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Sandra Bruna. Director Berta Bruna Sandra started working at a literary agency at a B.A. in Statistics and Market Research. She works very young age and combined a Bachelor’s de- in the publishing world since 1993. She has wor- gree in Spanish with her job at the agency. After ked in large publishing groups such as Penguin ten years of experience she decided to embark Random House and Planeta Group. She has on a solo adventure, and she started up her own been Director of Marketing and Communication agency in 2001. The beginnings were slow, but in Grup 62, where she launched new projects, more than ten years after Sandra Bruna Agencia and Editorial Director in Columna and Planeta Literaria has grown to currently become a con- and Destino’s Catalan collections. She current- solidated agency with 130 Spanish and Catalan ly heads the Department of New Projects and authors, and a list of more than 30 publishers Multiplatform Content in Sandra Bruna Agencia and agents represented for the Spanish and Literaria . Portuguese speaking markets, both for adult and children & YA titles. [email protected] [email protected]

Sarah Daumerie Chiara Patsias With a degree in History and postgraduate Chiara has always loved good stories. She got her studies in Literary Translation, Sarah has been bachelor’s degree in Latin-American literature in working in the publishing world since she arrived Peru, but she decided to change winds to chase in Barcelona in 2003. She has collaborated as the book dream and left everything behind to a freelance translator or providing publishing move to Barcelona. There she studied a Master services for several publishing houses such as in Publishing at IDEC/UPF, and at the same time Planeta, Urano, Angle Editorial, Bellaterra Edi- she was an intern in a little literary Agency. On ciones, Larousse, Kirographaires, among others. 2015 she went to The London Book Fair. Now she As far as the literary agencies are concerned, joined the SB team and keeps learning every day. she owes everything she knows to International Editors’ team and literary agency, where she [email protected] worked until 2008. [email protected] index / fiction

9. Amela, Víctor 19. García Carteron, Begoña 30. Nolis, Oriol La filla del capità Groc La montaña maldita La extraña historia de Maurice Lyon 10. Baró, Santi 20. Goitia, Fernando 31. Palomas, Alejandro El informe Ahnenerbe La sacudida Un perro 11. Bennasar, Sebastià 21. Guhlam, Nadia & Diéguez, Javier 32. Pradas, Núria El país de los crepusculos La primera estrella de la noche Sueños a medida 12. Blanco, Francesc 22. Hernàndez, Gaspar 33. Ramos, Malenka Proyecto XI La terapeuta Quimera. Las edades bárbaras Lienas, Gemma Cantavella, Jordi 23. Rodríguez Lezaun, Susana 13. Un tesoro escondido 34. El brigadista Sin retorno Maitena Conde, Carmen 24. Santos, Care 14. Lo mejor de Maitena 35. Para morir siempre hay tiempo Diamant blau Martínez Tomás, Mari Carmen 15. Del Río, Isabel 25. La vidente de la luna llena Aloha 36. Soler, Sílvia L’estiu que comença 26. Miralles, Francesc Doñate, Àngeles Amor en minúscula 37. Tarragó Sílvia 16. El invierno que tomamos cartas en el El tiempo de la luz Miralles, Francesc & Santos, Care asunto 27. Valls, Coia Un rayo de esperanza 38. Esteve, Miquel Etheria 17. Miralles, Francesc & Santos, Care El fin de los secretos 28. 39. Vídac, Rafel El mejor lugar del mundo es aquí mismo El hombre más rico del mundo 18. Fernández, Empar Maldita verdad 29. Moya, Elena La candidata index / non fiction

41. Bom&Bon 46. Estivill, Eduard 51. Newman, Clay Pequeñas ideas antes de ser mamá Nuestro bebé Ni felices ni para siempre 42. Campo, Pancho 47. Fernández, Odile 52. Oaks, Lambert ¡Inspírate! Mis recetas anticáncer Guía para la vida de Tyrion Lannister 43. Domènech, Montse 48. Folch, Montse 53. Miralles, Francesc & García, Héctor Mindfulness La dieta de los colores Ikigai La enzima mediterránea 44. Esgueva, Mónica 54. Percy, Allan 10 claves para alcanzar tus sueños 49. Hernàndez, Gaspar Shakespeare para enamorados No soy de este mundo Estivill, Eduard Sandoval, Eva 45. Jericó, Pilar 55. Niños descansados, niños felices 50. ¿Y tú qué crees? 20th Anniversary ‘Duérmete niño’ ¿Y si realmente pudieras? index / young adult & children

García de Oro, Gabriel Olloquequi, Jordi 57. Alonso, Ana & Pelegrín, Javier 66. 75. El libro de los rostros El club de los caníbales se zampa Drácula EXO Lienas, Gemma 58. Alonso, Ana & Pelegrín, Javier 67. 76. Moon River Excalibur - New Serie Britania El rastro brillante del caracol Por una sonrisa, un beso 59. Alonso, Ana & Pelegrín, Javier 68. Lienas, Gemma 77. Riera, Pedro La puerta del dragón El diario rojo de Carlota El ladrón de las croquetas 60. Amor, Paula 69. Lozano, David 78. Santos, Care Pedazos de ti La puerta oscura Sapere Aude - Eblu’s Trilogy 61. Baró, Santi 70. Lozano, David 79. Santos, Care La luna de hielo El ladrón de minutos William Santos, Care 62. Baró, Santi 71. Lozano, David 80. Memorias de un cadáver Donde surgen las sombras Laura Chef - Chocolate 63. Carmona, Rocío 72. Lucas, Dorian 81. Sanz, Esther Huziel 99% feliz Yes, we dance 64. Evans, Justine 73. Miralles, Francesc & Ruescas, Javier 82. Sanz, Esther El octavo clan Latidos Si el amor es una isla

Seymour, Cliff Fernández-Vidal, Sonia & Bayés, 74. Palomas, Alejandro 83. 65. Pilarín Un hijo Los secretos del viejo Horace El universo en tus manos adult fiction LA FILLA DEL CAPITÀ GROC VÍCTOR AMELA Historical WHY THIS NOVEL? Manuela Penarrocha is thirteen years old. Sitting on • Premi Ramon Llull 2016. her low chair in her entrance hall, she sews sandals like The most famous and no other. The girl with grey eyes and golden hair thinks prestigious prize in Cata- of her father. He had taken ones like those to war, like lan language. the rest of the Carlists, men of sandals, walking stick, • Three editions in two blunderbuss and knife in the belt. She wants to hug months. More than him, feel the warmth of his kiss on her forehead. She 25.000 copies sold! misses his tough look, now filled with tenderness, his • 8 weeks #1 in Catalan loud laugh. She just wants him to get back to watch him fiction. fight for their ideals, to go back to his family and the • #1 on Sant Jordi’s day. • “Víctor Amela proves he town, the lost dignity, to life or to death. 420 pages. Víctor Amela (1960) has worked as knows how to use the a journalist half his life. Since 1984, Tomàs Penarrocha Penarrocha, her father, is known in diferent lines of the plot, he writes chronicles, reviews and Forcall as the Blond, because the color of his hair. and he keeps some surpri- interviews for La Vanguardia. He is a ses for the reader that will regular contributor to radio and TV keep everyone stuck to shows, teaches journalism and mass the seat.” (...) “Significant- communication, and has received ly, women play a strong many prestigious awards. Amor contra Roma role as well.” Carles Barba, He is the author of many non fiction Historical La Vanguardia. Urgídar, a young Iberian books such as Història cultural de from Lesera, arrives in Rome Rights sold to: l’audiovisual, La televisió-espectacle, in the year 12 BC with the Algunas cosas que he aprendido Planeta (Spanish and intention of training as an haciendo la contra, Estampas de la Catalan) vida forcallana. His first novel was El orator and poet. There he meets Ovid, Belfond (French) cátaro imperfecto. Amor contra Roma whom he befriends, and witnesses the was his second work of fiction. creation of his Ars Amatoria. Rights sold to Ediciones B (Spanish and Catalan).

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 9 EL INFORME AHNENERBE SANTI BARÓ Historical thriller WHY THIS NOVEL? Ten years after El informe Ahnenerbe, by Marcos Clos, • Have you ever heard of was published, a kid with no name, who lived hidden the Ahnenerbe society? with his parents in an apartment in Barcelona for nine It was an organization years, disappears under strange circumstances, strange that was part of the SS like his life. Nagore, the private teacher that’s in charge and whose leaders wan- of his education, will be who discovers the truth of ted to create an elite both his disappearance and his parents. All the clues lead precisely to Marcos. With him as an ally, she will body or warrior monks, live the exact same scenes the author did ten years an authentic Black Order before in a search that, by chance, will lead them to focused on old German discover the true treasure that Hitler was looking for in paganism which had the the heart of the Montserrat Mountain. 328 pages. destruction of Christianity Santi Baró was born in Olesa de as their main goal. Montserrat (Barcelona) on November • A very fascinating novel 30th, 1965. Very young, driven by his An exciting mystery that will keep you with which you can learn experiences at the Passion of Olesa, a lot. he wanted to be a playwritter and an breathless. actor… but things didn’t turn out the This book catches readers with its Rights sold to: way he wanted and, at only sixteen, he combination of reality and mystery. Ediciones B (Spanish and found himself working as a jeweler at Catalan) the workshop of his parents’ jewelry shop. Little by little, nevertheless, having done all kinds of odd jobs, he has finally catched up with that old dream, with the only difference that he writes novels instead of plays, and he only interprets Enjoy the Booktrailer! any characters in the intimacy of family and friends.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 10 EL PAÍS DE LOS CREPÚSCULOS SEBASTIÀ BENNASSAR Crime Fiction WHY THIS NOVEL? The cold has started to arrive at la Vall de Boí. And with • The Pyrenees are a lands- the first snow has also arrived an implacable murderer cape of this masterful that is leaving tortured and martyred corpses in the novel churches which are World Heritage. The inspector • A readers phrase: “No, Jaume Fuster –a man who does not fear anything- will you’re not reading Oliver have to face old medieval superstitions among the Truc, you are reading an white beauty of the valley, where everything returns, even the wolves. A novel that takes us to one of the Spanish author who puts most splendid landscapes in the Catalan countries, his story in Spain” under an intense freezing Nordic atmosphere combined • A novel with an exquisite with Mediterranean echoes and the North-American atmosphere that gives us violence. 300 pages. a few surprises. Sebastià Bennassar was born in 1976 in • All black, very black. All Mallorca. He has a degree in Humanities white, very white. And and a Master’s degree in World History in the middle, the horror from the Pompeu Fabra University. He and cold. worked for 12 years for the newspaper • Sebastià Bennasar’s great Diari de Balears. Currently, he combines and fantastic thriller, very his journalistic work with freelance black cultural management. Up to now, he has published two poetry collections, three short story books and six novels — four Rights sold to: of them thrillers. Two of his passions are: Editorial AlReves (Spanish Portugal and its literature; and novels and Catalan) brimming with blood.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 11 PROYECTO XI FRANCESC BLANCO A thriller about literature WHY THIS NOVEL? A mystery novel that pays homage to great works of • This is a frantic novel literature: The Neverending Story, All Souls, Alice in where surprise, mystery Wonderland, Anna Karenina, 2666, The Red and the and literature are the Black or One Hundred Years of Solitude are mentioned main ingredients. here to become protagonists and characters which, • A thrilling ride to the like fragile invisible threads, guide the reader toward a labyrinths of imagination surprising end. • A book where you can meet your favourite A strange email puts the editor Anna Krayss on alert. characters from other Her author and friend Jon Vivaldi, who is immersed books. an the investigation of one of the cases for his book • Proyecto XI goes at a fast Project XI -an investigation that has to do with a 408 pages. pace and innovates the Francesc Blanco was born in Barcelona fraud-, needs her help and Victor Crest’s, one of the approach: there are as where he studied Economics. researchers working with him on one of the cases. many puzzles as answers He has a long career in the fields of Anna and Yago Duran, Victor’s assistant, come to and the scenes don’t fall business, consultancy, and financial the place where Jon made the appointment, Poeta into clichés. auditing, with executive positions in Cabanyes Street 115, but something totally unexpected • Media coverage: more multinational firms. happens: each one of them arrives to a different place. than 15 interviews. In the 70s, when he read A Hundred Years of Solitude, he decided he Since then, Anna is confined in a completely different wanted to be a writer some day. space and time from her own, Bastian’s universe. Thirty years later, he took a Bastian is the subject of Jon Vivaldi’s investigation. More informationhere! He is a child who, thirty years ago, had the ability to professional turn: he left Madrid, see the future through characters of fiction. Through returned to Barcelona, and became different tracks and an intricate labyrinth of literary First Rights sold to: a freelance consultant, thus being references that are joining the ends, Yago and Victor chapter Suma de Letras, Penguin able to finally make both activities try to reach Anna. Meanwhile, she looks for Jon Vivaldi available in Random House (Spanish) compatible. Proyecto XI is his first and investigates Bastian’s mysterious story. Italian and novel. English

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 12 EL BRIGADISTA JORDI CANTAVELLA Historical WHY THIS NOVEL? Guided by a North American member of the • Based on a forgotten epi- International Brigade who fought in the Spanish Civil sode, written with solid War, we delve into a dazzling and emotive story. documentation. In the 1980s, an African American veteran of the • Cantavella honors the International Brigades recalls his experience in Spain Abraham Lincoln Brigade. during the Civil War, and confesses to his family that • 2 editions in 3 months. he fell in love in Catalonia with a young woman called Anna. The memories start when Raimond, the veteran • Great repercussion in Ca- grandfather, meets Joan, a Catalan young man who talan media: La Vanguar- is dating his granddaughter Sarah. “Be a member of dia, Ara... your own life’s Brigade and fight for your will to live; • Amazon review: «This fight whipping your rifle against the fascism of defeat 316 pages. story’s plot and characters Jordi Cantavella i Cusó was born in and unhappiness”. By an American member of the have touched me. The 1967. In 2002, Isdavat took the risk of International Brigade who fought in the Spanish Civil war scenes are brilliant publishing his first novel, Novapatria, War, we delve into a moving story intended to pay a for the descriptions and and survived the experience happily. deserved homage to the thousands of men and women, sensitivity with which Since then, he has published various heroes from all over the world, who fought and gave they are written». novels, young adult books, non fiction their life in our home defending everyone’s freedom. books and collections of short stories. His last works are the novel Aquests Rights sold to: catalans estan tocats del bolet Penguin Random House (Columna, 2010), the non-fiction book, (Catalan) Em vull fondre (Cossetània Edicions in 2012) and the novel El brigadista (Rosa dels vents, 2015). Spanish Version Read the first pages! Available

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 13 PARA MORIR SIEMPRE HAY TIEMPO CARMEN CONDE Crime Fiction WHY THIS NOVEL? Frustrated and obsessive writer addicted to drugs, • Carmen Conde surpri- Julia Irazu is a true expert in complicated lives, but this ses with her first crime time problems come from outside. She accidentally fiction. becomes involved in an art trafficking network, among • Exciting novel that hooks millionaires interests and unscrupulous criminals, you from start to finish. and meets Viktor Sokolov, an alleged Russian spy with • Good reviews! whom she will live an adventure full of danger from • Discover a new exce- Bilbao and Palermo to Saint Petersburg. llent author for the Paradoxically, that is when Julia discovers a basic genre. principle: there is always time to die. • Second edition in two weeks! Carmen Conde ( Barcelona, ​​1965 ) 368 pages. • Soon, a new Carmen studied Education and since she was Conde’s book. twenty-three works as a primary school “A dynamic and fresh novel written with a casual teacher in a public school. Passionate style that favors good humor, irony and sarcasm, about her work, she also loves reading all in the service of pure entertainment” since she discovered Enid Blyton as a child. Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King, among others, have done nothing but reinforce this passion. Rights sold to: More than ten years ago she wrote a Novel awarded Ediciones B (Spanish) short story Su última cena and was a with La Trama finalist in a contest. Since then, she has Award not stopped writing.

