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| Abadia, C. | Toda una vida | A young boy reconstructs his memory through the stories told about his mystic aunt, set in the period following the Spanish Civil War. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £29.95 | ||
| Abella, R. | El libro del amor esquivo | Felix is trying to recover from his painful breakup with Helena. Taking advantage of the fact that he looks like Dónovan, a well-known singer and heartthrob., he takes on his identity at night… until he meets Luz. A humorous portrait of contemporary Madrid. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £20.99 | ||
| Adón, P. | Viajes inocentes | A collection of short stories whose characters are emotional nomads, constantly yearning for things they cannot have and places they cannot go to. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £14.95 | ||
| Adriansens, J. | Los silencios del mármol | The vault of a chapel belonging to the prestigious Di Sangro family suffers serious damage. Mauro Beltrán, a young Spanish restorer, is hired to repair it. He discovers disturbing rumours relating to certain strange events that are happening in the place. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £12.99 | ||
| Aguilar Monsalve, L.A | La otra cara del tiempo y otros cuentos | A collection of short stories by an Ecuadorean author whose writing is rich and diverse, combining dream with reality. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £15.99 | ||
| Aguilera, J.M | El sueño de la razón | Historical novel set in the turbulent Europe of the 16th century. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Aguilera, J.M. | Rihla | The year is 890. Lisán al-Aysar, an Arab from the kingdom of Granada, sets out on an ambitious exhibition, convinced there is another world across the ocean. |
| New Fiction. Published 2004. Price: £10.95 | ||
| Aguinis, M. | El joven Liova | Novel based on the early life of Leon Trotsky. The result is a gripping tale which gives a new insight into one of the most charismatic icons of the 20th century. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Aguinis, M. | La pasión según Carmela | A love story between a Cuban doctor and a Argentinian economist during a crucial period in Cuba's history. United by passion, they will make a relationship in a turbulant setting alongside historical figures such as Fidel Castro and Che. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £25.50 | ||
| Aguirre Bellver, J | La mirada de un niño | A delightfully simple novel that captures the ingenuity and freshness of a seven-year-old child's experiences and emotions in Republican Madrid during the Civil War. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Aira, C | Las curas milagrosas del Doctor Aira | A selection of short stories including one about Dr Aira, who has the special gift of creating miracles. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £17.99 | ||
| Aira, C. | Las aventuras de Barbaverde | The latest novel from one of Argentina's most exciting yet little-known writers. César Aira weaves a magical literary web populated by superheroes and cosmic forces. Guaranteed to entertain and astonish. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.99 | ||
| Alberto, E. | El retablo del Conde Eros | An actor finds himself caught up in a decadent world of prostitution and pornography in this lively novel set in 1950s Cuba. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £23.75 | ||
| Alcalá, X. | Habana flash | Some years ago, Xavier Alcalá left for Havana via Lisbon and from that trip came this book. Alcalá is a dynamic narrator who explores, listens, remembers, contextualises and concludes. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Alcolea, A. | Bajó el león de San Marcos | A writer travels alone to Venice in order to forget her hectic life and to finish her novel. There she meets a painter and suddenly finds herself enveloped in a strange murder. Her suspicions force her to strike up a relationship with a policeman. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Aldecoa, J. | Hermanas | Two wildly different sisters compete for the same man in this romantic novel. An exciting twist awaits us at the end of this emotional journey. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Alexandre, J. | La pasión de Erzsebet | Erzsebet, a 40 year old teacher, seduces her student Amat and leads him into a world of refinement and sophistication. But soon he discovers that Erzsebet was alive in the 16th century… |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Allende, Isabel | El cuaderno de Maya | 19-year old Maya loses her way after the death of her grandfather. She leaves her home in California for the island of Chiloe, off the coast of southern Chile, where she discovers an old family secret. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £20.99 | ||
| Allende, Isabel | Zorro | Set in California, 1790 - this is the story of Diego de la Vega and of how he became the legendary Zorro. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Almo, A. de., et al. | Otro final | Fifteen well-known modern authors propose new endings to famous films. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £36.95 | ||
| Altarriba, A. | Maravilla en el país de las Alicias | Antonio Altarriba offers four playful stories in which he uncovers the hidden lives of fictional characters. Penélope, Sherezade, Frankenstein and Alicia enter into erotic relationships which carry the reader from Ancient Greece to Victorian England. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £18.95 | ||
| Álvarez Gil, A. | Después de Cuba | The story of a town, its hopes and aspirations. A novel which shows the reality of Cuba today. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £28.95 | ||
| Alvarez, M. | Historia de un ladrón | A novel about the vicissitudes of family life, including its lies and betrayals. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £15.95 | ||
| Álvarez, M. T. | El enigma de Ana | 1895. Ana Sandoval has fled from Madrid after the death of her father. Now, should she become a soloist or follow the pre-planned destiny of all the people of a marriageable age? This is the start of an enigma which will absorb her completely. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.75 | ||
| Alvarez, M. T. | Madre Sacramento | Set in 19th-century Spain, this is the story of a female aristocrat who rejects wealth and luxury in order to make a controversial decision which scandalized society. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £23.75 | ||
| Alvarez, M. T. | El secreto de Maribárbola | Little is known about Maribárbola, the dwarf in Velázquez's masterpiece Las Meninas, but this historical novel reveals her shocking secret, suddenly threatening the life of a distinguished Madrid family. |
| New Fiction. Published 2004. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Alvarez, M.T | La comunera de Castilla | The emperor Charles V gets more than he bargained for when he encounters feisty María Pacheco, widow of an executed rebel. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Amat, N. | Amor y guerra | Barcelona, 1936. History changes the life of anarchist Valentina Mur forever. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £22.99 | ||
| Amat, V. | El secreto de la montaña sagrada | The peace of a Benedictine monastery is disrupted by the arrival of an unscrupulous mercenary in the pay of a sinister secret organisation. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Amoraga, C | Algo tan parecido al amor | The lives of three women enable the author to portray love in its many forms. Runner-up to the famous Premio Nadal. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Amoraga, C. | El tiempo mientras tanto | Just when her life is back under control, María José is badly injured. Despite the support of family and friends she struggles to cope, until an outsider helps her to regain her perspective on life. Runner up to the prestigious Premio Planeta. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Click on entry for price details. | ||
| Anderson Córdova, B. | La última noche | Collection of short stories whose themes are passion, love and life. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £18.95 | ||
| Antolín Rato, M. | Lobo viejo | Writer Rafael Lobo decides to go on a journey in his old Ford Capri in order to settle the unresolved issues with his personal ghosts. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.50 | ||
| Antolín, E. | No se hable más | An intense novel whose middle-aged protagonists deal with desire, solitude and tragedy through gardening and translation. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £18.50 | ||
| Apablaza, Claudia (ed.) | Junta de vecinas: antología de narradoras chilenas contemporáneas | Anthology of short stories by contemporary female Chilean writers. A range of genres including science fiction, erotica and fantasy. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £9.99 | ||
| Aparicio, J. P. | El juego del diáblo | The companion to Juan Pedro Aparicio's "La mitad del diablo". This book forms the right half of the "diábolo". |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £18.95 | ||
| Aparicio, J.P | La mitad del diablo | A literary puzzle full of twists and apparent dead ends. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £17.25 | ||
| Aparicio, J.P | Tristeza de lo finito | A Spanish writer reflects on his mother's life during her funeral, in this depiction of the feminine condition in 20th century Spain. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £16.35 | ||
| Aparicio-Belmonte, J | El disparatado círculo de los pájaros borrachos | Social satire and a cast of strong characters take centre stage in this novel, including a beautiful policewoman and a writer accused of horrendous crimes. *XXI Premio Lengua de Trapo de Novela* |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Aramburu, F. | Viaje con Clara por Alemania | Clara's husband tags along as she journeys through Germany writing a guide book. A tender and humorous portrait of married life. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £24.99 | ||
| Arce, J.C | La noche desnuda | The lives of British writer George Orwell and Andreu Nin, the leader of the Marxist party POUM, cross in Barcelona in 1937, when they become involved in a harsh political prosecution. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Arcocha, J. | Tatiana y los hombres abundantes | A Russian ex-lover of Stalin tries to civilize Cuba by opening an elegant brothel. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £16.75 | ||
| Arcucci, F., & K. Ferri | Cristo, Nerón, y el secreto de la Magdalena | Historical thriller set in ancient Rome. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £29.50 | ||
| Ardohain, C. | Los incógnitos | Two frustrated publicists decide to change their lives by setting up a detective agency. A lively and entertaining novel which examines the nature of fiction. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.99 | ||
| Arenas, D. | Bajo los árboles azules | A tragic story of love and solitude, set during the Spanish Civil War. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £28.95 | ||
| Arenas, R. | Termina el desfile/Adiós a mamá | A collection of short stories which paints with extraordinary diversity the lively and baroque Cuba of Arenas' memories. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Argemi, R. | Patagonia chu chu | A darkly humorous novel about a landed sailor and a striking machinist who decide to rob a train in Patagonia. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £22.50 | ||
| Argüello, J | El mar de todos los muertos | The illuminating story of a world steeped in fantasy, secret love affairs and unforgettable characters, by the author of "Siete cuentos imposibles". |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Arias Vega, E. | Nada es lo que parece | A collection of short stories ranging in mood from realist accounts to fantastic tales. They are linked by the existence of an alternative reality, in which nothing is as it seems. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Arístegui, P. de | La diamantista de la emperatriz | A novel of intrigue, passion and betrayal set among the jewellers of 16th-century Toledo. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £14.95 | ||
| Arístegui, Pilar de | La Roldana | Story of the passionate and talented sculptor Luisa Roldán, who achieves fame across Europe from her base in 17th-century Seville. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £12.50 | ||
| Ariza, L. M. | Los hijos del cielo | China Sea in 1805. In a sinking vessel travels Xavier Balmis, a deluded Spanish doctor motivated by an ambitious vision to get a smallpox vaccine to China inside the bodies of orphan children and to stop the spread of the deadliest virus ever known in human history. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £12.99 | ||
| Armenteros, C. | Los desconocidos | When Hugo is dumped, he takes refuge in sex. Only when he, and those who pass through his bed, face their emotions will they find what they are really looking for. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.50 | ||
| Arráez Bueno, A. | No hace tantos años | A story of financial corruption with its roots in the immediate post-Franco era. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.95 | ||
| Arredondo, I | Las palabras silenciosas | This collection by one of Mexico's most celebrated writers re-forges the links between Spain and Latin America, and is a wonderful introduction to the most intense of literary genres. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £18.95 | ||
| Arsuagem J.L | Al otro lado de la niebla | The author draws on his experience as a paleontologist to produce an evocative novel set in the Stone Age. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £7.70 | ||
| Artacho, F. de. | Narraciones y leyendas de Sevilla | This selection of narratives and legends has Seville as its setting and as its protagonist. Artists and historians, clergymen and gamblers are just some of the characters of these stories which never fail to grip the reader. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £18.95 | ||
| Artacho, F. de. | El trono y el altar | A novel about the French occupation of Madrid in 1808 that transcends historial fiction and becomes a tale of lost love and sacrifice. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £27.50 | ||
| Arteaga, A. de | El marqués de Santillana | Íñigo López de Mendoza, more commonly known as the Marqués de Santillana, was an exceptional man. Now in this stunning novel, Almudena de Arteage, a direct descendant, recreates his fascinating life. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £28.95 | ||
| Arteaga, A. De | La princesa de Éboli | A novel about the beautiful and intelligent Ana de Mendoza, princess of Eboli and centre of a major 16th century scandal. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £24.50 | ||
| Arzola, J.L | Todos los buitres y el Tigre | A story of broken dreams and lost chances, set in the author's native Cuba. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £20.95 | ||
| Asensi, M | Tierra firme | The redoubtable Catalina Solís reinvents herself as a male pirate in this vivid tale of contraband and adventure set in the Caribbean of the 17th-century. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £27.95 | ||
| Asensi, M | Todo bajo el cielo | Set in 1920s Shanghai, the death of Elvira's husband sets off a series of extraordinary adventures. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Asensi, M. | Venganza en Sevilla | Seville, 1607. Catalina Solís, the protagonist of "Tierra Firme", will get revenge in one of the richest and most important cities of the world: the Seville of the 17th century. An action-packed novel with discoveries and surprises on every page. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Click on entry for price details. | ||
| Asensi, Matilde de | Martín Ojo de Plata | Catalina assumes the identity of her murdered brother and starts a new life as a pirate. Her adventures take her to Golden Age Seville, a place of great riches but also of desperate poverty. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £21.99 | ||
| Atxaga, B. | Siete casas en Francia | Everything is going well in the military base of Yangambi until a new official arrives with an announcement. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Balasch, E. | La Virgen de la Mosca | Detective Frank Donovan undertakes an investigation which plunges him into the world of stolen art. The Church is also part of this world. Its secret service will stop at nothing, even murder, to protect and further their interests. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Balasch, Enric | La virgen de la mosca | Detective Frank Donovan receives a mysterious letter about a stolen painting, and unwittingly finds himself submerged in a sophisticated world of traffickers, art dealers and the secret service. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Balbuena, F | El oráculo de la tortuga | A rich Chinese man is burned alive in a Las Vegas casino, and detective José Picatoste finds himself caught up in the murky world of drug smugglers, illegal immigrants, and the sweathops of the Mexican border towns. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £23.85 | ||
| Balbuena, Francisco | El alcalde del crimen | Seville, 1776, and the city is rocked by a series of decapitated priests. The city's mayor embarks on a frantic investigation, aided by an intrepid English traveller called Richard Twiss. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £21.50 | ||
| Bardem, C. | Alacrán enamorado | A modern love story but also a loyal recreation of the urban tribes, from the circles of immigrants to the underworld of neo-nazism and skinheads. Two people are brought together by love but separated by urban violence. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Barrera Tyszka, Alberto | Rating | A topical novel about the creators of a reality show, which provides a chilling indictment of the lengths television is prepared to go in the quest for an audience. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £20.99 | ||
| Barreratyszky, A | La enfermedad | A beautiful and moving account of how one man, Ernesto Durán, confronts his own mortality. *Premio Herralde de Novela 2006* |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £21.45 | ||
| Barrero, Joaquín M. | El tiempo escondido | The bodies of two men, murdered 70 years ago, are discovered in a remote Asturian church. A jaded private detective is charged with investigating their deaths and finds himself drawn into an ancient and disturbing mystery. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £22.99 | ||
| Barriuso, J | Siempre serás un membrillo | Marcelo carries out an international robbery for political motives, which pales in comparison to his subsequent discovery of the identity of a politician's killer and dismantling of a web of corruption, drugs and money-laundering. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £18.45 | ||
| Bastante Liébana, J. | Cisma | It is 1521 and a worried Carlos V is waiting patiently in his room in the palace in the town of Worms. The meeting that is about to take place will determine the future of the Empire. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £27.95 | ||
| Baulenas, Lluís-Anton | Nombres en la arena | Danila enlists as a volunteer during the Spanish Civil War, and after miraculously escaping execution, is forced to flee in a boat to Lisbon. Without family or friends, each day is now a struggle for survival. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Bautista Duizeide, J. | Cuentos de Navegantes | A collection of the best stories of the sea and sailors, their journeys, adventures and reflections and of life and death. Prologue by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £25.65 | ||
| Bayly, Jaime | El canalla sentimental | The autobiographical adventure of a bisexual television presenter who narrates his personal world through this outrageous and amusing novel. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Bayón, F. | De un mal golpe | Private detective Luis León finds himself caught up in a plot involving drugs, corruption and organized crime in modern-day Marbella. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Beccaria, L. | El arte de perder | A crime novel in which the crime is resisting love. *Premio Azorín 2009* |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £27.50 | ||
| Becerra, Angela | Ella, que todo lo tuvo | After a serious accident, Ella can no longer write. In search of inspiration, she embarks on a journey based on a story told to her by her father. *Premio Iberoamericano de Narrativa Planeta-Casamérica 2009* |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Bellatín, M | El Gran Vidrio | Seen from the view of three characters, El Gran Vidrio is a surreal Mexican festival which takes place in ruined buildings where hundreds of people struggle to survive. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.60 | ||
| Bellatín, M. | Lecciones para una liebre muerta | Series of 260 related fragments and short stories that draw on the experiences of the author and his family, as well as several other plots which unfold to create a complex narrative network. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £12.95 | ||
| Bellatín, Mario | Disecado | A transvestite philosopher, a blind masseuse and a child expert on canaries are just some of the characters in two subversive novellas. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £15.50 | ||
| Belli, G | El infinito en la palma de la mano | A magical and evocative novel based on the story of Adam and Eve. *Premio Biblioteca Breve 2008* |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £25.75 | ||
| Belli, Gioconda | El país de las mujeres | A powerful and entertaining novel set in an imaginary Latin American country. When the women of the Party of the Erotic Left gain power they resolve to rid the country of all its male inhabitants. *VI Premio de Novela La Otra Orilla* |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Bellver, Pilar | A todos nos matan antes de morir | A humorous yet disturbing novel in which nothing is as it seems. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Benavides, J.E | Un millón de soles | Set in the political upheaval of 1960s Peru, this is the third and final instalment in an intriguing trilogy full of conspiracy and corruption. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £27.85 | ||
| Bendahan, E. | Deshojando alcachofas | Teli's life as a painter is complicated by the burden of her mother's illness and the suspicion that her best friend's husband is having an affair. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £17.70 | ||
| Beneyto, J. M. | Los elementos del mundo | A fascinating novel which revisits the social and historical background to the rise of Hitler and National Socialism through the interrogation and testimony of collaborator "the Professor" during the Nuremberg trials. *Premio Primavera 2009 finalist* |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Benítez Reyes, F | Mercado de espejismos | Corina and Jacob are two art thieves who, tempted by retirement, agree to take on one last assignment - the theft of relics from Cologne Cathedral. *Premio Nadal 2007* |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.70 | ||
| Benítez, J. J. | Caballo de Troya 7 | The latest in this very popular science-fiction series. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £23.50 | ||
| Benítez, J.J. | La quinta columna: los habitantes de otros planetas están aquí, entre nosotros | |
| New Fiction. Price: £8.95 | ||
| Benjamín, A.V | 7 x 1. Siete crímenes per capita | Seven different stories involving crimes by or on women are explored in this exciting new novel. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £14.40 | ||
| Berenguer Barrera, J. | Los formidables Kalandrian | An original novel charged with black humour about a man who tells of his sister's return from the dead. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Berman, S. | La mujer que buceó dentro del corazón del mundo | Isabelle finds a wild child in Mazatlán. Thanks to her the child will learn to read, write and speak, opening a whole world of love for the woman. |
| New Fiction. Published 2012. Price: £8.99 | ||
| Bermejo, Alvaro | El laberinto de la Atlántida | An archeological thriller set in Crete during the 2nd World War. *Premio de Novela Luis Berenguer* |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Biedma, Juan Ramón | El imán y la brújula | Spain, 1926. A deserter from the Moroccan war is hired to find two pornographic films made by members of a cult who follow the Marquis de Sade. He quickly descends into an abject, corrupt underworld. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Biggi, I | La fórmula Stradivarius | In a captivating novel which combines history, religion and music, readers unravel the mysterious links between a series of violent attacks in contemporary Spain, and the work of the 17th-century violin maker. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £29.95 | ||
| Bilbao, I | Asesinato en el spa | "Chick lit" novel in which Eva Zárraga, a 36 year old photographer, finds herself turning detective after a rich old lady is murdered in the sophisticated High Society Spa. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Bocero de la Rosa, F.J | La derrota | Novel which charts Napoleon's invasion of the Iberian Peninsula and the subsequent waves of conflict throughout the rest of Europe. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £30.95 | ||
| Bolaño, Roberto | El secreto del mal | This volume is the fleshed out skeleton of what was going to be Roberto Bolaño's fourth book, a book he was working on shortly before his death. It contains a number of other stories meticulously collected by Ignacio Echevarría. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £20.95 | ||
| Bolaño, Roberto | Los sinsabores del verdadero policía | An exiled Chilean professor is forced to leave his new home in Barcelona following a scandal. Recently discovered novel by the phenomenally successful Bolaño. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £21.99 | ||
| Bolea, J. | Un asesino irresistible | Martina de Santo has been promoted to the role of inspector and will now have to investigate the strange murder of Baroness Azucena de Láncaster, whose abandoned body shows signs of being attacked by a wild animal. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £27.95 | ||
| Bolea, J. | Los hermanos de la costa | Detective novel set in the coastal town of Portocristo. A series of mysterious crimes appear to be linked to satanic rituals. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £26.60 | ||
| Bolea, Juan | Orquídeas negras | When volcanic expert Ricardo Dax arrives on a remote island, little does he expect to be drawn into a whirlwind of passion and danger. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Bonilla, J. | El Estadio de mármol | Short stories in which the characters are taken to the edge of reality in their efforts to deal with fear and disorientation. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £21.55 | ||
| Boullosa, C. | El complot de los Románticos | A novel about a literary festival where the winner is a city and the participants are all dead. A rich and innovative novel that snakes between genres with impeccable style. *Premio de Novela Café Gijón 2008* |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Brasca, R. | Ultimos juegos | Sometimes a single minute can change your life for ever. A dazzling collection of short stories from this highly-rated Argentinian writer. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £15.95 | ||
| Brodsky, Roberto | Bosque quemado | The story of Moisés, a communist cardiologist forced to flee his native country after the military coup in Chile. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Bryce Echenique, A | Las obras infames de Pancho Marambio | A middle-aged Peruvian lawyer decides to start a new life in Barcelona, only to encounter trouble in the form of a vulgar and dishonest client. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Cabrera Infante, Guillermo | La ninfa inconstante | A sixteen year old girl meets an older film critic - a love story set in Havana. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £27.95 | ||
