Spring, Summer And So On

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FOREIGN RIGHTS CATALOGUE 2014-2015
Content
Fiction
Non-Fiction
L’ALTRA (The Other One)
Marta Rojals ................................................................................................................................................ 09
AFERRADA A LA VIDA (Clung To Life)
Giovanna Valls ........................................................................................................................................ 33
PRIMAVERA, ESTIU, ETC (Spring, Summer And So On)
Marta Rojals ................................................................................................................................................ 10
BREVE HISTORIA DE LA ÉTICA
(A Brief History Of Ethics) Victoria Camps ........................................ 34
I DEMÀ, EL PARADÍS (And Tomorrow, Paradise)
Antoni Vives .............................................................................................................................................. 11
LA EDAD DE HIELO (The Ice Age)
Diego López Garrido .................................................................................................................. 35
MARIONA
Pilar Rahola
.................................................................................................................................................
13
OLOR DE CLOR SOTA LA ROBA
(Chlorine Odour Under The Clothes)
Maria Guasch ............................................................................................................................................ 14
LA IZQUIERDA NECESARIA (The Necessary Left)
Josep Ramoneda .............................................................................................................................. 36
POR QUÉ NOS EXTINGUIREMOS
(Why Will We Become Extinct)
Francisco Lozano Winterhalder .............................................................................. 37
LA LÒGICA DELS PANYS (The Logic Of Keyholes)
Francisco José Vélez ....................................................................................................................15
DUAL
Caridad Puig .................................................................................................................................................16
Crime Fiction
Practical Non-Fiction
HERÈNCIES COL·LATERALS (Collateral Legacies)
Llort ............................................................................................................................................................................. 23
LA NOIA D’ABERDEEN (The Aberdeen Girl)
Quim Aranda ............................................................................................................................................. 24
EL CASTILLO DE SAINT-CHARTIER
(The Castle At Saint-Chartier) Ivo Fornesa ........................................ 25
UNA NOVELA DE BARRIO (A Neighbourhood Novel)
González Ledesma ......................................................................................................................... 26
HISTORIA DE DIOS EN UNA ESQUINA
(The Story Of God In A Corner) González Ledesma
......
27
LA DAMA DE CACHEMIRA (The Cashmere Lady)
González Ledesma ......................................................................................................................... 27
UNA BALA PARA EL COMISARIO VALTIERRA
(A Bullet For Comissar Valtierra) Sergio Bufano ..................... 28
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TAPAS, LA COCINA DEL TICKETS
(Tapas, The Tickets Recipes) Albert Adrià ........................................... 43
COCINA VEGANA MEDITERRÁNEA
(Vegan Mediterranean Cuisine) Laura Kohan ................................ 44
LA CUINA CATALANA (Catalan Cooking)
Josep Lladonosa ................................................................................................................................. 45
CORPUS DE LA CUINA CATALANA
(Corpus Of Catalan Cooking) ..................................................................................... 45
TERRA DE TOMÀQUETS (Tomato Land)
Cristina Viader I Pere Romanillos .......................................................................... 45
QUINES COSES MÉS ESTRANYES QUE MENGEM A
CATALUNYA (The Strange Things We Eat In Catalunya)
Manel Guirado .......................................................................................................................................... 45
NO TE OLVIDES DE TU MEMORIA
(Don’t Forget Your Memory) Llorenç Guilera ................................ 46
ÉTICA PARA ALICIA (An Ethic For Alicia)
Luis Racionero ......................................................................................................................................... 47
Content
LA DIETA QUE ACTIVA TU VIDA
(The Diet That Boosts Your Life)
Josep Lluís Berdonces ............................................................................................................. 48
Collectable Editions
EVERYTHING IS MATHEMATICAL ................................................................... 70
GREAT IDEAS OF SCIENCE ......................................................................................... 71
HISTORY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC............................................................. 72
EL HUERTO FAMILIAR ECOLÓGICO
(How To Grow Organic Vegetables With Your Family)
Mariano Bueno ....................................................................................................................................... 49
EL HUERTO ECOLÓGICO EN MACETAS
(Potted Ecological Garden)
Hortensia Lemaître Y José T. Gállego ........................................................... 50
VIVIR SIN TÓXICOS (Living Without Toxics)
Elisabet Silvestre .................................................................................................................................. 51
“HOW TO HEAL”
THE BIG SERIES ON NATURAL HEALTH ......................................... 52
Children’s Literature
CUENTOS CLASICOS (Classical Tales),
Various Authors .................................................................................................................................... 60
Magazine Books
MAGAZINE BOOKS........................................................................................................................ 73
EL SOMNI DE TÀNGER (Tangier’s Dream),
Xavier Vernetta ...................................................................................................................................... 62
TODO EL MUNDO CUENTA
(Tales from Every Corner of the Earth), J.M.Hernández
Ripoll & Aro Sáinz de la Maza ...................................................................................... 63
CUENTOS DE HADAS DEL MUNDO
(Fairy Tales from All Over the World),
Illustrated By Sara Manzano ............................................................................................ 64
CUENTOS DE BRUJAS DEL MUNDO
(Witch Tales From All Over The World),
Illustrated By Sara Manzano ............................................................................................ 65
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Introduction to the group
RBA Libros:
Following RBA’s consolidation in the magazines and collectable
editions publishing industry at home and abroad, the group,
led by its chairman Ricardo Rodrigo, decided to make further
advances by establishing a new division, RBA Libros, to channel
and strengthen the RBA Group’s activities in the realm of
publishing and marketing books intended for sale in bookshops.
The seed for this project was sown in 1997 with the purchase
of the Integral publishing house, a pioneer in the publication of
books on health and personal development. This was followed
by the marketing and sale of National Geographic books. In
2000, RBA moved into the Spanish literature market by creating
collections of Fiction – including its celebrated “Serie Negra”
collection – and Non Fiction. In order to boost literature in
Catalan, it completed its purchase of La Magrana publishing
house that same year, thereby adding authors of tremendous
literary standing to its catalogue.
This division is not only working to develop new imprints but has
also turned its attention to literature for children and teenagers.
In 2004 the company purchased one of the most important
firms in the publishing of adolescent books, Molino, and the
following year acquired Serres, publishers of children’s books.
As a result, RBA now ranks as the leaders in this field. In 2006,
the company bought one of the most prestigious publishing
houses in this literary area, Gredos, which has the largest library
of Greek and Latin classics, as well as the María Moliner, Casares
and Coromines dictionaries plus other works.
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In order to promote its literary imprints, the company
established the RBA Crime Novel Award, the most important
award worldwide for this particular genre in terms of its value
(¤125,000). Prize-winning authors include Francisco González
Ledesma, Andrea Camilleri, Philip Kerr, Harlan Coben, Patricia
Cornwell, Michael Connelly and Arnaldur Indridason.
That same year, the Gaziel Prize for Biographies and Memoirs
was reinstated. Awarded in conjunction with the Grupo Godó,
this prize has been given to works such as the biographies of
Martí de Riquer, Carmen Laforet, Terenci Moix and Ramon Trias
Fargas, and the memoirs of Luis Racionero and Enrique Barón.
In addition, the RBA Group, together with the Grupo Hotusa
and the University of Barcelona, established the Eurostars Travel
Narrative Award in 2005.
With regard to the Catalan imprint, La Magrana added the
Odissea Readers’ Prize and the Crims de Tinta Prize for crime
writing to its catalogue as a way to discover new talented
writers and to promote literature in Catalan.
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Fiction titles
Fiction
MARTA ROJALS · Novel
The other one
March 2014 · 336 pages
L’altra is the much-awaited second novel
by Marta Rojals, a striking, unusual
voice that has won over thousands
of readers with her début novel
Primavera, estiu, etcètera, published
in 2011, currently in its 9th edition
and constantly recommended by
bloggers and booksellers. Finalist of the
prestigious Joan Crexells Award.
6,000-copy first edition
sold out in two weeks.
Anna is a graphic designer in her late thirties.
She lives in Barcelona with her partner, Nel,
whom she both needs and pushes away. She and
Nel belong to a generation that grew up in an
upcoming society and has been dragged down
by the economic crisis in Spain: those who have
gone from promising futures to losing their jobs,
their homes, their chances of travel. The crisis has
hit home, Nel is unemployed, his sister moves
in with them, and meanwhile, Anna meets Teo,
a deaf 21-year-old boy with whom she finds it
surprisingly easy to communicate and begins a
purely sexual relationship. What for?
The economic crisis, motherhood, isolation
and social networks, secrets, and the end and
the nuances of desire are all subjects that recur
throughout the novel.
With a fresh, personal style, a sense of humor, a
fine eye for detail, and brilliant dialogues, Marta
Rojals unfolds the present and the past like a
precise mechanism revolving around a main
character full of sharp edges, and producing
an extraordinary novel about secrets, human
relationships, and the need to forget.
Marta Rojals. Born in La Palma d’Ebre (Ribera d’Ebre), Marta Rojals graduated in architecture at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. She majored in Theory, History, and Criticism,
the perfect excuse for quickly tucking away her portfolio and discovering that there was a
whole wide world beyond the construction industry. She is currently working as a translator
and editor, writes fiction for a variety of publications, and posts her opinions on Vilaweb. She
is the author of Primavera, estiu, etcètera (2011).
RIGHTS SOLD TO: Rizzoli (Italy) and Uitgeverij Signatuur (The Netherlands)
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Fiction
MARTA ROJALS · Novel
Spring, Summer And So On
June 2011 · 368 pages
As every year for All Saints, Èlia returns to
her village to make the obligatory visit to the
cemetery and spend some time with her father
and aunt. This year everything is a bit strange. She
is 34 now, her boyfriend just dumped her and the
crisis has noticeably lowered the workload at her
architecture firm where she works at in Barcelona.
