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Sandra Bruna adult fiction, non fiction, young adult & children titles catalogue our agents 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] Selling team Clara Ferrer Valentine Lechevallier With a double degree in Advertising, Marketing, After studying literature, English and Book Trade, Public Relations and Communication and Master’s Valentine started her career in publishing by wor- Degree In Marketing, Clara has been working in king in a literary agency in Paris, where she learnt the communication world but always with an eye the ropes of foreign rights. In 2015 she moved to to the publishing world. She began her career in London for a new experience among an interna- Sandra Bruna in 2016. She’s always looking for tional publishing group specialised in illustrated her “Itaca”, always writing, reading and she keeps books, to be in charge of the French language learning with one motto “Everything is to be done territories. Two years later, she has joined Sandra and everything is possible”. Bruna to look after foreign rights. [email protected] [email protected] index / fiction

9. Alves, Bárbara 19. Fernández, Empar 30. Palomas, Alejandro Respira, Rebecca, respira Maldita verdad Un perro 10. Amela, Víctor 20. García Carteron, Begoña 31. Pradas, Núria La filla del capità Groc La montaña maldita Sueños a medida 11. Ariño ,Cari 21. Goitia, Fernando 32. Ramos, Malenka La rueda del olvido La sacudida Quimera. Las edades bárbaras 12. Barbal, Maria 22. Guhlam, Nadia & Diéguez, Javier 33. Rodríguez Lezaun, Susana En la piel del otro La primera estrella de la noche Sin retorno Hernàndez, Gaspar Bennasar, Sebastià 23. Santos, Care 13. La terapeuta 34. El imperio de los leones Media vida Lira, Emma Cantavella, Jordi 24. Santos, Care 14. Búscame donde nacen los dragos 35. El brigadista Diamant blau Maitena 15. Castelló, Paz 25. Mi nombre escrito en la puerta de un Lo mejor de Maitena 36. Soler, Sílvia váter Los viejos amigos 26. Miralles, Francesc Conde, Carmen Amor en minúscula 37. Tarragó Sílvia 16. La escritora El tiempo de la luz Miralles, Francesc 27. Valls, Coia Doñate, Àngeles Un rayo de esperanza 38. Etheria El invierno que tomamos cartas en el 17. Miralles, Francesc & Santos, Care asunto 28. 39. Valls, Coia El mejor lugar del mundo es aquí mismo Etheria 18. Esteve, Miquel El fin de los secretos 29. Moya, Elena 40. Vídac, Rafel La candidata El hombre más rico del mundo index / non fiction

Bom&Bon 42. Pequeñas ideas antes de vivir en 47. Hernàndez, Gaspar 53. Riba, Albert pareja No soy de este mundo Tropa Sapiens 43. Domènech, Montse 48. Oaks, Lambert 54. Rovira, Álex La vacuna contra el miedo Guía para la vida de Tyrion Lannister Los siete poderes 44. Estivill, Eduard 49. León, Pere 55. Sandoval, Eva 5 days for a perfect night sleep for La buena onda ¿Y tú qué crees? your child Vázquez, Nika Estivill, Eduard Miralles, Francesc & García, Héctor 56. 45. 50. Aporta o aparta Ser mamá: el antes y el después Ikigai Vilaseca, Borja Folch, Montse Percy, Allan 57. 46. 51. El principito se pone corbata La dieta de los colores Platón para soñadores 52. Percy, Allan Serie Geniuses for daily life index / young adult & children

García de Oro, Gabriel Santos, Care 59. Alonso, Ana & Pelegrín, Javier 66. 73. El libro de los rostros El club de los caníbales se zampa Drácula Sapere Aude - Eblu’s Trilogy Lozano, David 60. Alonso, Ana & Pelegrín, Javier 67. 74. Santos, Care Excalibur - New Serie Britania La puerta oscura William 61. Alonso, Ana & Pelegrín, Javier 68. Lozano, David 75. Santos, Care La puerta del dragón Valkiria Laura Chef - El mejor bocadillo del mundo 62. Amor, Paula 69. Lozano, David 76. Sanz, Esther Pedazos de ti El ladrón de minutos Yes, we dance 63. Carmona, Rocío 70. Lucas, Dorian 77. Sanz, Esther La gramática del amor 99% feliz Si el amor es una isla Evans, Justine 71. Miralles, Francesc & Ruescas, Javier Seymour, Cliff 64. El octavo clan Latidos 78. Los secretos del viejo Horace 65. Fernández-Vidal, Sonia & Bayés, 72. Palomas, Alejandro Pilarín Un hijo El universo en tus manos adult fiction RESPIRA, REBECCA, RESPIRA

BÁRBARA ALVES Chick Lit WHY THIS NOVEL? Have you tried last winter’s clothes and you only like and scarf? • This is Bárbara Alves’ first Do you have a terrible salary, capable of making you novel, a new voice that laugh and cry at the same time? you don’t want to miss Do your children drive you crazy (and not because of out. how much you love them, precisely)? • Maybe Rebecca is like Is the WhatsApp group with your friends full of you... affectionate labels like “bitch” or “son of a bitch”? Is your husband an expert in eluding responsabilities? Are there times you’d like to disappear from the world Bárbara Alves is from Barcelona. She is with a giant Nutella jar? 304 pages. 39 years old and she has three kids, a If you have answered “yes” to three or more of these husband, a dog, a cat and a long story. questions, then there is no doubt: this novelis for you. You urgently need a good dose of laughing and reading. She has liked to write since she was young, and her mother can confirm it, Get hooked on to the phenomenon #RespiraRebecca. with a box full of stories. She graduated in Tourism and alternated studies with Rebecca, the protagonist of this novel, has three kids, First motherhood, as she had her first child a handsome husband with a tendency to slack off, an edition when she was 23 years old. annoying and adorable mother, a shitty job and a group of 10.000 of friends that are totally crazy. copies She claims she’s addicted to any type of Rights sold to: reading; books have marked her life and Rebecca thinks that problems are very rude. They have Ediciones B (Spanish) so she devours every story, the desire to the ugly habit of appearing all together, without a write keeps on growing. warning.

Rebecca is imperfect, foul-mouthed, ingenious and sincere. Maybe she is just like you…

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 9 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 under their belts. She wants to months. More than hug him, feel the warmth of his kiss on her forehead. 25.000 copies sold! She misses his tough look, now filled with tenderness, • 8 weeks #1 in Catalan his loud laugh. She just wants him to get back to watch fiction. him fight for their ideals, to go back to his family and • #1 on Sant Jordi’s day. • “Víctor Amela proves he the town, the lost dignity, to life or to death. 420 pages. Víctor Amela (1960) has worked as a knows how to use the journalist half his life. Since 1984, he Tomàs Penarrocha Penarrocha, her father, is known in diferent lines of the plot, has been writing chronicles, reviews Forcall as the Blond, because the color of his hair. and he keeps some surpri- and interviews for La Vanguardia. He ses for the reader that will is a regular contributor to radio and keep everyone stuck to TV shows, teaches journalism and the seat.” (...) “Significant- mass 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 is his second work of fiction. creation of his Ars Amatoria. Rights sold to Ediciones B (Spanish and Catalan).

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CARI ARIÑO Women’s Fiction WHY THIS NOVEL? La rueda del olvido is an emotional story in which the • Cari Ariño’s first novel main characters, Alicia and Bautista, are looking for sold 22,000 books in 6 balance in their lives. The discovery of a portrait in an months. Two editions. Isaac Asimov’s novel will leave a mark between them. • Two parallel stories, intriguing and full of Throughout the pages, the reader will find two parallel plotwiss. stories connected through Alicia’s current time, a young woman who has just suffered a deep heartbreak, and • For readers who fell in Bautista, an expat living in France after the Spanish Civil love with titles likeSue - War who, against his will, remembers the past. ños a medida or Diamant Blau. As a connection between them, a missing anarchist, Biel, 296 pages. Cari Ariño was born in 1958 in and a love in the horizon, Julien. Maella, an Aragonese town in the Catalan speaking area. Before she Oblivion and pain will be the freezing knife that will went to college to study Comparative extinguish the love’s fire. Literature, she taught herself reading French modern classics such as Balzac And hope, a remote spark that struggles to light the Rights sold to: and Flaubert. Currently she combines flame. Ediciones B (Spanish and her job as a public servant at the El latido del tiempo Catalan) Barcelona Town Hall with her always Women’s fiction / Historical Novel passionate and generous work as a El latido del tiempo is a family saga that walks us through the 20th century, portraying its customs and manners. writer. Her aim as an author is to make This is an addictive story about the struggle of three readers enjoy and endure in their own heroines –grandmother, daughter and granddaughter– that flesh the adventures of a lineage of try to survive the prejudices and turmoils of their times. women that appears in her novels. Throughout its pages we will learn first hand about the La rueda del olvido is her second changes brought by the 20th century –big or small–: from novel. the Second Spanish Republic to the beginnings of the current millenium. Enjoy the Booktrailer! Rights sold to Ediciones B (Spanish). Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 11 EN LA PIEL DEL OTRO

Contemporany fiction MARIA BARBAL WHY THIS NOVEL? En la piel del otro follows two young people’s lives from • Maria Barbal style is fresh early 1971 to the present. On the one hand, Ramona and clean. Marquès, left by a revolutionary who disappears from • The novel is located at the her life when she’s pregnant. On the other hand, end of the Franco dicta- Mireia Ferrer, daughter of Tomàs Ferrer fighter, for the torship in Spain. memory of the deportees and founder of the ‘Memòria i Llibertat’ association. Mireia marries Manuel, a national undercover policeman from who she will have to hide to avoid being victim of gender violence.

But Ramona won’t settle for the fate that awaits a single mother with no family in those years, and will 285 pages. Maria Barbal is a novelist and decide to falsify her mother’s history and create a professor of secondary education. record in the file of the association, identifying her as She wrote in 1985 the novel Pedra a deportee. This way she will reach her goal: manage de tartera, awarded with the Joan the association and become a omnipresent figure in the Joaquim Ruyra Creixells award, which public sphere and spokesman for the suffering of the became a landmark of the Catalan real victims of Francoism. Ramona will build a whole Rights sold to: narrative in the 80s. With her later life and a part of history based on nothing more than a Planeta (Spanish and novels,Mel i metzines and Càmfora, lie. Catalan) she won the Serra d’Or Critics Award and the National Literature Prize. Pedra de tartera She has written other novels and Contemporany novel Conxa is born at the beginning of the twentieth century in Ermita’s village, collections of short stories, translated in Pallars region. When she’s 13 years old, she’s sent to Pallarès’s village to English into Spanish and other languages. help her aunt Encarnació. There she meets young Jaume, with whom she falls head over heels in love in a dance of the village’s fair. Version Available Rights sold to Grup 62 (Spanish and Catalan), Nilsson literary (Swedish), Wy- dawnictwo Marginesy (Polish), Odem Yayincilik (Turquish), Studentska Zalozba (Slovenian), Tinta Blava (French), Antolog (Macedonian), Rimonim Publishers (Hebrew), Marco&Marcos (Italian), Peirene Press (English), Arhipelag Publishing House (Serbian), Verlagscruppe (Germany) and A. W. Bruna Uitgevers (Dutch). Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 12 EL IMPERIO DE LOS LEONES SEBASTIÀ BENNASSAR Contemporary thriller WHY THIS NOVEL? In 1972 Jean Neige and his gang prepare the hit that • Sebastià Bennasar is a has to establish them as one of the most dangerous prolific author with exten- criminal groups of France. But taking control of the Lyon sive literary trajectory in mafia is a long blood-filled path that they’ve just started Catalonia. to explore and that will lead them to urbanize the • A novel with an exquisite Costa Brava, control the prostitution in half of Europe atmosphere that will sur- as well as traffic hash, among other things. The gang, prise you. always with one foot in illegal business and the other • Sebastià Bennasar’s great in the suspicious construction business, finds itself and fantastic thriller, very in a crossroads in 2006. Could Neige’s son, the heir, black. maintain the clan at the peak of power? 284 pages. Sebastià Bennassar was born in 1976 in Mallorca. He has a degree in Humanities With this story, based in some of the French mafia clans and a Master’s degree in World History that have been in our country since the ‘60s the author from Pompeu Fabra University. He dives into the deepest part of the human soul through worked 12 years for the newspaper Diari to a key novel in the contemporary thriller genre. de Balears. Currently, he combines his journalistic work with freelance cultural management. Up to now, he has published El país de los crepusculos two poetry collections, three short story Crime Fiction books and six novels — four of them are The cold has started to arrive at la Vall de Rights sold to: thrillers. Two of his passions are: Portugal Boí. And with the first snow has also arrived Editorial AlReves (Spanish and its literature; and novels brimming relentless murderer that is leaving tortured and Catalan) with blood. and martyred corpses in World Heritage churches. Inspector Jaume Fuster –a man whith no fear- will have to face old medieval superstitions among the white beauty of the valley, where everything returns, even the wolves. Rights sold to Editorial AlReves (Spanish and Catalan).

