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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.

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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. • A book where you can meet your favourite cha- A strange email puts the editor Anna Krayss on alert. racters from other books. Her author and friend Jon Vivaldi, who is immersed • Proyecto XI goes at a fast an the investigation of one of the cases for his book pace and innovates the Project XI -an investigation that has to do with a 408 pages. approach: there are as Francesc Blanco was born in Barcelona fraud-, needs her help and Victor Crest’s, one of the many puzzles as answers where he studied Economics. researchers working with him on one of the cases. and the scenes don’t fall He has a long career in the fields of Anna and Yago Duran, Victor’s assistant, come to into clichés. business, consultancy, and financial the place where Jon made the appointment, Poeta • Media coverage: more auditing, with executive positions in Cabanyes Street 115, but something totally unexpected than 15 interviews. multinational firms. happens: each one of them arrives to a different place. In the 70s, when he read A Hundred Years of Solitude, he decided he Since then, Anna is confined in a completely different wanted to be a writer some day. space and time from her own, Bastian’s universe. Thirty years later, he took a Bastian is the subject of Jon Vivaldi’s investigation. More information here! He is a child who, thirty years ago, had the ability to professional turn: he left Madrid, see the future through characters of fiction. Through returned to Barcelona, and became different tracks and an intricate labyrinth of literary First Rights sold to: a freelance consultant, thus being references that are joining the ends, Yago and Victor chapter Suma de Letras, Penguin able to finally make both activities try to reach Anna. Meanwhile, she looks for Jon Vivaldi available in Random House (Spanish) compatible. Proyecto XI is his first and investigates Bastian’s mysterious story. Italian and novel. English

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 11 EL BRIGADISTA JORDI CANTAVELLA Historical WHY THIS NOVEL? Guided by a North American member of the • Based on a forgotten epi- International Brigade who fought in the Spanish Civil sode, written with solid War, we delve into a dazzling and emotive story. documentation. In the 1980s, an African American veteran of the • Cantavella honors the International Brigades recalls his experience in Spain Abraham Lincoln Brigade. during the Civil War, and confesses to his family that • 2 editions in 3 months. he fell in love in Catalonia with a young woman called Anna. The memories start when Raimond, the veteran • Great repercussion in Ca- grandfather, meets Joan, a Catalan young man who talan media: La Vanguar- is dating his granddaughter Sarah. “Be a member of dia, Ara... your own life’s Brigade and fight for your will to live; • Amazon review: «This fight whipping your rifle against the fascism of defeat story’s plot and characters 316 pages. Jordi Cantavella i Cusó was born in and unhappiness”. By an American member of the have touched me. The 1967. In 2002, Isdavat took the risk of International Brigade who fought in the Spanish Civil war scenes are brilliant publishing his first novel, Novapatria, War, we delve into a moving story intended to pay a for the descriptions and and survived the experience happily. deserved homage to the thousands of men and women, sensitivity with which Since then, he has published various heroes from all over the world, who fought and gave they are written». novels, young adult books, non fiction their life in our home defending everyone’s freedom. books and collections of short stories. His last works are the novel Aquests Rights sold to: catalans estan tocats del bolet Penguin Random House (Columna, 2010), the non-fiction book, (Catalan) Em vull fondre (Cossetània Edicions in 2012) and the novel El brigadista (Rosa dels vents, 2015). Spanish Version Read the first pages! Available

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 12 PARA MORIR SIEMPRE HAY TIEMPO CARMEN CONDE Crime Fiction WHY THIS NOVEL? Frustrated and obsessive writer addicted to drugs, • Carmen Conde surpri- Julia Irazu is a true expert in complicated lives, but this ses with her first crime time problems come from outside. She accidentally fiction. becomes involved in an art trafficking network, among • Exciting novel that hooks millionaires interests and unscrupulous criminals, you from start to finish. and meets Viktor Sokolov, an alleged Russian spy with • Discover a new exce- whom she will live an adventure full of danger from llent author for the Bilbao and Palermo to Saint Petersburg. genre. Paradoxically, that is when Julia discovers a basic principle: there is always time to die. Carmen Conde ( Barcelona, ​​1965 ) 368 pages. studied Education and since she was twenty-three works as a primary school teacher in a public school. Passionate Novel awarded about her work, she also loves reading with La Trama since she discovered Enid Blyton as a Award child. Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King, among others, have done nothing but reinforce this passion. Rights sold to: More than ten years ago she wrote a Ediciones B (Spanish) short story Su última cena and was a finalist in a contest. Since then, she has not stopped writing.

Para morir siempre hay tiempo is her first novel.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 13 LA VIDENTE DE LA LUNA LLENA ISABEL DEL RÍO Mystery WHY THIS NOVEL? Laia is a 32-year-old physician who lives in Barcelona. • More than 20 bloggers She has just lost her mother and, while cleaning her reviews. apartment, she finds a box full of old photographs and • A story that mixes mys- a tarot card that will lead her to investigate the origin tery, esotericism and of her family and the role that occultism and tarot have self-discovery. in it. Laia is hurt because she has never met her father • A Novel that perfectly and she does not know anything about him. shows Barcelona. She starts an investigation that will take her to find new • The readers say: «A fresh tarot cards in different places of Barcelona (Ciutadella reading that hides many Park, Liceu, Palau de la Música and many other places). secrets and keeps us in suspense up to the end. 256 pages. Isabel del Río was born in Barcelona Will Laia discover the truth about her family and meet Enigmatic, surprising, in 1983. After graduating in her father? amazing. A highly recom- Philosophy, her love for manga, anime mended novel». or TV series did not decrease. She collaborates with radio programs and is an influential blogger of fantasy literature. Her first novel, Casa de Rights sold to: títeres, drew the attention of the Columna, Planeta Group specialized press. With La casa del (Catalan) torreón, she opens the gates of a Kailas (Spanish) nightmare that has accompanied her Fan Art for years. And with 100 cosas que Booktrailer! Reviews hacer en Barcelona, she discovers great places that you can see in this city. La vident de la lluna plena is her last novel.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 14 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. • The book that saved a real Winter has come to Porvenir bringing bad news: due to rural Post Office. a lack of mail, the Post Office will be shut down, and all • A book about friendship, staff transfered. Sms, e-mails and whatsapps seem to affection, family, dreams have won the game even on the mountains. Sara, the only postman in town, was born and lives and love. there with her three small children. She spends many • “A tribute to the episto- hours with her neighbor Rosa, an eighty-year-old lary literature and the woman who would do anything to spare Sara and her value of hand-written children afflictions. 376 pages. letters in times of e-mails Ángeles Doñate was born in Barcelona. and social networking. [...] She was the first of five siblings, and But what can an old lady do to prevent the lives of her Written with delicacy and grew up in a house filled with light, loved ones from being disrupted? Maybe something as attention, Doñate achie- shelter pets and books. Her passion for small as writing a letter, one she has been keeping in ves a delightful novel”. El written and spoken words became a her heart for sixty years… Periódico. vocation as much as a profession. She works as a corporate communications Rights sold to: manager for social and educational institutions. One day, by chance, Ediciones B (Spanish) Feltrinelli (Italian) she published a book: ¿Quieres un Thiele & Brandstätter consejo? She began a new path into Verlag (German) the forest of words, which has taken Droemer Knaur (German her to other works: Cuando la cigüeña TV report about the pocket) se pierde, the travel notebook De Editora Objectiva (Portu- Santiago de Chile a Puerto Williams, book! guese) or her first novel, coauthored, La Prószynski i S-ka SA (Polish) sonrisa de un perro. Klidarithmos Publications (Greek) Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 15 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 chance shake up the lives of characters who will get Fiction Award, Cossetània, 2009) and caught in a voluptuous and malicious game designed the erotic novel El juego de Sade by a mind as passionate and sensual as delirious. Rights sold to Ediciones B (Spanish and Catalan) and Rocco (Brazil). (Sade’s Game, Ediciones B, 2013).

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 16 3. MALDITA VERDAD EMPAR FERNÁNDEZ Thriller / Noir WHY THIS NOVEL? Since her divorce, several years ago, Olga Barnabas • The third part of Em- lives with her son Daniel, who has become a 17-year- par Fernández’s trilogy old stranger with whom she barely speaks. One night about guilt. in late September, Olga returns home at midnight, • Empar Fernández has exhausted after a very long day at the hospital where the esteem of a literary she works and feeling more alone than ever. She career with more than checks that Daniel has not eaten and is in bed with his headphones on. She decides not to wake him, but what twenty novels. she will discover the next day will lead her to know the • She also knows the real life of her son. world of education and classrooms perfectly. Raul Forcano, a budding detective, will track the lives 276 pages. • Sometimes knowing the Empar Fernández (Barcelona) of the protagonists up to an event that, perhaps, we’ll truth can be a curse. alternates teaching with narrative and prefer to ignore. collaborations in press as a columnist. With her first novel, Horacio en la TRILOGY OF GUILT memoria, she won the short story 1. La mujer que no bajó 2. La última llamada XXV Premio Cáceres. In 2007 she was del avión Thriller / Noir Rights sold to: finalist in the IX Premio Unicaja de Thriller / Noir Naomi Monteagudo Novela Fernando Quiñones with her The first part of a trilo- went out one night Versátil (Spanish) novel El loco de las muñecas. And the gy about guilt. Guilt is to celebrate the end somewhat diffuse, shared of School, but never two first parts to her newest trilogy and able to ruin a life. returned home. Before have just come out: La mujer que no Discover why Sara didn’t disappearing she made bajó del avión and La última llamada. come out of that plane. a last call that her Recently, she has been a finalist for father took. English Medellín Negro 2013, the awards: Sample Premio de Novela Negra Ciudad de Available Carmona 2014 and Premio València Read the full synopsis of the Negra 2015 for the best crime novel. trilogy!

