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‘Uppsala Woods’ by Álvaro Colomer (Review)
It’s a big welcome to the blog to Hispabooks, a new publisher specialising in translations of contemporary Spanish literature. I was lucky enough to receive a couple of review copies from them...
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‘The Happy City’ by Elvira Navarro (Review)
January’s over, and it’s time to put away the J-Lit and return to the wider world of translated literature. We’re making a start with that today, courtesy of a novel I received for review a while...
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‘Paris’ by Marcos Giralt Torrente (Review)
Time for my second contribution to Spanish-Language Literature Month, and today’s offering is from a publisher who deserve to be highlighted this month. Hispabooks is a fairly recent addition to the...
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‘Antón Mallick Wants to Be Happy’ by Nicolás Casariego (Review)
Some of you will have seen the recent posts on my visit to the Melbourne Writers Festival, and as I said in the first of those posts, the main reason I went was to catch up with Spanish writer Nicolás...
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‘Rain Over Madrid’ by Andrés Barba (Review)
Despite the best worst combined efforts of Royal Mail and Australia Post, I recently received some more reading fare from the wonderful Hispabooks. The first of the three is by a writer who was...
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‘The Stein Report’ by José Carlos Llop (Review)
While my recent Japan-themed reading has left a stack of review copies languishing on the shelves, including several fairly thick books, sometimes you’re just in the mood for something a little lighter...
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‘Woman in Darkness’ by Luisgé Martín (Review)
So far for Spanish-Language Literature Month, I’ve looked at two writers whose work I hadn’t previously tried, and that trend continues today with a third new discovery. The publisher, however, is...
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‘A Man of His Word’ by Imma Monsó (Review)
One of the writers I saw at last year’s Melbourne Writers Festival was Spanish author Nicolás Casariego, but the discussion about his book Antón Mallick Wants to Be Happy was actually a last-minute...
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‘August, October’ by Andrés Barba / ‘The Same City’ by Luisgé Martín (Review)
Hispabooks, a Madrid-based press specialising in translations of literary fiction from the four official languages of Spain, has been around for a few years now and has introduced several interesting...
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