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 13 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 young Catalan 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 story’s plot and characters 316 pages. Jordi Cantavella i Cusó was born and unhappiness”. By an American member of the have touched me. The in 1967. In 2002, 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 their life in our home defending everyone’s freedom. fiction books and collections of short Rights sold to: stories. His lastest works are the novel Penguin Random House Aquests catalans estan tocats del (Catalan) bolet (Columna, 2010), the non-fiction Milenio Publicaciones book Em vull fondre (Cossetània (Spanish) Edicions in 2012) and the novel El brigadista (Rosa dels vents, 2015). Spanish Version Read the first pages! Available

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Crime Fiction PAZ CASTELLÓ WHY THIS NOVEL? Despite his great talent, Mauro Santos hasn’t managed to find any editor to publish him. Frustrated, he accepts • Paz Castelló’s new book. an agreement with Germán Latorre, a famous television • This book will hook you presenter who turns everything he touches into gold. from the first page. The deal is that Mauro has to sell him two novels already • Read it and check how written – and previously rejected by several publishers – this book criticizes the and has to write two more books for him, thus becoming editorial sector. his ‘ghost writer’. • Lots of great reviews, like this. Under Germán’s signature and name, Mauro’s titles Paz Castelló (Alicante, Spain, 1970) is become international best sellers, with millions of sales 288 pages. a Law graduate, and has devoted her worldwide, dozens of translations and great feedback professional life to communication and from critics and the media. journalism. She began her career at Cadena SER and 40 Principales, and later Then, in the television channel where Germán Latorre on worked at Onda Cero and Radio 9. works, they decide to launch a new program, a talent Afterwards, she focused on corporate show to discover new writers. Mauro Santos thinks and institutional communication in of this program as the only opportunity to restart his several sectors. Worth mentioning is her literary career and start believing in himself once again. experience in the football business, where But in order to do this, he has to make a decision that she held the position of External Relations will turn his whole life upside down: he must stop writing Director for the Hercules Football Club. for Germán Latorre. Rights sold to: She currently works as a journalist, she is a Umbriel (Spanish) talk show host, and a columnist for several media, while she also engages in creative writing. Her first novel was the thriller La muerte del 9.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 15 LA ESCRITORA CARMEN CONDE Crime Fiction WHY THIS NOVEL? Brilliant, hyperactive and scarred by a traumatic • Carmen Conde surprises childhood, Lucrecia Vázquez works as a ghost writer with her second crime for a big publisher and lives the best she can with fiction. Tourette’s syndrome, which causes her a great number • Exciting novel that hooks of tics. you from start to finish. • Carmen Conde debut When bestsellers’ writer Dana Green is savagely novel, Para morir siem- murdered in her own home, the police soon discovers pre hay tiempo that Lucrecia has been commissioned to write the ,reached famous novelist’s the new book, who at the time of her its second edition in death was immersed into a profound creative crisis. just two weeks! The investigation soon uncovers a complex scheme Carmen Conde ( Barcelona, ​​1965 ) 368 pages. studied Education and has been working of betrayals and deceptions within the literary world, as a primary school teacher in a public while Lucrecia herself, on whom most of the suspicions fall, is forced to overcome her fears and limitations to school since she was twenty-three. start her own investigation. Passionate about her work, she also loves reading since she discovered Enid Blyton Write a crime. Ged murdered. as a child. Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan The game has begun. Poe and Stephen King, among others, Rights sold to: have reinforced this passion. More than Para morir siempre hay tiempo Ediciones B (Spanish) ten years ago, she wrote a short story Crime Fiction titled Su última cena and was shortlested Frustrated and obsessive writer addicted to drugs, Julia Irazu for an award. Since then, she has not is a true expert in complicated lives, but this time problems stopped writing. come from outside. She accidentally becomes involved in an art trafficking network, among millionaires interests and unscrupu- lous criminals, and meets Viktor Sokolov, an alleged Russian spy Winning novel of Para morir siempre hay tiempo is her with whom she will live an adventure full of danger from Bilbao La Trama first novel. Her second novel, La escritora and Palermo to Saint Petersburg. Award has been published in 2017. Paradoxically, that is when Julia discovers a basic principle: there is always time to die. Rights sold to Ediciones B (Spanish). Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 16 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 transfe. Sms, e-mails and whatsapps seem experts for the 2016 like to have won the game, even in the mountain has been a good book for the UK living. Sara, the only postwomen in town, was there market. with her three small children for ever. She spends • “A tribute to the episto- many 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 oldest of five siblings, But what can an old lady do to prevent the lives of her and social networking. [...] and grew up in a house filled with loved ones from being disrupted? Maybe something as Written with delicacy and light, shelter pets and books. Her small as writing a letter, one she has been keeping in attention, Doñate achie- passion for written and spoken words her heart for sixty years… ves a delightful novel”. El became a vocation as much as a Periódico. profession. She works as a corporate A book about friendship, affection, family, dreams communication manager for social and love. The book that saved a real rural Post Office. Rights sold to: Ediciones B (Spanish) and educational institutions. One Feltrinelli (Italian) day, by chance, she published a book: Thiele & Brandstätter ¿Quieres un consejo? She engaged on New Angeles Verlag (German) a new path into the forest of words, Doñate novel Droemer Knaur (German poc- which has taken her to other works: TV report about the soon! ket) Cuando la cigüeña se pierde, the book! Editora Objectiva (Portuguese) travel notebook De Santiago de Chile Prószynski i S-ka SA (Polish) a Puerto Williams, and her first novel, Klidarithmos Publications coauthored, La sonrisa de un perro. (Greek) Éditions Kero (French) Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 17 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 • Miquel Esteve mixes his- 461 pages. 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 chances 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 2017 // Page 18 3. MALDITA VERDAD EMPAR FERNÁNDEZ Thriller / Noir WHY THIS NOVEL? Since her divorce, several years ago, Olga Barnabas has • The third part of Em- been living with her son Daniel, who has become a 17- par Fernández’s trilogy year- old stranger with whom she barely speaks. One about guilt. night 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 checks career with more than on Daniel, who 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. Empar Fernández (Barcelona) alternates Raul Forcano, a budding detective, will track the lives 276 pages. • Sometimes knowing the teaching with narrative and collaborations of the protagonists up to a certain event that, perhaps, truth can be a curse. in the press as a columnist. With her first should have remained unknown. novel, Horacio en la memoria, she won the short story XXV Premio Cáceres. In TRILOGY OF GUILT 2007 she was shorlisted for the IX Premio 1. La mujer que no bajó 2. La última llamada Unicaja de Novela Fernando Quiñones del avión Thriller / Noir Rights sold to: with her novel El loco de las muñecas. Thriller / Noir Naomi Monteagudo And the two first parts to her newest The first part of a trilo- went out one night Versátil (Spanish) gy about guilt. Guilt is to celebrate the end trilogy have just come out: La mujer que somewhat diffuse, shared of school, but never no bajó del avión and La última llamada. and able to ruin a life. returned home. Before Recently, she has been a finalist for the Discover why Sara didn’t disappearing she made awards: Medellín Negro 2013, Premio de get off of that plane. a last call that her Novela Negra Ciudad de Carmona 2014 father took. English and Premio València Negra 2015 for the Sample best crime novel. Available Read the full synopsis of the trilogy!

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 19 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 cía’s literature. del Mar Church marks the begining of a state of siege • A drama set in the Pro- in Barcelona. The tragedy of the dead victims adds cess of Montjuïc. to another one: the imminent arrest of workers with • A story of crossed lives, libertarian ideals, considered violent anarchists. confusion of identities Magda, a cigar seller in a theater in Paralelo, is afraid for her brother Pep, arrested by mistake three years and a series of misunders- before because of another attack, in the Liceu. She’s tandings. not mistaken: the police are after him, and not only • Two editions in only one him, his wife, too. Magda and Tina, a relative living week. Begoña García Carteron has a degree with her in the neighborhood of Poble Sec, will find 424 pages. in Art History and works as a writer, him in the dungeons of the Montjuïc castle, claiming journalist and coordinator of editorial his innocence. The link with the workers and the Union content. As a freelancer, she has leader, Teresa de Claramunt; the staging by a young developed very different skills in the amateur theater company of a play by the symbolist field of communication and has tried Ibsen and the link with the modernist artists Ramón Rights sold to: numerous topics. She has written Casas and Santiago Rusiñol will set the steps for their Ediciones B (Catalan and own personal tragedy. books on art, heritage and gastronomy; Spanish) articles on culture, travel and ecology El barrio de la playa and has coordinated projects for various Historical publishers. The passion for her city, It is 1751 and the Spanish Succession War ended Barcelona, ​​led her to specialize in local thirty years ago, however, there are a lot of survi- culture. She recently coordinated the vors who are still suffering the consequences. Outsi- content of the new website of the City de Barcelona’s walls, near the harbor, in a sandy area that belonged to the sea some time ago, with of Barcelona (meet.barcelona.cat) and the shadow of the still present military strength, many families that has written the sections devoted to the lost their homes, lead a dissolute life in shakes. history of the city, among others. Rights sold to Ediciones B (Spanish and Catalan)

