From a long-awaited biography of Francisco Franco to a comic about job insecurity by Nadia Hafid and from a volume of narrative pieces by Almudena Grandes to the novel by Jorge Fernández Díaz that won the Nadal Prize,
as well as a new meditation by Pablo d’Ors. A selection of the titles that will be arriving in bookstores this month.
Life and books merge in creative and mysterious ways. You build a sandcastle on the beach and a writer has the talent to convert a family tradition into a reflection on war. This is the case of Las barreras de arena by Jean-Yves Jounnais. A geologist dedicated to volcanoes writes an essay to reveal the relationship between lava and the evolution of humanity. We will be able to read Volcanic Adventures by Tamsin Mather.
The illness of a loved one can be transformed into high literature, as John Bayley achieves in Elegía a Iris, dedicated to his wife Iris Murdoch. These are stories that will be released in bookstores this January, such as the liberating confession of de Fer Rivas in Yo era un chico, the biography of the Spanish pop figure Manolo Díaz or the investigation into Russian espionage by Marc Marginedas.
