Xavier ALIAGA CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2024, 280 p. FICTION, Crime Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grantsAfter The Neons of Sodom and Two square meters of young blood (crims.cat 12), Xavier Aliaga returns with a new installment of his peculiar policeman of Guinean origin. With the same load of irony and social criticism, but with a much more poignant and violent story, in what could be considered the...

Gilles DEL PAPPAS Editions d’Avallon (réédition),  2024, (Librio, 2000; CLC édition, 2004), 94 p. FICTION, Crime Novel, French One of the Best Sellers by Gilles del Pappas, Marseilles’ Crime and Adventure Novels Master. Gilles del Pappas. Massilia Dreams, New edition in French by Editions d'Avallon. Before a middle-aged woman claimed to have lost her jewels in Loule’s taxi, life was pretty quiet for him in Marseille,...

Anaëlle Théry Terre vivante, april 2024, 21 x 29,7 cm. Practical Ecology, French The first book in French on Syntropic Agriculture, emerging concept in France (and all over the world).After Permaculture, the new revolution in your garden!This book, based on the field experiments of Anaëlle Théry, a pioneer of syntropy in France, provides methods adapted to our latitudes, for vegetable gardening (from 50 m²), market gardening, fruit growing and...

Silvestre VILAPLANA CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2020, 250 p. FICTION, Thriller Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grantsThe novel that begins the trilogy featuring Inspector Araceli Lavila In a flush on the outskirts of Valencia appears the body of an unidentified young woman with the phalanges of her fingers cut off and obvious signs of rape. When Inspector Araceli Lavila begins the investigation, she...

Antoni ROCA CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2023, 214 p. FICTION, Crime Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants X Agustí Vehí-Vila de Tiana Memorial Prize 2023 In 1912, Vienna was a seemingly quiet city, the center of a continental empire that has survived the uprisings of the nineteenth century. It has more than two million inhabitants and the Universal Exposition has given it an unquestionable prestige,...

Gilles DEL PAPPAS Les dernières livraisons des Constantin le Grec : de Marseille aux îles de la Polynésie. Les Sept vies de Constantin (#24)Le pénéquet troublé de Constantin (#25) Nana Constantin! (#26) Les Sept vies de Constantin (#24) Février 1990 Deux jeunes filles fuient, sous la pluie, une secte ou elles sont nées, Isabelle et Florence. Constantin va pêcher des oursins, la pluie a repris de plus belle. Il prend sa voiture pour rentrer à...

Silvestre VILAPLANA CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2023, 290 p. FICTION, Crime Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grantsAfter Women without Name and Suburbs of Paradise, Silvestre Vilaplana completes with Angels of Death the trilogy of detective Araceli Lavila, three crime novels with a strong social denunciation that have corruption and abuses of power as a background. Death seems to have taken over the...

Silvestre VILAPLANA CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2022, 268 p. FICTION, Crime’s novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grantsA novel denouncing the darkness of factual powers set against the backdrop of political crimes, the rise of fascism and abuses of power. After Women Without a Name, Inspector Araceli Laula returns. Removed from the body while battling health problems, her life is disturbed by the...

Jordi CERVERA CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2021, 380 p. FICTION, Thriller, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants A wood, a park and a courthouse. What can these three places have in common? Well, more than you think, especially if we also take a look at the protagonists who move there. Because it’s hard to imagine the things that might unite a media philosopher, a respected judge woman, a young woman...

Pere FIGUERAS CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2022, 180 p. FICTION, Crime’s Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grantsA dark book full of humour IX ex-aequo Memorial Agustí Vehí-Vila Award in Tiana Black Novel Festival 2022 The protagonist of this story is Avel·lí Baldoví, a psychopath convinced that the world works against him and who does not hesitate to eliminate anyone who offends his dignity. He...

Rabia AHMED FEROZSONS,  2022, 200 p. FICTION, Novel, English (Pakistan) A story of the ongoing struggle between power and poverty in Pakistan’s town. It’s an investigative novel because the author is a journalist, at times a social novel, but also an intimate novel, and always in a simple and elegant writing. Pakistan, with its social and urban problems, has so much to tell us. “Set within the framework of a family coming to...

