El Patio Teatro invites you to discover our roots through grandmothers and grandfathers in «Conservando memoria»
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The National Dramatic Center has launched this month Dramatic Action, our program of transversal activities aimed at both training and exchange of thought and public participation.
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Jorge Aznar Canet, Esther F. Carrodeguas, Cristina Rojas and Joan Yago will participate as resident authors in the Drama this season
The call, aimed at playwrights and playwrights with at least two published works, received more than 420 nominations
Madrid, December 4. He National # Dramatic Center has released the names of the four playwrights and playwrights selected from among the more than 420 nominations that were submitted to the first edition of its program of Dramatic Residences.
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For your invisible friend, better a volume than one I put …
Because it is undeniable. Whenever we have to gift someone for the invisible friend we move in a swampy territory: having a budget ceiling (not very high, in general), perhaps not knowing too much the tastes of that coworker or the English course, and surely not have too much time to buy something because Christmas, as always, is upon us before we know it. 😅
So it is easy that, although we have the best of intentions, we end up giving our invisible friend a «pongo», one of those objects that can be funny at first but then they will not know where to put and will end up in the house every time dust off.
So, dear reader, as the beginning of this post points out, we have another gift idea for your invisible friend: giving away books, because there are them for a thousand and one people and tastes and because there is nothing more beautiful than receiving a universe of adventures unfolding before our eyes. So pay attention. These are the books that will save you from the curse of I put them for this invisible friend. 😄⤵️
For the most modern
Specifically, this is an ideal book for fans of Modern Village, which returns to bookstores after the success of Idiotized! His are acid reflections and humor, telling the truths without biting his tongue from a feminist point of view that has earned him thousands of followers on social networks.
But it's not just for his fans. It is for all of us who like to laugh at today and do a bit of catharsis. And why lie? Because we all have that friend who thinks he / she is modern, open-minded … but it is clear that he / she is not every time he / she opens his mouth and drops one of his pearls. So look at it on the bright side, now you have a book full of fun that serves both as a gift and as a help to rethink some things and not end your friendship.
The adventures of Gordi and Zorry await you in Cunt dramas to escape a world so far drawn by men.
For creative geniuses
We all have that friend / acquaintance who gets excited every time he enters a stationery store and sees the amount of pencils, brushes, colors and other artistic elements that will allow him to display his creativity without limits. And if you don't have it, reader, it is you. 😜
So whatever the case may be, you can't miss this wonder of Keri smith. What what is Smash this journal?
Well, it is a best seller that has already created addicts around the world. And if you haven't tried it yet, this may be the start of a life-changing experience.
In the new edition Smash this journal. Now in full color there are challenges to paint, break, transform and unleash your creativity. You'll enjoy a mix of the creative challenges fans have created since the first edition of this series… along with brand-new challenges to smash in color! Mixing paints to create clay, letting luck choose the shade, cutting out brightly colored strips of paper, and much more. It is time to let out the creative genius that lives in your invisible friend.
For fans of mandalas
Life can be quite stressful… And a good friend is someone who gives you good times to make up for it and is there when you need it. Those good times can be in the form of chatting in front of a coffee … but also in the form of mandalas.
Because do you remember when you were little and had no worries? How much fun you spent coloring in any sheet you found and letting the only thing that occupied your mind during that time was what color you were going to take to paint the kangaroo in the landscape.
365 mandalas to color is a collection of attractive designs accompanied by inspiring phrases for each day of the year, which allow us to remove stress and create that space to connect with the present moment and regain serenity and emotional well-being.
And because painting is still just as fun. Do you know someone who could use a moment of peace and well-being to break away from the daily hustle and bustle? Let the mandalas inspire you. ✨
For those who will be amazed by one of terror
We all know someone who is a fan of the darkest part of human beings: who gets absorbed by thrillers, who really enjoys the intrigues of the series and, of course, has read a few (if not all) of them. horror genius books: Stephen King.
The figures speak for themselves: 350 million copies sold since he published his first novel in 1974, a total of about 50 novels and 200 published short stories. More than 80 adaptations of his works on the small and the big screen. The most adapted living author.