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 20 LA SACUDIDA FERNANDO GOITIA Thriller WHY THIS NOVEL? A volcano subsides over three thousand people as • First Fernando Goitia’s Hurricane Mitch devastates Central America. A Basque novel will surprise you! journalist arrives at the scene of the tragedy to make • A history about victims a report and unearths a man without identity, dying in and guilt. the rubble. • Endowed with a careful prose, with well-construc- Without knowing it, he saves the life of a man who is doomed to face and who has two things in common ted sentences and precise with him: both hands stained with blood and none of dialogue. them is who they claim to be. • Very fresh, strong, agile, emotional novel without Journalist, married and father of two, he Together they start a long travel through a desolate 360 pages. being sentimental or grew up in the convulsed and politicized scene, destroyed by the hurricane during, which moralistic. Bilbao of the 70s and 80s. In the 90s he must face themselves, discover who the other is and left for London, where he took odd jobs commit perhaps, a last crime. Is this a story of victims and attended any rock concert that got in and 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 of Catalan) There he started his own company, and violence. What they go through in the trip will reported for El País the local reality and help them to decide to change their lives forever. the devastation hurricane Mitch caused in Nicaragua and Honduras. He currently lives in Madrid and is the chief of current affairs at the weekly supplement XLSemanal, where he has been working for 13 years.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 21 NADIA GUHLAM & LA PRIMERA ESTRELLA DE LA NOCHE JAVIER DIÉGUEZ Narrative memoir WHY THIS NOVEL? When going back to her native Afghanistan, where • The fictionalized testi- she is hoping to find her cousin Mersal and honor her mony of the suffering and deceased aunt, Nadia 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 La primera estrella de la noche is a story of search, of family revelations, of questions left unanswered and from formalities, with most of all, a story that shows the reality of 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. leaves its mark. 296 pages. 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 which the reader will instinctively dive into, to translated into 5 langua- War in Afghanistan, she has always discover 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 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 2017 // Page 22 LA TERAPEUTA GASPAR HERNÀNDEZ Inspirational / Psychological Thriller WHY THIS NOVEL? Hèctor Amat is a troubled actor. After being an • More than 21,000 copies accidental witness of the murder of a young girl, he sold in Spain. has been sufferingan from anxiety block. He can’t • The first novel that exp- remember anything that happened. To alleviate his lains why, how and when condition, and get his memory back, Hèctor turns to we suffer anxiety. Eugènia Llort, the therapist who treated him after • A novel that tackles the the crime. Their relationship is merely professional issue of stress and turns it at first but, as time goes by, he becomes increasingly into a brilliant novel. dependent. Unless she is present, he is unable to perform at the theater every night where he plays Dick • Some countries consume Diver — the character in Tender is the Night —. Like more mental health medi- his own character — a psychologist who falls in love 255 pages. cation than aspirine. Gaspar Hernàndez is a journalist and with a patient —, Hèctor will end up falling madly for • The press says: «An ex- writer. He directs and presents L’ofici his therapist. 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 2017 // Page 23 BÚSCAME DONDE NACEN LOS DRAGOS EMMA LIRA Contemporany fiction WHY THIS NOVEL? A children’s bone collection hidden in a museum, a • A history of second forgotten alphabet engraved in a small board made of chances. stone, an excavation under which lies an international • Two realities and two plot of antiques trafficking, and an initiation trip to women that are many at the heart of the Atlas searching for the origin of a the same time. mysterious woman… • Read good reviews here. Marina will find this and much more when she arrives • “I was also in the place to her house in Tenerife in Tamadaya, in which she’ll that I call Tamadaya. I hide after a heartbreak. That was where a wonderful also had in my hands a archeological discovery happened which, forty years Guanche skull, and I also Emma Lira is a freelance journalist, later, can bring to light a story buried for centuries. 526 pages. asked myself questions… traveler and writer. She’s member of the Marina, dragged by that mystery, will embark on the And this story was wri- Spanish Geographical Society and has investigation of finding the remnants’ origins. tten to answer them”. gone across Africa and the Middle East. -Emma Lira. She’s a great connoisseur of Maghreb, Islam and the conflicts of the Near East. In 2011 she was shortlisted for the Lo que esconden las olas Planeta Prize with her first novel Tras el Contemporany fiction agua grande. Her novel Búscame donde Year 1906. An Italian transatlantic navigates to Buenos Aires. This is El Sirio, Rights sold to: nacen los dragos, published by Plaza & an elegant and modern ship, where clergymen, diplomats, emigrants and a Janés in 2013, talks about an unknown beautiful Spanish courier travel to the New World where dreams can come Penguin Random House true. However, only three miles from the Spanish coast, the ship will be shi- (Spanish) past of the Canary Islands and is about pwrecked. to be turned into a movie. In mid- Year 2006. In the centenary of the shipwreck, the young Sandro arrives of which his family 2015, was published Lo que esconden never talks about. He comes in search of the causes of an accident that perhaps was never las olas, also by Plaza & Janés, about such. Paula will introduce him to the filming of a documentary commemorating the tragedy, the tragic shipwreck of the Sirio, ‘the without imagining that the story they’re going to dig in has much to do with his own.

Mediterranean Titanic’, by the Spanish Rights sold to Penguin Random House (Spanish) coast.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 24 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 thousands of drawings I’ve done with humor. over 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 massive social phenomenon both in South America and several countries in Europe. Later, she published her first novel Rumble.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // 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 stnay 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 worked as a publisher. After Read the report in Penguin (English US) writing two essays on Franz Kafka Publisher’s Weekly Alma Books (English UK) and Hermann Hesse for to school English Ullstein (German) Cappelen Damm (Norwegian) readers, he decided to write novels. Version He was awarded several prestigious TRI (Macedonian) Tyto Alba (Lituan) literary awards and lots of his books, Wabi-Sabi Available Inspirational & Romantic Leda (Czech) both for young readers and adults, Record (Brazilian) have become bestsellers and have When a relationship ends, there’s nothing better than Tapanaev (Estonian) been translated to more than fifteen traveling to a distant world to move on and rediscover Pena Yayinlari (Turquish) languages. Another important part of the course itself. After receiving two postcards from Ping’s i Yilin (Chinese) his production is focused on the self- Kyoto, from a mysterious sender, Samuel decides to Munhakdongne (Corean) Humanitas (Romanian) help, coaching and inspirational field. 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) where it’s least expected. Gnezdoto (Bulgarian)

The sequel of Amor en minúscula translated to 8 languages.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // 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 That is the question that four lonely people ask each em minuscula other as they meet casually at Cafe Turner, the only • Un rayo de esperanza place open in a small coastal town in mid-winter. is 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 consequences, joining together 144 pages Plataforma Editorial Francesc Miralles (Barcelona, 1968) the destinies of the four questioners who have come to (Spain) has a degree in German Philology find new purpose in their lives. Gnezdoto (Bulgarian) and has worked as a publisher. After writing two essays on Franz Kafka and Hermann Hesse for to school A story that reveals the invisible threads English readers, he decided to write novels. of friendship and love, that can help find Version He was awarded several prestigious Available literary awards and lots of his books, the light at the end of the tunnel. both for young readers and adults, have become bestsellers and have been translated to more than fifteen languages. His latest novel, “A Ray of New Hope”, the fruit of learning harvested phenomenon after suffering a profound depression, proves worthy of its title as it shows, by through four unforgettable characters, the path of light in the midst of Ikigai’s author darkness.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // 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 sold. a café she hadn’t seen before. Its strange name (The best place in the world is right here) intrigues her so • “A real spiritual and psy- much that she enters. There, she meets Luca, an Italian chological therapy novel with whom she talks to for six days at different tables, to break with the wild where 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 about 136 pages. several prestigious literary awards everything you need for your existence over the aromas Rights sold to: and lots of his books, both for young of chocolate. But, like a God, and the seventh day he’s Ara Llibres (Catalan) readers and adults, have become not there. Urano (Spanish) bestsellers. Another important part of Soon Iris discovers he is not coming back and she Record (Brazilian) his production is focused on the self- begins to look for him. In the abandoned place where English Presença (Portuguese) the café was, she begins to find some clues that will help, coaching and inspirational field. Version Ullstein (German) reveal his enigmatic past. But the most important Munhakdongne (Korean) revelation is still to come… Available Care Santos is the author of a vast Fleuve Noir (French) work that includes novels, short Mono i Manjana (Serbian) stories and literature both for El futuro es un viaje de vuelta AMG (Bulgarian) Coming next Spring! Inspirational young readers and adults. She has Humanitas (Romania) This book starts with a strong premise: we all have at least one thing that we must fix in Izdavachki Centar Tri (Macedo- received many literature awards. our past to move forward. Written as a contemporary fable, this is the first time nian) Desire for chocolate, was awarded Theory U, very much in vogue today, is transformed into a novel. Care Santos & Francesc Ping’s Publications (Chinese) Miralles wrote El mejor lugar del mundo es aquí mismo eight years ago, which brought the Ramon Llull Prize 2014, and has Beijing Flourishing Age Kent been translated into more than ten together tens of thousands of readers and has been translated into nine languages. Now they are back with this story of redemption and love. (Simply Chinese) languages. Pena Yayinlari (Turquish) Rights sold: Urano (Spanish and Catalan)

