1. Spanish Narrative
A fable in the forest, a situational comedy, a look at the outskirts and the stories of Eider Rodríguez
Antonio Marcos. Librería Letras Corsarias (Salamanca)
Joi
Ángela Segovia
Drawings by Javier Tortosa. La Uña Rota, 2026. 300 pages. 19 euros
Ángela Segovia transfers the dark shine of her latest poetic trajectory to narrative. She writes from images that emit a mysterious glow and magnetize everything around them. This fable about a girl lost in a forest takes us back to the fantasy of medieval tales, to the fragility and loss of innocence, to the act of writing as pain and epiphany. A strange, intense, and feverish beauty.
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The Bosses
Esther García Llovet
Anagrama, 2026. 160 pages. 18.90 euros
It is the stylization of the Llovet style: brief, elliptical, precise, full of rhythm and lightness, a permanent escape from the commonplace. Here she writes a kind of situational comedy in a luxury hotel, with those characters so her own, always on the run. Her literature puts you in that kind of good humor that arises from recognizing someone else’s intelligence.
> Review by Ana Rodríguez Fischer
Hunting Dogs
Borja Navarro
Malas Tierras, 2026. 152 pages. 18.50 euros
A hallucinatory look at the outskirts contained in inland Spain, places that have become much less: industrial ruins, alienated mythologies, territories impregnated with hidden threat. An emotional and rough topography of decay that moves away from any local color through powerful metaphor and horror story. Fear of returning to the village.
It Was All the Same Hole
Eider Rodríguez
Translation by Ander Izaguirre. Random House, 2026. 148 pages. 17.95 euros
Eider Rodríguez once again demonstrates, after the magnificent novel Material de construcción, that she handles like no one else the invisible tension of contemporary personal, family, and love relationships. Her stories shine with that condensation that does not seek fireworks. They already have enough fire inside.
> Review by Noelia Ramírez
Ark
Ricardo Menéndez Salmón
Seix Barral, 2026. 472 pages. 22.90 euros
This is Ricardo Menéndez Salmón’s most ambitious work. A philosophical novel that relies on literary genres to offer a ghostly vision of the present, its condition as a permanent glitch, where it rescues what still makes us human at a time when nothing is as it was but has not yet become something else. A kind of found object, anachronistic, built with brilliant language work.
Trips and Flowers
Mercè Rodoreda
Translation by Gala Sicart Olavide. Edhasa, 2026. 144 pages. 21.50 euros
Within the very broad and celebrated reissue of Mercè Rodoreda’s work by various publishers, Trips and Flowers gathers two collections of stories written between Geneva and the last years in Romanyà de la Selva, published only three years before her death. There is concentrated that style with which she so well portrayed the human condition, between lyricism, humor, and harshness.
> Article by Álex Vicente
2. Latin American Narrative
From a chronicle in Chile to the exodus in Mexico or Uruguay in the feminine
Cristina Sanmamed and Álvaro Muñoz. La Puerta de Tannhäuser (Plasencia, Cáceres)
I Like It This Way
Erika Paula Curbelo
Sigilo, 2026. 160 pages. 18 euros
Erika Paula Curbelo is one of the most acclaimed Uruguayan authors today. This novel, published in Spain in January 2026, explores female freedom and sexuality. It portrays complex, sometimes surreal situations experienced by different young women who face an exhausting work world and a love life without filters or embellishments every day.
The Landscape Is a Scream
Eduardo Ruiz Sosa
Candaya, 2026. 400 pages. 21 euros
This is the fourth novel by Mexican Eduardo Ruiz Sosa published by Candaya in Spain. From the first pages, the plot takes us to the Sierra Madre desert and we will travel with three characters who seek and long for freedom and a dignified life. Mexican writer Eduardo Ruiz Sosa explores the limits of violence, identity, revenge, and the ghosts of the past.
> Review by Nadal Suau
The Thresholds
Liliana Muñoz
Tránsito, 2026. 176 pages. 18 euros
It is a novel and also a hybrid between personal chronicle, essay, and memory. Its narrative thread brings us closer to endearing and fragile characters. Chilean author Liliana Muñoz talks about memory and the hard effort to rescue memories, sometimes erased, by the inevitable passage of time.