| Cabrera Vivanco, Ana | Las cien voces del diablo | A story of secrets and forbidden passions which can only end in tragedy. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Calavia, O. | La única margen del río | Set in the industrial boom in the early 20th century in Brazil, Ismael recalls his adventures during those turbulent times. An insightful and captivating read. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Calcedo Juanes, G | Saqueos del corazón | A woman leaves her daughter at the dentist's surgery, promising to collect her soon. But will she keep her promise...? A modern day fairy tale. *IV Premio Iberoamericano de Relato "Cortes de Cádiz"* |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £17.95 | ||
| Calcedo Juanes, G. | El peso en gramos de los colibríes | Nine short stories dealing with an eclectic range of themes including chance, routine and doubt. *XV Premio Tiflos de Cuento* |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £12.45 | ||
| Calderón, E | El mapa del creador | Set in wartime Rome, a young couple desperate for money decide to sell some books. Little do they know that one book contains information desperately needed by the Nazis and the Vatican. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Calderón, E. | La bailarina y el inglés | The adventure of a British man born in India during the Second World War who finds himself immersed in a conspiracy which could lead him to prison unless he can understand what is taking place. *Finalista Premio Planeta 2009* |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Calderón, E. | El judio de Shanghai | A political thriller set in Shanghai, 1943 where the protagonists find themselves confined to a Jewish ghetto controlled by the Japanese. *Premio de Novela Fernando Lara 2008*. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £28.75 | ||
| Calderón, R | Los crímenes del número primo | Judge Lola MacHor finds her life in danger as she investigates the brutal murder of two young clerics in a remote hermitage in Northern Spain. A powerful and compelling novel. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Calderón, Reyes | El último paciente del Doctor Wilson | A judge is caught up in a deadly game of cat and mouse when she receives a letter from Rodrigo, a would-be serial killer. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Calvo Poyato, J | La dama del dragón | Historical novel set in Renaissance Italy. This is the story of the indomitable Caterina Sforza, for whom the Medicis, the Borgias and even Machiavelli proved no match. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.70 | ||
| Calvo Poyato, J | El ritual de las doncellas | Fray Hortensio and Capablanca meet against a backdrop of intrigue and suspicion in 17th-century Seville, during an investigation into the mysterious murders of several women. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Calvo Poyato, J. | El Manuscrito de Calderón | The search for a lost Golden Age manuscript uncovers not only professional jealousy but also a series of complex political manoeuvres. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £20.85 | ||
| Calvo Poyato, J. | Vientos de intriga | "Vientos de intriga" takes place during the unsettled months which led to the Second of May and the beginning of the War of Independence against the French invaders. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Calvo Poyato, José | Sangre en la Calle del Turco | A young journalist finds himself caught up in a series of seminal political events, in this historical novel set in 19th-century Spain. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £22.50 | ||
| Calvo, J | Mundo maravilloso | An action-packed adventure story set in London and Barcelona. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £30.50 | ||
| Calvo, J. | Los ríos perdidos de Londres | A collection of short stories set in various periods of London's history. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £17.95 | ||
| Calvo, Javier | Corona de flores | Gothic murder mystery set in 19th-century Barcelona. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £27.95 | ||
| Campo, J. del | Los diarios clandestinos de Blancanieves | A modern fable about Snow White that uses black humour to great effect to reveal a subconscious conflict between happiness and politics, desire and reality and the painful beauty of dreams. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Cañil, Ana R. | Si a los tres años no he vuelto | The Civil War has just ended and country girl Jimena is abandoned by her rich boyfriend when she becomes pregnant. She ends up in a notorious women's prison where she comes up against María Topete, a domineering aristocrat. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £18.99 | ||
| Cano, J.L. | La Funeraria | |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Caparrós, M | A quien corresponda | Carlos reflects on his time as a young Argentinian activist 30 years before, in this vivid depiction of one of the darkest periods in Latin America's history. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.80 | ||
| Caparrós, M. | El enigma Valfierno | Fascinating historical novel based on the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911. *Premio Planeta Argentina 2004* |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £16.30 | ||
| Cárdenas, Juan Sebastián | Zumbido | Traumatised by the death of his sister, the narrator leaves his city home to take refuge in the anonymity of life in the suburbs. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Carme Roca, M. | Intrigas de palacio | At the end of the 14th century, after the strange death of King Juan I without an heir, three women are determined to gain control. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £27.95 | ||
| Carol, M | Una velada en el Excelsior | Fleeing the 1st Workd War, a young Parisian cabaret singer finds herself submerged in the seedier side of Barcelona, her adopted city. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £19.75 | ||
| Carranza, A. | Imprenta Babel | An intense novel illustrating how books manage to survive periods of censorship. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Carrasco, Juan Ignacio | Entre nosotros | Chilling novel about vampires. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £12.95 | ||
| Carrillo de Albornoz, J. M. | ¡Muera Napoleón! | It's the dawn of the 2nd May 1808 in Madrid and all the residents are preparing for the French invasion by the detested General Murat's government. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £35.95 | ||
| Carrillo de Albornoz, J. M. | El oro del cielo | A group led by the eccentric earl Von Breslau meet in Berlin during an exhibition of Egyptian treasures. There begins their adventure which will transport them to the dazzling pharaonic Egypt of the 18th dynasty. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.75 | ||
| Carrión, Jorge | Los muertos | A naked man is found in a New York street having lost his memory. As he struggles to create a new identity for himself he is caught up in a spiral of lies and violence. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £18.99 | ||
| Casajuana, C. | El último hombre que hablaba Catalán | If Catalan were to disappear, what would the last man who spoke it be like? This is the question Miquel Rovira sets out to answer. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Casanova, C. | La tierra de Dios | A passionate portrait of a 12th century in which Jews, Arabs and Christians lived side by side and fought for their rights to faith and freedom. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Casariego, M. | La jauría y la niebla | The story of three characters: Ander, his younger brother and a writer who is attending Ander's school to give a conference. They are united by the fine thread of emotion, sheer chance and memory and will weave a violent story. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Casavella, F | Lo que sé de los vampiros | When Martín de Viloalla decides to accompany the Jesuits driven from Spain in 1767, he embarks on a life-changing journey, meeting the artists, philosophers and swindlers who will change the face of future society. *Premio Nadal 2008* |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £29.45 | ||
| Casciari, H. | El pibe que arruinaba las fotos | Ever since he was a child, Gordo Casciari has been unable to control his urge to draw silly faces on photos. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Caso, A. | Contra el viento | São, from a village in Cape Verde, decides to make a better life for herself and makes friends with a Spanish woman. Together they both become stronger. *Premio Planeta 2009* |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Click on entry for price details. | ||
| Castellanos Moya, H. | Tirana memoria | A political thriller set in El Salvador narrated in two parts by the wife of an imprisoned journalist through a diary of her visits to the prison, and later by their son who participates in the coup d'état to overthrow the dictator. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Castillo Durá, F. del | El sable torcido del general | Novella based on a true incident from the Civil War. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Castro, L | La segunda mujer | A middle-aged man's obsession with a young woman rapidly wears off as class and age differences take their toll. *Premio Biblioteca Breve 2006* |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £23.85 | ||
| Castro, M | Y punto. | Clara Deza struggles to balance her job as a detective with her home life, as she tackles her most important case. A powerful depiction of the cruelty beneath the surface of a seemingly benevolent world. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Castro, Mercedes | Mantis | Despite her successful career as a TV chef, Teresa is frustrated by her inability to hold on to the men in her life. She finds comfort in creating increasingly bizarre and eclectic recipes. A darkly comic novel. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Castro, S | En palacio nos encontraremos | A life-affirming novel about Antonio who, after deciding to prove it is possible to travel through time, embarks on a mission for social change which will bring him love along the way. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Cebrián, Mercedes | La nueva taxidermia | Two novellas whose protagonists are both women seeking to re-interpret their histories and take their lives in a new direction. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Cela Trulock, J. | Unos guantes viejos | A multilayered, kaleidoscopic novel about life, love and war. |
| New Fiction. Published 2004. Price: £15.65 | ||
| Cercas, J. | Anatomía de un instante | Spain's current bestseller by the hugely popular Javier Cercas tells the story of the attempted coup in 1981, focussing on the moment when armed Civil Guards were captured on TV as they burst into the Cortes. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Cercas, J. | La velocidad de la luz | The story of a friendship between an aspiring novelist and his roommate at a US university, a Vietnam vet who is secretly traumatised by his violent past, this novel deals with guilt, evil and the corrupting power of success, yet ultimately examines the power of literature to exorcise one's demons. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Cerdán, Manuel | El informe Jano | Journalist Juan Montalbán's life is put in danger when he uncovers a labyrinthine trail of corruption at the heart of the Spanish government. A spine-chilling thriller. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Cerezales Laforet, Cristina | Amarás a tu hermano | Short stories about the intensity and complexity of family relationships. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.95 | ||
| Cervera, A | La lentitud del espía | A story of spying, voyeurism and the psychology of human nature. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £9.95 | ||
| Chacón, F. | Uno de los dos | An ageing rock star returns to his home town in La Mancha, where his cocaine habit brings him to the attention of a Guardia Civil officer. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £21.60 | ||
| Chacón, I. | La princesa india | The story of a young Aztec girl who joins a captain in the army of Hernán Cortés in a perilous journey to the Spain of the Inquisition. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £18.95 | ||
| Chacón, Inma | Tiempo de arena | A riveting family saga centred on the lives of three women members of a wealthy Spanish family in the early years of the 20th century. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £24.99 | ||
| Chao, Raul Eduardo | Contramaestre | A semi-fictional novel based around the role of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes in Cuba during the 19th Century. |
| New Fiction. Price: £16.95 | ||
| Chavarría, D. | Una pica en Flandes | Oscar, Manfredo and Gregorio all receive a strange letter inviting them to solve a riddle in exchange for a large amount of money. But it will not be easy… |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Chaviano, D | Historias de hadas para adultos | Three charming novellas full of references to fairy tales, Arthurian legend and classical mythology. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Chereguini, B | Buena amanecida, con horizontes claros y cielo despejado | Two-part novel which combines both reality and fiction. The author draws on his own childhood and career in this tale of two men working in the submarine industry in the aftermath of Spain's 1981 failed coup d'état. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £14.95 | ||
| Chirbes, R. | Crematorio | The death of ideologist turned farmer Matías Bertomeu sets in motion the key themes explored in Crematorio. Through his characters Chirbes offers an insight, both dazzling and terrible, into the contradictions facing modern day society. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £20.35 | ||
| Chirbes, R. | Mediterráneos | A literary homage to figures such as Homer and Camus amongst others, set in a variety of Mediterranean cities and ports. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.50 | ||
| Clavero, Vicente | Santo serás | A young Spanish journalist is sent to Rome to cover the last days of Pope John Paul II and the election of a new pope. A mysterious stranger causes her to become caught up in the complex machinations behind the whole process. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £20.99 | ||
| Cobo, I | Utilidades de las casas | A book which deals with the conspiracy of silence in post-war Spain, seen from the perspective of a young girl. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £16.95 | ||
| Cobos Wilkins, J | El mar invisible | A beautifully written novel in which the author addresses the fate of gay men imprisoned under the Franco regime, and explores the universal themes of love, solitude and liberty. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Colomer, A. | Los bosques de Upsala | When Julio returns home on his wedding anniversary and cannot find his wife Elena, he despairs. He knows that for the past year one thought has been going through her mind: suicide. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Colubi, P | California 83 | A young Spaniard is overwhelmed by new experiences when his parents arrange for him to spend a year with a Californian family. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Cominges, J. de. | El desconcierto | Set in the Spanish political period of the Transition in the 1970s, a young bourgeois Barcelona teen rebels against her social class and becomes a cinematographer. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Company, Flavia | La isla de la última verdad | Yachtsman Mathew Prendel finds himself shipwrecked on a small island where he meets a mysterious recluse. Even after his rescue, his life is changed for ever. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Conde, A | Memoria de Noa | A young teacher reminisces about her past in an attempt to come to terms with the present. A novel which explores the depths of female sensitivity with rare and insightful skill. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £21.35 | ||
| Conde, Alfredo | Huesos de santo | Detective Andrés Salorio is looking forward to retirement when he finds himself involved in one last murder enquiry. Set in Galicia, this is an intriguing novel full of twists and turns. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £17.95 | ||
| Consuegra, Olga | El secreto de la manzana | A young gay Cuban flees his country on a raft in search of a new life free from prejudice and repression. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Contreras Ordóñez, J. | La pluma de la verdad | An orphan boy is adopted by a teacher who gives him with an extraordinary education. He is now ready for a new life but a beautiful women changes his plans. Now he must use his intelligence and mental control to pass the most difficult test: love. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Cora, J. de | La verdadera historia del último inquisidor y el maravilloso oráculo de la vida | A fantasy novel which draws on the ancient Maya belief that the world will enter a new dawn in 2012. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £29.95 | ||
| Córdoba, J. C. | Ni pies ni cabeza | A murder mystery full of wit, written from the point of view of the deceased protagonist. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.50 | ||
| Corral, J.L. | El número de Dios | Epic novel set in the Middle Ages. A young artist finds herself involved in the construction of the great cathedrals of Burgos and León, and becomes privy to a great religious secret. |
| New Fiction. Published 2004. Price: £29.40 | ||
| Corral, José Luis | ¡Independencia! | A vivid depiction of Zaragoza in turmoil following the Peninsular War. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £12.50 | ||
| Corral, Pedro | El médico de Esquilache | Two surgeons come across mysterious murders in this fast-paced thriller set in 18th-century northern Spain. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £20.99 | ||
| Corredoira, Blanco | Añoranza de guerra | At the end of his life, José Maseda looks back on his wartime experiences and the 13 years he spent imprisoned in a Soviet labour camp. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £25.99 | ||
| Cozarinsky, Edgardo | Lejos de dónde | A dark wartime secret comes back to haunt a Polish refugee as she tries to rebuild her life in Buenos Aires in 1948. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £18.75 | ||
| Cruz Ruiz, J | Ojalá octubre | A narrative inspired by the author's father, which seeks to capture key moments of his childhood. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Cruz Ruiz, J. | Retrato de un hombre desnudo | Proustian short stories which look at the meaning of time and memory and how they are bound to our daily lives. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Cuenca, José | La noche de bodas (relatos de Cazorla y de Segura) | 11 short stories set in the remote rural Spain of the 1950s. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.99 | ||
| Cueto, A. | Grandes miradas | A woman seeks revenge for the politically motivated murder of her boyfriend, and discovers her darkest and most violent side in the process. Based on a true story. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £21.50 | ||
| Cueto, A. | La hora azul | The comfortable life of a wealthy Peruvian doctor is shattered when he learns about his late father's involvement with the notorious political movement, the Shining Path. *Premio Herralde de Novela* |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £22.95 | ||
| de la Pau Janer, M. | Pasiones romanas | Instead of catching an aeroplane home, Ignacio decides on impulse to catch a different one - to Rome, in search of Dana, with whom he shared a brief but passionate liaison years ago. A sensuous and emotional love story. *Premio Planeta 2005* |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £26.50 | ||
| Díaz Húder, J | La amante del rey | Romance, war and political intrigue feature in this meticulously researched novel set in 14th-century France and Spain. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Díaz Pérez, Eva | El sonámbulo de Verdún | A story which begins in the trenches of Verdun in 1916, when a deserter from the Austro-Hungarian army is hit by a bullet - an event which will determine his future and that of those around him. A saga which boldly depicts key moments of the 20th century. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £20.99 | ||
| Díaz, J. | Los números del elefante | A subtle and engaging narrative about two Spanish emigrants who choose to start a new life in Cuba in the 1950s and find themselves in an alternate world surrounded by shanty towns. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.75 | ||
| Díez, L. M. | El fulgor de la pobreza | Three stories which look at the power of envy to destroy friendship. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £14.99 | ||
| Díez, L. M. | La gloria de los niños | The tragic and moving story of a boy heroically coping with the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. Díez once again offers us his delicate and masterful prose. *Premio Nacional de Narrativa* |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £25.65 | ||
| Díez, Luis Mateo | Azul serenidad, o la muerte de los seres queridos | Thoughtful novel which attempts to explore the nature of death. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Click on entry for price details. | ||
| Domene, P. M. | Después de Praga nada fue igual | A family holiday morphs into an unexpected adventure for Marta, who is faced with solving a mystery in the magical city of Prague. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £13.95 | ||
| Domingo, Alfonso | El espejo negro | Thriller set in the art world, whose action starts in a Nazi concentration camp and moves forward 70 years to the cities of Paris, Venice, Amsterdam and Madrid, where art curator Javier is organizing a ground-breaking exhibition at the Prado. *Premio de Novela Ateneo de Sevilla* |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £20.99 | ||
| Domínguez, Carlos María | La costa ciega | A moving novel about two people whose lives are changed irrevocably as a result of Argentina's 1970s military dictatorship. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Domínguez, M. P. | La casa de los siete pecados | 1570. Anna de Austria arrives in Spain to marry Felipe II, her uncle. Her responsibility is to bear an heir to the throne but she also wants to be happy and make her husband happy. But she soon learns of the temptations that will be put in her path. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £27.95 | ||
| Domínguez, M. P. | El diamante de la reina | Historical novel set in the 16th century. 13-year old Isabel is forced to move from France to Spain to be married to King Felipe II, as a plan to create peace between the two countries. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £31.95 | ||
| Doñate, Antonio | Acceso al comportamiento | A failed academic searches for clues in order to make sense of his life. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £16.99 | ||
| Dovalpage, Teresa | Muerte de un murciano en La Habana | A journey and interchange between Spain and Cuba, culture and sexuality. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £18.95 | ||
| Dueñas, M. | El tiempo entre costuras | After a betrayal and two wars have devastated her past, a masked identity will hurl her into the future… |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £21.50 | ||
| Durán, A.J | La piel del olvido | As he awaits death, an old man is haunted by memories of the part he played in atrocities during the Spanish Civil War. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £27.95 | ||
| Edwards, J. | La casa de Dostoievsky | From Chilean novelist Jorge Edwards. A homage to creativity spanning two decades of political upheaval in Paris, Cuba and, finally, Pinochet's Chile. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £31.75 | ||
| Edwards, J. | El inútil de la familia | Gripping family drama in which the narrator rediscovers his uncle, whose scandalous and fascinating life forms the central theme of the latest novel by an acclaimed Chilean writer. |
| New Fiction. Published 2004. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Eiroa, M. | Los años del verdugo | At the beginning of the 1970s, the life of a child like Manu passes without any big surprises. That is until the first snow falls and with it, Manu's world. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.65 | ||
| Elorriaga, U. | Londres es de cartón | Sora disappeared 20 years ago during the time of the "Libro de Barda". Her brother, Phineas, waits for her everyday on the roof. Only a series of recordings made by forensic scientists known as "the five recordings of London" may be able to help him. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £23.50 | ||
| Enrigue, A | Vidas perpendiculares | A young Mexican boy alarms his family when he claims to recall previous incarnations as a prehistoric tribesman, a Greek serving girl and a 17th-century Italian priest. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £23.75 | ||
| Enrique, A. | La muerte de un instalador | "La muerte de un instalador" tells the story of an artist who, without realising it, becomes the perverse enjoyment of millionaire Aristoteles Brumell. *Premio Joaquín Mortiz* |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.55 | ||
| Escobar, M. | El secreto de los Assassini | A historical thriller set in the period of the Crusades, with fictionalised versions of Winston Churchill amongst others. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £27.95 | ||
| Escriche, C | Enganches, amor y cárcel | Based on the true story of a young woman who falls in with the wrong crowd, ends up in prison and has to confront the demons in her life. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £14.95 | ||
| Eslava Galán, J. | De la alpargata al seiscientos | Set in the late 1950s as Spain begins to emerge from the shadow of the worst of the Franco years. The arrival of coca cola, the refrigerator, television and the promise of mass tourism offer a glimmer of hope for the future. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Click on entry for price details. | ||
| Eslava Galán, J. | Guadalquivir | The novel is set in 12th-century Spain, in the exotic settings of Morocco and the deserts of Sahara and the East. It is a love story, a thrilling crime case and novelised chronicle of the Castilian assault on the Guadalquivir valley. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £10.99 | ||
| Eslava Galán, J. | Rey lobo | A tale of love and vengeance set in the Spain of 400 BC. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Espinosa, A. | Si tú me dices ven lo dejo todo… pero dime ven | Dani's unusual occupation of searching for lost children, takes him to Capri, where the memories of his own childhood, reflections on his life and his ending relationship and all the things that really matter are evoked. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.99 | ||
| Espinosa, Francisco Miguel | XXI | Thoughtful novel set in the near future when a visionary man tries to spread the word about the damage being done to the planet by humankind. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £18.99 | ||
| Espinosa, G | La tejedora de coronas | A book that skips effortlessly between science and culture, as well as providing a vivid picture of the historical foundations of Latin America. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Esquivel, L. | Malinche | New novel by the author of the widely-acclaimed "Like water for chocolate", this is the story of the controversial figure of la Malinche and her role in colluding with Hernán Cortés during the conquest of Mexico. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £23.80 | ||
| Esquivias, O | La ciudad del Gran Rey (Novela) | Second volume in the Dantean trilogy which began with "Inquietud en el paraíso". Burgos, 1936, and a crowd has gathered to see off the military expedition to Purgatory. What seems like a mad idea turns into a terrifying reality. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Esquivias, O | Inquietud en el paraíso | In 1936 a conference-goer in Burgos shocks fellow listeners with his claim that in order to write the Divine Comedy, visited Purgatory while still alive. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Esquivias, Ó. | Jerjes conquista el mar | The Persian King Jerjes was defeated by the Greeks in the naval battle of Salamina. The Jerjes of this novel, who has nothing to do with the historical character, will take on his own conquest of the sea with only one weapon: his ingenuity. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Esquivias, Ó. | Viene la noche | At the age of 80, Benjamín Tobes discovers a passion for novels. In the works of Hugo, Dostoevsky and Galdós he finds personal messages which transform his life. The third novel in a trilogy. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Etxebarria, L. | El contenido del silencio | An island, a disappearance, a secret and a seduction. A compelling and lyrical novel by one of Spain's bestselling writers. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £22.50 | ||