The weekend off seems like a good opportunity to
think things over and get life back in order. After
having been away for a long time for university
studies and work, Èlia feels increasingly at home
with her people: her laconic father, her distrustful
aunt and the inquisitive yet friendly neighbors.
And it is that sometimes we only begin to see and
understand things when we stop in our tracks and
start looking around us...
“
A novel about love,
friendship, family, work,
lost opportunities and the
possibility to find your
place in the world.
“
Treated as an insider tip in blogs
and catalan internet pages the novel
celebrated a spectacular take-off, selling
three editions in only 4 months!
Narrated in a succession of short brushstrokes
and flashbacks, “Spring, Summer, and so on...” is
a tragically comic novel with a touch of the new
generation. At the same time the novel catches
the spirit and customs of a small Catalan village
near the river Ebro.
Marta Rojals. Born in La Palma d’Ebre (Ribera d’Ebre), Marta Rojals graduated in Architecture at
the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. She majored in Theory, History, and Criticism, the perfect
excuse for quickly tucking away her portfolio and discovering that there was a whole wide world
beyond the construction industry. She is currently working as a translator and editor, writes fiction
for a variety of publications, and posts her opinions on Vilaweb. She is the author of Primavera,
estiu, etcètera (2011).
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Fiction
Antoni Vives
Premi Llibreter 2014
(Booksellers Award 2014)
A young girl from Barcelona, Teresa, arrives in Fernando Poo, in Equatorial
Guinea, in the 1950s to start a new life with her husband, the landowner Alberto
Cirer. Teresa feels finally free, finally happy. By means of her relationships with
Alberto’s ex lover, with the witch Xangó and the black woman Teodosia, with
Manel and Tià, a father and a son who have fled from Cadaqués some years
before, Teresa will meet a Teresa that she didn’t know it existed.
At the same time, an amazing fresco of the isolated Cadaqués of the 1920s and
the 1930s plunges the reader into the latent tensions between the factions in
the village, which show up little by little, encouraged by personal envies and
the unavoidable presence of witches.
And, in a touching twist, the second part of the book takes the reader to the
Cadaqués of the 1960s, with the liberal summer vacationers, the uninhibited
atmosphere, the artists, the parties, and so on. Teresa goes there with her teen
daughter, Janet, and a circle of secrets begun half a century ago closes itself.
EL SOMNI DE FARRINGDON ROAD
Farringdon Road Dream, Antoni Vives’ fictional debut, is a Civil War epic poem, as well as
an addictive love story, a story of adventures and action. In times of disbelief we should allow
ourselves to be caught up in the dreams of freedom and justice coming from a generation fighting
for its beliefs, powerfully described in the form of the International Brigade.
LES BANDERES DE L’1 D’ABRIL
February 2012 · 528 pages
The day the Civil War ends, the day Franco’s army enters Chinchón, gathers three characters
who are to cross paths through the next fifteen years. Revenges, fears, ambition and ideals are
at stake and decide on a new order, which might be new only in appearance. The author draws
the portrait of the deep post-war wounds: loneliness and cynicism, the hard road to hope, the
triumph of the arrivistes and the inevitable end that always comes to all flags, being so empty,
so trifling when years go by.
Antoni Vives (Barcelona, 1965) is the author of several essays, like Catalunya, entre la perplexitat
i el somni (2002), El nacionalisme que ve (Award Octubre d’Assaig 2003), Barcelonies: lletra de
batalla per Barcelona (2006) and Per què faig de polític. Carta oberta als meus fills (2007). He is
also author of El somni de Farringdon Road (2010), his first fiction book, awarded with the Premi
Crexells of the Ateneu Barcelonès, and Les banderes de l’1 d’abril (2012), both published in La
Magrana.
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Fiction
El carrer de l’embut has sold
more than 15,000 copies
Pilar Rahola
MARIONA • Novel
October 2014 · 288 pages · Catalan
In 182
1824, in the town of Gràcia, the young Mariona is about to get married.
Her life,
lif quiet and simple, is nice, but the years to come are those of a
tumultuous century. And this century carries the heavy and latent threat of
tumult
levies, the feared levies that take the children away from their families to
the lev
die far away from home. And Mariona decides to do her best to avoid this.
Through
rou her life and adventures, and those recalled and told around her,
witness riots and repression, the industrialization of the country and the
we wit
general strike, the falling of the walls, the arrival of the train and the
first ge
opening of the Liceu. Riots, the Carlist wars, the ideals of the Republic and
openin
Freemasonry, and the national rebirth. The country is changing and
the Fr
Mariona, with her awareness of being a woman and a citizen, is changing
Mario
too.
great historical fresco of the Catalunya of the 19th century.
A grea
FUNNEL STREET • Novel
March 2013 · 256 pages · Catalan
A tribute to the greats of the Republic, the feminism of the 20s and 30s and the cultural effervescence
of the time. From the point of view of two characters about to sail for Cuba, the author takes us on a
stroll through an extraordinary web of relations and through some of the key events of the 20s and
30s in Catalonia and Cuba. Using the technique of collage and alternating points of view to portray
a kaleidoscopic universe, Pilar Rahola evokes a fascinating world that is crumbling.
THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF SPAIN
June 2011 · 280 pages · Catalan
This book is not about a clash of civilizations, but aims to mediate between civilization and
barbarism.
And if barbarism includes all those who use religion and God to justify hatred,
b
slavery,
bigotry and terrorism, civilization includes all those who fight for freedom.
s
Pilar Rahola (Barcelona, 1958) comes from a Republican and anti-Fascist family, and works
as a journalist and writer. As a former politician in ERC her areas of interest include women’s
rights, international human rights, and animal rights. She has covered the Eritrean-Ethiopian
War, the Balkan Wars, the Gulf War, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Rahola is married and has
three children, two of them adopted: one from Barcelona, the other from Siberia.
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Fiction
MARIA GUASCH · Historical Fiction
Chlorine Odour Under The Clothes
September 2014 · 160 pages
Julia is eleven and has a long summer ahead. An
only child, quiet and observant, she is always
looking for the company of Silvia, her teen cousin,
and David, a summer vacationer who is fourteen
years old and stays at Silvia’s home with his family.
But her cousin and David have a world of their
own, and Julia is not always allowed. When her
parents decide to leave her and travel, she must
settle at her aaunt and uncle’s, under the same
roof as Silvia and
a David, summer promises to be
really different.
something real
book, Maria Guasch unveils herself as
With this book
an author with a precise and tuned voice. Who
grow in the margins, the ellipses and
lets her story gr
the tiny details,
details in the choice of the point of view,
without forcing the interpretation. Settled in the
beginning of the
th 1990s, Olor de clor sota la roba
has some elem
elements of a generational novel in the
almost tangible evocation of childhood summers
of a quarter o
of a century ago, but, above all, it
is an immersi
immersion on someone’s inner thoughts,
someone who doesn’t have a life of her own yet,
but who devours
devou everything she sees. An account
to remember h
how we love, want or hate when we
are eleven year
years old.
Maria Guasch (Begues, 1983) has a degree on Media Communications and works as a
screenwriter and documentalist in projects aimed at museums and exhibits. She has also
worked once in a while for several publishing houses. Olor de clor sota la roba is her second
novel after La neu fosa (2013).
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Fiction
FRANCISCO JOSÉ VÉLEZ · Novel
The Logic Of Keyholes
October 2013 · 144 pages · Catalan
“
“
Georges Bataille used to say that literature is
essential or is nothing, and that Evil, expressed
by literature, has, to put it someway, the highest
value. The alliance between this value, in the
kaleidoscopical plurality of all its faces, and irony
and a certain subtle sense of humour furnishes the
twelve short stories that shape Francesc J. Vélez’s
La lògica dels panys.
A book that makes you think
and enjoy thinking
What moves men, since we are children, towards
the abyss of evil? What is the terrible hidden seed
of fear which ends up leading a grown woman to
turn the safety and protection of her home into a
religion? What’s left of the love between those busy
parents of today and their abandoned children?
Is life a real journey that fills existence with true
meaning? What’s the sense of literature? And
short stories? And the sense of making questions?
Francesc J. Vélez (Barcelona, 1961) is a Philosophy professor and a poet. In the field of
short stories, he was awarded with the Premi Vent de Port de Tremp in 2006, with the story
“L’ànima de les basses” (The Soul of Ponds), and was finalist in 2005 with “L’escorpí” (The
Scorpion), both stories included in this book.
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Fiction
CARIDAD PUIG · Historical Fiction
Dual
An exciting adventure replete with
passion, betrayal and death, in which
nothing and no-one are as they seem.
The attractive Siamese Moore twins were brought
up
p in the hospital
p where they were born under the
patronage of Doctor George
guardianship and
a
Osborn and the
t maternal care of the wealthy
Ángela Cassiani. Now, to
old Italian expatriate,
exp
celebrate their graduation from university, the
twins take a trip
tri to Rome with the aim of seeing
the old country and the hope that the experience
will allow them the opportunity to be initiated
into adulthood.
adulthood They are, however, unaware of
from their home turf, a confabulation
the fact that fro
is being woven with terrorist overtones in which
necessary link in the chain, and in
they are a nec
which the New York mafia, a ruthless hitman and
than their beloved benefactor, Doctor
none other tha
George Osborn are participating.
Caridad Puig has 18 unpublished books on the shelf. She began writing at the age of 60,
when she gave up men, discotheques and the mundane world. Winner of the international
poetry award, Nuove Proposte, she has written historical novels and a biography of Wilfred
I, a book that won her the Order of Malta in Paris for its profoundly Europeanist spirit.
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Fiction
Other Titles
A HANDFUL OF WEED · Ricard Biel
October 2012 · 160 pages
Selfishness, greed, cowardice, obsession, frustration projected
into the other… All in all, the daily human sickness, the
unavoidable conflict and its consequences, all that is going
to damage victims who, often, neither they know they are
such. The singular voice of Ricard Biel is deployed here with
full swing, in nine classic tales that become a compact and
ambitious compilation, highly literary and profound in
surveying characters in the inside vibrant and tight as the string
of a bow.
