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JORDI NOGUÉS

COLOSSEUM Jordi Nogués Historical Fiction

tem·amphitheatrum·urbe·media, ut·destinasse·compererat·Augustum*

After troubled times, full of intrigue and upheavals, Vespasiano is determined to establish a period of peace in the empire. In order to do so, he plans the construction of an eternal monument to win over the plebeians, a monument which also represents the greatness of Roman peace. The project that is chosen is by Callicrates, a brilliant architect of Greek origen. It will be a great amphitheatre, fit for the gods, the largest stage for the greatest civilization. Most of the members of the Roman aristocracy, including the Jewish princess Julia Berenice, had planned on using the treasure obtained in Jerusalem for their own

purposes. However, little by little, the integrity and humanity of Callicrates puts the stale, patriarchal classes of Rome into check. The only person who might be able to undermine his integrity is Claudia Pulchra; because, just like any other human being, he has a weak spot: his daughters. Despite being personally and professionally threatened, the architect and his project are able to count on a great source of support: the prínceps Vespasiano. Besides mortar, stone, wood and marble the materials that helped to erect the Flavian Amphitheatre were also blood, passion, love and hate. Based on the life of Callicrates and his peers, Jordi Nogués presents us with not only a compelling novel but also a fascinating and ambitious recreation of the life in Rome when it was at its maximum splendour. The story of the monument which, with the passing of the centuries, future generations would come to identify with the eternity of Rome and its empire…...

* (nevertheless, he ordered the construction) of an amphitheatre in the middle of the city,

following the plans left by Augustus. Suetonius ,The Twelve Caesars

Rights Sold: Spanish – Edhasa (Castalia) April 2016 Italian – Newton Compton Jordi Nogués Aymerich (1968) is from Valls (Tarragona). He graduated from the National Distance Learning University with a degree in History, having studied anthropology, history of art, classical philosophy and geography. He is a writer who already has two books on the market; the saga Íroas, Hijos de los Dioses (Nowevolution, 2011, 2012), a mixture of fantasy and history which narrates the story of the fall of Atlantis. The new title by Jordi Nogués, Neumaquia will come out in 2019.

Excellent Historical Novel in the vein of The Pillars of the Earth and Cathedral of the Sea

ANDRÉS PASCUAL

HIGHLIGHT

A MERCED DE UN DIOS SALVAJE At the Mercy of a Savage God Andrés Pascual Psychological Thriller

A psychological thriller and an intense rural drama in the heart of La Rioja; a race against time through idyllic vineyards and

millenary traditions “Among the vines, there was a human figure. Its arms were down and the hood of a sweatshirt covered its head. He wanted to run, but the atrocious fear was faster than him, and it entered his mind and filled it with images of the bloody grandfather. He froze in place. Small barefoot feet, pajama pants that barely fit because he was too skinny,

and a trembling that chattered his teeth while the figure approached.” Hugo Betancor, a widower press photographer that is in the doldrums, arrives at the viticulture town of San Vicente de la Sonsierra to claim the inheritance of his eleven-year-old son, Raúl, who suffers from a rare disease. As soon as they both set foot in Finca Las Brumas, the child's grandparents’ winery, everything begins to twist and spin out of control. Twenty years ago, one of his mother’s little brothers, horrifyingly identical to Raúl, disappeared without a trace during a storm. This event marked the history of the entire town, whose inhabitants have not been able to free themselves from the weight of the guilt, the suffocation of suspicions… and the fear that this misfortune will repeat itself again. The novel merges two events that act as a mirror, separated with twenty years worth of history and featuring two children of the same age and with the same physical frailty due to a terrible disease. Hugo narrates in the first person the chapters from the present time, while a variety of different voices narrate the ones from the past. Andrés Pascual masterfully weaves a network of relationships that unite both temporal scenarios: concerns, guilt, broken dreams, jealousies, crimes… All of them are invisible threads in which the reader is hopelessly trapped. It combines the elements of the drama —with the force of the hidden emotions that one day decide to explode and come out— with the subtlety of a psychological thriller, in which the motivations of the characters and their relationships of power and dominance are fundamental for the resolution of the novel. And, of course, there is the setting. La Rioja, with its vineyards and wineries, is another actor in this intense drama in which lies, just like wine, get better with age. Rights sold: Spanish – ESPASA- September 2018 3rd Edition only 3 weeks after its publication!!!