| Etxebarria, L. | Lo verdadero es un momento de lo falso | The body of Pumuky, a 26 year old singer, is found in a remote part of a Madrid suburb. Did he commit suicide or was he murdered? Everyone around Pumuky -girlfriends, lovers, friends, neighbours- believes they know the answer. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Etxebarria, L. (ed.) | Lo que los hombres no saben... El sexo contado por las mujeres | Collection of short stories by contemporary women writers which examines the politics of desire from a female perspective. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Solano, F | Rastros de nadie | Can one write in order to hide behind the words, to be no one? The three chapters compliment each other and dissolve into one, offering the reader, too, the chance to disappear on reading the final line. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £17.65 | ||
| F. M. | Corazón | When the protagonist's wife dies during childbirth, Wilson, a Manhattan bridge engineer, is left to take care of his only son. A new contract to build railway bridges takes him to yet untamed parts of America and further away from his son. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £19.35 | ||
| Fadanelli, G. | Malacara | Provocative novel about a man with a burning desire to become an assassin… |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Fajardo, J.M | Maneras de estar | An entertaining collection of short stories narrated with wit and subtlety by this acclaimed author. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Falcones, I | La catedral del mar | Number one bestseller in Spain, Falcones" first novel, set in medieval Barcelona, tells of the construction of the Santa María del Mar church, a symbol of the city and of the Catalan people. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £21.65 | ||
| Falcones, I. | La mano de Fátima | Set in opulent 16th-century Cordoba, this is the story of Hernando, a young morisco who is torn between two cultures and two loves. Long-awaited second novel by a writer whose "Cathedral of the sea" has become a world-wide bestseller. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Click on entry for price details. | ||
| Fernández Alvarez, M | La gran aventura de Cristóbal Colón | Historical novel. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Fernández Cubas, Cristina | Cosas que ya no existen | Short stories set in places as diverse as Buenos Aires, Cairo and Bolivia. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £21.99 | ||
| Fernández Mallo, A. | Nocilla experience | In a book which has been described as a "fictional kaleidoscope", Fernández Mallo introduces us to characters whose eccentricities are ultimately an expression of their solitude. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £18.90 | ||
| Fernández Mallo, A. | Nocilla Lab | Writer and physicist Agustín Fernández Mallo's third and final volume in the 'Nocilla Project' trilogy. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £17.99 | ||
| Fernández, Empar | Mentiras capitales | Julián and Eulalia leave the despair of post-Civil War Spain in search of a new future in Mexico. Both carry their own burdens of secrets and lies which will resonate even 50 years later. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.99 | ||
| Fernández, M. et al | Deseos de mujer: rituales y conjuros para grandes amigas | The inspirational story of a group of four women who cast spells that have more to do with the power of positive thinking than with magic, in order to take control of their romantic destinies and improve their lives. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.70 | ||
| Fernández, Verónica | Lope | Madrid, 1613, and Spain's most famous playwright has been kidnapped. His friend Claudio Conde sets off in search of him, embarking on a journey which will reveal the deepest secrets of Lope's life. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.99 | ||
| Fernández-Santos, F. | Talita | Ten stories of love and a lack of love in which the characters allow themselves to be dominated by the emotion that Petrarch said in a naïve and starry-eyed lyric "mueve el sol y las estrellas". |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Ferrando, I. | Sicilia, invierno | A collection of widely acclaimed short stories. From a man who confronts his alter ego in the dead of night to a silent love story born in the surroundings of a bus station, Ferrando writes with a sublime touch that has won him many admirers. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £20.95 | ||
| Ferrando, I. | Sicilia, invierno | A collection of short stories, winner of various prizes. *Premio Juan Rulfo, el Ciudad de San Sebastián 2008, el Premio de narrativa de la UNED, el José Nogales o el Ciudad de Cádiz*. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £20.95 | ||
| Ferrero, J. | Angeles del abismo | A novel about the moment of transition from adolescence to adulthood, and how we cope with this sudden change. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £18.30 | ||
| Ferrero, J. | Los fuentes del Pacífico | A spiritual tale of seven men and a woman who row the Pacific in search of the source of the ocean. Ferrero recounts the origin of popular beliefs and the destiny of our culture through this remarkable tale. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Fesser, G | A cien millas de Manhattan | A panoramic depiction of the USA in all its ethnic and social diversity. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £27.95 | ||
| Figueras, M | La batalla del calentamiento | A contemporary fairy story by one of Spain's finest young authors. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £24.60 | ||
| Flores Figueroa, P. | En tierra cruenta | A princess and a psychiatric patient are some of the characters whose lives converge in an original plot, where the real and the dream-like coexist to create a work charged with mystery and sensuality. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £16.95 | ||
| Flores, J. J. | EL corazón del héroe | After waking unexpectedly from a coma, Lino returns to his normal life. But every night he has the same strange dream. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Fogwill, R.(ed.) | Cuentos argentinos | Anthology of the most representative Argentinian short story writers of the last 16 years. |
| New Fiction. Published 2003. Price: £8.50 | ||
| Fons, Pepe | El diario de los jueves | After a ten year separation, a father and son attempt to rebuild their relationship by meeting every Thursday. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £21.25 | ||
| Fonseca, Carlos | Luz negra | Two young Basque militants meet Libia, a young market trader, forming a triangle in which friendship, love and sex become confused. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £20.50 | ||
| Fortes, Susana | Esperando a Robert Capa | Paris 1935. Two refugees fleeing from the Nazi regime, both Jews, one from Poland, one from Hungary, will become two of the best war reporters of all times. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Fortes, Susana | La huella del hereje | The whole of Santiago de Compostela is stunned when a young woman's body is found in its iconic cathedral. Idealistic young journalist Laura joins forces with an older jaded colleague to investigate in this unputdownable thriller. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £21.99 | ||
| Fraile, M., et al | Cuentos policíacos: tinta y pólvora | An anthology of detective stories by contemporary Spanish and Latin-American authors. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £17.65 | ||
| Francisco Ferré, J. | Providence | What is Providence? A videogame? A grotesque webpage? A dark conspiracy with technological ramifications? "Providence" tries to provide what we expect of a novel written at the beginning of the 21st century in a post 9/11 world. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £29.95 | ||
| Franco, Sonia | Los señores de la prensa | Novel which follows the fortunes of two boys, one the heir to a media dynasty, the other an ambitious orphan. Almost 50 years pass during which they each become editors of rival newspapers. A vivid portrait of Spain's transition to democracy and its depiction in the media. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £21.99 | ||
| Franz, C | Almuerzo de vampiros | In this darkly humorous novel, Carlos Franz satirises the modern day obsession with immortality: the desire to maintain beauty and defy death. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £18.65 | ||
| Freire, E. | Cartas de amor y desamor | A love story as a series of six letters. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £28.75 | ||
| Fresán, Rodrigo | Mantra | A vibrant novel set in Mexico City, where history and tradition co-exist with new technology and futuristic architecture. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £23.99 | ||
| Frías, Milagros | El verano de la nutria | Clara, a young translator, decides to go on the holiday of a lifetime after splitting up with her partner. Unfortunately tragedy awaits… *XXI Premio de Narrativa Torrente Ballester* |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.99 | ||
| Fuentes, C | Todas las familias felices | Short stories whose themes are family relationships and how they can damage and distort those involved, all against the backdrop of a fractured Mexican society. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £23.30 | ||
| Fuentes, Carlos | Adán en Edén | Novel based on the real-life issues of drug-trafficking and political corruption in Mexico. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.95 | ||
| Fuentes, Carlos | Carolina Grau | A new collection of short stories by this renowned Mexican writer, in which he examines the ways in which individuals create prisons for themselves. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £18.99 | ||
| Fuentes, Carlos | La voluntad y la fortuna | The latest novel from Mexico's most admired literary figure, Fuentes chronicles Mexico's current social challenges employing a wide cast of characters. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Fuentes, E. | Venas de nieve | When Andrea's son is diagnosed with leukaemia she faces a race against time to find his father, an ex-lover who may be the only possible compatible bone-marrow donor. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £22.25 | ||
| Fuentes, Eugenio | Contrarreloj | During the forth stage of the Tour de France, Tobías Gros, the favourite to win, is murdered while resting in his hotel room. Rumours soon spread and a detective is hired who immerses himself in the world of the cyclists. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Fuentes, Eugenio | Cuerpo a cuerpo | When Samuel sets up a secret camera to film the woman he is obsessed with, it unexpectedly captures images of her son being mauled to death. A fast-moving detective novel. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.30 | ||
| Fuguet, Alberto | Missing (una investigación) | A semi-autobiographical novel based on the disappearance of the author's uncle in 1970s Chile. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £20.99 | ||
| Gala, Antonio | Los papeles de agua | Confessions of a woman writer who becomes disillusioned with her work and discovers her destiny in Venice. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Gala, Antonio | El pedestal de las estatuas | A gripping historical drama set during the reign of Philip II, with the monarchy, church and nobility being implicated in many crimes and murders. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £29.95 | ||
| Gallarza, E. | Verdades como sueños | Daniel Vasseur seeks a new life in Latin America, only to find himself in an isolated hotel in the Andes, in a country on the verge of war. An intriguing novel, full of suspense. *Premio de Novela Mario Lacruz 2004* |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £9.20 | ||
| Gallego García, L | Memorias de Idhún III. Panteón | An epic Tolkien-like adventure exploring the fight between good and evil. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £24.10 | ||
| Gallego, G | El hachazo, la maraña y enhorabuena | Former political prisoner Gallego writes with humour and passion in this realist novel, whose witty dialogues reveal a fascination with the complexity of human nature. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £17.50 | ||
| Galván, F. | Memorias del guerrillero con dos cabezas | The epic tale of a young warrior who leaves Mexico to return to his ancestral Spain to study painting as Goya's assistant. He participates in the Spanish War of Independence and seeks exile before returning to Mexico. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £29.95 | ||
| Galván, F. | El tesoro de Vultura | Epic novel set in Segovia during the turbulent Visigothic era. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Galván, Guillermo | Antes de decirte adiós | A mysterious event in Madrid during the last days of the Civil War comes back to haunt its participants 22 years later. A gripping novel full of twists and turns. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Gamboa, Santiago | Necrópolis | A few hours after leaving a congress of biographers, Maturana is found dead in his hotel room. Everything seems to indicate suicide but after listening to his story, doubt settles in. Who was José Maturana really? |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Gándara, M. | Magog | A historical thriller set in 1108, a Spanish monk is driven to an alternative destiny, his quest peopled with rich characters such as a young Queen and a beautiful Jewish woman. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £29.50 | ||
| García Calderón, F | La judía más hermosa | The story of Susana, a beautiful Jewish girl who is fated to travel from the Seville of the Spanish Inquisition to the Rome of the Borgias. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £22.95 | ||
| García Calderón, F. | La resonancia de un disparo | Subtle psychological novel about the hidden secrets of two married couples. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £20.95 | ||
| García Gil, José Manuel (ed.) | El corazón habitado | Anthology of love stories by contemporary Colombian authors. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £10.95 | ||
| García Jambrina, Luis | El manuscrito de nieve | Detective novel set in 15th-century Salamanca. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Click on entry for price details. | ||
| García Llovet, E. | Las crudas | Roma Esmiz is the owner of Santino, a fashionable restaurant in a wealthy bay. Romo likes to gatecrash parties, not pay his debts and sometimes go hunting. But there are two things he does not like: ox meat and women. That is until he meets Perica. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £23.95 | ||
| García López, J. | El pájaro negro | A tragic love story between two Spanish journalists in Iraq which has been invaded by the United States and its allies. Alejandra disappears during a terrorist attack and Rosa narrates the events. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £26.95 | ||
| García Montero, L. | Mañana no será lo que Dios quiera | A portrait of the poet Ángel González, growing up without a father in the early years of his life. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.95 | ||
| García Montero, L. | Mañana no será lo que Dios quiera | Novel based on the early life of the poet Angel Rodríguez, in particular his childhood experiences during the Spanish Civil War. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £18.95 | ||
| García Ortega, A. | La ruta de Waterloo | A collection of short stories showing how fiction can affect people's lives. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.95 | ||
| García Robayo, Margarita | Hay ciertas cosas que una no puede hacer descalza | The lives of nine single women are linked by love, loss, friendship and loneliness. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £18.95 | ||
| García Rubio, M. | Las fronteras invisibles | Two former friends, Enrique and Rocío, meet by chance after many years, leading to a re-evaluation of their past and present lives. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £16.95 | ||
| García, O. | El jardín de Hipatia | Young aristocrat Atanasio de Cirene moves to Alexandria to teach at the academy of the philosopher Hipatia, but finds the city in turmoil with the Christians out to gain control. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.95 | ||
| García, T. | Las miserias del héroe | A political testimony of the post-war years in Franco's Spain. The angst and fear of life under a dictatorship are vividly depicted in this moving novel. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £26.95 | ||
| García-Siñeriz, Ana | Esas mujeres rubias | For the first time in her life María rebels against her destiny, taking refuge in a remote spa. She finds herself caught up in the mystery of the missing spa owner, the elusive Estela. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £25.95 | ||
| García-Valiño, I. | El corazón de la materia | When Lucas' girlfriend dies in a mysterious accident, he decides to investigate. This is the start of a journey which takes him from the streets of Paris to the deserts of Chile. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £25.65 | ||
| Garrido, Antonio | La escriba | Historical thriller in the style of "The Da Vinci code". |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £12.99 | ||
| Garrido, Antonio | El lector de cadáveres | Set in ancient China, this is the story of Cí Song, who overcomes his humble background to become a member of an elite band of forensic scientists. His ambition is fulfilled when he is entrusted with investigating a series of crimes at the Imperial Court. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Giménez Bartlett, Alicia | Dias de amor y engaños | An overwhelming passion has unexpected consequences for a seemingly calm colony of engineers and their wives. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £25.80 | ||
| Giménez Bartlett, Alicia | Donde nadie te encuentre | Based on the life of Teresa Pla Meseguer, a sexually ambiguous murderer, this is an enthralling detective novel set in 1950s Barcelona. *Winner of Premio Nadal 2011* |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Giménez Bartlett, Alicia | Nido vacío | A detective is thrown into a panic when her gun is stolen by a 10-year old girl. The city of Barcelona is vividly depicted in this fast-paced thriller. |
| New Fiction. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Giménez Corbatón, J. | Licantropía: Itinerario de una novela | A complex labyrinth of stories which coalesce to reveal the story of a Parisian writer in the romantic period. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Giménez, C. | Todo Barrio | This famous comic strip not only closes the autobiographical cycle of the author's childhood, but is also an invaluable chronicle of the recent history of Spain. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £18.99 | ||
| Giner, Gonzalo | El jinete del silencio | After a best selling novel "El sanador de los caballos", the author again offers us a story of great sentiment and continuous action, set in 16th-century Andalusia. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £21.99 | ||
| Giralt Torrente, Marcos | Tiempo de vida | A moving novel about the relationship between a father and son, and the impact on the latter of his father's death. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.95 | ||
| Giuffré, Mercedes | Deuda de sangre | A young man is found in a Buenos Aires street with his throat cut and a gold doubloon in his pocket. Pathologist Dr Redhead's suspicions are raised but his investigations are thwarted at every turn by the man's wealthy family who clearly have something to hide. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £24.99 | ||
| Gómez, F. | Cero negativo | Jorge Sáenz, a private detective, receives a visit from a TV presenter who wants him to find a stolen article. From this moment, Sáenz finds himself dragged into a spiral of mystery. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £20.95 | ||
| Gómez, F. | El misterio de la calle Poniente | Murder in Barcelona. Prizewinning novella. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Gómez, Fernando | El misteriode la calle Poniente | Crime novel set in early twentieth century Barcelona. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Goñi, F. | El hombre de la Leica | Novel based on the events leading up to the military uprising of 1936, as seen through the eyes of General Mola. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £21.95 | ||
| González Ledesma, F | Cinco mujeres y media | A young girl is found raped and murdered in a seedy district of Barcelona in this gripping and fast-paced thriller. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £25.95 | ||
| González Ledesma, F | Una novela de barrio | A child is killed during a botched bank heist, an event which years later will lead to unforeseen repercussions for the robbers. *Premio Internacional de Novela Negra RBA* |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.95 | ||
| González Ledesma, F | Sombras viejas | A passionate love story set in 1930s Barcelona. Written in 1948, this prize-winning novel was banned by the Franco regime and is now published for the first time. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £26.95 | ||
| González Moreno, P.A | Los puentes rotos | A rebellious teacher, a recently-separated office worker and an unsuccessful poet find their lives entwined in a series of events which will change their lives. *IX Premio Río Manzanares de Novela* |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £27.95 | ||
| González Pérez de Tormes, Lázaro | Lazarillo Z | An amusing modern-day version of the classic Golden Age picaresque novel. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £10.95 | ||
| González, J. | Navigatio | Behind the fake wall of a church being restored, a carving of a virgin, a strange manuscript, the mumified remains of a monk and a relic appear. The manuscript is a forgery but the Vatican can give no explanation for the relic. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.75 | ||
| González, J. M. | Fuego sobre las olas | A German warship makes its final journey through the China Sea at the beginning of the First World War. A moving story of how the crew deal with external hardship and internal trauma. |
| New Fiction. Published 2004. Price: £23.95 | ||
| González, M. F. | La gran estafa | Three short stories dealing with the emotional journeys travelled by deceived and defeated women. |
| New Fiction. Price: £16.95 | ||
| Gopegui, B. | El lado frío de la almohada | A novel about love, dreams and fantasy, set in the context of the Cuban revolution. |
| New Fiction. Published 2004. Price: £13.99 | ||
| Gopegui, B. | El padre de Blancanieves | Having waited for her shopping to be delivered, a college professor complains to the supermarket only to find the delivery driver on her doorstep blaming her for the loss of his job. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Gopegui, Belén | Acceso no autorizado | A political thriller with the characters that closely resemble a certain vice-president and a certain minister. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.50 | ||
| Gopegui, Belén | Deseo de ser punk | Martina is 16 years old and is without a place to belong but finds the beginning of a story in rock music, when punk is a state of being. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £18.95 | ||
| Goytisolo, J. | El exiliado de aquí y allí | Goytisolo brings the protagonist of "Paisajes después de la batalla" back to life 25 years after his death. Now he wants to find out why they killed him. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Goytisolo, L. | Oído atento a los pájaros | Ramón Rada is a successful painter planning to write his memoirs. In so doing he reawakens memories of his childhood home and the tragic events of 45 years before. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £22.90 | ||
| Grandes, A | El corazón helado | The death of a Francoist businessman leads to a series of mysterious events in this new novel by one of Spain's bestselling writers. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £28.95 | ||
| Grandes, A. | Estaciones de paso | Five stories about the rite of passage of adolescence, and the need to make courageous decisions in order to attain adulthood. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £25.75 | ||
| Grijalba, S. | Contigo aprendí | A compelling novel based on the life of the author's grandmother, whose beauty and glamour led her to travel from Asturias to Cuba and then New York, with a complicated love life and encounters with film stars and socialites. *Winner of Premio de Novela Fernando Lara 2011* |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £22.99 | ||
| Grillo Trubba, Diego | Crímenes coloniales: los asesinatos de las invasiones inglesas | Thriller set in the Buenos Aires of 1806. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £22.99 | ||
| Guelbenzu, J. M. | El amor verdadero | An ambitious love story about a couple whose relationship spans 60 years from 1945, against the backdrop of a turbulently changing Spain. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £26.99 | ||
| Guelbenzu, J. M. | Un asesinato piadoso | A man is brutally murdered in Mariana's garden shed. Her father-in-law confesses to the crime and is put in prison, but certain elements are yet to be explained. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Guelbenzu, J. M. | El hermano pequeño | The death of a glamour model, found with her hands severed, provides investigating judge Mariana with one of her most difficult cases. Things are further complicated by the aftermath of her messy divorce, the travails of life in a rainy town in northern Spain, and the appearance of the black sheep of the family, her younger brother. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £21.99 | ||
| Guelbenzu, J.M | El cadáver arrepentido | The valiant Mariana de Marco faces the most unusual case of her career when Amelia, a college friend, finds her wedding jeopardised by the sudden death of her mother and the discovery of a dead body. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £24.60 | ||
| Guerra Garrido, Raúl | Quien sueña novela | A writer looks back on an eventful life as he undertakes a marathon 12 hour walk round a large city. *XI Premio Unicaja de Novela Fernando Quiñones* |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.99 | ||
| Guerra, L.M | La peste negra | A brilliant account of the Black Death and how it came to influence modern European society. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £22.75 | ||
| Guerra, W. | Todos se van | The experience of growing up in Cuba is portrayed through the diary of Nieve Guerra, which chronicles her life from the age of 8 to 20. *Premio de Novela Bruguera* |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £15.95 | ||
| Guerrero, Mercedes | El árbol de la Diana | Elena and Antonio are drawn together when each loses a parent in suspicious circumstances, and Elena's brother is the chief suspect. A fierce attraction soon unites them in passion. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £11.95 | ||
| Guerrero, Mercedes | La última carta | Penniless after her divorce, Ann Marie decides to enter into a marriage of convenience with the rich owner of a tobacco plantation on the other side of the world. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £10.99 | ||
| Guerrero-Casasola, Joaquín | La sicaria de Polanco | Mexican Karina Schultz keeps her secret life as a paid assassin separate from her family life as a mother of teenagers for as long as she can, but eventually things come crumbling down around her. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £15.99 | ||
| Guillermo, O. | Sueños de perro | The death of an old friend leads Sebastián Mareco into an increasingly dangerous investigation in the backstreets of Buenos Aires. *Premio Umbriel Semana Negra 2004* |