Para morir siempre hay tiempo is her first novel.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 14 LA VIDENTE DE LA LUNA LLENA ISABEL DEL RÍO Mystery WHY THIS NOVEL? Laia is a 32-year-old physician who lives in Barcelona. • More than 20 bloggers She has just lost her mother and, while cleaning her reviews. apartment, she finds a box full of old photographs and • A story that mixes mys- a tarot card that will lead her to investigate the origin tery, esotericism and of her family and the role that occultism and tarot have self-discovery. in it. Laia is hurt because she has never met her father • A novel that perfectly and she does not know anything about him. shows Barcelona. She starts an investigation that will take her to find new • The readers say: «A fresh tarot cards in different places of Barcelona (Ciutadella reading that hides many Park, Liceu, Palau de la Música and many other places). secrets and keeps us in 256 pages. suspense up to the end. Isabel del Río was born in Barcelona Will Laia discover the truth about her family and meet Enigmatic, surprising, in 1983. After graduating in her father? amazing. A highly recom- Philosophy, her love for manga, anime mended novel». or TV series did not decrease. She collaborates with radio programs and is an influential blogger of fantasy literature. Her first novel, Casa de Rights sold to: títeres, drew the attention of the Columna, Planeta Group specialized press. With La casa del (Catalan) torreón, she opens the gates of a Kailas (Spanish) nightmare that has accompanied her Fan Art for years. And with 100 cosas que Booktrailer! Reviews hacer en Barcelona, she discovers great places that you can see in this city. La vident de la lluna plena is her last novel.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 15 EL INVIERNO QUE TOMAMOS CARTAS EN EL ASUNTO ÁNGELES DOÑATE Women’s Fiction WHY THIS NOVEL? El invierno que tomamos cartas en el asunto is a • More than 25,000 copies homage to letters and writing. printed in Germany. • Three editions in Italy. Winter has come to Porvenir bringing bad news: due • Selected by New Spanish to a lack of mail, the Post Office will be shut down, Books for their panel of and all staff transfered. Sms, e-mails and whatsapps experts for the 2016 like seem to have won the game even on the mountains. a good book for the UK Sara, the only postman in town, was born and lives market. there with her three small children. She spends many • “A tribute to the episto- hours with her neighbor Rosa, an eighty-year-old lary literature and the woman who would do anything to spare Sara and her value of hand-written children afflictions. 376 pages. Ángeles Doñate was born in Barcelona. letters in times of e-mails She was the first of five siblings, and But what can an old lady do to prevent the lives of her and social networking. [...] grew up in a house filled with light, loved ones from being disrupted? Maybe something as Written with delicacy and shelter pets and books. Her passion for small as writing a letter, one she has been keeping in attention, Doñate achie- written and spoken words became a her heart for sixty years… ves a delightful novel”. El vocation as much as a profession. She Periódico. works as a corporate communications A book about friendship, affection, family, dreams manager for social and educational and love. The book that saved a real rural Post Office. Rights sold to: Ediciones B (Spanish) institutions. One day, by chance, Feltrinelli (Italian) she published a book: ¿Quieres un Thiele & Brandstätter consejo? She began a new path into Verlag (German) the forest of words, which has taken Droemer Knaur (German poc- her to other works: Cuando la cigüeña TV report about the ket) se pierde, the travel notebook De book! Editora Objectiva (Portuguese) Santiago de Chile a Puerto Williams, Prószynski i S-ka SA (Polish) or her first novel, coauthored, La Klidarithmos Publications sonrisa de un perro. (Greek)

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 16 EL FIN DE LOS SECRETOS MIQUEL ESTEVE Historical WHY THIS NOVEL? El fin de los secretos is a story of power, politics, • 2 editions in 3 months. finance, and passions in the beginnings of banking. • 9,000 copies sold. On November 10th, 1360, in Barcelona, the money • A story from the past that exchanger Francesc Castelló is beheaded on his projects onto the present. exchange table, in punishment for insolvency. The • A story of power, finan- economic and financial crisis of the city, the debts ce, love and heartbreaks of many money exchangers, as well as the delay in payment of life annuities and allowances by the that draws a realistic and council’s treasurer, bother the citizens. Castelló is critical picture of the city punished publicly as a warning to the insolvent money of Barcelona in the Low exchangers, and to calm the distressed population. Middle Ages. While common people suffer the severe aftermath of 461 pages. • Miquel Esteve mixes his- Miquel Esteve graduated in Business the plague and the economic crisis, the inhabitants of torical figures with fictio- and Economics, specializing in the Jewish quarter prosper with their loans; and while nal characters. Financial and Actuarial Mathematics. a few privileged classes are free of taxes, ordinary He combines writing with the people must pay them. A family from Barcelona, the management of a farming and olive Gualbes, takes advantage of the crisis and confusion to Rights sold to: family business. He is a regular accomplish their great ambition. Ediciones B (Catalan and contributor to radio programs. Spanish) He has published, among others, the El juego de Sade novels Heydrich i les agents del saló Erotic The great erotic novel of Barcelona. Get immersed in Kitty (XXV Ribera d’Ebre Fiction Prize, an unbridled fantasy where sex, mystery, infidelity, Cossetània, 2008), El Baphomet i la banality, love, betrayal and yearning for a second taula esmaragda (XX Town of Ascó chance shake up the lives of characters who will get Fiction Award, Cossetània, 2009) and caught in a voluptuous and malicious game designed the erotic novel El juego de Sade by a mind as passionate and sensual as delirious. Rights sold to Ediciones B (Spanish and Catalan) and Rocco (Brazil). (Sade’s Game, Ediciones B, 2013).

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 17 3. MALDITA VERDAD EMPAR FERNÁNDEZ Thriller / Noir WHY THIS NOVEL? Since her divorce, several years ago, Olga Barnabas • The third part of Em- lives with her son Daniel, who has become a 17-year- par Fernández’s trilogy old stranger with whom she barely speaks. One night about guilt. in late September, Olga returns home at midnight, • Empar Fernández has exhausted after a very long day at the hospital where the esteem of a literary she works and feeling more alone than ever. She career with more than checks that Daniel has not eaten and is in bed with his headphones on. She decides not to wake him, but what twenty novels. she will discover the next day will lead her to know the • She also knows the real life of her son. world of education and classrooms perfectly. Raul Forcano, a budding detective, will track the lives • Sometimes knowing the 276 pages. Empar Fernández (Barcelona) of the protagonists up to an event that, perhaps, we’ll truth can be a curse. alternates teaching with narrative and prefer to ignore. collaborations in press as a columnist. With her first novel, Horacio en la TRILOGY OF GUILT memoria, she won the short story 1. La mujer que no bajó 2. La última llamada XXV Premio Cáceres. In 2007 she was del avión Thriller / Noir finalist in the IX Premio Unicaja de Thriller / Noir Naomi Monteagudo Rights sold to: Novela Fernando Quiñones with her The first part of a trilo- went out one night Versátil (Spanish) novel El loco de las muñecas. And the gy about guilt. Guilt is to celebrate the end somewhat diffuse, shared of School, but never two first parts to her newest trilogy and able to ruin a life. returned home. Before have just come out: La mujer que no Discover why Sara didn’t disappearing she made bajó del avión and La última llamada. come out of that plane. a last call that her Recently, she has been a finalist for father took. English Medellín Negro 2013, the awards: Sample Premio de Novela Negra Ciudad de Available Carmona 2014 and Premio València Read the full synopsis of the Negra 2015 for the best crime novel. trilogy!

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 18 LA MONTAÑA MALDITA BEGOÑA GARCÍA CARTERON Historical WHY THIS NOVEL? In a period of upheaval like the decade of 1890, an • You will love Begoña Gar- attack during the Corpus Line from the Santa María del cía’s literature. Mar Church leads Barcelona to be declared in state of • A drama set in the Process siege. The tragedy of the dead victims adds to another of Montjuïc. one: the imminent arrest of workers with libertarian • A story of crossed lives ideals, considered violent anarchists. Magda, a cigar the confusion of identities seller in a theater in Paralelo, is afraid for her brother Pep, arrested by mistake three years before because and a series of misunders- of another attack, in the Liceu. She’s not mistaken: tandings makes everyone the police are after him, and not only him, but his suspicious. wife too. Magda and Tina, a relative with who she • Two editions in only one Begoña García Carteron has a lives in the neighborhood of Poble Sec, will find him 424 pages. week. degree in Art History and works as a in the dungeons of the Montjuïc castle, claiming his writer, journalist and coordinator of innocence. The link with the workers and the Union editorial content. As a freelance, she leader, Teresa de Claramunt; the staging by a young has developed very different tasks amateur theater company of a play by the symbolist in the field of communication and Ibsen and the link with the modernist artists Ramón Rights sold to: has tried numerous topics. She has Casas and Santiago Rusiñol will set the steps for her own personal tragedy. Ediciones B (Catalan and written books on art, heritage and Spanish) gastronomy; articles on culture, travel El barrio de la playa and ecology and has coordinated Historical projects for various publishers. The It is 1751 and the Spanish Succession War ended passion for her city, Barcelona, ​​has thirty years ago, however, there are a lot of survivors led her to specialize in local culture. who are still suffering the consequences. Outside She recently coordinated the content Barcelona’s walls, near the harbor, in a sandy area that belonged to the sea some time ago, with the of the new website of the City of shadow of the still present military strength, many families that lost Barcelona (meet.barcelona.cat) and their homes, lead a dissolute life in shakes. has written the sections devoted to Rights sold to Ediciones B (Spanish and Catalan) the history of the city, among others.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 19 LA SACUDIDA FERNANDO GOITIA Thriller WHY THIS NOVEL? A volcano subsides over three thousand people as • First Fernando Goitia’s Hurricane Mitch devastated Central America. A Basque novel will surprise you! journalist arrived at the scene of the tragedy to make • A history about victims a report and unearths a man without identity, dying in and guilts. the rubble. • Endowed with a careful prose, with well-cons- Without knowing it, he saves the life of a man who is doomed to face and which has two things in common: tructed sentences, with both hands stained with blood and none of them is precise dialogue and who they claim to be. very fresh, strong, agile, emotional novel without Journalist, married and father of two. He Together they star a long travel through a desolate 360 pages. being sentimental or grew up in the convulsed and politicized scene, destroyed by the hurricane, which must moralistic. Bilbao of the 1970s and 80s. In the 90s he face themselves, discover who the other and face, left for London, where he took odd jobs perhaps, a last crime. Is this a story of victims and and attended any rock concert that got in executioners? his line of fire. Later on he lived in Madrid and Valencia, while he pursued a Master’s degree in Journalism. After graduating, Rights sold to: he moved to Managua to take part in The trip will become the redemption for two Ediciones B (Spanish and the renovation of a national newspaper. men who chose, at very young age, the path Catalan) There he started his own company, and of violence. What they live in the trip will help reported for El País the local reality and them to decide forever change their lives. the devastation hurricane Mitch caused in Nicaragua and Honduras. Currently he lives in Madrid and is the chief of current affairs at the weekly supplement XLSemanal, where he has worked for 13 years.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 20 NADIA GUHLAM & LA PRIMERA ESTRELLA DE LA NOCHE JAVIER DIÉGUEZ Narrative memoir WHY THIS NOVEL? Going back to her native Afghanistan, where Nadia • The fictionalized testi- is hoping to find her cousin Mersal and honor her mony of the suffering and deceased aunt, she will discover the hidden story of the hope of the women in the women in her family, of their roots and of herself as a author’s afghan family, of woman. her roots and the inten- tion of breaking loose The first star in the night is a story of search, of family revelations, of questions that were left unanswered from formalities, prove an and most of all, a story that shows the reality women admirable strength. live in societies so distant from our own: how they • A story that will teach overcome adversity and don’t stay impassive when us about home and that facing a destiny that’s supposedly inalterable. 296 pages. leaves its mark. Nadia Ghulam Dastguir was born in • El secreto de mi turban- Kabul in 1985. Despite the enormous Unforgettable, intense, genuine and touching, this is te by Nadia Guhlam was difficulties of living during the Civil a story with which the reader will instinctively dive translated into 5 langua- War in Afghanistan, she always into the day to day of afghan society, their life, and ges. It is the the 43rd Pru- these brave and tenacious women’s feelings and in the kept her love for poetry and oral denci Bertrana Award literature. She currently lives and adventures of the main character, Nadia Ghulam. studies in Europe. Her first literary El secreto de mi turbante (by Nadia Guhlam & Agnès Rotger) work is El secret del meu turbant, Fictionalized Testimony Rights sold to: co-written with Agnès Rotger, an This book tells the real story of Nadia Ghulam, an Afghan girl Plaza & Janés, Penguin autobiographical book. that deceived and defied the Taliban Regime. After two years hospitalised due to the wounds produced by a bomb during Random House (Spanish) the Civil War, Nadia stumbles upon a new order that forbids Rosa dels Vents, Penguin Javier Diéguez was born in Mollet Random House (Catalan) del Valles in 1985. He is a historian, women to get a job. To help her family, she is forced to make a radical deci- Ediçoes Asa II (Portugal) although he has worked as an Editor sion: to pretend being a man during ten years. An impressive real story. and Writer. La primera estrella de la More than 25.000 copies sold! noche is his first novel. Rights sold to Columna (Catalan), Planeta (Spanish), Erein Argitaletxea (Basque), Ediçoes Asa II (Portuguese), Sperling & Kupfer (Italian) and Bellona (Polish).

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 21 LA TERAPEUTA GASPAR HERNÀNDEZ Inspirational / Psychological Thriller WHY THIS NOVEL? Hèctor Amat is a troubled actor. After being an • More than 21,000 books accidental witness in the murder of a young girl, he sold in Spain. suffers an anxiety block. He can’t remember anything • The first novel that exp- that happened. To alleviate his condition, and get lains why, how and when his memory back, Hèctor turns to Eugènia Llort, the we suffer anxiety. therapist who treated him after the crime. Their • A novel that tackles the relationship is merely professional at first but, as time issue of stress and turns it goes by, he becomes increasingly dependent. He is into a brilliant novel. unable to perform unless she is present at the theater every night while he plays Dick Diver — the character • Some countries consume in Tender is the Night —. Like his own character — a more mental health medi- psichologist who falls in love with a patient —, Hèctor 255 pages. cation than aspirine. Gaspar Hernàndez is a journalist and will end up falling madly for his therapist. • The press says: «An ex- writer. He directs and presents L’ofici cellent novel that covers de viure, a show on the art of living with sensitivity and inte- and personal growth for Catalunya lligence the problem of Ràdio. He has worked on TV. He anxiety, one of the most writes regularly about psychology El silenci common diseases of 21st and spirituality for newspapers and Inspirational Novel In a beautiful room century first world». magazines. His first novel, El silencio in Formentera, a man (2009), obtained the Josep Pla Prize whispers to a woman Rights sold to: and became the bestselling fiction all night long, while book in Catalonia that year. she’s asleep. A novel Temas de hoy, Planeta about the great power of trust. In an Enjoy the booktrailer! Group (Spanish) In 2014 he published La terapeuta. extreme situation, when you’ve got Columna, Planeta Group He’s also the author of a few children nothing to lose, what would you be (Catalan) capable of? Marcador (Portuguese) books and self-help manuals. 90,000 copies sold in Spain. Casa da Palavra (Brazilian)

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 22 UN TESORO ESCONDIDO GEMMA LIENAS Feel-Good Novel WHY THIS NOVEL? Eva lives among mirrors the torment. Mirrors that • Feel-good novel with return a misleading and distorted image that will not Gemma Liena’s method let you be with all its capabilities. Thaks of a good for discover ourself. friend will realize what your inner eye, the right look, • Gemma Liena’s books and will start a chain of tips to help many other women have been translated to look to their full potential. more than seven coun- tries. A story to learn to break the silence about what • Gemma Lienas is the ou- worries us, to see us with good eyes and to strengthen our self-esteem. Ten steps to discover our hidden thor of Carlota’s diaries. treasure. With an elegant and powerful style while the • Gemma Lienas (Barcelona, 1951) is a life of Eva is the mirror of many other lives. 125 pages. writer, and regular contributor to mass media. She is the author of more than eighty books, some of them for young adults, such as Callejón sin salida, An extraordinarily emotional story about Así es la vida, Carlota (IBBY Mention the way we project our image in others. of Honor, 1990), El diario violeta de Carlota (Unesco Award for tolerance) or Billete de ida y vuelta (La Odisea Award, 1998). She has also written Rights sold to: children’s books, such as the mistery series La Tribu de Camelot, and the Comanegra (Spanish and emotional education series El hada Catalan) Menta, as well as books for adults, including Atrapada en el espejo, El final del juego (Ramon Llull Award, 2003), and Anoche soñé contigo.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 23 LO MEJOR DE MAITENA MAITENA Artwork WHY THIS NOVEL? This book is a selection and also a mix: a selection of three • 25 years reflecting reality hundred pages among the more than thousand drawn in with humor. the course of my life, and a miscellany of cartoon stories • You can’t stop laughing and stand-alone jokes from different periods and styles, with reading and enjoying some added pencil sketches I had never published before. every one of her books! I shortened titles, erased speech bubbles and supressed entire frames … It was sort of a dream: to be able to choose • An established name in the best of my work, and create a brand new book with that. the art world. If life gave us an opportunity like this, happiness would be guaranteed.