SHADOWS ERRANT · Ferran Sáez Mateu
An ironic, brilliant allegory of the Spanish transition beginning
with the political assassination of a lieutenant colonel who
supports ultra-right-wing groups. Two brothers who haven’t
seen each other in 34 years, a cynical national poet on his
last leg, a heroin survivor and a theoretician of the revolution
about to go from theory to action, all of them have one thing in
common: they experience a mystery in troubled times. Involved
in this x-ray of the late 1970s atmosphere, when Franco’s
death was awaited with a mixture of euphoric impatience
and fatalist unease, are an enigmatic Belgian priest who has
decided to change the course of history, a cash robbery and the
assassination of Lieutenant Colonel Juan Solé Duran by a group
of amateur, extreme left-wing terrorists.
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Fiction
OPIUM AND SARDINES · Cesc Martínez
A very personal
p
exploration of the blurred historical memory of the period spanning the
Civil War, the transition to democracy and the present day. When Fabre, a substitute
Spanish C
of social studies, finds himself with nothing to do during the hot summer months,
teacher o
decides to reconstruct the history of an old black and white photograph he has found in a
he decide
book, which
wh shows a group of people in their Sunday best.
LISTEN, VOLODIA · Ramon Erra
November 2010 · 190 pages
Who was Carles-Frederic, the poet also known as Walrus, Russian, Supreme Soviet, Carlov
or Mirtil? The “poor baboon”, the dabbler, one of the last idealists of the region, he has
passed away. Maybe it is because of his legend that the narrator and his friend Felip, start to
study history, but in any case they find themselves fascinated by him. That is why they want
to dedicate a collection of texts to him, a homage. In the elaboration process they discover,
among other things, what the great Petromax has been hiding. It seems like he has not
always been following his own principles, and as the friends work their way from past to
present they unveil that important historical events do not pass unnoticed by no one, not
even in a small, forlorn village…
UNDOING THE NAPKIN’S KNOT · Ramon Erra
March 2008 · 206 pages · Winner of the 2008 Salambó Prize
Desfent el nus
n del mocador is a story made up of memories about love, fate, survival and blame. After suff
s ering a traffic accident that disfigures him, an ageing waiter starts writing about
the parish cchurch of the roadside bar where he worked all his life. The author portraits with a
voice an extraordinary microcosm settled between the countryside and the city. Emplorealistic voi
ying a unique
uniqu humour, the novel accomplishes interesting stories out of events and personalities
would have seemed annoying or impersonal. The author has the ambition to
which
whi
ch otherwise
othe
construct
con
onst
on
struct a fragile world with his delights and frustrations, love and bitterness, fights and rivalry,
only to then get rid of it all, destroy it in one pathetic, tired move, washing it all away.
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Fiction
HEROES, ADVENTURERS AND COWARDS · Jacinto Antón
You walk secret passageways in the pyramids, accompany a Nazi in search of the origins of the
You’ll
swastika in Tibet, board the Bounty, visit Lawrence of Arabia’s Wadi Rum, dive into the waters of
swas
Red Sea in search of treasure… Among so much emotion, there’s even room for a hamster. An
the R
enthralling book on adventure in its broadest sense, that covers past and present, the exploration
enth
off u
uncharted territories and the most ferocious battles, the exploits of heroes and villains and in
o
addition, of regular human beings faced with exceptional circumstances.
addi
WITH THESE EYES OF MINE · Francisco Mondino
This book is a homage to all the women and men who suffered different forms of political
repression through the almost endless succession of dictatorial regimes in Argentina.
Transcending the limits of space and time, the homage becomes a firm, clear, piercing scream
given out from the attachment to the best in the human being, a scream that overcomes the
deepest horror and melts into light.
NEVER AGAIN! · Tito Drago
April 2012 · 112 pages
story on how people can regain their freedom and reinstate democracy, leaving oppression and
A sto
barbarity behind. Set in the Argentina of general Jorge Videla’s dictatorship (1976-1981), this novel
barba
narrates the life of a pacifist couple involved in syndicalism: a man and woman who are convinced
narra
democrats and, despite they have never taken up a weapon, end up as victims of what that dictatodemo
rial and
a repressive regime euphemistically called the «war against terrorism».
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Crime Fiction
Crime Fiction
LLORT · Crime Novel
Collateral Legacies
“
“
A dark and fresh plot, built
with an amazing irony
Anna Maria Villalonga
The llawyer Ernest Claramunt has reached an
agreement with Francesca Puigmajor, an old
agreem
eighty years old: he will pay her a life
lady, almost
a
annuity and, in exchange for that, the wonderful
annui
flat in Eixample where she lives will become a
property of the Claramunt family when she dies.
prope
A very lucrative agreement indeed. It’s a pity that,
years go by, she is not dying. And the lawyer’s
as yea
family can no longer pay her annuity and must
start tthinking of new alternatives... and it’s a pity
Francesca herself has a dark history behind
that F
and that she is an unexpectedly tough nut to
her an
crack.
IF THEY GIVE YOU UP FOR DEAD,
BUT ONE DAY YOU COME BACK · Llort
July 2012 · 224 pages
The bell rings. Which feelings stir inside the mother when she opens
the door and recognises her son, the one who disappeared years ago?
How does she react, since he will not tell her where he has been, or with
whom? Since he will not say a word about what happened. Why Agustí
has been fourteen years and a half missing? And why has he come back?
And, mostly, why is he forced to remain silent about it?
Lluís Llort (1966) started working for the newspaper Avui in 1986, and he still works there,
despite the paper press being in its death throes, and the never-ending rotation of area,
partners, editors, owners, titles. Since 1999 hE has published eight novels and ten children
books, has contributed in five collective books of short stories and has written more than
twenty screenplays for TV series.
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Crime Fiction
QUIM ARANDA · Crime Novel
The Aberdeen Girl
January 2014 · 288 pages
Monday, August 2013. A few days before the Catalan
National Day, the body of the Scottish professor Paul
McEwan, a consultant for the Catalan government
on its strategy towards independency, is found dead
apartment. A widow of a certain age, respected
in his apar
academic circles, McEwan had to analyse the
by the aca
legal means
mean that could guarantee that an independent
Catalunya could still be part of the European Union.
In the heat previous to the celebration of the Catalan
theory of a political murder ordered by squads
Way, the th
commanded by the Central Government starts taking
commande
shape. In tthe middle of all this fuss, the lawyer Josep
a power in the shade of the Generalitat,
Roger Moreno,
Mor
detective Manel Latorre to Aberdeen, to try
sends the d
and recover
recove the work done by the jurist, which seems
vanished. When he gets there he finds more
to have va
questions iinstead of answers. What was McEwan really
Catalunya? Who is trying to stop him from
doing in C
what he is looking for? What’s the interest of
finding wh
Moreno in this case? And, above all, where is the girl
lately meeting the professor?
who
ho was la
IIn
n La noia d’Aberdeen, Quim Aranda delves into the
news of the country to offer a great noir story
hottest new
with glimpses
glimp of a classic book. And, in the background,
we find an intriguing question: which unexpected facts
can help moving forward or stopping this process that
we are immersed in?
Quim Aranda (Barcelona, 1963) is a journalist. He has worked at the Diari de Barcelona, El
Observador de la Actualidad, El Mundo del Siglo XXI and worked as a screenwriter in the TV
culture magazine Stromboli. Since 1998 he writes for the newspaper Avui and works now as
its UK correspondent. In 1995 he wrote the book of interviews Què pensa Manuel Vázquez
Montalbán, and in 1997 he wrote a biography of Montalbán’s main character Carvalho. IN
2007 he published his first book, El avión de madera que logró dar media vuelta al mundo,
and was awarded as the New Talent of FNAC chain stores.
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Crime Fiction
IVO FORNESA · Crime Novel
The Castle At Saint-Chartier
An idyllic village in the deep French
countryside proves to be a hotbed of
dark, hidden passions and abundant
surprises.
Durin the housewarming party for the recently
During
restored Saint-Chartier Castle, the new owner,
restor
of Irish descent whose mysterious
an Argentine
Ar
fortune seems to have been made in exotic
fortun
places, is found dead in strange circumstances
place
and a newcomer to the town, Laurent de
Rodergues, is the main suspect. For lack of
Rode
proof, the gendarmes end up classifying the
proof
death as an accident but Laurent progressively
discovers facts and situations leading him to
disco
believe that his death was no accident, which
believ
impels him to investigate…
impel
The ccombination of intrigue and palace luxury
sweeping up the protagonists will hook you
sweep
from cover to cover.
Ivo Fornesa (Barcelona, 1959) has received three awards from the Chinese government,
among them the Friendship Award, which has only been given to two Spaniards to date. He
has lived and worked in Egypt, Israel, Syria, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Burma, Thailand
and China.
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Crime Fiction
GONZÁLEZ-LEDESMA · Crime Novel
A Neighbourhood Novel
October 2007 · 304 pages · Sold to Germany, Italy, France, Portugal and Hungary
Winner of the 2007 International
Crime Fiction award
More detailed English
resume available
Once we reach the last page, we know
two things: first, that Una novela de
barrio is a simple story, like all great
stories; and second, that we have just
read a classic of the genre.
Una novela de barrio is a story of revenge. After
robbingg a bank in the seventies, two thieves kill a
hostage, a young boy, as they flee. The novel begins
in present-day
Barcelona, when one of the robbers,
presen
Omedes,
Omedes is murdered. Knowing he will be targeted
next, the other thief, Erasmus Leónidas Pérez, tries
to get ahead
of the game by murdering the man
ah
who mu
must surely be the avenger: David Miralles,
the fath
father of the boy killed during the bank
robbery. Méndez, a one-of-a-kind, semiretired
cop employing
rather unorthodox methods,
em
intervenes
interven decisively to solve the case.
