October news There are many literary releases and they cover all genres. Autumn is here and the change of weather (and time) will lead us to stay home more and take advantage of some time to read. In addition, the big publishing bets are coming out for the Christmas season, which will not be long in coming. This is one of them. selection of titles that, as always, cannot include all of them, and is a minimal sample. We have comic, historical and crime novel, essay and a bit of romanticism. We take a look.
October News — Selection
I forgot about the sky — Pere Cervantes
We begin this review with the October news with the latest from the Catalan writer, who returns with a story set in the Barcelona de 1923. There one girl call Cristina Nomdedeu, daughter of an important textile businessman, disappear in a crowded cinema. The person in charge of the investigation will be the Inspector Basilio Bosc, who returns to the city after five years in Madrid. His return will show the life he left behind interrupted with his hasty departure and will open old wounds upon reuniting with his family and also a old love. Bosc will also have to ask for help from a childhood friend, Frenchy, which is now a thief from the underworld of District V. What no one knows is that they will all have to face the true evil in an unexpected ending.
The Island of the Sleeping Woman — Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Not a year goes by without a new novel from Pérez-Reverte, who usually releases them around this time. On this occasion he takes us to an isla of the Greek Western Cyclades to tell us a story of sea, love and adventure.
We are in April 1937 And, while Spain is in the midst of the Civil War, the marine merchant Miguel Jordan Kyriazis He is sent by the rebels to attack clandestinely the naval traffic which brings military aid from the Soviet Union to the Republic. Its base of operations is on a small island in the Aegean and there Kyriazis will come across a dark triangle with that of the owners, the Baron Katelios and his wife: a seductive mature woman who seeks a way to escape her destiny.
Gladiators. Courage in the face of death — Fernando Lillo Redonet and María Engracia Muñoz-Santos
Gladiators are one of the Historical figures who have never gone out of style, but they have also been surrounded by myths, misunderstandings and falsehoods, such as the famous phrase "Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute you," something that never happened. So this book that they sign Fernando Lillo placeholder image and María Engracia Muñoz-Santos is an interesting way to get to know them better.
Based on the evidence that the archeology, the epigraphy and Classical texts about the shows they performed, we will see their reality within the cultural and mental context of Roman society. Thus we will accompany the men who became gladiators, we will see their life in the ludus, the place where they prepared physically and mentally for combat, we will eat their ranch, we will sweat in their Workout and we will feel the fear and the pain, but also the glory, of the moment of struggle, when they could become idols of the public or fall into the arena and oblivion.
All with the many and extraordinary Artwork by Sandra Delgado.
The good vassal - Francisco Narla
Another of the new releases for October is this historical novel by the Galician Francis Narla. The stars Diego, who is the son of the greatest hero of the time, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, who has done everything possible to make him the best of his captains. However, over time, resentment has made the Cid A cruel man capable of condemning those who love him most. And Diego, although he is willing to serve him as a good vassal, will also have to face the truth about his father and lord.
MORIARTY the thief of a thousand faces —Duval & Pécau
We continue with this title of comic which directs us the umpteenth glance at the universe of Sherlock Holmes.
We are in Paris en 1900, which is part of the itinerary of a dirigible race that is going around the world and which will also be the background in which a new episode of the fight between the famous English detective and his great nemesis, the criminal, will take place. James moriartyThis time Moriarty is involved in a series of theft increasingly bold and Holmes will ask for help from none other than Dr. Sigmund Freud.
The love we left behind — Rebecca Yarros
We end with this title that shows us the more romantic side from the author of the series Empyreal y wings of blood.
Narrated in two times, it tells the story of Georgia Stanton, who returns to his hometown after the death of his great-grandmother, a famous one romance novel writer. Now, by inheriting the copyright, she is the only one who can decide the future of the last manuscript that was left unfinished. The person in charge of finishing it will be Noah Harrison, an arrogant and attractive author bestseller whom Georgia hates from the first minute and who must earn her trust. But no one suspects that this unfinished story hides a great secret.