| New Fiction. Published 2004. Price: £18.95 | ||
| Guirado, N. | La lista de los catorce | Inspired by the experiences of Guirado's grandfather, Ignacio Blas Notario, during the Spanish Civil War and after. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Guirado, N. | No siempre ganan los buenos | A high-powered businessman finds himself the prime suspect when his wife is brutally murdered. *Premio Provincia de Guadalajara de Narrativa* |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £15.50 | ||
| Gutiérrez Aragón, Manuel | La vida antes de marzo | Two strangers meet on a train in this futuristic novel set in 2024. Already an acclaimed film director, Gutiérrez Aragón now establishes himself as a talented writer. *Premio Herralde de Novela 2009* |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Gutiérrez, P. J. | Corazón mestizo | The author manages to capture the mysteries of a changing Cuba by narrating his travels around the island with powerful prose and fascinating insight. An honest and revealing account of the many faces of Cuba. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £29.95 | ||
| Gutiérrez, P. J. | El nido de la serpiente: memorias del hijo del heladero | Novel based on the author's turbulent adolescence in 1960s Cuba, providing a vivid depiction of a chaotic but exhilarating time. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £15.60 | ||
| Gutiérrez, Pablo | Ensimismada correspondencia | Collection of short stories in which everyday events take on new meanings. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £20.99 | ||
| Havilio, Iosi | Estocolmo | After years of exile in Switzerland following the Pinochet coup, René tentatively returns to his native Chile on a humanitarian mission. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Herbert, Julián | Canción de tumba | As his mother, an-ex prostitute, lies dying of leukaemia, the narrator looks back on his difficult childhood, his relationship with his own children and his life in a Mexico defiled by corruption and violence. *Premio Jaén de Novela* |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.50 | ||
| Hernando, Alberto | Los ojos prohibidos | A collection of short stories linked by blindness, sex and death. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Herrera, M. | La mitad mejor | The marginalised protagonists of "La mitad mejor" live dizzy lives in a city plagued by violence. A go-getter, half journalist half detective, tries to solve three mysteries. At the same time a mafia boss controls the situation from the shadows. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Hidalgo, M | Lo que el aire mueve | The moving story of Javi and Tere who, after leaving their native village, struggle to find a life for themselves in the city. *I Premio Logroño de Novela* |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £29.95 | ||
| Higueras, M. | El viejo río grande | The story of Elvira, only daughter of a wily Andalucian landowner. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £25.75 | ||
| Huerta, M. | El susurro de la caracola | A chance sighting of a cinema poster prompts Angeles Alarcón to become obsessed with a young film star. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Ibáñez Fanés, J | Una vida en la calle | Set in Barcelona, the story of an elderly man searching for a memory in the midst of an interior ocean that is as delirious as it is painfully lucid. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Ibañez, A. | El parque prohibido | The Parque de las Lilas contains a terrible secret and not even the army's tanks dare to enter. Fridolin and his friends decide to find out the truth… |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £16.50 | ||
| Ibáñez, Julián | Giley | A corrupt policeman, an illegal gambling den and a mysterious blonde are the main ingredients in this Chandleresque thriller. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.95 | ||
| Ibarrondo, J | Las ruinas de la Catedral Nueva | A short mystery that fuses fact and fiction and juxtaposes the past and the present in Spain and Mexico. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £18.95 | ||
| Iglesias, María | Lazos de humo | Set in the 19th century, the novel follows the fortunes of Germán, forced as a boy to leave his happy life in northern Spain to work in a Cádiz coal mine. An encounter with an idealistic young journalist restores his faith in life and inspires him to become a lawyer. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £23.50 | ||
| Illanes, P. | Fragilidad | Montserrat, a young middle-class Chilean mother, appears to have the perfect life. This novel explores how she comes to be in a New York clinic and why there is no one to meet her on her return home. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £17.40 | ||
| Iniesta, Roberto | El viaje íntimo de la locura | A novel which takes us on an adventure, allowing us to see the world from a different perspective. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Iraola, J. | El Kali | A modern picaresque tale of redemption and introspection as Severiano looks back on his troubled youth from a prison cell. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £17.45 | ||
| Iriarte, E. | Las huellas erradas | In the winter of 1876, in retreat from the army, Simon and Andrés, soldiers of the liberal faction, desert and flee in the company of a girl they have rescued from the bloody looting of a farmhouse. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £27.95 | ||
| Irisarri, A. de | La estrella peregrina | An 11th-century French countess sets out on the Pilgrims' Route to Santiago de Compostela, in order to pray for the soul of her late husband. An engrossing novel packed with fascinating characters, both those in her huge entourage and those encountered on the journey. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £27.95 | ||
| Irisarri, A. de., & T. Martínez de Lezea | Perlas para un collar | Two major historical novelists unite in their talents to create a passionate portrait of a Medieval Spain where Jews, Moors and Christians lived together. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £29.95 | ||
| Izaguirre, B | Villa Diamante | Runner up to the prestigious Premio Planeta, this is the story of Irene and Ana Elisa, two sisters parted by a cruel act of fate in 1940s Spain. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Izaguirre, Boris | Dos monstruos juntos | Alfredo, a celebrity chef, and his aristocratic wife Patricia have always lived a life of success and privilege. Their luck changes when they move to London in 2008 just as banks start to fail. An intriguing and humorous novel. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £22.50 | ||
| Izquierdo, P. | La falta | Psychological thriller about a renowned psychiatrist whose life is devastated after reading his sister's manuscript. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Izquierdo, P. (ed.) | Cada vez lo imposible | Short stories linked by the theme of "enterprising spirit" by authos such as Soledad Puértolas and Juan Madrid. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £18.75 | ||
| Jaramillo Agudelo, D | La voz interior | After the sudden death of Sebastián, the chance discovery of a huge quantity of his papers leads to a dramatic conclusion. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £35.60 | ||
| Jiménez Lozano, J | Agua de noria | A seemingly straightforward murder investigation turns complicated in this compelling novel about the ethics of scientific advance. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £20.95 | ||
| Jiménez Lozano, J | La piel de los tomates | Collection of short stories by the winner of the prestigious Premio Cervantes de Literatura. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £21.65 | ||
| Jiménez Lozano, J. | El azul sobrante | A new collection of stories by José Jiménez Lozano, winner of the Premio Cervantes de las Letras. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Jiménez, C | Madre mía, que estás en los infiernos | A novel which explores the themes of escape, exile and rebellion through the eyes of Adela, a middle-aged mother who flees from Central America to Spain in an attempt to escape a past which still persists in haunting her. *Premio de Novela Café Gijón 2007* |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Juan, J.L. de | Sobre ascuas | The intriguing and moving story of the "Isla de Sucre", a refuge for Civil War orphans isolated from normal society, and the experiences of a lawyer sent to work there. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Kohan, M. | Ciencias morales | Set in 1980s Argentina, life under the dictator Leonardo Galtieri is vividly depicted through the eyes of María Teresa, a Buenos Aires school teacher. *Premio Herralde de Novela* |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Kohan, Martín | Cuentas pendientes | The story of Giménez, a pathetic figure whose life of failure and bad luck is dispassionately portrayed by the narrator with neither compassion nor empathy. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £18.95 | ||
| Kresdez, J | La conjura de Córdoba | A tale of power and corruption set in 10th century Al-Andalus. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £16.95 | ||
| Labordeta, J.A | En el remolino | A chorus of voices set in a rural village during the Civil War explores the human condition whereby good people turn into torturers. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £14.50 | ||
| Lago, E. | Llámame Brooklyn | A tale of love, friendship and loneliness whose characters move between Coney Island, Tuscany and Madrid.*Premio Nadal 2006* |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £24.70 | ||
| Lahoz, Use | La estación perdida | The story of Santiago who has unexpectedly to leave his small village to start a new life in Barcelona, where he falls in love with the mysterious Candela. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £18.50 | ||
| Landero, L. | Retrato de un hombre inmaduro | In a hospital room during what is going to be his last night, a man of 65 years old tells somebody the story of his life. He recounts the smallest and biggest events that he has lived through plus those that he has watched others live through. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Lasala, M. | La estirpe de la mariposa | Zayyân, Lubná, Nûr, Sabay and Hawá make up this fascinating and powerful saga of five generations of independent, beautiful and intelligent women. Over 90 years we follow their lives and meet the men they fall passionately in love with. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Lázaro, Antonio | La cruz de los ángeles | A 13th-century cross is stolen from its Murcian sanctuary in 1934. 75 years later a private detective is charged with hunting it down.But other factions are also searching for the crosst, and his journey becomes fraught with danger. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £18.99 | ||
| Leante, C. | El bello ojo de la Tuerta | Set in the second half of the 16th Century in Spain, this epic novel recounts the tyrannical use of power throughout history. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £33.95 | ||
| Leante, L | Mira si yo te querré | The chance discovery of an old photograph prompts 44-year old Montse to abandon her career as a doctor in Barcelona and embark on a search for her first lost love. *Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2007* |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £27.85 | ||
| Leante, L. | La luna roja | The death of a Turkish author in suspicious circumstances forces his Spanish translator to revisit his past in Istanbul, haunted all the while by the passionate and ambitious figure of Derya; lover and wife. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Lechuga Quijada, S. | Calix | The definitive story of the Holy Grail in an action-packed novel of intrigue. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Leguineche, M | El Club de los Faltos de Cariño | The life experiences of a group of friends inspire this book of reflections on war, travel, politics and friendship. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Lema, A. | Una puta recorre Europa | Luz and Ada, two radical feminists, are so fed up of hearing about prostitution that they decide to take action, by killing the customers. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £17.75 | ||
| León, G | Murciélagos en un burdel | Thriller set in 1950s Havana among the cabarets and political corruption of the Batista era. *X Premio de Novela Ciudad de Badajoz* |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £25.95 | ||
| León, Gregorio | El pensamiento de los ahorcados | A love story about a pornographic actress who is taken by the mafia in the days of Castro's rise to power. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £25.75 | ||
| León, Gregorio | El último secreto de Frida K. | Detective Daniela Ackerman struggles to find the link between the theft of a painting by Frida Kahlo and the murders of a succession of ballerinas in the suburbs of Mexico City. *Premio Internacional de Novela Emilio Alarcos Llorach* |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Lienas, G | Atrapada en el espejo | Murder mystery set in Barcelona. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £16.95 | ||
| Lillo, Marcelo | Cazadores | A hungry couple who gatecrash a children's party, a mother who idolises her long-departed son, an elderly man reflecting on memories of his aunt's painted nails - just some of the marginalised characters in this collection of short stories. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.95 | ||
| Lillo, Marcelo | El fumador y otros relatos | Short stories about the joys and pitfalls of unexceptional, everyday life. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £17.75 | ||
| Lindo, E. | Una palabra tuya | A novel about Rosario and Milagros, childhood friends whose lives take very different directions *PREMIO BIBLIOTECA BREVE 2005* |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £21.55 | ||
| Lindo, Elvira | Lo que me queda por vivir | Alone in 1980s Madrid with her four-year old son, Antonia struggles to find a place for herself in a city and a time of rapid change. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Click on entry for price details. | ||
| Llamazares, Julio | Tanta pasión para nada | Short stories by one of Spain's most popular writers. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Llop, J.C. | El mensajero de Argel | Radio journalist Orfila Klein searches obsessively for family secrets, including her father's mysterious disappearance in a hippy commune, and her grandfather's experiences in the Second World War. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Lloréns, C. | Catalina: la fugitiva de San Benito | An adventure novel based on the life of Catalina de Erauso that offers an interesting glimpse into the lives of the upper classes in 16th-century Spain. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £16.95 | ||
| Lloréns, C. | La saga de los malditos | Novel about two Jewish women born centuries apart but into similarly dark times: Esther into the persecution of 14th-century Spain, and Hannah, born in 1930s Germany. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £18.95 | ||
| Lloréns, C. | Te daré la tierra | Gripping political thriller set in medieval Barcelona. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £29.95 | ||
| Lluís Bande, R. | Las habitaciones vacías | A novel about learning and transformations with a labyrinth of narrative styles which simulate the adventure of growing up. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.95 | ||
| Lobato, Oscar | Centhaeure | Centhaeure, one of the most famous equestrian institutions of Europe and also an economic empire, is enveloped in secrets. In the middle of a fight to take control, Lluvia, an attractive Olympic champion, also fights her own personal crusade. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Lobo, Martín | Diario de Martín Lobo | Sexually-explicit novel based on a popular blog in which life is seen from the point of view of a 30-something gay man. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Longares, M | Nuestra epopeya | A novel dealing with the hopes and dreams of those Spaniards who went into exile after the Civil War in search of a better life for their families. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Lope, Manuel de | Azul sobre azul | The author uses different literary genres - memoir, travel writing, diary - to produce a multi-faceted novel reminiscent of a Jackson Pollock canvas. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £27.99 | ||
| López Barrio, Cristina | La casa de los amores imposibles | The lives of three generations of women are the subject of this novel, whose magical realist tone is reminiscent of Isabel Allende. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £22.99 | ||
| López Castillo, Santiago | Las aliagas | The bittersweet story of the migration of a family from Extremadura to greener pastures within Spain in search of a better life, set in the 1960s. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £27.95 | ||
| López del Oso, F. J. | El templo de la luna | The collapse of a secret temple in the Egyptian desert sets in train a series of events threatening the future of humanity. A science-fiction, historical and adventure novel in one. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £27.95 | ||
| López, A | Martina, la rosa número trece | The story of one of thirteen young women brutally murdered by the Fascists in Barcelona, at the end of the Civil War. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £25.95 | ||
| López, O | El enviado del rey | A tale of murder and intrigue set in medieval Cartagena. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Loriga, Ray | El bebedor de lágrimas | A "Stephen King" type novel which combines crime, horror and fantasy. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £16.50 | ||
| Lozano Madariaga, I. | La vida privada de los Seymour | Audrey's life changes dramatically in a short time. She has broken up with her long time boyfriend and left her job. She and her mother Violet embark on a journey during which Violet will reveal the hidden secrets of their family history. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £27.95 | ||
| Lozano, A. | El caso Sankara | Based on a true story, this novel tells of the 15th October 1987 when the president of Burkina Faso is brought down and a revolutionary period begins. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Lozano, A. | Donde mueren los ríos | A touching novel about the plight of Africans who decide to make the dangerous journey to the Canary Islands in search of a more dignified existence. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Lozano, D. | La puerta oscura: El viajero | A tale of terror set in a parallel world where the dead roam. A fantastic tale aimed at imaginative young adults. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £28.50 | ||
| Luengo, L. | Amerika | Millionaire Rilke hires a writer to compose a film script using the notes of the late director Tourneur. However the writer will soon discover the secrets behind the film and Rilke's true intentions. *XIV Premio de Novela Ateneo Joven de Sevilla* |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Luengo, S | Catalina de Esquivias | Novel based on the life of Cervantes's wife which paints a fascinating picture of life in Golden Age Spain |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £29.95 | ||
| Luna, Luis de la. | Hipatia de Alejandría | A book recreating the life of Hipatia de Alejandría, a significant figure of ancient times and the protagonist of the film "Agora" by Amenábar. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £23.75 | ||
| Luria, C. | Uno de los muertos | A sarcastic, witty and bankrupt protagonist; a combination of mystery, dark dialogue and spine-chilling scenes; an addictive sexual tension: this is a corrosive novel about characters at their limit. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Lys, Francisco J.de | El laberinto de oro | A fascinating tale of love and corruption set in present-day Barcelona. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £18.99 | ||
| Madrid, J | Pájaro en mano | Madrid is full of strange people: paparazzi, money-laundering lawyers, cheating mistresses and corrupt ex-policemen. Nothing is as it seems, and the characters" bloody descent into violence is imminent. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £20.95 | ||
| Madrid, J. | Adiós princesa | Writer Juan has been accused of the murder of journalist Lidia and police investigations have signaled Toni as a possible accomplice. From prison Juan seeks Toni's help but nothing and nobody are as they seem. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Madrid, J. | Asuntos de rutina | The second volume in the "Brigada Central" trilogy set in the dark and dangerous world of Spain's national security service. A violent and powerful novel by one of Spain's most popular writers. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £22.99 | ||
| Madrid, Juan | El hombre del reloj | The final volume in the trilogy "Brigada Central III" , set in the murky world of the Spanish national security services. A powerful and violent novel. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £20.99 | ||
| Maeso de la Torre, Jesús | En una tierra libre | A gripping novel set in the early 19th century, one of the most turbulent times in Spanish history. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £22.99 | ||
| Magano, J | La Isis dorada | In his enthusiastic attempts to get a job at Arcadia magazine, art history student Jaime Azcárate begins an investigation which will lead him into a whirlwind of intrigue and danger. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £19.85 | ||
| Mallo, Ernesto | Crimen en el Barrio del Once: el primer caso del comisario Lascano | Crime novel set during the Argentinian dictatorship of the 1970s. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Mallo, Ernesto | El policía descalzo de la Plaza San Martín | Detective Perro Lascano tackles drug dealing and money laundering in this gripping tale set during the Argentinian transition to democracy in the 1980s. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.50 | ||
| Mallorquí, C. | El juego de los herejes | Two million years ago a group of men were forced to hide after discovering the truth of one of the biggest deceptions in history. 20 centuries later, Carmen Hidalgo must find a valuable document which may contain an extraordinary relvelation. Or not… |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Mallorquí, César | Leonís | Out of the blue Pablo Galván receives a letter written to him by his father shortly before the latter's death 12 years earlier. He leaves Madrid to investigate the truth behind a medieval legend. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £24.99 | ||
| Mañas, J.A. | Caso Karen | Psychological Thriller about the investigation into the death of a successful novelist, set in contemporary Spain. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £21.55 | ||
| Mañas, J.A. | El secreto del Oráculo | A dazzling novel based on the life of Alexander the Great. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £31.75 | ||
| Mañas, J.A., Leiva, A.D. | El factor hispano | A right-wing policeman is forced to take part in a kidnapping, together with his wife and others, in an explosive tale of violence. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £14.95 | ||
| Manuel Fajardo, J. | Mi nombre es Jamaica | Historians Santiago and Dana meet at a conference. Unstable due to a recent tragedy, Santiago starts to speak in a dead language and declares his name to be Jamaica. Dana finds this name in an old document. Maybe Santiago is not mad after all… |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Maqua Lara, J. | Fusilamiento: instrucciones de uso | A young film-maker finds himself intrigued by the case of the last man to be executed in Spain a quarter of a century earlier. *VII PREMIO DE NOVELA CIUDAD DE BAJADOZ* |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £24.45 | ||
| March, J.A. | Espérame en la Habana | On the first of every November, Jorge Basauri goes to the Bahía Blanca cemetery and leaves flowers for his sweetheart, always with the same dedication. A panorama of a century of Cuban history. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Marcos, David de Juan | El baile de las lagartijas | Set in an imaginary area on the Spanish-Portuguese border, this is the story of a group of magical characters whose destinies are influenced by love in all its forms. *Premio Internacional de Novela Ciudad de Valencia Vicente Blasco Ibáñez* |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Marías, F. | Todo el amor y casi toda la muerte | A novel about the strength of desire, this book redefines romantic literature and the psychological thriller through the stories of two men from different times both suffering from the same curse. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Marías, F. (ed.) | Jekyll & Hyde | Seven modern authors confront the myth of the double, using Robert Louis Stevenson's brilliant novel "The strange case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde" as a starting point. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £33.95 | ||
| Marías, J | Tu rostro mañana, 3. Veneno y sombra y adiós | The eagerly awaited third volume in a dazzling trilogy set in the dangerous world of spying and violence. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £25.50 | ||
| Marías, J. | Los enamoramientos | New novel by one of Spain's most distinguished authors, this is a captivating tale about falling in love. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £21.99 | ||
| Marías, J. | Tu rostro mañana 2: Baile y sueño | Second part of a trilogy by one of Spain's leading novelists, following the story of a secret agent who has the gift of seeing into the future. |
| New Fiction. Published 2004. Price: £20.85 | ||
| Maristany, M | La enfermera de Brunete | An epic love story set during the Spanish Civil War. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £34.95 | ||
| Maristany, M. | El desafío | Patricia never imagined that by boarding the "Aloha" by mistake she would meet the man of her dreams, Bruno. A gripping novel of passion, intrigue and espionage. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £27.50 | ||
| Márquez de la Plata, V. | La concubina del Rey-Emperador | Historical novel set during the Moorish invasion of 11th-century Spain. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.30 | ||
| Márquez de la Plata, V. | La valida | A novel narrating the memories of Doña Leonora Lopez de Cordoba who, after being freed from the imprisonment of her disgraced family, managed to restore her assets and ascend to the most powerful position of the Spanish Court. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Marsé, J. | Canciones de amor en Lolita's Club | In a seedy bar on the edge of Barcelona, the protagonists of this novel search for reason and understanding in their harsh and miserable lives. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Marsé, Juan | Caligrafía de los sueños | A 15-year old boy spends his days in a Barcelona bar, unknowingly witnessing the unfolding of a tragic love affair. This is Marsé's first novel since winning the Premio Cervantes in 2008. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.00 | ||
| Martí, I. | Cuaderno de noche | Lyrical short stories based on the author's own dreams. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £10.99 | ||
| Martín de la Vega, José Miguel | Los escrúpulos del Sicario | A dark novel about the mafia and drugs trade. The narrative is similar to Cela in its efficient and striking use of emotive language. *VIII Premio Internacional de Novela " Emilio Alarcos Llorach" * |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £25.50 | ||
| Martín Garzo, G. | Mi querida Eva | Three adolescents experience love for the first time in a hot summer in Valladolid. Years later two of them meet by coincidence and, while reminiscing, discover hidden secrets. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Martín Garzo, Gustavo | La carta cerrada | Daniel remembers a happy childhood and the magic moments he spent in the company of his mother. But all is changed when a shocking accident takes hold of the family and Daniel must become an adult more in touch with the past than the present. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Martín Garzo, Gustavo | Tan cerca del aire | Orphaned Jonas leads a lonely life as a village postman. One day he meets the enigmatic Paula, an old friend of his parents whose reminiscences allow him to move on with his life. *IX Premio de Novela Ciudad de Torrevieja* |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.99 | ||
