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Three friends from Mallorca, who grew up in the same neighbourhood, have followed their own very different personal and professional paths: journalism, sport and an army career. Many years later, their paths cross again when the journalist decides to write a book about the sporting friend's basketball club.
Kalashnikov begins with an appeal from de European Parliament to capture Joseph Kony, the greatest war criminal ever, who on top of murdering, raping and turning thousands of children into slaves, he uses them as soldiers for his army. As the institutions are powerless, a small group of European members of Parliament decide to break the laws they have sworn to defend.
Vatsyayana claimed that there are eight basic ways of making love and eight main positions. We claim the same thing, only this time in the field of business: there are eight basic ways for a company to face the world.
This is a humorous work that adapts life in a company and the world of business to sexual positions and games of seduction.
Kambirí is a nine month old African baby rescued from a dinghy onf the island of Lampedusa, along with her dead mother and seventy immigrants. A doctor decides to take care of her and the whole village helps to raise her while attempts are made to find her father.
The starting point for this novel is a real person: one of the most powerful men in the world, who became the hottest topic of conversation on news reports, TV debates and among gossips around the world after he was arrested as he flew speedily back to his own country, accused of having raped a black migrant worker in the room of a luxurious New York hotel.
In summer 2011, Pol Bársac climbs off the balcony and escapes from the police; they want to arrest him for sabotage during the Indignants demonstrations. Due to a strange physical phenomenon, Pol is transported to another dimension, to a fantastic universe full of magnificent castellated cities, wondrous creatures and leafy forests, which seems oddly familiar.
A fantasy novel for children and young adults with a message about the environment, demonstrating how its deterioration is due not only to our lifestyle, but also to our indifference to nature. Koko considers herself “disorganised, forgetful and a bit of a scatterbrain”. She lives in the future, when the lands lie devastated and depleted from an environmental disaster caused by humans’ stupidity.