Narrated in a concise, agile, and fluid style,
and featuring
an ample display of resources,
fea
particularly
a cauterizing humour, this is a
particula
brilliantly
brilliant written crime novel with all of the
ingredients
ingredie of that genre, such as the use of short
sentences
sentence and Swiss paragraph changes, effective
dialogue
d alogue and highly accurate descriptions. The
di
author
us, brushstroke by brushstroke,
author immerses
i
in a soli
solid, wellrounded plot that grabs the reader
on page one and never lets up.
Francisco González Ledesma was born in Barcelona in 1927. He began writing at the age
of twelve and is now one of the best known crime novel authors in Spain. He has twice
received the Mystère Award for the best foreign novel published in France, for La Dama
de Cachemira (1989) and Cinco mujeres y media (2007). He has also received plenty of
recognition for his work as a lawyer and a journalist.
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Crime Fiction
THE STORY OF GOD IN A CORNER ·
González-Ledesma
September 2010 · 384 pages · Sold to Italy, Portugal, Germany and France
What could have convinced old Méndez to leave Barcelona’s medieval
walls behind and travel to the Nile with a colt older than him in his
hands? What could provoke such a fury in this policeman for whom
cynicism is a virtue?
From Barcelona’s underworld to Cairo’s necropolis via Madrid’s elegant
neighbourhood, Méndez will search breathlessly for the missing clue
for what he has been suspecting for a long time: the world absolutely
deserves its bad reputation, and virtue is never found where you think
it should be.
A history of murderers, perversion, children and innocence, a story of
old men that do not accept what they had to see and live through.
THE CASHMERE LADY · González-Ledesma
October 2009 · 256 pages · Sold to Italy, Portugal, Germany and France
The most famous policeman in the Spanish underworld is chasing a
wheelchair through the dirty streets of Barcelona. From that chair a
crime has been committed. And Méndez thinks he knows who is sitting
on it.
Winner of the Mystére Prize for the best crime novel published in 1986
in France, The Cashmere Lady is the irrefutable proof that for Méndez,
even though twenty five years have passed, time is just an inappropriate
coincidence: his novels, just like him, do not grow old.
ABOUT INSPECTOR MÉNDEZ
Inspector Méndez is a man who acts against the current and does not believe in the law or
the goodness of all beings, but does believe in justice, and remains a humanist. Méndez,
along with the city of Barcelona and the changes that take place there throughout his
career as a policeman, viewed through his own memory and that of the characters
encountered throughout the series, constitute the center of what could be considered
a poetic, rather than solely thematic, work. Méndez is street-wise, expert, ironic and
disbelieving, a man who has seen it all, and lives with one foot in the past and the other
in the present. He is the philosopher who knows that he has no future, and that his world,
the only world he knows, is doomed, perhaps fortunately, to disappear.
The cashmere lady and The Story of God in a corner were first published in 1986 and
1991 respectively.
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Crime Fiction
SERGIO BUFANO · Crime Novel
A Bullet for Comissar Valtierra
April 2012 · 144 pages · Sold to Italy
Comissar Valtierra is the nostalgic and tangoloving
chief of the Political Section in the Buenos Aires
police department, and has his hands covered
with blood. For all the tortures and murders
in which he has participated, a revolutionary
group has condemned him to death, and he
must be executed to avenge their comrades.
Among the members of the organisation there is
El Inglesito (The Little Englishman), an idealist
university student from the provinces who will
be participating in an execution for the first time.
“
Socialism is not a religion,
despite having many worshippers. If the mistakes made in
its name are not acknowledged, we will not be able to
advance in the necessary
reflection about the relation
between violence and politics
“
“From 1976 to 1983, we Argentinians learnt that
[...] when a dozen guerrilla members died in a
combat that left no wounded in both sides, [...] they
had been mercilessly killed.”
Sergio Bufano
His revolutionary decisiveness will nonetheless
clash with his personal scruples, his fears and the
uncertainty before the option of killing a man. A
crime, political and also ethically disturbing novel.
It is a deep reflection on justice, forgiveness, guilt,
punishment and all the suffering of Argentina
through the turbulent 20th century.
Sergio Bufano (1943) is a journalist and writer from Argentina. A left-wing political activist, he
was persecuted during the 1970s by the military dictatorship of general Videla and was forced
to exile to Mexico, where he continued his journalistic career as editor of various publishing
companies, and contributor to graphic media. He is the author of Cuentos de la guerra sucia
(Tales of a dirty war), for which he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Bellas Artes de
México. He currently codirects a publishing imprint devoted to political and social essays,
besides writing for several media.
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Crime Fiction
THE SHADY SIDE · Albert Villaró
January 2013 · 160 pages · French translation rights sold to Tinta Blava Publishing House.
In Llobarca,
L
a small Pyrenean village close to the border with France, there aren’t many houses
still inhabited, and those that are, are at odds with one another. Tomàs is immersed in the boring
routine of everyday life. Until the night he hears cars along the Tuta dirt road. Tomàs ends up
rout
forgetting about his cows for a few days and embarking on a new stage in his life, dealing with
forg
major-league
traffickers, corrupt border guards and nosey journalists to save the woman he loves
m
ajo
and incidentally clearing up a case that has brought the village too much bad blood.
WHEN THE NIGHT KILLS THE DAY · Agustí Vehí
December 2011 · 224 pages · Catalan · Premi Crims de Tinta 2011
Juan Antonio Hinojosa, a local representative of the Falange, Franco’s right-wing political arm,
appears dead in his bed one night in March 1958. Someone has stuck a heavy wooden cross to
his skull and tied a metal belt around the neck of the half naked body. In order to avoid a scandal
the government in Madrid insists on an informal and discreet investigation. Consequently,
Inspector Iríbar, of the crime investigation department and Inspector Lopera, from the secret
police, have different opinions about the case.
DAWN OF THE FORTUNATE · Juli Alandes
May 2010 · 192 pages
Miquel O’Malley is a local police inspector and passionate reader of crime novels. Though cuMiqu
rrently on sick leave because of depression, his colleagues encourage him to return to his childrrent
hood home in Valencia to take up a very special case of real estate speculation. Assuming the
identity of a special agent for environmental issues, O’Malley arrives at the small town of Bellvig,
ident
where three dead bodies have shown up: a local authority, an employee of a brothel and a street
wher
p
pro
st
prostitute.
At first sight everything indicates that the murdered people were victims of a crime of
passi
passion, but with the help of Mat, a local journalist, O’Malley unravels a whole world of secrets
and iinterconnections.
EMET OR THE RIOT · Sebastià Jovani
The shops, bars and restaurants of Barcelona are controlled by Scandinavian gangs of young
and athletic men. Cranes and bulldozers advance savagely through all the suburbs of the town,
destroying all remains of the past and building a new and stronger world. The city finally becomes the best shop in the world. However, some people will join forces and try to save the city.
Emulsió de ferro, the author’s first book won the Premi Brigada 21 to the best crime fiction in
Catalan in 2009.
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Non Fiction
Reportage /
Non-Fiction
GIOVANNA VALLS
Clung To Life
Four editions
in just three months!
Rights sold to Mondadori Electa (Italy)
Spanish version published in October
2014
“Someone suggested me to snort a line, like a
branch that stretched out; it was heroine and I
nothing at all [...] This began on 1984.”
knew nothi
This is the story of a rebirth. The personal and
intimate fi
figght of Giovanna Valls against the most
terrible of all addictions, as seen on the letters
she wrote aand received and her diary during the
recovery which began on 2004. As a result
long recove
of a harsh look and not much self-satisfied,
Aferrada a la vida is a painful account, restless,
written in thrusts, with a rhythm which is
sometimes fast and sometimes quiet and poetic,
like a life that
th flows, like a life that is reborn. And
in each and every one of its pages, in each pause,
acceleration we can feel the deep breath
in each acc
and see the clear and clean look of a woman who,
knowing all the darkest depths, fights against her
own evils, defeats them and reawakens to face
herr life with a smile that invites us to share with
h
he
her
h
er the rich fruits of her victory.
A unique aand moving book, written from the
deep and with
w all the force of immediacy, and
which takes
take us from the darkest abyss to a
An inspiring and hopeful
definitive overcome.
o
book.
book
Giovanna Valls Galfetti (Paris, 1963) is the daughter of Catalan painter Xavier Valls and of
Luisa Galfetti. Her brother, France’s Prime Minister Manel Valls, is sixteen months older than
her. She has a degree in Tourism and Language, and has worked as a touristic consultant for
Europ Assistance. In 1985 she left Paris to settle in Barcelona. After a long break between the
luxuriance of the Amazonian forest and the soft hills of Maresme, on the Catalan seaside, she
returned to finally settle at her family home in the Barcelona neighbourhood of Horta in 2007.
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Non-Fiction
VICTORIA CAMPS
A Brief History of Ethics
NATIONAL ESSAY AWARD
OF SPAIN 2012
10,000 copies sold
The fundamental questions of ethics have not
changed a great deal: What is good? Who defines
it? Is there a rational foundation for distinguishing
between good and evil? Can there be a universal
ethic? Should there be one? What has changed is
how we approach and answer them.
For those interested in learning about the genesis
of ethic philosophy, this concise history will help
you understand without great difficulty how and
why we have accepted the moral convictions we
have, and that there are major questions that have
been asked throughout history.
Victoria Camps is Professor Emeritus of Moral Philosophy and Politics at the Autonomous
University of Barcelona. She has been an independent senator for the Socialist Party, member of the Catalan Audiovisual Council and chairperson of the Bioethics Committee of Spain.
32 / Non-Fiction
Non-Fiction
DIEGO LÓPEZ GARRIDO
The Ice Age
April 2014
· 448 pages
The Big Crisis still pestering the Western
democracies is not a mere break in the
economic growth. It has initiated a new age,
harsh and cold like the Ice Age, which implies
deep changes, especially in Southern Europe.