| Martin Nieto, C. | Casandra hija del rey de Troya. | A dramatic historical novel in which the political intrigues and betrayals which led to the fall of Troy (1200 BC) are narrated by Casandra, member of the fallen Troy royal family who was saved by the enemy king's secret love for her. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Martín Nogales, J.L. | La mujer de Roma | The discovery in London of a 17th-century painting identical to Velázquez's "The Rokeby Venus" leads to a journey round Europe for a young art historian, as he struggles to ascertain whether it is an original or a fake. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £25.40 | ||
| Martín, A | El blues del detective inmortal | A thrilling new journey into the subterranean world of jazz and crime from the pen of this famous writer of black novels. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £20.95 | ||
| Martín, A. & J. Ribera | Con los muertos no se juega | Award-winning Catalan detective novel that introduces charismatic detective Angel Esquius. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £19.90 | ||
| Martín, Andreu | El blues de la cuidad inverosímil | A jazz band has come to Venice to play at a film festival, recommended by famous writer Donna Leon. However when the ex-lover of the piano player comes back on the scene, a dark history is revealed. Includes a music CD. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Martínez de Pisón, I. (ed). | Partes de guerra | A collection of stories about the Spanish Civil War which aspires to provide a collective novel. 25 of the best stories written by the best literary voices which explain exactly what the conflict was. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £30.95 | ||
| Martínez Llamas, A | La dama de Arintero | Historical novel set in the time of Ferdinand and Isabella. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £20.60 | ||
| Martínez Ruiz, E | El castellano de Flandes | Historical novel set in 16th-century Spain, at the time the greatest world power. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Martínez, G | Sudd | When a shaky truce is called between two warring African tribes, politicians from both sides travel to the White Nile to mark the occasion. As they move further into the hostile landscape, they must either join forces or perish in the deadly swamps. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £19.80 | ||
| Martínez, G. | Yo también tuve una novia bisexual | An argentinian professor goes to teach in the USA, where he meets Jennifer, one of his students. |
| New Fiction. Published 2012. Price: £17.50 | ||
| Martínez, Gregorio | Sólo para gigantes | The novel follows in the footsteps of Jordi Magraner, a zoologist who spent 15 years in the north of Asia in the beginning of the 90s looking for a legendary yeti and was killed there. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Martínez, Raquel | Sombras de unicornio | Having lived in Argentina since childhood, Claudia returns to her native Spain to start a new life. Her job in a Madrid restaurant brings her into contact with Edgar, a wealthy Mexican also seeking to escape from the past. *Premio de Literatura de la Unión Europea* |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Martorell, J | La máscara maya | An adventure story set in the ruins of a Mayan temple. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £24.30 | ||
| Marzal Mayo, A. | El anillo del Venerable | A murder mystery set in 1940s Madrid. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £25.50 | ||
| Masot, Núria | Las puertas del mal | Murder mystery set in the times of the Knights Templar. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £11.99 | ||
| Mastretta, A. | Maridos | A new collection of short stories by this hugely popular Mexican writer who specialises in examining the hidden experiences of women from a feminist perspective. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £27.50 | ||
| Mateo-Sagasta, A. | Las caras del tigre | A detective novel centred on a tragic bus crash. Things are not as they seem when the detective realises that the fatalities do not match any DNA records. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Mateo-Sagasta, A. | El gabinete de las maravillas | A thriller set in 17th century Madrid from the prize winning author of "Ladrones de tinta" and "El olor de las especias". |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Matute, A. M. | Paraíso inhabitado | Adriana's imaginary and magical world is threatened once she starts school and thus enters the land of the adults. A touching tale that reminds us that there once was a time when we all lived inside our own perfect, fantasy worlds. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £28.75 | ||
| Matute, Ana María | Luciérnagas | |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £11.99 | ||
| Matute, Ana María | La puerta de la luna | Collected short stories by this internationally acclaimed writer. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £29.99 | ||
| Maya, M.A | Ultimas 2 horas y 58 minutos | An American businessman and an Israeli army deserter find their destinies entwined. The action moves from the USA to Europe via Mexico and South America. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Mayoral, M. | Deseos | Dawn breaks in the town of Brétema. Little do its residents suspect that by the end of the day their sleepy town will have been rocked by a rape, a car accident and an unexpected death. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Mayoral, M. | ¿Quién mató a Inmaculada de Silva? | Etel wants to be a writer and with the help of Juancho, the boy she is in love with, she investigates the death of one of her ancestors. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £11.95 | ||
| Melero, Luis | Colón el impostor | A critical look at the life and times of Columbus, which attemps to distinguish between the man and the myth. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Melero, Nina | Tenebrario: doce pesadillas y un escalofrío | A collection of spine-chilling stories guaranteed to disturb even the boldest of readers. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £12.95 | ||
| Mena, M | Días sin tregua | Set in 1981 during the early days of democracy. A Barcelona footballer is kidnapped and a young police inspector has to put aside his family problems in the race against time to find him. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £22.80 | ||
| Méndez Guédez, J.C | Hasta luego, míster Salinger | A collection of humorous yet perceptive short stories. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £16.70 | ||
| Mendicutti, E. | Ganas de hablar | Cigala, a manicurist to the rich and famous in an up-market town in Mallorca, is startled to discover that a street is to be named in her honour. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Mendicutti, E. | Mae West y yo | When Felipe, a diplomat and amateur ventriloquist, is diagnosed with a serious illness, he decides to spend some time in a luxurious seaside resort. He quickly becomes intrigued by a wealthy neighbour and her handsome son. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £20.99 | ||
| Mendoza, E | El asombroso viaje de Pomponio Flato | Detective novel set in 1st-century Nazareth by one of Spain's most popular novelists who has established himself as a master of his chosen genre. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £23.60 | ||
| Mendoza, E | Mauricio o las elecciones primarias | Set in Barcelona just after Spain's transition to democracy. A young dentist campaining for the Socialist party finds himself drawn into an intense relationship with two women. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Mendoza, É. | Balas de plata | Agent Edgar "el Zurdo" Mendieta, suffering after the loss of his lover, takes on a lot of work when he starts investigating the murder of Bruno Canizales, a prestigious lawyer with a double life and who has been found dead with a silver bullet in his head. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £11.99 | ||
| Mendoza, E. | Riña de gatos: Madrid 1936 | A young English art curator arrives in Madrid to authenticate a picture whose value will influence the outcome of the impending Civil War. Turbulent love affairs distract him from the fact that his life is in danger. *Premio Planeta 2010* |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Click on entry for price details. | ||
| Mendoza, M. | Buda blues | Vicente, a university professor, is informed that a relative has died. When he and a friend start to investigate, they enter into an unknown underground world of anarchists fighting the capitalist system and rejecting the concept of progress. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Mendoza, Mario | Los hombres invisibles | Shattered by the loss of his wife and the death of his parents, Gerardo decides to emulate Paul Gauguin and seek a new life in the tropics. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Menéndez Salmón, R | Gritar | A new collection of nine short stories from the critically acclaimed author of "La ofensa". |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Menéndez Salmón, R | La ofensa | Can love save you if you lose hope? Set in wartime Europe, this novel explores the roots of evil and the possibility of redemption. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Menéndez Salmón, Ricardo | La luz es más antigua que el amor | The story of three painters whose lives share similarities, despite the centuries that separate them. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Menéndez Salmón, Ricardo | La noche feroz | A cruel priest and a village schoolmaster tormented by the past are the protagonists of this thriller set in a remote village during the Spanish Civil War. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £15.99 | ||
| Menéndez, E. | El corazón del océano | A novel about the first expedition of women to the New World. The Castilian Crown is advancing its conquest as Carlos V aims to Christianise the empire. But on the way they will have to overcome many obstacles from pirate attacks to the plague. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £29.95 | ||
| Merino, J. M. | Historias del otro lugar | Collected short stories from one of Spain's most prominent contemporary writers. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £28.95 | ||
| Merino, J. M. | El libro de las horas contadas | The story of a long-married couple and their best friend is told through a series of short stories and telling vignettes. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Merino, J. M. | Las puertas de lo posible | Short stories based around science-fiction ranging in theme from human colonies on the moon to robot armies. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Merino, José María | El lugar sin culpa | A biologist escapes a painful family drama by choosing to work on an remote island. But the discovery of a young girl's body comes as a sharp reminder that human reality cannot easily be avoided . |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £17.60 | ||
| Mestre, Javier | Komatsu PC-340 | The story of Santiago, a motorway excavation worker, and his relationship with Victoria. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £20.99 | ||
| Mije, Javier | El fabuloso mundo de nada | Short stories whose themes are love, violence, loneliness and failure. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £15.95 | ||
| Millás, J. J. | Lo que sé de los hombrecillos | The lines between fantasy and reality are blurred in the latest novel by this prizewinning author. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Click on entry for price details. | ||
| Millás, J.J | Laura y Julio | Recently separated, Julio decides secretly to move in to an empty neighbouring flat, where he finds himself metamorphosing into its absent occupant. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Millás, J.J | El mundo | The story of a friendship between two schoolboys, Juanjo and the doomed Vitaminas. *Premio Planeta 2007* |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Mira, A | Como la tentación | When troubled teenager Sergio struggles to come to terms with his feelings, help is at hand in the form of a guardian angel who will give him the courage to take control of his destiny... *Premio Terenci Moix* |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £26.75 | ||
| Miralles, F | La profecía 2013 | A novel in the style of "The Da Vinci code" whose action moves from the year 95 B.C. to the present day. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Miralles, Francesc, & Joan Bruna | El legado de Judas | Young tour guide Andreas finds himself plunged into a world of intrigue and danger when he agrees to help a mysterious woman in her quest to find the pieces of silver left by Judas Iscariot. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Modroño, F. G. | Muerte dulce | Balmaseda, 1683. Pedro Urtiaga has just been poisoned. During his last few hours he writes a letter to his friend, a doctor, announcing his imminent death and begging for revenge. The doctor will travel far to discover the identity of the murderer. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Modroño, F.G | La sangre de los crucificados | Historical thriller set in late 17th-century Spain. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £28.80 | ||
| Molina Foix, V | El abrecartas | An ambitious novel written in the form of letters, painting a vivid picture of the Spain of the last hundred years. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Molina Foix, Vicente | El hombre que vendió su propia cama | Short stories, on the surface about humdrum everyday matters, but with unexpected twists. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.99 | ||
| Molina, C.A | Esperando a los años que no vuelven | Part fiction, part memory, this is a witty and compassionate reflection on the world and the literary and historical figures of the past. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £27.35 | ||
| Moliner, Empar | No hay terceras personas | The follies of modern life are examined in this collection of bittersweet short stories. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £17.50 | ||
| Molist, J | La reina oculta | A captivating tale of passion, rivalry and death set in 13th century Rome. *Premio de Novela Histórica Alfonso X el Sabio 2007* |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.55 | ||
| Molist, Jorge | Prométeme que serás libre | Historical novel set in 15th-century Catalonia. 12-year old Joan is forced to flee when his father is killed, and his mother and sister kidnapped, by pirates. His attempts to free his family take him to Sicily, Naples and Rome. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £21.50 | ||
| Monforte, R. | La rosa escondida | A young Bosnian refugee seeks a new life in Spain, only to encounter racism and violence. Gradually she finds friendship and a new love, giving her the strength to come to terms with her past. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Monforte, R. | La rosa escondida | |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £11.99 | ||
| Monsó, I. | Una tormenta | A writer on her way to give a conference comes across an ambulance. The patient has just died but has received an SMS. The writer realises that the message is from somebody who is attending her conference who is yet to find out about the tragedy. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Monteagudo, D. | Fin | A group of old friends who only have a shady episode from their past in common meet at a mountain refuge. All is going well until an event changes their plans. Under mounting pressure, each person interprets the events according to their own obsessions. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £27.95 | ||
| Montero, A. | Mi vida perra: diario de una treintanera cualquiera | A Spanish take on Bridget Jones: the narrator shares selections of her diary, which is published as a "blog" on the internet. Ironic, funny and entertaining. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £19.45 | ||
| Montero, Carla | Una dama en juego | Novel about a glamorous female spy, set in 1913. *Premio Círculo de Lectores de Novela 2009*. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Montero, R | Instrucciones para salvar el mundo | A widowed taxi driver, a jaded doctor,An African prostitute and an old scientist find their lives collide while a serial killer is on the loose. A gripping tragicomedy from one of Spain's leading novelists. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Montero, R. | El amor de mi vida | Montero's love for literature is so contagious that this book, which contains texts published in El Pais between 1998-2010, will become for many an essential reading guide. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Montero, R. | Lágrimas en la lluvia | Detective novel set in Madrid, 2109. Bruna Husky is assigned to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in this powerful and humorous tale. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £22.99 | ||
| Montes, Antonio | El grito | The death of an old lady brings out many secrets in a remote Spanish village. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.50 | ||
| Monteserín, P | La lavandera | Set against a backdrop of political and cultural revolution in Mexico, this is the story of Soledad, a washerwoman who befriends the troubled poet Manuel Acuña. *XIII Premio Lengua de Trapo de Novela* |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £23.75 | ||
| Montfort, V | El ingrediente secreto | A young girl discovers an old family secret which gives a new meaning to her life. *Premio de Novela Ateneo Joven de Sevilla* |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Montfort, Vanessa | Mitología de Nueva York | Detective novel set in the seedy world of illegal New York gambling dens. *Premio de Novela Ateneo de Sevilla* |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £22.99 | ||
| Mora, V. | La mujer de los ojos de lluvia | It is 1991 and Barcelona prepares to host the Olympic Games. A compelling story whose characters include a businessman juggling wife and mistress, an aspiring actress, an abused wife and a murderer. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Mora, Vicente Luis | Alba Cromm | A jaded detective uses all available new technology as she tries to track down a notorious paedophile in this tense thriller. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Mora, Vicente Luis | Circular 07. Las afueras | A novel which follows the urban model, extending itself in all directions through poems, mini-essays, dramatic scenes, text messages, songs, narrative documents and condensed novels, provoking infinite results. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Morábito, F. | Emilio, los chistes y la muerte | The story of the relationship between a 12-year old child who remembers everything and a middle-aged woman who would prefer to forget everything. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Morata, G | El perfuma de bergamota | Granada, 1392: the scent of bergamot leads Doctor Hamet down a dark road towards a conspiracy to assassinate the king. A fascinating novel based on historical facts. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £21.70 | ||
| Morata, S. | La sombra del Faraón | In Ancient Egypt Pi is chosen as Tutankhamun's servant for life. Pi witnesses the insaciable thirst of Tutankhamun's son to take the thrown and all become caught up in the battles for religious power. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £26.50 | ||
| Morata, S. | La sombra del Faraón | In Ancient Egypt Pi is chosen as Tutankhamun's servant for life. Pi witnesses the insaciable thirst of Tutankhamun's son to take the thrown and all become caught up in the battles for religious power. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Morató, C. | Cautiva en Arabia: la extraordinaria historia de la Condesa Marga D'Andurain, espía y aventurera en Oriente Medio | Set in the Orient of the 1940s, this is a biographical novel of the scandalous life of Basque-born spy, Marga D'Andurain, peppered with betrayals, murder and intrigue. She was murdered on her sailboat in Tangiers 1948. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £29.95 | ||
| Morella, J. | Asuntos propios | 71-year-old Roberto is independent and used to living alone. But one day his caretaker is taken ill and he is forced to hire help from a cleaning agency. As soon as Jacinta arrives at his door, something sparks between them. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £20.95 | ||
| Moreno, Elena | El salón de la embajada italiana | A young Bilbao-based journalist is caught up in a world of secrets when she meets Mateo, an attractive businessman who is seeking the truth about his dead father. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £21.99 | ||
| Moreno, Eloy | El bolígrafo de gel verde | The chance discovery of a green pen leads to nothing but trouble for a seemingly happy family man. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Moriel, E | La ciudad sin tiempo | A legal secretary finds herself embroiled in a murder investigation following the death of a Barcelona aristocrat, only to find herself aided by a ghost from medieval times. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £27.95 | ||
| Moro, J. | El imperio eres tú | With the lush beauty of the tropics as the background to his tale, Javier Moro describes with his passion for detail the epic story of the formation of Brazil. *Winner of Premio Planeta 2011* |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £24.99 | ||
| Moro, J. | Pasión India | Based on the true story of Anita Delgado, Andalusian wife of the maharajah of Kapurthala. A story of love and betrayal which culminates in one of the biggest scandals of the India of the British Empire. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Muñiz, C. | Jaque al trono | A fast-paced historical thriller set in the times of Marie Antoinette. An incident with a necklace sets off a chain of events which lead to the most famous revolution in history. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Muñoz Molina, A. | Nada del otro mundo | A collection of short stories in which themes such as terror, love and death are addressed in a fantastical and humorous way. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.99 | ||
| Muñoz Molina, A. | La noche de los tiempos | Exiled in the USA, an arquitect reflects on a love affair conducted in secret in the months leading up to the Spanish Civil War. An unforgettable novel by one of Spain's most popular writers. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Muñoz Molina, A. | El viento de la Luna | It is 1969 and a teenage boy contemplates what he sees as the beginning of a new age, as the first moon landing takes place. A moving story of adolescence with elements of Salinger and Philip Roth. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £13.70 | ||
| Muñoz, J.L | El mal absoluto | A former SS officer and a concentration camp survivor come face to face in a television documentary. A powerful novel whose themes are evil and revenge. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Muñoz, José Luis | La frontera Sur | An American life insurance salesman finds unexpected passion when he meets a Mexican waitress in Tijuana. A hard-hitting novel which highlights the gulf between their two countries. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.99 | ||
| Navajas, G | En blanco y negro | A tale of love, violence and exile whose action moves between Barcelona, Mexico and California in the years following the Spanish Civil War. |
| New Fiction. Price: £15.60 | ||
| Navarro, E | La ciudad en invierno | Horror story whose main protagonist is a girl on the cusp of womanhood. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £13.60 | ||
| Navarro, E. | La ciudad feliz | A novel which narrates the adventures of a Chinese family in Spain, as seen through the eyes of a small boy.All around them is the relentless noise of the city, whose streets symbolize possibility and the unknown. *XXV Premio Jaén de Novela* |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Navarro, H. G. | El pez volador | An exciting and imaginative collection of short stories by one of Spain's most exciting new storytellers. Includes an unedited interview with the author. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Navarro, J | Finalmusik | After many years in Italy, the narrator returns to his native Granada in order to see his father, with whom he has never lived, but from whose shadow he has never managed to escape. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Navarro, J. | Dime quién soy | A epic novel of political intrigue, love and betrayal, whose action extends from the days of the Spanish Republic to the fall of the Berlin Wall. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £29.95 | ||
| Navarro, J. | La sangre de los inocentes | Julia Navarro surprises us with a dizzying adventure which transports us to places such as Jerusalem, Granada, Rome and Istanbul whilst investigating the causes of religious fanaticism and intolerance over the centuries. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £17.95 | ||
| Navarro, Julia | La sangre de los inocentes | In her most ambitious novel yet, Navarro takes the reader on a journey through religious fanaticism and intolerance across the ages from Jerusalem to Granada. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £24.40 | ||
| Navarro, Justo | El espía | Novel based on the wartime activities of Ezra Pound, who spread pro-fascist propaganda by radio from his home in Italy. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.50 | ||
| Negrete, J | Salamina | Novel set in the dawn of Greek civilisation, by one of Spain's foremost historical novelists. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £23.35 | ||
| Negrete, J. | Amada de los dioses | A young Greek girl is kidnapped by pirates and ends up a courtesan whose fame extends throughout ancient Greece. |
| New Fiction. Published 2004. Price: £15.25 | ||
| Negrete, J. | Atlántida | Gabriel Espada, a cynical go-getter with no job or money and the most improbable of heroes, has a mission before him: discover the secret of Atlantis. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Negrete, J. | El espíritu del mago | Set in the mystical land of Tramorea, where Derguin Orion and youg Darkos unite to save their compatriots from terror and darkness. |
| New Fiction. Price: £27.80 | ||
| Negrete, Javier, & Juan Miguel Aguilera | La Zona | A mystery virus strikes Matavientos, a town in the south of Spain, affecting thousands of people. When biological warfare expert Laura arrive to investigate, she finds that the effect of the virus is to make its victims extremely aggressive. Soon she is fighting for her life… |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.50 | ||
| Nettel, Guadalupe | El cuerpo en que nací | Based on the author's own childhood, this is the story of a girl born with an eye defect which causes her to feel marginalised from the liberated (sexually and otherwise) society of the 1970s. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £15.50 | ||
| Neuman, A | El último minuto | A collection of short stories which depict the crises of the various protagonists in both a tragic and light-hearted manner. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £16.30 | ||
| Neumann, A | El viajero del siglo | An ambitious novel set in 19th-century post-Napoleonic Germany, yet whose themes are undeniably modern: multiculturalism, nationalism and the role of women. Voted by the readers of El País as one of the best five Spanish novels of the year. *Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2009* |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Novo, N. | El solateras | A splendid novel exploring the solitary world of a 40-year old actor who has just split up with is girlfriend. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £16.45 | ||
