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SPRING 2016 Author's Titles Catalogue SPRING 2016 Sandra Bruna author’s titles catalogue Sandra Bruna Agencia Literaria Gal·la Placídia 2, 5-2 Barcelona 08006 T +34 93 217 74 06 F +34 93 415 86 25 [email protected] Sandra Bruna adult fiction, non fiction, young adult & children titles catalogue our agents Sandra Bruna. Director Natàlia Berenguer Sandra started working at a literary agency at a Natàlia has been fond of books and stories since very young age and combined a Bachelor’s de- she was a little whirlwind girl. After studying a gree in Spanish with her job at the agency. After Master in Publishing at IDEC/UPF to get into the ten years of experience she decided to embark mess of this book business, in 2001 she started on a solo adventure, and she started up her own her book career in Planeta Group as an intern in agency in 2001. The beginnings were slow, but Editorial Crítica and she left the group six years more than ten years after Sandra Bruna Agencia later being the junior publisher of the Interna- Literaria has grown to currently become a con- tional Fiction books of Editorial Planeta. It was solidated agency with 130 Spanish and Catalan then, in 2007, that she decided to jump and authors, and a list of more than 30 publishers change the side of the negociation table by and agents represented for the Spanish and joining the SB team, where boredom or routine Portuguese speaking markets, both for adult and are, definitely, unknown words. children & YA titles. [email protected] [email protected] Berta Bruna Anna Gurguí B.A. in Statistics and Market Research. She works Since she can remember, she has always had a in the publishing world since 1993. She has wor- book in her hand. Her grandmother was a great ked in large publishing groups such as Penguin guide to her early adventures as a reader and she Random House and Planeta Group. She has still is. She studied three years of Law studies but been Director of Marketing and Communication finally opted for her passion for literature and in Grup 62, where she launched new projects, graduated in Literary Studies at the University of and Editorial Director in Columna and Planeta Barcelona. She began her career in Sandra Bruna and Destino’s Catalan collections. She current- in 2014. Her passions are literature and reading, ly heads the Department of New Projects and but she also loves traveling and new technolo- Multiplatform Content in Sandra Bruna Agencia gies. She always keeps learning in order to keep Literaria . growing personally and professionally. [email protected] [email protected] index / fiction 9. Amela, Víctor 18. García Carteron, Begoña 27. Pradas, Núria La filla del capità Groc La montaña maldita Sueños a medida 10. Baró, Santi 19. Guhlam, Nadia & Diéguez, Javier 28. Ramos, Malenka El informe Ahnenerbe La primera estrella de la noche Quimera. Las edades bárbaras 11. Blanco, Francesc 20. Hernàndez, Gaspar 29. Rodríguez Lezaun, Susana Proyecto XI La terapeuta Sin retorno 12. Cantavella, Jordi 21. Maitena 30. Sabaté, Glòria El brigadista Lo mejor de Maitena La filla de Lilith 13. Conde, Carmen 22. Miralles, Francesc 31. Santos, Care Para morir siempre hay tiempo Amor en minúscula Diamant blau 14. Del Río, Isabel 23. Miralles, Francesc & Santos, Care 32. Soler, Sílvia La vidente de la luna llena El mejor lugar del mundo es aquí mismo L’estiu que comença 15. Doñate, Àngeles 24. Moya, Elena 33. Tarragó Sílvia El invierno que tomamos cartas en el La candidata Temps de llum asunto Nolis, Oriol Esteve, Miquel 25. Valls, Coia 16. La extraña historia de Maurice Lyon 34. El fin de los secretos Etheria Palomas, Alejandro 17. Fernández, Empar 26. Maldita verdad Un perro index / non fiction 36. Bom&Bon 41. Fernández, Odile 45. Newman, Clay Pequeñas ideas antes de ser mamá Mis recetas anticáncer Ni felices ni para siempre 37. Campo, Pancho 42. Folch, Montse 46. Oaks, Lambert ¡Inspírate! La dieta de los colores Guía para la vida de Tyrion Lannister 38. Domènech, Montse 43. Hernàndez, Gaspar 47. Miralles, Francesc & García, Héctor La vacuna contra el miedo No soy de este mundo Ikigai 39. Esgueva, Mónica 44. Jericó, Pilar 48. Percy, Allan 10 claves para alcanzar tus sueños ¿Y si realmente pudieras? Shakespeare para enamorados Estivill, Eduard 40. Niños descansados, niños felices index / young adult & children Moon River 50. Alonso, Ana & Pelegrín, Javier 58. Lienas, Gemma 66. El libro de los rostros El rastro brillante del caracol Por una sonrisa, un beso Riera, Pedro 51. Alonso, Ana & Pelegrín, Javier 59. Lienas, Gemma 67. Excalibur - New Serie Britania Carlota’s Red Diary El ladrón de las croquetas Santos, Care 52. Amor, Paula 60. Lozano, David 68. Pedazos de ti La puerta oscura Sapere Aude - Eblu’s Trilogy Santos, Care Baró, Santi Lozano, David 69. 