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  • From the Imp’s Archives
    Rafael Dieste / Jonathan Dunne
    Rafael Dieste (Rianxo, 1899-Santiago de Compostela, 1981) stands alongside such names as Castelao, Álvaro Cunqueiro and Ánxel Fole as a classic of twentieth-century Galician literature. He wrote in both the Galician and Spanish languages and is best known for his short stories, of which he published two collections: one in Galician - From the Imp’s Archives (Dos arquivos do tra...
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    22,38 €

  • You Survived?
    Fina Casalderrey / Jonathan Dunne
    Francisco Sánchez Loiro, 'Moni' to his friends, is having problems at school. The teachers find him aggressive, and he keeps being called into the director’s office. He is studying Hostelry and Tourism and has had to repeat the second year of vocational training. It’s not that he’s not talented, he just can’t be bothered to apply himself. He also likes to swear a lot. The only ...
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    19,03 €

  • The Sun of Summer
    Carlos Casares / Jonathan Dunne
    The Sun of Summer is the Ourense writer Carlos Casares’s final work and was published only a month after his death on 9 March 2002. It is a lyrical, retrospective novel narrated in the voice of a young woman named Helena. She recalls her childhood playing games with Carlos in the grounds of the family home in Beiro, a village north of Ourense where the author used to spend his ...
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    22,12 €

  • The Proper Painting
    Fabio Rivas / Jonathan Dunne
    A painter, Xabier Nóvoa, who can only paint if he has a live model in front of him. A maid, Carmiña, who is queen of the washing place. A pickpocket, Inés, who knows how to catch eels. A stepfather, Pig, who merges with the pigs he pins to the ground. A father, Henrique, who works on a North Sea oil rig. Two boys, Forxán and Tilve, who steal from the cab of a fruit lorry. A bli...
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    20,12 €

  • Wounded by the Wind
    Antón Riveiro Coello / Jonathan Dunne
    The year is 1978. The author is a boy of fifteen who has just returned from boarding school to his home town of Xinzo de Limia in the province of Ourense, Galicia. This town on the River Limia - identified by Roman soldiers with the mythical River Lethe, the River of Forgetfulness - is famous for two things: its prolonged carnival celebrations, during which affable demons known...
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    20,14 €

  • Bulgarian Frescoes
    Gabriel Dunne / Tsvetanka Elenkova / Jonathan Dunne
    Very little is known of Bulgaria outside its borders, due in large part to the lack of adequate support for translators, those spiders that criss-cross the line. This is particularly true when it comes to Orthodoxy, despite the importance of Bulgaria in the history of Orthodox Christianity (an important synod was held in Sofia in 343 to resolve the Arian controversy; the presen...
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    40,05 €

  • The Boneyard
    Jonathan Dunne
    Step into The Boneyard, where every bite-sized story is a grave-of-sorts and every grave tells a tale. This chilling collection of ten horror short stories delves into the shadowy recesses of the human psyche and the eerie unknown. Each tale unearths the morbid and the macabre, from doomed gravediggers to blood cults, malevolent spirits to the unrelenting terror of the human he...
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    9,95 €

  • Fireman
    Jonathan Dunne
    This is your baptism of fire, Max Lee...Fireman Max Lee makes a chilling discovery in the dark recesses of the sewers below the streets of Old Castle during routine maintenance. He tries to forget the unsettling encounter, but Max finds it hard to shake off the haunting image of the individual he would come to know as Ash Man.Not long after setting eyes on the strange vagrant l...
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    14,86 €

  • The Postwoman
    Santiago Lopo / Jonathan Dunne
    The Postwoman is one of the most ambitious and well-written novels to have come out of Galicia in the last twenty years. It follows the trials and tribulations (and sporadic joys) of a temporary postwoman in an imaginary city that might be Vigo. She is assigned to the district of Somewhere, where she comes into contact with a host of characters - from Humpty, an ex-heroin addic...
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    25,14 €

  • Eight Days without Eva Cortes
    Sara Vila Alonso / Jonathan Dunne
    It is Antía Ubeira’s first day back at the newspaper after the holidays. After years of trying to get pregnant, her period has just come. And she has been given an assignment about a young woman from the Vilar district who has gone missing, when Marcos is the one who normally deals with accident and crime. She is in a stale relationship with her boyfriend, Darío, who writes art...
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    21,11 €

