We head headlong into fall and downhill into winter. That can only mean one thing: we need to be prepared for the cold, dark and rainy months ahead. That means: provisions of hot drinks to stop a train, a good blanket and a load of books to dig in the house. If you haven’t been to your trusted bookstore yet, this little guide with the best-selling books for October collects the titles that currently demand it and with which you will not lack neither the evasion nor the entertainment.
The flame of PhocaeaLorenzo Silva
Queralt Bonmati is a young woman from Barcelona from a wealthy family who appears murdered in a place on the Camino de Santiago. Second Lieutenant Bevilacqua is commissioned to deal with the investigation, given the profile of the victim’s father, a former politician and businessman linked to the Catalan independence movement who is on the radar of justice. The case will take Bevilacqua from Lugo to Barcelona, the city he arrived at in the days of the Olympic dream, where he experienced events that will stir his heart and his memory and that in the fall of 2019 he will see burn with the flame of a rage that comes from far.
The Flame of Focea: 1585 (Anchor & Dolphin)
The familySarah Table
“There are no secrets in this family!” says Damián, father of a family and a man of fixed ideas, obsessed with rectitude and pedagogy. But that house is actually full of cracks, and the oppression that is breathed will end up creating escape routes, clandestine codes and lies. A forceful x-ray of a family, of its latent wounds, fragilities, contradictions and weaknesses. With her, Sara Mesa once again demonstrates that she has a clinical eye to undress human behaviors and portray them in all their complexity.
The Family: 700 (Hispanic Narratives)
The mothersCarmen Mola
Inspector Elena Blanco crosses the depot of the Madrid Municipal Crane until she reaches the corpse of a man tied to a chair, with a seam that rises from the pubis to the abdomen. The autopsy clarifies that this drug addict some organs were removed and a fetus of almost seven months was placed in her womb. In addition, it is her biological son. A few days later, the Case Analysis Brigade travels to A Coruña, where a 64-year-old tax advisor has been murdered in the same way. What is the relationship between the two victims? And where are the mothers of the babies?
The mothers (The gypsy bride 4)
The waves of lost timeSandra Barneda
They were inseparable accomplices of adventures. They were until a second changed everything. The summers of childhood, life without haste and that friendship that seemed eternal exploded in a car one winter morning. The weight of guilt shattered their dreams and they stopped seeing each other. But the delusional promise to celebrate together the fortieth birthday of a dead man will meet them again twenty-one years later. It’s been too long. They have become strangersbut they all decide to comply and spend four days together to rediscover themselves and verify that beyond death, beyond pain, there is life and that friendship that belongs to them and has given value to their survival.
The waves of lost time (Spanish and Ibero-American Authors)
counting sunsetsthe blonde vein
The Blonde Neighbor returns with a fun, exciting and addictive story, full of laughter, tears and feelings on the surface. This new novel invites you to reflect, to enjoy life and sunsets with their lights and shadows. And it represents a firm step forward in her literary career through a story full of nuances, humor and, above all, feelings in the purest and most original style of this anonymous author.
Revolution, Arturo Perez-Reverte
Revolution It is much more than a novel about dramatic events that shook the Mexican Republic in the first third of the 20th century. It is a story of initiation and maturity through chaos, lucidity and violence: the amazing discovery of the hidden rules that determine love, loyalty, death and life.
Revolution: A Novel (Hispanic)
Fairy taleStephen King
Stephen King returns to fantasy in style, with a magnificent novel about an unexpected hero who must take part in the epic battle between good and evil. He is Charlie Reade, who looks like an ordinary high school student, but carries a heavy weight on his shoulders. He has two unexpected friends: a dog named Radar and Howard Bowditch, his elderly owner. When he dies, he leaves him a cassette that contains the great secret that he has kept throughout his life: inside his shed there is a portal that leads to another world.
Fairy Tale (Hits)
Slave of freedomIldefonso Falcones
A fascinating story that narrates the passionate struggle for the freedom of two black women in different times: Colonial slave-owning Cuba and 21st-century Spain.
Slave of Liberty (Historical Novel)
decent peopleLeonardo Padura
The best of the novels in the Mario Conde series: the assassination of a former Cuban leader at the moment of maximum effervescence in Cuba with the visit of Barack Obama.
Decent People (Wanderings)
TostonazoLawrence
A luminous novel about a guy without a job or profit who finds himself, suddenly, working as an intern in the center of things: a movie in Madrid. A political and tender story about looking for life and finding brilliance, far from the spotlight and the cretins. To read it is to rebel against what it touches and unmask the bad guys for what they are, even if they don’t suspect it: a bore.
Tostonazo: The long-awaited novel by the acclaimed author of “Los asquerosos”
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