No One Will See Me Cry
Cristina Rivera Garza
Random House, 2026. 296 pages. 18.91 euros
Cristina Rivera Garza is one of the most read and acclaimed Mexican authors of contemporary Latin American narrative. Written in 1999, No One Will See Me Cry was reissued in March 2026. It narrates from memories and desires, speaks of carnal sin and madness. The characters appearing in the novel, marginalized and forgotten by society, have much to tell us.
> Interview with Cristina Rivera Garza. By Almudena Barragán
3. Translated Narrative
From the rescue of memory in Albania to a satire of the United States
Ramon Llull Team. Llibreria Ramon Llull (Valencia)
Raw Material
Jörg Fauser
Translation by Carlos Fortea. Sajalín, 2026. 296 pages. 21.50 euros
Shortly before dying prematurely, Jörg Fauser took up his favorite weapon, a typewriter, to tell about his crazy years in culturally effervescent Germany of the sixties, caught between his multiple addictions, the desire to become a writer, and the chronicle of an underworld as fascinating as it was terrible.
A Warning
Jane Smiley
Translation by Ce Santiago. Sexto Piso, 2026. 596 pages. 28.90 euros
With A Warning, Jane Smiley confirms that she is a gifted narrator in the art of combining a panorama of United States history with the dramas and small joys of a North American family she dissects, accompanies, and portrays with brilliant prose and a deeply human gaze.
Indignity
Lea Ypi
Translation by Albert Fuentes. Anagrama, 2026. 392 pages. 21.90 euros
Political Theory professor Lea Ypi wonders in this book if, when talking about her ancestors, mainly her grandmother, it is possible to find the truth, to rescue memory. After discovering that her grandmother is unjustly labeled as a communist and Marxist, Ypi reviews an era that no longer exists, a literary exercise bordering on essay: a philosophical reflection on freedom, with clear political references, seeking in the roots of the past to give meaning to her present.
> Review by Máriam Martínez-Bascuñán
> Interview with Lea Ypi. By Andrea Aguilar
The Master of the Yard
Tristan Egolf
Translation by Jaime Zulaika Goicoechea. Seix Barral, 2026. 536 pages. 23.90 euros
Through his eccentric protagonist, Kaltenbrunner, Tristan Egolf explores the rotten heart of American society. With a torrential and overflowing style, he turns the fury of the forgotten into a fierce mix of satire, violence, disenchantment, politics, and alienation. A wild and unforgettable novel originally published in 1998.
> Review by Laura Fernández
4. Poetry
The fragility of the body in the poems of Maite Dono and the raw verses of Ted Hughes
Pino Maio. Enclave de Libros (Madrid)
Arrow of Us
Mariano Peyrou
Pre-Textos, 2026. 66 pages. 13 euros
Poetry moves towards an exploration of shared experience, where thought, perception, and affective bond intertwine in sober and rhythmic writing. The poems turn the everyday into an inquiry about how others shape our consciousness of time, language, and ourselves.
Poor Nymph
Maite Dono
La Uña Rota, 2026. 176 pages. 17 euros
The fragility of the body and desire become poetic thought material, where identity and language tense in visionary intensity writing. The poems traverse a rough beauty, inhabited by exposure and loss, transforming vulnerability into a form of knowledge, revelation, and resistance to the given.
The Learned Sister
Ana Martín Puigpelat
Bartleby, 2025. 78 pages. 13.30 euros
Family memory unfolds as a living territory where identity is built among inherited affections, silences, and absences. The poems trace an intimacy in constant elaboration, in which the figure of the sister functions as a mirror, fissure, and emotional learning, revealing how the bond can also be a form of knowledge and strangeness.
The Raven
Ted Hughes
Bilingual edition by Jordi Doce. Kriller71 Ediciones, 2025. 402 pages. 23.50 euros
The reissue of Crow recovers a key work to understand the break of contemporary lyric poetry with confessional subjectivity. Its rough voice articulates fable and violence, dismantling cultural myths and proposing a primitive imagination that, operating between language, creation, and destruction, configures an implacable and visionary logic.