Maitena was born in Buenos Aires in 272 pages. 1962. She began working as a Graphic Illustrator for Argentinian newspapers Her books have been sold to Brasil, Greece, and magazines as well as several Portugal, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Poland and educational publishers. During the Holland. eighties she published erotic cartoons in European media. Nowadays, having Rights sold to: a fully developed personal style, she Lumen (Spanish) contributes with different kinds of vignettes to newspapers all over the world. She is author of the successful series Mujeres alteradas 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, which became consecutive bestsellers and a mass social phenomenon both in South America and several countries in Europe. Later, she published her first novel Rumble.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 24 ALOHA MARI CARMEN Feel-good novel MARTÍNEZ TOMÁS WHY THIS NOVEL? Alma is a doctor and, at her forty years of age, she seems to have everything she needs to be happy: a • Mari Carmen Martínez husband, a comfortable house, a career and a good Tomás is a writer and pro- job… but nevertheless she doesn’t feel accomplished. moter of consciousness in In face of her dissatisfaction, which grew with a health and education. sudden crisis in the couple, she starts a trip towards • Martínez Tomás has the unknown that will take her to live and work in changed the life of thou- Honolulu. In Hawaii she gets to know an old tradition sands of people through that shows her a new way of living. With a woman Ho’oponopono method shaman, guardian of that tradition, she starts a process and healing circles. of self-healing with the vital power of nature that will • This is her first novel reveal the her dark side which is responsible for her 288 pages. which shows the Aloha uneasiness, and in what way she can take control and spirit and the transfor- transform it. Alma will go on an inner trip to get to ming power of forgiving. Dr. Maria Carmen Martínez Tomás know herself in depth and, this way, she accesses the • Two editions in two wee- has a degree in Medicine and Surgery secret clues for happiness to live in her own paradise. ks. from the University of Barcelona, and is a homeopathic​​ and naturopathic physician. She is Professor of the Master of Medicine (UB) and Nursing Naturist (UAB), the Master of Nursing Rights sold to: (UAB) and Lecturer at the International School of Forgiveness. Watch an interview Ediciones Urano (Spanish) with the author She teaches courses: Essential Ho’oponopono Aloha Spirit, Energy Structure of the Human Being. And advanced training in Ho’ooponopono: With the divinity itself, with relationships and prosperity.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 25 AMOR EN MINÚSCULA FRANCESC MIRALLES Inspirational & Romantic WHY THIS NOVEL? Samuel lives trapped inside an air-bubble of loneliness which • Rights sold to 20 langua- he only leaves to teach at the university. The impenetrable ges, English in Penguin world that he has built up around himself starts to fall apart among them. the day a street cat enters his home. It will lead him to Titus, • 1 of the 9 GREAT LOVE a middle-aged Editor, who gives him some essential lessons in life and takes him by chance to Gabriela, a childhood love, STORIES, by Kirkus who reappears miraculously thirty years later, in the shape Reviews. of an enigmatic woman. Samuel sets off on an initiation Rights sold to: adventure full of surprising revelations. He will learn that those insignificant everyday acts, even the tiniest ones, have La Galera (Catalan) the power to unleash a hurricane or awaken the heart of its Suma de Letras (Spanish) Marcador Editora (Portuguese) lethargy. 256 pages. Francesc Miralles (Barcelona, 1968) Giunti (Italian) Fleuve Noir (French) has a degree in German Philology Psichogios Publications (Greek) and has worked as a publisher. After Read the report in Penguin (English US) writing two essays on Franz Kafka and Publisher’s Weekly Alma Books (English UK) Hermann Hesse addressed to school English Ullstein (German) Cappelen Damm (Norwegian) readers, he decided to write novels. Version He has been awarded with several TRI (Macedonian) Tyto Alba (Lituan) prestigious literary awards and lots Wabi-Sabi Available Inspirational & Romantic Leda (Czech) of his books, both for young readers Record (Brazilian) and adults, have become bestsellers When a relationship ends, there’s nothing better than Tapanaev (Estonian) and have been translated to more traveling to a distant world to move on and rediscover Pena Yayinlari (Turquish) than fifteen languages. Another the course itself. After receiving two postcards from Ping’s i Yilin (Chinese) important part of his production is Kyoto, from a mysterious sender, Samuel decides to Munhakdongne (Corean) Humanitas (Romanian) focused on the self-help, coaching and pack up and dedicate himself to the adventure. While studying wa- bi-sabi in Japan’s ancient capital, the door of love is about t o open up Laguna (Serbian) inspirational field. where it’s least expected. Gnezdoto (Bulgarian)

The sequel of Amor en minúscula translated to 8 languages.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 26 UN RAYO DE ESPERANZA

FRANCESC MIRALLES Feel-Good Novel WHY THIS NOVEL? WHAT WOULD YOU SAVE FROM A FIRE? • By the author of amor em That is the question that four lonely people ask each minuscula other as they meet casually at Cafe Turner, the only • Un rayo de esperanza is place open in a small coastal town in mid-winter. Francesc Miralles latest novel. Imagine if your house was burning down and you only had time enough to save the one thing that makes your life worth living. Rights sold to: This conversation, which starts off as a game, will have completely unexpected consquences, joining together 144 pages Plataforma Editorial Francesc Miralles (Barcelona, 1968) the destinies of the four questioners who come to find (Spain) has a degree in German Philology new purpose in their lives. and has worked as a publisher. After writing two essays on Franz Kafka and Hermann Hesse addressed to school A story that reveals the invisible threads of English readers, he decided to write novels. friendship and love that can help find the light at Version He has been awarded with several the end of the tunnel. Available prestigious literary awards and lots of his books, both for young readers and adults, have become bestsellers and have been translated to more than fifteen languages. His latest novel, New phenome- “A Ray of Hope”, the fruit of learning non by Ikigai’s au- harvested after suffering a profound depression, proves worthy of its title thor as it shows, through four unforgetable characters, the paths of light in the midst of darkness.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 27 FRANCESC MIRALLES & EL MEJOR LUGAR DEL MUNDO ES AQUÍ MISMO CARE SANTOS Inspirational WHY THIS NOVEL? Iris is thirty-six and she is shattered by the death of • Translated into 11 langua- her parents in an accident. A grey and cold afternoon, ges. when the world seems to make no sense, she begins to • A magical novel. walk the streets trying not to return home. Just when • More than 80,000 books she is thinking of doing something mad, she discovers a sold. café she hadn’t seen before. Its strange name (The best place in the world is right here) intrigues her so much • “A real spiritual and psy- that she enters. There, she meets Luca, an Italian whit chological therapy novel who she talks to for six days at different tables, where to break with the wild wonderful things will happen. pace of our society.” - PSY- Iris has the feeling that Luca knows more than he says CHOLOGIES. Francesc Miralles has been awarded and while she is falling in love with him, they talk 136 pages. with several prestigious literary between the aromas of chocolate about everything you Rights sold to: awards and lots of his books, both need for your existence. But, like a God, the seventh Ara Llibres (Catalan) for young readers and adults, day he’s not there. Urano (Spanish) have become bestsellers. Another Soon Iris discovers he is not coming back and she Record (Brazilian) important part of his production is begins to look for him. In the abandoned place where Presença (Portuguese) the café was, she begins to find some clues that will focused on the self-help, coaching and Ullstein (German) reveal his enigmatic past. But the most important inspirational field. Munhakdongne (Korean) revelation is still to come… Fleuve Noir (French) Care Santos is the author of a vast Mono i Manjana (Serbian) AMG (Bulgarian) work that includes novels, short El futuro es un viaje de vuelta Coming next Spring! Inspirational Humanitas (Romania) stories and literature both for This book starts with a strong premise: we all have at least one thing that we must fix in Izdavachki Centar Tri (Mace- young readers and adults. She has our past to move forward. Written as a contemporary fable, this is the first time donian) received many literature awards. Theory U, very much in vogue today, is transformed into a novel. Care Santos & Francesc Ping’s Publications (Chinese) Desire for chocolate, was awarded Miralles wrote El mejor lugar del mundo es aquí mismo eight years ago, which brought the Ramon Llull Prize 2014, and has together tens of thousands of readers and has been translated into nine languages. Now been translated into more than ten they are back with this story of redemption and love. languages. Rights sold: Urano (Spanish and Catalan)

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 28 LA CANDIDATA ELENA MOYA Women’s Fiction WHY THIS NOVEL? A novel about prejudices and difficulties that women • A feminist novel. have to face when occupying, or expecting to occupy, • “An intelligent and en- maintaining or gaining a position of power, then and tertaining fable that can now. The novel is a cry for equality. Which, in Spain, come true as we’re rea- is misunderstood. Women representing half of the ding it. Brilliant! You must student body means nothing if in reality women can’t read Elena Moya“ Eduar- have powerful positions, specially at an economic level. do Mendoza said. The novel also digs deep in what power means to • Elena Moya’s long awai- women: what pushes them to look for it, what it means ted third novel! to them, what they want, and what the consequences • And ideal novel for these are when they do have it. 512 pages. days with Hilary Clinton, Elena Moya Pereira grew up in the Theresa May and Angela Mediterranean coastal town of The novel is written in the first person: Isabel’s a Merkel at the first line of Tarragona, south of Barcelona, in the Minister of Economy and the leading candidate for her politics. last years of the Franco dictatorship. party in the presidential elections. She will lose and After attending University in win many things along the way, and people. Rights sold to: Spain, she was awarded a Fulbright Suma de Letras, Penguin scholarship to do a Masters in La maestra republicana Women’s Fiction Random House (Spanish) Financial Journalism in the U.S.A. For Valli Querol the Civil War did not end in 1939, but went on a Elena worked for newspapers in clandestine battle in a long exile. During those years of struggle, Barcelona and Reno, Nevada, and secrets and inconceivable sacrifices, Valli never lost hope of English settled in London in 1998. She is recovering that egalitarian society she dreamed of. After the arrival currently a business reporter for The of democracy, Valli returned to her town, Morella, and went back Version to teaching, but the society that she found there was very different from the Guardian, having previously worked Available Republican spirit for which she had fought so hard, and the old feuds between at Bloomberg and Reuters newswires. families had not been forgotten. Decades later, at the height of the housing She lives with her partner in North bubble, the new mayor of Morella plans to sell the old school at an astronomic London. price. Rights sold to Suma de letras (Spanish and Catalan), Casa da Palavra (Brazilian) and Feltrinelli (Italian) and Pegasus (English). Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 29 LA EXTRAÑA HISTORIA DE MAURICE LYON ORIOL NOLIS Contemporary Thriller WHY THIS NOVEL? The value of art lies in its beauty. Owning a piece of art • Oriol Nolis sets up a story is like trying to own a sunset. full of contrasts, with a great atmosphere and a great Maurice Lyon is the eldest son of a prominent family mastery of intrigue. of French art collectors. Since his birth, Maurice seems • This novel is both a thriller destined to inherit the extraordinary collection of and a reflection on art and paintings which for centuries have passed from father the desire to possess. to son. But one night a serious incident in their elegant • “This novel can be read as a Parisian residence will change his life forever. sophisticated thriller. Or the story of a psychopath wri- He is disowned by his family and banished to Barcelona tten with a laudable narra- Oriol Nolis Curull (Barcelona, 1978). where he plans a delirious and sophisticated revenge. 256 pages. tive distance. That elegant BA in Journalism and Law at the In the process we will discover the intricate mazes that coolness [...] is not a “will University Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona, trace his dark personality and the mysteries that buiilds for style”, the words flow the strange story of Maurice Lyon. naturally. They designate.” - has been a journalist for over fifteen EL PAÍS, BABELIA years. He has worked in press and A first novel that exceeds the expectations of the • “It’s a novel that is not only radio, but has spent most of his career reader and immerses us in a tangle of emotions and Rights sold to: as enigmatic as imaginati- in television. He has been news reader sensations that continues until the last page. ve and kind, but that has a in TVE, and presented El Debate 1, Suma (Spanish) surprising plot as well and news channel 24 Horas, and other “Let’s say it is a collection of… desires. Yes, I like this is strong and good enough spaces in the territorial delegation of expression: a collection of desires. Do you understand to catch the attention of TVE Catalunya. what I’m saying? A collection of pieces that have been readers of all genres and beloved, admired and desired over time by thousands styles.” - ENRIQUE VILA of people, in some cases, some of them have given their MATAS life for these pieces.”

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 30 UN PERRO ALEJANDRO PALOMAS Contemporany Fiction WHY THIS NOVEL? Sitting in a cafe one afternoon in early summer, Fer and his • Second edition in less than mother, Amalia, wait for a call that never comes. During a month both in Catalan and the following hours, Fer will do anything to hide what is in Spanish. behind that dreaded call that can shatter the calm that has • Bloggers love it, more than settled in the family since R reached their life when he was 20 reviews. just a puppy. But maybe that calm is more precarious than • Alejandro Palomas has it seems. When the phone finally rings, the night will bring been interviewed about this an unexpected company, and with it will come a flood of novel by the most important confessions, truths that perhaps were not so and the five newspapers in Spain, like La letters of a name, pulling the family album, Fer dares to Vanguardia and La Razon. invoke for life to return to show him his best version. A dog • If you have pets, you will is not just a portrait of the fascinating bond between a man 300 pages love this book. Alejandro Palomas is a graduate in and his dog, but a swirl of emotions that come together in a English. He has translated Katherine tender and raw look at the familiy world and a tribute to love Mansfield, Gertrude Stein, Willa in all its manifestations. Cather and Jack London, among Rights sold to: Read the report from others. He has written the screenplay Destino (Spanish) La Vanguardia Ojos de invierno, based on his novel Grup 62 (Catalan) Tanta vida (2008), with rights were Le Cherche-Midi (French) acquired by Filmax. In 2002 he was Una madre chosen New Talent FNAC for his novel Contemporary Fiction In a few hours it will be midnight. At last, after El tiempo del corazón. In 2011 he several failed attempts, now that she is 65, Amalia published El tiempo que nos une and has succeded to have her dream fulfilled: the whole El cel que ens queda. That same year, family has gathered to celebrate Christmas Eve. he was finalist in the Primavera Award Una madre tells the story of a dinner, and of the seven attendants First with El alma del mundo. His work has who are bound to share the beginning of a new life none of them chapters been translated into eight languages. are envisioning. in English In 2014 he published Una madre and 11 editions in Spain! in 2015 Un hijo. Rights sold to Siruela (Spanish), Grup 62 (Catalan), Casa da Pala- vra (Brazilian), Presença (Portuguese), Neri Pozza (Italian), Smart Books (Bulgarian), Le Cherche-Midi (French) and Foksal (Poland). Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 31 SUEÑOS A MEDIDA NÚRIA PRADAS Women’s Fiction WHY THIS NOVEL? Barcelona, 1926. The well-known fashion house, Santa Eulalia, • Discover the secrets of Bar- is about to bring their very own collection for the first time celona’s most international and they are presenting it with a great runway show, one of fashion store. the first in Spain. • If you love Care Santos The runway is a success. Change is on its way; because the old novels, you’re gonna love textile warehouse created in the middle of the XIX century is Núria Pradras! about to move its way into the world of high fashion. • Perfectly recreates the Inside its walls, the lives of different characters (owners, de- atmosphere of Barcelona in signers, salesmen…) are intertwined and beat at the rhythm of the twenties and thirties. their times: very promising times, those of the 1929 Universal • More order book in the Exposition; difficult and sad times, those of war and the imme- library. Núria Pradas was born in Barcelona 440 pages. diate postwar. and graduated in Catalan Philology. She taught in several schools and Those lives made the warehouse their home and defended it Rights sold to: started a juvenile theater company, against all odds; and kept going no matter what. Because life SUMA (Spanish) since theater is her great passion. It goes on, but Santa Eulalia keeps beating with the rhythm of Columna (Catalan) was while writing stage plays that time. Penguin - Verlagsgruppe Ran- she entered the world of literature. dom House (German) She published her first book in 1995, Adriano Salani Editore (Ita- thus beginning a literary career that lian) has always evolved in the field of Uitgeverij Luitingh-Sijthoff children and young adults’ literature. (Dutch) Núria Pradas has published over forty Laguna (Serbian) Bazar Förlag (Swedish) books and collaborated with a number Bazar Forlag AS (Norwegian) of publishing houses. She won the Foksal (Poland) Carlemany award for her novel Sota Alma Littera (Lithuanian) el mateix cel. She has left teaching to Enalios Publications / Ocea- devote herself exclusively to writing. nos Publications (Greek)

