaderno del Laberinto
published his thriller ‘El
asesino del pentagrama’.
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Synopsis: A series of brutal
crimes disturb the calm of a
provincial music academy. The
crimes are connected by The
Goldberg Variations. The
murderer places clues that
rebuild Bach’s work in each
crime scene. David, a History
of Music professor, has to solve
the mystery. Time is running
out.
Fortunately, David has the help
of Laura, an incredible flute professor. David comes
into a manic investigation and he carries the readers
with him. Meanwhile, the police seems to be
completely lost.
This story is a great combination between music and
thriller and captivates the readers until the end. It is a
thriller that introduces a new and fascinating element:
music as a key to discover the
truth. Therefore, both mystery
and music fascinate the
readers from the first page.
Mystery, crime, music and
wisdom are the four keys of
this novel.
Publisher: Cuadernos del
laberinto.
330 pages
SPANISH
I.S.B.N: 978-84-940581-9-6
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TITLE: UN CAMINO A TRAVÉS DEL INFIERNO
JAVIER
HERNÁNDEZ
Javier Hernández (Santa
Cruz de Tenerife, 1968)
works as a lawyer and
o f fi c e r i n t h e L o c a l
Administration.
He is a writer who
analyzes society and uses
literature to tell us what is
happening around him and
wh a t a r e t h e c a u s e s ,
because he has the
ambition of waking up
people’s consciousness. He
thinks that memory is the
legacy of real society and
he reflects this in his
novels: El fondo de los
charcos (finalist of Benito
Perez Armas Award in
2009), Los días prometidos
a la muerte (Canarias Lee
2012 program) or El sueño
de Goslar (Santa Cruz
Ciudad leída 2013
program and Red de
Biblioteca).
Synopsis: At the
beginning of a new
election, Mat
Fernández, a
private detective,
tries to solve his
wife’s murder.
During the
investigation, he
will enter into a
dazzling environment, but dark and violent at the
same time. He will discover that his investigations
are related to the election campaign and to a
network of corruption and secret problems in the
democratic system. In this story of power and
corruption Mat’s case culminates with an ending
full of tension, blood and death.
The film rights in Spain are being negotiated
ISBN 978-84-941489-3-4
232 Pages
MAR EDITOR - Spanish
2013
Translation rights
available
He has published Un
camino a través del
infierno with M.A.R. Editor.
With this novel, Javier was
a fi n a l i s t i n t h e
I n t e r n a t i o n a l Th r i l l e r
Award L’H Confidencial
2013 and he got the jury’s
Special Mention.
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TITLE: EL MANUSCRITO DE AVICENA
EZEQUIEL
TEODORO
Ezequiel Teodoro was born in
Ceuta, although his work, as
a journalist, led him to live in
Malaga, Seville and Madrid,
his current residency.
Since beginning his
professional career he has
worked in various media,
local and nacional, like
COPE, El Periódico de Ceuta,
El Faro de Ceuta, El Pueblo
de Ceuta, national news
agency Europa Press and
several information
magazines.
I n r e c e n t ye a r s h e h a s
practiced as deputy press
secretary for the Ministry of
Development. In 2011 he
published El Manuscrito de
Avicena (Ed. Entrelíneas). The
book reached number two in
the most sold list on Amazon
with 8.000 downloads, and
has sold 13.000 copies.
[email protected]
Av i c e n a ’s M a n u s c r i p t i s a
historical novel, written on two
temporal planes. In the old part,
the novel relates to two
fundamental moments in the Abú
Alí In Sina life: when he saved the
emir Nuh Ibn Mansur from
certain death after an accidental
poisoning from lead tincture, that
allowed him to enter into the
great library of the Samanids, in
Bukhara; and the last days of his
life, when he accompanied the
emir Isfahán, Alá El-Dawla, in a military campaign against
Kurdish soldiers of Mahmud El-Gaznawí. In the second
novel’s part, set in the present, during a trip to Europe, a
Spanish doctor has to find a manuscript created by Ibn Sina,
that could save humanity.
The novel has sold about 13.000 copies in Spain, and
more than 1.000 in the United
States. It portrays the Ibn Sina’s
human side, showing who he
was and how he thought in two
different stages of his life - his
youth and old age - and it
centres on his medical
profession more than his other
skills.
Publisher: Última Línea
Pages 412
ISBN: 9788498021479
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TITLE: CUADERNO NEGRO: COMPLOT CONTRA FRANCO
EZEQUIEL
TEODORO
Ezequiel Teodoro was born in
Ceuta, although his work, as
a journalist, led him to live in
Malaga, Seville and Madrid,
his current residency.