  • Sibila
    Rosa Aneiros / Jonathan Dunne
    It is a cold, rainy December night, and Sibila is on a mission. She has left everything that might give away her location at home and rented a car in the name of a deceased person. Her destination is an island that lies several kilometres offshore. She has arranged for a guide to take her across at low tide. Because this is not a normal island, no one is allowed to spend the ni...
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    23,11 €

  • A Fly’s Wings for Anxo
    Fina Casalderrey / Jonathan Dunne
    At the start of the school year, the pupils of Don Carlos’ class in Year Six are feeling pretty relaxed. They’re not expecting any novelties, and they’re not worried about getting Don Xenaro as their teacher, whose belly is so big the only way he could be a mountaineer is in a lift. But in the school playground, while waiting to go to class, the pupils realize they have a new c...
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    17,98 €

  • The Forest Is Big and Deep
    Manuel Darriba / Jonathan Dunne
    A traveller, Hans Meyer, has decided not to enlist. He enters the forest from the City. He comes to a village where he is led to an empty shack and given food. He helps sow a field. The pig slaughterer, old and hunchbacked, tells him they need more brandy and sends him to fetch some from the distiller. Meyer finds the distiller, who lives in a cabin in the forest, and together ...
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    20,14 €

  • Drive
    Jonathan Dunne
    Step into the House of Mirrors...When Gracie Doyle and her friends visit Old Castle’s wrecking yard on Christmas Eve to say goodbye to their deceased friend Kelly Monroe, they unleash a malevolent force lurking within the eerie attraction known as ’The Kill Car’.Instead of finding closure, they open a mysterious portal to the supernatural world, plunging Gracie into a dark batt...
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    12,89 €

  • Dead Ends
    Jonathan Dunne
    Dead Ends is an eclectic potpourri of nine horrific tales, including two tales to be adapted for full-length upcoming novels, Drive and FiremanDead-end Tale 1: DriveA battered black Audi Quattro in Old Castle’s scrapyard has become a morbid attraction for the town’s youth since 17-year-old Kelly Monroe’s life was taken in that tomb-on-wheels. Kelly’s three best friends make the...
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    10,73 €

  • Magnification Forty
    Tsvetanka Elenkova / Jonathan Dunne
    'These miraculous poems of everyday matter magnified by forty reveal our world in all its pristine glory - reminiscent of Pablo Neruda’s household odes, but stranger. Her sketches of waterfalls are extraordinary, as if we are witnessing the birth of water and every inch hallucinatory. Her magnifying eye probes the roots of matter and spirit, where they intertwine and dance with...
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    18,03 €

  • The Minotaur’s Daughter
    Marilar Aleixandre / Jonathan Dunne
    Miranda’s parents, Asterius and Melina, run a tavern in Syracuse, a historic city on the Italian island of Sicily. They are immigrants from Crete, which they had to leave in a hurry, never to return. One of their customers is a blind man called Polyeuphemius, who is almost a member of the family, but they are wary of another customer, Olysseus, who traffics in ancient artefacts...
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    20,12 €

  • Stories to Read at Night
    Paco Martín / Jonathan Dunne
    This volume contains four of the best short stories by Spanish National Book Award winner Paco Martín. In 'The New Fire', a commune has been set up in an abandoned village. One of the residents, Mr Mirión, has a kind of totem pole in his yard, which the narrator and his friend would like to use for the St John’s bonfire, but they’re afraid to approach him. In 'Fina', a local do...
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    20,12 €

  • Night of the Caiman
    Diego Ameixeiras / Jonathan Dunne
    In Night of the Caiman, a writer, Ricardo Barros, seeks to complete his magnum opus and in the process to recreate something of the life of David Goodis. He will even move to Goodis’ native Philadelphia to follow in his footsteps and discover something of the darker corners that this city contains. His teacher in the art of writing is Vicente Mallón, pseudonym Vincent Malone, w...
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    20,10 €

  • Night of the Wolf
    Abel Tomé / Jonathan Dunne
    Captain Lourenço d’Ourantes lives in the cold, northern wood of Luiçiana. His soldiering days are over. He has taken refuge among a people who rid themselves of their overlord and the servants of the Church in order to be free of their control. One day, a messenger arrives from the county of Constança Valley in the south. D’Ourantes’ first impulse is to send him away, he has no...
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    21,12 €