Armella Leung (Art-mella) POURPENSER, 2015, 2018, 19 x 29,5 cm. Self Help, Youth, Comics, French Till 14 years old to any age of life ALMOST 50 000 COPIES SOLD IN TOTAL FOR THE SERIES Tome #1 30 000 copies sold in France Art-mella is a young woman who likes to look for answers to the questions she asks herself. Curious and quick-witted, she observes, goes out to meet people and tries things out. In these pages, Art-mella shares some of the...

Ivan BAIDAK VIVAT Publishing, 2020, 155 p. FICTION, Novel, UkranianGUERNICA Editions, 2022, 150 p. FICTION, Novel, English translation by Hanna Leliv and Isaac Wheeler The most recent bestseller of Ukrainian author Ivan Baidak and Best Book of 2020 according to PEN Ukraine Keywords: Disability Fiction, Friendship, Inclusive and Social Novel, self-confidence, Ukrainian, Tourette’s, Visible disabilities Diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome as...

Óscar GUAL Trata del mundo urbano en qué casi estamos, dónde la inteligencia artificial ha acabado con la conciencia colectiva y la autoconciencia. Con mucho humor, personajes potentes y escenas a veces casi teatrales, la novela es a la vez entretenida y lleva a reflexionar sobre nuestra sociedad y sus futuros posibles. “¿Hay vida inteligente en el universo ? ¿tendremos visita algún día ? ¿vamos preparando merienda ?”...

Gilles DEL PAPPAS FICTION / Jeunesse à partir de 13 ans, français Un roman tendre et au langage direct, où une jeune adolescente et un vieil homme fantôme urbain se rencontrent. Des personnages complexes, sûrement pas unichromes qui se heurtent et se connaissent à Marseille, troisième personnage du roman. C’est dans le décor antique de Marseille que se passe cette histoire. Sous le signe du Mistral, le Maitre des vents, gansaillé par sa force,...

Gilles DEL PAPPAS FICTION / Adultes, Jeunes adultes, Français Un roman plein de générosité, avec des personnages émouvants et truculents, un roman où la cuisine est omniprésente et met l’eau à la bouche. La vie d’un quartier populaire de Marseille, le Panier, sa solidarité, la beauté du partage, la vie belle et cruelle des personnes aux vies décalées (réfugiés, marginaux). Une famille de réfugiés est chassée de son appartement au...

Gilles DEL PAPPAS FICTION /aventure et voyage, français Ainsi Gilles del Pappas présente-t-il son roman. “J’ai utilisé, pour ce roman, un fait divers qui s’est passé en 1986 dans un atoll des Tuamotu. Comme je ne connais pas cet archipel, j’ai transposé l’évènement ailleurs dans un mix d’îles du Pacifique où je me suis rendu et que j’ai aimées, et d’autres que j’ai fantasmées. Mon but, ce n’est pas de rouvrir des souvenirs malheureux, mon...

En négociation avec une maison d’édition Gilles DEL PAPPAS FICTION /Polar, français Ainsi Gilles del Pappas introduit-il son roman : “En plein confinement, j’ai entendu une journaliste prouver que les agressions contre les femmes, au foyer conjugal, avaient été augmentées de 35%. J’en fus horrifié. Comment cela était-il possible. Que mes collègues, les hommes pouvaient être capable de telles ignominies me surprenait. Pourquoi ?...

Gildas Girodeau Horsain, 2022, 246 p. FICTION, Detective Novel, french When Alfons Duru discovers a decapitated illegal immigrant in his vat of Banyuls wine, his world is swept away by a veritable tsunami. Paul Feder gets involved in the old man’s affairs, comes across mafiosi from La Jonquera, unscrupulous thugs from Collioure, and a not-so-gentleman who organises parties in a château in Saint Jean Lasseille; not forgetting the cliffs of...

Gerard GUIX COLUMNA, 2011, 424 p. FICTION, Catalan Awarded with the XXI Pin i Soler Prize A somewhat fantastic road movie that takes us from Catalonia to London to the centre of Europe, punctuated by flashbacks and music. Five years ago in London Gerard and Anastasia meet casually. Soon after, the girl goes to live with him in Barcelona, ​​where the young boy had tried to turn her in someone other than the Russian student who attracted him, as...