Since beginning his
professional career he has
worked in various media,
local and nacional, like
COPE, El Periódico de Ceuta,
El Faro de Ceuta, El Pueblo
de Ceuta, national news
agency Europa Press and
several information
magazines.
I n r e c e n t ye a r s h e h a s
practiced as deputy press
secretary for the Ministry of
Development. In 2011 he
published El Manuscrito de
Avicena (Ed. Entrelíneas). The
book reached number two in
the most sold list on Amazon
with 8.000 downloads, and
he has sold 12.000 copies.
Synopsis: The novel is split
into two time frames: one takes
place in the year 1946, when
Franco and British Prime
Minister Attlee exchanged
letters to bring positions on
how to govern Spain at a time
when the Falange was not
willing to lose power.
The other half of the novel
takes place in the middle of a
High Court trial held against
still alive Franco ministers.
Toni Escobar, a journalist of El País newspaper, receives
some strange information: there are some documents
that could show that since 1946 a number of leaders of
the Falange remained and manipulated Franco in order
to control the power from the shadows.
Escobar will be faced with
the dilemma of his life:
betray himself, proving the
innocence of Franco, or
betraying his leftist principles
concealing evidence which
incriminated the Falange in
the maintenance of Franco.
Cuaderno negro is certainly
a novel full of action and
intrigue that gives us an
unexpected ending.
430 pages
Publisher: ULTIMA LINEA
SPANISH
ISBN: 9788416159055
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TITLE: EL VÁTER DE ONETTI
JUAN TALLÓN
Juan Tallón (Ourense, 1975)
graduated in Philosophy
f r o m t h e U n ive r s i t y o f
Santiago de Compostela. He
just writes in a magazine
when he feels like it, nothing
serious. Juan collaborates
with: Jot Down and El País.
He is the author of the
novels “A pregunta perfecta
(o caso Aira-Bolaño)” and
“Fin de poema”. “El váter de
Onetti” will be his third
work of fiction and the first
in Spanish. In june 2014 he
published “Manual de
fútbol. Un libro fuera de
juego” (Edhasa).
He writes in a personal
blog
(descartemoselrevolver.com)
He collaborates with the
radio Cadena Ser in a
programme called “A vivir
que son dos días”.
Literary quality and
humor in a
surprising novel
Incapable of
writing a normal
novel, the main
character of this
story, the author’s
alter ego, packs
up everything he has and moves to another city
looking for time and peace. El váter de Onetti is
considered a literary fiction of the highest level,
arriving to a faultless balance between what is said
and how it is said; the novel delves into the
consequences produced because of a moving to
Madrid, a sad and happy experience at the same
time, and a bad neighbour’s influence on his
perfect wife. It explains the writer’s life, who,
despite finding the perfect conditions to write,
doesn’t actually do so, instead, becoming involved
in an exciting hold-up. And in between all this
there is Juan Carlos Onetti, gin-tonic, Javier
Marías, a minister, Madrid’s bars, football, César
Aira or Vila-Matas; which all help to create an
altarpiece about the beauty and dignity of some
failures.
This novel is so different that it
has made Edhasa consider, and
finally carry out with, the option
of opening a new contemporary
narrative’s collection (Tusitala) to
publish it. A bet for real
literature.
Edhasa June 2013
256 pages. Rustic with flaps,
13,5x22
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What the media say
“This is a work with a great auto-fiction power”, Matías Néspolo
(Tendèncias, El Mundo). http://letraspropias.com/juan-tallon-en-eltendencies-de-el-mundo/
“Working as a journalist, formed as a philosopher and novelist because
of devotion. Tallón is today, one of the most interesting voices of the
literary Galician’s outlook.” by Armando Requeixo. http://
letraspropias.com/resena-de-fin-de-poema-de-juan-tallon-en-el-idealgallego/
“A proud and funny novel.”, Fco. Martínez Bouzas.
“Well written, with a clean and clear prose. (…) It is written in first
person, where reality and fiction walk together. A personal style, simple
and brilliant, with humorous points all over the novel.”, Paco Marín, El
eco de Cartagena.
http://www.elecodecartagena.es/index.php/2013/07/recomendacion-literaria-y-entrevista-alautor-juan-tallon-por-paco-marin/
“A honest and authentic book.”, Antoni Gual, Revista Qué Leer.
http://letraspropias.com/la-revista-que-leer-resena-el-vater-de-onetti-dejuan-tallon/
“I think that El váter de Onetti will be loved by people that, like me,
feel passionate about literature. ”, María Mansilla en librosyliteratura.es
http://www.librosyliteratura.es/el-vater-de-onetti.html
Recommended by Enrique Vila-Matas on the digital magazine Lecturas
Sumergidas.
http://lecturassumergidas.com/2013/07/23/17-maneras-d-leer-el-verano/
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TITLE: FIN DE POEMA
JUAN TALLÓN
Juan Tallón (Ourense,
1975) graduated in
P h i l o s o p hy f r o m t h e
University of Santiago de
Compostela. He just writes
in a magazine when he
feels like it, nothing
serious. Juan collaborates
with: Jot Down and El País.