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 28 LA CANDIDATA ELENA MOYA Women’s Fiction WHY THIS NOVEL? A novel about the prejudice and the difficulties that • A feminist novel. women have to face when occupying, or expecting to occupy, maintaining or gaining a position of power, • “An intelligent and en- then and now. The novel is a cry for equality. Which, tertaining fable that can in Spain, is misunderstood. Women representing come true as we’re rea- half of the student body means nothing if in reality ding it. Brilliant! You must women can’t have powerful positions, especially at an read Elena Moya“ Eduar- economic level. do Mendoza said. • Elena Moya’s long awai- The novel also digs deep in what power means to ted third novel! women: what pushes them to look for it, what it means • And ideal novel for these to them, what they want, and what the consequences days with Hilary Clinton, are when they do have it. 512 pages. Elena Moya Pereira grew up in Theresa May and Angela the Mediterranean coastal town Merkel at the first line of of Tarragona, south of Barcelona, The novel is written in the first person: Isabel’s a Minister of Economy and is the leading candidate for politics. during the last years of the Franco her party in the presidential elections. She will lose and dictatorship. After attending Rights sold to: win many things and people along the way. University in Spain, she was awarded a Suma de Letras, Penguin Fulbright scholarship to do a Masters La maestra republicana Women’s Fiction Random House (Spanish) in 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 2017 // Page 29 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 has become a part of their lives 20 reviews. as 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 some unexpected company, and with it will come a flood novel by the most important of confessions and truths that perhaps were not so and the newspapers in Spain, like La five 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 Alejandro Palomas is an English is not just a portrait of the fascinating bond between a man love this book. 300 pages graduate. He translated Katherine and his dog, but a swirl of emotions that come together in a • By the author awarded by Mansfield, Gertrude Stein, Willa tender and raw look at the familiy world and a tribute to love the Premio Nacional de Lite- Cather and Jack London, among in all its forms. ratura 2016 for ‘Un hijo’. others. He has written the screenplay Read the report from Ojos de invierno, based on his novel La Vanguardia Rights sold to: Tanta vida (2008), whose rights were Destino (Spanish) acquired by Filmax. In 2002 he was Grup 62 (Catalan) chosen as the FNAC New Talent for his Una madre Contemporary Fiction Le Cherche-Midi (French) novel El tiempo del corazón. In 2011 In a few hours it will be midnight. At last, after he published El tiempo que nos une several failed attempts, now that she is 65, Amalia and El cel que ens queda. That same has succeded to have her dream fulfilled: the whole year, he was finalist in the Primavera family has gathered to celebrate New Year’s Eve. Award with El alma del mundo. His Una madre tells the story of a dinner, and of the seven attendants First work has been translated into eight who are bound to share the beginning of a new life none of them chapters languages. He published Una madre are envisioning. in English in2014 and Un hijo in 2015. 11 editions in Spain! 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 2017 // Page 30 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 195th century Núria Pradras! is 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 • Most ordered book in Bar- Exposition; difficult and sad times, those of war and the imme- celona’s libraries. Núria Pradas was born in Barcelona diate postwar. 440 pages. Rights sold to: and graduated in Catalan Philology. SUMA (Spanish) She taught in several schools and These people made the warehouse their home and defen- Columna (Catalan) started a juvenile theater company, ded it against all odds; and they kept going no matter what. Penguin - Verlagsgruppe Ran- since theater is her great passion. It Because life goes on, but Santa Eulalia keeps beating with the dom House (German) was while writing stage plays that rhythm of time. Adriano Salani Editore (Ita- she entered the world of literature. lian) She published her first book in 1995, Uitgeverij Luitingh-Sijthoff thus starting a literary career that (Dutch) has always evolved in the field of Laguna (Serbian) Bazar Förlag (Swedish) children and young adults’ literature. Bazar Forlag AS (Norwegian) Núria Pradas has published over forty Foksal (Poland) books and collaborated with a number Alma Littera (Lithuanian) of publishing houses. She won the Enalios Publications / Ocea- Carlemany award for her novel Sota nos Publications (Greek) el mateix cel. She has has exclusively Zero a Oito (Portugal) devotes herself to writing.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 31 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 grown-up, are still authors most reviewed in contact, but very few want to go back to the place in Spain. that caused them so much pain. Antón isn’t willing to Malenka Ramos was born in Oviedo let them forget the good moments they lived there and 346 pages (1978). Despite being a business the promise they made when they were kids, and that’s woman, she has always found time to why he sends each one of them a letter. He wants to read or write. Her passion for reading reunite them in the Fantasy. was inherited from her father, a man Rights sold to: who was always accompanied by his Will Antón be able to reunite all his friends? Will they Ediciones Urano (Spanish) private library. What started as an keep the promise they made when they were kids? And erotic story eventually gave way to most of all… What happened there and what changed them for the rest of their lives? two 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 has been writing on the forbidden. This novel will make you reevaluate what for several sites, thus reaching almost is really right. The hardcore version that nobody on 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 2017 // Page 32 SIN RETORNO SUSANA RODRÍGUEZ LEZAUN Thriller / Noir WHY THIS NOVEL? Irene Ochoa has 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 • 8,000 copies in 1 month. to plan, 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. journalism, she graduated in James have turned up dead in Roncesvalles, only a few Comunication at the University of the miles away, and everything indicates that it is the work Basque Country. Since she was a little of a serial killer. Rights sold to: girl, she knew she would dedicate DeBolsillo, Penguin Random her life to storytelling, some of these House (Spanish) stories would be real, the ones she writes daily in the newspaper she We prepared some extra works for, and some made up, and material for you! with these she fills her novels. Really passionate about reading since her tenderest years, she has special feelings for Latinamerican writers, especially towards Gabriel García Coming soon: La teoría de los Márquez, whose books she used to seis grados “devour”. (DeBolsillo)

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 33 MEDIA VIDA CARE SANTOS Women’s Fiction WHY THIS NOVEL? In the mid-summer of 1950, five teenage girls play • Awarded novel in 2017. «Truth or Dare» or, like they call it, the game of the • An author awarded with the garments, in their boarding school for the last time. Ramon Llull Prize 2014, the Two of them, the Viñó twins, are about to start a new most prestigious in Catalan life, full of unanswered questions, far from there. The language. occasion is special and they know it, but neither of them • Care Santos is an expe- expects that this night will become a turning point for rienced writer with a long another person and that, without even imagining it, it trajectory both in YA and will scar their path forever. Adults books. Throughout the life of the five friends over thirty years, Care Santos was born in Mataró, Care Santos portrays a generation of women who had 416 pages Barcelona, in 1970. She is the author to build their destinies in the Spain of the dictatorship and the Transition, in a moment where the hypocrisy of of a vast work that includes novels, those who wanted to save appearances at any cost is Rights sold to: short stories and literature both for confronted with new views about friendship, love and Columna, Planeta (Catalan) young readers and adults. She has freedom. Destino, Planeta (Spanish) received many literature awards Humanitas Fiction (Romanian) such as the Narrative Prize of Alcalá de Henares or the Alfonso de Cossío Short Story Prize. In the children and NADAL LITERATURE AWARD 2017 young reader’s literature field, she has An eloquent and vital story about also won the most important Spanish awards. Desire for chocolate was how the passing of time affects awarded the Ramon Llull Prize 2014, us, about the weight of guilt and and has been translated into more the importance of forgiveness English than ten languages. Material

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 34 DIAMANT BLAU CARE SANTOS Women’s Fiction WHY THIS NOVEL? Diamant blau plunges us into a family’s background • An author awarded by Pre- during the first decades of the twentieth century, when mio Nadal 2017 for ‘Media the splendor of the bourgeoisie is opposed to the social Vida’. upheaval. Silvestre Pujolà is a self-made man who leaves • An author awarded with the his rural past behind to start working as a dry-cleaner Ramon Llull Prize 2014, the in a textile factory in Mataró in the mid-nineteenth most prestigious in Catalan century. His eagerness to overcome his fate will lead him language. to Teresa, a woman who will give meaning to his life of • The novel that everybody constant excess. Some years later, their granddaughter, read in 2016. Teresa Pujolà, will travel the opposite way and give up • Care Santos’s long awaited her social position to marry the man she loves. novel! Care Santos was born in Mataró, 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 2017 // Page 35 LOS VIEJOS AMIGOS SÍLVIA SOLER Women’s Fiction WHY THIS NOVEL? At the end of the 80s , five friends who study fine arts • Sílvia Soler is one of the together travel to Paris to visit the big Gauguin exposition most popular authors in in Grand Palais. That trip, of only four days, will last them Catalan language. a lifetime for Marc, Lídia, Mateu, Ada and Santi will build • Premi Ramon Llull 2013, the a friendship that will look unbreakable and that will keep most famous and prestigious them anchored to the old times, to the years of strong award in Catalan language. desires and longings. The main characters, however, will • More than 60.000 titles sold soon understand that it’s as easy to stay faithful to the for L’estiu que comença. artistic calling as it is to give it up. And that life, which will become more demanding as time goes by, will put them Rights sold to: to test at the end. 320 pages. Sílvia Soler i Guasch (Figueres, 1961) is Columna, Planeta Group a journalist and regularly contibutes to (Spanish and Catalan) several media platforms. Her first work was the collection of short stories Un any i mig L’estiu que comença Arriben els ocells de nit, published in Women’s Fiction Women’s Fiction 1988. Since them, she hasn’t stopped This book is the portrait of a The novel spans over 50 years, publising. normal family, quite happy and, telloing the life of Julia Reig and undoubtedly, representative Andreu Balart — linked to each In 2003 she won the Fiter i Rossell of a society in crisis. With her other since before they were Prize with her novel Mira’m als ulls. usual skill for meticulous description and her born through their mothers’ friendship, and In 2008 she obtained the prestigious precision-crafted portrays of feelings, Sílvia their hopeful anticipation that their children would inherit their bond or even fall in love. Prudenci Bertrana Prize with the book Soler’s narrative talent takes a leap forward Julia and Andreu, though, want to get rid of this Petons de diumenge. In 2013 she was with this novel, and manifests itself with fate that persists in joining them. awarded the renowned and celebrated unusual power. Rights sold to Columna (Spanish and Catalan) Rights sold to Columna (Spanish and Catalan), Ramon Llull Prize for L’estiu que Fleuve Editions (French), and Mondatori (Italian). comença. Els vells amics is her latest We prepared some material for you! novel. Enjoy the Booktrailer!

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 36 EL TIEMPO DE LA LUZ SÍLVIA TARRAGÓ Women’s Fiction WHY THIS NOVEL? Ever since its inauguration in 1940 as Europe’s first subterra- • A novel set in the nean gallery, the luxurious Avenue of Light has been a mirror first subterranean of the changes ocurring in postwar Barcelona. commercial galleries in Barcelona (and Europe). Julia, a young maid that has just arrived in the city, begins a • A world of light under romance with a train supervisor from Sarrià and, a few years the gray streets of later, a forbidden passion that will entail them terrible conse- Barcelona’s postwar. quences. She will be a witness of the evolution of the gallery • It shows with accuracy throughout time and of some of the traders like Rosita, and realism the daughter of the owners of the bakery, who will live her first Barcelona of the 40s love with the attendant at the Avenue of Light movie theater, and the 90s, moment while she dreams with the barber’s apprentice, involved in 256 pages Sílvia Tarragó Castrillón was born in political activities. in which the Avenue of Barcelona in 1968. For 14 years she Light was closed. was the co-owner and manager of the A lady of mysterious fortune who opens a typewriter shop. • Good reviews like this. bookstore Proa Premià. In 2001, she A perfumer involved with powerful men in the regime. A published a colection of short stories, railway worker who writes poems while he walks between Ciutats de l’Impossible (Brosquil the columns. These are the characters of a world that keeps Edicions, 2001). She won the XIII changing, decade after decade, following the exciting beat of Watch more information Muestra Literaria del Maresme in 1996 Barcelona from the postwar era till the end of the eighties. about this book! and the first Alellas’s prize of poetry Maria Oleart with the collection La In El tiempo de la Luz, the Avenue is a place that brings vida vençuda in 1998. Besides, she the touch of daily magic which can be found in the train is author of the book of poems Raïls station in the movie The invention of Hugo Cabret. Rights sold to: escapçats and the anthology Estiu Columna, Planeta Group immòbil. El tiempo de la luz is her first (Catalan) novel for adults. Urano (Spanish)

