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In these times when LGTBQ literature is in demand and many young people support it, we cannot lose track of an author like Adrià Aguacil. Penguin Random House has opted for his novel ARMARIOS Y BARRICADAS where Oscar has very clear that he likes boys, but he only talks to his ex. He doesn’t feel comfortable in class, especially after what happened with his best friend. The day after he gets expelled from school, he decides to download an app to meet people. With David he discovers a vibrant intimacy and an environment in which he can finally be himself, but his incapacity to manage his emotions will play dirty tricks on him. And when it seems that nothing could go worse, he runs into a gang of ultras that will mark him forever.

“In the same way that if you put flour and wheat in the oven, you get bread, when you mix fags and neo-Nazis in a dark alley you are guaranteed to get a beating”.

This young author writes a novel where he reflects a reality that coexists with us, whether we want it or not. But he does it in a masterful way, because at only 21 years old, this writer has an unquestionable talent, and this novel is just the appetizer of much more to come.

A novel in the “new adult” style about a turbulent love, a voracious desire, and a thirst for revenge. All the ingredients for film producers to see that this is a script that would work perfectly on screen, and for publishers from other countries to discover a non-American voice that tells the story of what happens in today’s relationships, and how intolerance is still very much alive, even if we pretend it is not.  

This is our big week. Another Sant Jordi’s Day is upon us and the sector is in turmoil. There is something so special about this day that all of us who make up this long chain feel that tickle in our stomachs as the day of the book approaches. It’s nerves, mixed with excitement and emotion, something difficult to put into words and that only those of us who are part of it have the pleasure of feeling. It is one of the most intense days of the year in every sense, and that is how we all experience it.

I decided to take the opportunity of Thursday’s blog to review the books that will fill the streets this Sunday. Those of you who follow us know that we have a bit of everything, so there is something for everyone, and below you will find a link to our video presenting the most recent releases so that you can take paper and pencil and write down those that catch your eye. They can be for yourselves or for that special person or persons because I hope it will be more than one so that you will have to choose more than one book. This is a family celebration, and we give books and roses to everyone we love: mothers, children, aunts, and grandmothers. Every page of a book makes us bigger and helps us, in some way, to be better.

It is normal that I cannot understand a world without books, they are my life, but I would love it if no one could understand it, and books were the necessary vitamin to make the world a better place. They make us better because with them we live things, things happen, we learn things, and in short, we LIVE. Books are life. So after two 23rd April pandemics, and the last one between hail, rain, and wind, I hope that this Sunday will be sunny, the streets will be packed, and that we all buy more than one book. It can be any book, but if you also choose one of ours, those of the SB team, Sant Jordi couldn’t be better.

Happy Book Day! Here is our link, and don’t forget to follow us on social media to find out where the protagonists of the day, the authors, will be. Come to get their signature and live with us a little piece of this magical day.

Sant Jordi’s signatures of our authors

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I have always been fond of the radio. A means of communication that I love and with which I have grown up, because my grandparents always had the radio on, and even went to sleep with it. It was an endearing companion for them, and the different voices that filled the afternoons and evenings always made me feel comfortable. The radio meant being at home, and with my grandparents. When Gaspar Hernández explained to me that he was going to write his most personal book and that radio had a lot to do with it, I knew I would like it. It is the radio memoirs of a precocious radio broadcaster, since Gaspar started at the age of nine, when his father, an electrician, set up a home radio station for him. Thanks to the radio, he overcame his shyness. Since then, for more than forty years, Gaspar has spoken almost every day into a microphone. He wanted to pay tribute to the radio and the spoken voice, at a time when, thanks to podcasts, it is once again taking centre stage.

Perhaps the voice is the true mirror of the soul. A novel where sensitivity is always present and the reader enters into it almost without embellishment.

In the publishing world, trends exist, too, and some believe that the historical thriller will be a trending topic again in no time, because fashions make comebacks, and the publishing world is pendular. Even though romantic comedies are at the head of the game right now, readers of historical thrillers are eagerly awaiting a great novel. Well, this is it.  LA TIERRA DEL SILENCIO ROTO by Cristina Fornós hides a secret in the Carthusian Monastery of Escaladei. A gripping historical thriller full of atmosphere, mystery, and conspiracies. Readers of LA CATEDRAL DEL MAR and Dan Brown have a safe bet with this new voice.

Montsant, 2019. The appearance of the corpse of Jaume Folch, patriarch of a wine dynasty in the vicinity of Escaladei, brings the authorities to the normally peaceful area. The victim’s throat had been slit, and a symbol engraved with a knife on his chest. The notoriety of the Folch name and the cruelty of the murder demand a quick and discreet investigation, which is assigned to the inspector of the Mossos d’Esquadra (local police) Víctor Sanz Gimeno.

Sagi, the nickname by which everyone knows the inspector, along with the young journalist who discovers the body and who always seems to be one step ahead, will not only uncover the rivalries of the Folch family, but also a legend about a secret brotherhood dating back to the fifteenth century.

A novel with all the ingredients to entertain, to make known an area of Catalonia located in Morera de Montsant, in the region of El Priorat. Founded in the 12th century, Escaladei is considered the first Carthusian monastery in the Iberian Peninsula. Ideal for readers to visit it, after a thrilling reading, and then taste its famous wines.
Let’s give opportunities to new voices that deserve it, and that also uncover a place full of secrets.