5. Essay
Xenophobia as a cultural construct, and slavery as the root of the industrial revolution
Paco Goyanes. Librería Cálamo (Zaragoza)
Of Fear and Foreigners. A History of Xenophobia
George Makari
Translation by Ricardo García Pérez. Sexto Piso, 2026. 441 pages. 28.90 euros
It would be good if those who happily support the concept of “national priority” in parliaments and town halls read this magnificent historical and intellectual journey through the origin and evolution of fear of the “other.” George Makari, psychiatrist and historian of ideas, traces how xenophobia is not an inevitable instinct but a cultural and political construction, which opens the door to questioning and combating it.
Born in Blackness. Africa, Africans, and the Construction of the Modern World, from 1471 to World War II
Howard W. French
Translation by Maximiliano Gonnet. Katz Editores, 2025. 528 pages. 27 euros
Africa played a leading role in the construction of modernity. The first impulse of European exploration was to take over the black societies of West Africa. Their riches financed expeditions to Asia and the New World; slavery fueled the capital accumulation that made the Industrial Revolution possible. An essay that bears the quality mark of Katz Editores.
Against Discontent. For an Alliance to Build Desirable Futures
Cristina Monge
Paidós, 2026. 251 pages. 19.90 euros
Seeing what we see and hearing what we hear, it is complicated to maintain optimism in this world that seems to plunge day by day into the abyss of horrors. Therefore, Cristina Monge’s effort to offer a critical but hopeful reading of the collective malaise that crosses our democracies is appreciated. And to do so by offering alternatives, which is what it is about. As the author reminds us, the future is not written: it is in our hands to write it.
> Interview with Cristina Monge. By Berna González Harbour
Complete Essays
Jorge Luis Borges
Alfaguara, 2026. 864 pages. 25.55 euros
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the death of the Argentine genius, the entirety of his essayistic work is reissued in a single volume, composed of nine memorable books full of intelligence, wisdom, beauty, curiosity, originality… a wonderful literary lesson.
6. Comics
A Persian girl, a legendary ‘crossover’ and Lucas’s stellar problems
Sergio López. Nostromo Comics (Sevilla)
Lucas Wars. Episode II
Laurent Hopman and Renaud Roche
Translation by Eva Reyes de Uña. Norma Editorial, 2026. 208 pages. 32 euros
French authors Hopman and Roche tell us again the story of how George Lucas made The Empire Strikes Back after the overwhelming success of Star Wars. We will discover all the behind-the-scenes of the filming narrated sequentially as if we lived the day-to-day of the recording and get to know very thoroughly everything that happened and the great difficulties they had to overcome during production and filming. If you like cinema, you will fall in love with this graphic novel.
The Battle of the Century: Superman vs the Amazing Spiderman
Ross Andru and Gerry Conway
Translation by Santiago García. Panini Comics, 2026. 96 pages. 23.75 euros
After many years, this long-awaited reissue of the first official crossover between Marvel and DC Comics characters arrives, first published in 1976 and whose last edition in Spain is over 30 years old. This huge edition published at the end of April has become one of the most desired comics of 2026 for being one of the most iconic stories in the superhero world.
Tied Dogs. Volume II
Irra
Mondo Cane Books, 2025. 152 pages. 23.75 euros
Irra is one of the most admired Spanish authors by readers. You should know in advance that opening any of his works will take you to something very different from everything you have read before. On this occasion, he presents his most futuristic work, set in a city built inside a building where the most powerful will continue tormenting its protagonist, a poor locksmith.
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia 1
Tomato Soup
Translation by Nuria Cimas Pita (Daruma Serveis Lingüistics). Panini Comics, 2026. 192 pages. 14.20 euros
Jaadugar tells us a fascinating story about the life of Fatima, a Persian girl who, being a victim of the slave trade in a bazaar, ends up with a Persian family that instills in her the values of study and how important they are for daily life and which she will use, as a means of survival, when the Mongol empire captures her once it invades ancient Persia.
7. History
The mistake of forgetting the fascist past and the origin of all languages
Fausto Puerto. Món de Llibres (Manacor, Balearic Islands)
Irresponsible. Who Brought Hitler to Power?