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 37 EL OBJETIVO DEL CRIMEN XULIO R. TRIGO Thriller WHY THIS NOVEL? As World War 2 ends has just ended, Erika Ernemann, an apprentice in a Contax camera factory, is kidnapped by • A novel set in the 60s. the Russian army with her mother and two hundred more • Based in the life of people. The Soviets have decided that only with technicians the photograher Erika and German workers will they manage to set in motion the Ernemann. manufacturing of a Contax replica, the Kiev camera. • Xulio R. Trigo is also the author of Les veus del Many years later, in 1961, when the world shudders with Liceu. the first news about the making of the Berlin Wall, Erika • For IWorld War 2 stories’s travels to Barcelona as a member of the German police. The lovers. murders of two young women reminds her of the methods Xulio Ricardo Trigo (Betanzos, A of her kidnappers and the terrible moments she lived as a 352 pages Coruña, 1959) has published a dozen teenager. With the help of inspector Casajoana, she’ll try to novels, among them La desaparición find out the reason why everything has begun again. de Evelyn, Después del olvido, Los secretos de la reina, El sueño de Tarraco The complexity of what lies behind those crimes surpasses o El puerto del nuevo mundo. He has the most fertile imagination, and Erika finds really difficult to won the Ausiàs March, Maria Mercè explain those without immersing herself back into her past, Marçal, Miquel de Palol and Joanot without living again what she has always wanted to forget. Martorell adwards, among others. He is a regular contributor in the media An inspiring crime story based on the life of the photogra- and has worked at El Temps , Diari de pher Erika Ernemann and set in the world of classical pho- Rights sold to: Barcelona, El​​ Periodico de Catalunya and tographic cameras, when technology was still measured by Edicions B (Catalan and La Vanguardia. He has also published mechanical precision and the beauty of pictures was a result Spanish) poetry and, as a translator, has made of chemical processes that now seem doomed to disappear. Galician and Portuguese versions of Catalan authors. He also dedicates his life to his other passion, photography. He lives in the city of Tarragona.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 38 ETHERIA COIA VALLS Historical WHY THIS NOVEL? In the beginning of the Middle Ages, two women • Readers were waiting for with very different beliefs live 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 • A reader says: «Talking that, with his family being besieged by the Christians about Coia Valls is launching who are how in power, decides to serve the cause into a praise. She has a rich 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 and civilization is rooted in ancient beliefs. • Coia Valls is an experienced is a speech therapist and a pedagogue. author in historical novel. She works as an Editor in Chief at the digital newspaper Tarragona Literària Amor prohibido and as an assistant director at l’Escola La cocinera Historical Historical de Lletres of Tarragona. She is also a Barcelona, 1771. Young An unforgettable love Rights sold to: theatre actress who has taken part in Constança Clavé leaves the story between a priest and numerous plays and dramatisations faraway city of Lima after the daughter of country Ediciones B (Catalan and th of poetry texts.She writes historical the death of her father, a nobleman, in the 15 Spanish) century Catalonia, which novel. She has published several diplomat. Her journey to Barcelona is long and arduous. She carries praised titles: La princesa de Jade, is starting to recover from a period of fa- vivid memories of landscapes with her, mine and epidemics, although fear is still El Mercader, Las torres del cielo, La flavours, textures, and a single possession: seizing its people. cocinera and now Amor prohibido the recipe book left to her by her first which promises to be at least as Master in the Peruvian Court. Rights sold to Ediciones B (Spanish and successful as the previous ones. Rights sold to Ediciones B (Spanish and Catalan) and Sperling & Kupfer (Italian) Catalan) English Sample Avaiable Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 39 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 go through a strange personal preparation process • Rafael Vídac shows us along 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. abandoned this field in 2005 to start a «Rafael offers a wide range of existential wisdom new career as a mind-body therapist in a friendly format, an easy to read story that and personal coach. He also studied grabs you until the very end. A plot born of a crisis several complementary disciplines like that is a challenge and an oportunity at Rights sold to: PNL, Naturopathy and EMDR. Since then the same 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 Greece he has been writing for social media (Klidarithmos Publications) on a daily basis under the pseudonym English Rafael Vídac, and has soon become one Version of the most widely followed authors Watch the booktrailer! online, with his brief reflections on his Available specialty.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 40 non fiction PEQUEÑAS IDEAS ANTES DE VIVIR EN PAREJA Humour BOM&BON WHY THIS BOOK? “Anyone who says living with their partner is absolute per- • A fresh book about moving fection is either a Martian or doesn’t dare say what really in with your partner, which happens behind closed doors. The moment you go live will make you laugh. with someone, you start saying everything in plural, even • An ironic but positive book if neither of you are forcing 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 you have never been told about the great adventure of living together. Everything you have never been told about the great adven- 112 pages. • By the authors of Pequeñas ture of 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 through Humor the day to do it all: work, friends, kids, It is clear that being a mother is a turning-point in the life of a woman. gym, hobbies... And always with their Everything changes: your schedule, your marriage, your wardrobe, your kitchen, your sleeping habits... Your life becomes a rollercoaster of emotions nicest smile. and changes! The authors have written and illustrated this book to bring a smile to the women who have had the experiences explained in it, and the Their website: ones who haven’t experienced it yet. bomandbon.blogspot.com.es Rights sold to Maeva (Spanish), Harlenic Hellas (Greek), Sextante (Brazilian) and Planeta Manuscrito (Portuguese).

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 42 LA VACUNA CONTRA EL MIEDO Parenting MONTSE DOMÈNECH WHY THIS BOOK? Montse Domènech delivers 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 for to all the the issue of childhood fears. This book is addressed families with children of any to all families with children of any age. Other than the age. disorder they produce in children and their families, • Montse Domènech delivers childhood fears are a natural feeling that helps build her forty years of experien- ce dealing with teens and up the human mind, as they help then develop their children in this book, to imagination, children learn how to face their problems offer parents a simple and and protect themselves from danger. practical method to face the 144 pages. issue of childhood fears. But these fears can turn into a real disorder for Montse Domènech has a degree in • A PRACTICAL AND SIMPLE parents. Either because they don’t know how to solve Pedagogy and Psychology specialised METHOD to deal with chil- them or because they interfere with the families in children from the University of drens fears. coexistence, this problem is one of the reasons why, Barcelona. She works at her own more and more, parents are looking for professional psycho-pedagogic centre treating Rights sold to: help. kids, teenagers and young people with Plaza & Janés (Catalan and behavioural and emotional disorders. Spanish) She is the co-author, along with Dr. Edúcame bien Alpina (Russian) Estivill, of different books analysing Parenting Edúcame bien is a practical, sensible and friendly book. children’s insomnia, proper nutrition The book that all parents should have at home. This book during the growing years and the is addressed to all the families that have children of any relationship between parents, children age. All parents experience coexistence problems with their and teenagers, among other subjects. children at some point; be it curfew problems, unexpected behaviors, She has also published other essays on jealousy, lack of interest for school, or despondency, just to mention a education and compilations of tales in few. order to transmit ethical values. Read here the first Rights sold to Penguin Random House (Spanish and Catalan) pages! and Bulgary (Sluntse Publishing House).

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 43 5 DAYS FOR A PERFECT NIGHT SLEEP FOR YOUR CHILD Health EDUARD ESTIVILL 5 days for a Perfect Night Sleep for Your Child explains WHY THIS BOOK? in a clear and simple way a scientific method to teach • Dr. Estivill has sold more children how to sleep — a few serious and rigorous than 3 million copies rules which have been recommended also by the worldwide. American Academy of Pediatrics and the American • He has been translated Sleep Association, and have taught millions of children to more than 21 langua- around the world how to sleep. ges. Sleeping well is essential for the physical and mental • 20th Anniver- development of children, and their rest is fundamental for the family’s stability. sary !! 272 pages. Rights sold to: Eduard Estivill is a specialist in Clinical Penguin Random House WMF Martins Fontes (Brazil) Marfa-Mediterran Kia- Neurophysiology, Pediatrics and (Spanish and Catalan) Patakis (Greek) dói Kft (Hungarian) English version Sleep Medicine. Since 1989 he has Eksmo (Russian) Mandragora (Italian) Borgens Forlag (Danish). Available held the position of Director at the Asa II (Portugal) Muza (Polish) Estivill Sleep Clinic — integrated into the USP Dexeus University Institute Niños descansados, ¡A comer! ¡A jugar! of Barcelona —, and has been the niños felices A practical This method teaches Open this book if you coordinator of the General Hospital guide to teach your children to eat varied think that children are of Catalonia’s Sleep Unit. He trained children good habits and complete meals children. But, sometimes, at home, to go to bed properly. After three good habits – in eating, in at the Sleep Disorders Center (Henry happy and wake up well years of having used this hygiene or behaviour- are Ford Hospital) in Detroit, and is a method with a 98% success rate, Estivill difficult to teach. This book tries to show -pa rested. All parents and caregivers know and Domènech have finally decided to member of the most prestigious rents how to educate their children through that if children don’t rest well, they publish this entertaining book to help Spanish and foreign associations in some games, while they grow up with them. won’t be prepared to face the following parents teach their children how to eat this field. He is the author of over a Rights sold to Penguin Random House day’s challenges: it will be hard for them properly. (Spanish, Catalan, English), Dom Quixote dozen popular science books on good to pay attention in class, they won’t Rights sold to Penguin Random House (Portugal), WMF Martins Fontes (Brazil), sleeping habits. enjoy the activities, and their lack of (Spanish, Catalan), Dom Quixote (Por- Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (Italian). appetite may hinder the whole family. tugal), WMF Martins Fontes (Brazil), Rights sold to Penguin Random House Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (Italian). (Spanish and Catalan)

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SER MAMÁ: EL ANTES Y EL DESPUÉS Health / Parenting WHY THIS BOOK? EDUARD ESTIVILL A guide to a happy motherhood. Ser mamá: el antes • A guide to a mother’s physi- y el después is the essential guide to go through cal and emotional care. pregnancy, before and after giving birth, with peace of • Dr. Estivill has sold more mind and trust. than 1,5 millon copies worldwide. Being a mother is a deeply changing experience in • He has been translated into a woman’s life, but it comes with a lot of questions more than 20 languages. and doubts. All of them are answered and solved in a practical way in this book, focusing on the 100 days before and 100 days after giving birth.

Based on his significant professional experience, 192 pages. Eduard Estivill is a specialist in Clinical doctor Eduard Estivill, along with the collaboration of Neurophysiology, Pediatrics and gynecologist Carlos Salvador and pediatrician Gonzalo Sleep Medicine. Since 1989 he has Pin, has put together key advices for the most critical held the position of Director at the days of pregnancy and postpartum. Estivill Sleep Clinic — integrated into Rights sold to: the USP Dexeus University Institute Penguin Random House of Barcelona —, and has been the (Spanish and Catalan) coordinator of the General Hospital Nuestro bebé Health / Parenting of Catalonia’s Sleep Unit. He trained In the pages of this book, parents discover what the first and wonderful at the Sleep Disorders Center (Henry days and months of their baby’s life are like, the most decisive ones for Ford Hospital) in Detroit, and is a the parents. The goal of the authors is to scan the physical, emotional member of the most prestigious and intellectual changes of the little one, and also all changes that will Spanish and foreign associations in also quick the adults, both individually and as a couple. this field. He is the author of over a Rights sold to Grupo Editorial Bruño (Spanish). dozen popular science books on good sleeping habits.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 45 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 previous 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 of eating disorders. our lives, the truth is that we end up leaving them aside 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: one of the key principles is to turn food into an act of pleasure and not something awful, which raises our 224 pages chances of failing. Montse Folch has a degree in The menu of our diet is divided in four colors: red for Medicine and Surgery and a Master’s proteins, both from vegetables and animals; green for in community nutrition from the vegetables; yellow for sugar and for carbohydrates and Rights sold to: Pharmacy University of Barcelona. brown for fats. And blue will identify the group of liquids and Penguin Random House (Ca- For more than 25 years, she has dressings. talan and Spanish) been treating eating disorders. Since 1996 she has been a member of the La enzima mediterrania university staff in the Medical Center Health / Diet Teknon in Barcelona. She has given Enzymes have been proved to have the capacity to heal and courses on nutrition and dietetics regenerate our bodies; this book explains how that works. Dr and has participated in different Folch takes a step beyond to personalize the action of these nutritional, medical and cosmetic proteins according to our body type, in order to provide surgery conferences on a national the reader with all the keys to plan a targeted diet, adapted to each one’s and international scale. She regularly needs. In this respect, the Mediaterranean diet arises as a paradigm of enzymatic regeneration, due to its high nutritional value. collaborates in media and has Read the first pages! published seven books. Rights sold to Columna Edicions (Catalan), Planeta Group (Spanish) Self Desenvolvimiento Pessoal (Portuguese).

