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      • Mom doesn´t know yet
        Fiction
        January 2023 - October 2028

        Mom doesn´t know yet

        by Blanca Baltés

        Four daughters grow up. Mom protects. Or try. The little girl observes, asks herself questions, counts silences. News after news, scare after upset, the intrigue makes its way in bites. Dizzying story composed as a mosaic, with agile episodes that mix the comic and the tragic, as in life. Mom asks few questions and keeps many silences. But life goes on, life doesn't wait. Mama Doesn't Know It Yet is the first narrative work by Blanca Baltés. Her dramatic writing covers various genres and styles (children's, comedy, dance-theater, document theater...). She has covered El amor aluso, by Antonio de Solís (Corral de Comedias de Almagro, 2002) and Casandra, by Benito Pérez Galdós (Teatro Español de Madrid, 2020). Added to these works are original works such as Half-Over Oracle (Sala Triángulo in Madrid, 2003) or Beatriz Galindo in Stockholm (Sala de la Princesa, CDN, 2018). Unpublished remains Doors Out (below the words), selected in the Creation Aid program of the Community of Madrid (2008).   The novel narrates the life of a Spanish woman, her four daughters and her mother, her grandmother. In some way it tells the intrahistory of a part of Spanish women during the second half of the 20th century. It is a familiar and everyday story, in which europeans who are now over 40 can recognize themselves, but at the same time surprising, with unexpected twists from beginning to end.

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      • The universe of U feeeling experience
        Fiction
        September 2023 - September 2028

        The universe of U feeeling experience

        by José Ángel Mañas

        Tense futuristic stories, yet hauntingly realistic, with an edge of psychological unease reminiscent of Allan Poe   The author of “Stories from the Kronen” José Ángel Mañas returns with a disturbing and iconoclastic new adventure called The U Feeling Experience with the creation of a body-swapping experience that aims to achieve universal empathy.   A world entertainment company born in Silicon Valley arrives in the capital convinced that with its technology they can bring irreconcilable enemies closer together: goodbye to the gender war, goodbye to the class war, goodbye to xenophobia. With U feeling, psychological therapies will be achieved with results never seen before.   An intriguing series in which each book tells a different story with new protagonists, although it has a fixed universe, the environment that is always maintained and that unifies the series is the "Exchange Department", an office of the National Police that oversees resolving the cases derived from the problems of exchange of bodies.   Based on dystopias that shows a conflict at the beginning, the reader begins to resolve the conflict in his head, but nevertheless behind each story there is a complex framework, a different solution to what appears to be at first, an inevitable tension seizes you and you're dying to know what's going on. In the end everything becomes clear, but the suspense and intrigue have stayed inside you. So far, Alt autores publishing house has published three books:     Book 1. The story of Momar   What happens when a desperate immigrant and a wealthy man from the capital decide to swap bodies?   Book 2. Gabri the glutton   Is it legal for a child and a parent to swap bodies? The moral and legal dilemmas caused by this new fashion of body swapping have only just begun. Book 3. The price of meat It tells the story of Julius, a big and robust man, an insatiable carnivore, and his wife Ayra, the love of his life, a militant vegetarian who asks him to give up meat.

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      • Les particuliers de Tanger
        Fiction