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 17 LA MONTAÑA MALDITA BEGOÑA GARCÍA CARTERON Historical WHY THIS NOVEL? In a period of upheaval like the decade of 1890, an • You will love Begoña Gar- attack during the Corpus Line from the Santa María del cía’s literature. Mar Church leads Barcelona to be declared in state of • A drama set in the Process siege. The tragedy of the dead victims adds to another of Montjuïc. one: the imminent arrest of workers with libertarian • A story of crossed lives ideals, considered violent anarchists. Magda, a cigar the confusion of identities seller in a theater in Paralelo, is afraid for her brother Pep, arrested by mistake three years before because and a series of misunders- of another attack, in the Liceu. She’s not mistaken: tandings makes everyone the police are after him, and not only him, but his suspicious. wife too. Magda and Tina, a relative with who she • Two editions in only one Begoña García Carteron has a lives in the neighborhood of Poble Sec, will find him week. 424 pages. degree in Art History and works as a in the dungeons of the Montjuïc castle, claiming his writer, journalist and coordinator of innocence. The link with the workers and the Union editorial content. As a freelance, she leader, Teresa de Claramunt; the staging by a young has developed very different tasks amateur theater company of a play by the symbolist in the field of communication and Ibsen and the link with the modernist artists Ramón Rights sold to: has tried numerous topics. She has Casas and Santiago Rusiñol will set the steps for her own personal tragedy. Ediciones B (Catalan and written books on art, heritage and Spanish) gastronomy; articles on culture, travel El barrio de la playa and ecology and has coordinated Historical projects for various publishers. The It is 1751 and the Spanish Succession War ended passion for her city, Barcelona, ​​has thirty years ago, however, there are a lot of survivors led her to specialize in local culture. who are still suffering the consequences. Outside She recently coordinated the content Barcelona’s walls, near the harbor, in a sandy area that belonged to the sea some time ago, with the of the new website of the City of shadow of the still present military strength, many families that lost Barcelona (meet.barcelona.cat) and their homes, lead a dissolute life in shakes. has written the sections devoted to the history of the city, among others.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 18 NADIA GUHLAM & LA PRIMERA ESTRELLA DE LA NOCHE JAVIER DIÉGUEZ Narrative memoir WHY THIS NOVEL? Going back to her native Afghanistan, where Nadia • The fictionalized testi- is hoping to find her cousin Mersal and honor her mony of the suffering and deceased aunt, she will discover the hidden story of the hope of the women in the women in her family, of their roots and of herself as a author’s afghan family, of woman. her roots and the inten- tion of breaking loose The first star in the night is a story of search, of family revelations, of questions that were left unanswered from formalities, prove an and most of all, a story that shows the reality women admirable strength. live in societies so distant from our own: how they • A story that will teach overcome adversity and don’t stay impassive when us about home and that facing a destiny that’s supposedly inalterable. 296 pages. leaves its mark. Nadia Ghulam Dastguir was born in • El secreto de mi turban- Kabul in 1985. Despite the enormous Unforgettable, intense, genuine and touching, this is te by Nadia Guhlam was difficulties of living during the Civil a story with which the reader will instinctively dive translated into 5 langua- War in Afghanistan, she always into the day to day of afghan society, their life, and ges. It is the the 43rd Pru- these brave and tenacious women’s feelings and in the kept her love for poetry and oral denci Bertrana Award literature. She currently lives and adventures of the main character, Nadia Ghulam. studies in Europe. Her first literary El secreto de mi turbante (by Nadia Guhlam & work is El secret del meu turbant, Rights sold to: co-written with Agnès Rotger, an Agnès Rotger) Fictionalized Testimony Plaza & Janés (Spanish) autobiographical book. This book tells the real story of Nadia Ghulam, an Rosa dels Vents (Catalan) Afghan girl that deceived and defied the Taliban Javier Diéguez was born in Mollet Regime. After two years hospitalised due to the del Valles in 1985. He is a historian, wounds produced by a bomb during the Civil War, although he has worked as an Editor Nadia stumbles upon a new order that forbids women to get a job. To help her family, she is forced to make a radical decision: to pre- and Writer. La primera estrella de la tend being a man during ten years. An impressive real story. noche is his first novel. Rights sold to Columna (Catalan), Planeta (Spanish), Erein Argitaletxea (Basque), Ediçoes Asa II (Portuguese), Sperling & Kupfer (Italian) and Bellona (Polish). Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 19 LA TERAPEUTA GASPAR HERNÀNDEZ Inspirational / Psychological Thriller WHY THIS NOVEL? Hèctor Amat is a troubled actor. After being an • More than 21,000 books accidental witness in the murder of a young girl, he sold in Spain. suffers an anxiety block. He can’t remember anything • The first novel that exp- that happened. To alleviate his condition, and get lains why, how and when his memory back, Hèctor turns to Eugènia Llort, the we suffer anxiety. therapist who treated him after the crime. Their • A novel that tackles the relationship is merely professional at first but, as time issue of stress and turns it goes by, he becomes increasingly dependent. He is into a brilliant novel. unable to perform unless she is present at the theater every night while he plays Dick Diver — the character • Some countries consume in Tender is the Night —. Like his own character — a more mental health medi- cation than aspirine. psichologist who falls in love with a patient —, Hèctor 255 pages. Gaspar Hernàndez is a journalist and will end up falling madly for his therapist. • The press says: «An ex- writer. He directs and presents L’ofici cellent novel that covers de viure, a show on the art of living with sensitivity and inte- and personal growth for Catalunya lligence the problem of Ràdio. He has worked on TV. He anxiety, one of the most writes regularly about psychology common diseases of 21st and spirituality for newspapers and century first world». magazines. His first novel, El silencio El silenci (2009), obtained the Josep Pla Prize Inspirational Novel In a beautiful room Rights sold to: and became the bestselling fiction in Formentera, a man Temas de hoy, Planeta book in Catalonia that year. whispers to a woman all night long, while Group (Spanish) Columna, Planeta Group In 2014 he published La terapeuta. she’s asleep. A novel Enjoy the booktrailer! He’s also the author of a few children about the great power of trust. In an (Catalan) extreme situation, when you’ve got books and self-help manuals. Marcador (Portuguese) nothing to lose, what would you be capable of? Casa da Palavra (Brazilian) 90,000 copies sold in Spain.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 20 LO MEJOR DE MAITENA MAITENA Artwork WHY THIS NOVEL? This book is a selection and also a mix: a selection of three • 25 years reflecting reality hundred pages among the more than thousand drawn in with humor. the course of my life, and a miscellany of cartoon stories • You can’t stop laughing and stand-alone jokes from different periods and styles, with reading and enjoying some added pencil sketches I had never published before. every one of her books! I shortened titles, erased speech bubbles and supressed entire frames … It was sort of a dream: to be able to choose • An established name in the best of my work, and create a brand new book with that. the art world. If life gave us an opportunity like this, happiness would be guaranteed.

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

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 21 AMOR EN MINÚSCULA FRANCESC MIRALLES Inspirational & Romantic WHY THIS NOVEL? Samuel lives trapped inside an air-bubble of loneliness which • Rights sold to 20 langua- he only leaves to teach at the university. The impenetrable ges, English in Penguin world that he has built up around himself starts to fall apart among them. the day a street cat enters his home. It will lead him to Titus, • 1 of the 9 GREAT LOVE a middle-aged Editor, who gives him some essential lessons STORIES, by Kirkus Re- in life and takes him by chance to Gabriela, a childhood love, views. who reappears miraculously thirty years later, in the shape of an enigmatic woman. Samuel sets off on an initiation Rights sold to: adventure full of surprising revelations. He will learn that La Galera (Catalan) those insignificant everyday acts, even the tiniest ones, have Suma de Letras (Spanish) the power to unleash a hurricane or awaken the heart of its Marcador Editora (Portuguese) lethargy. 256 pages. Giunti (Italian) Francesc Miralles (Barcelona, 1968) Fleuve Noir (French) has a degree in German Philology Psichogios Publications and has worked as a publisher. After Read the report in (Greek) writing two essays on Franz Kafka and Publisher’s Weekly Penguin (English US) Hermann Hesse addressed to school Alma Books (English UK) readers, he decided to write novels. Ullstein (German) He has been awarded with several Cappelen Damm (Norwegian) prestigious literary awards and lots Wabi-Sabi TRI (Macedonian) of his books, both for young readers Inspirational & Romantic Tyto Alba (Lituan) Leda (Czech) and adults, have become bestsellers When a relationship ends, there’s nothing better than and have been translated to more traveling to a distant world to move on and rediscover Record (Brazilian) than fifteen languages. Another the course itself. After receiving two postcards from Tapanaev (Estonian) important part of his production is Kyoto, from a mysterious sender, Samuel decides to Pena Yayinlari (Turquish) focused on the self-help, coaching and pack up and dedicate himself to the adventure. While studying wa- Ping’s i Yilin (Chinese) bi-sabi in Japan’s ancient capital, the door of love is about t o open up Munhakdongne (Corean) inspirational field. where it’s least expected. Humanitas (Romanian) Laguna (Serbian) The sequel of Amor en minúscula translated to 7 languages.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 22 FRANCESC MIRALLES & EL MEJOR LUGAR DEL MUNDO ES AQUÍ MISMO CARE SANTOS Inspirational WHY THIS NOVEL? Iris is thirty-six and she is shattered by the death of • Translated into 11 langua- her parents in an accident. A grey and cold afternoon, ges. when the world seems to make no sense, she begins to • A magical novel. walk the streets trying not to return home. Just when • More than 80,000 books she is thinking of doing something mad, she discovers a sold. café she hadn’t seen before. Its strange name (The best place in the world is right here) intrigues her so much • “A real spiritual and psy- that she enters. There, she meets Luca, an Italian whit chological therapy novel who she talks to for six days at different tables, where to break with the wild wonderful things will happen. pace of our society.” - PSI- Iris has the feeling that Luca knows more than he says CHOLOGIES. Francesc Miralles has been awarded and while she is falling in love with him, they talk 136 pages. with several prestigious literary between the aromas of chocolate about everything you Rights sold to: awards and lots of his books, both need for your existence. But, like a God, the seventh Ara Llibres (Catalan) for young readers and adults, day he’s not there. Urano (Spanish) have become bestsellers. Another Soon Iris discovers he is not coming back and she Record (Brazilian) important part of his production is begins to look for him. In the abandoned place where Presença (Portuguese) the café was, she begins to find some clues that will focused on the self-help, coaching and Ullstein (German) reveal his enigmatic past. But the most important inspirational field. Munhakdongne (Korean) revelation is still to come… Fleuve Noir (French) Care Santos is the author of a vast Mono i Manjana (Serbian) AMG (Bulgarian) work that includes novels, short El futuro es un viaje de vuelta Coming next Spring! Inspirational Humanitas (Romania) stories and literature both for This book starts with a strong premise: we all have at least one thing that we must fix in Izdavachki Centar Tri (Mace- young readers and adults. She has our past to move forward. Written as a contemporary fable, this is the first time donian) received many literature awards. Theory U, very much in vogue today, is transformed into a novel. Care Santos & Francesc Ping’s Publications (Chinese) Desire for chocolate, was awarded Miralles wrote El mejor lugar del mundo es aquí mismo eight years ago, which brought the Ramon Llull Prize 2014, and has together tens of thousands of readers and has been translated into nine languages. Now been translated into more than ten they are back with this story of redemption and love. languages. Rights sold: Urano (Spanish and Catalan)

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 23 LA CANDIDATA ELENA MOYA Women’s Fiction WHY THIS NOVEL? A novel about prejudices and difficulties that women • A feminist novel. have to face when occupying, or expecting to occupy, • “An intelligent and en- maintaining or gaining a position of power, then and tertaining fable that can now. The novel is a cry for equality. Which, in Spain, come true as we’re rea- is misunderstood. Women representing half of the ding it. Brilliant! You must student body means nothing if in reality women can’t read Elena Moya “ Eduar- have powerful positions, specially at an economic level. do Mendoza said. The novel also digs deep in what power means to • Elena Moya’s long awai- women: what pushes them to look for it, what it means ted third novel! to them, what they want, and what the consequences are when they do have it. 512 pages. Elena Moya Pereira grew up in the Mediterranean coastal town of The novel is written in the first person: Isabel’s a Tarragona, south of Barcelona, in the Minister of Economy and the leading candidate for her last years of the Franco dictatorship. party in the presidential elections. She will lose and Rights sold to: After attending University in win many things along the way, and people. Suma de Letras, Penguin Spain, she was awarded a Fulbright Random House (Spanish) scholarship to do a Masters in La maestra republicana Women’s Fiction Financial Journalism in the U.S.A. For Valli Querol the Civil War did not end in 1939, but went on a Elena worked for newspapers in clandestine battle in a long exile. During those years of struggle, Barcelona and Reno, Nevada, and secrets and inconceivable sacrifices, Valli never lost hope of English settled in London in 1998. She is recovering that egalitarian society she dreamed of. After the arrival currently a business reporter for The of democracy, Valli returned to her town, Morella, and went back Version to teaching, but the society that she found there was very different from the Guardian, having previously worked Available Republican spirit for which she had fought so hard, and the old feuds between at Bloomberg and Reuters newswires. families had not been forgotten. Decades later, at the height of the housing She lives with her partner in North bubble, the new mayor of Morella plans to sell the old school at an astronomic London. price. Rights sold to Suma de letras (Spanish and Catalan), Casa da Palavra (Brazilian) and Feltrinelli (Italian) and Pegasus (English).

