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.
After midnight, Yuna and her dad sneak out of the house and head to the zoo to check that all animals are asleep. But…what will they find there? The zoo has an incredible secret and Yuna and her dad are about to find it out.
El Señor Fortuny is an illustrated book which immerses itself in the work of an artist in order to show us his creative process. Mariano Fortuny Madrazo was born into a family with many links to the art world, and growing up in this environment awoke his artistic restlessness and enabled him to travel widely.
“Aimed at 7, 8 & 9-year-olds, El Señor H is great fun, with some old-fashioned public service type information also cleverly, undidactically injected along the way. The illustrations are colourful, expressive, many of them full bleed on the page”. (Tom Bunstead)
The Zodiac Trilogy: One year, one sign, one crime. January 2012 and the start of the Year of the Dragon, the only mythological animal in the Chinese Zodiac, which represents wisdom, power and wealth. After ETA announces the permanent end of its armed activity, life in the idyllic city of San Sebastián flows smoothly without serious crimes.
Anna is the librarian in Húsavík, a small Icelandic fishing village. When she receives a letter signed 'your father, who loves you', a door inside her which she believed was closed for ever suddenly opens and forces her to face her past and to redefine the certainties on which she has built her identity. Why did her parents abandon her? Who is she, really?
The German poet Rainier Maria Rilke used to say that childhood is our only homeland. He also used to say that there are no beginners lessons in life because we are immediately expected to perform advanced tasks.
Tasio Ortiz de Zarate, the brilliant archaeologist found guilty of the bizarre murders that terrorised the peaceful city of Vitoria twenty years ago, is about to leave prison on license when the crimes begin afresh: the naked bodies of a twenty-year-old couple are found in the symbolic building of Vitoria's Old Cathedral, killed by bee stings to the throat.
Pérez Domínquez gives us an unforgettable story inhabited by disenchanted heroes, enigmatic women and frantic persecutions, where love reveals itself as the holy grail which is able to redeem all the characters. A moving spy novel in the style of Graham Green's writing which Pérez Domínguez translates to the Madrid and Seville of the 1950s with ease.
Carmelo returns to the village in his native Andalusia for the first time. Thirty years ago his mother took him way from there when he was only three years old, fleeing after witnessing a horrific event which would condition his life and everyone's who lived there during the days of General Franco's uprising.