His imprint on pop culture is immense and indelible and is manifested through multiple relevant works: from Carrie by Brian de Palma until the first season of Mr. Mercedes, going through the winding roads of The glowby Stanley Kubrick. His television adaptations (Phantasma II, It…) Have traumatized several generations. And we are sure that your invisible friend is one of them. 😙
The Horror Master's Illustrated Guide that Matthieu Rostac and François Cau bring us is a visually spectacular work as well as well documented. Its authors did not notice the means to prepare it: they read the 4,413 pages of the cycle of the Dark tower, they watched the 5 seasons of the series Haven, the 10 films of the saga of The corn boys, and even the 19 hours of the Indian soap opera loosely inspired by Item.
So yeah, no question, this picture book is a must for fans of Stephen King and horror.
For the youngest
There is a stage in life that is crucial: adolescence. It is that time of change in which you are not a child but not an adult, limits are annoying but they are also necessary … and in general there is a storm of news (love, sex, friendships, professional future) that is not well known how to fit.
The TikToker Mark White (alias in networks of Marcos Jiménez) talks about it in How I survived adolescence, a book in which he shows that adolescents are not selfish, lazy and disrespectful as many say … For many, adolescence is undoubtedly the worst stage of life and Marcos White comes to tell us some conclusions about his own and how he managed to overcome all those difficulties.
In this book, the youngest will find a guide, full of good humor and the overflowing character that characterizes him in networks, to talk about the key issues: love, friendship, studies, sex, drugs. Without hypocrisy and without half measures. If you want to talk to your invisible friend, this is your book.
For fans of Lucía Bellido
And if we talk about influencers, definitely Lucia Bellido is one of the top. He had just turned 15 when his first book hit bookstores, to become a true best-seller in a few weeks.
From that moment on, his life would take a 180 degree turn, and his career as influencer it would grow at a frantic pace. Book signings with hundreds of fans, trips around the world, music festivals, collaborations with top brands.
This book, as a diary, explains in the first person what that experience that continues today was like. You will review his travels, his adventures and his anecdotes in a world of flashes and success.
With Be brave Lucia gets even closer to her loyal fans with secrets and confessions from behind the scenes. And your invisible friend is going to have a great time discovering them all. 😋
For adventure lovers
Surely in your environment you have that person who has toured all the rooms of all escape room from your city and now you are looking for a new adventure. It will not matter in fact or in which city you live so that you can enjoy like a child with our next proposal for the invisible friend: it is about escape book inspired by the collection Choose your own adventure.
Flowerers is the hottest video game: it offers its players a truly addictive and immersive experience. In fact, some of them, encouraged by the possibility of being who they want to be, decide to go on to live this virtual life full time, thereby giving up the option of recovering their previous life.
But Jason has taken a wrong step in the video game and has been "hung", and now Oxana, his partner, must go through an intricate and enigmatic maze to save his life: of the fifty possible paths, only one leads to the desired goal. Will she be able to find him before losing Jason forever? Escape Book Adventure. The butterfly maze, by Ivan Tapia and Montse Linde, awaits your next reader to catch you with hours and hours of fun.
For the most visceral
Matu Santamaria is a Spanish-Argentine artist and illustrator, internationally acclaimed. Through her networks she has created a strong connection with her audience thanks to a unique style and vindictive illustrations around feminism, sexuality, animalism and the environment.
Hot It is his book and it comes loaded with explicit content that awakens the senses and stirs consciences. Because, as he says, doing something “hot” means doing it immediately, without delay that lowers the interest or the vehemence of the action.
And that's how he made this book, hot. He wanted to express everything he was experiencing without having to name it. Every outburst, every conflict in the face of the stark reality we live in, and all the emotion in the face of other exciting moments in which he would remain immersed forever.
All these reactions, this whole world of impulses, is now reflected in a beautiful illustrated book that we are convinced will delight your invisible friend.
For environmental defenders
Yes, we are going to talk about climate change. And not only that. We are going to do it with rigorous and accessible information to understand what we are talking about when we cite climate change and its terrible consequences. A necessary book that also comes beautifully illustrated by Louize perdieus.
Because we are all used to hearing news about the melting of the poles or the rise in sea levels, but perhaps we do not always have all the arguments present to know the magnitude of the problem.