He is the author of the
n o v e l s “A p r e g u n t a
perfecta (o caso AiraBolaño)” and
“Fin de
poema”. “El váter de
Onetti” will be his third
work of fiction and the first
in Spanish. In june 2014 h
published “Manual de
fútbol. Un libro fuera de
juego” (Edhasa).
He writes in a personal
blog
(descartemoselrevolver.com)
He collaborates with the
radio Cadena Ser in a
programmed named “A
vivir que son dos días”.
Fin de poema delves
into the last day of
the lives of Cesare
Pavese, Anne Sexton,
Gabriel Ferrater and
Alejandra Pizarnik,
weaving
a
fragmented and
messy story about
the lives of the four
poets.
Their
existences become trapped by desperation, and confer unity
to the chaos in which the author organizes each story, until
they can all exorcise the ghosts that they all carry with them
and seem unable to escape from. It is a novel about suicide
and death, a story about the crack of the poet who one day
falls silent, finishing, no verses to cling to.
This is about a fragmented
novel fleeing consciously
towards the chaos, where
past and present coexist with
a certain harmony. That is
why the final hours of the
four protagonists include all
previous hours of their lifes.
2015
Spanish
ISBN: 978-84-16328-15-4
160 pages
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TITLE: MANUAL DE FÚTBOL
JUAN TALLÓN
Juan Tallón (Ourense,
1975) graduated in
P h i l o s o p hy f r o m t h e
University of Santiago de
Compostela. He just writes
in a magazine when he
feels like it, nothing
serious. Juan collaborates
with: Jot Down and El País.
He is the author of the
n o v e l s “A p r e g u n t a
perfecta (o caso AiraBolaño)” and
“Fin de
poema”. “El váter de
Onetti” will be his third
work of fiction and the first
in Spanish. In june 2014 h
published “Manual de
fútbol. Un libro fuera de
juego” (Edhasa).
He writes in a personal
blog
(descartemoselrevolver.com)
He collaborates with the
radio Cadena Ser in a
programmed named “A
vivir que son dos días”.
Synopsis: Football
is something to
tell. It is not only a
sport, it is a story. It
is ephemeral and
even vulgar to
think about
football
as
something that
faces eleven men
against eleven men limited by time and space.
Beauty can be written. There, in that chronicle that
tells us what happened, that describes a sunny or a
rainy day, that talks about viewers’ emotions, both
sadness and happiness at the same time, there, in
words, is where football becomes a legend. At that
time, football is the most important event of the
week. Football is not only football. Football is
literature, beauty, memories, laughter and friends.
There are two ways of
watching a football game:
as people see it and as
Juan Tallón does, with and
incredible ability to
connect ideas and words.
Juan Tallón uses a great
and irrational logic to
demolish every classic
principle of the royal
sport.
ISBN: 978-84-350-1997-2
128 pages
SPANISH
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TITLE: LA DUNA
MATÍAS
CROWDER
M a t i a s C r ow d e r ( L a
Plata, Buenos Aires,
1973), graduated in
Social Communication,
has been introduced
to the world of letters
through photojournalism
in Argentina.
He has collaborated with
print media in South
America and Europe, has
been awarded the
National Prize of Stories
“Jose Saramago” (2009,
Madrid) and the
University of Barcelona
Award
(2010,
Barcelona).
In 2010 he published the
n ove l “ E n e l t r e n ” ,
Ediciones Albores, and
in 2013 “La Duna”,
Ediciones La Discreta. In
2014 Plataforma
Editorial published
“Border line”.
Ediciones La Discreta
2013
Pages 112
ISBN 978-84-96322-56-1
Rights in French sold
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available to other
languages
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Synopsis: A giant
dune runs around
t h e fi e l d s o f
Trenque Lauquen,
a small town in the
province of Buenos
Aires, scorching
the grass, crops,
forcing many
people to leave.
The dune is drawing on its journey an amazing
figure, as if it had its own life, or as if something
was guiding it. There are several ways to disable
the dune; one way is to hunt it like a wild beast,
for which human ingenuity runs huge trap. The
other way is supposed to be faster, but is more
complex: it consists in understanding it.