Johann Chapoutot
Translation by Elena M. Cano and Íñigo Sánchez-Paños. Alianza Editorial, 2026. 352 pages. 21.95 euros
Els irresponsables. Qui va portar Hitler al poder? (in Catalan). Translation by Andreu Gomila. Angle, 2026. 384 pages. 21.95 euros
It has become a commonplace to seek analogies about the authoritarian and illiberal drift of the present in the fascist past of the early 20th century. But perhaps few authors have achieved the depth and impact of the French Johann Chapoutot, from whom we now receive the translation of his latest book, whose subtitle could not be clearer.
> Review by Guillermo Altares
Mother Tongue
Laura Spinney
Translation by Yolanda Fontal Rueda. Crítica, 2026. 352 pages. 21.90 euros
Surely, knowledge is the best bet against irrationality, as shown by British science communicator Laura Spinney. After her anticipatory monograph on the Spanish flu, with Mother Tongue, she breaks stereotypes to show us how our original speech “was a hybrid spread by migrants.”
Redeem and Indoctrinate
Carmen Guillén Lorente
Crítica, 2026. 272 pages. 21.90 euros
Closer is the investigation by Murcian Carmen Guillén about an institution dedicated to the punishment and submission of Spanish women, especially if they came from the lower class: Redeem and Indoctrinate. The Patronage for the Protection of Women (1941-1985). Despite operating for more than forty years, the little relevance given so far to this particular repressive mechanism is surprising.
> Review by Berna González Harbour
The Strange Defeat
Marc Bloch
Translation by Santiago Jordán Sempere. Crítica, 2026. 256 pages. 18.90 euros
Finally, it is worth returning to this classic of historiography written by the French Marc Bloch, again recovered. The strange defeat appears to us as the last legacy of a referential author both in his professional commitment to the historical discipline and in his fidelity to democratic values.
> Article by Gutmaro Gómez Bravo
8. Biographies and Memoirs
Life and work of queens, poets, philosophers, and writers
Daniel Rosino. Librería Walden (Pamplona)
Jovellanos. Enlightenment for Spaniards
Benigno Pendás
Taurus, 2026. 568 pages. 23.65 euros
Jovellanos fills a gap in the bibliography about our main 18th-century citizen, whom he presents more like a tireless engineer than a salon philosopher, an honest politician with irresolvable contradictions, a thinker, perhaps of Jansenist inspiration, free and fair when he writes: “Nothing is so dangerous, both in morals and politics, as touching the extremes.” With a vibrant style, sometimes ironic, Pendás, seriously documented about the Asturian, disproves the cliché that holds that there was no Enlightenment in Spain and immerses us in a century that points, with ups and downs, towards modernity.
Urraca. A Queen on a King’s Throne
Sonia Vital Fernández
Desperta Ferro, 2026. 408 pages. 27.95 euros
Urraca restores to the first titular queen of medieval Europe her distinctly feminine character and government, qualifying ancient sources in light of new perspectives and synthesizing the political complexity of the 12th-century peninsular kingdoms.
It Has Everything
Andrés Trapiello
Ediciones del Arrabal, 2026. 448 pages. 32.90 euros
Twenty-fifth volume of the Salón de Pasos Perdidos, the diaries where the acts, thoughts, feelings, and dreams of the writer in 2011 flow, like a river delta, with his usual melancholic, sometimes mischievous, good-humored, always poetic gaze, among government changes, portraits, walks, protests, readings… and the Extremaduran countryside.
Life of Rainer Maria Rilke
Antonio Pau
Trotta, 2026. 542 pages. 51 euros
Life of Rainer Maria Rilke. Beauty and Horror, Antonio Pau (Trotta), a great connoisseur of German history and poetry, introduces us to the life and work of the Prague poet, wisely contextualizing his verses, which he himself translates, following his trail across half of Europe and inspired by his extensive and moving correspondence.
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9. Philosophy
The modern nuns of the Baroque and a mythical cartography of the Greeks
Eloisa Faltoni. Alibri Llibreria (Barcelona)
Zohar. Book of Splendor
Anonymous
Introductory essay and edition: Lola Josa. Atalanta, 2026. 384 pages. 27 euros
Zohar: Book of Splendor, in the exquisite selection and translation by Lola Josa, brings us closer to one of the fundamental texts of the Kabbalah. More than a simple anthology, this edition allows us to glimpse an ancestral knowledge hidden for centuries and discover, in an accessible and deeply beautiful way, the heart of Jewish mysticism.