53. 61. William La luna de hielo Donde surgen las sombras Santos, Care 54. Carmona, Rocío 62. Lucas, Dorian 70. Huziel 99% feliz Laura Chef 55. Evans, Justine 63. Miralles, Francesc & Ruescas, Javier 71. Sanz, Esther El octavo clan Pulsaciones Yes, we dance Sanz, Esther Fernández-Vidal, Sonia & Bayés, Palomas, Alejandro 72. 56. 64. Si el amor es una isla Pilarín Un hijo El universo en tus manos Seymour, Cliff 57. García de Oro, Gabriel 65. Olloquequi, Jordi 73. Los caníbales EXO Los secretos del viejo Horace adult fiction LA FILLA DEL CAPITÀ GROC VÍCTOR AMELA Historical WHY THIS NOVEL? Manuela Penarrocha is thirteen years old. Sitting on • Premi Ramon Llull 2016. her low chair in her entrance hall, she sews sandals like The most famous and no other. The girl with grey eyes and golden hair thinks prestigious prize in Cata- of her father. He had taken ones like those to war, like lan language. the rest of the Carlists, men of sandals, walking stick, • One of the best selling blunderbuss and knife in the belt. She wants to hug books in Catalan fiction in him, feel the warmth of his kiss on her forehead. She March. misses his tough look, now filled with tenderness, his loud laugh. She just wants him to get back to watch him fight for their ideals, to go back to his family and the town, the lost dignity, to life or to death. 420 pages. Víctor Amela (1960) has worked as a journalist half his life. Since 1984, Tomàs Penarrocha Penarrocha, her father, is known in he writes chronicles, reviews and Forcall as the Blond, because of his hair color. Rights sold to: interviews for La Vanguardia. He is a Planeta (Spanish and regular contributor to radio and TV Catalan) shows, teaches journalism and mass Belfond (French) communication, and has received many prestigious awards. Amor contra Roma He is the author of many non fiction Historical Urgídar, a young Iberian books such as Història cultural de from Lesera, arrives in Rome l’audiovisual, La televisió-espectacle, in the year 12 BC with the Algunas cosas que he aprendido intention of training as an haciendo la contra, Estampas de la vida forcallana. His first novel was El orator and poet. There he meets Ovid, cátaro imperfecto. Amor contra Roma whom he befriends, and witnesses the creation of his Ars Amatoria. was his second work of fiction. Rights sold to Ediciones B (Spanish and Catalan). Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 9 EL INFORME AHNENERBE SANTI BARÓ Historical WHY THIS NOVEL? Ten years after El informe Ahnenerbe, by Marcos Clos, • Have you ever heard of was published, a kid with no name, who lived hidden the Ahnenerbe society? with his parents in an apartment in Barcelona for nine It was an organization years, disappears under strange circumstances, strange that was part of the SS like his life. Nagore, the private teacher that’s in charge and whose leaders wan- of his education, will be who discovers the truth of ted to create an elite both his disappearance and his parents. All the clues lead precisely to Marcos. With him as an ally, she will body or warrior monks, live the exact same scenes the author did ten years an authentic Black Order before in a search that, by chance, will lead them to focused on old German discover the true treasure that Hitler was looking for in paganism which had the the heart of the Montserrat Mountain. 328 pages. destruction of Christianity Santi Baró was born in Olesa de as their main goal. Montserrat (Barcelona) on November • A very fascinating novel th 30 , 1965. Very young, driven by his with which you can learn experiences at the Passion of Olesa, a lot. he wanted to be a playwritter and an actor… but things didn’t turn out the Rights sold to: way he wanted and, at only sixteen, he Ediciones B (Spanish and found himself working as a jeweler at Catalan) the workshop of his parents’ jewelry shop. Little by little, nevertheless, having done all kinds of odd jobs, he has finally catched up with that old dream, with the only difference that he writes novels instead of plays, and he only interprets any characters in the intimacy of family and friends. Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 10 PROYECTO XI FRANCESC BLANCO A thriller about literature WHY THIS NOVEL? A mystery novel that pays homage to great works of • This is a frantic novel literature: The Neverending Story, All Souls, Alice in where surprise, mystery Wonderland, Anna Karenina, 2666, The Red and the and literature are the Black or One Hundred Years of Solitude are mentioned main ingredients. here to become protagonists and characters which, • A thrilling ride to the lab- like fragile invisible threads, guide the reader toward a yrinths of imagination surprising end.
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