Society has been devastated by unemployment
by the rise of poverty
and underemployment,
un
inequalities, and by a significant rise of
and in
xenophobia. On the other hand, the Estate has
xenoph
weakened, deprived of the fiscal power by the
weaken
huge ttax evasions and avoidances of the big
fortunes and the multinationals, and a new and
fortune
hegemonic financial power has consolidated as
hegem
origin of this Ice Age.
the ori
Before these circumstances, the United States has
reacted more bravely than the European Union,
still struggles between the failed austerity and
who sti
loss of social rights, and the proposal of recovering
Welfare State with a clever Europeanism and a
the We
solidarity without boundaries. This second point
solidar
of view is the one held by Diego López Garrido in
splendid book, where he tries to contribute to
this spl
debate about the new Europe that we
the intense
int
build after the European elections of 2014.
must b
Diego López Garrido (Madrid, 1947) is a congressman and a former Estate secretary for
the European Union (2008-2011). He was member of the Assembly that approved the
“Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe” (2002-2003). He has a degree on Law and
Business Administration and, since 1990, holds a Chair on Constitutional Law in the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. He has written several books focused on political, economic
and social research, both for Spain and Europe. He is the Chairman of the Board for European Issues of the Fundación Alternativas and Director of the Annual Report on the State
of the European Union, brought out by this foundation and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
33 / Non-Fiction
Non-Fiction
JOSEP RAMONEDA
The Necessary Left
A fundamental reading
for all of those who resist
plunging into resignation
and impotence.
A defence of politics to save democracy
This book is an invitation to react to the triumph
of money and arrogance. Being well inside the
economic, political, social, cultural and moral
crisis, without seeing the light at the end of the
tunnel, it seems as if there are no alternatives but
to comply with the austerity and deregulation
recipes imposed by the European elites. But the
author claims there actually is an alternative. Or
at least, there should be. Because democracy
cannot exist without alternatives.
This book delves into the causes of the
“disappearance” of the left and alerts to the loss
of democratic quality in Western societies as well
as to the dangers of the “tyranny of indifference”.
But also, and mostly, it encourages the reaction
of those who will not resign themselves and still
believe in the ideas of progress, justice, freedom
and equality.
Josep Ramoneda (Cervera, 1949) is a philosopher, journalist, writer and director of several
essay collections. He was the manager of the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona between 1989 and 2011 and contributes to several newspapers and radio programs.
34 / Non-Fiction
Non-Fiction
FRANCISCO LOZANO WINTERHALDER
Why Will We Become Extinct
June 2013
· 144 pages
The human species will inevitably become extinct
one day, as has occurred throughout the history
of the species that populate the Earth. Our
biological evolution has left us at the mercy of
biologi
contradictions of our brain, the structure of
the con
which has developed over millions of years. The
ambiguity of the culture we have created makes
ambigu
capable of the worst atrocities imaginable, yet
us capa
it is at the same time the source of the enormous
progress our species has made. The author
progre
identifies ten keys in this eternal struggle that
help us to improve our relationships with
may h
nature, with other humans and with ourselves and
so avoid
avo becoming extinct before our time. It is
within our capability to improve the quality of life
every human living on this small blue planet:
of ever
all we have
h to do is ensure our evolution takes an
ethical direction…
Francisco Lozano Winterhalder (Sant Feliu de Guíxols, 1957) has a degree in Biological
Sciences, a master degree in Humanities by the UAB and another one in Globalisation and
International Trade by the Institute Cajasol in Seville. He is a professor of Tourism and Environmental Sciences in ESADE and is a Senior Consultant for the CEC International (Boston),
specialized in Business and Moral Values. He is a member of the Board of the UN Association
in Spain and took part as an International Observer in the revision of the Rio Agreements
(Earth Summit, Rio+5, New York, 1997). He is also a member of the UNESCO Club in Barcelona, has developed cooperation tasks with Africa and Latin America, and has worked on
programs of technological and knowledge exchange in the area of Pacific Asia.
35 / Non-Fiction
Non-Fiction
MORE THAN 30.000 COPIES SOLD
ROME STORIES · Enric González
May 2010 · 144 pages · Sold to Portugal
They say Rome is the Eternal City. Time passes slowly through its streets, it is chaotic and paused,
full of melancholy. The book presents a peculiar, and personal, vision of Rome: its cats, Caravaggio’s
paintings, John Keats’s grave, bureaucracy, the best pizzeria in town and the most sublime coffee
pain
you can have, Aldo Moro’s body and the Pope, Berlusconi and Saint Peter’s dome, and much, much
more.
m
or Everything Enric González has seen and thought should be seen by us, too, is in this book.
LONDON STORIES · Enric González
March 2010 · 175 pages · Sold to Portugal
The author loved London long before he got to know it, but journalism and some unexpected
circumstances allowed him to actually move to the city, where he met many interesting people
and got to know the hidden corners of this wonderful place: the narrow streets of Whitechapel,
the old football stadiums, the underground tunnels...
This personal guide was written when the author was already living in another city, implicating a
certain dose of nostalgia, timidly wrapped up inirony, there were other cities and other passions
in the years after, but there is no love like the first one. And there is no city like London.
NEW YORK STORIES · Enric González
February 2010 · 144 pages · Sold to Portugal
Some knowledge is totally unnecessary. One can live happily without ever knowing which gruesoincident happened on the Chrysler building, why the Yankees are New York’s major team,
me in
what the link is between Saudi Arabia and Brooklyn Beer, why the fat of US meat is yellow that
that ffound in Europe, in which bar Dylan Thomas drank his last whiskey or where you can taste
the best
b hamburger in Manhattan.
N York Stories tells us about all of this: about a roaring and wonderful city, about a black day in
New
Septe
September,
about a group of people and about three unforgettable friends…
CALCIO STORIES · Enric González
June 2010 · 256 pages · Rights sold to Italy (Aísara) · Sold to Italy
It is impossible to talk about Italy without talking about football. Italians consider themselves to
be the founders of this sport, that they call “kick”. Politics, economy and social life, everything
depends (and not only metaphorically) on football.
Calcio implies violence, passion, tricks and money, but it is also a complex mechanism of symbols, a social code, a way through which a historic country like Italy expresses its wisdom.
36 / Non-Fiction
Non-Fiction
BACKLIST
THE MUSICIAN IN THE RED BLAZER · Jaume Collell
In El mú
músic de l’americana vermella, Jaume Collell has written the vibrant and lively biography of one
of Catal
Catalonia’s most remarkable yet unknown musicians, as well as the most unusual, colourful and
entertaining
entertain history of the Paral·lel area of Barcelona ever told. This musician does not appear in the
Enciclopèdia
En
Enc
iclop
Catalana, but his hits are heard throughout Europe and the Americas and from Tokyo to
Sidney, ffrom 78s to cable television and YouTube.
IMPERFECT BOURGEOIS · Jordi Gràcia
One of the good things about democracies is that they exalt their masters. This is, of course, a
virtue but one that leads ultimately to vice, as these masters become disfigured and distorted
through their lionisation and eventually come to be seen as beyond criticism. This book is
intended to restore the agile, sceptical, ironic and dissident nature of a number of 20th-century
Catalan writers, among them Josep Pla, Gaziel and Puig i Ferreter, as well as Joan Oliver, Josep
Ferrater Mora and Joan Ferraté.
CONTRA-DICTIONS · BETH GALÍ
Beth Gal
Galí has sought out people capable of answering the great questions of today, people in
cities as far from each other as Boston, Frankfurt, Paris, Madrid and Barcelona, people who
disagree with each other. Contra-diccions is the outcome of narrative research through
often dis
involving 14 individuals in different times and places and who make unusual
virtual dialogues
di
conversation partners. In this fascinating account, the author often seems to play unwittingly at
conversat
hide-and-seek
with the reader, occasionally revealing herself as an innocent, chance spectator
hid
hi
ide-and
sometimes as the person encouraging critical thinking.
and some
BOOKS AND FREEDOM · Emilio Lledó
This volume contains some of Emilio Lledó’s most significant writings on one of the essential
expressions of our ability to create and to recreate ourselves, books. Books preserve memory
and hence they offer the reader an opportunity to escape from their own particular time
me and
circumstances and to enter a world of dialogue, liberation and freedom. Books, language, memory,
dialogue, poetry and liberty, an unrivalled gift for the people we are, for the people we ought
ht to be.
37 / Non-Fiction
Practical Non Fiction
ALBERT ADRIÀ
Tapas. The Tickets Recipes
November 2013 · 176 pages · English rights available except for Spain
Albert Adrià’s parents instilled in
him an interest in everything related
to cookery and cuisine, but it was his
brother, Ferran, who gave him his
introduction into this world.
Singled out by Time magazine as one of the
most influential figures in the realm of fine
food, Albert Adrià, who was born in 1969, has
been dubbed the ‘Magician of the Moment’.
Fun and emotion are the two concepts that
drive Adrià each day as he produces his
NEIGHBOURHOOD HAUTE CUISINE.
NE.
57 recipes for the finest
dishes prepared to date in
the Tickets restaurant, the
“neighbourhood elBulli”, as
Albert Adrià describes it.
A festival of flavours,
textures and colours
His restaurant Tickets – which has, in its second
year, already won a Michelin star – offers
unsurpassable, dazzling and deliciouss food
that is completely of its time: contemporary
mporary
tapas, the style of tapas of cosmopolitan
politan
Barcelona, a city bathed by the sun and by
the Mediterranean. Recipes prepared
d using
seasonal produce of outstanding quality;
each tapa a surprise and each surprise
rise an
unforgettable experience.
These are dishes that willl
nd
delight restaurant chefs and
fans of fine cuisine, providing
ng
us with the opportunity to try
this gourmet experience in
n
our own homes.
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LAURA KOHAN · Natural Health
Vegan Mediterranean Cuisine
Includes tables of nutritional
values and the seasons
of fruit and vegetables.