Around the dune back and forth a diverse group of
characters. In the desert
we see Indians being
decimated, soldiers
fighting in exchange for
arid lands, settler families
who are facing doom and
barbarism, determined
priests…
The narrative skill and
verbal power of this
intrigue make some parts
of the story resonate in
other, everything we see seems a symbol of
something else, something that we do not see. The
dune, while a fascinating historical recreation, is a
metaphor for the mystery of existence.
“The dune is a powerful novel, between a fantastic tale and
a historic fiction”, El Mundo.
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TITLE: LA PLAZA DEL SILENCIO
RAFAEL
HERRERO
A s a fi l m a n d r a d i o
scriptwriter, he wrote and
directed several TV shows,
including Cajón desastre,
(series that lasted more
than three years and was
awarded a TP Award for
two consecutive years)
‘Historias de music hall’,
‘El mismo día a la misma
hora’ and ‘Lo tuyo es puro
teatro’,
also
the documentary series
‘Fetiche y Autor’, ‘Una
pasión’. Rafael was also
the director of the cultural
program of TVE ‘La
Mandrágora’.
In 2010 Rafael won the
KUTXA San Sebastián City
Award with the theatre
play ‘No me hagas daño’,
published by Editorial
Alberdania). This work
premiered at the Teatro
Principal of San Sebastian,
in October 2010, and at
the Spanish Theatre in
Madrid in 2011.
ALREVÉS EDITORIAL
2014
Spanish
ISBN: 978-84-15900-40-5
Pages: 352
[email protected]
Synopsis: Chema is
coming home. It is
later than other
d a y s . C h u e c a ’s
square is empty.
Suddenly, he hears a
heartrending cry. He
hides and he
becomes a murder
witness. He stays there and he doesn’t do anything.
He feels as a coward.
He doesn’t call the police. Remorses pursue him and
they become bigger when he discovers that the
murder he saw wasn’t an isolated crime. Several
people have been murdered in the neighborhood
because of their homosexuality.
At the same time Franco, the dictator, is dying and
Chema tries to forget everything working in the
theatre. In this environment, stages and reality are
confused. But Chema can’t
forget. He is obsessed with
that night in Chueca.
The author writes a novel full
of psychological stress and he
also does a trip to the depths
of human cowardly. This book
removes everything and it tells
us about emotions, friendship,
impossible love, memory,
hate and crime. It is also a trip
to the childhood, a time in
which everything was simple
and easy.
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TITLE: NEKROMANTEIA, RITUALES DE LOS MUERTOS
DANIEL P.
ESPINOSA
Daniel P. Espinosa (Madrid,
1973) was IX Minotauro’s
Award finalist with this
contemporary necromancy
Nekromanteia, published
by Dolmen editorial
( 2 0 1 3 ) . H e i s w r i t e r,
corrector and professor in
literary workshops. His
other publications include
the novel Aplaudan al salir
(23 Escalones, 2012), and
collective stories in
anthologies Leyendas
Urbanas (Universo, 2013),
Fantasmagoria (Tombooktu,
2013), No eres bienvenido
(Pastilla roja, 2013), Peta Z
(Sportula y Dolmen, 2013)
Antología Z vol.6: Todos
los santos (Dolmen, 2012)
and Calabazas en el
Trastero: Empresas (Saco
de Huesos, 2012), also
other edited anthologies in
Madrid, Barcelona and
Buenos Aires desde 2003.
It has also been published
in journals Artifex,
Narrativas, El Humo
(Méjico), NGC 3660 and
Yambria. He has also
worked as a writer of
comics and novels for
radio.Translation rights
available.
[email protected]
“It will be your
fault. Everything
happens. Although
shuns face what
haunts him, if only
he hungs his dead
l ove r.
His
acquaintances will
die, the dead kill
the living, Hell will
be a little closer to Earth. Everything is your fault.
So the necromancer must die”.
The prophecies speak of the end of what exists.
Increasingly dead return quietly to their homes,
terrorizing their families, or walk around town as if
they were still alive. Loss, a practitioner of ancient
necromancy that seeks to invoke the spirit of her
suicide’s lover, discovers hellish rituals in these
resurrections. A sect starts to go after him and
harassing him numerous
spectra. And someone
already dead relentless
pursues him through the
city causing massacres. In
an attempt to save his
soul, Loss initiates an
irreversible path towards
magic prophesied hell
while the end is near.
