New month, new books in the bookstores. In October, the heat of summer begins to be history and the days are getting shorter and the nights are longer. We need to stock up on books for winter, while we feel like staying at home waiting for the season of travel, festivals and terraces to return. These titles have paint for it.
Everything is going to get better, Almudena Grandes
When? October 11th
Choral novel that has the best of The kisses on the bread and the intrigue of the resisters of the “Episodes of an Endless War”, Almudena Grandes’s latest novel is above all an unforgettable gallery of characters, who recount their experience of adapting to a country that has suffered strong shocks and in which they do not want to resign themselves. The legacy of a great narrator who once again manages to move and awaken consciences.
Everything is going to get better (hardcover edition) (Wanderings)
Miss Merkel. The case of the retired chancellorDavid Saffier
When? Now on sale
Angela Merkel retired six weeks ago and has just moved with her husband, bodyguard and their puppy Putin to an unpopulated region in the German hinterland. Accustomed to a turbulent life, she now finds it difficult to concentrate in the tranquility of the countryside. When a local nobleman turns up dead, a spark ignites in Angela: you finally run into a situation that needs to be resolved and that will require all your intelligence. The baron has been found in his castle, the room was locked from the inside… and there are six suspects.
Miss Merkel. The case of the retired chancellor (Formentor Library)
Elizabeth II: Life of a Queen, 1926-2022Robert Hardman
When? October 19
This is a fascinating piece of work monumental written by the leading biographer of the English royal family. It covers the survival and renewal of the dynastic system, encompassing abdication, war, romance, defiance, and tragedy. A unique portrait of a leader who remains as intriguing today as the day she ascended the throne at twenty-five years of age.
Elizabeth II: Life of a Queen, 1926-2022 (Non-Fiction)
BrownRocio Quillahuaman
When? October 19
Rocío Quillahuaman was born in Lima, and ten years later she moved with her family to Spain. Her first experience upon arrival from her was to have her Winnie the Pooh stuffed animal disemboweled at the airport, in search of drugs. From then on she so he only had to get used to living in a deeply racist and misogynistic world, that she never missed a single opportunity to continually remind him that, wherever he was, he was out of place. Some angry memories, with an open heart, in which he reviews the most significant moments of his childhood and adolescence.
Brown, Rocio Quillahuaman
the kings of the houseDelphine de Vigan
When? October 13
A haunting novel about the dangers of overexposure on networks, child exploitation and false happiness. De Vigan has written a disturbing narrative that is at once a disturbing thriller, a sci-fi tale about something very real, and a devastating document of contemporary alienation, the exploitation of intimacy, false happiness projected onto screens and the manipulation of emotions.
The kings of the house: 1086 (Panorama of narratives)
TostonazoSantiago Lawrence
When? Now on sale
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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