So Mathilda Masters has written 123 curiosities that everyone should know about the climate, a compilation of scientific facts about the climate for which it has had the collaboration of the director of the European Environment Agency Hans Bruyninckx and the journalist specialized in science Ilja Van Braeckel.
Because climate change is something serious and, now, it is also a rigorous and beautifully presented anecdote so that those who care most about the environment have more arguments to continue fighting.
For fans of Asian
This book is going to fulfill the fantasies of many types of people at once. There are fans of Japanese culture, fans of manga and comics, foodies who can't live without delicious ramen. And this book is for all of them!
Why Ramen! is the most original cookbook on the market: a cookbook presented as a graphic novel to enjoy all the culinary art of Japan. Does your gut growl already or not yet? 🤤🍜
Hugh amano Y Sarah Becan introduce us to this fun and instructive hybrid, a work between a cookbook and a graphic novel that introduces us to the history of ramen and offers more than forty recipes of everything it takes to prepare the most delicious ramen without leaving home. Everything is explained, from the broths, tare or types of noodles, to the dressings and accompaniments with which to add the touch.
Without a doubt it is one of the funniest proposals that we can find and that will delight (literally) your invisible friend. Enjoy reading! 😉
And with all these proposals we trust that you will find the perfect gift to avoid another year of "putting on" with your invisible friend … If you still don't find the ideal detail, Take a look at these gift books and start a #BookChristmas. 📚✨
Attention, book eater! That time of year has come when you don't need excuses to stay home reading. Because the weather no longer invites you to go out too much. And because you finally have a few days of well-deserved vacations to enjoy what you like the most: special meals, family, lights and, of course, books! ✨📚
So if you have as much desire as we do to experience a #BookChristmas … don't miss this list of trilogies and sagas that will make you even more special these Christmas days.
1) Tetralogy The cemetery of forgotten books
The greatest international success of the contemporary Spanish novel, the tetralogy The Cemetery of forgotten books from Carlos Ruiz Zafon, now comes to us in a luxury case that is quite difficult to resist. 🤗
Zafón's literary universe has become one of the great phenomena of contemporary letters. And although its author is no longer with us, we want to pay tribute to him as best we can: returning to his work, revisiting his world. In Booket they also make it very easy for us with this edition that includes The wind's shadow, The Angel's Game, The Prisoner of Heaven Y The labyrinth of spirits.
And if you have already immersed yourself in these wonderful stories, we invite you to discover Zafón's latest book: The city of Vapor. What will you find in it? The echo of the great characters and motifs of the novels of The Cemetery of forgotten books in short story format, some of them never published before. The narrator who made us dream like nobody else… is going to make you dream this Christmas.
2) Bevilacqua series
If there is one thing that we like in detective or police series, it is those duets of characters that are like ying and yang, those characters that contradict each other but complement each other. And of those of us who want to read case after case, no matter how complex and obscure the mission they face. As it happens to us with the saga of the great Lorenzo Silva.
There are many readers who already consider his latest book as 🔝 the best of the entire saga, so we can do nothing but invite you to delve into the case that concerns Bevilacqua and Chamorro in The evil of Corcira.
A middle-aged man appears naked and brutally murdered on a lonely beach in Formentera. According to several testimonies collected by the Civil Guard of the islands, in the previous days he had been seen in the company of different young people in gay clubs in Ibiza. When his bosses call Bevilacqua to take over the investigation and inform him of the peculiarity of the dead, a Basque citizen convicted in his day for collaboration with ETA, the second lieutenant will understand that it is not just another case.
The murky waters of Bevilacqua and Chamorro await you these days.
3) Wild Biology
The Miss Bebi, alias of Bebi Fernández, masters the art of leaving the reader astonished and speechless, wanting to read more and more and to set everything on fire until the outcome is discovered. Bebi Fernández symbolizes the awakening of a savage generation that already has more than 200,000 readers around its titles: Memories of a savage Y Queen, which just went on sale.
Spain, the year 2020. The life of Kassandra Fernández passes between books and attempts to overcome her past, but everything falters when her greatest enemy makes an appearance in the worst possible way, giving rise to a bloody cold war where strategy, criminal businesses and the boundaries between good and evil are blurred, and in which the protagonist will internally debate between revenge and justice, also waging an internal battle where she will have to find out who she really is.