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 32 QUIMERA. LAS EDADES BÁRBARAS MALENKA RAMOS Erotic / Romantic WHY THIS NOVEL? In the fifties punishing children, putting them in • Malenka Ramos is a solitary confinement and abusing them was usual in prominent author in the San Torbe orphanage. Antón promised himself he the romantic and erotic would go back as a man, knock down the brick walls genre. that had caused him so much pain, and build a Fantasy; • The trilogy Venganza a home for everybody, no matter their condition, had more than a million sexuality or inclinations. online readers. • Malenka is one of the Forty years later, all those kids, now men and women, authors most reviewed are still in contact, but very few want to go back to in Spain. the place that caused them so much pain. Antón isn’t Malenka Ramos was worn in Oviedo willing to let them forget the good moments they lived 346 pages (1978). Business woman, she has there and the promise they made when they were kids, always found time to read or write. and that’s why he sends each one of them a letter. He Her passion for reading was inherited wants to reunite them in the Fantasy. from her father, a man who was Rights sold to: always accompanied by his private Will Antón be able to unite all his friends? Will they Ediciones Urano (Spanish) library. What started as an erotic keep the promise they made when they were kids? And story eventually gave way to two most of all… What happened there and what changed them for the rest of their lives? books. Venganza is one of her first projects, the result of hours and Venganza passion from readers who year after Erotic Triology year have asked for a follow up and This is a hard, and controversial have followed her writing from the trilogy. It is a passionate story, beginning. For seven years she has loaded with feelings that verge published online and she participates on the forbidden. This novel will make you reevaluate what in the content of several sites coming is really right. The hardcore version that nobody to have a million readers. dared to publish. Watch the Venganza’s Rights sold to Objetiva (Brazilian) and Planeta Booktrailer Manuscrito Unipessoal (Portuguese). Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 33 SIN RETORNO SUSANA RODRÍGUEZ LEZAUN Thriller / Noir WHY THIS NOVEL? Irene Ochoa had been feeling trapped for some time, • Sin retorno, a thriller set the walls getting closer and closer as her husband’s between Roncesvalles, beatings became a routine. She is out of options: it’s Pamplona, and the Way of Marcos’s life, or hers. The opportunity arises on a St. James. Wednesday, when he comes home drunker than usual • Bestseller in Spain. and, after a couple of sips, falls deeply asleep. A few • Reviews in the most hours later, the firemen get there. Evidence point to important Spanish media. an accidental death. Everything has gone according to • 8,000 copies in 1 month. planned, except for one thing: Irene could not envision • 2 editions. that she would fall madly in love with David Vázquez, • Addictive. the detective in charge of the case, and that she will have to take drastic measures to protect her new life. 480 pages. Susana Rodríguez was born in Detective Vázquez has to solve one of the hardest cases Pamplona in 1967. Devoted to he has ever faced: several pilgrims in the Way of St. jourlanism, graduated in Comunication James have turned up dead in Roncesvalles, only a few by the University of the Basque miles away, and everything indicates that it is the work Country. Since she was a little girl of a serial killer. Rights sold to: she knew she would dedicate her life DeBolsillo, Penguin Random to storytelling, some of these stories House (Spanish) would be real, the ones she writes daily in the newspaper she works for, and some made up, and with these We prepared some extra she fills her novels. Really passionate material for you! about reading since her tenderest years, she has special feelings for Coming soon: Latinamerican writers, especially La teoría de los seis grados towards Gabriel García Márquez, (DeBolsillo) whose books she used to “devour”.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 34 DIAMANT BLAU CARE SANTOS Women’s Fiction WHY THIS NOVEL? Diamant blau plunges us into a family’s background • An author awarded with the during the first decades of the twentieth century, when Ramon Llull Prize 2014, the the splendor of the bourgeoisie is opposed to the social most prestigious in Catalan upheaval. Silvestre Pujolà is a self-made man who leaves language. his rural past behind to start working as a dry cleaner • The novel that everybody in a textile factory in Mataró in the mid nineteenth reads in 2016. century. His eagerness to overcome his fate will lead • Care Santos’s long awaited him to Teresa, a woman who will give meaning to his new novel! life of constant exceedances. Some years later, their granddaughter, Teresa Pujolà, will travel the opposite way to give up her social position to marry the man she Care Santos was born in Mataró, loves. 446 pages Barcelona, in 1970. She is the author of a vast work that includes novels, Rights sold to: short stories and literature both for Columna, Planeta (Catalan) young readers and adults. She has Read more information First chapters about Care’s books available in Destino, Planeta (Spanish) received many literature awards English Smart Books Ltd. (Bulgarian) such as the Narrative Prize of Alcalá Uitgeverij Wereldbibliotheek de Henares or the Alfonso de Cossío (Dutch) Short Story Prize. In the children and Desig de xocolata young reader’s literature field, she has Women’s Fiction also won the most important Spanish Desig de xocolata is the story of three women united awards. Desire for chocolate, was in time by their passion for chocolate. It is a journey awarded the Ramon Llull Prize 2014, through the history of this exquisite pleasure, from its English and has been translated into more arrival to Europe until today’s sophistication. Version than ten languages. Rights sold to Columna (Spanish and Catalan), Robert Laffont (French), Available Record (Brazilian), Salani (Italian), Wereldbibliotheek (Dutch), Bonniers (Swedish), Humanitas (Romanian), Alma Books (English), Sonia Draga (Polish), Planeta Manuscrito (Portuguese), Schildts (Finnish), Bastei Lübbe (German) and Smart Books (Bulgarian). Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 35 L’ESTIU QUE COMENÇA SÍLVIA SOLER Women’s Fiction WHY THIS NOVEL? L’estiu que comença spans 50 years in the life of Julia Reig • Sílvia Soler is one of the and Andreu Balart —linked to each other since before they most popular authors in were born through their mothers’ friendship, and their Catalan language. hopeful anticipation that their children would inherit their • Premi Ramon Llull 2013, the bond or even fall in love. Julia and Andreu, though, want to most famous and prestigious get rid of this fate that persists in joining them. prize in Catalan language. • More than 60.000 sold.

320 pages. Sílvia Soler i Guasch (Figueres, 1961) is We prepared some material for you! a journalist and regularly contibutes to several media platforms. Her first work Rights sold to: was the compilation of short stories Columna, Planeta Group Arriben els ocells de nit, published in Un any i mig (Spanish and Catalan) Women’s Fiction 1988. Afterwards, she hasn’t stopped Mondatori (Italian) This book is the portrait of a publising. Robert Laffont (French) normal family, quite happy and, In 2003 she won the Fiter i Rossell undoubtedly, representative Prize with her novel Mira’m als ulls. of a society in crisis. With her usual skill for meticulous description and her In 2008 she obtained the prestigious precision-crafted portrays of feelings, Sílvia Prudenci Bertrana Prize with the book Soler’s narrative talent takes a leap forward Petons de diumenge. In 2013 she in this novel, and makes itself manifest with was awarded with the renowned and unusual power. celebrated Ramon Llull Prize for L’estiu Rights sold to Columna (Spanish and Catalan) que comença. Enjoy the Booktrailer!

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 36 EL TIEMPO DE LA LUZ SÍLVIA TARRAGÓ Women’s Fiction WHY THIS NOVEL? Ever since their inauguration in 1940 as the first subterra- • A novel set in the nean galleries in Europe, the luxurious Avenue of Light has first subterranean been a mirror for the changes in the Barcelona of the post commercial galleries in war. Barcelona (and Europe). • A world of light under Julia, a young made that just got to the city, will begin a the gray streets of romance with a train supervisor from Sarrià and, a few years Barcelona’s postwar. later, a forbidden passion that will bring them terrible conse- • It shows with accuracy quences. She will be a witness to the evolution of the gallery and realism the throughout time and of some of the traders like Rosita, Barcelona of the 40s daughter of the owners of the bakery, who will live her first and the 90s, moment love with the attendant at the Avenue of Light movie theater, 256 pages Sílvia Tarragó Castrillón was born in while she dreams with the learner of the barber, involved in in which the Avenue of Barcelona in 1968. For 14 years she political activities. Light was closed. was the co-owner and manager of • Good reviews like this. the bookstore Proa Premià. In 2001, A lady of mysterious fortune who opens a typewriter shop. A she published a book of short stories, perfumer who’s involved with powerful men in the regime. Ciutats de l’Impossible (Brosquil A railway worker who writes poems while he walks between Edicions, 2001). She won the XIII the columns. These are the characters that make up a world Watch more information Muestra Literaria del Maresme in 1996 that keeps changing, decade after decade, following the about this book! and the first Alellas’s prize of poetry exciting beat of Barcelona from the postwar till the end of Maria Oleart with the collection La the eighties. vida vençuda in 1998. Besides, she is author of the book of poems Raïls In El tiempo de la Luz, the Avenue is a place that brings Rights sold to: the touch of daily magic that can be found in the train escapçats and the anthology Estiu Columna, Planeta Group station in the movie The invention of Hugo Cabret. immòbil. El tiempo de la luz is her first (Catalan) novel for adults. Urano (Spanish)

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 37 ETHERIA COIA VALLS Historical WHY THIS NOVEL? In the beginning of the Middle Ages, two women • Readers were waiting for with very different beliefs are in Gallaecia land. this novel! Etheria belongs to a community of women who have • She is one of the most repu- made religion their way to escape the demands of table and prestigious writers the nobility, but is secretly part of the Priscillianist in Spain movement. Irene is the daughter of a Roman senator • The reader says: «Talking that, with his family being besieged by the Christians about Coia Valls is launching who now control the power, decides to serve the into a praise. She has a rich cause of paganism. Symmachus, governor of Rome and and careful prose. An author spokesman of a noble class which continues to boost who knows how to make the banner of paganism against the official thesis, tries every word and every sen- Coia Valls has a degree in Childhood to convince the Emperor that the greatness of Roman 405 pages tence sound like poetry». Education and in Special Education civilization is rooted in ancient beliefs. • Coia Valls is an experienced and is a Speech Therapist and a author in historical novel. Pedagogue. She works as an Editor in Chief at the digital newspaper Amor prohibido Tarragona Literària and as an assistant La cocinera Historical Historical director at l’Escola de Lletres of Barcelona, 1771. Young An unforgettable love Rights sold to: Tarragona. She is also a theatre actress Constança Clavé leaves the story between a priest and who has taken part in numerous plays faraway city of Lima after the daughter of a rural no- Ediciones B (Catalan and th and dramatisations of poetry texts. the death of her father, a bleman, in the 15 century Spanish) Catalonia, which is starting She writes historical novel. She has diplomat. Her journey to Barcelona is long and arduous. She carries published several praised titles: La to recover from a period of famine and vivid memories of landscapes with her, epidemics, although fear is still seizing its princesa de Jade, El Mercader, Las flavours, textures, and a single possession: people. torres del cielo, La cocinera and now the recipe book left to her by her first Amor prohibido which promises to be Master in the Peruvian Court. Rights sold to Ediciones B (Spanish and at least as successful as the previous Rights sold to Ediciones B (Spanish and Catalan) and Sperling & Kupfer (Italian) Catalan) ones. English Sample Avaiable Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 38 EL HOMBRE MÁS RICO DEL MUNDO RAFAEL VÍDAC Inspirational fiction With no job and in the middle of the worst crisis in his WHY THIS NOVEL? life, Nicolas receives the most unbelievable proposal • Number 1 in Top-No Ficction anyone has ever offered him: to work for the powerful in Casa del Libro. business group owned by Daniel Weelock, one of the • Top ventas in Amazon and richest people on the planet. Nevertheless, he’ll have good reviews. to surpass a strange personal preparation process along • Rafael Vídac shows us with the eccentric and charismatic billionaire. how to apply this body- mind method to our lives, Throughout an unpredictable trip he will never forget, based on the author’s Nicolas will transform his body, he will heal forgotten personal experience, wounds from the past and will start to realize the true through this story of self-improvement. potential of his own mind… 232 pages • Rafael Vídac is an influencer. Rafael Vídac (Barcelona, 1976) graduated He has more than 250.000 in Engineering geology, although he followers on Twitter. abandonned this field in 2005 to train «Rafael offers a wide range of existential wisdom career as a mind-body therapist and in a friendly format, an easy to read story that personal coach. He studied as well grabs you until the very end. A plot born of a crisis several complementary disciplines like that is a challenge and an oportunity at the same Rights sold to: PNL, Naturopathy and EMDR. Since then time» Editorial Paidós - Planeta he has dedicated his career to personal Álex Rovira Internacional bestselling author of La growth, working from his private office (Spanish) buena suerte Alma Littera (Lithuanian) in downtown Barcelona. Since 2010 he writes for social media on a daily basis under the pseudonym Rafael Vídac, and soon has become one of the most widely followed authors in the net, with his Watch the booktrailer! brief reflections on his specialty.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 39 non fiction PEQUEÑAS IDEAS ANTES DE VIVIR EN PAREJA Humour BOM&BON WHY THIS BOOK? “Anyone who says living with their couple is absolute per- • A fresh book about moving fection is either a Martian or doesn’t dare say what really with your partner will make happens inside their walls. The moment you go live with you laugh. someone, you start saying everything in plural, even if • An ironic but positive book neither of you are enforcing anything. There must be situa- about love, couples and the tions in which you get mad or at least startled – if you are adventure of living together. in a peaceful mood -. But for those moments of “What am I • To avoid surprises and face doing here? Help!”, we bring our insight and some ideas to this new period in life with help coexist, where what’s definitely not missing is a lot, a patience and a big smile. lot of humor.” • Everything they never told you about the great adven- ture of living together. Everything they never told you about the great adventure of 112 pages. • By the authors of Pequeñas living together. The authors are two women in their ideas antes de ser mamá. 40s who work surrounded by books. They are like night and day but are so attuned that they look like sisters. Rights sold to: Pequeñas ideas antes de ser mamá Maeva (Spanish) They get up early and race to reach it Humor all: work, friends, kids, gym, hobbies... It is clear that being a mother is a turning-point in the life of a woman. And always with their best smile. Everything changes: your schedule, your marriage, your wardrobe, your kitchen, your sleeping habits... Your life becomes a rollercoaster of emotions and changes! The authors have written and illustrated this book to bring a Their website: smile to the women who have had the experiences explained in it, and the bomandbon.blogspot.com.es ones who haven’t experienced it yet.

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Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 41 ¡INSPÍRATE! Coaching PANCHO CAMPO WHY THIS BOOK? Pancho is a well-known personal coach who’s worked • His method is based on a with celebrities as important as Manolo Santana, few basis: do sport, watch Frank de la Jungla, Sergio Scariolo or Juan Verde. As a your nutrition, have fun, conference talker he explains what stress does, how it sleep enough, reach ba- works and how we can fight against it so it doesn’t block lance, create rituals. us and makes us give up when things turn difficult. • Facing stress in these mo- ments of extreme tension This book is based on many conferences the author with the goal of fulfilling has given throughout the world about inspiration and 352 pages ourselves at the highest motivation to get over difficulties. Using his experience, level, both in life and in Pancho shows us what it is we can learn from professional the business world. Pancho Campo is an ex-professional athletes, sports trainers and artists; who are an example tennis player who took part in the of leadership, self-motivation and discipline. Barcelona ’92 Olympic Games, and an expert in marketing and events management (sports, concerts, and wine symposiums). At present he is I want to congratulate Pancho Campo for his Rights sold to: the CEO of Chrand Marketing and excellent and outstanding leadership. I want Suma de letras, Penguin Events. He is a charismatic orator to thank him for his personal address and his Random House about marketing, environment, and friendship. I loved working with him. Al Gore (Spanish) wine. Nevertheless, the focus of his most recent conferences have been Pancho Campo is a master of communication, and motivation and stress management, her dilated personal, family, sports, and business taking as case studies the political experience that allow him to have a very complete leaders, artists, and sportsmen with vision of how to face adversity and act under whom he has worked, and analyzing pressure. I recommend reading this book and how they manage to yield the best reflecting on its suggestions. results even in difficult times. Sergio Scariolo

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 42 LA VACUNA CONTRA EL MIEDO Parenting MONTSE DOMÈNECH WHY THIS BOOK? Montse Domènech spills out her forty years of • A useful guide for worried experience dealing with teens and children in this book, parents. to offer parents a simple and practical method to face • This book is addressed to all the issue of childhood fears. This book is addressed to the families with children of all families with children of any age. any age. Other than the disorder they produce in children and • Montse Domènech spills out their families, childhood fears are a natural feeling her forty years of experien- ce dealing with teens and that helps build up the human mind, since they help children in this book, to children develop their imagination, they learn how offer parents a simple and to face their problems and protect themselves from practical method to face the danger. 144 pages. issue of childhood fears. Montse Domènech has a Degree in • A PRACTICAL AND SIMPLE These fears can turn into a real disorder for parents. Pedagogy and Psychology specialised METHOD to deal with chil- Either because they don’t know how to solve them or in children by the University of drens fears. because they interfere with the families coexistence, Barcelona. She works at her own this problem is one of the reasons why, more and more, psycho-pedagogic centre treating Rights sold to: parents are looking for professional assistance. kids, teenagers and young people with Plaza & Janés (Catalan and behavioural and emotional disorders. Spanish) She is co-author, along with Dr. Estivill, Edúcame bien Alpina (Russian) of different books in which they Parenting Edúcame bien is a practical, sensible and friendly book. The analyze children’s insomnia, proper book that all parents should have at home, Eduard Estivill. nutrition during the growing years This book is addressed to all the families that have children and the relationship between parents, of any age. All parents experience coexistence problems children and teenagers, among other with their children at some point; be it curfew problems, unexpected subjects. She has also published other behaviors, jealousy, lack of interest for school, or despondency, just to essays on education and compilations mention a few. of tales in order to transmit ethical Read here the first values. Rights sold to Penguin Random House (Spanish and Catalan). pages!