> Review by Juan Arnau
Instruction of Novices
Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita
Blackie Books, 2026. 288 pages. 22 euros
With Instruction of Novices, Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita recover the voices of Spanish Baroque nuns to show how much their reflections still dialogue with our present. Intelligent, original, and full of discoveries, the book combines dissemination, humor, and academic rigor with great naturalness.
> Article by Silvia Hernando
Mysticism. The Experience of Ecstasy
Simon Critchley
Translation by Julio Hermoso. Sexto Piso, 2025. 320 pages. 24.90 euros
In Mysticism. The Experience of Ecstasy, Simon Critchley redefines the concept of mystical experience, distancing it from traditional religious clichés. Through figures as diverse as Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart, or T. S. Eliot, he constructs a lucid and surprisingly close essay on the contemporary need for contemplation and transcendence.
> Article by Silvia Hernando
Mythological Atlas of Greece
Pedro Olalla
Forewords by Javier Reverte and Mario Agudo. Eclecta, 2026. 670 pages. 49 euros
Finally, Mythological Atlas of Greece, by Pedro Olalla —first published in Greece in 2001, translated in Spain in 2002 and now revised and updated— transforms classical mythology into an almost physical experience: a monumental atlas that connects gods, heroes, and legends with the real landscapes where they were born.
10. Economy
A history without forgetting women and the importance of cognitive biases
Sergio Treviño and Carlos Iglesias. Ecobook (Madrid)
Radical Uncertainty
John Kay and Mervyn King
Innecesaria Editorial, 2025. 480 pages. 21.75 euros
Highly anticipated translation and magnificent debut of a publisher to watch in the future. Prestigious economists John Kay and Mervyn King masterfully address the topic on which the world of economics, politics, and finance pivots: uncertainty is the daily bread in today’s world, unpredictable events follow one after another, and the authors advocate for a more human decision-making process against the false precision of modern economic models, whose inefficacy has unfortunately been demonstrated in recent years.
The Iberian Outsiders
Christian Freischütz and Pablo Martínez Bernal
Ecobook, 2026. 182 pages. 19.95 euros
Inspired by William Thorndike’s successful The Outsiders, Christian Freischütz and Pablo Martínez have coordinated this choral book with the invaluable help of specialized managers and analysts with the firm purpose that these eight Iberian success cases inspire and guide all readers on what these management teams have done well, why capital allocation has been so positive and at the same time decisive in their good stock market performance. Focusing on the quality of management teams is, thanks to Thorndike and his dissemination work, more sensible and profitable for investors. A valuation of our companies and managers that have nothing to envy to those of the rest of the world.
Economic. A Global History of Women, Wealth, and Poverty
Victoria Bateman
Translation by Isabel Fuentes. Ático de los Libros, 2026. 504 pages. 29.95 euros
Victoria Bateman, economic historian, feminist, and professor at Oxford and Cambridge universities, reivindicates the great forgotten women of economic progress, from courtesans, inventors, or bankers to miners, scribes, or maids, always in the shadow of the male figure and relegated to a secondary role. This newly translated and magnificently edited book, as usual in the Ático de los Libros publishing house, tells us the history of the economy from the Stone Age to our 21st century, focusing on the women who contributed, drove, and were key in economic development. Essential.
The Winner’s Curse
Richard H. Thaler and Alex O. Imas
Translation by Isabel García Cutillas. Deusto, 2026. 368 pages. 22.95 euros
Foundational and fundamental texts that introduced readers to economic psychology, the articles collected in this book were published more than thirty years ago and revised in 2025 so that Deusto publishing house recovers this classic in April of the current year. Richard H. Thaler, along with Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, challenged the economic models of the time and introduced irrationality and cognitive biases as the basis of economics.