While everything is happening, love and friendship seem to be more difficult to understand than ever. Opening the drawer where she kept the chess pieces won't be easy, but Kassandra Fernández is no longer just a brave young woman in need of knowing her destiny, but a wild woman willing to win the game — or perhaps not.
More than the outcome of a biology, Queen It is a challenge to the whole of society. Will you be able to resist? 😎
4) The Silence of the White City Trilogy
The myths and legends of Álava, archeology, family secrets and criminal psychology draw the absorbing plots of this trilogy formed by The silence of the white city (2016), The water rites (2017) and The time lords (2018).
Who signs this trilogy? Well nothing less than Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, winner of the 2020 Planeta Award with Aquitaine: the fascinating story behind the character of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Hers is a life as fascinating as the events that the author tells us in the Trilogy The silence of the white city.
Still don't know what it's about? We will tell you. ✍🏻
The protagonist of these thrillers is the young inspector Unai López de Ayala (alias Kraken), determined to uncover some ritual murders that terrorize the city. As it says David Zurdo in What to read: «If you want to enjoy and suffer with a book – enjoy the hypnotically interesting and suffer because you cannot read faster – your novel is The silence of the white city».
5) Baztán Series
We continue with this list of essentials that you will not want to stop reading or to catch another polvorón. It's time to talk about one of the literary series that has most hooked readers in recent times, the thriller starring Amaia Salazar and conceived by Dolores Redondo.
When you can't go to sleep because you're dying to read another chapter, don't say we haven't warned you. 😄
Inspector Amaia Salazar returns to the Baztán valley, from which she has been fleeing all her life, to investigate the appearance of the corpse of a teenage girl. You will find yourself caught up in a thriller trilogy and a frenetic pace that will make you go through the volumes of The invisible guardian (2013), Legacy in the bones (2013) and Offering to the storm (2014).
And if you fall in love with the protagonist and need to know more, don't miss the last piece of this puzzle: The north face of the heart, a trip to Amaia's past and to the origin of “the composer”.
6) The hidden port series
Maria Oruña it has no readers, it has fans. And it is that his series of books –formed by Hidden port (2015), A place to go (2017) and Where we were invincible (2018)– tea it will captivate not to let you go.
In its pages you will discover the story of Oliver, a young Londoner with a peculiar family situation and a sad loss who inherits a colonial house on the Cantabrian coast. During the remodeling works, the corpse of a baby is discovered along with an element that is totally anachronistic. And crimes begin to happen in the area. Thus begins a police investigation that will plunge Oliver into a dense personal journey and a race against time to discover the murderer.
In the following episodes of this series (☝🏼 which by the way can be read in no particular order) new murders and new anachronisms question reality beyond what seems possible, along with new characters who will try to restore peace to the town of Suances .
And if after this wonderful series you still want more, note: The forest of the four winds. In the Galicia of 1830 a woman will face the conventions of her time. New crimes, new mysteries, new characters that will remind you why you are a fan of the police genre.
7) Episodes of an endless war
If it is about granting us readers whims, a mention of an author such as Almudena Grandes. In the cycle of Episodes of an Endless War —which can be read in no particular order— the author takes us back to our common past to delve into the stories of its protagonists.
The last installment Frankenstein's mother is perhaps the most intense and emotional novel in the entire series: the gripping tale of a woman and a man who chose to endure in the most difficult times.
In 1954, the young psychiatrist Germán Velázquez returned to Spain to work in the women's asylum in Ciempozuelos. After going into exile in 1939, he has lived in Switzerland for fifteen years, hosted by the family of Dr. Goldstein. In Ciempozuelos, Germán meets again with Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira, a paranoid parricide, extremely intelligent, who fascinated him at thirteen … and meets a nursing assistant, María Castejón, who rejects him without Germán knowing why, although he suspects that her Mary's life hides many secrets.
As readers we will discover her modest origins as the granddaughter of the asylum gardener, her years as a maid in Madrid, her unhappy love story, as well as the reasons why Germán has returned to Spain. María and Germán are two soul mates who want to flee from their respective pasts. Will they get it?
8) The invisible girl trilogy
Blue jeans, alias Francisco de Paula, is a literary reference and in social networks, where he adds a legion of followers. His trilogy The club of the misunderstood marked a milestone in children's and youth literature. Now he comes back with the same talent and more enthusiasm if possible to propose a series full of mystery that we will not be able to get rid of.