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 46 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 in non- and his videos have millions duality, the Advaita and the book A course in miracles. And of views. he investigates a Enric Corbera’s ability to perform miracles as many of his followers claim. 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 he and personal growth for Catalunya enlightened? Is she 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. regularly writes about psychology Rights sold to: and spirituality in 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. title 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 2017 // Page 47 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 main 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 is not sarcasm that will delight afraid to say what he thinks or to do what he wants, Tyrion’s fans. and he always faces whomever he considers without • Bloggers love it! feeling daunted by them. Being a dwarf, a non-desired son of a powerful man, a brother to two almost perfect twins, Tyrion has Rights sold to: always struggled to find his place in a cruel, rejectivy 232 pages. world. He is the perfect example of what resilience is. Ediciones B (Spanish) Lambert Oaks is a psychologist and Charming, polite, keen and cunning, he can be cruel Edições Banian, Lda. (Portu- also writes TV reviews for some with his enemies, but he can also empathize with those guese) influential online magazines. In this who are alienated and abused. book, he combines this two passions. Watch the Booktrailer! MORE REASONS WHY

• With countlessfans over the world, Tyrion Lannister is one of the most beloved, charismatic, intelligent and non-conformist characters of George R.R. Martin’s GAME OF THRONES. This guide condenses Tyrion’s way of life through his main mottos, and is a summary of sharpness with a 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 thing when we cannot do the right, take advantage of our weaknesses 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 routine... • This is the 100% non oficial guide.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 48 LA BUENA ONDA Health PERE LEÓN WHY THIS BOOK? We are permanently exposedto all kinds of waves • Paco Leon is one of the and radiations, from those generated by the Earth major experts in the (magnetic fields, shreams of water) to those produced world in this field. by man (high voltage towers, wifi, mobiles, cell • His advice could hep rea- towers). What effect do these interferences have on ders to have healthier life. our organism? How does sleeping on a stream of water affect us? What can we do to minimize the effect of “bad waves”?

Pere León, and architect and an expert in geobiology, explains the basic concepts of this discipline to warn 160 pages. Pere León is an Interior Architect Designer us about the dangers of living constantly exposed to Rights sold to: and Geobiologist, formed in Geobiology harmful waves and provide us with the keys to create Urano (Spanish) in Sert School (Colegio Oficial de Arqui- more livable and healthy spaces. Living with “good tectos Técnicos de Cataluña) and in the waves” does not require major changes or investments. Foundation for Geoenvironmental Health A gesture as simple as moving the location of the (Madrid). He specializes in measurement bed can help prevent and relieve discomfort such as of electromagnetic fields and Bioconstruc- insomnia, excessive tiredness or migraines, and even tion and is considered as one of the major serious immune and degenerative diseases. experts in this field. Vivir en modo avión What are the dangers of new technologies for health? How can we enjoy its many advantages in a rational, safe and adequate way? Vivir en modo avión exposes, without dramatism but with awareness, the risks involved in the massive implementation of new technologies and how to counteract its effects without having to give them up.

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Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 49 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 copies the world. and has an influence in his own social networks. The mission of this book is to help you find it, as well • Three editions in less than as to discover many keys of Japanese philosophy to a two months! healthy body, mind and spirit. It is a book that brings us • Rights sold in more than 30 closer to the secrets of the hundred-year-old Japanese languages. Francesc Miralles has been awarded people for a healthy and happy life. 192 pages • The publishing phenomenon with several prestigious literary of this season. awards and lots of his books, both It offers practical tools for the reader to discover their for young readers and the adults, personal ikigai, their 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, has been living in Tokyo since Porto Editora (Portuguese) ArtsPeople (Danish) Muza (Polish) Shanghai 99 Readers’ Culture 2004 and his webpage kirainet.com, Boekerij (Dutch) Humanitas (Romanian) (Chinese) with more than a million monthly Pegasus (Estonian) Alpina (Russian) X-Knowledge Co., Ltd. (Japanese) visits, is a worldwide reference in Universe Poche (French) Norstedts (Swedish) Nationbook (Thai) Japanese pop culture. He is the author Gummerus (Finnish) Indigo Kitap (Turkish) Gnezdoto (Bulgarian) Allegria/Ullstein (German) MLADINSKA KNJIGA ZALOŽBA Comming Soon: of the book Un Geek en Japón, which ALMA LITTERA (Lituanian) (Slovenian) Ikigai 2! sold more than 200,000 copies.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 50 PLATÓN PARA SOÑADORES Self-coaching ALLAN PERCY WHY THIS BOOK? Platón para soñadores is the new book in the series • Allan Percy has sold “Geniuses for the daily life”, by Allan Percy. In it, more than 1,000,000 he gathers and exposes the teachings of the Greek copies only in Brazil philosopher Plato and guides us in how to put them into practice to achieve our goals. and his books have been translated into Plato is practically considered as the father of Western 10 languages. thinking. Two thousand years later, the Greek scholar • This is his latest book. still offers an infinite world of questions, answers and • It gives you tools to learn discoveries for our fullfilment in daily life. and understand Plató. • Let philosophy help you in In this exceptional book, the renowned and successful 155 pages. your day to day life. Allan Percy (California, 1959) is a author Allan Percy has collected eighty lessons to apply coaching expert and writer of self- to our dailylife. Eighty lessons that really are small Rights sold to: improvement manuals. During his gems with which we can guide our life. long career, he has collaborated Penguin Random House with highly reputed professionals (Spanish) Thus, through Plato as well as other philosophers of such as Elisabeth Kübler-Ross or Sextante (Brazilian) all ages and places, Platón para soñadores is a manual Foster Hibbard, and his charm and Patakis Publishers (Greek) that gives lucidity and the key to have a full, bright and sensitiveness have earned him many Editura Herald (Romanian ) happy existence. followers around the world. Currently, he also works as a consultant for self- help publishers, while travelling all over the world seeking new sources of Allan Percy has sold more than 1,500,000 inspiration for his books. copies around the world and his books have been translated into 10 languages.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 51 SERIE GENIUSES FOR THE DAILY LIFE Self-coaching WHY THIS BOOK? ALLAN PERCY • Allan Percy has sold more than 1,500,000 copies around the world and his books have been translated into 10 languages. • He is a best-selling author.

Shakespeare para Einstein Nietzsche enamorados para despistados para estresados Allan Percy (California, 1959) is a coaching expert and writer of self- improvement manuals. During his long career, he has collaborated Rights sold to: with highly reputed professionals such as Elisabeth Kübler-Ross or Penguin Random House Foster Hibbard, and his charm and (Spanish) sensitiveness have earned him many followers around the world. Currently, he also works as a consultant for self- help publishers, while travelling all over the world seeking new sources of inspiration for his books. Kafka para El coaching de Os- Hesse agobiados car Wilde para desorientados

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 52 TROPA SAPIENS Business ALBERT RIBA WHY THIS BOOK? In Mamut o Sapiens Albert Riba exposed us the need • Useful text to manage to evolve and adapt to change, and the importance of people and to lead teams. having the necessary concerns in order to grow and • Albert Riba defends the improve. In La parálisis que activa, he showed us the idea that all members in importance of taking scheduled breaks that allow us to a companies can develop regain strength, think about where we want to go, and their full potential. act accordingly. In this book, the final volume in the trilogy, Albert Riba explains how to be able to evolve personally within a team, and how a troupe of sapiens is able to bring out the best in any organization.

Albert Riba was born in Igualada (Barcelo- 192 pages Rights sold to: na) on May 21, 1972. He defines himself as Last book of the trilogy of “Mamut o Sapiens”, and “La Urano (Spanish) a Sapiens with two attitudes: entrepreneur parálisis que activa”. and information broadcaster. Ideal for keeping teams motivated and changing Academically, he considers himself as a fai- permanently. lure, since he couldn’t go to university after repeating two high school years, and failing his SAT. He entered then the labour world, and discovered what entrepreneurship was. Mamut o sapiens La parálisis que activa Business Let’s say that this defeat left a mark in his Business This book provides the tools We all have moments in our professional future in a very positive way. needed to carry out the essential and personal life where something changes to help us overcome paralyzes us, sometimes metaphorically His care values are trust, passion, cohe- our fears and obstacles, so we and sometimes literally. As it happens, rence and kindheartedness, as well as can take action and become the author suffered a temporary facial the idea that anything you try can be entrepreneurs. paralysis himself, due to stress. achieved, and if you don’t, surely you Rights sold to Urano (Spanish). Rights sold to Urano (Spanish). will learn something useful for other projects.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 53 LOS SIETE PODERES Self-coaching ÁLEX ROVIRA WHY THIS BOOK? “MANY YEARS AGO”… or “Once upon a time”… These • An international words, whispered by a familiar voice, or read from the bestseller. More pages of a book, have the power to suggest a magical than 400.000 copies childhood quality in our minds: the ability to access sold. undiscovered new worlds, and forms of knowledge and • By the author of unexpected experiences, directly and without prejudice. La buena suer- te, whisch sold “Seven Powers” is like a fairytale that takes you into 8,000,000 copies a magic world where the words friendship, bravery, around the world. promise, faithfulness, heroism and altruism still mean • Check all available something. Where heroic deeds are still heroic deeds, and Álex Rovira’s books Álex Rovira Celma (Barcelona, March 1th, journeys also serve to get to know the other who travels 178 pages. on Amazon. 1969) is a Spanish businessman, a writer, with you: yourself. an economist, an international speaker and an consultant. He’s sold nearly eight million This is the story of a young knight who is not quite sure Rights sold to: copies of his books, and some of them he deserves the King’s favour, and decides to set off to Urano (Spanish and Catalan ) have even been number one of the best- the Land of Destiny and face the challenges that await Eurasian Press / Thinkingdom selling lists in Spain, both in Catalan and him there -to prove to himself he is able to change his Media (Chinese) in Spanish, and other countries. He’s also reality with the strength of his attitude. Book 12 Co (Korean) considered as one of the major experts in Nanmeebooks Publications Leadership Psychology around the world. Las palabras que curan (Thai) In his career as a speaker, he teaches Self-coaching Poplar Publishing Co the general public as well as business Here are human words of wisdom and beauty. Fragments of great (Japanese) people, and the topics go from con- writings, well chosen, organised with supreme skill. This reading Sextante (Brazilian) tents related to psychology, philosophy, offers a comprehensible mosaic of pearls of wisdom that decipher Editora Pergaminho and sociology to managing a business. the world. Like all great things, the pages speak and are put (Portiguese) He’s a very well-known speaker in im- together with amazing simplicity. Rights sold to Plataforma editorial (Spanish and Catalan) and Poplar Publishing Co Sperling & Kupfer Editori portant forums in Europe, America and (Japanese) (Italian) Asia.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 54 ¿Y TÚ QUÉ CREES? Inspiration & Personal Growth EVA SANDOVAL WHY THIS BOOK? ¿Y tú que crees? helps you create the life you really wish for by strengthening your personal power. Learn • A spectacular debut. to use the tools you need in order to change your • Eva can help you to be own perspective about yourself, as well as the way happy. This books give you you look at things that surround you. Discover the some tools. world of restricted beliefs and how to overcome them. • Fourth edition. • More than 5.000 copies sold The purpose of ¿Y tú qué crees? is to make you aware of in Spain. the thoughts that are constraining you and to help you find your own path to authenticity, wellness and fulfillment. Because when we change the look on ourselves, on After an existence of essential 224 pages other people and on life, then everything changes. Rights sold to: unhappiness, 7 years ago Eva promised The tools that are offered in this book are a mirror for herself: “I am always going to be the reader, so that when they realize that BELIEVING Urano (Spanish) where I want to be”, and so she did. IS MAKING, they can model their own life, notice their This decision led her to know herself restricted beliefs and make their dreams come true. better, to discover the wonderful world of believing, and to learn how CONNECT WITH YOUR PERSONAL POWER TO CREATE to live in the moment. Her first novel THE LIFE YOU WANT is an invitation to regaining personal power and live the life we want. “I believe everything happens for a reason, there are no coincidences, and it is only in our hands to live experiences as a chance to improve, learn, broaden our perspective and love ourselves better.” – Eva Sandoval.