        Les particuliers de Tanger

        by Santiago de Luca

        Il existe différents mythes sur la fondation de Tanger. L’auteur de ce libre vient les briser et le réinventer, se risquant une nouvelle légende qui découvre que, à diverses époques de notre passé, pas toujours très inclusives, ceux qu’on appelle ici ‘particuliers’ ont été mis dans un bateau et relâchés vers leur sort dans les eaux de la mer. Il n’est pas difficile d’imaginer qu’un de ces bateaux qui transportaient tant de singularités ait fait naufrage et ait réussi à rejoindre Tanger, établissant ainsi une lignée et une sorte d’attraction magnétique de la Ville Blanche pour tous ceux qui vivent en dehors des tendances les plus courants.    De la rigueur du style qui ne manque pas d’ironie, Santiago De Luca, sans rechercher la vérité absolue mais plutôt la partie la plus profonde de l’être humain, a créé son propre genre, où chaque histoire racontée est un personnage et le décor dans lequel une singularité se déroule. Avec toute la complicité qu’il éprouve pour les ‘particuliers’, puisqu’il se sent comme l’un d’entre eux, il invite le lecteur à se plonger dans cette mer de personnages: le paresseux, le faux espión, le proche, le porteur de gilet…, sachant qu’ils seront eux.mêmes les personnages, ceux qui placeront finalment le lecteur devant un miroir. Santiago De Luca (Santa Fe, Argentine) est le directeur de la publication littéraire SureS et le responsable de l’espace argentino-maghrébin Jorge Luis Borges, chargé des représentations diplomatiques de la région. Docteur en philologie de l’Université Complutense de Madrid, il a enseigné la littérature dans des universités du Moyen-Orient, d’Afrique, d’Europe et d’Amérique latine. Au cours de sa carrière d’écrivain, il a publié des romans, des essais, des nouvelles et de la poésie.

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      • As Long As We Could
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

        As Long As We Could

        by Pablo Herrán

        Eve Friedman is an eighty-three years old playwright who lives alone in a messy apartment in Manhattan. Her childhood memories that come into her mind in the swimming pool, the night conversations with the building manager and the chicken thighs on sale at the supermarket are enough to make her happy. However, when she meets Jorge, a young foreigner who recently moved to New York to work as a screenwriter, her life started to reel. Through this relationship, Eve will discover another kind of loneliness, one caused by a disease that is disarming her most powerful weapon: words.

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      • El mes más cruel
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        May 2010

        El mes más cruel

        by Pilar Adón

        Two strangers have to share a three-storey house for a few days, and both are determined to maintain order and be indispensable; a woman waits anxiously for the arrival of a younger boy who will free her from her boredom and frustration; Scott returns to England after his polar expedition but no one will receive him; a girl named Clara follows the footsteps of an elusive cat; a mother terrorizes her son so that he never leaves her side. The fourteen stories that compose "El mes más cruel" are a careful collection of recipes to survive loss, separation, madness and fear.

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      • La Forastera
        Fiction

        La Forastera

        by Olga Merino

        A contemporary western set in the rugged, unforgiving territory ofrural Spain. A thrilling story about human resilience. For the locals, Angie is the village crazy lady. She lives isolated and alone in the country, surrounded by ghosts who torment her with childhood memories of a poor working-class neighbourhood in Barcelona and a passionate love affair in her youth with an artist from London. One morning, Angie discovers the lifeless body of the local landowner hanging from the branch of a walnut tree. This news endangers her own land and the future of the entire village. In her struggle to keep what’s hers, Angie uncovers a series of secrets deeply buried in that land. This leads to a liberating realisation: once you lose everything, they can’t take anything away from you. And then you’re invincible.

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      • Nacida Libre
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        October 2019

        Nacida Libre

        by Minerva Piquero

        Primera novela de presentadora de televisión Minerva Piquero. Cora necesita reinventarse para salir del pozo en el que se ve inmersa tras la inesperada ruptura con el amor de su vida. El sexo se convertirá en el rito de iniciación hacia su nueva identidad, un mundo desconocido don¬de experimentar, reencontrarse y perdonar. Valentina llega a España huyendo de un oscuro secreto y un pasado traumático; necesita renacer para encontrar su sitio en el mundo. La vida no es fácil para una joven transexual extranjera. Las dos protagonistas de Nacida Libre, aun siendo de mundos tan distintos y alejados, coinciden en un momento crucial para ambas en el que deben recorrer un camino de autoconocimiento dejando atrás la traición y la venganza. Las circunstancias en las que se encuentran hacen que crezca entre ellas una profunda amistad y la fuerza necesaria para entender que, a pesar de todo, ellas nacieron libres.