Novel finalist IX
Minotauro’s Award
(nekromanteia.blogspot.com)
"A very dark horror novella, whose symbolism
and ceremonial magic are based on Western
classical grimoires", Revista Leer
ISBN: 978-84-15296-92-8 - 408 pages - Dolmen
Editorial
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TITLE: GUILLOTINA PARA TÍTERES
DIEGO PÉREZ
Diego P. Carpeño was born
in Madrid in 1965. After a
short time at school he
began to work at 14 in a little
family company. The 92's
economical crack reconverts
his profession from glazier to
taxi driver.
Since he left school
prematurely he is selftaught. He has put together a
wealth of different
knowledge. In his first book
Anécdotas de taxistas, edited
by Cúpula (Grupo Planeta)
and Círculo de Lectores with
over 6,500 copies sold,
Diego reflects the life
experiences that more than
twenty years on that
profession procured him.
Now, with his is self-taught
knowledge and the
University Degree in Spanish
Language and Literature
underway in the UNED
Faculty of Philology, his
efforts are focused on several
literary projects, among
which is his new novel
‘Guillotina para títeres’.
Guillotina para títeres is a
humour novel, a critique of the
political class and the current
rulers strung through the
consequences of the alleged
disappearance of the Prime
Minister and the President of the
Community of Madrid in a plane
crash. In this political context,
Gabriel, a taxi driver, young and
somewhat womanizer, will be
immersed in an adventure, when
driving a strange passenger as a
favor to a disreputable policeman.
309 pages
Publisher: ULTIMA LINEA
Spanish
ISBN: 9788416159161
Translation rights available
Novela de humor, una crítica a la clase política y los gobernantes
actuales, hilada a través de las consecuencias de la supuesta
desaparición del Presidente del Gobierno y la Presidenta de
la Comunidad de Madrid en un accidente de aviación. En este
contexto político, Gabriel, un taxista, joven y algo mujeriego, se
verá inmerso en una aventura al llevar a un extraño pasaje por
hacerle un favor a un policía de dudosa reputación.
Diego Pérez Carpeño, después de su éxito Anécdotas de taxistas,
vuelve con una obra que mezcla el humor, el thriller político, y
hasta lo mejor del ‘humor monologuista’ (a base de diálogos)
en una novela cuyo todo parecido con la realidad es pura
coincidencia... o no.
DIEGO PÉREZ CARPEÑO
(Madrid, 1965). De carácter autodidacta, su afición por la lectura y la escritura le sirve de válvula de escape a
su trabajo como taxista en la capital.
En esta labor profesional encuentra
una importante fuente de inspiración
para sus libros. El contacto con la gente más diversa, las conversaciones con
los clientes y su constante observación
de la vida urbana le proporcionan material suficiente para sus obras, como
ocurre en Anécdotas de taxistas (2010),
en la que recopila una serie de experiencias personales, y en Guillotina para
títeres, en la que le sirve de excusa para
caricaturizar la actualidad española.
También es autor de múltiples relatos
de ficción. Actualmente sigue compaginando su trabajo en el taxi con otros
proyectos literarios.
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TITLE: UNA DECISIÓN PELIGROSA
JAVIER ABASOLO
José Javier Abasolo (Bilbao,
1957) graduated in law from
the University of Deusto. He
has worked as a lawyer and
held various positions from
government, judicial, state
a n d r e g i o n a l ( i n t h e
a u t o n o m o u s r e g i o n t h e
BasqueCountry).
IntheWieldofliteraturehehas
had a long career as a crime
n ove l i s t . S o fa r h e h a s
published the following
books,allwithinthedetective
genreoritsenvirons:Lejosde
aquel instante (1997 Novel
Prize Press Canaria 1996 and
WinalistfortheHammettPrize
1997,translatedintoFrench),
Nadie es inocente (1998,
translated into French and
Italian), Una investigación
5icticia (2000), HollywoodBilbao (2004), El color de los
muertos (2005), Antes de que
todo se derrumbe (2006
Narrative Prize Garcia Pavon
2005), El aniversario de la
independencia (2006, Paper
Lantern Award Booksellers
Guild of Bizkaia), Heridas
permanentes (2007), Pájaros
sin alas (2010 translated into
e u s k e r a ( B a s q u e ) a n d
Ukrainian), La luz muerta
(2012), La última batalla
(2013) Una del Oeste (2014)
and Una decisión peligrosa
(2014),hehasparticipatedin
the anthology España Negra
(2013).
[email protected]
1940:TheKingdomofNavarra
doubts whether or not to
intervene in WW2 at the
request of the Allied forces. Its
d e l i c a t e s i t u a t i o n a s a n
independent state situated
between two great nations,
Spain and France, always
willing to annex it, hangs over
itsdecision,adecisionthatwill
inevitably be as risky as it is
dangerous.
