Books

A Body in Barcelona is a novel featuring a major terrorist attack organised by secret strata of the Spanish state in alliance with ultra-rightists nostalgic for Franco, in order to head off a Catalan Unilateral Declaration of Independence.

October 1, 2017, the General Strike against repression two days later, the Declaration of Independence and the December elections organised by Rajoy after imposing Direct Rule are the vivid contents of Catalonia Reborn

The Struggle for Catalonia is based on Minder’s experience as a journalist and some 200 interviews with politicians, singers, migrants, historians, campaigners, shop-keepers, journalists, academics and many others, from Jaime Mayor Oreja to Nachat el Hachmi.

Zoltan Nagy’s book, Reinas de Copas, describes the profiles of 50 women connected to wine production in Spain, some 23 of whom are Catalan

Joan Sales wrote only two novels. The translation of his classic Incerta glòria (Uncertain Glory, 1971) was reviewed in Catalonia Today in October 2014. Winds of the Night is the sequel and, though it can be read independently, gains in interest if you have read Incerta glòria first

Autumn sees new books by Vicenç Pagès, Jordi Puntí and Lluís Llach, while among the most anticipated foreign authors are Paul Auster, Arundhati Roy and Ken Follet