Welcome to the Autumn issue of newspanishbooks.com

Just when LIBER opens its doors and Frankfurt is preparing to launch its next edition, we bring you fresh information on Spanish titles with available translation rights. With more than 8 000 users, newspanishbooks.com is proving a useful resource, already offering data on 549 titles. The rights of several titles featured in the website have been bought, among others: K.L. Reich (Joaquim Amat-Piniella) to be published by Five Leaves, Abril Rojo (Santiago Roncagliolo) bought by Grove Atlantic, Los girasoles ciegos (Alberto Méndez) published by Arcadia Books in May, Los libros arden mal (Manuel Rivas) to be published by Harvill Secker and Nadie ama a un policía (Guillermo Orsi) bought by MacLehose Press.

In this issue, there are 195 books with rights belonging to 59 publishing houses and 11 literary agents; eleven reviews provided by our network of readers on a shortlist of titles specially chosen by a panel of experts constituted this time by Rowan Cope (Little, Brown), Gary McKeone (literary consultant), Nicholas Caistor (BCLT, translator), Martin Schifino (translator), Jonathan Ruppin (Foyles) and Philip Gwyn Jones (Portobello Books); an interview with Christopher McLehose, expert in literature in translation and founder of MacLehose Press; an article by writer and literary consultant Gary McKeone and much more. We hope you enjoy the read.

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