Meanwhile,themurderoftheprominentheroesof
the people of Navarra will further strain the
situation. To try to clarify what happened two
police inspectors will be immersed, reluctantly,
into the murky waters of politics and religion. A
fusionoftheBlackgenreandhistory.Theexistence
ofanindependentKingdomofNavarraandascene
ofgreatpowerstruggles.
Translation rights available
ISBN:978-84-9843-582-5
2014
317 pages
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TITLE: 20 CONVERSACIONES PARA LA INDEPENDENCIA
ROSER PROSROCA
Roser Pros (El Vendrell, 1971)
graduated in Humanistic
Studies and also studied
Politic Sciences and
Communication.
In 1986, she started working
in local communication
m e d i a . Th e r e , s h e d i d
managerial tasks and
collaborated as a radio and
TV presenter in programs like
Baix Penedés or Diari del
Baix Penedés. Nowadays, she
works in different media and
writes commercial articles.
She usually collaborates in a
digital
magazine
( w w w. n u v o l . c o m ) a n d
participates in several
publications, both printed
and digital. Besides, she is
editor of De Humanitas, the
digital magazine of the
Universitat Oberta de
Catalunya.
Roser is the author of El Baix
Penedès (1994) and 125è
aniversari del Cor d’Infants
del Vendrell (2007) and she
has participated in collective
books: Calafell, el meu poble
( 1 9 9 5 ) a n d Ta r r a g o n a
enamora (2011).
Editorial Gregal 2014
[email protected]
Synopsis: We usually hear about
Catalonia’s independence. At first,
the discussion was almost isolated
and even anecdotal but two years
ago, society started to be interested
about this question. The causes of
this movement are constantly a point
of study and discussion in the biggest
communication media in Catalonia
and Spain. Experts of different scopes
talk about the advantages and
disadvantages of an independent
Catalonia and the breakup between
Catalonia and Spain. Furthermore,
the civil movement has considerably grown up during the last two
years, especially since the massive manifestation celebrated the
11th of September (2012) and the last Diada (2013), in which more
than a million and a half people created a human network.This
network toured 400 kilometers, from le Pertús to Alcanar, and it
had a slogan: “Via catalana cap a la independència” (Catalan track
to the independence).
There are also critical people in
this movement and they
participate in the diary discussion.
Both of them, critical people and
people who defend Catalonia’s
independence, have good reasons
and arguments to think as they
do. In this book, Roser gets
opposite opinions and
perspectives and this may help
readers to meditate about what is
the best option for a future that is
almost here.
There are several famed people who have confirmed their
participation in this project: Santiago Niño-Becerra, Jordi
Basté, Juanjo Puigcorbé, Marius Serra, Ferran Mascarell, Ian
Gibson o Josep Lluís Carod Rovira.
600 pag.
Lenguage: CATALAN ISBN: 9788494272905 Translation rights available
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TITLE: BUSCANDO SEÑALES DE VIDA INT. EN EL COMITÉ DE DIRECCIÓN
DANIEL GÓMEZ
Daniel Gómez Visedo
(Madrid, 1961) is a
bachelor of laws by the
“Autonomy University of
Madrid”. He has
completed his formation
realizing marketing
c o u r s e s , b i g c o u n t ’s
management in United
States, Britain, Holland and
Spain. His professional
activity has been
developed in insurance
s e c t o r, wh e r e h e h a s
alternated key account
manager, business address,
I+D direction and general
direction’s responsibilities
in different enterprises. He
usually imparts training
courses and collaborates in
media sector. Daniel has
lived in Colombia, where
he has headed the first
bank assurance’s project in
that country. Nowadays he
is the Europe Assistance’s
Business’ Director
(Generali Group). Synopsis: This is a book
located between management
and release. It offers a
structured, rigorous and
sometimes provocative view of
the three most important
s c i e n t i fi c d i s c i p l i n e s
(evolution, endocrinology and
neuroscience) which impact in
our behavior on workplace
turning their contributions to
practical tips.
Currently this theme has a media relevance that is
permanently in progress. News about nowadays
scientific discoveries related with those disciplines are
daily and published in general media because there is a
strong knowledge’s request from readers. Recently
President Obama has
announced a decisive
budgetary effort to unravel
brain’s mysteries. Heading this
project (called as BRAIN, Brain
Research through Advancing
Innovative Neurotechnologies)
there is a Spanish man, Rafael
Yuste. The past February, the
European Union announced
his own project dedicated to
brain’s studies.