It all starts with Aurora Ríos, a girl who is invisible to almost everyone. The events of the past have made her isolate herself from the world and that she barely interacts, tired of the inhabitants of that town talking behind her back. One night in May her mother does not find her at home when she returns from work. Aurora will appear dead the next morning in her high school locker room, with a blow to the head and a compass that someone has left next to her body. Julia Plaza, her classmate, will become obsessed with discovering who is behind the crime.
The trilogy is made up of volumes The invisible girl (2018), The crystal puzzle (2019) and Julia's promise, which was published this year. Get hooked on this thriller and discover why Blue Jeans has thousands of readers around the world.
9) Saga I, Julia
Two proper names push us to include this saga in the readings that you cannot miss between Christmas carol and Christmas carol. One is that of Santiago Posteguillo, winner of the 2018 Planeta Prize with the book that we present to you. The other name that you should keep in mind is Julia Domna, the magnetic protagonist of his books.
192 AD Several men fight for an empire, but Julia, daughter of kings, mother of Caesars and wife of emperor, thinks of something more ambitious: a dynasty. Amidst tensions and conspiracies, a fire ravages the city of Rome. Is it a disaster or an opportunity? Five men prepare to fight to the death for power. They think the game is about to begin. But for Julia the game has already started. He knows that only a woman can forge a dynasty: Me, Julia.
And Julia challenged the gods (2020) is the second part of this wonderful historical novel and represents an even greater challenge for our protagonist: when the enemy is your own son… is there victory?
10) The Millennium phenomenon
And the time has come to shoot the adrenaline with one of the essential sagas of recent years, with a brutal protagonist who sticks to the reader's skin and does not abandon him. We speak of course about Lisbeth Salander. Because this literary series has become an international phenomenon, adding 100 million readers who would like to start this adventure again.
Family conflicts, crime, sexual perversions and financial traps are some of the elements that come together in this unprecedented phenomenon.
Stieg Larsson the plot began in 2015 with Men who did not love women (2015). Then they would follow The girl who dreamed of a match and a can of gasoline (2015) and The queen in the palace of drafts (2015). And after Larsson's death, David Lagercrantz served us the denouement of the story in What does not kill you makes you stronger (2015), The man who chased his shadow (2017) and the long-awaited closure: The girl who lived twice (2019). The The finishing touch to the Swedish thriller phenomenon.
Are you joining us to discover one of the most powerful literary heroines of recent times?
And if every book you sink your teeth into this Christmas fades faster than the pile of sweets at your Christmas Eve dinner, take note and let yourself be accompanied by the best stories to live a #BookChristmas. 💫📚
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The National Dramatic Center premieres "Macbeth"
Attention, book eater! That time of year has come when you don't need excuses to stay home reading. Because the weather no longer invites you to go out too much. And because you finally have a few days of well-deserved vacations to enjoy what you like the most: special meals, family, lights and, of course, books! ✨📚
So if you have as much desire as we do to experience a #BookChristmas … don't miss this list of trilogies and sagas that will make you even more special these Christmas days.
1) Tetralogy The cemetery of forgotten books
The greatest international success of the contemporary Spanish novel, the tetralogy The Cemetery of forgotten books from Carlos Ruiz Zafon, now comes to us in a luxury case that is quite difficult to resist. 🤗
Zafón's literary universe has become one of the great phenomena of contemporary letters. And although its author is no longer with us, we want to pay tribute to him as best we can: returning to his work, revisiting his world. In Booket they also make it very easy for us with this edition that includes The wind's shadow, The Angel's Game, The Prisoner of Heaven Y The labyrinth of spirits.
And if you have already immersed yourself in these wonderful stories, we invite you to discover Zafón's latest book: The city of Vapor. What will you find in it? The echo of the great characters and motifs of the novels of The Cemetery of forgotten books in short story format, some of them never published before. The narrator who made us dream like nobody else… is going to make you dream this Christmas.
2) Bevilacqua series
If there is one thing that we like in detective or police series, it is those duets of characters that are like ying and yang, those characters that contradict but complement each other. And of those of us who want to read case after case, no matter how complex and obscure the mission they face. As it happens to us with the saga of the great Lorenzo Silva.
