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WINNER OF THE XIII LOGROÑO DE NARRATIVA AWARD 2019 Historical novel based on the life of Sancho Martín, a real Spanish knight of the 12th century, who traveled to Holy Land, at the other end of the Mediterranean to fight in the crusades, where he met Saladin and played an epic chess game with him. His name appears in both Christian and Muslim chronicles for his acts of courage and strategy. He was known as “The Green Knight”, always dressed in green with an antlers topped helm. He will take part in the third and fourth crusade, develop a scam trafficking with relics, suffer the rising power of Inquisition and even witness the birth of Catalonia. A cavalry novel that reads like a page turner.
WINNER OF THE ATENEO DE SEVILLA NOVEL AWARD 2019 A long time ago, a group of friends always met at the Kronen Bar to consume their youth through sex, drugs and alcohol. In certain occasions they flirted with death; some of them even ended badly. It's been a long time. It's been twenty five years exactly. Now they have jobs and earn their lives pretty decently. Some got married and have kids. Almost none of them takes drugs anymore and their former wild nights out have turned into evening wine tastings. When Carlos receives some news that totally shocks his life, he feels the urge to get back in touch with his friend Pedro, who he hasn't seen in many years. Maybe their reencounter will only be an excuse to remember the past. Or maybe it will be the perfect beginning of their last binge...
Marta Aguilera, a journalist committed to her job, receives news that will change her destiny: a tumor threatens her health and she has barely two months to live. With nothing to lose or anyone to answer, Marta feels that reality is a threatening place and decides to occupy the time that is left to impart justice. In a race against time for her own life and against the unbreakable inspector Daniela Gutiérrez, Marta Aguilera will try to apply her particular law of talion. A shocking thriller, different from all the others. A novel that you will read as if you were the main character.
1885. A new and amazing case for detective Víctor Ros that will take him to Cuba, the pearl of the Caribbean, together with his inseparable companions Alfredo Blázquez and Arístides Mínguez. They will get involved in the cosmopolitan environment of Havana, among spies of the Western powers, double agents, North American businessmen, autonomists, insurgents, the Cuban sugar aristocracy, military men and Spain supporters. A fast-paced adventure in prewar Cuba and Spanish Empire debacle that will lead Víctor deep into the Cuban jungle, the manigua, forced to meet old enemies and ghosts of the past . Other titles of the series: El misterio de la casa Aranda (2007), El caso de la viuda negra (2008), El enigma de la calle Calabria (2010), La última noche de Víctor Ros (2013), Víctor Ros y el gran robo del oro español (2015). In 2015 TVE (Spain) produced a TV series based on Víctor Ros novels.
Arsenio, a Cuban exile close to the dictator Batista, and his friend Elbio who never left the Cuban countryside, meet again after many years. Arsenio is gathering testimonies to support his granddaughter’s thesis on Batista, who lingers in people’s memories as a criminal and a traitor. He spends some days with Elbio: through memories and conversations between them and other characters, the book sketches a nuanced and polyphonic portrait of Batista and breathes new life into the collective memory of Cuba.
WINNER OF THE XXXV JAÉN LITERARY AWARD 2019 Paul Gauguin’s last days in Tahiti is the main subject of La casa del placer , where happiness and torment, disease and survival are mixed with the mysterious joy of creation and the longing memories of an artist who lived for desire and painting.
Neither a historical novel nor an epic fantasy. Bertrand de Lis, a prominent carpenter survives the earthquake of Waliria, the court of Magmalión I of Ariok, losing his wife in the disaster. Encouraged by a prophecy, the king urges his people to set out on a trip for a wonderful but distant promised land. During the long and difficult journey riddled with dangers, Bertrand will also lose his son. Or so he'll believe at least. Another child, casually the heir to the throne, dies in an accident during the exodus. People close to the crown knows that to avoid a takeover by hostile factions, the kingdom cannot afford to lose its heir. It will be decided that Bertrand's son is kidnapped and turned into prince. After several intrigues and conspiracies to take over the power, we will witness the true fate of the kingdom of Ariok. Beyond literary genres, this is a novel set in various indeterminate places during a period that resembles a mythical Middle Ages. But above all it's a novel of characters, it tells the love of a father for his son and what he will be put through to get him back. The reader will find love, hate, violence, cruelty, ambition, loss, loyalty and betrayal. The setting and the historical documentation are really taken care of, especially when it comes to one of the backgrounds of the novel : carpentry and its progress.