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 24 LA EXTRAÑA HISTORIA DE MAURICE LYON ORIOL NOLIS Contemporary Thriller WHY THIS NOVEL? The value of art lies in its beauty. Owning a piece of art • Oriol Nolis sets up a story is like trying to own a sunset. full of contrasts, with a great atmosphere and a great Maurice Lyon is the eldest son of a prominent family mastery of intrigue. of French art collectors. Since his birth, Maurice seems • This novel is both a thriller destined to inherit the extraordinary collection of and a reflection on art and paintings which for centuries have passed from father the desire to possess. to son. But one night a serious incident in their elegant • “This novel can be read as a Parisian residence will change his life forever. sophisticated thriller. Or the story of a psychopath wri- He is disowned by his family and banished to Barcelona tten with a laudable narra- Oriol Nolis Curull (Barcelona, 1978). where he plans a delirious and sophisticated revenge. 256 pages. tive distance. That elegant BA in Journalism and Law at the In the process we will discover the intricate mazes that coolness [...] is not a “will University Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona, trace his dark personality and the mysteries that buiilds for style”, the words flow the strange story of Maurice Lyon. naturally. They designate.” - has been a journalist for over fifteen EL PAÍS, BABELIA years. He has worked in press and A first novel that exceeds the expectations of the • “It’s a novel that is not only radio, but has spent most of his career reader and immerses us in a tangle of emotions and as enigmatic as imaginati- in television. He has been news reader sensations that continues until the last page. ve and kind, but that has a in TVE, and presented El Debate 1, surprising plot as well and news channel 24 Horas, and other “Let’s say it is a collection of… desires. Yes, I like this is strong and good enough spaces in the territorial delegation of expression: a collection of desires. Do you understand to catch the attention of TVE Catalunya. what I’m saying? A collection of pieces that have been readers of all genres and beloved, admired and desired over time by thousands styles.” - ENRIQUE VILA of people, in some cases, some of them have given their MATAS life for these pieces.”

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 25 UN PERRO ALEJANDRO PALOMAS Contemporany Fiction WHY THIS NOVEL? Sitting in a cafe one afternoon in early summer, Fer and his • Second edition in less than mother, Amalia, wait for a call that never comes. During a month both in Catalan and the following hours, Fer will do anything to hide what is in Spanish. behind that dreaded call that can shatter the calm that has • Bloggers love it, more than settled in the family since R reached their life when he was 20 reviews. just a puppy. But maybe that calm is more precarious than • Alejandro Palomas has it seems. When the phone finally rings, the night will bring been interviewed about this an unexpected company, and with it will come a flood of novel by the most important confessions, truths that perhaps were not so and the five newspapers in Spain, like La letters of a name, pulling the family album, Fer dares to Vanguardia and La Razon. invoke for life to return to show him his best version. A dog • If you have pets, you will is not just a portrait of the fascinating bond between a man 300 pages love this book. Alejandro Palomas is a graduate in and his dog, but a swirl of emotions that come together in a English. He has translated Katherine tender and raw look at the familiy world and a tribute to love Mansfield, Gertrude Stein, Willa in all its manifestations. Cather and Jack London, among Rights sold to: Read the report from others. He has written the screenplay Destino (Spanish) La Vanguardia Ojos de invierno, based on his novel Grup 62 (Catalan) Tanta vida (2008), with rights were Le Cherche-Midi (French) acquired by Filmax. In 2002 he was Una madre chosen New Talent FNAC for his novel Contemporary Fiction In a few hours it will be midnight. At last, after El tiempo del corazón. In 2011 he several failed attempts, now that she is 65, Amalia published El tiempo que nos une and has succeded to have her dream fulfilled: the whole El cel que ens queda. That same year, family has gathered to celebrate Christmas Eve. he was finalist in the Primavera Award Una madre tells the story of a dinner, and of the seven attendants First with El alma del mundo. His work has who are bound to share the beginning of a new life none of them chapters been translated into eight languages. are envisioning. in English In 2014 he published Una madre and Rights sold to Siruela (Spanish), Grup 62 (Catalan), Casa da Pala- in 2015 Un hijo. vra (Brazilian), Presença (Portuguese), Neri Pozza (Italian), Smart Books (Bulgarian), Le Cherche-Midi (French) and Foksal (Poland).

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 26 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 no- The runway is a success. Change is on its way; because the old vels, you’re gonna love Núria textile warehouse created in the middle of the XIX century is Pradras! about to move its way into the world of high fashion. • Perfectly recreates the Inside its walls, the lives of different characters (owners, de- atmosphere of Barcelona in signers, salesmen…) are intertwined and beat at the rhythm of the twenties and thirties. their times: very promising times, those of the 1929 Universal Exposition; difficult and sad times, those of war and the imme- Núria Pradas was born in Barcelona diate postwar. and mgraduated in Catalan Philology. She taught in several schools and Those lives made the warehouse their home and defended it Rights sold to: started a juvenile theater company, against all odds; and kept going no matter what. Because life since theater is her great passion. It goes on, but Santa Eulalia keeps beating with the rhythm of SUMA (Spanish) was while writing stage plays that time. Columna (Catalan) she entered the world of literature. BTB - VERLAGSGRUPPE RAN- She published her first book in 1995, DOM (German) thus beginning a literary career that Adriano Salani Editore (Ita- has always evolved in the field of lian) children and young adults’ literature. Uitgeverij Luitingh-Sijthoff (Dutch) Núria Pradas has published over forty Laguna (Serbian) books and collaborated with a number Bazar Förlag (Swedish) of publishing houses. She won the Bazar Forlag AS (Norwegian) Carlemany award for her novel Sota Foksal (Poland) el mateix cel. She has left teaching to devote herself exclusively to writing.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 27 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.

Forty years later, all those kids, now men and women, are still in contact, but very few want to go back to the place that caused them so much pain. Antón isn’t willing to let them forget the good moments they lived 346 pages Oviedo (1978). Business woman, she there and the promise they made when they were kids, has always found time to read or and that’s why he sends each one of them a letter. He write. Her passion for reading was wants to reunite them in the Fantasy. inherited from her father, a man Rights sold to: who was always accompanied by his Will Antón be able to unite all his friends? Will they private library. What started as an keep the promise they made when they were kids? And Ediciones Urano (Spanish) erotic story eventually gave way to most of all… What happened there and what changed two books. Venganza is one of her them for the rest of their lives? first projects, the result of hours and Venganza passion from readers who year after Erotic Triology year have asked for a follow up and This is a hard, and controversial have followed her writing from the trilogy. It is a passionate story, beginning. For seven years she has loaded with feelings that verge published online and she participates on the forbidden. This novel will make you reevaluate what in the content of several sites coming is really right. The hardcore version that nobody Watch the Venganza’s to have a million readers. dared to publish. Booktrailer Rights sold to Objetiva (Brazilian) and Planeta Manuscrito Unipessoal (Portuguese).

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 28 SIN RETORNO SUSANA RODRÍGUEZ LEZAUN Thriller / Noir WHY THIS NOVEL? Irene Ochoa had been feeling trapped for some time, • Sin retorno, a thriller set the walls getting closer and closer as her husband’s between Roncesvalles, beatings became a routine. She is out of options: it’s Pamplona, and the Way of Marcos’s life, or hers. The opportunity arises on a St. James. Wednesday, when he comes home drunker than usual • Bestseller in Spain. and, after a couple of sips, falls deeply asleep. A few • Reviews in the most hours later, the firemen get there. Evidence point to important Spanish media. an accidental death. Everything has gone according to • 8,000 copies in 1 month. planned, except for one thing: Irene could not envision • 2 editions. that she would fall madly in love with David Vázquez, • Addictive. the detective in charge of the case, and that she will have to take drastic measures to protect her new life. 480 pages. Born in Pamplona in 1967. Detective Vázquez has to solve one of the hardest cases Devoted to jourlanism, graduated in he has ever faced: several pilgrims in the Way of St. Comunication by the University of James have turned up dead in Roncesvalles, only a few the Basque Country. Since she was a miles away, and everything indicates that it is the work little girl she knew she would dedicate of a serial killer. Rights sold to: her life to storytelling, some of these DeBolsillo, Penguin Random stories would be real, the ones she House (Spanish) writes daily in the newspaper she works for, and some made up, and with these she fills her novels. Really We prepared some extra passionate about reading since her material for you! tenderest years, she has special feelings for Latinamerican writers, Coming soon: especially towards Gabriel García La teoría de los seis grados Márquez, whose books she used to (DeBolsillo) “devour”.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 29 LA FILLA DE LILITH GLÒRIA SABATÉ Historical WHY THIS NOVEL? Barcelona, winter of 1377. • Glòria Sabaté’s first novel, discover it! The brothel in Viladalls, which shrieks of women and • The novel is based on a human misery, wakes up in horror with the finding legendary Jewish belief of a dead body of a regular customer, with his balls that Eva wasn’t the first pulled off and an utter expression of terror and pain; woman, it was Lilith. the first of many. Joan Marçol, prestigious surgeon • Glòria Sabaté has built an and barber and enchanted by the, less orthodox, new action novel in Medival medical practices that arrive from the university, will times in Barcelona with a be in charge of investigating the event. He’ll have some hint of noir novel. help from the young Hasday Benvenist -Jewish and a passionate alchemist-, from the eccentric precept 288 pages Glòria Sabaté, born in Barcelona, ​​has of the Holy Sepulchre, from the pilgrim and from the a degree in Catalan Philology from healer Mary, a woman with a special gift who sells the University of Barcelona and took herbs and magic healing remedies. They will all start doctorate courses in Medieval Catalan an investigation that will bring them to the darkest Literature at the same university, and and most mysterious parts of the city, where they’ll Rights sold to: studies on Literature and Arab culture. find vengeance and treachery, the power of greed She is currently a professor in the and love… and the existence of an old and primitive Ediciones B (Spanish and department of Romance Languages ​​ creature that has been awoken and is hungry. Catalan) at the University of Barcelona, ​​and A novel that soaks the reader into a wonderfully and is preparing a doctoral thesis on the rigorously recreated XIVth century. novel Curial e Guelph. As for the literary world, she has won first prize Jeanne Brush short stories (Sant Feliu de Llobregat, 2007) with the story Na Brianda. La Filla de Lilith is her first novel.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 30 DIAMANT BLAU CARE SANTOS Women’s Fiction WHY THIS NOVEL? Diamant blau plunges us into a family’s background • An author awarded with the during the first decades of the twentieth century, when Ramon Llull Prize 2014, the the splendor of the bourgeoisie is opposed to the social most prestigious in Catalan upheaval. Silvestre Pujolà is a self-made man who leaves language. his rural past behind to start working as a dry cleaner • The novel that everybody in a textile factory in Mataró in the mid nineteenth reads in 2016. century. His eagerness to overcome his fate will lead • Care Santos’s long awaited him to Teresa, a woman who will give meaning to his new novel! life of constant exceedances. Some years later, their granddaughter, Teresa Pujolà, will travel the opposite way to give up her social position to marry the man she Care Santos was born in Mataró, loves. 446 pages Barcelona, in 1970. She is the author of a vast work that includes novels, Rights sold to: short stories and literature both for Columna, Planeta (Catalan) young readers and adults. She has Read more information First chapters about Care’s books available in Destino, Planeta (Spanish) received many literature awards English such as the Narrative Prize of Alcalá de Henares or the Alfonso de Cossío 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 xocotala is the story of three women united awards. Desire for chocolate, was in time by their passion for chocolate. It is a journey awarded the Ramon Llull Prize 2014, through the history of this exquisite pleasure, from its English and has been translated into more arrival to Europe until today’s sophistication. Version than ten languages. Rights sold to Columna (Spanish and Catalan), Robert Laffont (French), Available Record (Brazilian), Salani (Italian), Wereldbibliotheek (Dutch), Bonniers (Swedish), Humanitas (Romanian), Alma Books (English), Sonia Draga (Polish), Planeta Manuscrito (Portuguese), Schildts (Finnish), Bastei Lübbe (German) and Smart Books (Bulgarian). Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 31 L’ESTIU QUE COMENÇA SÍLVIA SOLER Women’s Fiction WHY THIS NOVEL? L’estiu que comença spans 50 years in the life of Julia Reig • Sílvia Soler is one of the and Andreu Balart —linked to each other since before they most popular authors in were born through their mothers’ friendship, and their Catalan language. hopeful anticipation that their children would inherit their • Premi Ramon Llull 2013, the bond or even fall in love. Julia and Andreu, though, want to most famous and prestigious get rid of this fate that persists in joining them. prize in Catalan language.

