If anyone has the magic formula to succeed in the historical fiction genre, it is Santiago Posteguillo (with the permission of a Ken Follet who, although he is much more recognized, it is no less true that he fictionalizes rather than historicizes) And Posteguillo is that perfect alchemist precisely because of his ...
Let's be realistic. Approaching a book like this should always be an exercise in critical curiosity. The fact of the overwhelming success of Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, Jessica Alba or Steve Wozniak cannot be thought of as a formula to be meticulously repeated to obtain the same result. It's one thing to write a ...
Revenge is as powerful an argument as love. Literature has at its peak both great love stories and the most extensive works built around the coldest revenge, the one that focuses all human intelligence and will, the one that sublimates the feelings of defeat, despondency ...
Back in 2005, Detective Bobby Dodge came into our lives. And this time Lisa Gardner returns to him to pass the witness to the detective Warren. The brushstrokes that link this new novel with Bobby's origins in the previous novel "Sola" are duly ...
Deep down we are all a little Ignatius Reilly wandering through life with our films produced and scripted by our subjectivity and also with our most recalcitrant miseries. Since Ignatius came to modern literature as Don Quixote today, the surrealism of living has opened ...
Nothing better than starting to read a book knowing that everything is going to explode into the air. In that chicha calm of a psychological thriller lies part of the great morbid delight of a reader eager for narrative tension. This book "The Woman Who Didn't Exist" abounds in that ...
Trump is a character born in the middle of the current bubble of populisms. Its political irruption is sheltered between the lurking shadow of political manipulation in social networks and the threat of Russian interference in that kind of massive coercion of wills that is post-truth. The …
The greatest virtue of the suspense genre is the writer's ability to maintain a balance between the mystery itself and that psychological tension that points to fear between the unknown or the unexpected. In Spain, one of those who best manages to keep his narratives in that harmony between ...
The worst thing about being a creator out of time is usually that the most fervent reception of the public occurs, precisely, when one is already raising mallow. The legend of Lucía Berlin as the cursed writer, built from family uprooting and consolidated from her stormy emotional life, grew ...