We bring you the latest selection by our panel of experts. This time the panel of experts was formed by Christine Toomey (The Sunday Times magazine), Deirdre McDermott (Walker Books), Meike Ziergovel (Peirene Press), Gary McKeone (BCLT), Alexandre Middleton (Calder Bookshop), and Sonia Soto (translator).
The books have been reviewed by our network of independent readers. For this issue the readers were: Sonia Soto, Christina MacSweeney, Alexander Ibarz, Anella McDermott, Jason Wilson, Kit Maude, Laura McGloughlin, Nick Caistor, Lise Jones, Nelly Hermitant, Miranda France, and Anne McLean.
Who is writing the texts that the protagonist of this novel keeps finding in the most unexpected places? Firstly, within the pages of a bible, later in the walls of an abandoned lighthouse and in a doctor’s waiting room in Vienna.
Intrigue, action and mystery in Inspector Méndez’s Barcelona. González Ledesma has created a definitive Méndez, the perfect one.
Princesa de África relates a love story that breaks all rules. Sonia is a beautiful Spanish dancer, specialising in African dance; Pap is a Senegalese percussionist.
Already an old man, the renowned gastroenterologist Emilio Nassar had a project: let himself starve to death. As a witness of that hidden agenda, he chose his young granddaughter, Emilia, with whom he shared long coffee talks before dying.