Authors like Enrique Vila-Matas and Arturo Pérez-Reverte return. In foreign fiction, Cormac McCarthy.

Each year the literary 'rentrée' begins earlier. On August 31st, Patricia Highsmith's 'Diarios y cuadernos' arrives in bookstores, one of the first volumes of an autumn marked by family and intimate novels and current essays. Published by Anagrama, the journals collect more than eight thousand notes written from her years as a student to her days in Switzerland.

The literary releases continue with Andrés Trapiello, who on September 14th publishes ‘Madrid. 1945' (Destino Publishers). Halfway between the essay and the novel, he reconstructs the assault on the La Falange sub-delegation in Cuatro Caminos. In October 'Revolución' (Alfaguara) is published, where Arturo Pérez-Reverte delves into the events that led to the Mexican Republic. Enrique Vila-Matas comes out with 'Montevideo' (Seix Barral), a new episode that confirms that he is an author to whom the things he writes end up happening.

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