Is it possible to have a healthy diet on the long
term if you only eat vegetables?
Over the past few years, veganism has gradually
gained adepts and has become more and more
common. This book offers all the information
you need, whether you’re just starting on
this diet or have been practicing it for years,
from tips for following a balanced vegan diet
to information
on produce seasons and the
informati
best places tto find certain foods. The recipes
suggested ar
are a feast for anyone interested in
eating healthy,
health fresh, tasty and surprising foods.
Laura Kohan
Koha specializes in nutrition and
alternative cuisine
and in promoting organic
c
food. She has
h worked as a chef in different
countries and contributed to the natural health
magazine In
Integral for 6 years, as well as other
publications. In addition, she has written
three organic and vegetarian cookbooks and is
currently a n
nutrition coach (she retrains people
to lose their bad eating habits) and health-food
cuisine instru
instructor.
CATALAN COOKING · Josep Lladonosa
This is th
the definitive book by Josep Lladonosa, (Alguaire, 1938), a teacher and promoter of traditional Catalan
cuisine aand one of the cookery book authors held in highest esteem by several generations of Catalans.
La cuina catalana is his definitive recipe book and is filled with a selection of his finest recipes which he has
expanded, revised and brought up to date. The chef explains his tricks for preparing seasonal produce and
expande
his readers to rediscover the traditional dishes of old, such as goose with pears, char-grilled saffron
enables h
milk-cap mushrooms with garlic and parsley, country-style rice, salt cod with beans and mussels in seafood
sauce.
sau
c This is a book that will without a shadow of doubt become one of the classics of Catalan cuisine.
CORPUS OF CATALAN COOKING
This Corpus of Catalan cooking brings together Catalonia’s culinary heritage: it is the most
comprehensive cookbook ever made of our gastronomy and offers lovers of fine cuisine, both
amateur and professional, a practical and comprehensible guide to the traditional dishes of our
country and which are part of our identity. This book can be considered the most important
and systematic collection of Catalan recipes ever undertaken. The more than 1,136 entries are
arranged alphabetically, both numerically and by type of dish.
TOMATO LAND · Cristina Viader i Pere Romanillos
Terra de tomàquets is an eminently practical book about tomatoes, the summer fruit par
excellence. In addition to providing clues on how to grow tomatoes, the book features
excellenc
photographs of the most familiar Catalan varieties. It also includes a set of recipes for 50 summer
photogra
dishes in which tomatoes are the star ingredient, revealing their culinary potential.
THE STRANGE THINGS WE EAT IN CATALUNYA · Manel Guirado
do
In Quines coses més estranyes que mengem a Catalunya, the journalist and chef Manel Guirado
helps readers to rediscover the emblematic ingredients of traditional Catalan cuisine and
nd gives
practical advice on buying and using them and their culinary possibilities. Keen cooks will find
all the information they need to create quintessential dishes such as snails with romesco
o sauce,
fricassee, roast pig cheeks, capipota (made with veal or pork head and feet or trotters), frogs’
ogs’ legs
with garlic and parsley and eel stew. These dishes might be new to you, but they are sure to make
you salivate in anticipation.
LLORENÇ GUILERA
Don’t Forget Your Memory
April 2014 · 172 pages
We don’t usually concern ourselves with our
memory until it begins to show signs of failing, but
when that happens we worry that our early major
indications of forgetfulness could be a symptom
serious diseases. However, there are many
of more ser
causes other
othe than just ageing that could cause a
decline in the
th power of our memory and all of them
are absolutely
absolute reversible.
handbook presents numerous tests, games and
This handb
exercises to enable you to learn about your memory,
ascertain its
it condition and keep its various aspects
in shape, thereby helping you to preserve and
improve it. It also gives a simple but insightful
introduction to the latest neuropsychological
introductio
knowledge about:
memories are stored, what is required for
—How mem
this storage to be permanent and ways to improve
process.
this process
—What is rrequired to ensure that stored memories
in optimal and orderly condition
are maintained
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ma
in
n our minds
min and how we can prevent them from
deteriorating.
deterioratin
access to all the information we accumulate
—How acce
functions and the methods we can employ to
prevent this from altering over time.
Llorenç Guilera is an industrial engineer and holds a PhD in psychology. He founded the Effective
Intelligence Workshop held on 16 occasions at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and is the
author of Más allá de la inteligencia emocional: las cinco dimensiones de la mente and Anatomía
de la creatividad. He writes for Mente Sana magazine and also publishes his articles in specialist
journals, presenting his neuroscientific vision of the human mind. He contributed the article “Qué se
entiende por inteligencia” (What Do We Mean by Intelligence?) to the Cerebro y emociones (Brain
and Emotions) special issue of National Geographic, edited by Eduard Punset.
LUIS RACIONERO
An Ethic For Alicia
What is the difference between Plato and
Buddha, Aristotle and Laozi, the Upanishads,
the core of Hinduism, and the Gospels, which
are central to Christianity, and the logic of
quantum physics and Zen? Perhaps it is only
that they present different ways to achieve
happiness. But there is no recipe for happiness,
nor is it ever fully attained.
Eastern and western ethics existed as separate
systems for centuries but today they find
themselves in a globalised world in which the
conditions are ripe for them to complement
each other. The intellectual Luis Racionero is
convinced that some ways of looking at and
understanding the things that happen to us as
humans are better than others and has written
a letter to his young granddaughter, a legacy
that will ensure that his knowledge of eastern
philosophy will help her to live more freely in
the future.
Ética para Alicia is full of anecdotes recorded by
a man with an inquiring mind who has dared
to go beyond Judaeo-Christian thinking and
to look for points in common with the ancient
wisdom of the East.
Luis Racionero (La Seu d’Urgell, 1940) is one of the leading figures in contemporary Spanish literature.
He holds degrees in industrial engineering and in economic sciences, awarded by the University of
Barcelona, and holds a PhD in urban studies, awarded by the University of California, Berkeley. He has
written fictional works and essays in both Catalan and Spanish, for which he has received numerous
honours, among them the Anagrama Essay Prize, the Espasa Essay Prize, the Azorín Award, the
Fernando Lara Award and the Gaziel Prize for Biographies and Memoirs. His most notable works
include Filosofías del underground (1977), Cercamón (1982), Del paro al ocio (1983), La sonrisa de la
Gioconda (1999), El progreso decadente (2000), Sobrevivir a un gran amor (seis veces) (2009) and
Memorias de un liberal psicodélico (2011). He was director of the Spanish National Library and of the
Spanish College in Paris.
JOSEP LLUÍS BERDONCES
The Diet That Boosts Your Life
During his long career as a general practitioner
and as a specialist in natural medicine, Dr.
Berdonces has become all too aware that
unhealthy food like that which we eat in the
West can lead to disease and damage to our
cells. In this book, he reveals the problems
inherent in the modern diet and gives us
guidelines on a healthy alternative that will help
us to repopulate our intestines with the microorganisms that are essential to us.
The enzyme diet described in this book
includes recommendations on including in our
diet a series of superfoods which science has
shown have special medicinal properties and
which can make a spectacular contribution
to reducing disorders and diseases such as
allergies, high cholesterol, diabetes, uric acid
and even cancer.
Other titles:
Cómo cura la equinácea (How to heal with
Echinacea) / El gran libro de la iridiología
(The big book of iridology) / Cómo cura el ajo
(How to heal with garlic) / Método naturista
para adelgazar (Natural method to lose weight)
Josep Lluís Berdonces graduated as a doctor from the Complutense University of Madrid and
qualified as a specialist in medicinal plants from the University of Montpellier.
A general practitioner and a member of the Integral Medical and Health Centre team, he has written
more than 15 popular science books about natural health, medicinal plants, dietetics and on mythology
and popular tales, among them El gran libro de la iridología, Cómo cura el ajo, Cómo cura la equinácea
and El método naturista para adelgazar, published by RBA/Integral.
Berdonces speaks at conferences and is a teacher and for ten years, between 1995 and 2005, he
oversaw the Master’s Degree in Natural Medicine at the University of Barcelona.
At the present time, he continues working as a doctor, writes for a number of magazines and
contributes regularly to radio and television programmes.
MARIANO BUENO
How To Grow Organic Vegetables
With Your Family
New edition: April 2014 · 416 pages
40.000 copies sold
If you grow fruit and vegetables in a natural way
in an organic vegetable patch or allotment, you
get more from it than just the produce, as the
most valuable results are the benefits for your
own health and
an that of the environment.
expanded and updated edition of El
This new exp
familiar ecológico teaches the secrets to
huerto familia
healthier and more natural growing methods
and gives explanations
and descriptions suited
exp
to the Spanish
Spanis climate. The lavish illustrations
consisting o
of detailed photographs and
drawings cover
cove each stage of the growing year.
Essential bedside
beds reading for anyone who wants
to succeed in growing vegetables organically
and is keen to live a healthier life more in
balance with nature.
• Cultivation
Cultivat
techniques and tools
Advice on looking after your
• Advic
vegetable patch
v
Other titles:
Cultiva tus remedios (Grow your own
medicines) / Del huerto a la despensa
(From the garden to the larder) / El huerto
jardín ecológico (The ecological garden) /
El libro de la casa sana (The book
of a healthy home)
• Guide to growing vegetables,
fruit trees and medicinal plants
• Natural treatments for plant
pests and diseases
• Natural compost and fertilisation
• A calendar for vegetable growers
Mariano Bueno is an expert on and pioneer of Organic Agriculture, Geobiology and Green Buildings.
With his more than 15 books about healthier life choices he has become very popular all over Spain
and Latin America. He collaborates regularly with Spanish television, where he has his own shows on
natural health and ecological gardening. His title Mediterranean Kitchen Garden is being published by
Frances Lincoln in the UK. www.mariano-bueno.com
HORTENSIA LEMAÎTRE y JOSÉ T. GÁLLEGO
Potted Ecological Garden
Sowing seeds in a vegetable garden makes you
more aware of the environment around you.