Gerard GUIX COLUMNA, 2013, 176 p. FICTION, Catalan The perfect adaptation of his play Genesi 3.0, a success at the 2003 GREC Festival.Gerard Guix is inspired by the dystopian worlds of three works of science fiction, George Orwell’s 1984, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, to locate its futuristic fable, although the atmosphere, the characters and the story more approach the...

Gerard GUIX FANBOOKS, 2021, 276 p. CROSSOVER, Catalan A story that seems simple at the beginning and ends up taking us into a spiral of facts and emotions that will shake us and reveal the darker side of our society. A novel that echoes an adult novel he wrote ten years ago, Hunting Day, set in the same mountain and snowy village, Vic. For ages 14 and up. 13 years ago, in a mountain village where nothing ever happens, a teenager died during a...

Gilles DEL PAPPAS et Emmanuel PETIT RAMSAY, 2021, 243 p. CRIME FICTION, french Second opus of the Trilogy of football polars, with the Commissioner Clémentine Paccini Tignes, November 97, oxygenation course for the French national team, a local FIFA representative is found with his throat cut and his hands hanged. Casablanca, May 98, Hassan II competition, a young FIFA representative is found dead, with her throat cut. At the scene, in the...

Andreu MARTIN Literatura juvenil, novela negra, castellano Adrià, estudiante de historia e historiador vocacional, verá cambiar su vida cuando encuentre las pistas para encontrar tres cuadros de Vermeer que están escondidos en alguna parte. En el camino, conocerá a Diana, la chica más intrépida, hermosa e inteligente que ha encontrado en su vida. Pero siempre podrá contar con Sonia, su amiga del alma, la que en definitiva habrá de sacarle las...

Andreu MARTIN, ilustraciones de RUI CAVALEIRO INFÁNTIL ILUSTRADO, Castellano ILUSTRACIONES y lectura del manúscrito por Rui Cavaleiro : aquí Los monstruos dan miedo a los demás, de manera que no deben de tener miedo. Por eso Luis quería ser un monstruo. Rui Cavaleiro Rui Cavaleiro Rui Cavaleiro Territory of representationWorld Wide What only happens to othersThe Fourth Girl On The LeftEl libro de los tesoros_manuscritoEl niño que quería ser un...

Anne-Laure Amilhat-Szary LE CAVALIER BLEU,  2020, 216 p. NON-FICTION, french A brilliant, original and committed essay on a major geopolitical issue, borders. Paradoxical geographical objects, borders have criss-crossed the world since modern times and form the basis of international relations, presupposing on the one hand the equality of law between the territories they delimit and on the other hand an exclusive distribution of...

Gildas Girodeau Au-delà du raisonnable, 2015, 250 p. To be republished, FICTION, Black Novel, french A brave woman like the Captain, like the Passionaria, like so many who found energy and strength to fight for ideas and for life. It makes us want to follow in her footsteps, it awakens our longing for political and ordinary heroism.Her name was Antonia. The press in the ’70s called it the Pistolera. Antonia, a young activist and her...

Gildas Girodeau Rivière blanche, 2019, 220 p. FICTION, medieval fantasy, french Saga Xavi el Valent #3 Montsegur resisted! But the fight continues. Xavi El Valent and his Katalans are leading the reconquest against the Evil Forces. In disarray, Pope Posel Virt Schneesturm and Seneschal Laguerre asked for help from the terrible Teutonic knights. As for the alien cardinals, they gather their reptilian forces in the eastern deserts. Ready for...

Gildas Girodeau Horsain, 2020, first publication, 2018, 292 p. FICTION, Black Novel, french On a beach near Perpignan, the body of a decapitated man is discovered. Around him, in the sand, there are signs calling out to a young PJ investigator recently posted in the South, a woman called Laurence Guéguen. “Miguel Cesplugas stopped chewing his meat and stared at it with astonishment. When he saw that she was not joking, the colossus burst...

