August, the holiday month par excellence. Sun, heat, beach, vacation, rest and leisure take over the days and we have plenty of time (or not) to read. Likewise, the publishing market is weak a bit and the news cannot come out at third-party sales prices. But if there is interesting releases and for all tastes. These are 5 of them for audiences from 0 to 99 years old and of various genders. The highlights: the sixth title in the Millenium series and the new story proposed by one of the latest bestsellers, Idelfonso Falcones. Let's see.
Kids
The wolf Lolo, a very affectionate little wolf - Catherine Proteaux
Destined to the smallest readers a new title comes out of this French illustrator. It belongs to a collection of board books on Lobito, a very funny wolf. Each book contains 12 stories of 7 panels each one and is ideal to start children in reading of image sequences.
Young People
Antipodes - Paloma González Rubio
The new novel by the Madrid writer, winner of the Alandar Award 2019 of youth literature granted by the Edelvives Group.
The protagonist is Nerea, who has to go to live to the antipodes, a word that the first time he heard it he thought was a magical realm. But it turns out that no, that it is a real place and that is going to have to leave everything that he had known until that moment: his life, his friends, his school ... and Jaime, that boy he likes.
Black novel
The girl who lived twice - David Lagercranz
At the end of August the sixth title from the famous series of Millennium. The signing again David Lagercranz, who took the witness from the late Swedish creator Stieg Larsson. In principle it is assumed that is the closing of this series, but who knows ...
Historical novel
The painter of souls - Idelfonso Falcones
The successful writer from that cathedral of the sea brings out a new novel in August again set in Barcelona, but at the time modernist early XNUMXth century. And there are the usual ingredients for another predictable best-seller: love story, passion for art, social upheavals and revenge.
The protagonist is Dalmau Room, son of an anarchist executed. It is painter in a Barcelona of conflicts and social upheaval that also divides his life. On the one hand, his family and Emma, the woman he loves, are defenders of the workers' struggle. On the other hand, he has his work in the ceramic workshop of Don Manuel Bello, his mentor and a bourgeois conservative of strong Catholic beliefs. The question will be how to live between both worlds.
Comic
Sandman, the heart of a star - Miguelanxo Prado and Neil Gaiman
El 6 August the release of this comic book title is planned for the first time published individually. Present the story in large format with script by Briton Neil Gaiman and exclusive extras cartoonist Miguelanxo Prado, winner of prestigious awards such as the National Comic Prize, the Grand Prize of the Barcelona International Comic Fair or the Eisner.