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 43 MINDFULNESS Self-help and coaching WHY THIS BOOK? MÓNICA ESGUEVA Did you know that distractions can take more than two hours • Apply professional coaching of our day? In the era of the dispersion, Monica Esgueva to your life. proposes mindfulness to keep our focus and enjoy the here • Mónica Esgueva is one of and now. After twenty years in the world of meditation, the most respected PNL and the author presents a practical guide that collects all his coaching experts in Spain. knowledge as a specialist. Not only introduces us to the • Mónica Esgueva is one of mindfulness in a clear way, it also proposes exercises that the most influential women will help us improve our concentration, free us from our in Spain. worries and enjoy life without feeling that eludes us. • This guide will help us to improve our concentration, free us from our worries 256 pages and enjoy life without fee- Mónica Esgueva has a degree in ling that we miss. Economics from the Complutense University of Madrid, and Master’s degrees in Foreign Trade, Rights sold to: 10 claves para alcanzar tus Neurolinguistic Programming (PNL), Mensajes para el alma Coaching sueños and Coaching with PNL. She has Zenith, Planeta A short manual of practical Self-help and Coaching (Spanish) travelled to over 70 countries. wisdom where the author This book will help heal She welds the best of Eastern and answers the most common the scars that keep you Western philosophies, spending long questions we ask in our daily from developing your periods abroad, especially in Asia, lives. Many people find very little light full potential. Mónica presents 10 tips to where she studies the development in their hearts, and feel at a dead end. achieve your dreams and guides you to find of the mind with great Tibetan lamas, However, changing is always possible. your inner strength to live more fully and and regularly takes lessons from the This book teaches us that we can move achieve personal balance. Dalai Lama in the Himalaya. She works toward a brighter and more hopeful Rights sold to Paidós, Grupo Planeta tomorrow. as a coach, lecturer and contributes to (Spanish) and Self - Desenvolvimient- Rights sold to Paidós, Grupo Planeta Spanish media. go pessoal (Portuguese) (Spanish)

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NIÑOS DESCANSADOS, NIÑOS FELICES Health / Parenting WHY THIS BOOK? EDUARD ESTIVILL A practical guide to teach your children good habits at home, to go to bed happy and wake up well rested. • 11,000 copies sold in Spa- nish. This is a practical book that shows how the hours • Dr. Estivill has sold more previous to sleeping time can be happier for everyone. than 1.5 milion books world- And it teaches us that a child who follows a few good wide. habits and clear routines at home is a happier child, a • He has been translated to child who goes to bed and gets up happy and eager to more than 20 languages. face the day.

Rights sold to: 272 pages. Penguin Random House th (Spanish and Catalan) Eduard Estivill is a specialist in Clinical 20 Anniversary! Neurophysiology, Pediatrics and Sleep Medicine. Since 1989 he has held the position of Director at the 5 days for a Perfect ¡A comer! ¡A jugar! Estivill Sleep Clinic — integrated into Night Sleep for Your This method teaches Open this book if you the USP Dexeus University Institute Child explains in a clear children to eat varied think that children are of Barcelona —, and coordinator of and simple way a scien- and complete meals. children. But, someti- the General Hospital of Catalonia’s tific method to teach After three years of ha- mes, good habits – in Sleep Unit. He trained at the Sleep children to sleep — a ving used this method eating, in hygiene or Disorders Center (Henry Ford Hospital) few serious and rigorous rules which with a 98 per cent success rate, Estivill behaviour- are difficult to teach. This and Domènech have finally decided to book tries to show parents how to in Detroit, and is a member of the have also been recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the publish this entertaining book to help educate their children through some most prestigious Spanish and foreign American Sleep Association. parents teach their children how to eat games, while they grow up with them. associations in this field. He is the properly. Rights sold to Penguin Random House author of over a dozen popular science 20 translations and (Spanish, Catalan, English), Dom books on good sleeping habits. Rights sold to Penguin Random House Quixote (Portuguese), WMF Martins 3,000,000 sold in world. (Spanish, Catalan), Dom Quixote (Por- Fontes (Brazilian), Giangiacomo Feltri- tuguese), WMF Martins Fontes (Brazi- nelli (Italian). lian), Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (Italian).

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NUESTRO BEBÉ Health / Parenting WHY THIS BOOK? EDUARD ESTIVILL In the pages of this book, parents will discover what • A guide to the physical and the first and wonderful days and months of their baby’s emotional care for your life are like, the most decisive period of parenting. baby. The object of the authors is to scan the quick physical, • Dr. Estivill has sold more emotional and intellectual changes of the little one, than 1.5 milion books world- even though all those changes will also affect the wide. adults, both individually and as a couple. • He has been translated to more than 20 languages. With this purpose, they’ve added the doctor’s and psychologist’s experiences in the Estivill Clinic to the opinions of international experts in pediatrics, psychology, teaching, neurology and many other 235 pages. Eduard Estivill is a specialist in Clinical scientific fields. In all, a practical and very clear guide Neurophysiology, Pediatrics and that shows the steps of an extraordinary trip with Sleep Medicine. Since 1989 he has realism and excitement. held the position of Director at the Estivill Sleep Clinic — integrated into Rights sold to: the USP Dexeus University Institute Grupo Editorial Bruño (Spa- of Barcelona —, and coordinator of nish) the General Hospital of Catalonia’s Sleep Unit. He trained at the Sleep Disorders Center (Henry Ford Hospital) in Detroit, and is a member of the most prestigious Spanish and foreign associations in this field. He is the author of over a dozen popular science books on good sleeping habits.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 46 MIS RECETAS ANTICÁNCER WHY THIS BOOK? ODILE FERNÁNDEZ Health • A practical and rigorous gui- What is cancer? Under which circumstances can you get de to minimise cancer’s risk. it? Is it possible to prevent? Can you reverse its process • This book was translated when you already have the disease? to 4 languages and has 83 Amazon reviews that say Odile Fernandez, a family doctor that beat a deathly things like: «Useful, entertai- cancer, refused to accept the common version and ning and indispensable book decided to seek her own answer to the questions to learn how to eat better. above, and to many others. After researching for All opinions and suggestions some time, she found out that making a series of little are endorsed by an exten- changes in her diet and lifestyle might not only prevent sive bibliographic index. A catching the disease, but also help improve when 542 pages huge thanks to the author». already suffering it. Dr. Odile Fernandez is a family doctor, and survivor of an advanced In this book, she teaches us something many people ovarian cancer. Due to her illness, she did not know: you can take part in the prevention decided to investigate the relationship and healing of a sickness that, nowadays, is growing between cancer, diet, lifestyle and massively. Rights sold to: emotions. After compiling extensive Urano (Spanish and scientific information, she introduced Guía práctica para una alimentación y vida Catalan) important changes in her life and anticáncer Sextante (Brazil) overcame a life-threatening cancer. Health An ideal work for all those people who Marcador (Portuguese) Her book Mis recetas anticáncer is the want to adopt an anticancer way of life, Sperling & Kupfer (Italian) result of her experience and research. both preventive or having developed the Eksmo (Russian) Here, the author encourages us to disease. The book contains concise, practical and take an active role toward the disease, direct information on diet, lifestyle, exercise, and emotional wellbeing. both for prevention and healing. She Enjoy the Booktrailer! proposes nutritional and lifestyle Rights sold to Urano (Spanish and Catalan) guidelines.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 47 LA DIETA DE LOS COLORES Health / Diet DRA. MONTSE FOLCH WHY THIS BOOK? Health, beauty, comfort, feeling better with our body, • 9,000 copies sold of her rejuvenated and more energetic are the main goals we set previus book. for ourselves when we start a new diet and, even though • Dr. Folch is a specialist in those are good enough reasons to eat healthy for the rest eating disorders. of our lives, the truth is that we end up leaving them to the side and going back to our old habits. To daily obstacles (little time to buy groceries and to cook, eating out, etc), we have to add diets that often require a high level of sacrifice and that are so restrictive that they make us quit too soon. That’s why the color diet is simple and diverse because one of the key principles is to turn food into an act of pleasure and not something awful, which raises our chances of failing. Montse Folch has a degree in Medicine The menu of our diet is divided in four colors: red for and Surgery and a master’s in proteins, both from vegetables and animals; green for community nutrition in the Pharmacy vegetables; yellow for sugar and for carbohydrates and Rights sold to: University of Barcelona. For more Publication brown for fats. And blue will identify the group of liquids and Penguin Random House (Ca- than 25 years, she has been treating dressings. soon! talan and Spanish) eating disorders. Since 1996 she is a member of the facultative staff in the La enzima mediterrania Medical Center Teknon in Barcelona. Health / Diet She has given courses on nutrition Enzymes have been proved to have the capacity to heal and and dietetics and has participated regenerate our bodies; this book explains how that works. Dr in different nutritional, medical and Folch takes a step beyond to personalize the action of these cosmetic surgery conferences on a proteins according to our body type, in order to provide national and international wide scale. the reader with all the keys to plan a targeted diet, adapted to each one’s She regularly collaborates in media needs. In this respect, the Mediaterranean diet arises as a paradigm of and has published seven books. enzymatic regeneration, due to its high nutritional value. Rights sold to Columna Edicions (Catalan), Planeta Group (Spanish) Read the first pages! Self Desenvolvimiento Pessoal (Portuguese).

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 48 NO SOY DE ESTE MUNDO Essay WHY THIS BOOK? GASPAR HERNÀNDEZ Here’s a true diary that seems to belong to a fictional • This book explores the phe- character. The author has spent two years following a nomenon and Enric Corbera Catalan man who travels around the world saying that boom. “nothing is real” and “we live in a dream”. His name is Enric • Enric Corbera has more Corbera, he fills up concert halls in Spain and Latin America than 100.000 subscribers and his YouTube videos have millions of views. on Youtube, thousands of followers on social networks At the same time, the author shows his interest for non- and his videos have millions duality, the Advaita and the book A course in miracles. And of views. he investigates up to what point, like many of his followers claim, can Enric Corbera perform miracles. 352 pages. Watch Enric Gaspar Hernàndez is a journalist and But Enric Corbera is also followed by doctors, and his Corbera’s videos! writer. He directs and presents L’ofici method is taught in universities across Latin America. de viure, a show on the art of living Even so, are we looking at a real miracle worker? Is and personal growth for Catalunya he enlightened? A guru? What’s behind the Corbera phenomenon? These questions fill up the book, which Ràdio. He has worked on TV. He shows a way of seeing life that’s radically different to others. writes regularly about psychology Rights sold to: and spirituality for newspapers and This is a diary about what’s spiritual and what’s non-tangible. Ediciones B (Catalan and Spa- magazines. His first novel, El silencio And about the path of consciousness that people lead – nish) (2009), obtained the Josep Pla Prize more people every day – convinced that we’re all one and and became the bestselling fiction we don’t exist as individuals. book in Catalonia that year. In 2014 he published La terapeuta. He’s also the author of a few children books and self-help manuals. Read more information!

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 49 ¿Y SI REALMENTE PUDIERAS? Self-help and coaching PILAR JERICÓ WHY THIS BOOK? Determination = Wish + Conviction (in that order). • Pilar Jericó is a recognized This formula is what Pilar Jericó’s new book is based on, as professional in this field. a good mentor, she’ll guide the reader through the path of • Her previous book, No motivation. The path has 6 phases: 1. Saying no to hidden miedo was a best seller benefits; 2. Identifying what you want to say (or what with four editions. you don’t want to say); 3. Giving your dream a shape; 4. Building a specific and personalized strategy; 5. Looking for the necessary resources and 6. Persistence. Supported by many examples and case studies, the popular coach does an excellent job in this simple but deep book in which the readers will find strength and wisdom. 169 pages. Pilar Jericó holds a PhD in Management and a Degree in Rights sold to: Economic and Business Sciences. She No miedo Alienta completed her studies in Harvard Self Help and coaching University, UCLA and la Università All of us feel fear when we face changes or a (Spanish) di Firenze. She teaches at several specific work situation. However, talking about universities and Business Schools fear in the companies is taboo. Even though only positive messages are accepted in companies English in Spain and South America and is a reasoning; behind the scenes (we find the cruel Version usual lecturer in professional forums Available reality) the competitiveness for the results, power, risk of and gatherings. She is a partner in the dismissal and, of course, fear. If this word makes you feel consultancy agency Inno Personas and uncomfortable, maybe it would be better to use anxiety, a coach in development of talent and stress. All these emotions have in common is the fact that leadership. She has conducted projects we feel them when we think we are threatened by something for consultant firms both national and external; also the fact that the cost of these feelings is high international. in our life. Rights sold to Planeta de Agostini (Catalan and Spanish) and Palgrave Macmillan (English).

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 50 NI FELICES NI PARA SIEMPRE Self-help and coaching CLAY NEWMAN WHY THIS BOOK? This book dismantles the current hypocrisy of this slavish • A must-read book to unders- routine, and what we find is a couple. tand why nowadays rela- Through sarcasm, irony and provocation, this book aims tionships fail. to remove the pillars on which we have been conceiving • Clay Newman’s long-awaited relationships. new book! So, the goal is for the reader to understand why getting emotional is a result of the different dimensions of marriage. It’s also a snapshot of what men and women need from each other and how to work in order to build truly succesful and sustainable links. In short, it is a very pleasant and easy to read book that Rights sold to: encourages awkward conversations, but necessary to 171 pages Clay Newman (New York, 1956) hit reinvent the way we love and are loved. Penguin Random House bottom when he was very young and (Spanish) overcame his troubles by a self-taught process of self-discovery. That’s why, at the age of twenty-four he renounced the counsel of psychiatrists El prozac de Séneca and the help of antidepressants. He Self Help and coaching then undertook a solitary journey This book is a medication. Before consuming it, read the that led him to travel for seven years entire prospect. Never before have we been so rich in a material sense, and so poor spiritually. This book promotes through Latin America, Africa and stoic philosophy and provides the necessary dose of Asia in search of transformative wisdom to learn how to be happy. Clay Newman defends that values such experiences and useful knowledge to as humility, self-acceptance, compassion, and confidence, among others, give a new meaning to his existence. are inherent to the human condition. An expert in Transpersonal Psychology, Perennial Philosophy, and Enneagram, Rights sold to Penguin Random House (Spanish), Plato (Serbian), Patakis (Greek), Marcador (Portuguese), Best seller (Brazilian), First (French). he teaches at several universities.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 51 GUÍA PARA LA VIDA DE TYRION LANNISTER Coaching LAMBERT OAKS WHY THIS BOOK? What makes Tyrion Lannister the most charismatic and • This book condenses beloved character of HBO’s Game of Thrones? Tyrion’s way of life throu- Usually called “the Imp” or “the Halfman”, he is one gh his bigger life mottos. of the most intelligent and less conformist characters • It is a summary of sharp- of George R.R. Martin’s saga, and his eloquence and ness with great dose of mental alertness make up for his low height. He does sarcasm that will delight not feel inhibited to say what he thinks or to do what Tyrion’s fans. he wants, and he always faces whomever he considers • Bloggers love it! without feeling daunted by them. Being a dwarf, a non-desired son of a powerful man, a brother to two almost perfect twins, Tyrion has always Rights sold to: been fighting to find his place in a cruel world that 232 pages. wants to leave him apart. He is the perfect example of Ediciones B (Spanish) Lambert Oaks is a psychologist and what resilience is. Charm, polite, keen and cunning, he Edições Banian, Lda. (Portu- also writes TV reviews for some can be cruel with his enemies, but also empathize with guese) influential online magazines. With those who are alienated and abused. this book he has combined this two Watch the Booktrailer! passions. MORE REASONS WHY

• With uncountable fans over the world, Tyrion Lannister is one of the most beloved, cha- rismatic, intelligent and less non-conformist characters of George R.R. Martin’s GAME OF THRONES. This guide condenses Tyrion’s way of life through his bigger mottos, a summary of sharpness with great dose of sarcasm that will delight Tyrion’s fans. • An example of what the present-day concept of resilience is. • Through 90 core ideas we learn how to: do the best when we cannot do the right thing, take advantage of our weakness to achieve big goals, take the first step before it’s too late, get rid of those who torture us or, find wonderful small pleasures in day-to-day boredom... • This is the 100% non oficial guide. What else?

