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.
This book offers us an overview of a problem which has been man-made and well documented, and has persisted throughout the history of humanity: hunger. At the end of this journey from antiquity up to the present day, the author concludes that whatever the mode of production and the way of life, the bitter pangs of hunger have been experienced everywhere.
This book tells the seven-year story of a family through the crockery in their kitchen, which bit by bit gets broken, lost or used for other things, and demonstrates the losses, discoveries and changes that the family go through. The author won the Barco de Vapor award (Steamboat award) in 2012 and the Inventions in Children’s and Young Adult Narratives prize in 2011.
In this rigorous and accessible essay, the renowned theologian Josep Maria Rovira Belloso reflects on the basis and the role of Christian Faith upon today’s society, both at an individual and collective level.
'La fea burguesía' offers a brutal portrait of the so-called middle- and privileged-classes, represented by five marriages in search of success, summed up by obtaining money, and proved by the constant acquisition of goods.
You're always rushing around, dragging yourself from place to place, and you can't hide the fact you feel everything's your fault. You've already worked out that the so-called work-life balance is a myth. You try to be the best mother you can, but there's always someone around to tell you you should be doing things differently.
A hilarious comedy in which five Spanish women and the ghost of García Lorca try to trick an eccentric Englishman. When the eccentric Atticus Craftsman shows up in Madrid with a mission to close down a literary magazine that is only making losses, he doesn't imagine that dealing with the magazine's five members of staff is going to be too hard.
A sentimental, literary novel, full of humour, passion and melancholy, 'La felicitat dels dies tristos' tells the story of Tabou, a university student marked by a family history as intense as it is complicated. Tabou falls in love with Elisenda, his beautiful, full-of-life classmate, who soon reveals that he can never have her.
In this short story for children or for the parents who want to read it to them "Tommy Roca" tells us the start of the story of Little Kitty Mishifuz, who is abandoned as a young kitten and found in the garden of a pretty house on the Spanish Costa del Sol.
Guille is a very fun child. But that's when he's at home - when Guille leaves his family environment he becomes nervous and introverted. A simple birthday party can become a nightmare for him when his best friend is unable to attend. Trok the troll makes an amusing appearance to help Guille weigh up and reflect on his mistakes.
The Sun and the Moon make a lovely happy couple and so they have lots of friends. They like to organise parties and picnics in their house up on the hill. Hardly a day goes by without them inviting someone round! Everyone brings a friend or relation with them, because no one wants to miss out on the parties thrown by the Sun and the Moon.