11. Science
About hares, a woman who lives in trees, and a heart that feels
Lola Larumbe. Librería Rafael Alberti (Madrid)
The Treewalker
Meg Lowman
Translation by Teresa Bailach Arrate. Galaxia Gutenberg, 2026. 480 pages. 24.90 euros
In The Baron in the Trees, by Italo Calvino, Cosimo de Rondó, a twelve-year-old boy, rebels against family imposition by climbing an oak tree and living immersed in nature. Similarly, botanist and environmental activist Meg Lowman, with her own climbing team, one day decides to climb to the tops of large trees to understand the ecology of jungles and forests. Her mechanical designs of paths and walkways over the treetops have facilitated the exploration of the so-called “eighth continent.” Curiosity since childhood has been the engine of her development as a scientist. A book of memory and beloved trees, of awareness and reflection on the global climate crisis, which can restore the ancestral dream of returning to our place of origin, the top of a tree.
The Hare and I
Chloe Dalton
Translation by Celia Filipetto. Libros del Asteroide, 2026. 256 pages. 21.95 euros
Recently, fortunately, books narrating encounters and coexistence with wild animals are being published. Magpies or hawks treated as mediums or pets with their own names. It is a noble and natural impulse; we humanize everything we touch. But the wild is not very fond of domestic tenderness. Chloe Dalton takes in an abandoned leveret to survive and be returned to its environment without interfering with its condition as a free living being. With delicate and precise writing, The Hare and I brings us closer to the knowledge of a species that, despite its population having decreased by up to 80% in Great Britain, is still considered only a piece of “hunting interest.”
Alive. An Alternative Anatomy of the Human Body
Gabriel Weston
Translation by Aurora Echevarría Pérez. Salamandra, 2026. 256 pages. 19.95 euros
This London surgeon was bad at math and science in school. At sixteen, she gave up and decided to study Language and Literature, among other things, because it was the easiest for her. She discovered her love for anatomy through passionate stories of operations and organs she heard one day from a friend’s doctor father. Perhaps the possible scientific vocation of humanities students has been underestimated for not having the necessary grades. Dr. Weston studied medicine out of admiration for the human body as a whole entity, beyond pure mechanics. A good popular science book (well, any book) must convey the excitement of discovery and observation. Alive combines the literary vocation and scientific knowledge of this surgeon who, like Cavafy, tells us: “Remember body.”
> Interview with Gabriel Weston. By Anatxu Zabalbeascoa
The Magic Moment
Marcus Chown
Translation by Francisco J. Ramos Mena. Blackie Books, 2026. 352 pages. 18.90 euros
Neptune was discovered in 1846 almost at the exact point in the night sky where French astronomer Le Verrier had previously calculated it should be. The essential magic of science lies in its predictive capacity. A magic ball to know, for example, the repetition of eclipses, the mechanics of tides, or the existence of black holes in the universe. In this book, Marcus Chown narrates, sometimes novelistically, the stories of some of the wonderful minds that have demonstrated having that magic wand.
> Article by Montero Glez
12. Art
The Italian Renaissance, the ideas of John Berger, and even the theater of Yasmina Reza
Alba Romero. Isla Negra Books & Arts (Málaga)
The Quattrocento
Rafael Argullol
Acantilado, 2025. 192 pages. 14 euros
A rigorous rereading of the Italian Quattrocento, the setting of the aesthetic transformation that closes the Middle Ages and inaugurates the Renaissance. With great synthesis capacity, this brief essay addresses the emergence of the Homo novus, the refoundation of the canon of harmonic beauty, and the affirmation of the autonomy of the creative genius, processes that redefine artistic sensitivity and shape the modern gaze.
> Interview with Rafael Argullol. By Borja Hermoso
Life of Painters (Expelled from Paradise)
José María Herrera
Ediciones De Aquí, 2026. 248 pages. 29.90 euros
José María Herrera traces a select constellation of biographies of 20th-century artists, united by a common figurative poetics, conceived as a vehicle for aesthetic and ideological formulation. The essay examines how the turbulent historical and social contexts of the period shaped their visual universes, giving rise to plastic languages of symbolic complexity and extensive cultural reach.