There are many readers who already consider his latest book as 🔝 the best of the entire saga, so we can do nothing but invite you to delve into the case that concerns Bevilacqua and Chamorro in The evil of Corcira.
A middle-aged man appears naked and brutally murdered on a lonely beach in Formentera. According to several testimonies collected by the Civil Guard of the islands, in the previous days he had been seen in the company of different young people in gay clubs in Ibiza. When his bosses call Bevilacqua to take over the investigation and inform him of the peculiarity of the dead, a Basque citizen convicted in his day for collaboration with ETA, the second lieutenant will understand that it is not just another case.
The murky waters of Bevilacqua and Chamorro await you these days.
3) Wild Biology
The Miss Bebi, alias of Bebi Fernández, masters the art of leaving the reader astonished and speechless, wanting to read more and more and to set everything on fire until the outcome is discovered. Bebi Fernández symbolizes the awakening of a savage generation that already has more than 200,000 readers around its titles: Memories of a savage Y Queen, which just went on sale.
Spain, the year 2020. The life of Kassandra Fernández passes between books and attempts to overcome her past, but everything falters when her greatest enemy makes an appearance in the worst possible way, giving rise to a bloody cold war where strategy, criminal businesses and the boundaries between good and evil are blurred, and in which the protagonist will internally debate between revenge and justice, also waging an internal battle where she will have to find out who she really is.
While everything is happening, love and friendship seem to be more difficult to understand than ever. Opening the drawer where she kept the chess pieces won't be easy, but Kassandra Fernández is no longer just a brave young woman in need of knowing her destiny, but a wild woman willing to win the game — or perhaps not.
More than the outcome of a biology, Queen It is a challenge to the whole of society. Will you be able to resist? 😎
4) The Silence of the White City Trilogy
The myths and legends of Álava, archeology, family secrets and criminal psychology draw the absorbing plots of this trilogy formed by The silence of the white city (2016), The water rites (2017) and The time lords (2018).
Who signs this trilogy? Well nothing less than Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, winner of the 2020 Planeta Award with Aquitaine and the fascinating story behind the character of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Hers is a life as fascinating as the events that the author tells us in the Trilogy The silence of the white city.
Still don't know what it's about? We will tell you. ✍🏻
The protagonist of these thrillers is the young inspector Unai López de Ayala (alias Kraken), determined to uncover ritual murders that terrorize the city. As it says David Zurdo in What to read: «If you want to enjoy and suffer with a book – enjoy the hypnotically interesting and suffer because you cannot read more quickly – your novel is The silence of the white city».
5) Baztán Series
We continue with this list of essentials that you will not want to stop reading or to catch another polvorón. It's time to talk about one of the literary series that has most hooked readers in recent times, the thriller starring Amaia Salazar and conceived by Dolores Round.
When you can't go to sleep because you're dying to read another chapter, don't say we haven't warned you. 😄
Inspector Amaia Salazar returns to the Baztán Valley, from which she has been fleeing all her life, to investigate the appearance of the corpse of a teenage girl. You will find yourself caught up in a thriller trilogy and a frenetic pace that will make you go through the volumes of The invisible guardian (2013), Legacy in the bones (2013) and Offering to the storm (2014).
And if you fall in love with the protagonist and need to know more, don't miss the last piece of this puzzle: The north face of the heart, a trip to Amaia's past and to the origin of “the composer”.
6) The hidden port series
Maria Oruña it has no readers, it has fans. And it is that his series of books –formed by Hidden port (2015), A place to go (2017) and Where we were invincible (2018)– tea it will captivate not to let you go.
In its pages you will discover the story of Oliver, a young Londoner with a peculiar family situation and a sad loss who inherits a colonial house on the Cantabrian coast. During the remodeling works, the corpse of a baby is discovered along with an element that is totally anachronistic. And crimes begin to happen in the area. Thus begins a police investigation that will plunge Oliver into a dense personal journey and a race against time to discover the murderer.
In the following episodes of this series (☝🏼 which by the way can be read in no particular order) new murders and new anachronisms question reality beyond what seems possible, along with new characters who will try to restore peace to the town of Suances .