Arianna DAGNINO GUERNICA Editions, 2019, 240 p. CANADA, english. A woman’s adventure story set between South Africa and Namibia, The Afrikaner covers the terrains of race, love, historical guilt, scientific obsession and the tensions of a society “lost in transition.”The book is inspired by the five years the author spent in South Africa working as an international reporter for the Italian press and is currently being adapted to film by...

Mònica BATET   Editorial Empúries, 2020, 141 p., FICTION, Short stories, catalan Book eligible for TRANSLATION GRANTS from the RAMÓN LLULL INSTITUTE in Barcelona. In Chopin’s heart is fruit of the fascination that exerts Poland on the writer Mònica Batet. Since the 2007, the notebooks of the writer collect histories of every type related with this country of cosy persons, sentimental and wound for the History. The reader will...

Anne-Laure Amilhat-Szary PUF,   2015, 142 p. NON-FICTION, french It is a book about borders written in the foreboding of what is now commonly known as the “migrant crisis”. Based on a longstanding partnership with scientific writings on the border issue (multidisciplinary texts written in different languages), it escapes the constraints of academia to propose a writing open to all. What is a frontier today? poses a thesis,...

Gilles DEL PAPPAS DE BOREE,  2018, 240 p. FICTION, polar adventure novel, french Serie of adventure polar books Constantine the Greek, 22 volumes already publishedLast published, Constantin n°22 Takes place in Marsella and HamburgoEach one is a part of Marsella’s chronicle, from the 90’s, and often an adventure in another place in the world. The Marseille’s Bob Morane. Two new Manuscripts, rights available in french and in foreign...

Gilles DEL PAPPAS et Emmanuel PETIT SEUIL, 2019, 256 p. POLAR FICTION, french First opus of the Trilogy of football polars Immersed in FIFA’s hot topic, Clémentine Paccini, a young commissioner at 36 quai des Orfèvres, with a strong head and a passion for gastronomy, was sent to Marseille as a matter of urgency. Astonishment throughout France: the charismatic OM coach was found murdered. Alongside the director of the investigation,...

Fernando CLEMOT PARALELO SUR, 2008, SHORT STORIES, spanish Distinguished and terrible characters, echoes of childhood, looks of yearning and of disgust at life run through ‘Estancos del Chiado’, a volume that brings together the best stories by the Barcelona author Fernando Clemot, all written before 2005. Disappointment and irony go hand in hand in all the stories here, in a less than idyllic vision of a time that, in a journey to...

Fernando CLEMOT BARATARIA, 2009, LITERARY FICTION, spanish The protagonist and narrator, Leo Carver, is a perceptive figure who takes a tragic approach to life through an excess of alcohol, sex, and parties, even though he knows his struggle against the void is condemned to failure. Looking for something to give meaning to his life, he sets off on a journey in search of lost memories: the clues he needs to clear up the death of a young woman...

Mònica BATET METEORA, 2015, 184 p. LITERARY FICTION, catalan Book eligible for TRANSLATION GRANTS from the RAMÓN LLULL INSTITUTE in Barcelona. A 10-year-old girl is left at home with her paternal grandfather when her parents have to flee, for political reasons, from an Arctic country that is currently experiencing a climatic phenomenon called the Great Snowfall. Paris is the destination of fugitives. Time passes and the little girl and then the...

Mònica BATET   BROMERA, 2019, 224 p., FICTION, catalan Book eligible for TRANSLATION GRANTS from the RAMÓN LLULL INSTITUTE in Barcelona. Can I tell a story that doesn’t belong to me? What can I talk about and what can I keep quiet about? These are some of the questions raised by the six narrators of this story, which tells the story of a past that may also be the present. In any case, we are talking about certain islands that...

Patricia ALMARCEGUI Ediciones B, 2011, 208 p. FICTION, spanish. Historical novel. A fiction that is both entertaining and theoretical. Both the aesthetic debates and the beautiful friendship imagined between Ingres and Lady Montagu in Paris delight the reader. In The Painter and the Traveller’s Woman, Ingres, tormented and lacking inspiration, fled Paris and isolated himself in the countryside. He regained his confidence and the desire to...

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