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Guillermo Fesser
Marcelo
A refreshing, original and entertaining cocktail based on the life of an inimitable bartender.
New York's Grand Central Terminal is the station with the most platforms in the world and around half a million travellers of all origins and conditions cross its marble floors every day. Inside, the oldest business is the Oyster Bar, opened in 1913, and among its employees the longest standing is Marcelo Hernández, a Latino bartender with a perennial smile, who has worked behind the bar for fifty-five years preparing the best cocktails in the city.
Amaya García & Alberto Mínguez
Encélado (Doce soles, vol. 1) / Enceladus (Twelve Alone I)
Rosa Gil
El mundo necesita a Delirium
Una nueva superheroína sobrevuela la ciudad. Sí, es Delirium, con sus mallas de saldo y sus volares erráticos recorre los tejados de Madrid en busca de su superenemigo: Redpunzel, un villano despiadado de pelirrojo melenón que no parece compadecerse de nadie y demuestra especial inquina a los museos en general y a las obras maestras de arte en particular.
Mario Vargas Llosa
La mirada quieta (de Pérez Galdós) / The Quiet Gaze (of Pérez Galdós)
Pérez Galdós is an essential author in contemporary Spanish literature. In this essay, written after analyzing his novels, plays, and National Episodes, Mario Vargas Llosa creates a comprehensive, personal, and evocative profile of the Spanish writer. No one but the Peruvian Nobel Prize winner is capable of reading a creator’s work so astutely, so freely, and so passionately.
Santiago Posteguillo
Roma soy yo / I am Rome
First instalment of the definitive saga dedicated to the man who changed the course of history: Julius Caesar.
When a senator, the dictator Sulla’s right-hand man, is put on trial on charges of rape, murder and corruption, no one in Rome believes that he will be convicted of even one of his countless crimes. The patricians enjoy total impunity because they control the senate...
Tito Muñoz
El gran Strómboli
Tito Muñoz rinde homenaje a la magia de la realidad, ese truco de ilusionista que ofrece lo cotidiano a través de su mirada.
«Se advierte al lector que de estos versos se sale con arañazos y moretones. Su uso excesivo puede dejar secuelas». Joan Manuel Serrat
Alicia Giménez Bartlett
La Presidenta / The President
Alicia Giménez Bartlett gives Petra Delicado a break and begins a new police saga featuring an irresistible pair of investigative sisters.
The day before she has to testify in a corruption trial, the president of the Valencian Community is found dead in a hotel room, apparently due to a heart attack. The authorities fear a scandal if her death is discovered to be not as natural as it seems. So, they decide to put the case in the most inexperienced hands imaginable: those of two women, two police inspectors fresh out of the academy and with no real experience.
Rosa Montero
El peligro de estar cuerda / The Danger to Be Sane. Creativity and the Eccentric Mind
An unclassifiable hybrid work, a mixture of essay and fiction, along the lines of her successful book La ridícula idea de no volver a verte.
After a lifetime devoted to literature and reflection on her own idiosyncrasies, Rosa Montero embarks on this journey in search of traits shared with other writers. Are writing and madness the two sides of the same coin?
Albert Sánchez Piñol
El monstre de Santa Helena / The Monster on Saint Helena
A remote island. A monster. The greatest general in history.
1819. The Marquise Delphine de Sabran and her illustrious lover, the writer François-René de Chateaubriand, visit Napoleon Bonaparte on the island of Saint Helena, where the emperor is living out the last years of his life under English arrest. Delphine, a famous courtesan, longs to meet the greatest man of her time but the emperor is nothing like the idealized hero she expected to meet, and Saint Helena is a rat-infested, grey, ugly island that seems to be deranged by the cursed influence of its famous prisoner.
Santiago Álvarez
Muerdealmas / Muerdealmas
A terrifying cross between The Shining and Straw Dogs.
After a long spell in a psychiatric hospital, Abel returns to the village of his childhood, Muerdealmas. He has decided to start a new life from scratch with his wife and son in the mansion on an uncle found dead in strange circumstances.