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 52 FRANCESC MIRALLES & IKIGAI HÉCTOR GARCÍA (Kirai) Self Development WHY THIS BOOK? The Japanese say everybody has an ikigai, a reason to • Francesc Miralles is the au- live. Some have found it and are aware of their ikigai, thor of the bestseller Amor others have it inside, but are still looking. This is one en Minúscula. of the secrets for a long, young and happy life like the • Héctor García (Kirai) has sold people of Okinawa live, the most long-lived island in more than 200,000 books the world. and has an influence in his own social networks. The mission of this book is to help you find it, also to • Three editions in less than discover many keys of Japanese philosophy to a healthy two months! body, mind and spirit. A book that brings us closer to • Rights sold in more than 30 the secrets of the hundred-year-old Japanese people languages. Francesc Miralles has been awarded for a healthy and happy life. 192 pages • The publishing phenom in with several prestigious literary this season. awards and lots of his books, both It offers practical tools for the reader to discover his for young readers and the adults, personal ikigai, his reason to live. have become bestsellers. Another important part of his production is Rights sold to: focused on the self-help, coaching and Urano (Spanish and Catalan) Rizzoli (Italian) Kinneret-Zmora Publishing inspirational field. LS Publishing Group (Hunga- Zvaigzne ABC Publishers (La- (Hebrew) Read the rian) tvian) Penguin (English - USA) English Sample! Patakis Publishers (Greek) Cappelen Damm (Norwegian) Héctor García, born in Valencia in Leda Books(Czech) Intrinseca (Brazilian) Vulkan (Serbian) 1981. He lives in Tokyo since 2004 Porto Editora (Portuguese) ArtsPeople (Danish) Muza (Polish) Shanghai 99 Readers’ Culture and his webpage kirainet.com, with Boekerij (Dutch) Humanitas (Romanian) (Chinese) more than a million monthly visits, is a Pegasus (Estonian) Alpina (Russian) X-Knowledge Co., Ltd. (Japanese) worldwide reference in Japanese pop Universe Poche (French) Norstedts (Swedish) Nationbook (Thai) culture. The author of the book Un Gummerus (Finnish) Indigo Kitap (Turkish) Gnezdoto (Bulgarian) Allegria/Ullstein (German) MLADINSKA KNJIGA ZALOŽBA Geek en Japón, which sold more than ALMA LITTERA (Lituanian) (Slovenian) 200,000 copies.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 53 SHAKESPEARE PARA ENAMORADOS Self-coaching WHY THIS BOOK? ALLAN PERCY Shakespeare para enamorados is a Shakesperian • Allan Percy has sold therapy for the longing heart. Among all the great more than 1,500,000 authors in world literature, none studied the mysteries copies only in Brazil of love in such depth and from such a lucid perspective as William Shakespeare. His works are still a powerful and his books have tool to understand the boundless secrets of our heart. been translated to 10 From love at first sight to disappointment, from the languages. first kiss to impossible love, from commitment to • More than 15 editions jealousy, this book draws the Shakespearian science in countries like Brazil or of love from the stage and verse anthologies in order Greece. to shed light over our daily lives and give answer to questions such as: How may the longing heart be 155 pages. Allan Percy (California, 1959) is a treated? Can someone live a lifelong romance? What is coaching expert and writer of self- the secret to seduction? How to fight against jealousy? Rights sold to: improvement manuals. During his Coming In conclusion, Shakespeare para enamorados is a fresh long career he has collaborated with soon: Editura Herald (Romanian) and incredibly inspiring book for those who take love Platón para such highly reputed professionals Patakis (Greek) very seriously. soñadores as Elisabeth Kübler-Ross or Foster Penguin Random House Hibbard, and his charm and (Spanish) sensitiveness have earned him many Eksmo (Russian) followers around the world. Currently, Sextante (Brazil) he also moonlights as a consultant for Kreativni Centar (Serbian) self-help publishers, while travelling Pena Yayinlari (Turquish) all over the world seeking new sources Marcador (Portuguese) of inspiration for his books. Einstein Nietzsche Kafka Hesse para despistados para estresados para agobiados para desorien- tados

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 54 ¿Y TÚ QUÉ CREES? Inspiration & Personal Growth EVA SANDOVAL WHY THIS BOOK? ¿AND WHAT DO YOU THINK? aims to raise awareness on the believes that limit our lives, and help us find • An espectacular debut. the way towards authenticity and wellbeing. Because • Eva can help you to be once we change the way we see ourselves, others, happy. This books give you and life, we realize that everything has changed. some tools. This book offers the essential tools and knowledge for the reader to understand that TO BELIEVE IS TO CREATE, learn how to shape our lives, perceive our limiting believes, and in the end, make our dreams come true.

CONNECT WITH YOUR PERSONAL POWER TO CREATE THE 224 pages After an existence of essential LIFE YOU WANT unhappiness, 7 years ago Eva promised Rights sold to: herself: “I am always going to be “I believe everything happens for a reason, Urano (Spanish) where I want to be”, and so she did. This decision led her to know herself there are no coincidences, and it is only in better, to discover the wonderful our hands to live experiences as a chance to world of believing, and to learn how improve, learn, broaden our perspective and to live every moment. Her first novel love ourselves better.” – Eva Sandoval. is an invitation to regaining personal power and live the life we want.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 55 young adult & children EL LIBRO DE LOS ROSTROS ANA ALONSO & Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? JAVIER PELEGRÍN “I had been thinking about it for a while. Maybe, • It talks about the social through Facebook it was easier for me to relate to networks and its dangers. other people. What if I became someone else, with a • If you don’t like who you fake name? It would be like starting from scratch — at are. Why not invent a least online. At the time I reckoned it was a brilliant character? idea, but now I think about what I did and see it like it • The reader identifies with really was: absolute stupidity.” the reality of the story. Being someone else on the Internet looks like a game. • It’s a book to entertain, So, if you don’t like who you are, why not make up a but also to learn about character? Or make up the person you really want to the dangers of the Inter- be? It’s easy, funny, with no consequences. But the 174 pages. net. Internet is not too different from real life: the fingers • Spanish publishers are Ana and Javier have teamed up to that press the keys are human fingers, attached to real proud to have Ana Alonso write a number of books, including people — people with faces, people with lives that can and Javier Pelegrín in their get entangled with yours, for good … or for evil. the fantasy & sci-fi series La llave del catalogue. Will you miss tiempo, which has been published by it? Editorial Anaya and translated into Rights sold to: several languages. In 2008, they were SM (Spanish) awarded the Barco de Vapor Prize El sueño de Berlín is La reina de cristal SM Latin America (Latin for El secreto de If. They also have a novel about Ana, a At the age of seven- America) written together, the trilogy Tatuaje teenager with OCD teen, all the young Byeolsoop (Korean) (translated into five languages) the (Obsessive-Compulsive people of Hydra go series Agencia Salamandra, and the Disorder), her overpro- through the ritual tective family and her of the sea, but only Also graphic novel La ciudad transparente available: schoolmate Bruno, who finds out about a few — mostly women — turn into (Bologna’s White Raven Prize in 2012), mermaids and discover the gift of their Book 3- ODIO among others book, translated into the problem and tries to help her. XII Anaya Award for Children and YA new condition: clairvoyance, memory, EL ROSA German and Portuguese. Literature. compassion… We follow the story of Kira, a young girl who will change their world. Rights sold to Edebé (Spanish) Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 57 EXCALIBUR - NEW SERIE BRITANIA ANA ALONSO & Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? JAVIER PELEGRÍN Gwen, the heir of Britannia’s throne, runs away from • Reprint before going on the place the Saxons established as London with help sale! from a young knight, Lance. Together they will start a • Because you have to bet long escape followed closely by a Briton warrior called on this series that will Mordred, who wants to hunt the princess for reasons come into the publishing they don’t know. world with a BOOM. During the trip, the two kids start a relationship that • A crossover in which will cripple once they arrive at their destination, Aquae everything happens and Sulis. Gwen will meet Arthur there. And besides their everything can happen. differences at the beginning, Gwen and Arthur will end • This series has the up getting along, and together they’ll start to look for perfect ingredients for a the Excalibur sword. Rights sold to: bestseller. Ana and Javier have teamed up to SUMA (Spanish) • Penguin Random House’s write a number of books, including Penguin Random bet of the year. the fantasy & sci-fi series La llave del What’s Britannia? House tiempo, which has been published by Editorial Anaya and translated into several languages. In 2008, they were Camelot awarded the Barco de Vapor Prize Grial Ávalon The new balance Lance gets a few When Galahad found El secreto de If for . They also have reached in Britannia visits from the king the Grail the Britannia written together, the trilogy Tatuaje thanks to the crea- Pelés, who died in simulation collap- (translated into five languages) the tion of the Round the battle in Mount sed, turning Arthur’s series Agencia Salamandra, and the Table tears apart when Badón. That’s how he kingdom into “the graphic novel La ciudad transparente Gwenn is captured by Meleagant, discovers that Pelés lost the battle be- Vain Land”. Mordred’s supporters (Bologna’s White Raven Prize in who’s taken to Gorr, the beta version cause he used the Grail, a mysterious take the chance to reveal that of the simulation. Gwenn won’t take object that seems like it’s programmed 2012), among others book, translated Gwenn was unfaithful with Lance. long to discover that the Ávalon ladies to interfere with the Britannia simula- When the truth comes out, Gwenn into German and Portuguese. are behind this kidnapping, since they tion, significantly changing the percep- decides to leave with Lance and get want to test her to see if she has the tion of all those who connect to it. away from Arthur. gift to become one of them.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 58 LA PUERTA DEL DRAGÓN ANA ALONSO & Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? JAVIER PELEGRÍN Lisa’s life is turned upside down when his mother • Spanish publishers are Monica, restorer of antique jewelry, dies in strange proud to have Ana Alon- circumstances by the dragon Park Guell. Apparently so and Javier Pelegrín in it is a natural death, but Lisa suspects that there is their catalogue. Will you something else, as I saw in the immediate vicinity miss it? of the young Marc, a client by Monica who had • Ana Alonso and Javier entrusted several modernist artist Masriera jewelery for restoration. When Lisa manages contact Marc, Pelegrín are the authors this warns that his mother what happened was no of Britannia saga. accident and that she is also in danger. • Barcelona is an important point of this book. At the same time, Lisa begins to have strange visions 396 pages of the past related to the unique Masriera jewel that Ana and Javier have teamed up to is still in power. It’s like that jewel opened portals write a number of books, including to a magical and timeless Barcelona, ​​populated by humans but also by the most fantastic creatures... the fantasy & sci-fi series La llave del tiempo, which has been published by And those portals are associated with different Editorial Anaya and translated into representations of dragons scattered around the city. Rights sold to: several languages. In 2008, they were Each of these portals is a ‘Dragon Gate’. Edebé (Spanish and Catalan) awarded the Barco de Vapor Prize for El secreto de If. They also have written together, the trilogy Tatuaje (translated into five languages) the series Agencia Salamandra, and the graphic novel La ciudad transparente (Bologna’s White Raven Prize in 2012), among others book, translated into German and Portuguese.

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PAULA AMOR Crossover / Romantic Novel WHY THIS NOVEL? Pedazos de ti tells the love story between Abbie, a • An Internet phenomenon! college nerd, and Devil, a rocker. They meet by chance • More than a thousand when he prevents her from being assaulted. After that, readers in her blog. Devil proposes Abbie a deal: she must serve him to • More than 6,400 down- return the favor. She doubts, but finally accepts for loads. reasons that are revealed over the plot. • Her previous novel, Son- Abbie feels increasingly seduced by him and the risa de Media Luna, had dangerous rock world and Devil will find in her more more than 4,000 com- than a nerd and a puppet for his games. ments in her blog. Abbie and Devil will have to overcome countless • Fresh, original, nowadays obstacles, love triangles, the difference between their 300 pages. love story. Paula Amor is a literature and visual worlds, to achieve being together. • Modern Romeo & Juliet. arts lover. Since she was a little What at first was a hate relationship, gradually turns • West Side Story. girl, she wanted to pursue writing into an unrivaled and unique love story, in a modern • Afterthe success on professionally, having a clear goal: Romeo and Juliet style. Amazon, Planeta Mexico to become a great writer. She wrote decided to bet on Paula her first novel Sonrisa de Media Amor, a great success. Luna on the Internet, when she was Coming 17. It was her first contact with her soon! loyal readers. Recently she published Pedazos de ti, a romantic novel that Rights sold to: already has thousands of readers in Planeta Mexico (Spanish) different countries. She loves social networks and she opened a blog in 2015 where more than a thousand readers follow her entries.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 60 LA LUNA DE HIELO SANTI BARÓ Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? La luna de hielo narrates the true story of a girl who fled from • Barcanova Award. prostitution. • The real case of a young woman who fled prostitu- The protagonist of this story, young Ileana, recalls very tion. vividly her origins in a village in the Romanian region of • The readers say: «A Moldavia, the poorest in the country. When she was only flawless novel, hard but fourteen years old, her parents sent her away with two hopeful, written brilliantly of her brothers to work in Bucharest, since they couldn’t and with honesty». support her. In Bucharest she found much more than • Because of the vibrating an underpayed job; there she found modelling agencies voice and the writing, this that could make her dreams come true. Thus begins the Santi Baró was born in Olesa de 192 pages. crossover will not leave Montserrat (Barcelona) on November story of a girl who, at sixteen, is harassed by a worldwide you aloof. 30, 1965. Very young, driven by his prostitution network. This is a story with fictional characters, • Two sisters that fight for experiences at the Passion of Olesa, scenes, settings and situations, but with a heart that beats their lives and are able to vigorously. he wanted to be a playwritter and an outdo themselves thanks actor… but things didn’t turn out the to their love. way he wanted and, at only sixteen, he found himself working as a jeweler at MORE REASONS WHY the workshop of his parents’ jewelry Rights sold to: shop. Little by little, nevertheless, • You will love this crossover for the intensity, hardness and realism. Barcanova (Catalan) having done all kinds of odd jobs, he • Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction: La luna de hielo narrates the SM (Spanish) has finally catched up with that old story of a girl who, at sixteen, is harassed by a worldwide prostitution network. dream, with the only difference that • This is a story with fictional characters, scenes, settings and situations, but he writes novels instead of plays, and with a heart that beats vigorously. he only interprets any characters in • Santi Baró is a renowned writer and is one of the most followed authors by the intimacy of family and friends. young readers. • If you want a hard story, contemporary and realistic La luna de hielo is the book that you are looking for.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 61 MEMORIAS DE UN CADÁVER WHY THIS NOVEL? SANTI BARÓ Young Adult Bela suffers a lot. He fails to adapt, her family does not • Santi Baró is an experien- understand her and she has no friends. Sometimes she ced writer to YA novels. thinks it would be better to end it at all, what is the meaning • Baró also writes Lluna de of life? That is: close your eyes and let it go. Feel that fears gel and El informe Ahne- will be lost beyond the clouds … But that’s really the only nerbe. way out? • You would love this novel.