This book is mainly oriented to
all professional people
working in companies, but will also be interesting for
any scientific divulgation’s lover.
PUBLISHED: Gestion 2000 (Planeta)
ISBN: 9788498753820 - 248 pages.
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TITLE: FRONTERA LÍMITE
MATÍAS
CROWDER
Matias Crowder (La Plata,
Buenos Aires, 1973),
graduated in Social
Communication, has been
introduced to the world of
letters
through
photojournalism in
Argentina.
He has collaborated with
print media in South
America and Europe, has
been awarded the National
Prize of Stories “Jose
Saramago” (2009, Madrid)
and the University of
Barcelona Award (2010,
Barcelona).
In 2010 he published the
novel “En el tren”,
Ediciones Albores, and in
2013 “La Duna”, Editions
La Discreta. In September
2014 Plataforma Editorial
will be publish “Border
line”.
Published by Plataforma
Editorial. Rights are
available in other
l a n g u a g e s . Tr a n s l a t i o n
rights available.
S y n o p s i s : S a n t i C o r e l l a
proposes us an overcoming
message, a message about
human limits and purposes, a
message about body and mind
power.
Santi Corella is a humble man
who went into skydiving’s
history because he was the first
man who practices skydiving
in North Pole and in South
Pole. This is the most dangerous place to practice
this sport in the
entire world.
Besides, he crossed
the Strait of
Gibraltar in
“human fly” and he
has got speed and
distance’s records.
How can a man
overcome his own
limits? In this book,
the reader will find not only several extreme
adventures but also a life’s philosophy that
encourages men to know their fears and to
overcome them.
It is not only about an adventure, it is about
choosing challenge as a principle of life. Santi
Corella looks for his limits in his adventures and
when he crosses the line, he discovers that
conformism is a trap. A limit is only the next
challenge.
We live in a constant framework of decisions and
in this framework, the absence of fear can help us
t o m ove o n . Wi t h f e a r, i n s e c u r i t y a n d
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TITLE: LA CHICA DE PABLO
NAIARA
DOMÍNGUEZ
Naiara Domínguez
(Barcelona, 1992) is a
journalist specialized in
communication gabinets,
multimedia and corporate
journalism.
Blogger, Community
Manager and Director of the
online magazine “AM”, she
manages and writes the
blog
“http://
tuypabloalboran.blogspot.co
m.es”, which has more than
360.000 visits, where she has
been publishing by fascicles
the novel Desencuentro, a
literary fiction whose
protagonist is the world-wide
famous singer-songwriter
Pablo Alborán.
She writes romantic novel
and chick-lit.
198 páginas
Idioma: Español
ISBN: 978-84-08-15098-5
Synopsis: Marina is a normal
girl until the day that a concert
of Pablo changes her life
forever.
Both share a very intense
moment on the stage and an “I
would like to see you soon” of
him will convert her in a very
special girl, the most sought of
all the country.
Marina will need to face her
own insecurities and
overcome her fears
to make her dreams
come true. But, as if
the destiny played
against them, a series
of casualties will
hinder them from
b e i n g t o g e t h e r,
obliging them to love
each other in silence.
The story that every
fan would like to live
with his idol, with a
surprising and
unexpected ending.
A novel that will
connect both with
chick-lit readers and
with all those women that would like to see the man
of their dreams becoming real.
Forthcoming Editorial Planeta. Translation
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TITLE: GORNÚ
AINHOA
REBOLLEDO
Ainhoa Rebolledo was
born in 1987. Her journey
so far has taken her to
Galicia, Madrid and
Barcelona. She has written
several blogs (including
Let’s Pretend We Were
Drunk and the column
Una para las dos en el
Butano Popular) and has
published four books: Mari
Klinski (Honolulu Books,
2012), Antropología de la
noche madrileña
(Sigueleyendo 2012) ,
Tricot (Principal de los
libros, 2013) and
Wolframio (Tandaia 2015).
She has also translated the
New York poet Megan
B o y l e ’s “ Vo m i t ” i n t o
Spanish for the Young
American
Poetry
Anthology, and several of
Peter Jenny’s books on
design and visual thinking
for the publisher Gustavo
Gili. In November 2014
she was among the finalists
of the Herralde Novel
Prize. She did not win, but
she wanted to look a little
like Roberto Bolaño
anyways.