Encounters and Farewells
John Berger
Translation by José Luis Moreno-Ruiz. Alianza, 2026. 312 pages. 20.95 euros
A book that challenges us as readers and spectators. Upon entering its pages, it is difficult not to recognize oneself in John Berger’s reflections. From a suggestive selection of images, these texts unfold an exuberant range of thoughts, emotions, and memories. An intimate work that naturally connects artistic inquiry with everyday life experience.
Art
Yasmina Reza
Translation by Josep Maria Flotats. Anagrama, 2026. 104 pages. 18.90 euros
Anagrama reissues in its Panorama de Narrativas this sharp sociological satire premiered in 1994 in Paris, later translated and directed in 1998 in Madrid by José María Flotats. Three friends confront a conceptual artwork that operates as an implacable mirror. What begins as an aesthetic dispute turns into a sharp examination of social status and the fragility of friendship bonds.
13. Music
A comic girl band, Josele Santiago confesses, and the legendary punk photos of 1977
Joan Redolat and Oliver Mancebo. Llibreria Sonora (Barcelona)
What a Song Lasts
Quico Rivas
Colectivo Bruxista, 2026. 1648 pages. 18.50 euros
The legacy of the ineffable Quico Rivas expands with the publication of his first (and only) novel. An autobiographical text, finished in 1980 and believed lost. A raw and luminous coming-of-age set in psychedelic Seville of 1968.
From the Mattress
Josele Santiago
Foreword by Miqui Otero. Contra, 2026. 384 pages. 21.76 euros
The media noise has reviewed the memoirs of the leader of Los Enemigos from his (overcome) heroin addiction. We stay with the horde of kids with Down syndrome who booed his band for not knowing the song of David the Gnome, the Almerians stubborn that they played songs from Los Negativos, and the Asturian who devoured the song list, among other hilarious anecdotes narrated with a hoarse voice.
Cols. The B Side
Olivia and Clara Cábez
Autsaider Cómics, 2026. 120 pages. 20 euros
With their fanzine, the Madrid sisters portrayed the daily life of the Gookie, the band of a blonde, a brunette, and a redhead, all with hyper-dimensioned quiffs. Now, their debut in the ISBN world comes from (in our humble opinion) the best comic publisher in the country. Viral scatological challenges, churro shops sponsoring tours, drugged robots, free rides in right-wing bars, and secret gambling in the Barcelona metro. Awesome!
Punk
Salvador Costa
Munster, 2026. 120 pages. 25 euros
Published at the end of 1977, it was the first photo book to document the zenith of this subculture. Published by Star Books, the book acquired a pseudo-mythical status when it went out of print. Almost half a century later (and after reaching astronomical prices) it is available again thanks to Munster Records in an updated edition that includes unpublished photos, as well as brief texts and comments from members of Gen X, Eater, The Models, and others portrayed.
14. Cinema
Martel’s discourse, Bergman’s phobias, Almodóvar’s creativity, Almendros’s cinema…
María Silveyro. Librería Ocho y Medio (Madrid)
A Common Destiny
Lucrecia Martel
Caja Negra, 2025. 224 pages. 21.85 euros
In ten lectures and different public meetings held between 2009 and 2025, Argentine director Lucrecia Martel shares the resources that compose her cinema. It is not a usual film manual nor about her movies, but starts from her cinematographic practice to propose new discourses in times of closed and authoritarian discourses. Very interesting exchanges with filmmaker César González, director Carla Simón, and Leila Guerriero as a counterpoint around artistic creation.
> Interview with Lucrecia Martel. By Elena San José
Bitter Christmas
Pedro Almodóvar
Reservoir Books, 2026. 224 pages. 20.81 euros
Careful edition of the script of the director Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film, accompanied by a very interesting appendix with comments on his creative process and filming. It is complemented with different images, frames, a sample of the storyboard, and an emotional letter as an epilogue signed by writer Gustavo Martín Garzo.
