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  • La luz es más antigua que el amor
    Light is older than love
    Author:
    Ricardo Menéndez Salmón
    Publisher: EDITORIAL SEIX BARRAL, S.A.
    In 1350, when Europe is recovering from the Black Death, the future pope Gregorius XI visits the Tuscan painter Adriano de Robertis to destroy his last work, the blasphemous Bearded Virgin. On February 25 1970, the American painter Mark Rothko slits his wrists in his New York Studio.
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  • LA MADRE DE FRANKENSTEIN
    THE MOTHER OF FRANKENSTEIN
    LA MADRE DE FRANKENSTEIN, Almudena Grandes
    Author:
    Almudena Grandes
    Publisher: TUSQUETS EDITORES, S.A.
    In 1954, after going into exile in 1939 and being taken in by Dr. Goldstein's family for 15 years, the young psychiatrist Germán Velázquez returns to Spain to work in the women's asylum in Ciempozuelos. There, Germán meets Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira, a paranoid, intelligent woman who murdered her own parents, and a young assistant, María.
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  • La madre de Jack
    Jack's Mum
    Author:
    Edu Flores y Daniel Nesquens
    Publisher: Apila Ediciones
    Jack's Mum is a children's picture book for children aged six years and upwards. It is based on a traditional oral tale which exists in several different versions. The story aims to explain to children how death is a part of life. Jack's mum is very ill, nearer to life than death. Jack is crying on the beach when he meets Death, who is looking for his mother.
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  • LA MAESTRA DE TÍTERES
    The Puppet Mistress
    La maestra de títeres - Carmen Posadas
    Author:
    Carmen Posadas
    Agent: Casanovas & Lynch Literary Agency S.L.
    If a woman had ever been destined to shine, it was Beatriz Calanda, whose eccentric, outrageous life iunfolds during the last sixty years of Spanish history. Darling of society magazines, with a life etched with glamour, scandals and scoops, the grande dame of the Madrid jet set, everyone knows who Beatriz Calanda is and who her four husbands were.
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  • LA MAESTRA REPUBLICANA
    The Republican schoolteacher
    Author:
    Elena Moya
    Agent: Sandra Bruna Agencia Literaria S.L
    The inspiring story of one woman's tireless struggle to change the course of a stunted society. She will not allow her past to be used in negotiations.
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  • La mala dona
    The Bad Woman
    Author:
    Marc Pastor
    Publisher: RBA Libros, S.A.
    Some children, sons of prostitutes who don’t dare to report the kidnappings to the police, have disappeared lately in Barcelona. The rumours go around till inspector Moisés Corvo, who thinks that sometimes it is necessary to use the fist or the gun, starts to become interested in the case. He is a bit of a drunkard and hangs around with prostitutes.
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  • LA MALA ENTRAÑA
    The Malice Within
    Author:
    Elena Alonso Frayle
    Publisher: baile del sol srl
    An anxious mother gives in to wretched temptation on a nocturnal flight; a young girl reveals the terrible mystery behind an innocent circle of light on the ceiling; a psychiatrist discovers the symptoms of a remarkable phobia concealing the collective fear of an entire generation. A group of teenagers turn vindictive to escape the tedium of their existence.
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  • LA MALDICIÓN DE LA LANZA SAGRADA
    THE CURSE OF THE HOLY SPEAR
    LIBRO LA MALDICIÓN DE LA LANZA SAGRADA DE LAURA FALCÓ
    Author:
    LAURA FALCÓ
    Agent: Agencia literaria Albardonedo
    Whoever possesses the spear of Longinos will rule the world. But whoever loses it will meet their own death. Eliza is a well-known English medium who earns a living with her family putting people in touch with their loved ones on the other side.
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  • La maldición del Rey Sabio
    The curse of the Wise King
    Author:
    José Guadalajara
    Publisher: Pamies Editorial
    The last years of the life of a king who had aspirations to the imperial crown. A king who tryed to embrace all the knowledge of his time and to pass it on for posterity. An unforgetable king. 1281. Alfonso X arrived in Seville to prepare the campaign against the kingdom of Granada. There, he is informed about the revolt of his son Sancho, supported by a great number of nobles.
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  • La Maleta
    The Suitcase
    Author:
    Núria Parera
    Agent: UTE KÖRNER LITERARY AGENT, S.L.U.
    Who doesn't have the right to fill a suitcase with the dream of a better life? A suitcase that passes from hand to hand, a silent witness to the different lives that take place throughout the 20th century. The textile colonies, the workers' revolution, the world wars, exile, make love not war, the fall of Francoism. And the constant migrations that - willingly or otherwise - do not stop.
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