And if after this wonderful series you still want more, note: The forest of the four winds. In the Galicia of 1830 a woman will face the conventions of her time. New crimes, new mysteries, new characters that will remind you why you are a fan of the police genre.
7) Episodes of an endless war
If it is about granting us readers whims, a mention of an author such as Almudena Grandes. In the cycle of Episodes of an Endless War —which can be read in no particular order— the author takes us to our common past to delve into the stories of its protagonists.
The last installment Frankenstein's mother is perhaps the most intense and emotional novel in the entire series: the gripping tale of a woman and a man who chose to endure in the most difficult times.
In 1954, the young psychiatrist Germán Velázquez returned to Spain to work in the women's asylum in Ciempozuelos. After going into exile in 1939, he has lived in Switzerland for fifteen years, hosted by the family of Dr. Goldstein. In Ciempozuelos, Germán meets again with Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira, a paranoid parricide, extremely intelligent, who fascinated him at thirteen … and meets a nursing assistant, María Castejón, who rejects him without Germán knowing why, although he suspects that her Mary's life hides many secrets.
As readers we will discover her modest origins as the granddaughter of the asylum gardener, her years as a maid in Madrid, her unhappy love story, as well as the reasons why Germán has returned to Spain. María and Germán are two soul mates who want to flee from their respective pasts. Will they get it?
8) The invisible girl trilogy
Blue jeans, alias Francisco de Paula, is a literary reference and in social networks, where he adds a legion of followers. His trilogy The club of the misunderstood marked a milestone in children's and youth literature. Now he returns with the same talent and more desire if possible to propose a series full of mystery that we will not be able to get rid of.
It all starts with Aurora Ríos, a girl who is invisible to almost everyone. The events of the past have made her isolate herself from the world and that she barely interacts, tired of the inhabitants of that town talking behind her back. One night in May her mother does not find her at home when she returns from work. Aurora will appear dead the next morning in her high school locker room, with a blow to the head and a compass that someone has left next to her body. Julia Plaza, her classmate, will become obsessed with discovering who is behind the crime.
The trilogy is made up of volumes The invisible girl (2018), The crystal puzzle (2019) and Julia's promise, which was published this year. Get hooked on this thriller and discover why Blue Jeans has thousands of readers around the world.
9) Saga I, Julia
Two proper names push us to include this saga in the readings that you cannot miss between Christmas carol and Christmas carol. One is that of Santiago Posteguillo, winner of the 2018 Planeta Prize with the book that we present to you. The other name that you should keep in mind is Julia Domna, the magnetic protagonist of his books.
192 AD Several men fight for an empire, but Julia, daughter of kings, mother of Caesars and wife of emperor, thinks of something more ambitious: a dynasty. Amidst tensions and conspiracies, a fire ravages the city of Rome. Is it a disaster or an opportunity? Five men prepare to fight to the death for power. They think the game is about to begin. But for Julia the game has already started. He knows that only a woman can forge a dynasty: Me, Julia.
And Julia challenged the gods (2020) is the second part of this wonderful historical novel and represents an even greater challenge for our protagonist: when the enemy is your own son… is there victory?
10) The Millennium phenomenon
And the time has come to shoot the adrenaline with one of the essential sagas of recent years, with a brutal protagonist who sticks to the reader's skin and does not abandon him. We speak of course about Lisbeth Salander. Because this literary series has become an international phenomenon, adding 100 million readers who would like to start this adventure again.
Family conflicts, crime, sexual perversions and financial traps are some of the elements that come together in this unprecedented phenomenon.
Stieg Larsson the plot began in 2015 with Men who did not love women (2015). Then they would follow The girl who dreamed of a match and a can of gasoline (2015) and The queen in the palace of drafts (2015). And after Larsson's death, David Lagercrantz served us the denouement of the story in What does not kill you makes you stronger (2015), The man who chased his shadow (2017) and the long-awaited closure: The girl who lived twice (2019). The The finishing touch to the Swedish thriller phenomenon.
Are you joining us to discover one of the most powerful literary heroines of recent times?
And if every book you sink your teeth into this Christmas fades faster than the pile of sweets at your Christmas Eve dinner, take note and let yourself be accompanied by the best stories to live a #BookChristmas. 💫📚