WINNER OF

EL PREMIO URANO 2017

ANDRÉS PASCUAL & ECEQUIEL BARRICART

EL OSO, EL TIGRE Y EL DRAGÓN The bear, the tiger and the dragon Andrés Pascual & Ecequiel Barricart Inspirational / Self Improvement

THE STORY THAT WILL AWAKE THE BEAR, THE TIGER AND THE DRAGON THAT YOU HAVE INSIDE. “When you gather the hug of the bear, the claw of the tiger and the

look of the dragon, your entire life will align like the stars in the sky.”

Gabriel lives in Shadow, a sad gray city that has sunk into a perpetual night. His tailor shop is sinking and it is taking him down with it. He

feels so lost that he is not even able to look his wife and his daughter in the eye. One day, he receives a surprising legacy: a bear, a tiger and a dragon, alongside with the promise that these three animals will change his life forever. But, before that he will

have to be willing to leave with them to an unknown destination. Dare to come alongside Gabriel in a one-way-ticket journey. You will also discover how to transform Shadow into the Radiant city, a place where everything, absolutely

everything is possible. ********

Andrés Pascual (Logroño, 1969) has been a lawyer for twenty years. Currently, he lives in London, he writes and he gives lectures. He has traveled to over fifty countries searching for scenery and scenarios

for his novels, which have been translated in several languages. His latest book, Taj (Espasa, 2016), won the Alfonso X “The wise” Historical Novel Award.

Ecequiel Barricart (Pamplona, 1971) is the owner and the creative director of YOU MEDIA (brand design and liquid communication) and he is a DRAGOON associate (personal brand creation and

communication 2.0 for elite athletes). His book Tú eres dios –y tu marca personal tu religión- (“You Are God –and your personal mark your religión-“) (Alienta, 2014) laid the foundations of brand designing

created from the person’s interior. Andrés and Ecequiel have been walking together through creativity’s path for twenty-five years. In 2014,

while they were on a trip in Tokyo in which they reconsidered the second half of their lives, they promised to write The Bear, the Tiger and the Dragon to answer the important questions that human

beings ponder. Rights Sold: Spanish (Urano) April 2017; Portuguese (Portugal) 20|20; Turkish – Beyaz Baykus Publishing

EL VIAJE DE TU VIDA The Trip of Your life Inspirational based in Travelling Experiences Andrés Pascual MADAGASCAR – INDONESIA – JAPAN – INDIA –ETHIOPIA – SYRIA – BRASIL –TIBET – SOUTH AFRICA

It’s never too late to pursue what you love

The trip of your life

Do you live the life you want? Do you feel you are missing something?

Andrés Pascual, is a writer and traveler who has visited fifty countries. He has

found inspiration there for his novels and, especially, valuable lessons that guided him in the most important journey: the one to the depths of his heart to

discover what he truly loved and to redirect his life.

Join him in travelling to ten destinations where you will also find the keys to make the leap and pursue what you love and make the trip of your life that you deserve.

“This book contains some vital lessons that I loved to receive. Let’s follow his traveling teachings to turn life into a constant adventure.”

- Rafael Santandreu

“Our society, at one time or another, makes us live a life that we do not govern, driven by the inertia of work, an inappropriate relationship, the daily chaos, laziness or frustration. I lived a very comfortable life, but one day I looked in the mirror and did not recognize me. Then I started traveling, and everything changed. Today I write these few pages to share with you my two simultaneous trips, a geographic one and a trip to the inner self. I want you to come with me and to live my adventures as yours, through ten fascinating corners of the globe which pushed me to become the person I wanted to be, and I hope they will also transform you. Ten destinations. Ten tools. One goal: make the leap and pursue the things you love” Rights Sold: Spanish (Penguin Random House – Plaza & Janés) February 2016; Portuguese (Portugal) 20|20 (Nascente) 2016

