Discover the 3 best books by Julián Sánchez

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Being able to discover what goes on under the sticks in a basketball game requires the concentration and skill necessary to discover that hand that hits the opponent's arm instead of the ball. Or that plug in the downward trajectory of the ball that invalidates the ...

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The 3 best books by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Books by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Back in 2020, one of the greatest writers in substance and form left us. An author who convinced critics and who earned parallel popular recognition translated into best sellers for all of his novels. He is probably the most widely read Spanish writer after Cervantes, perhaps with the permission of…

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Never by Ken Follett

Never by Ken Follett

It seems that the Ken Follett prior to the great historical fictions is back. And that is a flashback that places us in the distant 90s. A perfect time for those of us who are already around a not inconsiderable age. And that's why those of us who already read Ken Follet before ...

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Miss Merkel. The case of the retired chancellor

Miss Merkel. The case of the retired chancellor

You never know with this revolving doors for those who leave active politics. In Spain it often happens that former presidents, former ministers and other group of retired leaders end up occupying the most unsuspected offices in large companies. But Germany is really different. There …

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The House of Voices, by Donato Carrisi

The House of Voices, by Donato Carrisi

The good old Donato Carrisi always delights us with hybrids between enigmas and crimes, a kind of mystery genre that ends up breaking like a full-blown noir. The miscegenation is always a success when it is possible to combine the best of each part. And of course, as one leaves ...

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Terrible costumes, by Elia Barceló

Terrible costumes book

It has to be a great pleasure to be able to do a reissue through the front door, in the popular acclaim plan. And Elia Barceló resorts to these terrible costumes of hers to appease her reading public, yearning for plots made in Barceló. And the truth is that this plot comes from pearls to match ...

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Miss Marte, by Manuel Jabois

Miss Mars, by Jabois

I have to confess that once I hooked up with Miss sympathy from Soria. I think it was the summer of '93, like the time this novel starts. The point is that I did not know more about her or rather she did not want to know more about me. It can …

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The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes, from Maximum Prairie

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes, from Maximum Prairie

The famous writer (and in his dead moments pianist) Joseph Gelinek returns once more from his nineteenth century and this time uses his pseudonym Máximo Pradera to offer us a novel about the splitting of personality and those messes in which one confuses, for example to ...

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The great yellow catastrophe, by JJ Benítez

The great yellow catastrophe

Few authors in the world do the job of writing a magical space as JJ Benítez does. A place inhabited by writer and readers where reality and fiction share accessible rooms with the keys to each new book. Between the magic and the marketing, between the disconcerting and ...

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The forest of the four winds, by María Oruña

The forest of the four winds

The writer María Oruña has managed to wake up and fix in her plots an unmistakable aroma of the most ancestral Cantabrian. A marine fragrance to great mysteries and historical fictions from the north peninsula cornice. From Cantabria to Galicia treasuring deep mysteries composed with a point of historical fiction and always high ...

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The bookstore and the thief, by Oliver Espinosa

The bookseller and the thief

From the already distant and mythical cemetery of forgotten books, by Ruiz Zafón, the libraries recovered a legendary point, perhaps evoking the remote library of Alexandria. And it is that the knowledge and the imagination summarized of the books on paper has that I do not know what of durability; of spaces ...

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The legend of the thief, by Juan Gómez Jurado

The legend of the thief

When the reissues of the books are released barely 10 years after their original edition, it is happening as with the great music groups, that the growing fans ask for more than what is produced. About the platinum editions and all those techniques of ...

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