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      • March 2023

        Summer does not last all year any more

        Novel

        by Katrin Ottarsdóttir

        It is Tórshavn in the 1970’s. The protagonist is a 16 year old girl from a dysfunctional home with a tyrant mother. She carries a huge secret, that no one can find out – especially not her mother. The girl is pregnant and she does everything in her power to hide it. But at some point the truth must come out. What will she do, when she can’t hide her secret anymore?  Summer does not last all year any more is a portrait of a small society where keeping up appearances is the most important of all. A coming of age story that deals with shame, abortion, a dysfunctional mother and secrecy. The novel is an independent sequel to The Girl in the World, Ottarsdóttir’s debut novel from 2020.

      • Fiction
        February 2020

        Sea of stars

        by Laia Aguilar

        Winner of the 2020 Josep Pla Prize.  A group of friends. A house in front of the sea. A sea of stars and an unresolved past.  A group of friends meet five years after a tragic accident in a house in Cap de Creus, an idyllic seaside enclave, with the excuse of seeing a sea of stars.They enjoy the reunion and share secrets, but jealousies also flourish, and an old love story and still-smoldering sentiments unearth an issue from the past that remains unresolved.None of them can imagine how the night will end. A night that has one more surprise in store.“She couldn’t say if it was because Nis had asked her or because she had let herself be dragged along. But she had come. It was two weeks ago. With two suitcases and an uncertain future, following the steps of the man who had seduced her. ‘We’ll be happy there, Olivia, we’ll be good. Trust me,’ Nis had repeated into her ear.”

      • Fantasy
        November 2017

        The Man and the Wall

        by Sercan Leylek

        A young Jewish girl,  Anna Sophie, is magically caught inside a brick wall during World War II, while German soldiers are raiding the library where she works. Just as magically, her presence inside the wall is discovered seventy years later by a young Muslim immigrant named Yakamoz. The wall in this story can be found in real-life central Oslo, next to the National Library, where Anna Sophie worked. Is The Man and the Wall fantastic realism, or is it realistic fantasy? Whatever it might be, the story of Anna Sophie and Yakamoz keeps you captured till The End.

      • Crime & mystery fiction (Children's/YA)
        February 2021

        El misteri del paper de vàter volador | The Mystery of the Flying Toilet Paper

        by Anna Cabeza

        A thrilling series of adventures with humour, chases and cunning… a lot of cunning. A new adventure full of humour and nods to real life. This time in New York! This Coscorrón sisters have to travel to New York, where the International Granny Detective Conference is being held, the world’s biggest conference of its kind. The Plaza Hotel is full of celebrities: the Tiatrappo sisters from Italy, the Akí Mekedos from Japan, and even Donald Trompazo himself. Amid the hubbub there is a mystery: the hotel’s toilet paper has all disappeared without explanation. The Coscorróns, Marcel and his new friend Max follow the trail of a culprit. Who will it be?

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