| Núñez Roldán, F. | De Algeciras a Estambul | In 1823, after the invasion of the 100,000 sons of San Luis, the Spanish liberals' hope of escape is crushed. They move to support Greece's fight for freedom, where they fight for the same ideals in a different language and under a different flag. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Núñez, I. | Algunos hombres… y otras mujeres | In fifteen stories Isabel Núñez shakes up and combines the lived and the imagined in order to express her astonishment at a world which is hard to understand. Stories of complex relationships, adolescent confusion and the doubts of adult life. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Obligado, Clara | El libro de los viajes equivocados | A collection of short stories which examine the ways in which chance events can change lives for ever. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £15.99 | ||
| Ochoa Harris, Keila | Donají | Leo is a young Mexican painter whose loyalty to his family is tested by his love for a young Mexican-Indian girl. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Olaizola, J. L. | Un Mercedes para Macario | When tribal wars and General Mobutu force Agustín to move to Spain to live with distant relatives, little does he imagine the ways in which luck will shape his future. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Olaizola, J.L | Dos de mayo de 1808 | Historical novel set in the tense days leading up to the Spanish armed rebellion against French occupation during the Napoleonic wars. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £20.95 | ||
| Olgoso, A | Los demonios del lugar | Collection of disquieting short stories featuring fifteen types of terror. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £17.40 | ||
| Olgoso, A | Los demonios del lugar | A collection of finely crafted short stories whose themes are terror and the supernatural, by an author who has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £17.40 | ||
| Olguín, Sergio | Oscura monótona sangre | Julio, a successful Buenos Aires businessman, becomes obsessed with a young prostitute. He soon finds himself leading a dangerous double life which threatens all that he has achieved. *Premio Tusquets Editores de Novela* |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Olmos, Alberto | Ejército enemigo | Santiago is a cynical advertising executive who lives only for decadent pleasures. The death of a friend causes him to question all his values and take a new view on social cohesion. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £20.99 | ||
| Orejudo, Antonio | Ventajas de viajar en tren | After leaving her husband in a psychiatric clinic, a woman takes the train back to Madrid in the company of one of the psychiatrists, who has a file of fasciating information about mental disorders. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.00 | ||
| Oropeza, M | Una cenicienta sin zapato | A middle-aged woman escapes the stresses of her city job by taking refuge in romantic novels and the cinema, still hoping to find a real leading man of her own. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £17.60 | ||
| Ortiz, L | Las manos de Velázquez | Teodoro, an academic married to one of his ex-students, is researching the life of Velázquez for a book. As he uncovers various intriguing secrets, his growing obsession with his work threatens his marriage. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £24.80 | ||
| Ortuño, A | El jardín japonés | A collection of short stories in which the author uses the tools of irony, violence and satire to powerful effect. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £16.95 | ||
| Ortuño, A | Recursos humanos | An exploration of the nightmarish world of the office and an ironic reflection on the relationship between employer and employee in contemporary society. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Osorio, E | Cielo de tango | Set in Paris, where a young French girl and a Argentinian film-maker are brought together, despite very different backgrounds, by their love of the tango. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £21.99 | ||
| Osorio, E. | Callejón con salida | Short stories whose themes of fear, oppression and recovered memory paint a vivid picture of Argentina's troubled recent past. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Ospina, W | Ursúa | First novel by a well-known Colombian poet, and hailed as the most important novel of 2005 by Gabriel García Márquez. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Otero Lastres, J. M. | La niña de gris | When recently retired José Varela reads a mysterious note in the local paper he decides to dedicate his new free time to investigating its origin. He quickly finds himself drawn into a mystery almost 80 years old: what really happened one night during the Civil War. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.75 | ||
| Ovejero, J | Nunca pasa nada | Carmela and Nico lead an apparently normal middle- class married life until all is disrupted by the arrival of Olivia, their new Ecuadoran maid. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.70 | ||
| Padilla, I | La Gruta del Toscano | Sherpa Pasang Nuru watches impassively as a succession of explorers attempt to reach the bottom of a Himalayan grotto, rumoured to house a Dantesque secret. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £19.65 | ||
| Padura, L. | Máscaras | In Havana a body is found, Alexis Arayán, transexual, son of a Cuban diplomatic. The detective Mario Conde will investigate the case. |
| New Fiction. Published 2012. Price: £9.99 | ||
| Padura, Leonardo | La cola de la serpiente | A trip through Havana brings back memories to a former detective of an old murder investigation in the Chinatown area. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £16.99 | ||
| Palazuelos, F. | Pura chatarra | Prizewinning novella. Andrés has worked all his life as a scrap dealer. One day his boss dies… |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Paletta, V., & J. Sáez de Ibarra (eds.) | Cuentos sobre nuestros abuelos | Anthology of short stories whose theme is old age, its pleasures and problems. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Palomas, Alejandro | El tiempo que nos une | A moving novel about four generations of women through times of laughter and tears, suffering and survival. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £20.99 | ||
| Pandiani, Alvaro | Columnas de humo | Montevideo, 1857, and Uruguay is being decimated by yellow fever. A harrowing tale of pestilence, death and a people who feel abandoned by God. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Papell, Antonio | El sol sobre la nieve | A love triangle set in Madrid's high society. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £26.65 | ||
| Pareja, A., & J. Corominas (eds.) | Matar en Barcelona | Twelve young authors and twelve real crimes committed in Barcelona. In this anthology, the authors have followed the trail of a series of murders through press articles and other testimonies to construct twelve inspired stories. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £27.95 | ||
| Pascual, A. | El compositor de tormentas | Matthieu yearns to be part of Luis XIV's orchestra. Little does he suspect that a brutal murder will open the palace doors for him and bestow on him one of the greatest responsibilities of all. *Finalista VIII Premio de Novela Ciudad de Torrevieja". |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Pascual, A. | El haiku de las palabras perdidas | Nagasaki, August 1945 and a pair of young lovers plan a secret tryst, unaware of what is about to befall them. Their story is told in parallel with a contemporary love story set in Switzerland. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £20.99 | ||
| Pascual, J. | Los acasos | In 1976 a regimental writer is asked to compose the funeral writings of Moisés Mújica y Clavijo to be sent to his family. Reading his papers he makes an unusual discovery, but is even more shocked a year later when a reply comes from the mother… |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Pascual, J. | Periplos y derrotas del Chancro de Azamor | This is the story of Ismael who, disabled since birth and from a Sephardic family, goes in search of treasure and the lands of legends. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £13.60 | ||
| Pastor, Bárbara | El secreto del Mediterráneo | A thriller based in a medieval cemetery that looks to unravel the mystery of a secret code that Hitler gave to his bodyguard before death. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £27.75 | ||
| Pastor, Javier | Mate jaque | A writer flees from his life and takes refuge in the decadent resort of Monegástar. There he tries to reconstruct his past whilst at the same time strange events take place, eventually uncovering that he is slowly going insane. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £18.50 | ||
| Pau Janer, M. de la. | Cartas que siempre esperé | Ricarda spends years waiting for a letter that finally arrives too late. Her son is affected by the image of his mother's waiting and gets a job at the Department of Dead Letters. There he finds the lost letters of Paula and is mysteriously drawn in. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Pauls, A | Historia del llanto | Captivating novel set in 1970s South America which looks particularly at the fraught relationship between private hopes and fears, and public politics. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Pauls, Alan | Historia del pelo | Black comedy set in 1970s Buenos Aires. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £16.99 | ||
| Paz Soldán, Edmundo | Norte | A novel whose action moves between 1930s California, 1980s Mexico and present-day Texas, and which paints a picture of how the USA has been reinvented by Latino immigration. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £24.99 | ||
| Paz, P. de | El documento Saldaño | Attracted by a generous offer of money, Miguel Cortés accepts the challenge of finding an antique document that contains the keys to an artistic treasure of immeasurable value, hidden at the outbreak of the Civil War and believed lost forever. A fast-paced thriller. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Pedregosa, Alejandro | Un extraño lugar para morir | When a famous writer is found dead in his hotel, detective Uriza finds himself outside his comfort zone. An engaging novel set in Pamplona during the bull-running festival of San Fermín. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £18.99 | ||
| Pedregosa, Alejandro | Un mal paso | A darkly humorous detective novel set in and around Santiago de Compostela. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £18.99 | ||
| Penadés, A | El hombre de Esparta: la tragedia de Isómaco de Atenas | Historial novel chronicling the decline of Classical Greece and the wars with Sparta. |
| New Fiction. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Peramo, C | Me refiero a los Játac | Forced to confront the murder of a childhood friend by a gang boss, will Carlos be able to overcome twenty years of guilt over the boy's death? A subtle and moving novel.. *II Premio de Novela Bruguera* |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £18.95 | ||
| Peregil, F. | Manuela | It is 1937 and 450 children leave the violence and hunger of the Civil War for the safety of the Mexican town of Morelia. For many it wil be years before they rejoin their families, if at all. A moving tale of love and loss. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Pérez Alvarez, J.M | La soledad de las vocales | Novel about a group of misfits who live in a Swiss boarding house, surviving only through their fantasy worlds. *III Premio Bruguera de Novela* |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Pérez Azaústre, J | La suite de Manolete | Bruno and Fabián are drawn into a web of mystery and intrigue as they investigate the death of an old friend. *Premio Unicaja de Novela Fernando Quiñones* |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £27.95 | ||
| Pérez Cañamares, A. | En días idénticos a nubes | A collection of short stories about adolescence, whese themes are love, loyalty,guilt and primitive passions. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £17.95 | ||
| Pérez de la Puente, Virginia | La elegida de la muerte (Öiyya) | An epic fantasy in which the warrior heroine confronts her own destiny in a battle between good and evil. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Pérez Domínguez, Andrés | El síndrome de mowgli | A powerful love story about the need to be accepted. A bodyguard moonlights as a nightclub doorman and decides to start a new life. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £28.75 | ||
| Pérez Domínguez, Andrés | El violinista de Mauthausen | Paris, 1940, a couple is about to marry when the Wehrmacht invade and he, an exiled Spanish republican, is detained and sent to an extermination camp. She, with the secret services, will do anything to save the life of her fiancé. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Pérez Zúñiga, E | El segundo círculo | A moving story of abandonment and inter-generational conflict. *Premio Internacional Luis de Berenguer de Novela* |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Pérez, J | La espina de la amapola | Novel charting the drug trafficking, political intrigue and corruption of 1920s Europe, shortly after Hitler's imprisonment for an attempted military coup. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £26.65 | ||
| Pérez-Reverte, A | Corsarios de Levante | The latest in the series of swashbuckling novels about the hugely popular Captain Alatriste, 17th-century sailor cum swordsman-for hire. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £24.30 | ||
| Pérez-Reverte, A. | El asedio | Pérez-Reverte's new novel takes us to early 19th Century Cádiz. Spain and America are both fighting for their independence and people are being condemned to a life which will never be the same. The story of world that could have been but was not. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.99 | ||
| Pérez-Reverte, A. | Un día de cólera | Historical novel set in the turbulent days of May 1808, when the Spanish rose up against their French oppressors. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £23.65 | ||
| Pérez-Reverte, A. | Ojos azules | Novella set at the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, by Spain's most popular living novelist. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £17.95 | ||
| Pérez-Reverte, A. | El pintor de batallas | Haunted by memories of what he has seen as a war photographer, Faulques seeks to make sense of the universe by painting a huge fresco on a lonely Mediterranean tower. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £26.80 | ||
| Pérez-Reverte, A. | El puente de los asesinos | Naples, Rome and Milan are some of the places visited by Captain Alatriste and his young assistant Iñigo, in the latest of the hugely popular series of swashbuckling novels by Spain's bestselling author. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £21.99 | ||
| Piglia, Ricardo | Blanco nocturno | Detective story set in Argentina, centred around a 1970s love triangle. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Piñeiro, C. | Betibú | Death of Pedro Chazarreta seems like a suicide, but soon doubts arise. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.99 | ||
| Pinilla, R | La higuera | The remarkable story of how a former Falangist, responsible for torture and murder, confronts his own guilt. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Pinilla, R | Verdes valles, colinas rojas 3. Las cenizas del hierro | The final volume of an acclaimed trilogy. Asier and Kresa, the new generation of inhabitants of the Basque town of Getxo, offer a silent resistance to the repressive post-war years. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £29.95 | ||
| Pinilla, Ramiro | Los cuentos | A collection of short stories, both fantastical and moving. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Piqué, Joan | Dos vidas | Marc Serra is an ambitious young engineer who wakes up one day in a US hospital, injured and suffering from amnesia. He is helped to recover by an attractive young nurse and has to make an agonising decision: to choose a new life in the USA or return to his old family life in Barcelona. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £22.99 | ||
| Piqueras de Noriega, J. | El congreso | Luis Salvatierra, professor of physics, attends a scientific congress in Russia to discuss a discovery which will clearly damage two multinational companies. He soon finds himself in danger. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £19.80 | ||
| Pitol, S. | Los mejores cuentos | Collection of stories by this veteran Mexican author who won the 2005 Premio Cervantes. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £16.99 | ||
| Pitol, Sergio | Una autobiografía soterrada | This Mexican author draws on his experiences, including many years of exile in Europe, to produce five memorable short stories. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.99 | ||
| Pombo, A | Contra natura | Story of a love affair between retired editor Javier and a young man from Málaga whom he meets in a park. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Pombo, A | La fortuna de Matilda Turpin | After 13 years at home, caring for her husband and three children, Matilda finds a high-powered job in the world of finance. As she struggles with her work-life balance, she wonders if it has all been a terrible mistake. *Premio Planeta 2006* |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £18.25 | ||
| Pombo, Á. | La previa muerte del lugarteniente Aloof | A novel of adventure which the reader will enjoy from the first page to the last. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Pombo, Á. | Virginia o el interior del mundo | The Spanish royal family ares settling into the Palacio de la Magdalena for the summer. However, their idyll is blighted when Virginia Montes, a young heiress, blames the King for the death of her lover. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Poniatowska, E. | El tren pasa primero | The story of a Mexican railway worker and his struggle for justice, this is the latest novel by a prizewinning author. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £20.45 | ||
| Ponte, A.J | La fiesta vigilada | A story of exile and return set in present-day Cuba. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Posadas, C | Juego de niños | A thriller writer realises that the plot of her new novel bears an uncanny resemblance to a long-forgotten incident from her past. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £22.40 | ||
| Posadas, C | Literatura, adulterio y una Visa platino | Short stories by an acclaimed Uruguayan writer whose themes are death and deception. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £27.50 | ||
| Posadas, Carmen | Invitación a un asesinato | Bankrupt and divorced for the fifth time, Olivia devises an intricate plan to end her life by inciting various enemies to murder her.An elegant, ironic and intriguing novel. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Click on entry for price details. | ||
| Posadas, G. | Pájaros de papel | The story of a group of variety artists who have lost everything due to the war. The group forms a curious family and tries to live and survive each day as normal. But before long they are tested and forced to make some life or death decisions. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Posteguillo, Santiago | Los asesinos del emperador | A tale of betrayal, violence and madness set in the Italy of the year 96 AD. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £22.50 | ||
| Prada, Juan Manuel de | Las máscaras del heroe | 1001 characters people this epic novel set in bohemian Madrid at the turn of the 20th century. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £33.75 | ||
| Prado, B | Mala gente que camina | A journey into the dark corners of Falangist Spain and the painful story of how children were stolen from Republican women prisoners and given to Nationalist families. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Prado, Benjamín | Operación Gladio | A young journalist puts her life at risk when she investigates an anti-communist spy ring. A gripping novel which paints a vivid picture of Spain during its transition to democracy. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £20.99 | ||
| Preciado, Javier Angel | Rescatando a Sara | Leticia watches with horror as her 8-year old daughter is snatched by her ex-husband and taken to war-torn Basra. She joins forces with an investigative journalist to embark on a desperate rescue mission. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Preciado, N | Camino de hierro | Devastated by the end of a love affair, Paula returns to León, her childhood home. In so doing she comes to terms with her family history, in particular the execution of her grandfather during the Civil War. *Premio Primavera de Novela 2007* |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Priego, M.T. (ed.) | Madres e hijas | 12 stories about mothers and daughters by well-known authors such as Angeles Mastretta and Elena Poniatowska. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Prieto, J.M | Rex | Sophisticated thriller set among a community of Russian multimillionaires on the Costa del Sol. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £21.55 | ||
| Pron, P. | El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia | A young writer goes home to Buenos Aires to say goodbye to his dying father. Dark secrets emerge about the latter's role during the political turmoil of 1970s Argentina. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £18.99 | ||
| Puebla, J. | La inutilidad de un beso | In classic stories, one kiss is enough to transform a toad into a prince or a human into a cockroach. Taking this idea, Puebla has created a story as orginial as classic, a story of love and values, and of pain and fear. *XVIII Premio Luis Berenguer* |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Puebla, J. | Tigre manjahatan | An intense thriller about a girl who moves to New York in search of a better life but ends up working as a prostitute. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Puerta Martín, A | Azucena de noche | Detective novel set during the Franco regime which vividly depicts a difficult time in Spanish history. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £21.40 | ||
| Puerta Martín, A | Si tú me dices ven, lo dejo todo | Young lawyer Alicia encounters love and danger when she takes on the case of an alleged drug trafficker, in this moving novel set in post-war Spain. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Puértolas, Soledad | Cielo nocturno | Set during the sixties and seventies, this is an exploration of those seminal moments of childhood and adolescence which later form part of our past. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Puértolas, Soledad | Compañeras de viaje | Short stories which share the themes of relationships and travel. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £17.99 | ||
| Pujol, C. | El teatro de la guerra | The Second World War has ended and William B. Kelly, a lieutenant of the US army, is trying to track the Germanic roots of his surname by visiting a German village recently destroyed. But his search his altered by an inexplicable crime. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Queralt del Hierro, M.P. | Inés de Castro | The story of Inés de Castro, a woman whose life of passion and political intrigue has fascinated historians and inspired novelists for centuries. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.70 | ||
| Quiñones, J | Max Aub | Novel based on the life of one of Spain's most enigmatic and interesting writers, exiled to Mexico after the Civil War, never to return to his beloved homeland. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £32.95 | ||
| Rabinovich, D. | Cuentos en serio | Rabinovich gives us a brilliant selection of short stories ranging in themes from romance to introspective self-delusion. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £13.99 | ||
| Ramírez Lozano, J.A | La oca de oro | Lyrical novel about the adventures of Lucas as he travels the land in search of a missing goose. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £19.75 | ||
| Ramírez, S | El reino animal | Collection of short stories which open our eyes to the animal kingdom and ask us to reflect on our own lives. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £16.95 | ||
| Ramírez, Sergio | Adiós muchachos | This book is a memoir of the generation that fought for their common vision, and which, even if hasn't achieved its objectives of justice, prosperity and development, feels proud to have brought democracy into their country, Nicaragua. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £10.50 | ||
| Ramírez, Sergio | La fugitiva | A moving and dramatic novel about Amanda Solano, a woman attempting to assert herself in the conservative and patriarchal Costa Rica of the early 20th century. Her weakness for men leads to exile and despair. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Ramón Biedma, J. | El espejo del monstruo | In futuristic Seville a lawyer who has just finished a sentence for killing his daughter is contracted to follow the crime of a severely deformed man. Monsters start appearing but for the lawyer there is one real problem: his daughter is still alive. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Reig, Rafael | Visto para sentencia | A compilation of literary criticisms in which the author judges famous writers and figures with humour and finesse. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £18.50 | ||
| Reimóndez, María | El club de la calceta | A novel about femininity set in a knitting club. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £29.50 | ||
| Reina, Manuel Francisco | La emperatriz amarga | An unhappy empress fights for her life in 2nd-century Rome. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £12.99 | ||
| Restrepo, L. | Demasiados héroes | Lorenza and Mateo arrive in Buenos Aires in search of Ramón, Lorenza's old lover and Mateo's father. Lorenza fell in love during the Argentinean "guerra sucia" when the two were passionate militants against the dictator Videla. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Reverte, J | Venga a nosotros tu reino | A story of love and political intrigue set in post-Civil War Madrid. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £31.35 | ||
| Reverte, Javier | Barrio cero | A lone mother takes on the drug-dealers who have been supplying her son and his friends, and becomes a neighbourhood heroine. *Premio de Novela Fernando Lara 2010* |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £25.99 | ||
| Reverte, Javier | La canción de Mbama | An idealistic young doctor arrives in Ecuatorial Guinea, only to be ground down by a land dominated by malaria, snakes, crocodiles and black magic. 40 years later he has found happiness with an African lover, but old enemies come back to haunt him. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.99 | ||
| Rey Rosa, R. | El material humano | A book that presents itself as a novel but that moves between fiction and historical fact. "El material humano" provides a fresh narrative on the bloody repression that Guatemala has suffered over the centuries. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Rey Rosa, R. | Severina | A bookseller finds himself caught up in the affairs of Severina and her equivocal relationship with a much older man. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £15.99 | ||
| Rey, Jacinto | El hombre de El Cairo | A man is found dead with diamonds in his pocket and a missile launcher in his car. What first appears to be a straightforward murder leads Inspector Cristina Molen from Amsterdam to Cairo in an increasingly tangled web. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.99 | ||
| Rico, E | El otoño alemán | A story of love and jealousy set in Germany just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, as four friends" celebration ends in a tragedy that will come back to haunt them. *Premio de Novela Ateneo de Sevilla* |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Rico, M. | Espejo y tinta | Two novellas that can be likened to the styles of Borges, Bioy Casares and Henry James for their close attention to the idea of the double and their preoccupation with existentialism. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £24.50 | ||
| Rico, M. | Trenes en la niebla | The loss of his brother leads Daniel to confront a period of history which Spain has tried to bury - the use of Republican slave labour by the victors of the Civil War. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Riego Anta, M. de. | Sólo los tontos creen en el amor | Lina is a journalist who has always lived an unstable life until one day it seems luck is smiling down on her. But quickly her life twists again as her parents want to divorce, her boss makes her life impossible and her relationship goes into chaos. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Riera, C. | La mitad del alma | A novel of mystery and intrigue about the disappearance of a young girl in the frontier town of Portbou, 45 years ago. |