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      • Earth
        Fiction
        February 2020

        Earth

        by Eloy Moreno

        The problem of finding the truth is not knowing what to do with it. A story that will change the way we see the world. A bestselling author who touches the most sensitive nerves.  A group of people live together in a nameless place. Why are they there? How did they get there? And above all, who are they? Or who have they become? We know nothing about them. Just what their actions tell us. In a lawless world, where everything that made up society has disappeared, what is left of us? A story full of unknowns, of big questions about the world we live our lives in, that asks us if the things we think are important really are. The author’s major themes are feelings, absurdity, society, and the importance of following our dreams.

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      • La playa y el tiempo
        Fiction
        July 2020

        La playa y el tiempo

        by Ernesto Calabuig

        "Writing is daring, like taking your clothes off on a beach”. This is the start to the first of the short stories that make up this book, the story of a writer who, at the age of forty-seven, decides to stop the inertia and decline of her life and not come back from her summer holiday. The main character of Beijing-Xàtiva, on board of a train, will also find out the almost unfathomable implications of trying to bring the past back. Through this collection we see a whole gallery of diverse characters that share the common denominator of a fight against the frantic pace of time: school teachers, flamenco dancers, old sea men, Japanese engineers, fathers that watch their children grow and drift away, impossible lovers from an old translation academy, high school lovers who lost track of each other, men visited by Greek philosophers and tormented by a dream, French guitarists, voyeurs of other people’s lives… Even Leonard Cohen portrayed in detail during his years in a Buddhist monastery, in silence, away from the stage. “Escribir es un atrevimiento, como quedarse desnuda en una playa”. Así comienza el primero de los relatos que componen este libro, la historia de una escritora que, a sus cuarenta y siete años, decide detener la inercia y el declive de su vida y no regresar de un veraneo. También el protagonista de Pekín-Xàtiva, a bordo de un tren, descubrirá las implicaciones casi fantasmales de intentar recuperar el pasado. Por esta colección desfila toda una galería de variados personajes que comparten el denominador común de afrontar el vértigo del paso del tiempo: maestras infantiles, bailaoras de flamenco, ancianos del mar del Norte, ingenieros japoneses, padres que ven a sus hijos crecer y alejarse, amantes imposibles de una vieja academia de traducciones, amores de instituto a los que se les perdió la pista, hombres visitados por filósofos griegos y atormentados por un sueño, guitarristas franceses, voyeurs de las vidas ajenas… Y hasta el propio Leonard Cohen retratado al detalle en sus años de silencio, apartado de los escenarios en un monasterio budista."

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      • Outside of time
        Literary Fiction
        May 2021

        Outside of time

        by Silvia Bardelás

        "Destiempo is a song to the fight for internal revolutions and the desire to free ourselves from the vital ropes that bind us." - Armando Requeixo. Diario cultural. Radio Galega   Destiempo illuminates the we as the truly human space. An older woman asks her grandson to come back to Galicia from the United States to spend the summer with her. She wants him to attend a kind of social fight that she is carrying out with her friends. They look for action as the only thing that can give meaning to their lives. Silvia Bardelás mixes different generations that share the same problem: the weight of a standardized world, full of discourses, oblivious to vitality. The possibility of feeling alive and real again makes everything move in an unstoppable way. The story is a coming and going of past and present, of ideas and actions that reveal the silent social power and the inner need to feel free. Destiempo (Outside of time) is a community novel. Beyond individuality, beyond the group is the we, which can only emerge genuinely when individuals become singular beings, when they become aware of the myths, the ideology, the discourses that have dominated their lives and those of their ancestors.   The narrator puts the focus on the interrelation. He lights up scenes where the characters discover themselves through others.

