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THE WITCHES OF ARNES

Author: Wednesday 29 October 2014

Year 1533. In the small town of Arnes, surrounded by the imposing beauty of the forests and mountains of Tortosa and Beseit, with the river Ebro at the background, Maria, a strong and brave young woman, gives birth to her first daughter, Luna.

Immensely happy, the grandmother Magdalena, an expert midwife and hard defender of the beneficial powers of nature, wants to welcome her granddaughter with an old prayer full of energy and knowledge. But she does it with fateful negligence: the old priest has listened to her words and is determined to do whatever is possible to destroy such heresy.

On growing up, Luna will be taught about the power of the nature elements by Maria and a mysterious text, the Book of Essences, a compendium of all magic and natural knowledge that has been passed from generation to generation throughout the centuries. Now, however, mother and daughter and all their antique wisdom are at risk. Fanaticism and incomprehension are all around the region and the accusations of witchcraft get close to the village.

As honourable heirs of their lineage, Luna and Maria are entitled to protect this secret book and give continuity to the chain, no matter if in their escape to Barcelona they take the risk to end burnt at the stake.

EL SOMNI DE TÀRRACO

Author: Wednesday 29 October 2014

Year 27 b.C. While the Roman army fights to set peace in the villages on the north of Iberia, Emperor Caesar Augustus settles in Tarraco, from where he exerts power and runs all the Empire.

The cosy city, cradle of sea and land of olive trees, soon has its calm daily rhythm mixed up. Among the ups and downs of constructions ordered by the emperor with the aim of turning it the most splendid city of Mediterranea, evil conspiracies take place, caused by the thirst of richness and power.

Only the old doctor Perthus will able to remember, after some years, the cruel facts that shook the city. The murder by treachery of governor Manni and the imprisonment of young Sul·la were just the beginning of a long series of lies, intrigues and injustices. Time, however, always reveals the truth in the end.

From Tarraco to Ilerda, passing by Baetulo and the mountain of Ausa, “El somni de Tarraco” goes vividly into the splendid past of Roman Catalonia. A vibrating novel that allows readers to know a fundamental period of the History.

THE SECRETS OF THE QUEEN

Author: Wednesday 29 October 2014

Two stories that entwines and mixes up in a plot that takes many centuries.

Nowadays: Beatriu and Enric find out that one of their University partners, Ricard, specialized in Medieval History, has been murdered. In his room they find, written in the wall, a paragraph of the Bible.In 1348, in Poblet, Aloi de Monbrai discovers that there are dying many people because of the plague. The visit of Pere el Cerimoniós and the strange death of the queen would lead to an investigation… seven centuries after.

THE MONASTERY OF THE SHADOWS

Author: Wednesday 29 October 2014

A stifled scream of terror. A novice, violently murdered, hangs from a string on the well of the Monastery of Santa María, in Pedralbes. Young Alamanda keeps carefully a letter that contains a decisive secret for Catalonia’s future.

During the years after the Revolta dels Segadors (Harvester Uprising), noble men and bourgeoisies suffer the economic consequences of the war against Castilla. What does this letter explain that all Catalan people are depending on it?  Pedralbes’ Monastery and the Barcelona from XVIIth century are the settings of an amazing history of love and intrigue.

LA VENGANZA DEL BANDOLERO

Author: Wednesday 29 October 2014

La venjança del bandoler is a novel that narrates the story of Josep Pujol i Barraca, Boquica, son of a humble family of traginers (carriers), that will become a famous bandit in Catalonia during the end of the XVIIIth century and the beginning of the XIXth, who will fight for his freedom and his people during the French War. And he does it from both sides, which will give him the nickname of Caragirat (Twisted-face). At first, he will fight against the Frenchs, then against the powerful men, Spanish and Catalan corrupts, that forsake the regular people that fight and die for their country, and finally, as a bandit, against both blocs. That turns him into a hated target aimed for all the factions in the conflict. A bounty hunter, a hunter of bandits, and an old friend of Boquica, is commissioned to capture him, in a chase that is also a story of betrayed friendship.

The novel allows us to get immersed in this period and to live how was life before and during the war: the life of the traginers, the black market and the contraband; the personal relations marked by the religion’s influence; the quotidian habits, the traditions, the superstitions, the witchcraft… The whole world in which Boquica lived and fought.



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