Santi Baró has the wonderful ability to tackle the toughest issues with sensitivity and empathy. A novel about life, death and looks. Because everyone sees things differently. Santi Baró was born in Olesa de 104 pages. Montserrat (Barcelona) on November 30, 1965. Very young, driven by his experiences at the Passion of Olesa, he wanted to be a playwritter and an actor… but things didn’t turn out the way he wanted and, at only sixteen, he found himself working as a jeweler at the workshop of his parents’ jewelry Rights sold to: shop. Little by little, nevertheless, SM (Spanish) having done all kinds of odd jobs, he has finally catched up with that old dream, with the only difference that he writes novels instead of plays, and he only interprets any characters in the intimacy of family and friends.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 62 HUZIEL ROCÍO CARMONA Young Adult Huziel quiere decir te quiero (Huziel means I love you). WHY THIS NOVEL? Zoe is a shy college student who decides to prepare a paper • Rocío Carmona is one of on the language spoken in ancient Atlantis. For this, she the most popular authors contacts a guy who claims that he sings in Atlantean. An of romantic YA in Spain. incredible story that combines romance with action and • Her book La gramática fantasy that you can not miss. del amor was translated to Korean, Chinese, Ita- lian, Brazilian and Catalan. • The author’s light and delicate style. • The quick rhythm that Rocío Carmona is Chief Editor in 384 pages. makes the reader crawl Urano and Tendencias, singer of the Watch through the pages. band Nikosia, and the author of the the booktrailer! • The author’s clever use successful La gramática del amor. of an old resource to tell, Avid reader of romantic novels, she distilled in this unforgettable title the precisely, a modern story essence of the best works in the genre with echoes from the Robinson Girl El corazón de Hannah through an inspiring adventure. It past. The day she turns 18, and Hannah is a girl living in • Rocío has been able to quickly became a bestseller, and was after a party she doesn’t an isolated Amish com- translated into six languages. In her remember all that much, munity under the burden give it a modern, contem- second novel, El corazón de Hannah, Ona wakes up on a para- of its stern, conservative porary and lively touch she managed to reach great heights disiacal beach. She walks and ancient moral. Daniel that will be a treat for any of emotion again. With Robinson Girl through a desolate landscape and finally is a journalist and photographer who’s curious teenage reader. admits the obvious: she is a castaway. she won the Jaén Award for YA fiction working on an illustrated article of her Soon she will realize that she is not village. They meet and fall under each in 2013. Now she presents Huziel, an alone: Domen, a young man of delicate other’s spell, but their parents forbid the Rights sold to: unforgetable novel. appearance and strange behavior, will relationship and kick Daniel out from the La Galera (Spanish and welcome her and show her the haunting village. Hannah will leave her closed world mysteries of the island. and travel to New York facing a new world Catalan) Rights sold to Penguin Random House to reach Daniel. (Spanish) and Editora Rocco (Brazilian) Rights sold to La Galera (Spanish and Catalan) Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 63 EL OCTAVO CLAN JUSTINE EVANS Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? El octavo clan, a totally addictive novel.Nobody remembers • 6,500 copies sold in Spain! how it happened, just that the waters rose and devoured • Bloggers love it! More everything. Only the highest buildings still stand out of the than 40 reviews. sea. Titanium steel and glass that keep defying the ocean, • The readers say: «I could and the dangerous creatures that live in it. see everything that the Inside these towers, in the city now known as Nyork, seven author describes. It is a big clans are in dispute over the cherished “dry ground”, as novel with a very original well as over the even more scarce resources. It’s a fight to and unusual atmosphe- death. re». In the shadow of these seven big clans, however, there is yet • After the success ofEl Oc- another one, one that everyone believed exterminated, but 450 pages. tavo Clan, the publishers Justine Evans was born in Nebraska, whose last members are refusing to succumb; a clan that, bet on a second part. where she devoured the books that in its struggle for survival, comes across the opportunity to fell into her hands from an early change everything, to bring back hope to a world where English Rights sold to: age. Her passion for storytelling has nobody dares hoping for anything anymore. Version persisted up to now, when she is Ediciones B (Spanish Available devoted full time to write the stories and Catalan) she imagines. El octavo clan is her MORE REASONS WHY Rocco (Brazil) first novel. Lapiz Azul (Portugal) • From the agents of Divergent, Mortal Instruments and Percy Jackson & The Olimpians, comes a new bestseller. • The story of the survival of eight teens from the same clan, led by a young syren. They live in a hostile world, almost uninhabitable, devastated by a cata- clysm nobody remembers anymore. • If you missed Divergent, you have to read El octavo clan. • We don’t have to wait for the phenomenon; we have to create the phenome- Read the reviews! non together. • Because when reading we saw that el octavo clan has all the ingredients to become the new bestseller of the moment.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 64 EL UNIVERSO EN TUS MANOS SONIA FERNÁNDEZ VIDAL Children WHY THIS NOVEL? & PILARÍN BAYÉS Eva doesn’t find her grandfather Leonardo in the study • A fun way to learn about where he works, but she sees a strange shaped device. our universe. The grandfather is an inventor, and always explains science to his • Created by Sonia Fer- granddaughter. nández-Vidal, author of Quantic Love and one of Eva decides to enter the ship without knowing that she will begin the the most respected scien- biggest adventure of her life: rescuing her grandfather while learning ce divulgators in Spain, amazing things about the place we live in, the Universe. and Pilarín Bayés, one of 93 pages. the most popular Catalan illustrators. Sonia Fernández-Vidal is a graduate in Physics, with a PhD in Information and Quantum Optics and a long career as a researcher. She writes fiction using her Rights sold to: scientific knowledge to enrich the plot. La Galera (Spanish and Her novels Quantic Love and La puerta de los tres cerrojos (The Door with Catalan) Three Locks) have been translated to CharlieBooks (Korean) six and eleven languages respectively. Ginkgo Books (Chinese)

Pilarín Bayés is a renowned Catalan artist and caricaturist. Her drawings English are characterized by a childish and Version naive tone but at the same time full Available of grace and irony, in a very personal style. A typical trait of the characters she draws is that everyone has painted Watch the video! red cheeks.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 65 EL CLUB DE LOS CANÍBALES SE ZAMPA A GABRIEL GARCÍA DE DRÁCULA WHY THIS NOVEL? ORO Children • Join Leo’s crazy adventu- res! Members of the Cannibals’ Club devour books kneel them • Children love García de tooth, the taste and chew until the last page. But things Oro’s offbeat humor! change when they choose their next reading, Dracula, and a • A story that brings you guy who seems a vampire and sleeps in a coffin comes home. closer to the adventures Who will bite to who? of a group of friends that will learn to read the clas- Attention! Read seriously harms health and transports you to sics having fun and living unexpected places. their characters’ adven- Gabriel Garcia de Oro was born in 134 pages. tures Barcelona, on a very warm July 12th, • After this original idea 1976. Although he graduated in was such a success, they Philosophy, he ended up working in will now live their adven- advertising, a field where he has won tures with Dracula. a number of awards. Currently, he is an Executive Creative Director at El club de los caníbales se zampa a don Quijote OgilvyOne, one of the leading agencies Leo has to write a paper about Don Quixote Rights sold to: in relational marketing and Designer for class, but when he is about to begin, his Anaya (Spanish) of renowned campaigns such as “The book falls into the cage of the zoo chimpanzees Barcanova (Catalan) Monster”, for ING Direct. and gets into a gigantic mess. He unleashes a García de Oro combines this activity thrilling chase with Octavio, the monkey who’s with writing. He is the author of many obsessed with reading, the perfect Topgirl, the clown Ruben books for children and young adults, and the technology freak Yumiko. non fiction, and regular pieces for the Don Quijote contains the keys to save Octavio before Zebra weekly supplement El País Semanal. Men take him to the lab forever! “I write, he says, because I can’t help it. It is like a coughing fit, only quieter”. Rights sold to Anaya (Spanish)

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 66 EL RASTRO BRILLANTE DEL CARACOL GEMMA LIENAS Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? • A page-turning thriller Sam is a 16 year-old with Asperger’s syndrome, a mild about emerging issues like variety of autism. He is awesome with computers, but has safety on the Internet, and few friends, and it’s hard for him to interact with others bullying. in ordinary life. One day he meets Martina, and his world • A book that lets us enter changes completely. He likes her a lot, but he doesn’t know the mind of an Asperger how to get closer to her, and soon discovers that a stalker teenager and helps us is putting her in serious danger. Sam will have to struggle to understand them. overcome his limits if he wants to help her, and unmask the • 3 editions in Spain! perp. • The readers say: «The story Gemma Lienas (Barcelona, 1951) is a 352 pages. is amazing, full of direct writer, and regular contributor to mass messages to help you media. She is the author of more than understand people who are different or network eighty books, some of them for young security. It is the perfect adults, such as Callejón sin salida, reading for a high school Así es la vida, Carlota (IBBY Mention to educate teenagers and of Honor, 1990), El diario violeta de make them enjoy reading at Carlota (Unesco Award for tolerance) the same time. I would have or Billete de ida y vuelta (La Odisea loved reading novels like this Award, 1998). She has also written in class». children’s books, such as the mistery series La Tribu de Camelot, and the Rights sold to: emotional education series El hada Menta, as well as books for adults, Fanbooks, Planeta Group including Atrapada en el espejo, El (Catalan) final del juego (Ramon Llull Award, Destino, Planeta Group 2003), and Anoche soñé contigo. (Spanish)

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 67 EL DIARIO ROJO DE CARLOTA GEMMA LIENAS Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? • Carlota’s diaries are a Carlota, the main character in the novel, is decided to collection of books aimed investigate about human sexuality. With this objective, for a teenage audience, in she looks for information and goes to experts to talk about their school years, and that the topics that interest her. At the same time, her own combine fiction - Carlota’s experience is intertwined throughout the pages of her diary. story, her family and friends The complexity of feelings and the waking of hormones have - with non-fiction. Carlota confused over two boys: Koert and Flanagan. • It’s during our teenage years, between 13 and 17 years of age, when we ask ourselves more questions Gemma Lienas (Barcelona, 1951) is a 330 pages. about our social entourage writer, and regular contributor to mass and the rules that surround media. She is the author of more than us. eighty books, some of them for young • Many adults don’t talk about adults, such as Callejón sin salida, these topics with teenagers. Así es la vida, Carlota (IBBY Mention • Gemma Lienas’ books of Honor, 1990), El diario violeta de have been translated Carlota (Unesco Award for tolerance) into German, Brazilian, or Billete de ida y vuelta (La Odisea Slovakian, French, Galician, Award, 1998). She has also written Italian, Portuguese, Serbo- children’s books, such as the mistery Los diarios de Carlota Croatian, Basque and Greek. Non fiction books, for teenagers, told by a teen. series La Tribu de Camelot, and the Carlota talks about gender equality, sex education, violence, drugs, humans rights... emotional education series El hada Rights sold to: Menta, as well as books for adults, Edicions 62 (Catalan) including Atrapada en el espejo, El Destino (Spanish) final del juego (Ramon Llull Award, 2003), and Anoche soñé contigo. More information!

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 68 LA PUERTA OSCURA 1- EL VIAJERO DAVID LOZANO Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? Pascal, a shy and insecure teenager who’s sixteen years old, • This novel perfectly com- is getting ready for a Halloween costume party in Paris. But, bines entertainment and what was going to be a student party turns out to be a huge good literature. adventure, where the boy will cross a door that leads to a • The first title of the La shady and disturbing world. What danger is Pascal going to Puerta Oscura trilogy. face? • David Lozano is an expert in children’s literature. • An adventure where the main characters will disco- ver a gloomy and distur- David Lozano Garbala (Zaragoza, 656 pages. bing world, are you ready 1974), Bachelor of Law, Master in La puerta oscura series to go with them? Communication and with studies in Non fiction books, for teenagers. A great saga filled with terror and adventure. Philology, has worked as a lawyer Pascal discovers news worlds after crossing the door. and currently combines writing and teaching with his work as a Rights sold to: La puerta oscura 2 - El mal La puerta oscura 3 - Réquiem screenwriter for some Spanish Pascal thought that his Due to the terrible circum- Ediciones SM (Spanish) producers. In 2006 he won the XXVIII adventure as a Traveller had stances that surround him, People Team (Hungarian) Gran Angular Youth Literature Prize ended and that Mal had been Pascal is forced to cross the Loewe Verlag (German) with the novel Donde surgen las destroyed; but that wasn’t Dark Door again and dive into Adriano Salani (Italian) sombras, published in six countries. the truth at all, because new a battle to save his friends In 2014 he was a finalist in the Edebé dangers are threatening the from a terrible destiny… Will boy and his lovely Michelle… the last Traveller be the only Children’s Literature Prize with his What horrific creatures will one who’s able to open the novel El ladrón de minutos. haunt him? Another book door to salvation? A thrilling He is a speaker at various seminars on from the exciting saga will end to this great saga filled children’s literature for students and trap you again from the be- with terror and adventure. teachers in Spain and several Latin ginning. American countries.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 69 LADRÓN DE MINUTOS DAVID LOZANO Middle Great WHY THIS NOVEL? Can you imagine that the day of your birthday disappears on • David Lozano is the au- the calendar? thor of La Puerta Oscura trilogy . Authorities have decided to remove a calendar day and the date chosen was precisely 6th October. The day is Edu’s birthday. Suddenly, it has run out of birthdays, anchored in the ten years old. And of course, it has not taken anything right. In spite of which is not the first time it occurs (why do you think that February has only twenty-eight days?), nothing comforts Edu. So choose fight to recover and go to the shop of forbidden things. David Lozano Garbala (Zaragoza, 192 pages. 1974), Bachelor of Law, Master in Communication and with studies in For tremendous challenges, also tremendous imposed Philology, has worked as a lawyer solutions. Edu and get the Suction of Time, able to steal and currently combines writing minutes until a full day to recover. It sounds easy and, without and teaching with his work as a thinking the consequences, good times hunting begins... screenwriter for some Spanish producers. In 2006 he won the XXVIII Rights sold to: Gran Angular Youth Literature Prize Edebé (Spanish) with the novel Donde surgen las sombras, published in six countries. In 2014 he was a finalist in the Edebé Children’s Literature Prize with his novel El ladrón de minutos.

He is a speaker at various seminars on children’s literature for students and teachers in Spain and several Latin American countries.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 70 DONDE SURGEN LAS SOMBRAS DAVID LOZANO Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? Alex has disappeared with two other young men. What they • This novel perfectly com- have in common is being hooked to an online videogame that bines entertainment and was too real. With help from a Police inspector, Alex’s friends good literature. will begin a search filled with surprises through the darkest • David Lozano is the au- and most dangerous parts of the city. thor of La Puerta Oscura trilogy . • 2007 Gran Angular Prize. • A novel of mystery that shows the power of friendship and overco- David Lozano Garbala (Zaragoza, 288 pages. ming difficulties. 1974), Bachelor of Law, Master in • Dive into this YA thriller of Communication and with studies in atrocious murders waiting Philology, has worked as a lawyer to be solved. and currently combines writing and teaching with his work as a screenwriter for some Spanish producers. In 2006 he won the XXVIII Rights sold to: Cielo Rojo Gran Angular Youth Literature Prize Cielo Rojo, is a mysterious and intriguing story about Ediciones SM (Spanish) with the novel Donde surgen las friendship where love is above everything. The reader can sombras, published in six countries. also participate in the story thanks to the contents (music In 2014 he was a finalist in the Edebé and web pages) created for it. Children’s Literature Prize with his Rights sold to Ediciones SM (Spanish) novel El ladrón de minutos.

He is a speaker at various seminars on children’s literature for students and teachers in Spain and several Latin American countries.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 71 99% FELIZ DORIAN LUCAS Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? For thousands of years, Oriental and Western philosophers • Pleasant, useful and enligh- have been looking for the answers to the same questions tening! that worry us today: What’s the secret to happiness? Are • The best recipes to reach in there any shortcuts to success? How can we discern real our daily life. love? What can we do when everything seems to be against • A book that will give you us? Fresh, practical and amusing, also accompanied with fine the clues to move clo- illustrations, this book collects the best ideas from the most ser to happiness, while privileged minds of Human History to face any obstacle, learning from the great doubt or challenge that life will bring to us with philosophy. philosophers.

• A fresh, practical and uni- Dorian Lucas brings us the 99 greatest coaches of all time. 212 pages. versal book, the perfect Dorian Lucas is Editor and Publisher of coaching for Young Adults. trends in spirituality and psychology. He collects aphorisms of great minds in history and this work demonstrates his ability to compress large life lessons in confined spaces. Who are the 99 Rights sold to: greatest coaches? Nube de tinta, Penguin Random House (Spanish)

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 72 LATIDOS FRANCESC MIRALLES & Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? JAVIER RUESCAS Remo has just seen Carol at the airport. The good • Javier Ruescas has part? They connected. The bad part? Remo is on his 100.000 Youtube fo- way to Los Angeles to take a sabbatical year while llowers. Carol travels to Japan to live with her father. • Francesc Miralles is one of the most acclaimed YA What could happen between two strangers that are authors in Spanish. in the other part of the world? What can they know • The previos book, Pulsa- from each other from the pictures the upload on ciones, was an Internet HeartPic or the entries they write on BlogBits? And phenomenon! More why won’t their heart stop beating every time they than 500 reviews! get a message on HeartBits? 215 pages. Francesc Miralles has been awarded Rights sold to: with several prestigious literary awards, lots of his books have become Ediciones SM (Spanish) bestsellers and have been translated Pulsaciones Editorial Cruïlla (Catalan) to more than 15 languages. Elia just woke up from a coma and is a little lost. The last thing Ediciones SM Chile and she remembers is a concert and a phrase: “I can’t give you your Ediciones SM Mexico (Latin song back, but I can show you how to dance like a fish.” Now that America) Javier Ruescas is one of the most her parents bought her a Smartphone , Elia finally has access to brilliant young voices of YA literature Heartbits (an app like WhatsApp). We readers witness all their in Spanish and a social network conversations. With the help of her best friend , Sue, Elia will phenomenon. attempt to remember the three forgotten days and , meanwhile, will meet Tommy , an American exchange student who comes English from Spain; Marion, a girl with a half burnt face attending group Version therapy, and Phoenix, a stranger who loves aphorisms. Available

197 pages. Rights sold to Ediciones SM (Spanish), Cruïlla (Catalan) and SM Argentina, SM Chile and SM Mexico (Latin America) The first novel written in whatsapp format An Internet phenomenon!