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      • And they say
        Fiction
        March 2019

        And they say

        by Susana Sánchez Aríns

        Dicen (And they say) is a family story crossed by Franco's repression.   It tells what is not registered in notarial acts, or in newspapers, or in books, or in provincial archives. It tells a story of a day-to-day silence that became long, very long, and that has conditioned us until now.   Dicen tells real events in a network of voices silenced for generations, it is not written from the political reflection, but from the poetic justice, it is the contemporary account of the Spanish postwar period.   Dicen is an innovative book. It is not poetry, it is not an essay, it is not a short narrative and it is everything at the same time. Written in short sequences, it collects the intimate memory of a family and reconstructs their insignificant lives to show the terror of repression after the civil war. Conversations, poems, stories, essay references, fragmented sequences that the reader orders in a shocking story.   The narration drags the reader to the end by the rhythm, the different voices, the authenticity and the gradual understanding of why that time is silenced.   The author speaks of poetic justice as a way of giving life to those who did not want to be named after their death: the oppressors. This story recovers their names, their ways of acting, their personalities, their power. And it also brings back to life those who died in the ditches or lived marginalized: the victims.   It is very difficult to make historical memory from politics, however, literature is its natural space. An original work, with enormous expressive force and a unique point of view discovered by Susana Sánchez Aríns, an experienced, committed voice.   The book has received the Madrid Booksellers Award for Best Fiction Book 2019. (Premio de los Libreros de Madrid al Mejor Libro de Ficción)

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      • Obra Maestra (Masterpiece)
        Fiction
        February 2022

        Obra Maestra (Masterpiece)

        by Juan Tallon

        The story in this novel is utterly implausible – and yet it happened. One of the world’s leading museums, the Reina Sofía in Madrid, commissioned a piece from leading American sculptor Richard Serra to celebrate its inauguration in 1986. A sculpture weighing thirty-eight tons which one fine day… simply vanished into thin air. Nobody knew how it had disappeared, when it had happened, or who was responsible. A mixture of nonfiction novel and fictionalized reportage, combining the bizarre with the hallucinogenic, Masterpiece employs the pace of a thriller to reconstruct a case that poses some disturbing questions. How could something like this have happened? How does a copy become an original? What even is contemporary art? And what was the true fate of the famous, huge and immensely heavy steel sculpture that evaporated? Might it reappear one day?   “I am especially amazed by the generosity of this polyphony. More than a stylisticaudacity, I see it as proof of great sensitivity. The author speaks masterfully of contemporaryart, addressing the relationship between the original and the copy and the collective dimension of a work. It also inspires a keen awareness of history. Even more impressive, it offers a scathing vision of our present, and more particularly our political present. It is admirable to have succeeded in turning a work as rectangular as Equal-Parallel / Guernica-Bengasi into a prism that refracts the world so powerfully”.Benjamin Burguete, editor at Le Bruit du Monde (France)

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      • Uprooted
        Fiction
        June 2022

        Uprooted

        by Julia Rendon Abrahamson

        With brilliant prose, Julia Rendón Abrahamson portrays the life of a separated mother in New York. A young Ecuadorian woman has a daughter with a Catalan banker and in the midst of today's broken society seeks a way to redeem the family's emigration dating back to World War II from Nazi-occupied Vienna.   A powerful repertoire of uncontrollable images of family memory leap into the consciousness of the day to day of a New York life marked by lovelessness, parenting, the search for a new life. Thought attempts to spin a discourse that functions as a protective blanket as a vital youthful impulse dominates her sexual, amorous and familial experiences.   This is the novel debut of an original writer who creates a dazzling text for the power of the language, which emerges as if it springs from the deep need to name the world.   In this great moment of visibility of Ecuadorian women's writing, Julia Rendón Abrahamson comes to tell us that the themes that interest the region are not exhausted in violence, or what may seem exotic abroad. She claims that what does exist in this territory is a diversity of identities and experiences that need to be read.

