This collection bring you all our titles from Iberia, taking you under the skin of Benidorm’s underworld, to an abandoned property development and the lives of the people left inside, to a young woman’s quest to discover what it is to be an adult and return to her native Barcelona.
In this collection are:
FAR - by Rosa Ribas and translated from Spanish by Charlotte Coombe
Rivalries, tensions, mystery and love on a half-finished housing development, far from anywhere
In an urbanisation in the middle of the nowhere, one of the many that were built in Spain, but never finished because of the crash, lives a small community of neighbours, trying to lead a normal life, despite living far from everything. Beyond the development that promised every luxury, beyond the asphalted streets and roundabouts leading nowhere, behind high metal fences, the unfinished, unsold houses menace the inhabitants as they become occupied by people who the crash has destroyed, who have fallen through the cracks, who have become marginal in society.
SPANISH BEAUTY - by Esther García Llovet and translated from Spanish by Richard Village
A crooked cop on a punk, picaresque chase through Benidorm’s underbelly on the trail of Reggie Kray’s cigarette lighter.
Meet Michela, English gangster father, flamenco dancer mother, a hard, uncompromising police officer, operating on the shadier side of the law. In the company of this unorthodox, magnetically compelling character, cult writer Esther García Llovet takes us on a breath-taking, high-speed, anarchic romp through the underbelly of the pearl of the Costa Blanca, Benidorm, on the hunt for Reggie Kray’s stolen cigarette lighter. Beyond the sunburn and all-day fry-ups, in casinos, bars that are fronts for money laundering and flashy high society parties, we meet an unforgettable cast of characters English gangsters and Russian mafiosi, chancers, no-hopers, and low-life of all complexions in this unconventional literary thriller.
KILLING THE NERVE - Anna Pazos and translated from Catalan by Laura McGloughlin and Charlotte Coombe
Mediterranean millennial: a non-fiction portrait of being young in twenty-first century Southern Europe
In this tour de force of auto-journalism, Anna Pazos explores the end of youth and the beginning of adulthood for the global nomad generation. We are taken on a journey from the ‘Mediterranean mediocrity’ of bourgeois Barcelona life, through Anna’s unstructured Erasmus days in Thessaloniki, her first steps in journalism in Jerusalem, her sail across the Atlantic with an unsuitable lover, and to post-MeToo, pre-pandemic New York. In 2021, back in Barcelona, she turns her analytical attention on her family, on post-2017 Catalan society, and on her place within it.
This stunning debut was longlisted for the Premi Finestres 2023 and voted best Catalan Book of the Year by El Pais.
This collection bring you all our titles from Iberia, taking you under the skin of Benidorm’s underworld, to an abandoned property development and the lives of the people left inside, to a young woman’s quest to discover what it is to be an adult and return to her native Barcelona.
In this collection are:
FAR - by Rosa Ribas and translated from Spanish by Charlotte Coombe
Rivalries, tensions, mystery and love on a half-finished housing development, far from anywhere
In an urbanisation in the middle of the nowhere, one of the many that were built in Spain, but never finished because of the crash, lives a small community of neighbours, trying to lead a normal life, despite living far from everything. Beyond the development that promised every luxury, beyond the asphalted streets and roundabouts leading nowhere, behind high metal fences, the unfinished, unsold houses menace the inhabitants as they become occupied by people who the crash has destroyed, who have fallen through the cracks, who have become marginal in society.
SPANISH BEAUTY - by Esther García Llovet and translated from Spanish by Richard Village
A crooked cop on a punk, picaresque chase through Benidorm’s underbelly on the trail of Reggie Kray’s cigarette lighter.
Meet Michela, English gangster father, flamenco dancer mother, a hard, uncompromising police officer, operating on the shadier side of the law. In the company of this unorthodox, magnetically compelling character, cult writer Esther García Llovet takes us on a breath-taking, high-speed, anarchic romp through the underbelly of the pearl of the Costa Blanca, Benidorm, on the hunt for Reggie Kray’s stolen cigarette lighter. Beyond the sunburn and all-day fry-ups, in casinos, bars that are fronts for money laundering and flashy high society parties, we meet an unforgettable cast of characters English gangsters and Russian mafiosi, chancers, no-hopers, and low-life of all complexions in this unconventional literary thriller.
KILLING THE NERVE - Anna Pazos and translated from Catalan by Laura McGloughlin and Charlotte Coombe
Mediterranean millennial: a non-fiction portrait of being young in twenty-first century Southern Europe
In this tour de force of auto-journalism, Anna Pazos explores the end of youth and the beginning of adulthood for the global nomad generation. We are taken on a journey from the ‘Mediterranean mediocrity’ of bourgeois Barcelona life, through Anna’s unstructured Erasmus days in Thessaloniki, her first steps in journalism in Jerusalem, her sail across the Atlantic with an unsuitable lover, and to post-MeToo, pre-pandemic New York. In 2021, back in Barcelona, she turns her analytical attention on her family, on post-2017 Catalan society, and on her place within it.
This stunning debut was longlisted for the Premi Finestres 2023 and voted best Catalan Book of the Year by El Pais.