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

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 32 TEMPS DE LLUM SÍLVIA TARRAGÓ Historical fiction WHY THIS NOVEL? Julia, a young maid who has just arrived in town, is fascina- • Tarragó’s first novel for ted by the lights of the small universe underground. Those adults will surprise you. corridors are confidants of their experiences, their concerns, • A world of light under their first loves, their secrets and the life of traders. the gray streets of Barcelona’s postwar. The daughter of the owners of the bakery, the aprentice • Sílvia Tarragó is part barber, a worker at the cinema and the perfume seller will of outstanding Catalan all configure a world that will change, decade after decade, authors’ anthologies. following the exciting beat of Barcelona.

Temps de llum is a novel set in the early underground sho- pping malls in Europe and portrays with great accuracy and Sílvia Tarragó Castrillón was born in realism Barcelona from the 40s to the 90s, when the Avenue Barcelona in 1968. For 14 years she of Light closed. was the co-owner and manager of Rights sold to: the bookstore Proa Premià. In 2001, Columna, Planeta Group she published a book of short stories, (Catalan) Ciutats de l’Impossible (Brosquil Urano (Spanish) Edicions, 2001). She won the XIII Muestra Literaria del Maresme in 1996 and the first Alellas’s prize of poetry Maria Oleart with the collection La vida vençuda in 1998. Besides, she is author of the book of poems Raïls escapçats and the anthology Estiu immòbil. Temps de llum is hers first novel for adults.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 33 ETHERIA COIA VALLS Historical WHY THIS NOVEL? In the beginning of the Middle Ages, two women • Readers were waiting for with very different beliefs are in Gallaecia land. this novel! Etheria belongs to a community of women who have • She is one of the most repu- made religion their way to escape the demands of table and prestigious writers the nobility, but is secretly part of the Priscillianist in Spain movement. Irene is the daughter of a Roman senator • The reader says: «Talking that, with his family being besieged by the Christians about Coia Valls is launching who now control the power, decides to serve the into a praise. She has a rich cause of paganism. Symmachus, governor of Rome and and careful prose. An author spokesman of a noble class which continues to boost who knows how to make the banner of paganism against the official thesis, tries every word and every sen- Coia Valls has a degree in Childhood to convince the Emperor that the greatness of Roman 405 pages tence sound like poetry». Education and in Special Education civilization is rooted in ancient beliefs. and is a Speech Therapist and a Pedagogue. She works as an Editor in Chief at the digital newspaper Amor prohibido Tarragona Literària and as an assistant La cocinera Historical Historical director at l’Escola de Lletres of Barcelona, 1771. Young An unforgettable love Rights sold to: Tarragona. She is also a theatre actress Constança Clavé leaves the story between a priest and who has taken part in numerous plays faraway city of Lima after the daughter of a rural no- Ediciones B (Catalan and th and dramatisations of poetry texts. the death of her father, a bleman, in the 15 century Spanish) Catalonia, which is starting She writes historical novel. She has diplomat. Her journey to Barcelona is long and arduous. She carries published several praised titles: La to recover from a period of famine and vivid memories of landscapes with her, epidemics, although fear is still seizing its princesa de Jade, El Mercader, Las flavours, textures, and a single possession: people. torres del cielo, La cocinera and now the recipe book left to her by her first Amor prohibido which promises to be Master in the Peruvian Court. Rights sold to Ediciones B (Spanish and at least as successful as the previous Catalan) and Sperling & Kupfer (Italian) ones. English Sample Avaiable Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 34 non fiction PEQUEÑAS IDEAS ANTES DE SER MAMÁ Humour, motherhood, everyday situations gift BOM&BON WHY THIS BOOK? Little ideas before being a mom or how to survive • A fresh book about mother- motherhood hood that will make you laugh. It is clear that being a mother is a turning-point in the • Every mother will identify life of a woman. Everything changes: your schedule, with the situations in the your marriage, your wardrobe, your kitchen, your book! sleeping habits... Your life becomes a rollercoaster of • The perfect gift for your sister, a friend, a pregnant emotions and changes! neighbor or workmate... 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 ones who haven’t 112 pages. experienced it yet. Rights sold to: The authors are two women in their Maeva (Spanish) Laugh with other women about the changes this stage 40s who work surrounded by books. Harlenic Hellas (Greek) entails, because life tastes better when you share it, They are like night and day but are so Sextante (Brazilian) especially good things. attuned that they look like sisters. Planeta Manuscrito (Portugue- se) They get up early and race to reach it all: work, friends, kids, gym, hobbies... And always with their best smile.

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Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 36 ¡INSPÍRATE! Coaching PANCHO CAMPO WHY THIS BOOK? This book is based on the experience of Pancho Campo, • Pancho Campo shows us as a businessman, promoter of large events, former how to educate ourselves professional athlete, coach and Olympic trainer for to achieve our objectives. tennis players. • His method is based on a few basis: do sport, watch It is also based on the analysis of elite athletes, artists your nutrition, have fun, of the highest level, business and political leaders, with sleep enough, reach ba- whom Campo has worked in the past 30 years. Some of lance, create rituals. them are Al Gore, Kofi Annan, the Emir of Qatar, Andre Agassi, Stefan Edberg, Sting, Pink Floyd, Frank de la Jungla or Enrique Iglesias. Pancho Campo is an ex-professional tennis player who took part in the Barcelona ’92 Olympic Games, and Rights sold to: an expert in marketing and events management (sports, concerts, and Suma de letras, Penguin wine symposiums). At present he is Random House the CEO of Chrand Marketing and (Spanish) Events. He is a charismatic orator about marketing, environment, and wine. Nevertheless, the focus of his most recent conferences have been motivation and stress management, taking as case studies the political leaders, artists, and sportsmen with whom he has worked, and analyzing how they manage to yield the best results even in difficult times.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 37 LA VACUNA CONTRA EL MIEDO Parenting MONTSE DOMÈNECH WHY THIS BOOK? Montse Domènech spills out her forty years of • A useful guide for worried experience dealing with teens and children in this book, parents. to offer parents a simple and practical method to face • This book is addressed to all the issue of childhood fears. This book is addressed to the families with children of all families with children of any age. any age. Other than the disorder they produce in children and • Montse Domènech spills out their families, childhood fears are a natural feeling her forty years of experien- ce dealing with teens and that helps build up the human mind, since they help children in this book, to children develop their imagination, they learn how offer parents a simple and to face their problems and protect themselves from practical method to face the danger. 144 pages. issue of childhood fears. These fears can turn into a real disorder for parents. Montse Domènech has a Degree in • A PRACTICAL AND SIMPLE Either because they don’t know how to solve them or Pedagogy and Psychology specialised METHOD to deal with chil- because they interfere with the families coexistence, in children by the University of drens fears. this problem is one of the reasons why, more and more, Barcelona. She works at her own parents are looking for professional assistance. psycho-pedagogic centre treating Rights sold to: kids, teenagers and young people with Plaza & Janés (Catalan and behavioural and emotional disorders. Spanish) She is co-author, along with Dr. Estivill, Edúcame bien Alpina (Russian) of different books in which they Parenting Edúcame bien is a practical, sensible and friendly book. The analyze children’s insomnia, proper book that all parents should have at home, Eduard Estivill. nutrition during the growing years This book is addressed to all the families that have children and the relationship between parents, of any age. All parents experience coexistence problems children and teenagers, among other with their children at some point; be it curfew problems, unexpected subjects. She has also published other behaviors, jealousy, lack of interest for school, or despondency, just to essays on education and compilations mention a few. of tales in order to transmit ethical Read here the first values. Rights sold to Penguin Random House (Spanish and Catalan). pages!

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 38 10 CLAVES PARA ALCANZAR TUS SUEÑOS Shef-help and coaching MÓNICA ESGUEVA WHY THIS BOOK? Her experience as a coach has shown Mónica Esgueva that • Apply professional coaching people’s psyche is marked by traces of every event in life, to your life. and these traces, for better or worse, influence individual • Mónica Esgueva is one of development as human beings. These scars have their the most respected PNL and consequences, although we are not aware. coaching experts in Spain. • Mónica Esgueva is one of This book will help heal the scars that keep you from the most influential women developing your full potential. Mónica presents 10 tips in Spain. to achieve your dreams and guides you to find your inner strength to live more fully and achieve personal balance.

208 pages. Mónica Esgueva has a degree in Economics from the Complutense University of Madrid, and Rights sold to: Master’s degrees in Foreign Trade, Paidós, Grupo Planeta Neurolinguistic Programming (PNL), (Spanish) and Coaching with PNL. She has Mensajes para el alma travelled to over 70 countries. Coaching A short manual of practical wisdom where the author She welds the best of Eastern and answers the most common questions we ask in our daily Western philosophies, spending long lives. Many people find very little light in their hearts, periods abroad, especially in Asia, and feel at a dead end. However, changing is always where she studies the development possible. This book teaches us that we can move toward a brighter and of the mind with great Tibetan lamas, more hopeful tomorrow. and regularly takes lessons from the Dalai Lama in the Himalaya. She works as a coach, lecturer and contributes to Spanish media.

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

Rights sold to: Penguin Random House th 272 pages. 20 Anniversary! (Spanish and Catalan) Eduard Estivill is a specialist in Clinical Neurophysiology, Pediatrics and Sleep Medicine. Since 1989 he has held the position of Director at the 5 days for a Perfect ¡A comer! ¡A jugar! Estivill Sleep Clinic — integrated into Night Sleep for Your This method teaches Open this book if you the USP Dexeus University Institute Child explains in a clear children to eat varied think that children are of Barcelona —, and coordinator of and simple way a scien- and complete meals. children. But, someti- the General Hospital of Catalonia’s tific method to teach After three years of ha- mes, good habits – in Sleep Unit. He trained at the Sleep children to sleep — a ving used this method eating, in hygiene or Disorders Center (Henry Ford Hospital) few serious and rigorous rules which with a 98 per cent success rate, Estivill behaviour- are difficult to teach. This and Domènech have finally decided to book tries to show parents how to in Detroit, and is a member of the have also been recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the publish this entertaining book to help educate their children through some most prestigious Spanish and foreign American Sleep Association. parents teach their children how to eat games, while they grow up with them. associations in this field. He is the properly. Rights sold to Penguin Random House author of over a dozen popular science 20 translations and 1.5 milion books (Spanish, Catalan, English), Dom books on good sleeping habits. sold in Spanish. Rights sold to Penguin Random House Quixote (Portuguese), WMF Martins (Spanish, Catalan), Dom Quixote (Por- Fontes (Brazilian), Giangiacomo Feltri- tuguese), WMF Martins Fontes (Brazi- nelli (Italian). lian), Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (Italian).