| New Fiction. Published 2004. Price: £17.70 | ||
| Riestra, B | Todo lleva su tiempo | A young poet is caught up in the seedy world of lowlife Madrid. More than a crime novel, this is a perceptive and lyrical look at life on the margins of society. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £19.35 | ||
| Riestra, B. | Madrid Blues | Blanca Riestra recreates the atmosphere of the days before the tragedy of the 11th March in Madrid through a narrative of the lives of the various victims. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Riestra, B. | La noche sucks | A murderer on the run in Albuquerque finds himself caught up with a group of misfits, whose lives only become real at night. A melancholy look at the small-town America of diners, motels and trailer parks. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Rivas, M | Los libros arden mal | Latest novel from Galicia's most celebrated contemporary writer, where characters and language intermingle in an intense thriller about authoritarianism, liberty and books, stretching from the 14th century to the present day. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £20.50 | ||
| Rivas, M. | Lo más extraño: Cuentos reunidos | A collection of short stories written between 1990 and 2011. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £22.50 | ||
| Rivas, M. | Todo es silencio | Set in a small Spanish coastal village, this is the story of three adolescents who spend their time browsing the seashore for washed up treasure. Long-awaited new novel by one of Spain's most popular authors. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Click on entry for price details. | ||
| Rivera de la Cruz, M | En tiempo de prodigios | Cecilia is plunged into despair following her mother's death and the end of a love affair. She finds unexpected solace in her visits to a friend's grandfather as he gradually reveals his fascinating life story. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £24.65 | ||
| Rivera de la Cruz, Marta | La vida después | Victoria's enviable life in her New York penthouse is interrupted by the death of her best friend Jan. On arrival in Madrid to attend his funeral she is confronted by four women, including Jan's wife and old girlfriend, who have always distrusted her. A moving novel about jealousy, loyalty and the nature of friendship. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £21.99 | ||
| Rivera Letelier, H. | El arte de la resurrección | Set in 1940s Chile, this is the story of Domingo, who sets up as a hermit in the desert where he becomes convinced that he is the reincarnation of Christ. *Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2010* |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.50 | ||
| Rivera Letelier, H. | La contadora de películas | A heart-warming tale set in the pampas of Argentina during the early days of cinema. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Rivera Letelier, H. | El fantasista | The emotional story of the inhabitants of Coya Sur who are confronted with two events which will change their lives: the closing of their camp and the last football match against María Elena, their all time archrival. Only a miracle can help. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Rivero, G. | Niñas y detectives | Giovanna Rivero's first book published in Spain, "Niñas y detectives" is an explosion of images and fascinating plots. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £20.45 | ||
| Riverola, E. | Cartas desde la ausencia | Through the letters sent between the members of a divided family during the Spanish Civil War we hear of Carmen's worries at home, news she receives from her husband on the front line and the sending of her two children to Russia. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Robles, M | Diario de una cuarentona embarazada | The amusing diary of a woman with two teenage children and a full-time job, who finds herself pregnant again in her forties. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £26.50 | ||
| Roca, N. & J. del Val | Para Ana (de tu muerto) | After an intense and tormenting relationship Ana wants to be normal. This quest turns out to be the greatest adventure of her life. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £18.99 | ||
| Rodríguez Chaves, José | Urbi et orbi | A group of scientists become caught up in a dangerous political game in this sharply observed novel. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £17.95 | ||
| Rodríguez Rivera, L. | Los guardianes durmientes | A futuristic novel set in a world destroyed by capitalism, where the only keepers of the human biological secrets that can repopulate the ecosystem are faced with the task of otherthrowing the corporations. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Rodríguez, A.O. | Chiquita | A two-foot tall Cuban girl finds fame and fortune in New York as a singer and dancer. *Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2008*. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £26.75 | ||
| Rodríguez, Miguel Ángel | La cruz secreta del emperador | A thriller about the secret weapon that Carlos I used to win battles: invisible ink. Drawing on the author's fascination with language, this novel contains both text message abbreviations and medieval Spanish. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £39.95 | ||
| Rodríguez, Miguel Ángel | Gemelas: SSDD | Thriller about genetic experiments which cause young, single, attractive women to drop dead in broad daylight. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £29.50 | ||
| Roncagliolo, S. | Pudor | A "coming of age" novel about intimacy, fear and secrets, set in contemporary South America. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £10.99 | ||
| Roncagliolo, Santiago | Abril rojo | The author makes use of the traditions and myths of Peru to carve out a tense thriller. *Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2006* |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £22.10 | ||
| Rosa, I. | ¡Otra maldita novela sobre la guerra civil! | A reprint of Rosa's first novel, "La malamemoria", but including the comments of one critic who criticises the topic, the arguments, the style and even the quotes used. A man searches for a lost town which he knows exists but nobody knows of. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £27.95 | ||
| Rosa, I. | El país del miedo | Carlos's life is blighted by a vague and unfounded fear. Confronted by a difficult situation he is unable to make decisions and life gets worse. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £26.75 | ||
| Rosa, J. M. de la. | Guantes de seda | A murder mystery about a beggar who knows a secret about the Franco regime that costs him his life. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £27.95 | ||
| Rosenberg, Sara | Contraluz | Crime, theatre, war and corruption all feature in this contemporary novel set in modern Spain. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.75 | ||
| Rovira, Á. & F. Miralles | Un corazón lleno de estrellas | |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £9.99 | ||
| Rovira, Á., & F. Miralles | La última respuesta | A psychological thriller in which Javier and Sarah embark on an eye-opening journey of discovery. *VIII Premio de Novela Ciudad de Torrevieja* |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Royuela, F | El rombo de Michaelis | A collection of short stories whose bizarre characters, motivated by sex, money and religion, highlight the idiosyncracies of 20th-century Spain. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £17.99 | ||
| Ruiz Zafón, C. | El juego del ángel | Latest novel by the author of "The shadow of the wind". In the turbulent Barcelona of the 1920s a young writer obsessed with an impossible love receives an offer from a mysterious editor to write a book like no other. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Click on entry for price details. | ||
| Ruiz Zafón, Carlos | El prisionero del cielo | Daniel and Fermín, heroes of the phenomenal "La sombra del viento" return in this sequel to face the biggest challenge of their lives. We return to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons Bookshop, when a mysterious stranger visits the shop in search of a French novel. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £23.60 | ||
| Ruiz, L.M | El ojo del halcón | Santiago Beltrán is a retired teacher, resigned to a life reading trashy novels and with a daughter who never answers the phone. The last sort of person you would expect to become entangled in a crime investigation... |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.70 | ||
| Ruiz, Luis Manuel | Sesión continua | Prize-winning collection of short stories. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £10.99 | ||
| Rus, R. | Sabrina contra el imperio del zapping | Sabrina has climbed high in her job and has found the man of her dreams. Then she is faced with the ruination of all her plans. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Saccomanno, G. | El oficinista | Normal people go to their offices daily in a city destroyed by guerilla attacks, threatened by child assassins and watched by armed helicopters. One of them will do anything to keep his job, until he falls in love… *Premio Biblioteca Breve 2010* |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £20.99 | ||
| Sada, Daniel | Ese modo que colma | Short stories set in the north Mexican desert, whose characters approach the pleasures and disappointments that life throws at them with resigned acceptance. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £18.95 | ||
| Sada, Daniel | A la vista | Mexicans Ponciano and Sixto come up with a complicated plan to murder their boss in this tragicomic novel. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Saer, J.J | La grande | When Saer's character Gutiérrez returns to Santa Fe, he is forced to re-examine his past. This often amusing story then opens into a wider debate about the difficulty of putting past experiences into words. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £29.95 | ||
| Salabert, J | El bulevar del miedo | A compelling novel whose action moves from the misery of post Civil War Madrid to the chaos of Paris in May 1968. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £20.95 | ||
| Salabert, Juana | La faz de la tierra | A young girl drifts in and out of consciousness as her warring family act out old jealousies and resentments. A perceptive portrait of the secrets that can fester in seemingly happy families. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.99 | ||
| Salamanca, P. | Los años equivocados | Without taking on any political themes, "Los años equivocados" narrates the story of a journalist, described by a woman through a larger reflection on the "responsibility of the innocent". |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Salamanca, P. | Cráter | Olga searches for the lost traces of the French poet Rimbaud in the sand dunes of Yemen. A thoughtful and poignant novel that blends fact with fiction. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.50 | ||
| Salazar, J. | El último mono de la baraja | The story of Óscar, a young Colombian immigrant who arrives in Spain in search of a better life only to be disappointed and humiliated. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Salegi, Mario | Verano del 36: memorias de un gudari | Novel based on the author's own experiences as a young Basque resistance fighter during the Spanish Civil War. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Salem, Carlos | Cracovia sin ti | An urban romance set in Madrid in which Daniela and Daniel are reluctantly brought together by a series of coincidences including incidents involving Daniela's cat. *Premio Seseña de Novela Romántica 2010* |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £18.50 | ||
| Salinero, A | A vida o muerte | An unexplained death in a hostel finds Inspector Nereida on the trail of a murderer who leaves a series of interesting and unexplained clues. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Salisachs, M. | El último laberinto | A novel about friendship, love and betrayal by one of Spain's most celebrated novelists. *Premio de Novela Fernando Lara 2004* |
| New Fiction. Published 2004. Price: £27.95 | ||
| Salisachs, Mercedes | Goodbye, España | A fascinating fictionalised account of Victoria Eugenia, a queen loved by everybody.*Premio de Novela Histórica Alfonso X el Sabio*. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Saltero, V | Sucedió en el AVE... | Set on the mysterious 8 o'clock AVE train, this fascinating and chilling tale unravels the intrigue surrounding the death of two ETA members. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Sampedro, José Luis, & Olga Lucas | Cuarteto para un solista | A delirious patient imagines encounters and conversations with the four elements despite the misgivings of his doctors and family. An allegorical novel which examines the human spirit in all its complexity. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £18.99 | ||
| San Sebastián, I | Cuentos de María la Gorda | A series of magical short stories set in the Caribbean. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Sánchez Adalid, J | El alma de la ciudad | Historical novel set in the Middle Ages against the backdrop of the Reconquest. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £30.95 | ||
| Sánchez Adalid, J. | El caballero de Alcántara | Philip II is living through the hardest part of his reign. His son dies in July, followed by his wife, and there are conflicts in Flanders and the Mediterranean. But the monarch is ready and organizes an unprecedented network of spies. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £31.95 | ||
| Sánchez Adalid, J. | El cautivo | A young page in the service of King Carlos V dreams of becoming a knight. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £12.95 | ||
| Sánchez Adalid, J. | Los milagros del vino | Historical novel set in 1st-century Corinth. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £27.95 | ||
| Sánchez Caramazana, J. | Venidos del miedo | Julian Sánchez Caramazana startles and shocks us with his series of mini stories. Terror could be awaiting us in the train station, in any of the rooms of our house or around the corner which we pass every morning… |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £16.95 | ||
| Sánchez Dalama, Manuel | La mancha negra | Loosely based on the real-life 2002 Prestige oil spill off the coast of Galicia, this is a fast-paced story of love, revenge and drug-trafficking. *XIV Premio de Novela Ciudad de Badajoz* |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Sánchez Robles, M | Donde empieza la nada | Set in 21st-century Spain, this novel addresses the breakdown of communication in modern society and considers the redemptive value of books and writing. *VI Premio de Novela Corta "Diputación de Córdoba* |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Sánchez Ruiz, Leticia | El gran juego | The dying words of an old man are the only clue to the whereabouts of his vast fortune. 10-year old Cucurucho and her older brother are drawn into a fantastical world of adventure as they attempt to solve the mystery. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £20.99 | ||
| Sánchez Ruiz, Leticia | Los libros luciérnagas | Returning to his home town for his grandmother's funeral, Felipe encounters the enigmatic Lucía and stumbles on the strange events surrounding the destruction by fire of a library, 50 years before. A mysterious and ambitious novel. *Premio Internacional de Novela Emilio Alarcos Llorach* |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Sánchez Vicente, P. | La Diosa contra Roma | The heroic tale of a woman who managed to cause problems in Rome during the reign of Augustus. Part fiction and part historical account, this novel is a smooth and entertaining read. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Sánchez Vidal, A. | Esclava de nadie | Toledo, 1587. Approaching his retirement, Lope de Mendoza confronts the strangest and most complex case of his extensive judicial career. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Sánchez Vidal, A. | Nudo de Sangre: el tesoro escondido de los Incas | Part historical novel and part thriller, this novel traces the mysteries surrounding the Incan empire, which results in an entertaining and explosive homage to the ancient Andean culture. *Premio Primavera de Novela 2008*. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £29.95 | ||
| Sánchez, C | Presentimientos | A serious accident leaves Julia feeling as if she is living in a dream world. A profound and moving novel with moments of humour. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.70 | ||
| Sánchez, C. | Lo que esconde tu nombre | Sandra, 30 years old and accidentally pregnant, seeks refuge in a coastal town. A chance meeting with a concentration camp survivor and a mysterious Norwegian couple in their eighties, leads to events which will put her life in danger. *Premio Nadal 2010* |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Sánchez, C. | Piedras preciosas | A story where, apart from the tediousness of Constantino and Natalia's marriage, nothing is as it seems. Natalia is looking for a new love and Raúl crosses her path. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £10.95 | ||
| Sánchez, M. | Agua del limonero | A tapestry of lives which intertwine around the apparent success of an all powerful aristocrat, the determination of an ambitious journalist and the nostalgia of an old love story broken into pieces. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Sanchez, Mamen | Juego de damas | Francesca and Claudia, heirs to one of the wealthiest families in North Italy, want to get rid of their hated step-mother. They find inspiration in a 200 years old book which narrates the history of Lady Morgan and her turbulent love affairs. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £18.99 | ||
| Sánchez, P. | Caja negra | Raúl Garay's pleasure in the success of his first novel is marred when he is accused of plagiarism by an unknown author. Their lives become inextricably linked in a huge battle of egos. *XI Premio Lengua de Trapo de Novela* |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £19.30 | ||
| Sánchez-Andrade, C | Coco | An old lady reflects on her life as she sees in the New Year, weary and alone, in isolated splendour at the Ritz Hotel in Paris. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £25.40 | ||
| Sánchez-Garnica, P. | El gran arcano | An elderly professor succeeds in cracking an ancient code and promptly disappears. His young friends Laura and Carlos embark on a quest to find him, which takes them to Jordan via Toledo, France and Rome. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £20.95 | ||
| Sánchez-Garnica, Paloma | El alma de las piedras | Set in 11th-century Spain, a young noblewoman joins forces with a stonemason in a quest to find the hidden secrets of the Camino de Santiago. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Sánchez-Machuca, O. | El alma en la batalla | Gibraltar 1782. The Spanish navy intercepts a document sent from London to the Governor. Faced with the possibility of a network of spies, Beltrán Ochoa is sent to investigate. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £28.95 | ||
| Sanllorente, Jaume | La canción de la concubina | Novel about human trafficking and those who devote their lives to fighting it. A moving account of heartbreak and loss, but also of hope and justice. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £21.99 | ||
| Santis, P. de | Los anticuarios | Novel set in 1950s Buenos Aires. Santiago works as a journalist by day, but spends his nights working for a government department, investigating the occult. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £18.99 | ||
| Santis, P. de. | El buscador de finales | Juan Brum, a big fan of comic strips, gets a job at the publisher of his favourite strip. He soon finds his responsibilities taking him all over the place, until one day he is sent to the legendary "buscador de finales". |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £9.99 | ||
| Santis, P. de. | La sexta lámpara | The Italian arquitect, Silvio Balestri, arrives in New York, 1915, with a dream of constructing skyscrapers. However, the project of his life clashes with the plans of the "Club de las Seis Lámparas" who control the height of the skyscrapers. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £24.50 | ||
| Santos, C | Guatemala: el silencio del gallo | Luis Gurriarán, a young missionary, journeys to 1970s Guatemala where he is faced with the brutal exploitation of the indigenous Mayan people. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £21.75 | ||
| Santos, C | El síndrome Bovary: infieles e infelices | Monica's husband has just died in embarrassing circumstances while in bed with his secretary - just one of many infidelities. She embarks on a Machiavellian plan of revenge against everyone who has ever tricked her in this darkly humorous novel. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £15.75 | ||
| Santos, Care | La muerte de Venus | When she inherits a house from her great aunt, Mónica looks forward to a new life there with her boyfriend and their new baby. However, she quickly begins to fear that the house may be haunted... |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £26.75 | ||
| Sanz, Esther | El bosque de los corazones dormidos | Following the death of her grandmother, 17-year old Clara is forced to leave Barcelona, to live with her only surviving relative in a small mountain village. Various family secrets emerge and she is forced to confront these as well as her own demons. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.99 | ||
| Sanz, Marta | Black, black, black | When a young doctor is found strangled in her Madrid apartment, her parents suspect that her Moroccan husband is the murderer. Arturo Zarco, the detective assigned to the case, finds himself distracted by his relationship with his ex-wife. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Sardà, X. | El asesino de presentadores | When the first news presenter is found murdered, nobody thinks very much of it. When the second is found, it's a coincidence. But when the third is discovered, alarm bells start to ring. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Click on entry for price details. | ||
| Sarti, Javier | Piranesi construido | A tale of love, hate and revenge based on the life of 18th-century artist Piranesi. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Savater, F | Hermandad de la Buena Suerte | An unbeatable horse has just been beaten, the jockey is missing and the Cup is getting close. Four adventurers must find the missing jockey whilst each confront their own demons from the past. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £28.95 | ||
| Savater, F. | El gran laberinto | Fantasy and adventure combine in this lively novel about four children trying to rescue their bewitched parents. In so doing they enlist the help of Sherlock Holmes, Don Quixote and other fictional characters. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £22.65 | ||
| Schwartz, F. | El príncipe de los Oasis | Ahmed Hassanein Bey, famous explorer and discoverer of the cave paintings of the lost oasis of Libya, emerges in cosmopolitan Cairo during the 1920s. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Sebastián, J. | Veinte semanas | Detective novel in which Fatima Moreo, a journalist, attempts to find the truth behind her father's mysterious death. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £22.40 | ||
| Sender, R. | El héroe de su historia/ El fisonomista | Two novels which come together as one. The first is about a taxi driver's experiences of the violent and dramatic underworld of Lima by night. The second is about a casino employee, fleeing from a bad experience in Barcelona. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Sepúlveda, L. | La lámpara de Aladino | Twelve magical short stories by the renowned Chilean writer which take place in Hamburg, Patagonia, Brazil, Colombia and Peru. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £18.95 | ||
| Serra Manzanares, B. | Los ojos del huracán | Historical novel set in opulent 19th-century Havana. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £29.95 | ||
| Serrano, M. | El albergue de las mujeres tristes | A group of Chilean women recover from their emotional crisis in a peculiar hostel for women situated more than1000 kilometres from Santiago. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £12.99 | ||
| Serrano, M. | Diez mujeres | Nine women who have never met each other form a discussion group with their therapist Natasha. Mothers, wives, widows and mistresses, their common aim is to confront their problems and move on with their lives. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £21.99 | ||
| Serrano, M. | La llorona | An emotional novel about the legend of a woman who walks the streets desperately searching for her child who died a few days after being born. A powerful story about the mothers' love for their children. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £27.95 | ||
| Shua, Ana María | El peso de la tentación | The story of Marina who admits herself to an extreme dieting clinic in a desperate attempt to lose weight in search of the perfect figure. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Sierra i Fabra, J. | Cinco días de octubre | A thought-provoking novel set in 1948, in a Madrid still traumatised by the shadow of the Civil War. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £16.99 | ||
| Sierra i Fabra, J. | Sombras en el tiempo | A family from Murcia decides to move to Barcelona in search for a better future in postwar Spain. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.50 | ||
| Sierra I Fabra, Jordi | Cuatro días de enero | Set against the backdrop of Franco's invasion of Barcelona in 1939, a detective investigates a controversial case and discovers hidden truths about the inner workings of the fascists in the process. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Sierra, J. | El ángel perdido | Thriller about a waitress who is charged with protecting two ancient stones with supernatural powers. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £22.50 | ||
| Sierra, J. | La dama azul | While the Vatican and the US Defence Department research time travel, a Spanish journalist investigates the strange case of a 17th-century nun who preached in New Mexico without ever leaving her convent. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £29.95 | ||
| Sigarrostegui, L. | Mariposas en el estómago | The touching tale of a woman who turns to IVF treatment to become pregnant. A poignant novel that searches for life's answers through the desire to create new life. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Silva, L. | El blog del Inquisidor | A doctoral student finds an Internet blog by a mysterious character called "The Inquisitator" and seeks to unravel the captivating mystery behind it. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £24.75 | ||
| Silva, L. | La estrategia del agua | Two of Silva's best-known characters, the detectives Bevilacqua and Chamorro, are faced with a difficult case when an ex-drug dealer is found shot in a lift. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £17.99 | ||
| Silva, L. | Niños feroces | A struggling would-be novelist finds inspiration in the story of Jorge, a young Madrileño caught up in the Siege of Leningrad. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £21.99 | ||
| Simonetti, M. | La traición de Borges | Shortly after the death of Jorge Luis Borges, an impostor sets out to convince the people of Argentina that the writer is not really dead... A humorous novel set against the frenetic background of Argentina's 1986 World Cup win. *VI Premio Casa de América de Narrativa* |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £18.40 | ||
| Siracusa, J. | Adiós, Habana, adiós | A novel set in 19th-century Cuba, where war and political intrigue lead to one of the key moments in Spanish history - the loss of its last colony. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £18.95 | ||