A vegetable patch is life, a life that transforms,
that grows and that feeds another life. Urban
allotments are welcoming spots not just for
humans but for nature as well, places where the
city seems less inhospitable.
The authors of this book are expert organic
gardeners and will answer all your questions as
you learn to grow your own vegetables over the
course of the year. In this book, you will find all
the information you need to produce your own
vegetables on your balcony or terrace.
• The most suitable flowerpots
for each type of balcony
• How to prepare a good growing
medium
• What vegetables you can grow
in the same pot
• How to deal with pests in an
environmentally-friendly way
• Step-by-step advice on
beginning to grow your first
vegetables in window boxes or
on your terrace
ELISABET SILVESTRE
Living Without Toxics
If you wake up during the night and if you get
up still feeling tired, if you lack energy and
find it difficult to perform at your peak at work
or as you go about your daily tasks, or if you
suffer from headaches, respiratory or stomach
disorders that medical treatment seems
unable to cure, you need to look at how your
immediate environment, your home, is
most imm
health.
affecting your
y
the synthetic and chemical
Natural radiation,
r
compounds present in cleaning products,
compoun
building and
a home décor materials, cosmetics
personal hygiene items, clothing and food,
and perso
as well as electromagnetic waves and even poor
lighting ccan all affect sensitive organisms. In
second and extremely practical section,
the secon
Vivir sin tóxicos gives a range of advice based
on real-lif
real-life cases and suggests numerous ways
for makin
making small changes in our daily lives
according to our particular needs and interests.
Implementing
all of these changes at once or
Implemen
just a few will transform our homes, turning
them into a healthier place for all the family.
Elisabet Silvestre, a leading Spanish expert in biohabitability and environmental health,
has written Vivir sin tóxicos, an essential handbook for understanding firstly how we have
come to live with countless toxic items and secondly how we can learn to identify these
contaminants and reduce our exposure to them as far as possible.
“How to Heal” - The big series on natural health
Vital alternatives for the health of the people and the planet
This collection includes some great titles in the history of Integral, now revised and updated, with reference
topics for everyone, written by the best national and international specialists and with a very dynamic and useful
approach and design for the reader.
THE NEW BOOK ON NATURAL COOKING · Blanca Herp
The vege
vegetarian diet has been expanded with new foods, cooking techniques and recipes that make it
appropriate for everyone and attractive to any palate. This book brings you the latest information and
appropri
innovations in the field, updating the pioneering work on vegetarian cuisine in our country to create a new
innovatio
for the 21st century. An essential book for enjoying vegetarianism at home.
classic fo
IMPROVE YOUR DIGESTION TO LIVE LONG AND BETTER · Pablo Saz
Just like plants need to absorb nutrients in order to grow strong, the human digestive system is
also the main cause of a long and healthy life. In this book, the renowned naturalist Pablo Saz
explains with a detailed and simple approach what is the digestive system and how it works,
explaining the main threats to it and how we can take good care of it and, with it, of ourselves
and our family.
RELIEVING ANXIETY WITH ESSENTIAL OILS · Antonia Jover
R
We are all
a of us subject to some source of stress, nervousness or anxiety, be it insomnia,
respiratory or circulatory problems, headaches, anguish, fatigue, low libido, etc. This book will
respirato
teach you how to identify the essential oils that will help you to cope with the stressful situations
face in our lives. Simply inhaling the appropriate aromas will give us a sense
that we constantly
c
peace,
off p
eace, fill us with renewed vigour, increase our defences and balance our emotions.
RELAXATION TECHNIQUES FOR DIFFICULT MOMENTS ·
Patricia Tomoe Abella
May 2013 · 160 pages · Rigths sold to 20/20 Editora (Portugal)
Pharmaceuticals can alleviate symptoms, but they don’t cure the causes, and it is in our hands
ds to go
beyond them and prepare our bodies and minds and provide our organism the resources that will
bring us the wellbeing that defines a healthy, happy life. There are ways of learning how to prepare
our minds and minimize suffering caused by periods of uncertainty and tension. Using thee simple
guidelines and exercises proposed in this manual, you can access the tools essential for reaching
aching a
state of relaxation in any situation.
STRENGTHEN YOUR BONES AND JOINTS · Jaume Serra
Star
Starting
from the basis that a healthy diet and regular exercise are the essential foundations for
healthy bones and joints, Dr. Jaume Serra gives us guidelines to follow in order to care for our
heal
osteo-articular system and helps us to learn about the diseases that can affect it, to avoid those
oste
factors that play a part in their development and, above all, to incorporate into our daily lives habits
facto
tthat
hat will prevent these disorders or help us to live with them in such a way that they have the least
possible impact on us.
poss
FEED YOUR BRAIN · Santi Ávalos
A focused and alert mind is a crucial aspect of a healthy body. To achieve it, the brain must
be well fed, hence the importance of paying attention to what we eat. There are many ‘brainfriendly’ foodstuffs, and knowing what they are and adding them to our daily diet, as well as
combining them in the most appropriate way, are the best approach for improving our cognitive
capabilities and avoiding any nutritional lack that might cause depression, anxiety, insomnia,
memory loss or degenerative diseases of the brain.
GUIDE TO ADDITIVES, COLORING AGENTS AND PRESERVATIVES ·
G
Manuel Núñez y Claudina Navarro
industry uses hundreds of additives to modify the color, odor, flavor and texture of foods
The food
f
well as to preserve them longer. They usually appear in the list of ingredients as an “E number”
as we
that tthe health authorities consider safe. Nonetheless, some additives that were authorized several
years ago are now banned. This guide is designed to let you know what you are really eating and
abov
above all, it provides trustworthy, independent and up-todate information on certain questionable
addit
ad
additives. With a list of specific additives that should be avoided at all times, the ones that should
be avoided
av
whenever possible and those that are allowed in ecological foods.
NATURAL REMEDIES AGAINST ANXIETY AND FATIGUE · Rosa Guerrero
o
Pathological stress and chronic fatigue are among the main public-health problems today, as
they cause physiological and personal dysfunctions that can lead to serious and incurable diseases. Anxiolytics and antidepressants are the most commonly prescribed drugs nowadays, but
far from solving problems, they can exacerbate them as patients can end up being dependent on
them and suffering a decline in their quality of life. This book describes how natural therapies
can help to treat the many somatisations that cause stress, since it is not just a question of alleviating symptoms but of restoring balance in each person’s individual response to enable them
to control their stress effectively.
HYPERACTIVITY AND ATTENTION DEFICIT · Heike Freire
This is not just another book on ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders): it does not
offer magic formulae to get children to adapt and behave better, nor does it instantly assume
that the children are doing something “wrong”, because they have a genetic defect. Using a truly
preventive approach focusing on fostering health and adopting a multidisciplinary perspective, the
prev
aauthor
uth completely challenges conventional approaches and questions to what point the disorder
can be considered a childhood disease or whether it is the result of the unhealthy living conditions
imposed by modern society.
A FIRST-AID KIT BOOK ON HEALING HERBS · Jordi Cebrián
This manual focuses on 20 medicinal plants with a range of therapeutic properties that will
enable you to deal with the most common pains and upsets that affect families. Using these
plants you will easily be able to prepare home health remedies that will give you a valuable
arsenal made up exclusively of medicinal herbs to complement without any secondary effects
many of the drugs we keep in our household medicine cabinets and first aid kits in a natural way.
CARING FOR YOUR EYES · Carmela París
book about vision. It offers state-of-the art practices to improve one’s seeing of both
A visionary
vis
outer as well as inner worlds. The author addresses both sight and insight in ways that add new
possibilities to human experience. You will find easy-to-follow diagrams and photographs that
possi
help you perform the exercises with ease, whether alone or with a partner.
AFTER BREAST CANCER · JAIME MASIA
How to improve the quality of life during and after the disease. There are lots of books offeringg
medical advice on cancer, but this book is different. It chronicles the cancer experience through
a professional’s eyes and through the immediacy of personal experience.
THE BIG BOOK OF ALOE VERA · Lourdes Prats
Ove 50.000 copies sold! A guide to all the secrets of Aloe Vera, from its therapeutic qualities to
Over
the rresults of scientific studies and its healthy and rich ingredients. And it is just that Aloe Vera is a
true all-rounder: a homeopathic remedy, cosmetic application as well as a cure for many day-to-day
diseases of our pets. All you need to know about its usage is recompiled in this book.
dise
THE LYMPH AND ITS NATURAL DRAINAGE · Frederic Vinyes
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su
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al
Frederic
Freder
ic Vinyes
Vinyes
October 2012 · 126 pages · Rights sold to Italy (Boroli Editore)
Manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) can be useful in states of flooding, swelling or oedemata
when they have been caused by problems in lymphatic circulation. This drainage involves very
soft manoeuvres, based in a deep knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the lymphatic
system. The lymphatic system in great detail · Medical and aesthetic indications of the MLD ·
MLD and body massage · Step-by-step basic manipulations · Limitations and complements of
the MLD
THE ANSWER IS AT THE FEET · Frederic Vinyes
we eat can help us find our inner balance. This is not a book about calories, it is about
The food
f
knowing
our energy intake and its effect on our body. The result is surprising: we improve our
know
healt peace and inner balance and enhance our physical and mental abilities. It includes userhealth,
frien recipes that will help us choose the most suitable dish for us every day according to our
friendly
need and those of our family.
needs
NEW MACROBIOTIC GASTRONOMY · Bernard Benbassat
January 2013 · 256 pages
The macrobiotic approach is structured around balance, from which it derives its philosophy
of life and food, in which “being” and “eating” are very closely related. Chef Bernard Benbassat does away with the myth that a macrobiotic diet is boring and that it sacrifices flavors and
pleasure to the benefit of health and proves to us that the art of fi ne cooking is not at odds with
nutritional value, for he associates the macrobiotic food concept with the pleasure of eating in all
senses. Written in a clear, simple style, this book is not only a door to the macrobiotic universe,
but also your ticket to haute cuisine.