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 40 MIS RECETAS ANTICÁNCER WHY THIS BOOK? ODILE FERNÁNDEZ Health • A practical and rigorous gui- What is cancer? Under which circumstances can you get de to minimise cancer’s risk. it? Is it possible to prevent? Can you reverse its process • This book was translated when you already have the disease? to 4 languages and has 83 Amazon reviews that say Odile Fernandez, a family doctor that beat a deathly things like: «Useful, entertai- cancer, refused to accept the common version and ning and indispensable book decided to seek her own answer to the questions to learn how to eat better. above, and to many others. After researching for All opinions and suggestions some time, she found out that making a series of little are endorsed by an exten- changes in her diet and lifestyle might not only prevent sive bibliographic index. A catching the disease, but also help improve when huge thanks to the author». already suffering it. Dr. Odile Fernandez is a family doctor, and survivor of an advanced In this book, she teaches us something many people ovarian cancer. Due to her illness, she did not know: you can take part in the prevention decided to investigate the relationship and healing of a sickness that, nowadays, is growing between cancer, diet, lifestyle and massively. Rights sold to: emotions. After compiling extensive Urano (Spanish and scientific information, she introduced Guía práctica para una alimentación y vida Catalan) important changes in her life and anticáncer Sextante (Brazil) overcame a life-threatening cancer. Health An ideal work for all those people who Marcador (Portuguese) Her book Mis recetas anticáncer is the want to adopt an anticancer way of life, Sperling & Kupfer (Italian) result of her experience and research. both preventive or having developed the Eksmo (Russian) Here, the author encourages us to disease. The book contains concise, practical and direct take an active role toward the disease, information on diet, lifestyle, exercise, and emotional both for prevention and healing. She wellbeing. proposes nutritional and lifestyle guidelines. Enjoy the Booktrailer!

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 41 LA DIETA DE LOS COLORES Health / Diet DRA. MONTSE FOLCH WHY THIS BOOK? Health, beauty, comfort, feeling better with our body, • 9,000 copies sold of her rejuvenated and more energetic are the main goals we set previus book. for ourselves when we start a new diet and, even though • Dr. Folch is a specialist in those are good enough reasons to eat healthy for the rest eating disorders. of our lives, the truth is that we end up leaving them to the side and going back to our old habits. To daily obstacles (little time to buy groceries and to cook, eating out, etc), we have to add diets that often require a high level of sacrifice and that are so restrictive that they make us quit too soon. That’s why the color diet is simple and diverse because one of the key principles is to turn food into an act of pleasure and not something awful, which raises our chances of failing. Montse Folch has a degree in Medicine The menu of our diet is divided in four colors: red for and Surgery and a master’s in proteins, both from vegetables and animals; green for community nutrition in the Pharmacy vegetables; yellow for sugar and for carbohydrates and Rights sold to: University of Barcelona. For more brown for fats. And blue will identify the group of liquids and Penguin Random House (Ca- than 25 years, she has been treating dressings. talan and Spanish) eating disorders. Since 1996 she is a member of the facultative staff in the La enzima mediterrania Medical Center Teknon in Barcelona. Health / Diet She has given courses on nutrition Enzymes have been proved to have the capacity to heal and and dietetics and has participated regenerate our bodies; this book explains how that works. Dr in different nutritional, medical and Folch takes a step beyond to personalize the action of these cosmetic surgery conferences on a proteins according to our body type, in order to provide national and international wide scale. the reader with all the keys to plan a targeted diet, adapted to each one’s She regularly collaborates in media needs. In this respect, the Mediaterranean diet arises as a paradigm of and has published seven books. enzymatic regeneration, due to its high nutritional value. Rights sold to Columna Edicions (Catalan), Planeta Group (Spanish) Read the first pages! Self Desenvolvimiento Pessoal (Portuguese)

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 42 NO SOY DE ESTE MUNDO Essay WHY THIS BOOK? GASPAR HERNÀNDEZ Here’s a true diary that seems to belong to a fictional • This book explores the phe- character. The author has spent two years following a nomenon and Enric Corbera Catalan man who travels around the world saying that boom. “nothing is real” and “we live in a dream”. His name is Enric • Enric Corbera has more Corbera, he fills up concert halls in Spain and Latin America than 100.000 subscribers and his YouTube videos have millions of views. on Youtube, thousands of followers on social networks At the same time, the author shows his interest for non- and his videos have millions duality, the Advaita and the book A course in miracles. And of views. he investigates up to what point, like many of his followers claim, can Enric Corbera perform miracles. 352 pages. Watch Enric Gaspar Hernàndez is a journalist and But Enric Corbera is also followed by doctors, and his Corbera’s videos! writer. He directs and presents L’ofici method is taught in universities across Latin America. de viure, a show on the art of living Even so, are we looking at a real miracle worker? Is he enlightened? A guru? What’s behind the Corbera and personal growth for Catalunya 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. Rights sold to: writes regularly about psychology Ediciones B (Catalan and Spa- and spirituality for newspapers and This is a diary about what’s spiritual and what’s non-tangible. magazines. And about the path of consciousness that people lead – nish) His first novel, El silencio (2009), more people every day – convinced that we’re all one and obtained the Josep Pla Prize and we don’t exist as individuals. became the bestselling fiction book in Catalonia that year. In 2014 he published La terapeuta. Read more information! He’s also the author of a few children books and self-help manuals.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 43 ¿Y SI REALMENTE PUDIERAS? Shef-help and coaching PILAR JERICÓ WHY THIS BOOK? Determination = Wish + Conviction (in that order). • Pilar Jericó is a recognized This formula is what Pilar Jericó’s new book is based on, as professional in this field. a good mentor, she’ll guide the reader through the path of • Her previous book, No motivation. The path has 6 phases: 1. Saying no to hidden miedo was a best seller benefits; 2. Identifying what you want to say (or what with four editions. you don’t want to say); 3. Giving your dream a shape; 4. Building a specific and personalized strategy; 5. Looking for the necessary resources and 6. Persistence. Supported by many examples and case studies, the popular coach does an excellent job in this simple but deep book in which the readers will find strength and wisdom. 169 pages. Pilar Jericó holds a PhD in Management and a Degree in Rights sold to: Economic and Business Sciences. She completed her studies in Harvard Alienta (Spanish) University, UCLA and la Università No miedo di Firenze. She teaches at several Self Help and coaching universities and Business Schools All of us feel fear when we face changes or a specific in Spain and South America and is a work situation. However, talking about fear in the companies is taboo. Even though only positive usual lecturer in professional forums messages are accepted in companies reasoning; and gatherings. She is a partner in the behind the scenes (we find the cruel reality) the consultancy agency Inno Personas and competitiveness for the results, power, risk of dismissal and, of a coach in development of talent and course, fear. If this word makes you feel uncomfortable, maybe leadership. She has conducted projects it would be better to use anxiety, stress. All these emotions have in common is the fact that we feel them when we think we are for consultant firms both national and threatened by something external; also the fact that the cost of international. these feelings is high in our life. Rights sold to Planeta de Agostini (Catalan and Spanish) and Palgrave Macmillan (English).

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 44 NI FELICES NI PARA SIEMPRE Shef-help and coaching CLAY NEWMAN WHY THIS BOOK? This book dismantles the current hypocrisy of this slavish • A must-read book to unders- routine, and what we find is a couple. tand why nowadays rela- Through sarcasm, irony and provocation, this book aims tionships fail. to remove the pillars on which we have been conceiving • Clay Newman’s long-awaited relationships. new book! So, the goal is for the reader to understand why getting emotional is a result of the different dimensions of marriage. It’s also a snapshot of what men and women need from each other and how to work in order to build truly succesful and sustainable links. In short, it is a very pleasant and easy to read book that Rights sold to: encourages awkward conversations, but necessary to 171 pages Clay Newman (New York, 1956) hit reinvent the way we love and are loved. Penguin Random House bottom when he was very young and (Spanish) overcame his troubles by a self-taught process of self-discovery. That’s why, at the age of twenty-four he renounced the counsel of psychiatrists El prozac de Séneca and the help of antidepressants. He Self Help and coaching then undertook a solitary journey This book is a medication. Before consuming it, read the that led him to travel for seven years entire prospect. Never before have we been so rich in a material sense, and so poor spiritually. This book promotes through Latin America, Africa and stoic philosophy and provides the necessary dose of Asia in search of transformative wisdom to learn how to be happy. Clay Newman defends that values such experiences and useful knowledge to as humility, self-acceptance, compassion, and confidence, among others, give a new meaning to his existence. are inherent to the human condition. An expert in Transpersonal Psychology, Perennial Philosophy, and Enneagram, Rights sold to Penguin Random House (Spanish), Plato (Serbian), Patakis (Greek), Marcador (Portuguese), Best seller (Brazilian), First (French). he teaches at several universities.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 45 GUÍA PARA LA VIDA DE TYRION LANNISTER Coaching LAMBERT OAKS WHY THIS BOOK? What makes Tyrion Lannister the most charismatic and • This book condenses beloved character of HBO’s Game of Thrones? Tyrion’s way of life throu- Usually called “the Imp” or “the Halfman”, he is one gh his bigger life mottos. of the most intelligent and less conformist characters • It is a summary of sharp- of George R.R. Martin’s saga, and his eloquence and ness with great dose of mental alertness make up for his low height. He does sarcasm that will delight not feel inhibited to say what he thinks or to do what Tyrion’s fans. he wants, and he always faces whomever he considers • Bloggers love it! without feeling daunted by them. Being a dwarf, a non-desired son of a powerful man, a brother to two almost perfect twins, Tyrion has always Rights sold to: been fighting to find his place in a cruel world that 232 pages. wants to leave him apart. He is the perfect example of Ediciones B (Spanish) Lambert Oaks is a psychologist and what resilience is. Charm, polite, keen and cunning, he also writes TV reviews for some can be cruel with his enemies, but also empathize with influential online magazines. With those who are alienated and abused. this book he has combined this two Watch the Booktrailer! passions. MORE REASONS WHY

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

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 46 FRANCESC MIRALLES & IKIGAI HÉCTOR GARCÍA (Kirai) Self Development WHY THIS BOOK? The Japanese say everybody has an ikigai, a reason to • Francesc Miralles is the au- live. Some have found it and are aware of their ikigai, thor of the bestseller Amor others have it inside, but are still looking. This is one en Minúscula. of the secrets for a long, young and happy life like the • Héctor García (Kirai) has sold people of Okinawa live, the most long-lived island in more than 200.000 books the world. and has an influence in his The mission of this book is to help you find it, also to own social networks. discover many keys of Japanese philosophy to a healthy • Second edition in less than body, mind and spirit. A book that brings us closer to two weeks! the secrets of the hundred-year-old Japanese people • Rights sold in more than 20 for a healthy and happy life. languages. Francesc Miralles has been awarded It offers practical tools for the reader to discover his 192 pages with several prestigious literary personal ikigai, his reason to live. awards and lots of his books, both for young readers and the adults, 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 (Hebrew) Read the rian) (Latvian) Penguin (English - USA) English Sample! Patakis Publishers (Greek) Cappelen Damm (Norwe- Héctor García, born in Valencia in Leda Books(Czech) Intrinseca (Brazilian) gian) 1981. He lives in Tokyo since 2004 Offer on the table ArtsPeople (Danish) Vulkan (Serbian) (Portuguese) and his webpage kirainet.com, with Boekerij (Dutch) Muza (Polish) more than a million monthly visits, is a Pegasus (Estonian) Humanitas (Romanian) worldwide reference in Japanese pop Universe Poche (French) Alpina (Russian) culture. The author of the book Un Gummerus (Finnish) Norstedts (Swedish) Allegria/Ullstein (German) Indigo Kitap (Turkish) Geek en Japón, which sold more than