| Sirvent, María | Si supieras que nunca he estado en Londres, volverías de Tokio | An insecure young woman spends her days at work sending emails to her Japanese ex-boyfriend. A sparkling, well-received first novel. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £21.99 | ||
| Skármeta, Antonio | Los días del arcoíris | The story of Nico and his quest to find his father, taken prisoner under his country's dictatorship. A surprisingly uplifting novel about humour and hope in difficult times. *Premio Iberoamericano de Narrativa Planeta-Casamérica 2011* |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £21.99 | ||
| Skármeta, Antonio | Un padre de película | A moving and whimsical novella by the author of "Neruda's postman", which was much-translated and made into a successful film. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Click on entry for price details. | ||
| Solares, M | Los minutos negros | The murder of a Mexican journalist prompts a detective to reopen investigations into a crime committed 20 years before. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £19.65 | ||
| Soler, J. | Los rojos de ultramar | A group of exiled Catalan republicans found a community in a Mexican jungle, where they devise a plot to return to Spain and assassinate General Franco. |
| New Fiction. Published 2004. Price: £20.95 | ||
| Soler, Jordi | Diles que son cadáveres | Novel based on an episode in the life of the troubled French poet Antonin Artaud. On obtaining a walking stick he believes to belong to St Patrick, Artaud travels to Dublin, but his stay there is not a success. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £18.50 | ||
| Somoza, J.C | Fantasmas de papel | A collection of short stories whose characters are fascinating and mysterious. The climax of the book pays homage to the magical city of Cordoba. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £10.99 | ||
| Somoza, J.C | La llave del abismo | A young railway worker's life is changed for ever when he encounters a suicide bomber. *VI Premio de Novela Ciudad de Torrevieja*. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £31.85 | ||
| Soriano, Manuel Jesús | Ojos de gata | A passionate story about the joy and despair of being in love. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £17.99 | ||
| Sotelo, J | La paz de febrero | Love, sex, guilt, pain and death are all set against the backdropof the 2003 march in Madrid against the Iraq war. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £16.40 | ||
| Suárez, Gonzalo | Las fuentes del Nilo | The complete short stories by this internationally acclaimed author, whose work is both thought-provoking and highly readable. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £28.99 | ||
| Suárez, Gonzalo | El síndrome de albatros | When a widow goes through her husband's papers, she comes across something so disturbing that she calls in private detective Ernesto Zóster to investigate. However, as Ernesto becomes more involved, he wonders if he is falling into some kind of trap. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £18.99 | ||
| Tabales, Rebeca | Eres bella y brutal | A dramatic novel that links three siblings; a shy teenage student, her religious sister and their brother, who finds himself in Rwanda. A brutal but uplifting story. *XIII Premio de Novela*. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Taibo II, P. I. | De paso | The story of Sebastián San Vicente, a Spanish anarchist and real historical character, who moved to Mexico during the Revolution to help organise the workers. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Taibo II, P. I. | El regreso de los tigres de Malasia | Novel based on the fictional pirate Sandokan, "Tiger of Malaysia", and his swashbuckling adventures in Borneo. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £25.99 | ||
| Tena, M | Todavía tú | An architect returns to his native Spain for a conference. A chance meeting brings back memories of his youth and first love. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £17.95 | ||
| Tena, M. | La fragilidad de las panteras | A novel about the adventure of desire and the risk that is to fall in love. Four threads tie together this story: past secrets, a lost object, an excessive mother and a mysterious man. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Terrón, P | La brújula del peregrino | Runy and Dámeris are united by the search for the Kalaxtine jewels in a passionate archaeological project with an uncertain future. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Thays, I. | Un lugar llamado Oreja de Perro | The touching story of a man who tries to forget his troubled past whilst living in a Peruvian town trying to recuperate its political memory. A powerful novel by one of Latin America's newest and most interesting writers. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £22.25 | ||
| Tiscar Jandra, J | La poetisa | A challenging novel of sexual obsession and desire. *XXV Premio de Novela Felipe Trigo* |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Tomas, Maximiliano (ed.) | La joven guardia: nueva literatura argentina (Antología), prólogo del editor | |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £10.95 | ||
| Tomás-Valiente, M. | El hijo ausente | Judge Tomás Hidalgo lives happily with his wife and his recently born son until one night an attack on his friends' bookshop turns him towards his destiny. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Tomeo, J. | Los amantes de silicona | Lupercia and Basilio, a semi-detached married couple, get more than they bargain for when they try to spice up their lives with a pair of inflatable dolls. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Toro, Suso de | Siete palabras | The narrator of this moving novel travels to Cuba in search of the truth about his grandfather, who disappeared when his father was a boy. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £24.50 | ||
| Torres, M. | Esperadme en el cielo | The protagonist is reunited with two of her old friends in the afterlife where they revisit the past. However the time arrives when they must confront a big moral dilemma… *Premio Nadal 2009* |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Torres, Margarita | La cátedra de la calavera | It is 1509 and the University of Salamanca is shaken to the core when a professor is murdered and potentially dangerous maps are stolen. Isabel de Vargas, disguised as a man to escape an arranged marriage, finds herself unexpectedly in the role of detective. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Torres, Maruja | Fácil de matar | When the black sheep of a wealthy family is murdered, journalist Diana Dial senses that all is not as it seems. With the help of her Filipino maid she sets out to discover the truth. The first detective novel by this prize-winning author. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £18.99 | ||
| Trapiello, A. | Los confines | Claudia tells the story of an absolute love, one through which she and Max must have the courage to live. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Trapiello, A. | Troppo vero. Salón de pasos perdidos | The eagerly awaited new book by the author of "Días y noches" and "Los confines". |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £39.95 | ||
| Trías de Bes, Fernando | Tinta | Germany, 1900. While searching his library Johann Walbach stumbles across a book which examines the nature of literature and the power of words. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £16.99 | ||
| Tristante, Jerónimo | El valle de las sombras | A spine-chilling thriller set in the aftermath of the Civil War, this is also the story of a friendship which transcends ideologies. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Turpin, E. (ed.) | Fábula rasa (Antología) | A collection of fables by some of the great Spanish and Spanish-American writers, including Arturo Pérez Reverte, Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £27.40 | ||
| Tusquets, E | Bingo | A wonderful novel about growing old and the power of memory, from one of the best authors writing in Spanish today. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Tusset, P. | En el nombre del cerdo | Inspector Pujol embarks on one last investigation before his retirement following the discovery of the dismembered body of a young woman. A washed-up writer and the local village boss are just two of a host of suspects. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £22.40 | ||
| Tusset, Pablo | Oxford 7 | It is spring 2089 and student unrest is breaking out all over the world. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Ugarte, Pedro | Mañana será otro día | A witty and scathing look at the banalities of everyday life. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £16.99 | ||
| Ugeda, F. | La alternativa del escorpión | London 1899. Mary Lookford has been found dead in her bedroom with a knife driven into her chest. Desmond Angell must lead the investigation and at first the culprit seems obvious. But soon he realises he has been manipulated like a puppet. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Uribe, K. | Bilbao-New York-Bilbao | A novel which takes place during a flight between the airports of Bilbao and JFK in New York. The story of three generations of the same family are described through letters, diaries, emails, and poems creating a mosaic of memories. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £22.95 | ||
| Urzay, J | La ópera secreta: Mozart y la partitura masónica | Set in Vienna and with time shifts between 1786 and 2006, this novel explores the mystery surrounding a musical score composed by Mozart and supposedly sabotaged by Pope Pio VI. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £26.75 | ||
| Usón, C | Perseguidoras | Chekhovian novel about three sisters attempting to escape their problematic life in Barcelona. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £19.35 | ||
| Usón, C. | El viaje de las palabras | Lucía finds herself transported from 20th-century Barcelona to the Russia of 1892, where she becomes closely involved Anton Chekhov and his family. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £15.60 | ||
| Ussía, A | Mamá se quiere morir... y no hay manera | A comic romp set in the ancestral home of the Sotoancho family. Spanish upper class anxieties and jealousies are ruthlessly exposed in this amusing tale. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £21.30 | ||
| Ussía, A | ¡Milagro! Se ha muerto Mamá | From the acclaimed author Ussía, and with illustrations by renowned cartoonist Barca, this is the latest instalment in the amusing adventures of the Marqués de Sotoancho. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Ussía, A. | Bohemios y malvados: Coñones del Reino de España II | Satirical poetry depicting Spanish culture. Humourous and morbid verses ranging in subject from evil and disaster to bohemian life. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £27.95 | ||
| Ussía, A. | El diario de mamá | The tenth book of "Las memorias del marqués de Sotoancho". His mother has died and left him a lot of money and a little bit of peace. But the peace will not last for long… |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Ussía, A. | Las dos bodas | Another book in the hilarious saga of the Marquis of Sotoancho and his vengeful mother. |
| New Fiction. Published 2004. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Val, L. del | Volveremos a Venecia | Set in a small Pyrenean village, this is at once the story of a secret love affair, a fast-paced political thriller and a disturbing tale of intrigue in the highest judicial circles. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £25.35 | ||
| Val, Luis del | Crucero de otoño | A retired spy is recruited by the FBI to monitor a Boston businessman while he holidays in the Mediterranean. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £29.95 | ||
| Valdés, Zoé | El todo cotidiano | A young Cuban girl embarks on a new life in Paris, surrounded by eccentric characters of all nationalities. A humorous and life-affirming novel. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £23.99 | ||
| Valdés-Bango, Angeles | El fracaso inevitable | A woman struggles for independence and happiness against the dismal backdrop of 1950s Spain. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £22.99 | ||
| Valencia, P.J | Eclipse de cuerpo | A homage to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, this novel explores the concept of the divided self. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £21.70 | ||
| Valenzuela, C. | Sola | A moving novel set during the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath. Even Teresa's moneyed middle-class background cannot save her and her family from the fear and hardship brought about by the horrors of war. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £29.95 | ||
| Valenzuela, Luisa | Tres por cinco | Short stories from the acclaimed contemporary Argentina author about free spirits and the beauty of Latin American myths. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £17.95 | ||
| Valera, L. | Anillo de compromiso | A private detective and a history professor embark on what seems a simple task: to recover an engagement ring for an attractive client. However, things swiftly get a little more complicated... |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £19.70 | ||
| Valle, I. del | El tiempo de los emperadores extraños | Murder mystery set during the siege of Leningrad. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Valle, Ignacio del | Los demonios de Berlín | Berlin, 1945. The Russian army is advancing and the fall of Germany is imminent. Arturo is in the middle of this chaos with a mission to find the murderer of Ewald von Kleist, a scientist whose body has been found with a mysterious diagram in his pocket. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Vallejo-Nágera, M. | Un mensajero en la noche | The story of Albert Wensbourgh, a violent prisoner whose character is changed inexplicably for the better, and his relationship with a young journalist who befriends him. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £10.95 | ||
| Vallejo-Nágera, M. | La nodriza | The fascinating story of Marie Antoinette told by her nanny. After Marie Antoinette has been beheaded, her nanny, Lala, finds a job in a tavern and decides to write a long letter about all the ins and outs of the French court. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £19.95 | ||
| Vallvey, A. | La ciudad del diablo | A tranquil village near Toledo, 1975. Don Alberto, the young local priest, discovers the body of naked woman, and together with his young altar boy Ricardo, sets out to track down her murderer. Meanwhile Franco lies on his death-bed leaving an anxious and expectant Spain. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Vallvey, A. | Muerte entre poetas | What should have been a routine literary convention turns into something quite disturbing when one of the principal poets is found murdered with a stab wound through the heart. A fast-paced thriller set in Toledo. *Finalista Premio Planeta 2008*. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Vargas Llosa, M. | El sueño del celta | The new novel by Nobel Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. Beginning in the Congo in 1903 and ending in a London prison in 1916, the novel tells the incredible story of the Irish revolutionary Sir Roger Casement. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Click on entry for price details. | ||
| Vargas Llosa, M. | Travesuras de la niña mala | Ricardo leaves his home in Lima for a much longed for new life in Paris. However, a chance meeting with an old girlfriend throws his plans into disarray. A charming novel about the many sides of love. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Vásquez, J.G. | Los amantes de Todos los Santos | A collection of stories whose locations shift between France and Belgium, but whose themes remain universal: solitude, guilt and the falling in and out of love. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £19.90 | ||
| Vásquez, Juan Gabriel | El ruido de las cosas al caer | Antonio is aware that his new friend Ricardo has a secret, or maybe several. Little does he realise that his investigations will take him back to the Colombia of the early 1970s, with all its drug problems and political unrest. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.99 | ||
| Vaz de Soto, José María | Sevilla, estación términus | Two old friends meet after many years to discuss illness and love, life and death, until an unexpected crime takes them by surprise. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Vázquez Díaz, René | Ciudades junto al mar | Autobiographical novel based on the author's experiences as an apprentice shipwright in Gdansk and his subsequent life in Sweden running a Cuban cultural institute. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £18.50 | ||
| Vázquez, A. | Fiesta para una mujer sola | Originally banned by the Franco regime because of its vivid depiction of the hedonism and multi-culturality of Tangiers, this ground-breaking novel still has the power to shock, 45 years after it was written. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £29.50 | ||
| Vázquez, A. | Mediohombre | The story of General Blas de Lezo and his surprise victory against the British navy in the Battle of Cartagena de Indias in 1741. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Vázquez-Figueroa, A. | Coltan | An Iraqi group take revenge on the US government for the scores of massacred civilians and the widespread destruction of their country by threatening to kill a US government official in a week unless a restructuring programme is undertaken. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Vázquez-Figueroa, A. | El rey leproso | Historical novel in the style of Dumas's "The three musketeers". |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £13.95 | ||
| Vázquez-Rial, H. | La capital del olvido | Romeu is the bodyguard of Guilia Brenan, a famous singer. Her tour of Argentina leads him into a dangerous world where nothing is as it seems. *V PREMIO DE NOVELA FERNANDO QUINONES* |
| New Fiction. Published 2004. Price: £25.65 | ||
| Vega, C. | El hijo del futbolista | The protagonist of this book, the son of an ex-footballer, confronts the secrets of his family and of his town. At school he writes an essay which questions the "happy past" of the town and the impact of the British colony. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £17.95 | ||
| Velasco, M | Erik el Rojo | Viking saga based on the adventures of the man who disovered Greenland. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £17.95 | ||
| Velasco, Xavier | Puedo explicarlo todo | 30-year old Joaquín is trying to take control of his chaotic life by trying unsuccessfully to write a self-help book. A chance meeting with 10-year old Dalila shows him that there are many different paths to redemption. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £23.99 | ||
| Velázquez Medina, Fernando | Última rumba en la Habana | The story of an educated girl who has the talent to be whatever she wants but ends up forced into prostitution. Through sex, she seeks to escape Havana and all that she fears. |
| New Fiction. Published 396346. Price: £18.55 | ||
| Veloz Maggiolo, M | Ritos de cabaret | Novel set in the Dominican Republic which vividly captures the magic and emotion of its setting. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £22.50 | ||
| Ventura, Antonio | Un amor en tres tiempos | A moving story of love lost and found. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £10.95 | ||
| Verdes, P. (Ed.) | Querida: cartas de hombres a mujeres | A beautiful collection of letters written to women by authors including Bernardo Atxaga, Sergio Cabrera, Luis Goytisolo, Antonio Martínez, Javier Reverte, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and more. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £29.95 | ||
| Vidal, A. | La herencia de la tierra | Within the turbulent Spain of the 19th century and the industrial revolution, Rosendo Roca refuses to accept his tragic destiny. He places a risky bet which will condition his entire life. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Click on entry for price details. | ||
| Vidal, C | La noche de la tempestad | Based on the mystery surrounding Shakespeare's will, this novel is full of the human passions of love, envy, greed and anger which informed the playwright's own works. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £26.75 | ||
| Vidal, César | El guerrero y el sufí | Historical novel about the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, an important turning point in the "Reconquista". Kings and caliphs, warriers, peasants and philosophers are all vividly portrayed, as is the world in which they live. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £19.99 | ||
| Viejo, Paul | Los ensimismados | Short stories full of secrets and contradictions. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.50 | ||
| Viejo, Teresa | La memoria del agua | After the death of her mother, Álvaro finds a letter and a photo which will lead her to an ancient legend: that of the " Balneario de La Isabela". This was the recreation spot of the 19th century bourgeoisie until one swimmer was found dead. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Vila-Matas, E. | Doctor Pasavento | Seeking to emulate his hero, the reclusive writer Robert Walser, the eponymous hero of this novel decides to engineer his own disappearance, only to find that nobody notices. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £26.95 | ||
| Vila-Matas, E. | Dublinesca | Samuel Riba considers himself to be the last literary editor and has felt destroyed ever since he stopped. One day a dream suggests that his life purpose is in Dublin. He persuades some friends to go with him but hides his true objectives… |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Click on entry for price details. | ||
| Vila-Matas, E. | Exploradores del abismo | A collection of short stories whose characters find themselves on the brink of an emotional void, whereupon they begin to question and analyse the emptiness of their existence. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Vila-Matas, E. | Una vida absolutamente maravillosa: Ensayos selectos | One of the most distinguishing features of Vilas-Matas's work is the lack of boundaries between genres, it is hard to try to separate essay, short story and novel of this author, therefore some of the greatest findings can be made in his essays. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £16.99 | ||
| Vila-Sanjuán, S. | Una heredera de Barcelona | In 1920 Barcelona a young royalist lawyer and journalist enters into a relationship with some very diverse characters. A novel which provides a different perspective about a complex and dazzling time. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £18.50 | ||
| Vilas, M. | Aire nuestro | Quirky novel set in the surreal world of the television studio, by a well-regarded writer who is not afraid to take narrative risks. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Villamía, F. | Judith y Holofernes | A story of two sides firstly about an imposter and the revenge that is unleashed but also an investigation into the hidden depths of personal identities and the boundary between fiction and reality. *XXVII Premio de novela Felipe Trigo* |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £23.95 | ||
| Villar, S. | La playa de ahogados | When the body of a sailor is found on a remote Galician beach, Inspector Leo Caldas attempts to bond with the inhabitants of the coastal town in order to investigate. However the locals seem strangely unwilling to help... |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £25.95 | ||
| Villarejo, P | La luz mentida: memoria y cárcel del arzobispo Carranza | Based on the true story of Bartolomé de Carranza, accused of heresy by the Spanish Inquisition. Other historical figures such as Philip II, Mary Tudor and Saint Teresa feature in this fast-paced narrative. *LVI Premio de Novela Ateneo-Ciudad de Valladolid* |
| New Fiction. Published 373. Price: £23.60 | ||
| Villena, L.A.de | El sol de la decadencia | California, 1940. A young student accepts an unusual job: ghostwriting the memoirs of a retired English film director whose homosexual past contains some murky secrets. |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £23.50 | ||
| Villoro, J | Los culpables | Collection of short stories featuring a gallery of diverse narrators, including a jaded Mexican musician, a footballer past his best, a window cleaner and a tourist who adopts an iguana. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £17.20 | ||
| Volpi, Jorge | No será la Tierra | Three women, a Russian, an American and a Hungarian, find their destinies entwined despite their very different backgrounds. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £20.30 | ||
| Wierzchowski, L. | La casa de las siete mujeres. Un faro en la pampa. | It is 1902 and Antônio Gutiérrez is returning to an isolated ranch in the Rio Grande, where his father was brought up, and where many important events in his family's history took place. A fascinating depiction of Brazil at a pivotal moment in its turbulent history. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £29.95 | ||
| Yanes, J. | El señor de las llanuras | When young journalist Curro Mencía finds out that Lux Domini, the family home where he spent many summers, is to be sold, he embarks on a journey into the heart of Kenya. The unforgettable characters he meets teach him that anything is possible, including true happiness. |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £31.95 | ||
| Yanes, Javier | Si nunca llego a despertar | On his wedding day in Africa, thousands of miles from home, Toño reflects on an idyllic childhood spent with his brothers, his parents and his first true love. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £18.50 | ||
| Yúfera, P. L. | El milagro de las abejas | Carlos Jorquera is battling the pain from his father's death when at his family home he finds the manuscript of what appears to be a novel. The story takes him to a far and captivating world. Now he must work uncover why his father wrote it. |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £29.95 | ||
| Zabaleta, F., & L. Astorga | La cruz de ceniza | Historical novel set in a 16th-century Galician monastery. |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £20.95 | ||
| Zafra, Benjamín | La canción de alba | 1902 in Puente Viejo and a mysterious woman arrives in search of the village midwife. A novel full of passion, betrayals and guilty secrets. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £20.99 | ||
| Zaldua, I | Porvenir | A collection of innovative short stories which combine sarcasm with fantasy. *Premio Euskadi de Literatura 2006* |
| New Fiction. Published 2007. Price: £20.95 | ||
| Zambra, Alejandro | Formas de volver a casa | Novel depicting life from the point of view of a nine year old boy living under the Pinochet dictatorship in 1980s Chile. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £17.50 | ||
| Zanón, Carlos | Tarde, mal y nunca | Drugs, violence and prostitution are the themes of this gritty novel set in Barcelona. |
| New Fiction. Published 2011. Price: £21.95 | ||
| Zapata, A | La vida ausente | Strongly influenced by surrealism, Zapata explores the idea of freedom and the human condition. |
| New Fiction. Published 2006. Price: £13.80 | ||
| Zaragoza, María | Dicen que estás muerta | A day like any other is changed for ever when a young woman is knifed to death. The streets and squares of Madrid are vividly depicted in this compelling "novela negra". *XV Premio de Novela Ateneo Joven de Sevilla* |
| New Fiction. Published 2010. Price: £24.95 | ||
| Zarraluki, P. | Un encargo difícil | Set in 1940, this is the story of Leonor, widow of an executed Republican leader. She and her daughter Camila are exiled to the island of Cabrera with a few other companions. An inspiring novel of optimism against all the odds. *PREMIO NADAL 2005* |
| New Fiction. Published 2005. Price: £11.95 | ||
| Zarraluki, P. | Todo eso que tanto nos gusta | An enlightening and inspiring novel about a father and son who embark on a journey in search of a palace, but find out many more important things on the way such as the path to self-discovery. |
| New Fiction. Published 2008. Price: £24.50 | ||
| Zurdo, D., & A. Gutiérrez | El sótano | When a group of teenagers enter an abandoned building they soon realise that the barred windows and padlocked doors are not there to keep intruders out, but to prevent them from escaping… |
| New Fiction. Published 2009. Price: £21.95 | ||