MY MEMORY FAILS ME · Álvaro Bilbao
At least
l
4 out of 10 adults are worried about their memory. Neuropsychologist Álvaro Bilbao
explains in a concise and entertaining manner how the brain and memory works and when its
expl
failures can indicate the preamble to neurological disease. His experience rehabilitating people
failu
with amnesia is patent in his useful strategies for exercising your memory on a daily basis. As you
will
w
ill discover, beyond crossword puzzles and sudokus, there is evidence that certain foods, habits
and lifestyles can help you enjoy excellent Cerebral Health throughout your life.
MY RETURN TO LIFE · Mercè Castro
This book is about enduring and surviving the most painful of all losses: the death of one’s
child. A book that explores our own resilience in the midst of one of the most distressing forms
of human suffering. Because children aren’t supposed to die, the loss is not only painful but
profoundly disorienting. Mercè Castro, whose son died in 1998 at the age of 15, refers to her own
experience and the experience of others to show that while bereaved parents can never really let
go, they can and do recover, often developing a new appreciation for their own lives. A brave and
hopeful testimony, she started writing this diary shortly after the death of her child:
SHIATSU FOR BABIES AND CHILDREN · Juan José Plasencia
From the moment of birth, touch becomes a language of love and attention, which is essential
the emotional and physical well-being of the newborn baby. This book provides the essential
for th
shiatsu techniques to relieve common childhood ailments.
shiat
Lola Vidaña
EROTIC GAMES · Lola Vidaña
September 2009 · 160 pages · Sold to USA (Bookspan)
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Thanks to this book you will pass the oral exam and receive a lingam or yoni massage a reward.
Or maybe a ticket to the play “The Lord of Erotic Rings”. Or maybe you are more into playing
discreet but exciting games in public...
Children Books
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58 / Children’s Literature
An updated collection of fairy tales from a wide array of classical works make a delightful collection of
immortal tales which were passed down from generation to generation. Perfect for parents and children to
read together. The following beautifully illustrated stories are included:
DREAMFUL FAIRY TALES · Illustrations by Macus Romero
Peter and the Wolf / Thumbling / Sinbad the Sailor / The Tortoise and the Hare / The Magic Grinder / Rumpelstiltskin /
The Nightingale / The Shoemaker and the Elves / The Town Mouse and the City Mouse / The Beanstalk / The Twelve
Dancing Princesses / The Ant and the Grasshopper / The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep.
UNFORGETTABLE FAIRY TALES · Illustrations by María Jesús Álvarez
Beauty and the Beast / Little Thumb / Rapunzel / The Ugly Duckling / The Musicians of Bremen / Fairies / The
Seven Billy Goats and the Wolf / Donkeyskin / The Snow Queen / The Brave Little Tailor / The Little Mermaid / The
Emperor’s New Clothes / Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves / The Steadfast Tin Soldier.
EVERLASTING FAIRY TALES · Illustrations by Marta Chicote
The Princess and the Pea / Hansel and Gretel / Snow White / Aladdin and the Magic Lamp / The Pied Piper of Hamelin /
Sleeping Beauty / Little Red Riding Hood / Puss in Boots / The Milkmaid / Cinderella / Three Little Pigs / The Story
of the Three Bears.
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XAVIER VERNETTA · Children Age 11+
Tangier’s Dream
May 2011 · 96 pages · Catalan
“
“
This book will break your heart,
then inspire you, and hopefully
move you into looking at how
you can use your life to make
a positive difference.
English extract available
Rights sold to the Basque Country
(Elkar)
A boat with twelve Moroccan immigrants reaches
the Andalusian coast. Just arriving, they are
caught by the Spanish police, all but one: Akram,
who is
i able to hide from the police and set out for
Paris, where his uncle lives and works. “us begins
Akram’s journey to the city of his dreams. He will
Akram
meet people that will help him, but nothing will
easy: xenophobia, anguish, danger, hunger
be ea
and ffear are travel companions that are very
cult to bear.
difficu
Xavier Vernetta was born in Barcelona in 1956. He is a popular author of more than 15
novels, plays and short stories. The Man with the White Jaguar and It will be Night are
also available at RBA. In 2003 he received the Fiction Prize by the Fundació Enciclopèdia
Catalana.
M. HERNÁNDEZ & ARO SÁINZ DE LA MAZA · Children aged 1-100
Tales from Every Corner
of the Earth
Legends, fables, extraordinary happenings,
beautiful princesses and princes, ugly ogres,
animals large and small, fearless children who
become involved in the most fabulous and crazy
adventures, and much more. Tales from Every
Corner of the Earth is a book to return to a world
of illusion. These children’s stories originate
from other cultures with a rich oral tradition, a
collection of over 50 fantastic tales from around
the world:
“
A true longseller!
“
Stories from different corners of the world
told by their people.
Ukraine, Panama, Algeria, Armenia, Serbia,
Seychelles, Austria, Honduras, Vietnam, Finland,
Nigeria, Australia, Cyprus, Malaysia, Guatemala,
Moldova, Syria, Nicaragua, Mauritius, Netherlands,
South Korea, Togo, Portugal, Indonesia…
The authors, Josep María Hernández Ripoll and Aro Sáinz de la Maza have travelled
around the world in order to collect the stories in person. Each storyteller is presented at
the end of the chapter.
ILLUSTRATED BY SARA MANZANO · Children Age 1-100
Fairy Tales from
All Over the World
Many of today’s fairy tales have evolved from
centuries-old stories that have appeared, with
variations, in multiple cultures around the
world. They typically feature folkloric characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants or gnomes.
“
The multicultural
quality of fairy tales
teaches children that
people all over the
world share many of
the same values and
concerns.
“
Did you know that only a small number of
fairy tales actually refer to fairies?
This book shares fairy tales from different
countries and cultures all over the world. The
stories, some of which are well-known and
others less familiar, reflect the huge wealth
and diversity of fables and fairy tales. Lovingly
illustrated, they lead us into a world full of adventure and wisdom.
Sara Manzano is a freelance illustrator who creates her images with the help of a pencil
and photoshop. She is open to all styles and particulary likes strange animals, fantastic
creatures, anatomy sketches and manga. www.saramanzano.com
ILLUSTRATED BY SARA MANZANO
Witch Tales From All Over The World
In that place where people imagine fairies live,
there is also room for witches, those wicked,
crafty and dark beings that are sometimes
surprisingly endearing and capable of amazing,
barely imaginable spells.
This collection of stories about witches will take
you to the homes of the witches of different
nt
origins who feature in these tales carefully
lly
chosen for reading or listening to. You’re bound
nd
to be bewitched!
Sara Manzano is a freelance illustrator who creates her images with the help of a pencil
and photoshop. She is open to all styles and particulary likes strange animals, fantastic
creatures, anatomy sketches and manga. www.saramanzano.com
Collectable editions
COLLECTABLE EDITIONS
Quality collections,
the key to our market leadership
With a 40% share, we are the market leader in Spain for collectable editions,
and the products are translated into 12 languages and sold in 49 countries.
These are the credentials of the RBA Collectable Editions division.
From family reference books to children’s collections and from training
courses to prestigious publications, every year we publish more than
a hundred innovative, trend-setting collections at home and abroad.
Thanks to our research and creativity, we produce print and multimedia
publications of the highest quality, which are the keys to our success.
Our success has taken us to all the inhabited continents, where we use
various publishing formats. We also have our own subsidiaries in Italy and
Portugal and we co-publish and sell our products together with the leading
operators in each market.
Our firmly established market leadership has enabled us to work with the
very largest newspaper publishers to sell our products together and achieve
a global product.
67 / Collectable Editions
Everything Is Mathematical
Gain an insight into the discoveries of some of the most brilliant minds
of all times: Pythagoras, Euclid, Fibonacci, Leibniz, Newton, Gauss...
and many more. Unravel the fascinating enigmas that have challenged
mathematicians through ages.
Make connections between mathematics and everyday life. Maths is not
just to be found in digital areas like Internet security and GPS, but also in
human relationships, art and music.
Great Ideas Of Science
Take a voyage of discovery with GREAT IDEAS OF SCIENCE, a collection of unique,
rigorous educational books that explore the theories that explain our world through the
lives of the scientists who discovered them.
Get to know the theories explaining our world: gravity, relativity, number theories,
quantum mechanics, computing, radioactivity, nuclear energy and so on.
Delve into the life and times of the great geniuses: Pythagoras and the Ancient Greece of
the first wise men, Galileo and the dark ages of religious fanaticism, Einstein and the years
of nuclear threat and much more.
History National Geographic
National Geographic’s most ambitious project.
A great reference work for learning about the past and interpreting the
present. This collection offers a structured, overall view of more than 5,000
years of history, from the ancient world to modern times, focusing on the
great civilizations of the past.
Magazine books
Magazine Books
MAGAZINE BOOKS
Best-selling magazines and
a firm position as market leader
Lecturas, National Geographic, Saber Vivir, El Mueble and El Jueves are
just some of the iconic titles published by RBA, the leading publisher of
magazines in Spain.
We offer the very best content in our 28 magazines of various kinds,
including DIY, celebrity, women’s, general non-fiction, and news
magazines. Our magazines are read by over 11 million readers and have
been constantly growing since they were first published 20 years ago.
A leader in ideas: Research + Creativity
The formula for our success is our profound knowledge of our readers’
tastes and needs, which we transfer into meticulously prepared publications
of the highest quality.
International reach
The formula for our success is our profound knowledge of our readers’
tastes and needs, which we transfer into meticulously prepared publications
of the highest quality.
72 / Magazine Books
Magazine Books
73 / Magazine Books
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