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      • A World of Scars
        Thriller / suspense
        August 2020

        A World of Scars

        by Jorge Díaz Leza

        "During the dry and torrid winter of 2019, in a small town in Catalonia, the adolescent Berta Balaguer deeply admires the young Swedish ecologist Greta Thunberg, whose Fridays For Future Movement is followed with great intensity in other countries in Europe and the world. But the Spanish State still seems oblivious to these mobilizations.   Berta with Jordi, a young man activist of Ecologistas En Acción, will try to organize the movement in her locality and then try to extend it to the rest of the country. Soon, like the Swedish teenager, she will start giving talks and speeches and win many sympathies and followers. However, being a minor and under the tutelage of parents who do not understand her and only expect her academic success, will she finally be able to participate in the school strike for the climate?".   This story closes the book Un Mundo de Cicatrices, a volume of six stories where some of its characters, such as Berta Balaguer, will try to carry out an intense environmental activism by becoming aware that, paraphrasing Aldo Leopold, "they live alone in a world of scars ". Others will simply try to find themselves and their dreams in a context where things will never be easy at all. And on their way, one and the other, will suffer the joys and disappointments of friendship; They will try to find love or to love beyond death; they will be involved in stories of intrigue, disturbing thrillers in which there will be no shortage of nods to film noir; or they will be active participants in some of the most relevant events in our recent history. But all, eventually, will learn that "a world of scars" also opens in the soul of every human being.

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      • GRAY RESCUE
        Fiction
        January 2018

        GRAY RESCUE

        by Cristian Perfumo

        GRAY RESCUE Finalist of the Clarín Novel Prize 2018 A volcano covers his town with ash. They just kidnapped his wife. Your day is just beginning. Puerto Deseado, Patagonia Argentina, 1991. Raúl needs two jobs to make ends meet. When he turns off the alarm clock to go to the first one, he knows something is wrong. His small town has dawned covered by the ash of a volcano and Graciela, his wife, is not at home. Everything seems to indicate that Graciela has left of her own free will ... until the kidnappers call. The instructions are clear: if you want to see her again, you have to return the 1.5 million dollars you stole. The problem is that Raúl did not steal anything. Do not miss this psychological thriller set in one of the most convulsive and unforgettable times in the history of Patagonia: the days of the eruption of the Hudson volcano.

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      • Swarms
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        June 2020

        Swarms

        by Edgar Borges

        A plague of flying insects is damaging an undefined city in an abstract present. Vibrant and disturbing swarms darken the sky, while violence spread in the streets and the number of suicides increases exponentially.   Five young men take shelter in a house away in the woods, far from the collective delusion, fear and sufferance that reigns in the city. Voluntarily confined, the five friends will face solitude and despair; they will go through their own memories and dreads, living in an oneiric atmosphere between life and death.

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      • Amapolas en octubre
        Fiction
        September 2019

