Sandra Bruna Agencia Literaria Gal·la Placídia 2, 5-2 Barcelona 08006 T +34 93 217 74 06 F +34 93 415 86 25 [email protected] Sandra Bruna adult fiction, non fiction, young adult & children titles catalogue our agents Sandra Bruna. Director Berta Bruna Sandra started working at a literary agency at a B.A. in Statistics and Market Research. She works very young age and combined a Bachelor’s de- in the publishing world since 1993. She has wor- gree in Spanish with her job at the agency. After ked in large publishing groups such as Penguin ten years of experience she decided to embark Random House and Planeta Group. She has on a solo adventure, and she started up her own been Director of Marketing and Communication agency in 2001. The beginnings were slow, but in Grup 62, where she launched new projects, more than ten years after Sandra Bruna Agencia and Editorial Director in Columna and Planeta Literaria has grown to currently become a con- and Destino’s Catalan collections. She current- solidated agency with 130 Spanish and Catalan ly heads the Department of New Projects and authors, and a list of more than 30 publishers Multiplatform Content in Sandra Bruna Agencia and agents represented for the Spanish and Literaria . Portuguese speaking markets, both for adult and children & YA titles. [email protected] [email protected] Selling team Clara Ferrer Valentine Lechevallier With a double degree in Advertising, Marketing, After studying literature, English and Book Trade, Public Relations and Communication and Master’s Valentine started her career in publishing by wor- Degree In Marketing, Clara has been working in king in a literary agency in Paris, where she learnt the communication world but always with an eye the ropes of foreign rights. In 2015 she moved to to the publishing world. She began her career in London for a new experience among an interna- Sandra Bruna in 2016. She’s always looking for tional publishing group specialised in illustrated her “Itaca”, always writing, reading and she keeps books, to be in charge of the French language learning with one motto “Everything is to be done territories. Two years later, she has joined Sandra and everything is possible”. Bruna to look after foreign rights. [email protected] [email protected] index / fiction 9. Alves, Bárbara 19. Fernández, Empar 30. Pradas, Núria Respira, Rebecca, respira Maldita verdad Sueños a medida 10. Amela, Víctor 20. García Carteron, Begoña 31. Ramos, Malenka La filla del capità Groc La montaña maldita Quimera. Las edades bárbaras Ariño ,Cari 21. Goitia, Fernando Rodríguez Lezaun, Susana 11. 32. La rueda del olvido La sacudida Sin retorno 12. Barbal, Maria 22. Guhlam, Nadia & Diéguez, Javier 33. Santos, Care En la piel del otro La primera estrella de la noche Media vida Hernàndez, Gaspar Bennasar, Sebastià 23. 13. La terapeuta 34. Santos, Care El imperio de los leones Diamant blau Cantavella, Jordi 24. Maitena 14. Soler, Sílvia 35. El brigadista Lo mejor de Maitena Los viejos amigos Miralles, Francesc Castelló, Paz 25. 15. Amor en minúscula 36. Tarragó Sílvia Mi nombre escrito en la puerta de un El tiempo de la luz váter Miralles, Francesc 26. 37. R. Trigo, Xulio Conde, Carmen Un rayo de esperanza 16. El objetivo del crimen La escritora Miralles, Francesc & Santos, Care 27. 38. Valls, Coia Doñate, Àngeles El mejor lugar del mundo es aquí mismo Etheria 17. El invierno que tomamos cartas en el Moya, Elena asunto 28. 39. Vídac, Rafel La candidata El hombre más rico del mundo 18. Esteve, Miquel El fin de los secretos 29. Palomas, Alejandro Un perro index / non fiction Bom&Bon 41. Pequeñas ideas antes de vivir en 46. Hernàndez, Gaspar 52. Riba, Albert No soy de este mundo Tropa Sapiens pareja 42. Domènech, Montse 47. Oaks, Lambert 53. Rovira, Álex La vacuna contra el miedo Guía para la vida de Tyrion Lannister Los siete poderes 43. Estivill, Eduard 48. León, Pere 54. Sandoval, Eva 5 days for a perfect night sleep for La buena onda ¿Y tú qué crees? your child Vázquez, Nika 55. 