1ST Print run 8,000 copies

2nd Edition after only 4 weeks (12,000 copies sold so far)

Perfect for readers of Rafael Santandreu and

Francesc Miralles (International Bestsellers)

EDEN: ¿Hasta Dónde Llegarías para Cambiar el Mundo? Eden: How far would you be willing to go to change the world? Thriller set in Brazil Andrés Pascual In the tradition of Seven

Mika is a young woman who leaves everything behind and moves to the flourishing Brazilian metropolis of Sao Paulo in search of work. Shortly after landing, a strange blackout leaves its twenty million inhabitants without electricity. In a split second, seven powerful search lights, which create a star above the flat roof of a skyscraper, light up the favelas on the city’s outskirts. Meanwhile, social networks are inundated with the photograph of an unidentified body and the words: #FirstDay. This is just the beginning of a chain of bewildering events that will change Mika’s life forever. Without

wishing, she becomes the key player in a conspiracy of enormous proportions, designed to wipe out a decadent civilization. A web of pure intrigue and action across a surprising Brazil; a thrilling countdown from the primitive Amazonian rainforest to the concrete jungles where the real predators of human beings hide. Rights Sold: Spanish (Penguin Random House) June 2014 Portuguese (Portugal) - Marcador

EL SOL BRILLA POR LA NOCHE EN CACHEMIRA (The Sun Shines at Night in Cachemira) Inspirational Fiction (Fable) Andrés Pascual

Cachemira is a remote Himalayan region tit by religious extremism and political conflicts. In the worst moments of that eternal war, an executive named David Sandman joined the team of the United Nations’ observers in the area. Tortured by a family drama, he looks for a quick way to die free for pain. Soon David will suffer an attack, but things will not go as expected. As he lies wounded on the ground with arms and legs paralyzed, he will see how the flash of the pump is stamped on the sky, like a sun in

the middle of the night. An amazing light that lets you read your own life very differently. Taken to a hospital he will meet Aurore, a young military nurse with whom will begin an intense relationship. Two shipwrecked on a desert island in the middle of an ocean of ancient teachings that hold the secret to peace and happiness. The book you need to read when we think all is lost. With its refined style and sensitivity, the author of EL HAIKU DE LAS PALABRAS PERDIDAS presents a beautiful and moving fable that will fill our lives of hope. Rights Sold: Spanish (Planeta) October 2012 First printing 15.000 copies. Portuguese (Portugal) - Marcador

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EL HAIKU DE LAS PALABRAS PERDIDAS Thriller (The Haiku of the Lost Words) Andrés Pascual

haiku (俳句): Japanese poem of seventeen syllables; a fleeting glimmer that reveals the essence of things.

Nagasaki, August 1945: Kazuo, a western boy living in Japan and Junko, the beautiful daughter of a flower arrangement designer, have planned to meet on a hillside and seal their adolescent love. Minutes before their tryst, the atomic bomb turns the city into the worst hell imaginable.

Tokio, August 2010: Emilian Zäch is a Swiss architect involved in environmental issues, advisor to the United Nations and a supporter of nuclear energy. His life is falling to pieces when he meets the owner of a Japanese art gallery, who is obsessed with finding the

former lover of her grandmother.

Two parallel stories and just one unexpected ending. The race against time, a time that stopped at the moment of the explosion.

Andrés Pascual, with the sensitivity that characterizes his books, recounts a thrilling story which takes the reader from a Japan never seen before to the backstage of the UN in Geneva. A moving hymn to peace which will leave no-one indifferent.