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APORTA O APARTA Self-help and coaching WHY THIS BOOK? NIKA VÁZQUEZ Erase everything that holds you back from your life. Add • This guide is a tool value, creativity and hapiness to your life. Put aside the box with which you’ll obstacles that won’t let you be happy. be able to take down all the aspects of your Welcome to the best part of your life! Once you finish life that aren’t working this book, you’ll have everything you need to give a new and build a new one in and better direction to your existence. Do you feel like which you feel fulfilled you’re not living the life you want? What do you need to and full of plans. change? What dreams have you put on hold? What are • Nika Vázquez is an psy- you doing that you wished you weren’t? chologist expert in this subject. This practical manual teaches you how to put aside 200 pages Nika Vazquez Segui (Mallorca , 1982) is everything that doesn’t work in your life and how to a psychologist specializing in psycho- add new projects, relationships and ways of thinking to oncology and emotional intelligence. become the best partner to yourself. For years now, she has been a collaborator and coordinator of the In order to do so we’ll explore the fears that are Rights sold to: Eduard Punset’s team of Psychological stopping you from what you need to do and how to Aguilar (Spanish) Support. She teaches courses on take them apart, while learning how to get rid of all the Emotional Intelligence beliefs that are holding you back and to replace them at the University of Valencia, and with others that make you happy. combines it with her job working with cancer patients and their families. “The goal of this manual is to help you analyze Currently she works in a private these paralyzing ideas and replace them with practice in Valencia, Mallorca and others that will take you to success and happiness” Barcelona. Nika Vázquez

“A very useful and revealing book to clear the way to personal happiness.” Eduard Punset Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 56 EL PRINCIPITO SE PONE CORBATA Self–coaching and business BORJA VILASECA WHY THIS BOOK? The SAT consultant is not going well: people are • Borja Vilaseca makes 50 unhappy, the boss is mean to his subordinates, conferences every year in unrest and distrust rule the place… until Pablo Spain and Latin America Principe arrives, a new director of people and to promote a change in values that revolutionizes the company and the society’s patterns. lives of his employees with his innovative ideas • Some of his literary work about self-knowledge, personal development and has been translated and emotional intelligence. This character, optimistic published in 16 countries, and enthusiastic, based on the Little Prince selling more than 100,000 by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, teaches them to copies. appreciate the profound change that organizations Borja Vilaseca is a writer, lecturer, aware of their personnel’s true potential can 192 pages. teacher and entrepreneur of projects Rights sold to: experience and use in a creative, sustainable, oriented towards change, transformation Booket / Temas de Hoy (Spa- meaningful and necessary way. and raising awareness in society. He is nish) the creator and director of the Master’s McGraw Hill (Chinese) English version degree in Personal Development and Gloseum Publishing (Korean) Available Leadership of the Borja Vilaseca Institute Kedros (Greece) Encantado de conocerme Avallardi (Italian) -which has been taught in Barcelona, Self-coaching Madrid and Valencia since 2009- and Borja Vilaseca explains what the Eneagrama is and how it works. Best Seller (Portugal ) the founder of La Akademia, a project It is an effective tool that can help you to know yourself better. Les Éditions de l’Opportun that promotes free emotional and Through this manual about human condition, you can understand (French) entrepreneurial education for people the reasons and consequences of your personality, promote your aged 16 - 22 and that can be found in emotional intelligence and improve your relationships. Not in 25 cities in Spain, as well as in Chile, vain, in order to connect with others you have to connect with yourself. Colombia, Argentina, Brazil and Ecuador. He’s also an expert in self-discovery Rights sold to Penguin Random House (Spanish) and Pegasus Publishers (Estonian) through Eneagrams.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 57 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. Don’t miss it! tiempo, which has been published by 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 books, 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 2017 // Page 59 EXCALIBUR - NEW SERIE BRITANIA ANA ALONSO & Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? JAVIER PELEGRÍN Gwen, the heir of Britannia’s throne, runs away from • Reprinted before going the place the Saxons established as London with the on sale! help from a young knight, Lance. Together they will • Because you have to bet start a long escape followed closely by a British warrior on this series that will called Mordred, who wants to hunt the princess for come into the publishing reasons 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 Rights sold to: the Excalibur sword. 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 • Lots of great reviews! tiempo, which has been published by Editorial Anaya and translated into several languages. In 2008, they were awarded the Barco de Camelot Grial Ávalon The new balance When Galahad found Vapor Prize for El secreto de If. Lance gets a few reached in Britannia visits from the king the Grail the Britannia They also have written together, thanks to the crea- Pelés, who died in simulation collap- the trilogy Tatuaje (translated into tion of the Round the battle in Mount sed, turning Arthur’s five languages) the series Agencia Table tears apart when Badón. That’s how he kingdom into “the Salamandra, and the graphic novel Gwenn is captured by Meleagant, discovers that Pelés lost the battle be- Vain Land”. Mordred’s supporters La ciudad transparente (Bologna’s who’s taken to Gorr, the beta version cause he used the Grail, a mysterious take the chance to reveal that White Raven Prize in 2012), among of the simulation. Gwenn won’t take object that seems like it’s programmed Gwenn was unfaithful with Lance. When the truth comes out, Gwenn others books, translated into German long to discover that the Ávalon ladies to interfere with the Britannia simula- are behind this kidnapping, since they tion, significantly changing the percep- decides to leave with Lance and get and Portuguese. 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 2017 // Page 60 LA PUERTA DEL DRAGÓN ANA ALONSO & Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? JAVIER PELEGRÍN Lisa’s life is turned upside down when her mother • Spanish publishers are Monica, an antique jewelry restorer, dies in strange proud to have Ana Alon- circumstances nearby the dragon in Park Guell. so and Javier Pelegrín in Apparently it is a natural death, but Lisa suspects that their catalogue. there is something else, as she saw in the immediate • Ana Alonso and Javier vicinity of the young Marc,one of Monica’s clients Pelegrín are the authors who had left several pieces of jewelry designed by modernist artist Masriera. When Lisa manages contact of Britannia saga. Marc, he warns her that his mother what happened • Barcelona is an important was no accident and that she is also in danger. 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 this jewel opens portals to a write a number of books, including 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 books, 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 rescues her from an assault. After that, Devil readers in her blog. offers a deal to Abbie: she must become his servant • More than 6,400 down- to return the favor. She doubts, but finally accepts for loads. reasons that will be revealed later on. • 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, and 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 girl, • West Side Story. she has wanted to pursue writing What at first was a hate relationship, gradually turns • Afterthe success on professionally, having a clear goal: into an unrivaled and unique love story, in a modern Amazon, Planeta Mexico to become a great writer. She wrote Romeo and Juliet style. 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 posts.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 62 LA GRAMÁTICA DEL AMOR ROCÍO CARMONA Young Adult After her parents’ divorce, Irene is sent to boarding school, WHY THIS NOVEL? located on the edge of a cliff, in southern England. There, • Rocío Carmona is one of she will have her first love disappointment and, at the same the most popular authors time, she will find an unexpected mentor: Peter Hughes, the of romantic YA in Spain. school strictest professor, who will offer to teach her the • Fourth editions in “grammar of love” through seven great novels of the genre. Spanish!!!! • The author has a light and Each Wednesday, the solitary Irene will have to discuss her delicate style. weekly reading in Hugues’ office and extract vital lessons • Rocío has been able to from classics such as Goethe and Jane Austen and moderns give it a modern, contem- such as Garcia Marquez or Murakami. porary and lively touch Rocío Carmona is a Chief Editor at 280 pages. that will be a treat for any Urano and Tendencias, singer of the While the student is progressively falling in love with her curious teenage reader. band Nikosia, and the author of the distant teacher, a silent suitor secretly aspires to her heart. First successful La gramática del amor. But before making a decision, Irene will have to learn the chapters in Avid reader of romantic novels, she seven secrets of the grammar of love… English! distilled in this unforgettable title the Rights sold to: essence of the best works in the genre through an inspiring adventure. It Robinson Girl El corazón de Huziel La Galera (Spanish and The day she Hannah Zoe is a Catalan) quickly became a bestseller, and was turns 18, and Hannah is a girl shy college Fannuci Editore (Italy) translated into six languages. In her after a party she living in an isolated student who doesn’t remem- second novel, El corazón de Hannah, Amish community decides to AzothBooks Co. and Sha- ber much, Ona under the burden prepare nghai 99 Readers’ Culture she managed to reach great heights wakes up on a of its stern, conser- igyllic beach. She walks through of emotion again. With Robinson Girl vative and ancient morals. Daniel a paper on the language (China) a desolate landscape and finally is a journalist and photographer she won the Jaén Award for YA fiction admits the obvious: she is a spoken in ancient Atlantis. Random House (Korea) who’s working on an illustrated castaway. Soon she will realize For this, she contacts man Rocco (Brazilian) in 2013. Now she presents Huziel, an article of her village. They meet and that she is not alone: Domen, a who claims that he sings in unforgettable novel. fall under each other’s spell, but young man of delicate appea- Atlantean. An incredible story their parents forbid the relationship rance and strange behavior,. is and kick Daniel out from the village. that combines romance with also here. Hannah will leave her closed world action and fantasy, that you Rights sold to Penguin Random and travel to New York facing a new can not miss. House (Spanish) and Editora world to reach Daniel. Rocco (Brazilian) Rights sold to La Galera (Spanish Rights sold to La Galera (Spa- and Catalan) nish and Catalan) Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 63 EL OCTAVO CLAN JUSTINE EVANS Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? El octavo clan is 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 fight over the cherished “dry ground”, as well novel with a very original as over the even more scarce resources. It will be 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 nobody dares hoping for anything anymore. Version has persisted up to now, as she is Ediciones B (Spanish Available dedicated her full time to writing the and Catalan) stories she imagines. El octavo clan is MORE REASONS WHY Rocco (Brazil) her 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 2017 // 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 get on 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 they all have painted Watch the video! red cheeks.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // 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 bite into books and devour • Children love García de them until the last page. But things change when they Oro’s offbeat humor! choose their next reading, Dracula, and a guy who seems a • A story that brings you vampire and sleeps in a coffin comes home. Who will bite closer to the adventures to whom? of a group of friends that Attention! Reading seriously harms health and transports will learn to read the clas- you to unexpected places. sics having fun and living 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 school, 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. It 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 2017 // Page 66 LA PUERTA OSCURA 1- EL VIAJERO DAVID LOZANO Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? Pascal, a shy and insecure sixteen-year-old teenager is getting • This novel perfectly com- ready for a Halloween costume party in Paris. But, what was bines entertainment and going to be a student party turns out to be a huge adventure, good literature. where the boy will cross into a door that leads to a shady and • The first title of the La disturbing world. What danger is Pascal going to face? Puerta Oscura trilogy. • 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), has a degree in Law, and La puerta oscura series to go with them? a Master in Communication with Non fiction books, for teenagers. A great saga filled with terror and adventure. formation in Philology. He’s worked Pascal discovers news worlds after crossing the door. as a lawyer and currently combines writing and teaching with his work Rights sold to: La puerta oscura 2 - El mal La puerta oscura 3 - Réquiem as a 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 able to open the door novel El ladrón de minutos. haunt him? Another book to salvation? A thrilling end from the exciting saga that to this great saga filled with He is a speaker at various seminars on will get you hooked from the terror and adventure. children’s literature for students and first page. teachers, both in Spain and in several Latin American countries.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 67 VALKIRIA. GAME OVER DAVID LOZANO Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? A message on the mobile phone. • A book set in the Inter- net era and how it could An unknown sender. affects us and young children. The threat that if they do not enter the game, a compromising • Deals with addiction to video will reach the right person. social networks and its dangers. Your relationship, your world and even your own life is in danger. • David Lozano is the au- thor of La Puerta Oscura You are afraid. trilogy, a huge succes. David Lozano Garbala (Zaragoza, 357 pages. 1974), has a degree in Law, and a Master in Communication with Valkiria has chosen you. formation in Philology. He’s worked as a lawyer and currently combines You cannot escape. writing and teaching with his work as a screenwriter for some Spanish producers. In 2006 he won the XXVIII Rights sold to: Gran Angular Youth Literature Prize Ediones SM (Spanish) with the novel Donde surgen las Cielo Rojo Grupa Wydawnicza Ada- sombras, published in six countries. Cielo Rojo is a mysterious and intriguing story about mantan (Polish) In 2014 he was a finalist in the Edebé friendship where love is the most important thing. Children’s Literature Prize with his The reader can also participate in the story thanks to novel El ladrón de minutos. the contents (music and web pages) created for it. Rights sold to Ediciones SM (Spanish) He is a speaker at various seminars on children’s literature for students and teachers, both in Spain and in several Latin American countries.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 68 LADRÓN DE MINUTOS DAVID LOZANO Middle Grade 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, a huge succes. Authorities have decided to remove a calendar day and the date chosen was precisely 6th October. The day is Edu’s birthday. Suddenly, he has run out of birthdays, anchored in his tenth year forever. Even if it is not the first time it occurs (why do you think that February has only twenty-eight days?), nothing can comfort Edu. So he chooses to fight back and go to the shop of forbidden things. David Lozano Garbala (Zaragoza, 192 pages. 1974), has a degree in Law, and Tremendous challenges demand tremendous imposed a Master in Communication with solutions. Edu gets the Suction of Time, able to steal minutes formation in Philology. He’s worked until a full day to recover. It sounds easy and, without thinking as a lawyer and currently combines of the consequences, good times hunting begins... writing and teaching with his work as a 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 Thiele Verlag (Germany) 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, both in Spain and in several Latin American countries.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 69 99% FELIZ DORIAN LUCAS Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? For thousands of years, Eastern and Western philosophers • Pleasant, useful and enligh- have been looking for the answers to the same questions tening! we worry about 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 a Editor and a coaching for Young Adults. Publisher of trends in spirituality and psychology. He collects aphorisms of great minds in history and this work demonstrates his ability to gather big lessons in life into bitesize knowledge. Who are the 99 Rights sold to: greatest coaches? Nube de tinta, Penguin Random House (Spanish)

