February. This is a selection of new arrivals coming out this month There are 6 titles of different genres: novel History, contemporary, black and a touch of test classic. They are signed by Fernando Aramburu, Arantza portabals, Suzanne Rodriguez Lezaun, Alvaro UrbinaFernando Lillo and Luis Clog. We take a look.
February news
children of the fable — Fernando Aramburu
1 February
After the success of Homeland o Swifts one of the most anticipated novelties arrives: the new novel by Aramburu gives us tells the story of Asier and JosebaDhe young people who in 2011 are going to the south of France to be done ETA militants. They will arrive at a chicken farm and are welcomed by a French couple. They are waiting for instructions but then they find out that the gang has announced the cessation of armed activity. So they're stuck with no money, no experience, no weapons, but they decide to continue the fight on his own, founding his own organization. Then they will meet a young woman who proposes a plan.
the years of silence — Alvaro Urbina
1 February
Álvaro Arbina, a writer from Vitoria, signed when he was only twenty-four years old The woman with the clock un thriller historic that was very successful and spent months on the best-seller lists. With The symphony of time he won the Hislibris Award for Best Historical Novel of 2018 and his career was consolidated. Now he proposes this history set in a small townor from a Navarrese valley.
There, one August night, Juana Josefa Goñi Sagardía, a seven month pregnant woman, He disappeared without a trace with their six minor children. The father of the family, a charcoal maker who served as a requeté on the Navafrías front, it took him a year to get the military permission to investigate what could happen
Ecology in ancient Rome —Fernando Lillo
1 February
Fernando Lillo placeholder image, PhD in Classical Philology and professor of Latin at the IES San Tomé de Freixeiro de Vigo, has spent a few years chaining tests on various aspects of both Roman and Greek antiquity as well as Hotel Roma o A day in Pompeii. Now he presents this one where he takes us back to the time to tell us how the Romans They were also associated with the environment. Thus, they also dedicated themselves to observing nature and acting in a way that today we would consider ecological.
With the entertaining and rigorous style At the same time that he characterizes his works, Lillo brings us a new fresco from that time, which does not seem so far away in many aspects from current times in terms of man's action on nature. One of the most interesting novelties.
In the blood - Susana Rodríguez Lezaun
8 February
Go back to the inspector Marcela Piedelobo in this new story by the writer and curator of Pamplona Negra, Susana Rodriguez Lezaun.
This time he tells us how a operación of the National Police against drug trafficking with infiltrated agents gets complicated when a young woman, elur amezaga, police informer and girlfriend of an important leader abertzale local appears murdered in a town in Navarre near France. Everything seems to point to Inspector Fernando Ribas, Marcela's friend (as well as her lover and mentor). But she refuses to believe that Ribas is guilty and will begin to investigate on her own, following her instinct.
The man who killed Antía Morgade — Arantza Portabales
16 February
Another novelty that arrives with force is the third case of the police couple Santiago Abad and Ana Barroso, that so much success is giving its author.
We are in Santiago de Compostela in 2021 just on his big day. Over there six friends They go to a dinner to meet again after more than twenty years without seeing each other. During the pre-festivity fireworks, one shot kills one from them. It will be seen right away that the key to the murder lies in what happened in the apartment for minors in custody that they shared as teenagers: the suicide of Antía Morgade after one of his educators, Hector Vilaboi, abused her
Now Vilaboi has just gone out on the streets after serving a sentence in jail, but it has disappeared without a trace. So Abad and Barroso will embark on a new research projects. to clarify if the culprit is the same again or secrets will end up coming out that will point to others.
the queen board — Luis Clog
23 February
Zueco is one of the most recognized historical novel writers, with a career that accumulates success after success. This is his new story where he talks about the origins of chess in a time as fascinating as the court of Isabel la Católica.
We are in 1468 when Alfonso de Trastámara is dead in strange circumstances and Henry IV it is proclaimed the king forcing his stepsister Isabel to sign the peace that she will accept. then the mysterious assassination of a noble a Gadea, a young woman who is passionate about chess with a shady past, ruy, a chronicler who loves history and books. Both will try to discover the culprit while following the conspiracies and the wars of the Court of Isabel.