Rights sold: Spanish (Random House Mondadory- October 2011) Portuguese (Portugal): Gradiva Portuguese Brazil (Editora Record) Italian (Corbaccio) German (Limes – Random House)

HIGHLIGHT AUTUMN-WINTER 2011

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EL COMPOSITOR DE TORMENTAS Historical/Adventure Novel (The Composer of Storms) Andrés Pascual

Year 2015: A famous conductor is preparing to present his last concert in the Opera of Paris in front of leaders from all over the world. Just before he begins, the conductor drops his baton and leaves the opera house. Year 1715: The Sun King, in his final hours before dying of gangrene uses the last of his strength to tell the story of a young violinist from Versailles who, the monarch following an alchemist’s dream had sent to Madagascar to write the score of the very first melody ever sung, a melody inspired directly by God. The composer of storms is a thrilling, action packed adventure, full

of overflowing romanticism, a novel of fiction in which the main characters, the baroque musicians Lully and Charpentier, King Luis XIV and an unrecognisable and mystic Isaac Newton take the reader across the first French colonies in black Africa to reach Libertalia, the utopic safe haven of corsairs running the Asian trade route. Here the violin player finds love when he meets the native priestess who preservs the melody. This novel with its extraordinary and beautiful ending, interweaving the past with the present, enables the reader to discover the most intimate aspects of human nature.

MUSIC IS LIFE, IT IS DEVINE LOVE, BLOOD AND PASSION

WINNER IN THE TORREVIEJA AWARDS FOR BEST NOVEL OCTOBER 2009 (RANDOM HOUSE MONDADORI)

Rights sold: Spanish (Random House Mondadori October 2009) Portuguese (Brazil) (Prumo 2010) Portuguese (Portugal) (Gradiva) 2010 Czech (Rozmluvy– Leda- 2010) Polish (Otwarte 2010) German (Limes – Random House) 2010 http://www.andrespascual.com Facebook: Andrés Pascual Twitter: andres_pascual First Printing 50.000 copies

EL GUARDIÁN DE LA FLOR DE LOTO Adventure Novel (The Guardian of the Lotus Flower) Andrés Pascual

The murder in Harvard of an important Lama doctor called Logsan Singay, just a few hours before he was due to give a conference in which he was to reveal to the Western World the extraordinary secrets of Tibetan medicine, uncovers a conspiracy which could threaten the survival of the Tibetan people. Jacobo is a young Spanish sympathiser of the Tibetan cause who after years of living in the jungles of Peru is in the middle of a personal and sentimental crisis, when he receives an order from his girlfriend’s father. Martha’s father, Malcolm Farewell is an English industrialist and tireless supporter of the Tibetan cause living in

India. Jacobo is to supervise the repatriation of the Lama doctor’s body back to the exiled Tibetan government based in the Indian town of Dharamsala. By helping in this way, Jacobo inadvertently becomes a piece of the puzzle, and as the story unfolds, is the only person able to solve the conspiracy. Like the classical heroes, he is guided by supernatural powers and a renewed personal commitment. In order to expose the murderers and discover their true intentions Jacobo will have to fight the most extreme groups of the government in exile, as well as the Red Faith, a sect which dangerously mixes its own particular view of Buddhism with claims for independence. This sect is the main suspect of the death of the Lama doctor. Jacobo is attacked but brought back to life thanks to the techniques that Logsan Singay was going to reveal in Boston. This marks the beginning of his physical and spiritual healing and allows him to unearth the real reasons that made him grow apart from Martha and their daughter, Louise, who has suffered from a chronic illness since she was a baby. Following the clues that he finds in Dharamsala, Jacobo enters illegally into occupied Tibet and defying the army of Beijing travels to the western militarised region bordering Cachemire. He is on the trail of one of the terma (treasures) hidden by the master Buddhist Padmasambhava in the 7th. Century: the Treaty of Magic of Ancient Tibet, a legendary scroll from which Logsan Singay, the Lama doctor learnt all his wisdom. Jacobo continues his quest with the help of a Lama called Gyentse and a group of nomad warriors belonging to the ethnic group kampa. Together they have to confront not only the army but also the irrepressible nature of the Himalayas, finding themselves forced to cross the mountain range on foot. It’s just possible that at the end of their journey they will come face to face with a truth whose dimensions they had never even imagined. An action-packed journey, full of intrigue, poetry and love which transports the reader to a magical universe where all problems have a solution in the eyes of the Tibetan philosophy of life and the world.

