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The mayor of Barcelona is being blackmailed.A sex tape from her student days - one she never knew existed. The price: 300, 000 euros and her immediate resignation.A political chameleon who swept to power on a populist wave, she has her enemies. Nor can she trust those closest to her. Both her ex-husband and her deputy would profit from her fall.Melchor Marín, living a quiet life in Terra Alta, is tempted back to Barcelona to work the case. But...

The second Terra Alta Investigation - a new crime series by one of Europe's leading writers

A first, prize-winning work of suspense from the internationally acclaimed author of Soldiers of Salamis. Melchor Marâin is a young cop from the big city, Barcelona. But he is also an outsider. The son of a prostitute, Melchor went to prison as a teenager, convicted of working for a Colombian drug cartel. Behind bars, he read a book that changed his life: Les Misâerables. Then his mother was murdered. He decided to become a policeman. Now he h...

A Terra Alta novel. Winner of Spain's biggest literary prize - the Premio Planeta

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A Terra Alta novel. Winner of Spain's biggest literary prize - the Premio PlanetaWhen Melchor goes to investigate the horrific double-murder of a rich printer and his wife in rural Cataluña nothing quite adds up. The young cop from the big city, hero of a foiled terrorist attack, has been sent to Terra Alta till things quieten down. Observant, streetwise and circumspect, Melchor is an aso an outsider.The son of a Barcelona prostitute who never...

A Terra Alta novel. Winner of Spain's biggest literary prize - the Premio Planeta

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Lord of All the Dead is a courageous journey into Javier Cercas' family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war.

Lord of All the Dead is a courageous journey into Javier Cercas' family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war. The author revisits Ibahernando, his parents' village in southern Spain, to research the life of Manuel Mena. This ancestor, dearly loved by Cercas' mother, died in combat at the age of nineteen during the battle of the Ebro, the bloodiest episode in Spain's history. Who was Manuel Mena? A fascist hero whose ...

Lord of All the Dead is a courageous journey into Javier Cercas' family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war. The author revisits Ibahernando, his parents' village in southern Spain, to research the life of Manuel Mena. This ancestor, dearly loved by Cercas' mother, died in combat at the age of nineteen during the battle of the Ebro, the bloodiest episode in Spain's history. Who was Manuel Mena? A fascist hero whose ...

An essential collection of literary criticism by one of Spain's most acclaimed authors

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays

Two witty, Kafkaesque novellas by the author of the best-selling Soldiers of Salamis, winner of the 2003 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

New novel from the author of "Soldiers Of Salamis" and "The Anatomy Of A Moment", telling the story of 3 teenage outsiders in post-Franco Spain. Now in paperback.