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 73 UN HIJO ALEJANDRO PALOMAS Crossover / Coral Novel WHY THIS NOVEL? Un hijo is a novel full of tenderness and intrigue for the • 5 editions in 3 months. readers of Una madre and The curious incident of the • Bloggers love it, more dog in the night-time. than 70 reviews, 40 of them in Goodreads and Guille is an introverted child with a permanent smile. Amazon. He only has one friend. So far, so good. But this calm • For readers from 14 to 99 facade hides the most fragile world, and a mystery to solve. The pieces are a father in crisis, an absent years old. mother, an intrigued teacher, and a psychologist who • Press and critics also love tries to understand what the child hides. it: «Guille stays forever in you, as real as any other A choral novel where there are mixed feelings, silences, 288 pages. child in your life. I read Alejandro Palomas is a graduate in gaps and an enthralling mystery. the novel two weeks ago English. He has translated Katherine and Guille is still here. No Mansfield, Gertrude Stein, Willa intention of leaving. It is a Cather and Jack London, among tremendous novel». others. He has written the screenplay Ojos de invierno, based on his novel Tanta vida (2008), whose rights were acquired by Filmax. In 2002 he was chosen New Talent FNAC for his novel Rights sold to: El tiempo del corazón. In 2011 he La Galera (Spanish and published El tiempo que nos une and Catalan) El cel que ens queda. On that same Neri Pozza (Italian) year, he was finalist to the Primavera Abimo Publishers (Dutch) The first chapters in Read a review in Award with El alma del mundo. His Editorial Presença (Portu- English English! work has been translated into eight guese) languages. In 2014 he published Una madre and in 2015 Un hijo.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 74 EXO JORDI OLLOQUEQUI Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? Ziggy is an extraterrestrial teenager who loves the music • Learning biology has ne- of Earth, and wins the option to travel to our planet to find ver been so sexy! out more about it. He falls in love quite soon with a young • Rock, adventures and earthling biologist, but relationships with people from other biology. planets are completely forbidden. Through his investigations, • More than 6,000 copies we will learn some of the most important concepts of sold in Spain! biology… among the sound of laughter and sighs.

Born in 1982, Jordi Olloquequi is a 240 pages. PhD in Cell Biology and lecturer at the University of Barcelona. He has researched for over seven years in the field of Biomedicine and published in international journals. With his first novel, he unleashes his passion for divulging Biological Science in an attractive way among all readers. He currently combines his lecturing job Read the first Rights sold to: with his performances with two rock pages! bands. La Galera (Spanish and Catalan)

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 75 POR UNA SONRISA, UN BESO MOON RIVER Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? The Castaways’ Clan is back with new love stories, • A book about the impor- surprising discoveries and unexpected blows of fate. tance of making space for Víctor, Martina, Lauren, April and Max are closer than friendship and love in our ever… Especially Martina and Max: They are dating, at life. last! Her parents, though, won’t let her lead her own • A reader says: “A window life. Martina will have to fight for her dreams, but… to life”. will they be the same as Max’s? April is going through • Three editions! a hard time: she has to face her mother’s return alone. Víctor and she are in love, but with him in Boston and her in Barcelona, love could easily be overcome by distance… As for Lauren, she is on the brink of success: Moon River is the pseudonym of two 288 pages. authors who have joined forces to she has been casted for a television series that might write El Clan de los Náufragos (The either catapult her to stardom or be a total failure! Rights sold to: Castaways Clan). Moon grew up among Whatever happens, whomever they confront, nothing Montena, Penguin books by Enid Blyton and adventure will separate them… or, will it? Random House novels, dreaming of becoming one of (Spanish) their protagonists some day. Reaching adulthood, she decided to create worlds and characters with her own De aquí a la luna y vuelta words so she would not have to let go The lives of Víctor, Martina, Lauren, April, and Max are going of those summer evenings on treasure adrift. Because of that, when destiny joins their paths, they islands and tree houses. don’t let it go… and found The Castaways Clan: a piece of River is a journalist and the author of solid ground where they can share their doubts and hopes, many YA novels. As a kid, he was an grow up, beat their ghosts, and even fall in love. However, they don’t constitute a compact and unbreachable breakwater; avid reader of the Three Detectives they are five independent blocks… and quite different form each other. Like and the Secret Seven’s exploits. He in an impossible sculpture, one on top of the other, they hold on by chance, found out that he loved writing YA facing the wind. Read the reviews! novels after a long trip to Asia. Rights sold to Montena, Penguin Random House (Spanish)

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 76 EL LADRÓN DE LAS CROQUETAS PEDRO RIERA Middle Great WHY THIS NOVEL? A STORY WITH A LOT OF HUMOR AND BECHAMEL! • Humor is very important in this book. I will never forget the day we found out there was a • Children love Pedro Rie- croquette thief standing between us. ra’s stories. • Because kids and parents The problem with croquette thieves is that they’re not will feel identified with as easy to identify as vampires or mummies. And when this story of humor and you discover what they are, it’s too late, Your croquet- bechamel. tes are damned! • A fun book that’s bound to entertain and also tea- Pedro Riera was born in 1965, A croquette thief won’t have enough with stealing your 70 pages. ches the value of sharing in Barcelona. He has a degree in croquettes. He’ll eat them in front of you to make you and how important it Information Science. He has worked suffer as much as possible. is not to play with your as a producer in television, publicity food. and films. In 1997 he moved to Bosnia, Includes the DEFINITE CROQUETTE RECIPE in the end of • The text goes along with where he lived for two years working the book (if the thief doesn’t steal it first). expressive drawings that for an international organization, will be perfect for the rea- writing for television and radio, and der to interact with. also as freelance photographer for Associated Press and some NGO. Thanks to his experience in the Balkans, Rights sold to: he wrote two novels: Heridas de Anaya (Spanish) Guerra, 2004; and Un alto en el Campo de los Mirlos, 2005, both published by Editorial Verbigracia. In 2007, he published La leyenda del Bosque sin nombre with Alfaguara, his first YA novel that won the CCEI in 2008.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 77 SAPERE AUDE - EBLUS’ TRILOGY CARE SANTOS Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? Natalia is ambitious. Much more than Eblus. He • An author awarded with exercises his absolute power and makes the usual the Ramon Llull Prize mistakes: corruption, boredom, abuse… Now that he 2014, the most presti- has it all, he wants the only thing he can’t have: Natalia. gious in Catalan language. Having definitely defeated his worst enemy of all times, • Care Santos is an author he’s bored. Not even his friends, the three vampires with a vast work and ex- from the East, are able to loosen him up. He doesn’t perience. feel the same passion for travelling, arts and old books • For the first time, the tri- anymore. He’s even tired of taking human souls. Also, logy published at once. since he has the biggest power of the Darks now, he • The trilogy that will con- Care Santos was born in Mataró, can’t be summoned. 320 pages quer the YA market this Barcelona, in 1970. She is the author year. of a vast work that includes novels, • Dive into the EBLUS phe- short stories and literature both for nomenon, a publishing young readers and adults. She has succes. received the many literature awards • Read some reviews here. such as the Narrative Prize of Alcalá de Henares or the Alfonso de Cossío Short Story Prize. In the children and young reader’s literature field, she Rights sold to: has also won the most important Spanish awards. Her last adult’s novel, Ediciones B Desire for chocolate, was awarded (Spanish) the Ramon Llull Prize 2014, and has been translated into more than ten languages.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 78 WILLIAM WHY THIS NOVEL? CARE SANTOS Picture Book “A fun approximation to the life of The Bard of • An author awarded with Stratford-upon-Avon, written in verse and with a great the Ramon Llull Prize sense of humor, for readers between 0 and 99 years 2014, the most presti- old. The illustrations are by Dani Cruz, who’s been gious in Catalan language. able to capture the spirit of Shakespeare’s times and • Care Santos is an author translate it to the sensitivity of today’s readers”. with a vast work and ex- perience. Four hundred years after his death, Care Santos • Care Santos is the author explains Shakespeare to the little ones. of numerous books for YA and childrens. Care Santos was born in Mataró, The creative tandem of Anna Pato, composed by the 32 pages • Learn about Shakespeare Barcelona, in 1970. She is the author writer Care Santos and the illustrator Dani Cruz, invites in an entertaining and of a vast work that includes novels, us to celebrate the 400 anniversary of Shakespeare’s educational way. short stories and literature both for death with the little ones at home. William is a fun • Dive into the William phe- young readers and adults. She has album in which the youngest reader will be able to nomenon. received the many literature awards find out who The Bard from Stratford was, while going such as the Narrative Prize of Alcalá over his life, without leaving behind his most important de Henares or the Alfonso de Cossío writings like Romeo and Juliette or Hamlet. Short Story Prize. In the children and young reader’s literature field, she Rights sold to: has also won the most important Editorial Base (Spanish Spanish awards. Her last adult’s novel, and Catalan) Desire for chocolate, was awarded the Ramon Llull Prize 2014, and has been translated into more than ten languages.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 79 LAURA CHEF CARE SANTOS Middle Great WHY THIS NOVEL? Laura is a 10 year old girl who wants to be a cook. She • An author awarded with has two close friends: Estela, her best friend, and Nico, the Ramon Llull Prize with whom she is secretly in love (although he does 2014, the most presti- not pay any attention to her). This summer, Estela and gious in Catalan langua- Laura will take a cooking course and are very excited . ge. But soon they discover that neither the teacher nor the • Care Santos is an author recipes are quite normal and they cause on those who with a vast work and try them amazing effects... experience. • Care Santos is the au- thor of numerous books Care Santos was born in Mataró, 120 pages for adults and also, for Barcelona, in 1970. She is the author YA and children. of a vast work that includes novels, • A series where the main short stories and literature both for character wants to and young readers and adults. She has is going to learn to cook received the many literature awards surrounded by adven- such as the Narrative Prize of Alcalá tures de Henares or the Alfonso de Cossío • Cooking is in style and Short Story Prize. In the children and Coming kids love it, what’s young reader’s literature field, she soon: better than this book to has also won the most important Laura Super- bring them closer to this Spanish awards. Her last adult’s novel, Chef 2 art? Desire for chocolate, was awarded the Ramon Llull Prize 2014, and has been translated into more than ten languages. Rights sold to: Grupo Editorial Bruño (Spanish)

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 80 YES, WE DANCE ESTHER SANZ Middle Great WHY THIS NOVEL? Yes, we dance is the story of Martina, Sofia and Liu, three • A series that will make fans of the BB Brothers. After their success in New York, the you dance! Saturn Stars live like celebrities in their own neighborhood, • Martina, Sofia and Liu with all the problems that it carries. They can’t go out to the are examples of endu- street without the neighbors taking pictures with them and, rance and passion. at school, classes are constantly interrupted with questions • Books that create rea- about their adventures with the BB Brothers. ders! • We already have the When the summer comes, the tour with their idols comes fourth book. with it, they feel like their biggest dream is accomplished, but they can’t imagine the setbacks they’ll encounter on Esther Sanz (Barcelona, 1974) holds a 144 pages. degree in Journalism. She has written the road with the most famous brothers in the planet: The Yes We Dance 4: for women’s magazines and currently caravan they’ll travel and sleep in will suffer all kinds of The price of fame Rights sold to: works as an Editor. Her greatest passion mishaps; they will be abandoned on the road when the Montena, Penguin Ran- since she was a teenager is romantic “road manager” flees with the money and the shows won’t dom House literature. After publishing Vive rápido, have the desired quality because Brian and Brandon fight all siente despacio (Live Fast, Feel Slowly, the time, sleep until late and don’t feel like practicing. (Spanish) Talismán, 2007) and Los siete soles de la Turquia (Teen Publishing) felicidad (The Seven Suns of Happiness, Umbriel, 2011), she engaged in a new adventure with the young adults’ trilogy El bosque (The Forest) — an absorbing romantic thriller with specks of fantasy. After a brief creative lapse, in 2014 she published Si el amor es una isla (If Love Is an Island, Destino), a novel inspired by the master works of British Romanticism. Now she presents the series Yes, we dance. Yes We Dance 1: Yes We Dance 2: Yes We Dance 3: Together to win! London New York

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 81 Si el amor es una isla ESTHER SANZ Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? Luisa travels to a small island in the English Channel where • Secrets, adventures and time stopped centuries ago. There she will work at a stately confrontations give way to hotel managed by a mysterious man, who rules it with a a torrid romance that has firm hand and strict rules. Disobedience is punishable, but its sources in the great Luisa’s curiosity is stronger than her will, and she finds her- romantic novels of the self caught up in bizarre situations and dark games devised nineteenth century. by her boss. Her audacity will be punished, but the mystery • A spellbinding story of surrounding the owner will also bring rewards. secrets, love and mystery, set on an island hidden from time. Esther Sanz (Barcelona, 1974) holds a 294 pages. • “Make sure you have this degree in Journalism. She has written book on your shelves.”- for women’s magazines and currently Cuore Magazine. Coming soon the spin-off of Si el amor es una isla works as an Editor. Her greatest passion • “A Victorian hotel, an published by V&R (Latin America) since she was a teenager is romantic island with five hundred literature. After publishing Vive rápido, inhabitants, and a hear- siente despacio (Live Fast, Feel Slowly, twarming story to get Talismán, 2007) and Los siete soles de la away from it all.”Cosmo- felicidad (The Seven Suns of Happiness, politan Magazine. Umbriel, 2011), she engaged in a new Watch the Booktrailer! adventure with the young adults’ trilogy El bosque (The Forest) — an absorbing Rights sold to: romantic thriller with specks of fantasy. Planeta (Spanish) After a brief creative lapse, in 2014 V&R (Latin America) she published Si el amor es una isla (If Love Is an Island, Destino), a novel inspired by the master works of British Romanticism. Now she presents the series Yes, we dance.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 82 LOS SECRETOS DEL VIEJO HORACE CLIFF SEYMOUR Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? Scott is 27 years old and the only thing he can brag about • An emotive novel about: until now is to have failed in each and every aspect of his friendship, life and second life. After giving up two degrees, he has passed through chances. different jobs without taking roots in any of them. Love has • A vital and fresh novel. been a constant failure for him, too. Since his last girlfriend • Get hooked to “the game abandoned him, Scott feels his life as an endless desert. of la Oca” and you’ll un- With his self-esteem on minimum, he is forced to accept a derstand the art of life. simple -and apparently underpaid- job in his own building. • Nube de tinta (Penguin Since the first day, the hermit-like tenant of the attic will ask Random House) bet on Scott to play snakes and ladders with him, which Scott has this novel that shines and not played since he was a kid. Very soon, Scott will discover 208 pages. teaches the value of life. Cliff Seymour is a Journalist. He spends that the elder man uses the squares of the board to give him • The first crossover that the whole year working and living essential lessons -one every morning- for his life. This simple sees eye to eye to young along the US, Japan and Southern pastime (created by the Greek soldiers during Troy’s siege) adults and adults who still will help Horace teach Scott the art of living and how to fix Europe. From an early age, he was haven’t confronted their those mistakes that led him to failure until now. While the deeply attracted by the symbolism fears, and help them to mornings pass by among coffees, rounds and conversations. of the games and their relation to face life’s challenge. the realization of the challenges and stages of life. Scott will begin to understand the cause and effect that has given shape to his present. However, Horace will also advise him that knowing the rules of the game is not enough. Once you are aware of the traps and dangers, the labyrinths and shortcuts, you must be brave enough to move forward on the Read the first Rights sold to: board of life with courage and sense of adventure. pages! Nube de tinta, Penguin Random House (Spanish)

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