Rights sold: Spanish September 2007 (Random House Mondadori); Portuguese (Portugal) Gotica/Medialivros 2008; Portuguese (Brazil) Rocco 2008; Russian – Enneagon Press 2008; Bulgarian Bard Publ. 2008; Italian Mondadori 2008. Option film rights (July 2010)- Overture Films http://www.andrespascual.com Facebook: Andrés Pascual Twitter: andres_pascual Over 100,000 copies sold from publication date in Spanish language.

FERNANDO M. CIMADEVILA

EL LADRON DE SUEÑOS #1 (El Mundo Secreto de Basilius Hoffman) The Dream Thief #1 (The Secret World of Basilius Hoffman) Juvenile Fiction Fernando M. Cimadevila Mystery- Adventures

A new era is approaching, the ancient gates are finally closing for good and the kingdoms which for centuries bordered our world are vanishing into the mists of legends. Professor Hoffman, an explorer of hidden worlds, had gone to great pains to reveal their secrets for years. But it is only when his nephew Peter arrives at the old, Hoffman family manor house to spend his Christmas holidays there, that fate entwines their lives together which, in turn, leads to the final battle, an event that will endanger our most treasured asset: the power of imagination.

And so begins the saga of professor Basilius Hoffman: historian, archaeologist, part-time knight in shining armour and full time rascal and his journey in search of the legendary Cartographer’s Journal where we will discover cities that had disappeared in the dead of night, secret societies, mysterious creatures, powerful sacred relics, astonishing mechanical contraptions and a myriad of strange characters.

Fernando M. Cimadevila Fernando M. Cimadevila was born in Santiago de Compostela in 1977. He has worked for Contos Estraños Publishing House as an editor for up-and- coming writers of Galician fantasy since 2011, where he has also published the children’s saga As aventuras do Apalpador. The saga O mundo secreto de Basilius Hoffman is currently enjoying great success with young people from Galicia and is now available, translated into Spanish from Sushi Books. In 2014 he also published the book “Acariciando el cielo”, which was chosen as a finalist for the book prize “Premio Desnivel de

Literatura”.

Rights Sold: Galician (Urco Editora) 2010 Spanish (Sushi Books) 2014

UPCOMING VOL. 3

IN THE

FRANCISCO J. DE LYS EL LABERINTO DE ORO Thriller/Mystery (The Labyrinth of Gold) Francisco J. de Lys

The plot of the novel THE LABYRINTH OF GOLD starts at nine o’clock on the eve of Halloween, and the characters live Halloween night minute by minute while they move around Barcelona until the story ends the day after, at the end of the Day of the Dead. This novel updates and mixes the old classic environment of the Halloween nights around November 1st that are reflected in Don Juan Tenorio from José Zorrilla with the current Irish and Anglo-Saxon aesthetic of Halloween that has become so strongly rooted in our popular culture.

The story line of THE LABYRINTH OF GOLD has as a background element the literature topic: the Pact with the Devil. But, unlike all the other books where the human character, makes an agreement with an evil, in the LABYRINTH OF GOLD, the protagonist Gabriel Grieg gets wrapped up in a strange affair due to a carelessly signed document, which, as the years pass, turns into a fatally dangerous paper. This is one of the storyline’s main driving forces and draws the reader in. In this labyrinth of strange occurrences, which traps the protagonists like a giant spider web, the most hidden away places in Barcelona’s secretive world related to the 20th century’s best alchemist Fulcanelli and his unfinished masterpiece Finish Cloriae Mundi, the secret symbols that hide the mythological planning of Barcelona’s Ensanche neighborhood designed by Ildefons Cerdá and the secret world of alchemy come into the spotlight. Attention is also drawn to the six phases that the material must undergo before being turned into alchemical gold and the most dazzling modernist jewels. That documentation continue with a series of real murders in Barcelona in the 19th century. A monk librarian committed several murders, all of them booksellers, to make off with some satanic books and books about making alchemical gold. The plot uses the fact that making alchemical gold with a linear particle accelerator at CERN is no longer considered chimerical but rather absolutely real as a counterpoint. Both male and female protagonists, Gabriel Grieg and Lorena, which are thrown into the midst of incredible events… At the end, they will prove to be a part of a perfectly arranged plot where all the characters are real in a real world, and everything follows logical rules, leaving no room for fantasy. Rights sold: Spanish (Ediciones B- January 2011) www.ellaberintodeoro.com http://franciscojdelys.blogspot.com/