  • Mother-of-Pearl Moons
    Fina Casalderrey / Jonathan Dunne
    In this collection, Fina Casalderrey regales us with five stories written in the starry firmament of night. In the title story, a woman moves with her husband to a house in the village, where she plans to give birth, and is approached by a gardener who offers to tend the garden at night. In 'Appointment in the Gardens of the South', a descendant of Galician emigrants to Argenti...
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    17,98 €

  • Hotel Miramar
    Jonathan Dunne
    Welcome to Hotel Miramar, where the guests aren’t guests.Journalist Dan Armstrong works for a struggling local newspaper. To save the tabloid from closure, Dan carries out one last assignment - the mysterious evacuation of the islanders from Crab Island, now an off-limits nature reserve.But Dan and his family soon learn the impromptu evacuation of Crab Island isn’t the only mys...
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    18,01 €

  • Rosie
    Jonathan Dunne
    A deep well of the darkest wishes.Rosie and Victor Ryan, real estate investors, land a massive sale to the mystery buyer of Wishing Well House. But the same night the Ryan family celebrate the sale, a bizarre accident robs Rosie of her mobility, freezing their idyllic life in tragedy.Victor volunteers to be quadriplegic Rosie’s full-time caregiver. But the accident has turned h...
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    19,01 €

  • Seven Brief Lessons on Language
    Jonathan Dunne
    Language is encoded. The words we use every day can tell us something about the meaning of human life, our purpose in this world, the divine being known as God, the creation of the world, the Fall, the economy, the environment... Once our eyes are opened at birth or soon after, we think that we see, but we do not realize that there is another level to reality, a spiritual dimen...
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    25,60 €

  • Crazy Daisy
    Jonathan Dunne
    It is always night in the cave. Take my cold hand.Weeks before young Fern Keegan sees what she sees in the river tunnel during the Old Castle floods, a deranged patient, Gabriel Bogdan, makes an outrageous claim nobody at The Hillside psychiatric hospital believes until it’s too late.Thirteen years later, a school tour in the local cave unravels into blind terror when the teach...
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    16,00 €

  • Night of the Crow
    Abel Tomé / Jonathan Dunne
    The island of Gothard is a law unto itself. Separated from the mainland by a long bridge, it has its own chancellor and popular jury. The island is run by two powerful families, the Faols (who own the silver mine) and the Cárthaigs (who own the bank). Decisions are taken by popular vote in the main square, Wolf Tongue. But when the schoolteacher and his family turn up dead in t...
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    21,13 €

  • Resistance
    Rosa Aneiros / Jonathan Dunne
    Rosa Aneiros’ novel Resistance is an epic of contemporary Galician literature that follows the fortunes of two very different people during the Estado Novo, the authoritarian regime in Portugal under António Salazar and Marcello Caetano that lasted from 1933 to 1974. Dinis Cardoso is a glass-factory worker from a small fishing village on Portugal’s west coast, São Pedro de Moel...
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    24,08 €

  • Invisible Bodies
    Emma Pedreira / Jonathan Dunne
    Culture is everything that is left as a residue once we have forgotten all the books we’ve read. In the Romantic era, Prometheus, the Titan god of fire who stole fire from the gods, gave it to humanity and was sentenced to having his liver gobbled up by an eagle every day, represented the lone genius whose efforts to improve human existence could also result in tragedy. For thi...
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    19,15 €

  • Billy’s Experiment
    Jonathan Dunne
    From the author of The Squatter creeps a new horror, Billy’s Experiment, #1 New Release in British Horror Fiction @ Amazon...On the night of a blood moon eclipse, park ranger Bill Steward saves a newborn baby on the misty moors of Old Castle’s national park.Seven autumns later, Bill and his wife, Dorothy, discover a ghastly experiment in a treehouse and a mysterious medical pre...
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    20,04 €

  • The Squatter
    Jonathan Dunne
    The house is free...but it comes with a price. Single mom, Molly Greene, is forced to close her Michelin-star restaurant due to the Covid 19 pandemic. To escape the ghosts of her past and the high cost of city living, Molly moves the Greene family to the isolated town of Old Castle where they move into a  200-year-old stately farmhouse...which isn’t quite vacant. The Greene fam...
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    18,99 €


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