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 70 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 is traveling 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 • Three editions in Spain! from each other from the pictures the upload on • The previous book, Pul- HeartPic or the post they write on BlogBits? And why saciones, was an Inter- won’t their heart stop beating every time they get a net phenomenon! More message on HeartBits? 215 pages. than 500 reviews! Francesc Miralles has been awarded Rights sold to: with several prestigious literary awards, and lots of his books Ediciones SM (Spanish) have become bestsellers and have Pulsaciones Editorial Cruïlla (Catalan) been translated into more than 15 Elia just woke up from a coma and is a little lost. The last thing Ediciones SM Chile, Edicio- she remembers is a concert and a phrase: “I can’t give you your languages. nes SM Mexico and Edi- song back, but I can show you how to dance like a fish.” Now that ciones SM Argentina (Latin her parents bought her a Smartphone , Elia finally has access to Javier Ruescas is one of the most Heartbits (an app like WhatsApp). We readers witness all their America) brilliant young voices of YA literature conversations. With the help of her best friend , Sue, Elia will in Spanish and a social network attempt to remember the three forgotten days and , meanwhile, phenomenon. will meet Tommy , an American exchange student who comes from Spain; Marion, a girl with a half burnt face attending group English therapy, and Phoenix, a stranger who loves aphorisms. Version 197 pages. Rights sold to Ediciones SM (Spanish), Cruïlla (Catalan) and SM Available Argentina, SM Chile and SM Mexico (Latin America) The first novel written in whatsapp format An Internet phenomenon!

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 71 UN HIJO ALEJANDRO PALOMAS Crossover / Choral Novel WHY THIS NOVEL? Un hijo is a novel full of tenderness and intrigue for • Book awarded with the lovers of Una madre and The curious incident of the 2016 National Prize dog in the night-time. Award. • 5 editions in 3 months. Guille is an introverted child with a permanent smile. • Bloggers love it, more He has only one friend. So far, so good. But this quiet than 70 reviews, 40 of facade hides the most fragile world, and a mystery to solve. The pieces of the puzzle are a father in crisis, an them in Goodreads and absent mother, an intrigued teacher, and a psychologist Amazon. who tries to understand what Guille hides. • For readers from 14 to 99 years old. Alejandro Palomas is an English A choral novel where there are mixed feelings, silences, 288 pages. • Press and critics also love graduate. He has translated Katherine twists and an enthralling mystery. it: «Guille stays forever in Mansfield, Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather you, as real as any other and Jack London, among others. He child in your life. I read has written the screenplay Ojos de 2016 NATIONAL PRIZE AWARD the novel two weeks ago invierno, based on his novel Tanta vida and Guille is still here. No (2008), whose rights were acquired by “His characters grow with a plot that intention of leaving. It is a Filmax. In 2002 heselected as the New engages the reader” tremendous novel». Talent FNAC for his novel El tiempo del corazón. In 2011 he published El Rights sold to: tiempo que nos une and El cel que La Galera (Spanish and ens queda. On that same year, he was Catalan) shorlisted for the Primavera Award with Neri Pozza (Italian) El alma del mundo. His work has been Abimo Publishers (Dutch) translated into eight languages. In 2014 Editorial Presença (Portu- he published Una madre and in 2015 The first chapters in Read a review in guese) Un hijo, which won the 2016 National English English! Final Yayincilik (Turquish) Prize. Capitán Araña, S.L. (Film Option ) Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 72 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 2017 // Page 73 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 400th 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 2017 // Page 74 LAURA CHEF: EL MEJOR BOCADILLO DEL MUNDO CARE SANTOS Middle Grade WHY THIS NOVEL? In his second adventure, Laura will face a challenge: • An author awarded with the Ramon Llull Prize “GREAT CONTEST! The famous actress Anastasia 2014, the most presti- Shine will start her world tour through the most gious in Catalan langua- famous parks of the five continents. Looking for ge. 9-12 years old children who can prepare the best • Care Santos is the au- sandwich in the world (and some more). “ thor of numerous books for adults and also, for YA and children. • A series where the main Care Santos was born in Mataró, 120 pages character wants to and Barcelona, in 1970. She is the author is going to learn to cook of a vast work that includes novels, surrounded by adven- short stories and literature both for tures young readers and adults. She has • Cooking is in style and received the many literature awards kids love it, what’s such as the Narrative Prize of Alcalá better than this book to de Henares or the Alfonso de Cossío bring them closer to this Short Story Prize. In the children and art? young reader’s literature field, she has also won the most important Spanish awards. Her last adult’s novel, Laura superchef: Chocolate Laura is a 10 year old girl who wants to be a cook. She has two close friends: Desire for chocolate, was awarded Estela, her best friend, and Nico, with whom she is secretly in love (although the Ramon Llull Prize 2014, and has he does not pay any attention to her). This summer, Estela and Laura will take been translated into more than ten a cooking course and are very excited . But soon they discover that neither languages. the teacher nor the recipes are quite normal and they cause on those who try Rights sold to: them amazing effects... Grupo Editorial Bruño (Spanish) Rights sold to Grupo Editorial Bruño (Spanish)

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 75 YES, WE DANCE ESTHER SANZ Middle Grade 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 unvelves. They can’t go on to are examples of endu- the street without the neighbors taking pictures with them rance and passion. and, at school, classes are constantly interrupted with • Books that create rea- questions about their adventures with the BB Brothers. ders! • We already have the When summer comes, and with it the tour with their idols, fourth book. they feel like their biggest dream is coming true, but they can’t imagine the setbacks they’ll encounter on the road Esther Sanz (Barcelona, 1974) holds a 144 pages. degree in Journalism. She has written with the most famous brothers in the planet: the caravan Yes We Dance 4: for women’s magazines and currently they’ll travel and sleep in will suffer all kinds of mishaps; they The price of fame Rights sold to: works as an Editor. Her greatest passion will be abandoned on the road when the “road manager” Montena, Penguin Ran- since she was a teenager is romantic flees with the money and, because Brian and Brandon fight dom House literature. After publishing Vive rápido, all the time, sleep late and don’t feel like practicing, the siente despacio (Live Fast, Feel Slowly, shows won’t be as good as expected. (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 2017 // Page 76 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 state- confrontations give way to ly 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. works as an Editor. Her greatest passion Watch the Booktrailer! • “A Victorian hotel, an 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 adventure with the young adults’ trilogy El bosque (The Forest) — an absorbing Rights sold to: romantic thriller with specks of fantasy. Coming soon the spin-off: Planeta (Spanish) After a brief creative lapse, in 2014 V&R (Latin America) she published Si el amor es una isla Si el amor es un canto de sirena (If Love Is an Island, Destino), a novel inspired by the master works of British published by V&R Romanticism. Now she presents the (Latin America) series Yes, we dance.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 77 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 who his life as an endless desert. of la Oca” and you’ll un- derstand the art of life. With his self-esteem at a minimum, he is forced to accept a • Nube de tinta (Penguin simple -and apparently underpaid- job in his own building. Random House) bet on On the first day, the hermit-like tenant of the attic will ask this novel that shines and Scott to play snakes and ladders with him, which Scott has 208 pages. teaches the value of life. Cliff Seymour is a Journalist. He works not played since he was a kid. Very soon, Scott will discover • The first crossover that and lives between the US, Japan and that the elder man uses the squares of the board to give him sees eye to eye to young Southern Europe. From an early age, essential lessons -one every morning- for his life. While the adults and adults who still mornings pass by among coffees, rounds and conversations, he has been deeply attracted by the haven’t confronted their this simple pastime (created by the Greek soldiers during symbolism of games and their relation fears, and help them to Troy’s siege) will help Horace teach Scott the art of living and to the realization of the challenges and face life’s challenge. stages of life. how to fix those mistakes that led him to failure until now.

Scott will begin to understand the causes and effects that have 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 Read the first Rights sold to: and shortcuts, you must be brave enough to move forward on pages! Nube de tinta, Penguin the board of life with courage and sense of adventure. Random House (Spanish)

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