EL ALFABETO DE BABEL Thriller/Mystery Novel (Babel’s Alphabet) Francisco J. de Lys

In the city of Barcelona completely shrouded by fog, Gabriel Grieg, architect and restorer of historic monuments receives a strange visit from a beautiful and mysterious woman who imparts some disturbing news.... She warns him that he has just 24 hours to thwart his own destiny, before the exhumation of a body involves him directly with an Important Object, classified as “utmost secret in the Vatican Archives”. Those who know of its existence conceal it under the name of: THE CHARTHAM. The Chartham not only governs the hierarchy of the papal Curia, its groups of power and their influence but whoever has control of the

secrets it holds will gain direct access to its spiritual and material treasures as well as to any successive keys and conclaves and all of these are enigmatically disguised in the painting “THE TOWER OF BABEL” painted by the Dutch artist Pieter Brueguel “the old man” in 1563. The plot is full of unexpected twists and as the characters move through dozens of the most hidden away places of Barcelona they become involved in a spiral of events which will lead them to the discovery of a treacherous coup by proxy which a fraction of the Papal Curia is planning to carry out on the site of the Expiatory Temple of the Sagrada Familia.The shady interests of a Machiavellian cardinal, the intrigues of several Japanese companies, the spurious plan of an enigmatic and secret group of religious woman whose founder in 1524 received Ignacio de Loyola in her mansion in Barcelona and the initiation mysteries of Antoni Gaudí Cornet are all somehow tied up with the coup. The continual presence throughout the book of allegoric symbols together with the disturbing, underlying struggle which arises between the the powers of light and darkness results in characters who without doubt leave an impression well beyond that of merely formal individuals in an historic mystery novel as they become immersed in a gripping story full of narrative strength and spirituality. Rights sold: Spanish and Catalan (Roca Editorial de Libros – April 2008). – Italy (Newton Copton 2012) http://www.elalfabetodebabel.com

JOSEP A. PUJANTE

LAS CUMBRES DEL NILO (The Headwaters of the Nile) Josep A. Pujante Travel/Adventure

Pharaohs, kings and emperors all went in search of the mythical

sources of the great river which gave life to the civilizations of

Egypt and Nubia over 5000 years ago…… but hostile tribes, wild

animals and illness prevented anyone from going further than the VI

waterfall until in the XVIII Century the source of the Blue Nile was

discovered. In contrast, the source of the White Nile was to remain

hiden until explorers and adventurers managed to locate it in the

legendary Mountains of the Moon, whose waters flow into Lake Victoria.

A great expert on the dark continent, Josep A. Pujante, in his book The Headwaters of

the Nile tells the emotional and thrilling story of the expedition that together with his

friends Agustí and Marcos, he embarks upon through the impenetrable and gloomy

jungles located between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, where the

Rwenzori mountains rise up, deep within the heart of darkest Africa. After many

difficulties, the three of them manage to reach the permanently snow-capped summit,

snows which gives rise to the White Nile. Four years after having scaled this peak and

just as they were planning an expedition to the sacred mount Gish in Ethiopia, Agustí

dies in a tragic climbing accident in Pedraforca. Overcome by his grief, Josep travels

alone to Africa four months later and scales the summit of Mount Gish. A year

afterwards Josep and Marcos conquer together the same summit and place the ashes of

their lost friend there, at the source of the Blue Nile.

A tribute to friendship after death, a posthumous homage to Agustí. This true story

takes place in the remote wilderness of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda

and Rwanda, places through which exploreres such as Burton, Speke, Baker,

Livingstone and Stanley ventured; lake Tana, Yibuti and Axum, where the queen of

Saba resided and where perhaps the secret of the Ark of the Covenant lies hiden…..

