New Spanish Books: The online guide of titles from Spanish publishers and literary agents with rights for translation in the UK. To consult titles available in other markets please click on the above links.
A novel that delves into human nature… the unspeakable side of human nature. In the face of a series of increasingly more demented deaths, only a pair of teenagers, a desperate widow and her best friend are in a position to start arranging the pieces of the puzzle.
A devastating hurricane ravages the city of Mainauni. Three young homeless men and childhood friends, San, Ibo and Tayil, decide to take advantage of the chaos in the days after the disaster to loot the abandoned houses. San, the leader, is convinced of the success of his plan, and Tayil, obedient as always, supports him. But Ibo begins to think that another kind of life might be posible for him.
Topography, the circumstances of its foundation and prejudices determine every provincial city, as well as its piously hidden sins. Manizales is situated at over 2000 m above sea level, among Colombia's coffee growing mountains. Daughter of migrations and the civil wars of the 19th century, an old saying states that its 450,000 inhabitants are wedded to tradition, particularly the women.
For centuries, vampires and werewolves have honoured a pact that protects humans from a world of danger and darkness. William is one of them, a fearsome and lethal vampire and the only one of his kind immune to the sun. This gift has turned him into a special being. Into the hope that his species needs. Into the key that the renegades seek to free themselves from their curse. A pact. A secret.
1772. A simple letter shakes the foundations of the Vatican. Which conspiracy could involve the most influential nobleman of Naples? A friend of Charles III, a mason and traitor to his own, an alchemist obsessed with immortality, inventor of the most crazed mechanical apparatuses… Raimondo Di Sangro, Prince of Sansevero, is a dangerous enemy of the Church.
This diagnostic analyses the present situation and future prospects of a business in order to evaluate its capacity to compete, take decisions and for make plans. The business's strategy and its relation to the larger environment should be the basis of the diagnostic so as to be aware of what has happened and understand the behaviour of the activity.
The 'Dilálogo de la pintura', first published in 1557, is a text conceived in defence of Tiziano Vecellio (and, thus, of Venetian painting), whose presence in the life of Giorgio Vasari (1550) turned out to be anecdotal, especially when faced with the attention paid to Michelangelo, who was exalted as the greatest artist of all time.
Spain, winter 1939. AMong the hundreds of thousand of people crossing the bordering seeking refuge in France, the Lamana family get separated, hoping to be reunited in the neighbouring country.
Who was the first person to discover that the World was round? Who was first to navigate it? Who the first to leave it to reach the Moon? Did Persians invent Paradise? Did the Black Death help to develop the printing press? Did Indians invent the number zero? Did the Chinese come up with the idea for the first Earthquake detector?
París, 1 August, 1914. In Madame Durieux's pension, young people from all nations come together, in a cosmopolitan mix of races and tongues, all eager to enjoy the febrile vitality of the City of Light. But on that day, everything changes. France starts mobilising its men for the war against Germany.