> Interview with Pedro Almodóvar. By Álex Vicente
Ingmar Bergman. The Cinema of Scars
Lucía Tello Díaz
Sílex Ediciones, 2026. 432 pages. 22.80 euros
After reading this volume, one will understand how the phobias and obsessions of the Swedish director marked his career. The Cinema of Scars operates inversely to the entirety of the bibliography revolving around Bergman, analyzing the dialogues of his films regarding the themes that obsessed him as a person: religion, sexuality, violence, death…
Days of a Camera
Néstor Almendros
ECAM / DAMA, 2026. 448 pages. 23 euros
Out of print for many years, these memoirs written by cinematographer Néstor Almendros can be considered a history of cinema. With a very interesting note from editor Carlos F. Heredero about this new publication, a preface by François Truffaut, and an initial chapter with the author’s considerations about his craft, it continues with a journey through the places where he lived and trained to finally focus on his professional life, analyzing it film by film.
15. Children
Thoughts uncovered, amazing story records, and a cannibal worm
Celia Blanco. Librería El Bosque de la Maga Colibrí (Gijón, Asturias)
From the Branch to the Forest
Ángeles Quinteros and Ángeles Vargas
Thule, 2025. 48 pages. 14.95 euros. From 4 years old
One thorn, one hundred thorns. Rose, cactus, porcupine. A word and number game as surprising as it is poetic that invites looking at what surrounds us with different eyes and continuing to make connections beyond the book. The fresh illustrations, with vibrant colors, complete this original and intelligent proposal with a great sense of humor. [Also in Catalan]
Once Upon a Time… Story Records
Laura Ortega Vesga and Anna Aparicio Català
Flamboyant, 2026. 64 pages. 19.90 euros. From 7 years old
Fable cabaret: classic characters parade in a gala of impossible records —the smallest shoe, the tallest bean— and reveal their little greatness with irony and tenderness. A book full of curiosities that cleverly brings to the stage the stories that have accompanied us since time immemorial.
In the End, I’ll Eat You
David Duff and Marianna Coppo
Translation by Núria Molines. Andana, 2026. 48 pages. From 4 years old
With pastel-toned, minimalist, and expressive illustrations, In the End, I’ll Eat You tells the story of Frank, a worm who loses his friend to a stomp from a clumsy dinosaur. To his astonishment, instead of crying, he eats him. A decision that, far from being macabre, is part of the life cycle. Absurdity, friendship, and cosmic revenge, a very recommendable combination of black humor and tenderness. [Also in Catalan]
What Are You Thinking About?
Laurent Moreau
Kókinos, 2026. 44 pages. 16.90 euros. From 4 years old
What is Rosalía thinking about? And Guillermo? Open the flaps to hear the intimate thoughts of the characters: adventures, dreams, desires… With minimal text and imaginative illustrations, play and conversation are guaranteed. And you, what are you thinking about? Reissue of the volume published in 2011.
16. Young Adult
Choose your own adventure, a classic of ‘cozy fantasy’ and the return of Melusina
Alba Blanco. Librería Seijas (Pontevedra)
Witches & Dragons: Baba Yaga
Ledicia Costas and Luismi Pérez
Illustrations by Bea Gregores. Triqueta Verde, 2025. 300 pages. 18.95 euros
A gamebook that recovers the tradition of “choose your own adventure” novels with a twist and can be a very good gateway to role-playing games. Choose between the path of magic or the path of the sword to help Polvídea. Will you be up to the task? It also features the incredible illustrations of Bea Gregores.
Phantom Lines
Katya Balen
Translation by Laura Naranjo Gutiérrez. Errata Naturae, 2026. 224 pages. 20.50 euros
Tilda has two days to convince the newcomer Albie how amazing her island is; two days to swim in the fairy pool, visit the seal beach, sneak into a forbidden island, and repair two hearts damaged by loss
Melusina or the Nature of Fairies
Concha Pasamar
Bookolia, 2025. 96 pages.
Concha Pasamar is well known for her work as an illustrator, but in this book, she also shows us her facet as a linguist and folklore lover by recovering the medieval figure of Melusina: a woman who, turned into a serpentine hybrid for love, must remain hidden to avoid perpetuating her transformation. A very careful edition, full of splendid two-tone illustrations
The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
Patricia A. McKillip
Translation by Rebeca Cardeñoso. Duermevela, 2026. 276 pages. 19 euros
Duermevela publishing house reissues a classic fantasy work in a truly special edition: hardcover, golden details, and beautiful illustrations by Portuguese artist María Matos, which perfectly accompany the author’s slow and local prose, a reference of cozy fantasy.