Rights sold: Spanish RBA April 2013

CARLOS CALVERA EL REVERSO Suspense /Adventure Novel (The Reverse) Carlos Calvera

At the end of the Second World War, while the world sleeps far from the events that would lead to the Jewish Holocaust, the Argentine boat Amindra, with a load of six thousand tons of frozen meat and a mysterious fossil shut away in its cellars, embarks on its last journey to Europe. Soon, a series of unexplainable events begin to take place in the immense cold-storage chamber that make the crew uneasy and escalate as the ship goes deeper into the solitude of the ocean.

In a claustrophobic atmosphere, without knowing the true nature of the load they’re carrying and with the crew on the verge of a riot, Captain Rainiez, his daughter and a dark official fallen from grace face the biggest challenge of their lives: surviving the breakthrough of an unknown entity that is trying to take over the ship to make its presence known. Parallel to these events, while Allied aviation destroys the German city of Dresden, an old professor of Theology and his young apprentice will reveal little by little the mystery of an ancient Jewish prophecy related to the fossil that both they and the other protagonists will end up serving as instruments of destiny… The Reverse has a double plot that is doomed to converge. Written in cabalistic code, it will only show its true nature at the end of the story, a nature that without a doubt shows the reader where fiction and reality lie in a world twisted by fantasy and cruelty. Rights sold: Spanish (Ediciones B- 2011)

CARLOS CLAVIJO

BIENVENIDOS A SPANIEN Contemporary / Humourous Fiction (formerly EL INFORME KLAUS) (Welcome to Spanien) Carlos Clavijo

Professor Klaus disappears leaving behind an important but unfinished field study. Helmut, a shy and obese 52-year-old economist is instructed to travel to Spain in order to finish the report and to find the professor. To embellish the investigation, Helmut’s bosses at the University of Heidelberg also ask him to recount his experience in a diary. Together with a very young female translator, with whom the middle-aged professor falls hopelessly in love, this odd couple travel through the country while enduring its idiosyncrasies.

The shock for such a rational German man when he encounters our culture turns the mission into a hilarious event, half way between an adventure story and the best travel literature. AUTHOR’S NOTE What would happen if a rigid German economist travelled to Spain for the first time and wrote down all his impressions in a diary? Well, we would laugh a great deal. Based on this premise I decided to write Welcome to Spanien, a novel suitable for readers of all ages, which would touch on the current concern about the economy and cause peals of laughter. In some way, I wanted to write a "mood-boosting book", the sort of book that you fancy reading when everything is going badly and you need to laugh at something or cheer yourself up. Rights Sold: Spanish – Martinez Roca – January 2015

EL HIJO DE LA VID Family Saga Novel (The Son of the Vineyard) Carlos Clavijo

"If your hearts beat like mine when they taste this wine, the effort will have been worthwhile." The love of the land and the perseverance of one man to make his dreams come true are intertwined in this evocative novel that tells the adventure of the Rioja winemakers and the history of the most symbolic wine of all the Spanish geography. The crisis that ravaged the countryside and the city in the late

nineteenth century razed the vineyards of the Rioja. The population emigrated to America and young people have to fulfil their obligations to a Spanish army that keeps fronts opened in Cuba and Morocco. However, in the middle of this landscape of pessimism and despair, Miguel, son of farmers, knows that sooner or later the utopia will come true: look in the mirror of the great winemakers and make his own wine a wine with excellent aromas and energetic body. His mind does not diminish when everything turns against: work hard, the disease of their family, the love of an unattainable woman, opposition the most powerful man in the area, a pest that destroys the region ... Miguel trust in the quiet and vigorous fruit of a fertile land, where one day their children and grandchildren will look to the sky and lift the cup to toast with an ancient and generous liquid. The son of the vineyard is an exciting story that takes us to the heart land of vineyards to tell us what his characters, hundreds of farmers and entrepreneurs, have lived and experienced in taking forward a of the world's most respected wines. Rights Sold: Spanish – Temas de Hoy (February 2010) *Foreign Rights held by the publisher You may deliver any enquiries to Julio F Yáñez : sandra@yanezag.com