200.000 copies.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 47 SHAKESPEARE PARA ENAMORADOS Self-coaching WHY THIS BOOK? ALLAN PERCY Shakespeare para enamorados is a Shakesperian • Allan Percy has sold more therapy for the longing heart. than 1.500.000 copies only Among all the great authors in world literature, none in Brazil and his books studied the mysteries of love in such depth and from have been translated to 10 such a lucid perspective as William Shakespeare. His languages. works are still a powerful tool to understand the • More than 15 editions boundless secrets of our heart. From love at first sight in countries like Brazil or Greece. to disappointment, from the first kiss to impossible love, from commitment to jealousy, this book draws the Shakespearian science of love from the stage and verse anthologies in order to shed light over our daily 155 pages. lives and give answer to questions such as: How may Rights sold to: Allan Percy (California, 1959) is a the longing heart be treated? Can someone live a Editura Herald (Romanian) coaching expert and writer of self- lifelong romance? What is the secret to seduction? How Patakis (Greek) improvement manuals. During his to fight against jealousy? In conclusion, Shakespeare Penguin Random House (Spa- long career he has collaborated with para enamorados is a fresh and incredibly inspiring nish) such highly reputed professionals book for those who take love very seriously. Eksmo (Russian) as Elisabeth Kübler-Ross or Foster Sextante (Brazil) Hibbard, and his charm and Kreativni Centar (Serbian) sensitiveness have earned him many Coming Pena Yayinlari (Turquish) followers around the world. Currently, soon: Marcador (Portuguese) he also moonlights as a consultant for Platón para self-help publishers, while travelling soñadores all over the world seeking new sources of inspiration for his books. Einstein Nietzsche Kafka Hesse para despistados para estresados para agobiados para desorien- tados

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 48 young adult & children EL LIBRO DE LOS ROSTROS ANA ALONSO & Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? JAVIER PELEGRÍN “I had been thinking about it for a while. Maybe, • It talks about the social through Facebook it was easier for me to relate to networks and its dangers. other people. What if I became someone else, with a • If you don’t like who you fake name? It would be like starting from scratch — at are. Why not invent a least online. At the time I reckoned it was a brilliant character? idea, but now I think about what I did and see it like it • The reader identifies with really was: absolute stupidity.” the reality of the story. Being someone else on the Internet looks like a game. • It’s a book to entertain, So, if you don’t like who you are, why not make up a but also to learn about character? Or make up the person you really want to the dangers of the Inter- be? It’s easy, funny, with no consequences. But the 174 pages. net. Internet is not too different from real life: the fingers • Spanish publishers are Ana and Javier have teamed up to that press the keys are human fingers, attached to real proud to have Ana Alonso write a number of books, including people — people with faces, people with lives that can and Javier Pelegrín in their get entangled with yours, for good … or for evil. the fantasy & sci-fi series La llave del catalogue. Will you miss tiempo, which has been published by it? Editorial Anaya and translated into Rights sold to: several languages. In 2008, they were SM (Spanish) awarded the Barco de Vapor Prize El sueño de Berlín is La reina de cristal Byeolsoop (Korean) for El secreto de If. They also have a novel about Ana, a At the age of seven- written together, the trilogy Tatuaje teenager with OCD teen, all the young (translated into five languages) the (Obsessive-Compulsive people of Hydra go series Agencia Salamandra, and the Disorder), her over- through the ritual protective family and of the sea, but only graphic novel La ciudad transparente Coming her schoolmate Bruno, who finds out a few — mostly women — turn into (Bologna’s White Raven Prize in 2012), soon: about the problem and tries to help mermaids and discover the gift of their Book 3- ODIO among others book, translated into her. new condition: clairvoyance, memory, EL ROSA German and Portuguese. XII Anaya Award for Children and YA compassion… We follow the story of Literature. Kira, a young girl who will change their world.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 50 EXCALIBUR - NEW SERIE BRITANIA ANA ALONSO & Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? JAVIER PELEGRÍN Gwen, the heir of Britannia’s throne, runs away from • Because you have to bet the place the Saxons established as London with help on this series that will from a young knight, Lance. Together they will start a come into the publishing long escape followed closely by a Briton warrior called world with a BOOM. Mordred, who wants to hunt the princess for reasons • A crossover in which they don’t know. Coming soon! everything happens and During the trip, the two kids start a relationship that everything can happen. will cripple once they arrive at their destination, Aquae • This series has the perfect Sulis. Gwen will meet Arthur there. And besides their ingredients for a bestse- differences at the beginning, Gwen and Arthur will end ller. up getting along, and together they’ll start to look for • Penguin Random House’s the Excalibur sword. This sword holds the key to solve Rights sold to: bet of the year. Ana and Javier have teamed up to the mysterious origin of Britannia and to mend the SUMA (Spanish) write a number of books, including magic veil that protects the island, which Mordred is Penguin Random House the fantasy & sci-fi series La llave del trying to destroy. tiempo, which has been published by Editorial Anaya and translated into several languages. In 2008, they were La bruja del agua Grial Ávalon awarded the Barco de Vapor Prize The new balance reached in Bri- Lance gets a few visits from the king When Galahad found the Grail the for El secreto de If. They also have tannia thanks to the creation of the Pelés, who died in the battle in Mount Britannia simulation collapsed, written together, the trilogy Tatuaje Round Table tears apart when Gwenn Badón. That’s how he discovers that turning Arthur’s kingdom into “the is captured by Meleagant, who’s (translated into five languages) the Pelés lost the battle because he used Vain Land”. Mordred’s supporters taken to Gorr, the beta version of the the Grail, a mysterious object that series Agencia Salamandra, and the take the chance to reveal that simulation. Gwenn won’t take long to seems like it’s programmed to inter- graphic novel La ciudad transparente Gwenn was unfaithful with Lance. discover that the Ávalon ladies are be- fere with the Britannia simulation, When the truth comes out, Gwenn (Bologna’s White Raven Prize in hind this kidnapping, since they want significantly changing the perception decides to leave with Lance and get 2012), among others book, translated to test her to see if she has the gift to of all those who connect to it. away from Arthur. into German and Portuguese. become one of them.

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

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 52 LA LUNA DE HIELO SANTI BARÓ Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? La luna de hielo narrates the true story of a girl who fled from • Barcanova Award. prostitution. • The real case of a young woman who fled prostitu- The protagonist of this story, young Ileana, recalls very tion. vividly her origins in a village in the Romanian region of • The readers say: «A Moldavia, the poorest in the country. When she was only flawless novel, hard but fourteen years old, her parents sent her away with two hopeful, written brilliantly of her brothers to work in Bucharest, since they couldn’t and with honesty». support her. In Bucharest she found much more than • Because of the vibrating an underpayed job; there she found modelling agencies voice and the writing, this that could make her dreams come true. Thus begins the Santi Baró was born in Olesa de 192 pages. crossover will not leave Montserrat (Barcelona) on November story of a girl who, at sixteen, is harassed by a worldwide you aloof. 30, 1965. Very young, driven by his prostitution network. This is a story with fictional characters, • Two sisters that fight for experiences at the Passion of Olesa, scenes, settings and situations, but with a heart that beats their lives and are able to vigorously. he wanted to be a playwritter and an outdo themselves thanks actor… but things didn’t turn out the to their love. way he wanted and, at only sixteen, he found himself working as a jeweler at MORE REASONS WHY the workshop of his parents’ jewelry Rights sold to: shop. Little by little, nevertheless, • You will love this crossover for the intensity, hardness and realism. Barcanova (Catalan) having done all kinds of odd jobs, he • Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction: La luna de hielo narrates the SM (Spanish) has finally catched up with that old story of a girl who, at sixteen, is harassed by a worldwide prostitution network. dream, with the only difference that • This is a story with fictional characters, scenes, settings and situations, but he writes novels instead of plays, and with a heart that beats vigorously. he only interprets any characters in • Santi Baró is a renowned writer and is one of the most followed authors by the intimacy of family and friends. young readers. • If you want a hard story, contemporary and realistic La luna de hielo is the book that you are looking for.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 53 HUZIEL ROCÍO CARMONA Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? Huziel quiere decir te quiero (Huziel means I love you). • Rocío Carmona is one of Zoe is a shy college student who decides to prepare a paper the most popular authors on the language spoken in ancient Atlantis. For this, she of romantic YA in Spain. contacts a guy who claims that he sings in Atlantean. An • Her book La gramática incredible story that combines romance with action and del amor was translated fantasy that you can not miss. to Korean, Chinese, Ita- lian, Brazilian and Catalan. • The author’s light and delicate style. • The quick rhythm that Rocío Carmona is Chief Editor in Watch makes the reader crawl Urano and Tendencias, singer of the the booktrailer! through the pages. band Nikosia, and the author of the • The author’s clever use successful La gramática del amor. of an old resource to tell, Avid reader of romantic novels, she precisely, a modern story distilled in this unforgettable title the with echoes from the essence of the best works in the genre past. through an inspiring adventure. It • Rocío has been able to quickly became a bestseller, and was Robinson Girl El corazón de Hannah give it a modern, contem- translated into six languages. In her The day she turns 18, and Hannah is a girl living in an porary and lively touch second novel, El corazón de Hannah, after a party she doesn’t isolated Amish community that will be a treat for any she managed to reach great heights remember all that much, under the burden of its curious teenage reader. of emotion again. With Robinson Girl Ona wakes up on a para- stern, conservative and she won the Jaén Award for YA fiction disiacal beach. She walks ancient moral. Daniel is a through a desolate landscape and finally in 2013. Now she presents Huziel, an journalist and photographer who’s working admits the obvious: she is a castaway. on an illustrated article of her village. They unforgetable novel. Rights sold to: Soon she will realize that she is not alone: meet and fall under each other’s spell, but Domen, a young man of delicate appea- their parents forbid the relationship and La Galera (Spanish and rance and strange behavior, will welcome kick Daniel out from the village. Hannah will Catalan) her and show her the haunting mysteries leave her closed world and travel to New of the island. York facing a new world to reach Daniel. Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 54 EL OCTAVO CLAN JUSTINE EVANS Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? El octavo clan, a totally addictive novel. • 6,500 copies sold in Spain! Nobody remembers how it happened, just that the waters • Bloggers love it! More rose and devoured everything. Only the highest buildings than 40 reviews. still stand out of the sea. Titanium steel and glass that keep • The readers say: «I could defying the ocean, and the dangerous creatures that live in see everything that the it. author describes. It is a Inside these towers, in the city now known as Nyork, seven novel with a very original big clans are in dispute over the cherished “dry ground”, as and unusual atmosphe- well as over the even more scarce resources. It’s a fight to re». death. • After the success of El Oc- In the shadow of these seven big clans, however, there is yet 450 pages. tavo Clan, the publishers Justine Evans was born in Nebraska, another one, one that everyone believed exterminated, but bet on a second part. where she devoured the books that whose last members are refusing to succumb; a clan that, fell into her hands from an early in its struggle for survival, comes across the opportunity to English Rights sold to: age. Her passion for storytelling has change everything, to bring back hope to a world where Version persisted up to now, when she is nobody dares hoping for anything anymore. Ediciones B (Spanish Available devoted full time to write the stories and Catalan) she imagines. El octavo clan is her MORE REASONS WHY Rocco (Brazil) first novel. (Lapiz Azul) Portugal • From the agents of Divergent, Mortal Instruments and Percy Jackson & The Olimpians, comes a new bestseller. • The story of the survival of eight teens from the same clan, led by a young syren. They live in a hostile world, almost uninhabitable, devastated by a cata- clysm nobody remembers anymore. • If you missed Divergent, you have to read El octavo clan. • We don’t have to wait for the phenomenon; we have to create the phenome- Read the reviews! non together. • Because when reading we saw that el octavo clan has all the ingredients to become the new bestseller of the moment.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 55 EL UNIVERSO EN TUS MANOS SONIA FERNÁNDEZ VIDAL Children WHY THIS NOVEL? & PILARÍN BAYÉS Eva doesn’t find her grandfather Leonardo in the study • A fun way to learn about where he works, but she sees a strange shaped device. our universe. The grandfather is an inventor, and always explains science to his • Created by Sonia Fer- granddaughter. nández-Vidal, author of Quantic Love and one of Eva decides to enter the ship without knowing that she will begin the the most respected scien- biggest adventure of her life: rescuing her grandfather while learning ce divulgators in Spain, amazing things about the place we live in, the Universe. and Pilarín Bayés, one of 93 pages. the most popular Catalan illustrators. Sonia Fernández-Vidal is a graduate in Physics, with a PhD in Information and Quantum Optics and a long career as a researcher. She writes fiction using her Rights sold to: scientific knowledge to enrich the plot. La Galera (Spanish and Her novels Quantic Love and La puerta Catalan) de los tres cerrojos (The Door with CharlieBooks (Korean) Three Locks) have been translated to six and eleven languages respectively.