        Amapolas en octubre

        by Laura Riñón Sirera

        Mom came up with a method to make us forget any ugly things that happened to us and, at the same time, always remember a lesson from them all. She would rescue a fragment or piece of dialogue from a book that she considered appropriate for the occasion and then, with her perfect handwriting, she would write it on one of the white kitchen tiles. This way, when walking past them, we would read them and remember the reason behind it understanding that, despite how much something could hurt, there was always somebody that had felt the same way before. And it wasn’t just anybody: under every quote, she would write the author or character’s name, to give voice to the emotions and life experiences that we will all, with no exception, go through one day. This is how she persuaded us to believe that somebody had already felt that way and that, even in every darkness our imaginations would create, the most beautiful stories can be written down. Eventually, the kitchen wall became a canvas of our lives, a diary of our younger years written by other voices from other times. Mom found the most romantic and authentic way of making us feel important and unique. And she was never wrong. Mamá ideó un método para que olvidáramos las cosas feas que nos ocurrieran, y para que a su vez siempre recordáramos la lección aprendida. Rescataba la cita de un libro o el diálogo que considerara apropiado para la ocasión, y con su perfecta caligrafía lo escribía en uno de los azulejos blancos de la cocina de casa. Así, al leerlas cada vez que pasáramos por delante, recordaríamos la razón de lo escrito, y entenderíamos que por mucho que algo doliera, siempre había alguien que en algún momento se había sentido igual que nosotros. Y no se trataba de un alguien cualquiera: debajo de cada cita, firmaba con el nombre de un escritor o del personaje que aquel inventara, para darle voz a las emociones o a las vivencias que todos, sin excepción, tenemos a lo largo de nuestra vida. Era su manera de convencernos de que alguien ya vivió lo mismo antes de que nosotros lo hiciéramos, y que, incluso en los infiernos que nuestra imaginación inventa, se pueden escribir las más bellas historias.Con el paso de los años, la pared de la cocina se convirtió en el lienzo de nuestras vidas, el diario de nuestra juventud escrito por otras voces en otros tiempos. Mamá encontró la manera más romántica y auténtica de hacernos sentir importantes y únicos. Indestructibles.Y jamás se equivocó.

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      • Mujeres que leían
        Fiction
        April 2019

        Mujeres que leían

        by Rosa Huertas

        Women who used to read could’ve been titled women who used to sing, women who used to paint, women who used to play piano or even women who used to dance. All of them, the women that preceded us, had concerns, dreamt about being something more than what destiny had in store for them. It’s the story of the author’s mother, o women in her family, but it could also be the same story of many who lived through the post-war period, a difficult time in which they could be no more than wives and mothers. But many of them kept a treasure inside them. A voice, a gift, a will to create that many times had to be hidden in their homes, in their hearts. She, the mother, managed to make one of her dreams come true, even if it was seventy years later. Mujeres que leían se podía haber titulado igualmente mujeres que cantaban, mujeres que pintaban, mujeres que tocaban el piano o mujeres que bailaban. Todas ellas, las mujeres que nos precedieron, tenían inquietudes, soñaban con ser algo más que aquello que el destino les había marcado. Es la historia de la madre de la autora, de las mujeres de su familia, pero podría ser también la misma historia de muchas que vivieron la posguerra, un tiempo difícil en el que apenas podían ser otra cosa que esposas y madres. Pero ellas guardaban un tesoro en su interior: una voz, un don, unas ganas de crear que en muchos casos escondieron dentro de sus casas y de sus corazones. Ella, la madre, logró hacer realidad uno de sus pequeños sueños, aunque fuera setenta años después.

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      • THROUGH MY LITTLE EYES
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        December 2016

        THROUGH MY LITTLE EYES

        by Emilio Ortiz

        THE YEAR'S STAND-OUT NOVEL. A SUCCESS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS. BASED ON REAL FACTS A funny story of friendship, love and achievement told through the eyes of a guide dog. Cross is a happy and mischievous guide dog. Mario is a blind young man who tries to make his way in life. Together they form an inseparable team. A través de mis pequeños ojos is a moving novel that tells of Cross's funny adventures in the human world. Emilio Ortiz offers the account of a reality that he knows very well, since he has his own guide dog, named Spock, who is almost as naughty as Cross.

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      • NO CATS AT HOME
        Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        May 2018

        NO CATS AT HOME

        Diario de un gatuno primerizo

        by Pedro Zuazua

        THE ADVENTURES AND DISADVENTURES OF A NOVICE CAT ADOPTER Not so long ago, Pedro belonged to the Feline Resistance group, made up of all those people who unabashedly said "a cat won't come into my house, period". Until one day he met Mía, a white and brown kitten who settles in his apartment and not only takes over the space, but also conquers Pedro's heart. He couldn't imagine how much Mia would change his life. Fun, light-hearted and emotional, these feline memories reveal all the ins and outs of the cat world. And much more. Because, in fact, who has never been a first-timer?

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