PUENTES VOLADOS (Blown Up Bridges) Contemporary Novel Carlos Clavijo

Antonio is an environmental lawyer working in a hydroelectric company. His mission consists in neutralizing any ecologist complains that may endanger the good reputation of the firm. But deep inside him, he feels that he ought to devote himself to something else. As a younger man he vas inclined to music but never obtained to engrave a record and the band in which he plays does not seem to take anything really seriously. And the same happens with the girl he loves. Feeling unsatisfied with the present course of his life and unable to make his dreams come true, Antonio does not know how to break

the obstacles encircling him. When the news reach him that his aunt Marta has just died, he travels to Malaga, where he reconstructs the family’s story and investigates why Marta chose to remain single. The discovering of this secret takes him to see the disturbing parallelisms existing between his aunt’s story and his own. Blown Up Bridges is the account of two impossible loves: one in Malaga of the Civil War and another one in the Madrid of the XXI century. A story about cowardice, lost opportunities and the mysterious links between past and present times. Rights sold: Spanish February 2007 (Témpora)

CARLOS CLAVIJO & JOSÉ CARLOS CLAVIJO MARTOS

LA ADIVINA (LA LANZA SAGRADA) (The Fortune-Teller) (The Sacred Spear) Thriller Carlos Clavijo & José Carlos Clavijo Martos

Jerusalem. Year 33 B.C. The procurator Pontius Pilatos takes a walk in his palace. He is uneasy. The rabbi Jesus has just being executed. The centurion Caius Cassius Longinos has pierced his side with a spear. The faithful consider that his arm is a magic object and that who owns it shall attain an unlimited power. In the Vienna of 1912, a young man called Adolph Hitler, whose goal in life is to become a painter, discovers a great relic that has been coveted by historical personalities, among them Charlemagne and Napoleon who after the annexation of Austria comes back to Vienna to take hold of the Sacred Spear being convinced that it shall

help him in his military campaigns. To find the spear they turn to a little girl that earns her life as a fortune-teller performing mentalists acts in a Berliner cabaret and that now shall be compelled to act in a mission that surpasses her but at the same time makes her to master her extra sensorial capacities. Parallel to this, Mr. Winston Churchill has begun to behave in a strange way. He wakes up in the middle of the night to paint odd gothic pictures – being in a somnambulist state – they hide a key: the Sacred Spear Rights sold: Spanish, Spain 2006 (Maeva); Spanish, Latin America February 2007 (Diana)

J. CARLOS MARTÍN LEROY

EL ANILLO DE HIERRO (The Iron Ring) Historical Novel

J. Carlos Martín Leroy

The treacherous assassins of Viriato have gone down in history under the names of Audax, Minuro and Ditalco. But who really hid under these names? Juan Carlos Martin Leroy proposes us a suggestive hypothesis under the form of a wide report in which genres and styles merge, tells us the moving life of one of them, Audax, whose real name was Tito Vibio Scirpus. The antecedents of his participation in Viriato’s murder carry us to another culminating moment in the history of those years, that of the facing of the roman consular army

commanded by Manilo Manilio backed by Censorino’s fleet, and the Carthaginian army of Asdrubal that culminates with the great siege of Escipio Aemilianus and the destruction of Carthage. All these facts shape an impressive mosaic of the military ups and downs of the Empire during the decade of the years 149 to 139 BC. This is novel with a big amount of registers and a high narrative tension. Martin Leroy shows an exhaustive and deep knowledge of the epoch in which the plot develops and its characters as well as an extraordinary talent and a wish to subvert the most trite codes of historical narrative thus offering us a work directed to renew this genre in the Spanish literature. The story is violent, amusing, moving, scholarly and of a very solid realism that takes command of the reader and shakes him emotionally. An splendid historical novel. Rights sold: Spanish – May 2006 (Edhasa); Italian – March 2008 (Newton & Compton)

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