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

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 56 LOS CANÍBALES GABRIEL GARCÍA DE Children WHY THIS NOVEL? ORO Leo has to write a paper about Don Quixote for class, but • Join Leo’s crazy adventu- when he is about to begin, his book falls into the cage of the res! zoo chimpanzees and gets into a gigantic mess. He unleashes • Children love García de a thrilling chase with Octavio, the monkey who’s obsessed Oro’s offbeat humor! with reading, the perfect Topgirl, the clown Ruben and the • A story that brings you technology freak Yumiko. closer to the adventures of a group of friends that Don Quixote contains the keys to save Octavio before Zebra will learn to read the clas- Men take him to the lab forever! sics having fun and living their characters’ adven- Gabriel Garcia de Oro was born in 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 primer libro que conseguí terminar de leer OgilvyOne, one of the leading agencies The first book I ever managed to finish Rights sold to: in relational marketing and Designer One, two, and up to three days without the reader opening the book. What was happening? Had he Anaya (Spanish) of renowned campaigns such as “The left prince Medialuna and Koriat, the seven hea- Monster”, for ING Direct. ded dragon, for good? Had he forgotten them? García de Oro combines this activity Coming All the characters in the story, even the book marker, were begin- with writing. He is the author of many ning to fear the worst; only the prince was keeping his calm. But, soon: books for children and young adults, how were they going to charm the reader to keep on reading if Drácula non fiction, and regular pieces for the they were not magicians? weekly supplement El País Semanal. “I write, he says, because I can’t help it. It is like a coughing fit, only quieter”.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 57 EL RASTRO BRILLANTE DEL CARACOL GEMMA LIENAS Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? • A page-turning thriller Sam is a 16 year-old with Asperger’s syndrome, a mild about emerging issues like variety of autism. He is awesome with computers, but has safety on the Internet, and few friends, and it’s hard for him to interact with others bullying. in ordinary life. One day he meets Martina, and his world • A book that lets us enter changes completely. He likes her a lot, but he doesn’t know the mind of an Asperger how to get closer to her, and soon discovers that a stalker teenager and helps us is putting her in serious danger. Sam will have to struggle to understand them. overcome his limits if he wants to help her, and unmask the • 3 editions in Spain! perp. • The readers say: «The story Gemma Lienas (Barcelona, 1951) is a 352 pages. is amazing, full of direct writer, and regular contributor to mass messages to help you media. She is the author of more than understand people who are different or network eighty books, some of them for young security. It is the perfect adults, such as Callejón sin salida, reading for a high school Así es la vida, Carlota (IBBY Mention to educate teenagers and of Honor, 1990), El diario violeta de make them enjoy reading at Carlota (Unesco Award for tolerance) the same time. I would have or Billete de ida y vuelta (La Odisea loved reading novels like this Award, 1998). She has also written in class». children’s books, such as the mistery series La Tribu de Camelot, and the Rights sold to: emotional education series El hada Menta, as well as books for adults, Fanbooks, Planeta Group including Atrapada en el espejo, El (Catalan) final del juego (Ramon Llull Award, Destino, Planeta Group 2003), and Anoche soñé contigo. (Spanish)

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 58 CARLOTA’S RED DIARY GEMMA LIENAS Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? • Carlota’s diaries are a Carlota, the main character in the novel, is decided to collection of books aimed investigate about human sexuality. With this objective, for a teenage audience, in she looks for information and goes to experts to talk about their school years, and that the topics that interest her. At the same time, her own combine fiction - Carlota’s experience is intertwined throughout the pages of her diary. story, her family and friends The complexity of feelings and the waking of hormones have - with non-fiction. Carlota confused over two boys: Koert and Flanagan. • It’s during our teenage years, between 13 and 17 years of age, when we ask ourselves more questions Gemma Lienas (Barcelona, 1951) is a 330 pages. about our social entourage writer, and regular contributor to mass and the rules that surround media. She is the author of more than us. eighty books, some of them for young • Many adults don’t talk about adults, such as Callejón sin salida, these topics with teenagers. Así es la vida, Carlota (IBBY Mention • Gemma Lienas’ books of Honor, 1990), El diario violeta de have been translated Carlota (Unesco Award for tolerance) into German, Brazilian, or Billete de ida y vuelta (La Odisea Slovakian, French, Galician, Award, 1998). She has also written Italian, Portuguese, Serbo- children’s books, such as the mistery Croatian, Basque and Greek. series La Tribu de Camelot, and the Los diarios de Carlota emotional education series El hada Non fiction books, for teenagers, told by a teen. Rights sold to: Carlota talks about gender equality, sex education, violence, drugs, humans rights... Menta, as well as books for adults, Edicions 62 (Catalan) including Atrapada en el espejo, El Destino (Spanish) final del juego (Ramon Llull Award, 2003), and Anoche soñé contigo. More information!

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 59 LA PUERTA OSCURA 1- EL VIAJERO DAVID LOZANO Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? Pascal, a shy and insecure teenager who’s sixteen years old, • This novel perfectly com- is getting ready for a Halloween costume party in Paris. But, bines entertainment and what was going to be a student party turns out to be a huge good literature. adventure, where the boy will cross a door that leads to a • The first title of the La shady and disturbing world. What danger is Pascal going to Puerta Oscura trilogy. face? • David Lozano is an expert in children’s literature. • An adventure where the main characters will disco- ver a gloomy and distur- David Lozano Garbala (Zaragoza, 656 pages. bing world, are you ready 1974), Bachelor of Law, Master in to go with them? Communication and with studies in Philology, has worked as a lawyer La puerta oscura series and currently combines writing Non fiction books, for teenagers. A great saga filled with terror and adventure. and teaching with his work as a Pascal discovers news worlds after crossing the door. Rights sold to: screenwriter for some Spanish Ediciones SM (Spanish) producers. In 2006 he won the XXVIII People Team (Hungarian) Gran Angular Youth Literature Prize La puerta oscura 2 - El mal La puerta oscura 3 - Réquiem Loewe Verlag (German) with the novel Donde surgen las Pascal thought that his Due to the terrible circum- Adriano Salani (Italian) sombras, published in six countries. adventure as a Traveller had stances that surround him, In 2014 he was a finalist in the Edebé ended and that Mal had been Pascal is forced to cross the Children’s Literature Prize with his destroyed; but that wasn’t Dark Door again and dive into the truth at all, because new a battle to save his friends novel El ladrón de minutos. dangers are threatening the from a terrible destiny… Will He is a speaker at various seminars on boy and his lovely Michelle… the last Traveller be the only children’s literature for students and What horrific creatures will one who’s able to open the teachers in Spain and several Latin haunt him? Another book door to salvation? A thrilling American countries. from the exciting saga will end to this great saga filled trap you again from the be- with terror and adventure. ginning. Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 60 DONDE SURGEN LAS SOMBRAS DAVID LOZANO Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? Alex has disappeared with two other young men. What they • This novel perfectly com- have in common is being hooked to an online videogame that bines entertainment and was too real. With help from a Police inspector, Alex’s friends good literature. will begin a search filled with surprises through the darkest • David Lozano is the au- and most dangerous parts of the city. thor of La Puerta Oscura trilogy . • 2007 Gran Angular Prize. • A novel of mystery that shows the power of friendship and overco- David Lozano Garbala (Zaragoza, 288 pages. ming difficulties. 1974), Bachelor of Law, Master in • Dive into this YA thriller of Communication and with studies in atrocious murders waiting Philology, has worked as a lawyer to be solved. and currently combines writing and teaching with his work as a screenwriter for some Spanish producers. In 2006 he won the XXVIII Rights sold to: Cielo Rojo Gran Angular Youth Literature Prize Cielo Rojo, is a mysterious and intriguing story about friends- Ediciones SM (Spanish) with the novel Donde surgen las hip where love is above everything. The reader can also sombras, published in six countries. participate in the story thanks to the contents (music and In 2014 he was a finalist in the Edebé web pages) created for it. Children’s Literature Prize with his novel El ladrón de minutos.

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

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 61 99% FELIZ DORIAN LUCAS Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? For thousands of years, Oriental and Western philosophers • Pleasant, useful and enligh- have been looking for the answers to the same questions tening! that worry us today: What’s the secret to happiness? Are • The best recipes to reach ha- there any shortcuts to success? How can we discern real ppiness in our daily life. love? What can we do when everything seems to be against • A book that will give you us? Fresh, practical and amusing, also accompanied with fine the clues to move clo- illustrations, this book collects the best ideas from the most ser to happiness, while privileged minds of Human History to face any obstacle, learning from the great doubt or challenge that life will bring to us with philosophy. philosophers.

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

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 62 PULSACIONES FRANCESC MIRALLES & Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? JAVIER RUESCAS Elia just woke up from a coma and is a little lost. The • An internet phenomenon! last thing she remembers is a concert and a phrase: • More than 500 reviews! “I can’t give you your song back, but I can show • Javier Ruescas has 86.000 you how to dance like a fish.” Now that her parents Youtube followers. bought her a Smartphone , Elia finally has access • Francesc Miralles is one to Heartbits (an app like WhatsApp). We readers of the most acclaimed YA witness all their conversations. With the help of her authors in Spanish. best friend , Sue, Elia will attempt to remember the • 10 editions. three forgotten days and , meanwhile, will meet • Second part in May! Tommy , an American exchange student who comes Francesc Miralles has been awarded from Spain; Marion, a girl with a half burnt face 200 pages. with several prestigious literary attending group therapy, and Phoenix, a stranger Rights sold to: awards, lots of his books have become who loves aphorisms. SM (Spanish) bestsellers and have been translated English Cruïlla (Catalan) to more than 15 languages. The first novel written in whatsapp format Version Available Javier Ruescas is one of the most An Internet phenomenon Coming soon: brilliant young voices of YA literature Latidos in Spanish and a social network phenomenon.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 63 UN HIJO ALEJANDRO PALOMAS Crossover / Coral Novel WHY THIS NOVEL? Un hijo is a novel full of tenderness and intrigue for the • 5 editions in 3 months. readers of Una madre and The curious incident of the • Bloggers love it, more dog in the night-time. than 70 reviews, 40 of them in Goodreads and Guille is an introverted child with a permanent smile. Amazon. He only has one friend. So far, so good. But this calm • For readers from 14 to 99 facade hides the most fragile world, and a mystery to solve. The pieces are a father in crisis, an absent years old. mother, an intrigued teacher, and a psychologist who • Press and critics also love tries to understand what the child hides. it: «Guille stays forever in you, as real as any other A choral novel where there are mixed feelings, silences, 288 pages. child in your life. I read Alejandro Palomas is a graduate in gaps and an enthralling mystery. the novel two weeks ago English. He has translated Katherine and Guille is still here. No Mansfield, Gertrude Stein, Willa intention of leaving. It is a Cather and Jack London, among tremendous novel». others. He has written the screenplay Ojos de invierno, based on his novel Tanta vida (2008), whose rights were acquired by Filmax. In 2002 he was chosen New Talent FNAC for his novel El tiempo del corazón. In 2011 he Rights sold to: published El tiempo que nos une and La Galera (Spanish and El cel que ens queda. On that same Catalan) year, he was finalist to the Primavera Read a review in Neri Pozza (Italian) Award with El alma del mundo. His The first chapters in Abimo Publishers (Dutch) work has been translated into eight English English! languages. In 2014 he published Una madre and in 2015 Un hijo.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 64 EXO JORDI OLLOQUEQUI Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? Ziggy is an extraterrestrial teenager who loves the music • Learning biology has ne- of Earth, and wins the option to travel to our planet to find ver been so sexy! out more about it. He falls in love quite soon with a young • Rock, adventures and earthling biologist, but relationships with people from other biology. planets are completely forbidden. Through his investigations, • More than 6,000 copies we will learn some of the most important concepts of sold in Spain! biology… among the sound of laughter and sighs.