S y n o p s i s : G o r n ú i s a n
exaggerated autobiography set
in Barcelona around the time
of unemployment. Ainhoa
R e b o l l e d o ’s i n v e n t e d
autobiography all began with
her bike, surprising Sergi
Pamies, who ended up with
the book in his hands despite
its low distribution. In his
column in La Vanguardia
(01/06/2012), Pàmies wrote
about the problems of bicycles in Barcelona,
indicating that they are not sufficiently present in
literature: we should be
thankful for someone like
Rebolledo who has an
intimate and uninhibited
view of the cyclist, we
discover the hatred for
padlocks, bike thieves and
authority. The book, which is
read with a healthy curiosity,
also gives us energy from its
discrepancies. Rebolledo’s
use of irony when describing
the character of a city
surrendered to the cool aura of the bike path,
recreating the emotional bond that the cyclist
establishes with their ride …
Translation rights to other languages available.
220 pag.
ISBN: 978 - 84 - 16469 - 39 - 0
Publisher: La isla de Siltolá 2015
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TITLE: EL HIDALGO QUE NUNCA REGRESÓ
CARLOS LÚRIA
(Barcelona, 1962) is a
journalist and radio and
television scriptwriter.
He has worked with,
amongst others, Luis del
Olmo, Gemma Nierga
and
Andreu
Buenafuente. In 2002 he
won a Premio Ondas de
R a d i o ( R a d i o Wa v e
Award) for his screenplay
Entrevista a Gaudí
(Interview with Gaudí).
Uno de los muertos (One
of the dead) was his first
novel (Temas de Hoy,
2010), and in 2013 he
published a second, this
time
under
a
pseudonym. He is
currently a professor in
Novela del Laboratori de
Lletres de Barcelona. His
new novel, still under
revision, is scheduled for
publication in 2016.
ISBN 9788416331512
336 pag.
Publisher: Ediciones
Pámies
2016
Synopsis: Madrid, 1614. A
mysterious young man from
Barcelona attends the meeting
of Miguel de Cervantes, almost
a septuagenarian. He takes
board in the solitary inn where
the writer has a habit of
working: at this time he is
locked in the second part of
"Don Quixote". Rocamaura,
presents the young man to
Cervantes, who comes to bring
an object of vital importance,
but before handing it over the
writer should tell you everything
that happened during his stay in
Barcelona more than forty years
ago. Cervantes, surprised, is
reluctant and mocking, but
curiosity gets the better of him
and finally he agrees to the deal.
Barcelona, June 1570. A young
Miguel de Cervantes arrives on
foot in Barcelona. It has taken
several weeks to get from Madrid,
where he has hastily fled after
seriously wounding the military
man Antonio Sigura in a sword duel: as a result, King
Philip II has signed an order demanding the writers
capture. In Barcelona, Cervantes is captivated by the
fascinating spectacle of the San Juan festivities. But the
fugitive cannot forget to watch his back, for the Royal
Guard Sheriff Matthew Sigura, cousin of the master
builder and former soldier of the los Tercios (The
Thirds), has vowed to avenge Antonio Sigura’s death.
What Cervantes does not know is that the ex-soldier
has offered a small fortune to the boat captains and
persecutors to give news of the fugitive.
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TITLE: LA VIDA IMPERFECTA
FERNANDO
TRAVESÍ
Travesí is a Spanish
writer and playwright,
and winner of the
N a t i o n a l Th e a t r e
Calderon de la Barca
(2001) for Ilusiones
Rotas
(Broken
Illusions).In other
narrative fields, he has
authored Peter, Niño
Soldado (Ed. Martínez
Roca, Grupo Planeta
2004), which tells, in
fi r s t p e r s o n , t h e
testimony of a child
soldier during the war
in Sierra Leone.In June
2013 his manuscript La
vida imperfecta (The
imperfect life) was
unanimously awarded
the Premio de Novela
Corta (Short Novel
Prize) by the jury of
renowned Colombian
writers, organised by
the publishing house
Fo n d o d e C u l t u r a
Económica (Colombia).
Synopsis: Always worried that
the phone rings in the middle
of the night. And never, well
rarely never, bringing good
news. The ring abruptly breaks
Lorenzo Argüelles dreams. His
companion sleeps naked
beside him. His ex-wife bursts
into his rest with the bad news:
Javier, your teenage son is
missing. What should be a
pleasant summer night
becomes a search scene
without a compass as the minutes
pass heavily.
While they search, they will
discover things they had never
known.
While they wait, their lives will
change forever.
“In La vida imperfect, seventeen
year old Javier disappears. His
trail lost in the big city. So, without further ado, his
parents, separated and separately, begin their search.
And so the night begins, it will be an extreme learning
curve,” says the author of the winning novel.
Desember 2015 - Ed. Isla de Siltolá
Translation rights to other languages available.
212 pág.
ISBN: 978 - 84 - 16469 - 40 - 6
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