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

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 65 POR UNA SONRISA, UN BESO MOON RIVER Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? The Castaways’ Clan is back with new love stories, • A book about the impor- surprising discoveries and unexpected blows of fate. tance of making space for Víctor, Martina, Lauren, April and Max are closer than friendship and love in our ever… Especially Martina and Max: They are dating, at life. last! Her parents, though, won’t let her lead her own • A reader says: “A window life. Martina will have to fight for her dreams, but… to life”. will they be the same as Max’s? April is going through a hard time: she has to face her mother’s return alone. Víctor and she are in love, but with him in Boston and her in Barcelona, love could easily be overcome by distance… As for Lauren, she is on the brink of success: Moon River is the pseudonym of two 288 pages. authors who have joined forces to she has been casted for a television series that might write El Clan de los Náufragos (The either catapult her to stardom or be a total failure! Rights sold to: Castaways Clan). Moon grew up among Whatever happens, whomever they confront, nothing Montena, Penguin books by Enid Blyton and adventure will separate them… or, will it? Random House novels, dreaming of becoming one of (Spanish) their protagonists some day. Reaching adulthood, she decided to create worlds and characters with her own De aquí a la luna y vuelta words so she would not have to let go The lives of Víctor, Martina, Lauren, April, and Max are going of those summer evenings on treasure adrift. Because of that, when destiny joins their paths, they islands and tree houses. don’t let it go… and found The Castaways Clan: a piece of River is a journalist and the author of solid ground where they can share their doubts and hopes, many YA novels. As a kid, he was an grow up, beat their ghosts, and even fall in love. However, they don’t constitute a compact and unbreachable breakwater; avid reader of the Three Detectives they are five independent blocks… and quite different form each other. Like and the Secret Seven’s exploits. He in an impossible sculpture, one on top of the other, they hold on by chance, found out that he loved writing YA facing the wind. Read the reviews! novels after a long trip to Asia.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 66 EL LADRÓN DE LAS CROQUETAS PEDRO RIERA Children WHY THIS NOVEL? ¡A STORY WITH A LOT OF HUMOR AND BECHAMEL! • Humor is very important in this book. I will never forget the day we found out there was a • Children love Pedro Rie- croquette thief standing between us. ra’s stories. • Because kids and parents The problem with croquette thieves is that they’re not will feel identified with as easy to identify as vampires or mummies. And when this story of humor and you discover what they are, it’s too late, ¡Your croquet- bechamel. tes are damned! • A fun book that’s bound to entertain and also tea- Pedro Riera was born in 1965, A croquette thief won’t have enough with stealing your ches the value of sharing in Barcelona. He has a degree in croquettes. He’ll eat them in front of you to make you and how important it Information Science. He has worked suffer as much as possible. is not to play with your as a producer in television, publicity food. and films. In 1997 he moved to Bosnia, Includes the DEFINITE CROQUETTE RECIPE in the end of • The text goes along with where he lived for two years working the book (if the thief doesn’t steal it first). expressive drawings that for an international organization, will be perfect for the rea- writing for television and radio, and der to interact with. also as freelance photographer for Associated Press and some NGO. Thanks to his experience in the Balkans, Rights sold to: he wrote two novels: Heridas de Anaya (Spanish) Guerra, 2004; and Un alto en el Campo de los Mirlos, 2005, both published by Editorial Verbigracia. In 2007, he published La leyenda del Bosque sin nombre with Alfaguara, his first YA novel that won the CCEI in 2008.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 67 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. 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 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 has also won the most important El dueño de las sombras Spanish awards. Her last adult’s novel, Someone observes the Albás sisters from the Desire for chocolate, was awarded dark. He knows why Natalia Albás disappea- Rights sold to: the Ramon Llull Prize 2014, and has red when she was just a girl and why her sister been translated into more than ten Rebecca disappeared now that she’s already Ediciones B languages. a teen. When Rebecca, presumed dead, starts (Spanish) sending threatening messages, a disturbing investigation will open to clear up the mystery. Why does the Albás family seem cursed? Jealousy mistakes, anathemas... many could be the cause but just one is the true one. But the only one who knows the terrifying truth is El Dueño de las Sombras. A fascinating novel that opens up to the afterlife. Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 68 WILLIAM WHY THIS NOVEL? CARE SANTOS Young Adult A fun approach to the life of “El bard” from Stratford- • An author awarded with Upon-Avon, and with a sense of humor, for readers the Ramon Llull Prize from 0 to 99 years of age. The illustrations are by 2014, the most presti- Dani Cruz, who’s been able to show the spirit of gious in Catalan language. Shakespeare’s times and move it to the modern • Care Santos is an author reader’s sensitivity. with a vast work and ex- perience. • Care Santos is the author of numerous books for YA and childrens. Care Santos was born in Mataró, • Learn about Shakespeare Barcelona, in 1970. She is the author in an entertaining and of a vast work that includes novels, educational way. short stories and literature both for • Dive into the William phe- young readers and adults. She has nomenon. received the many literature awards such as the Narrative Prize of Alcalá Coming de Henares or the Alfonso de Cossío soon! Short Story Prize. In the children and young reader’s literature field, she Rights sold to: has also won the most important Editorial Base (Spanish Spanish awards. Her last adult’s novel, and Catalan) Desire for chocolate, was awarded the Ramon Llull Prize 2014, and has been translated into more than ten languages.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 69 LAURA CHEF CARE SANTOS Children Series WHY THIS NOVEL? Laura is a 10 year old girl who wants to be a cook. She • An author awarded with has two close friends: Estela, her best friend, and Nico, the Ramon Llull Prize with whom she is secretly in love (although he does 2014, the most presti- not pay any attention to her). This summer, Estela and gious in Catalan langua- Laura will take a cooking course and are very excited . ge. But soon they discover that neither the teacher nor the • Care Santos is an author recipes are quite normal and they cause on those who with a vast work and try them amazing effects... experience. • Care Santos is the au- thor of numerous books Care Santos was born in Mataró, for adults and also, for Barcelona, in 1970. She is the author YA and children. of a vast work that includes novels, • A series where the main short stories and literature both for character wants to and young readers and adults. She has is going to learn to cook received the many literature awards surrounded by adven- such as the Narrative Prize of Alcalá Coming tures de Henares or the Alfonso de Cossío in June! • Cooking is in style and Short Story Prize. In the children and kids love it, what’s young reader’s literature field, she better than this book to has also won the most important bring them closer to this Spanish awards. Her last adult’s novel, art? Desire for chocolate, was awarded the Ramon Llull Prize 2014, and has been translated into more than ten languages. Rights sold to: Grupo Editorial Bruño (Spanish)

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 70 YES, WE DANCE ESTHER SANZ Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? Yes, we dance is the story of Martina, Sofia and Liu, three • A series that will make fans of the BB Brothers. After their success in New York, the you dance! Saturn Stars live like celebrities in their own neighborhood, • Martina, Sofia and Liu with all the problems that it carries. They can’t go out to the are examples of endu- street without the neighbors taking pictures with them and, rance and passion. at school, classes are constantly interrupted with questions • Books that create rea- about their adventures with the BB Brothers. ders! • We already have the When the summer comes, the tour with their idols comes fourth book. with it, they feel like their biggest dream is accomplished, but they can’t imagine the setbacks they’ll encounter on Esther Sanz (Barcelona, 1974) holds a 144 pages. degree in Journalism. She has written the road with the most famous brothers in the planet: The Yes We Dance 4: for women’s magazines and currently caravan they’ll travel and sleep in will suffer all kinds of The price of fame Rights sold to: works as an Editor. Her greatest passion mishaps; they will be abandoned on the road when the Montena, Penguin Ran- since she was a teenager is romantic “road manager” flees with the money and the shows won’t dom House literature. After publishing Vive rápido, have the desired quality because Brian and Brandon fight all siente despacio (Live Fast, Feel Slowly, the time, sleep until late and don’t feel like practicing. (Spanish) Talismán, 2007) and Los siete soles de la Turquia (Teen Publishing) felicidad (The Seven Suns of Happiness, Umbriel, 2011), she engaged in a new adventure with the young adults’ trilogy El bosque (The Forest) — an absorbing romantic thriller with specks of fantasy. After a brief creative lapse, in 2014 she published Si el amor es una isla (If Love Is an Island, Destino), a novel inspired by the master works of British Romanticism. Now she presents the series Yes, we dance. Yes We Dance 1: Yes We Dance 2: Yes We Dance 3: ¡Together to win! London New York

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 71 Si el amor es una isla ESTHER SANZ Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? Luisa travels to a small island in the English Channel where • Secrets, adventures and time stopped centuries ago. There she will work at a stately confrontations give way to hotel managed by a mysterious man, who rules it with a a torrid romance that has firm hand and strict rules. Disobedience is punishable, but its sources in the great Luisa’s curiosity is stronger than her will, and she finds her- romantic novels of the self caught up in bizarre situations and dark games devised nineteenth century. by her boss. Her audacity will be punished, but the mystery • A spellbinding story of surrounding the owner will also bring rewards. secrets, love and mystery, set on an island hidden from time. Esther Sanz (Barcelona, 1974) holds a 294 pages. • “Make sure you have this degree in Journalism. She has written book on your shelves.”- for women’s magazines and currently Cuore Magazine. works as an Editor. Her greatest passion • “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, Coming soon the spin-off of Si el amor es una isla twarming story to get Talismán, 2007) and Los siete soles de la published by V&R (Latin America) 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. Planeta (Spanish) After a brief creative lapse, in 2014 V&R (Latin America) she published Si el amor es una isla Watch the Booktrailer! (If Love Is an Island, Destino), a novel inspired by the master works of British Romanticism. Now she presents the series Yes, we dance.

Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2015 // Page 72 LOS SECRETOS DEL VIEJO HORACE CLIFF SEYMOUR Young Adult WHY THIS NOVEL? Scott is 27 years old and the only thing he can brag about • An emotive novel about: until now is to have failed in each and every aspect of his friendship, life and second life. After giving up two degrees, he has passed through chances. different jobs without taking roots in any of them. Love has • A vital and fresh novel. been a constant failure for him, too. Since his last girlfriend • Get hooked to “the game abandoned him, Scott feels his life as an endless desert. of la Oca” and you’ll un- With his self-esteem on minimum, he is forced to accept a derstand the art of life. simple -and apparently underpaid- job in his own building. • Nube de tinta (Penguin Since the first day, the hermit-like tenant of the attic will ask Random House) bet on Scott to play snakes and ladders with him, which Scott has this novel that shines and not played since he was a kid. Very soon, Scott will discover 208 pages. teaches the value of life. Cliff Seymour is a Journalist. He spends that the elder man uses the squares of the board to give him • The first crossover that the whole year working and living essential lessons -one every morning- for his life. This simple sees eye to eye to young along the US, Japan and Southern pastime (created by the Greek soldiers during Troy’s siege) adults and adults who still will help Horace teach Scott the art of living and how to fix Europe. From an early age, he was haven’t confronted their those mistakes that led him to failure until now. While the deeply attracted by the symbolism fears, and help them to mornings pass by among coffees, rounds and conversations. of the games and their relation to face life’s challenge. the realization of the challenges and stages of life. Scott will begin to understand the cause and effect that has given shape to his present. However, Horace will also advise him that knowing the rules of the game is not enough. Once you are aware of the traps and dangers, the labyrinths and shortcuts, you must be brave enough to move forward on the Read the first Rights sold to: board of life with courage and sense of adventure. pages! Nube de tinta, Penguin Random House (Spanish)

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