44. Estivill, Eduard 49. Miralles, Francesc & García, Héctor Aporta o aparta Ser mamá: el antes y el después Ikigai Folch, Montse 55. Vilaseca, Borja 45. 50. Percy, Allan La dieta de los colores El principito se pone corbata Platón para soñadores Percy, Allan 51. Serie Geniuses for daily life index / young adult & children 58. Alonso, Ana & Pelegrín, Javier 65. García de Oro, Gabriel 72. Santos, Care El libro de los rostros El club de los caníbales se zampa Drácula Sapere Aude - Eblu’s Trilogy 59. Alonso, Ana & Pelegrín, Javier 66. Lozano, David 73. Santos, Care La puerta oscura Excalibur - New Serie Britania William 60. Alonso, Ana & Pelegrín, Javier 67. Lozano, David 74. Santos, Care La puerta del dragón Valkiria Laura Chef - El mejor bocadillo del mundo 61. Amor, Paula 68. Lozano, David 75. Sanz, Esther Pedazos de ti El ladrón de minutos Yes, we dance 62. Carmona, Rocío 69. Lucas, Dorian 76. Sanz, Esther La gramática del amor 99% feliz Si el amor es una isla 63. Evans, Justine 70. Miralles, Francesc & Ruescas, Javier 77. Seymour, Cliff El octavo clan Latidos Los secretos del viejo Horace Fernández-Vidal, Sonia & Bayés, 71. Palomas, Alejandro 64. Pilarín Un hijo El universo en tus manos adult fiction RESPIRA, REBECCA, RESPIRA BÁRBARA ALVES Chick Lit WHY THIS NOVEL? Have you tried last winter’s clothes and you only like and scarf? • This is Bárbara Alves’ first Do you have a terrible salary, capable of making you novel, a new voice that you don’t want to miss laugh and cry at the same time? out. Do your children drive you crazy (and not because of • Maybe Rebecca is like how much you love them, precisely)? you... Is the WhatsApp group with your friends full of affectionate labels like “bitch” or “son of a bitch”? Is your husband an expert in eluding responsabilities? Are there times you’d like to disappear from the world Bárbara Alves is from Barcelona. She is with a giant Nutella jar? 304 pages. 39 years old and she has three kids, a If you have answered “yes” to three or more of these husband, a dog, a cat and a long story. questions, then there is no doubt: this novelis for you. You urgently need a good dose of laughing and reading. She has liked to write since she was young, and her mother can confirm it, Get hooked on to the phenomenon #RespiraRebecca. with a box full of stories. She graduated First in Tourism and alternated studies with Rebecca, the protagonist of this novel, has three kids, motherhood, as she had her first child a handsome husband with a tendency to slack off, an edition when she was 23 years old. annoying and adorable mother, a shitty job and a group of 10.000 of friends that are totally crazy. copies She claims she’s addicted to any type of Rights sold to: reading; books have marked her life and Rebecca thinks that problems are very rude. They have Ediciones B (Spanish) so she devours every story, the desire to the ugly habit of appearing all together, without a write keeps on growing. warning. Rebecca is imperfect, foul-mouthed, ingenious and sincere. Maybe she is just like you… Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 9 LA FILLA DEL CAPITÀ GROC VÍCTOR AMELA Historical WHY THIS NOVEL? Manuela Penarrocha is thirteen years old. Sitting on • Premi Ramon Llull 2016. her low chair in her entrance hall, she sews sandals like The most famous and no other. The girl with grey eyes and golden hair thinks prestigious prize in Cata- of her father. He had taken ones like those to war, like lan language. the rest of the Carlists, men of sandals, walking stick, • Three editions in two blunderbuss and knife under their belts. She wants to months. More than hug him, feel the warmth of his kiss on her forehead. 25.000 copies sold! She misses his tough look, now filled with tenderness, • 8 weeks #1 in Catalan fiction. his loud laugh. She just wants him to get back to watch • #1 on Sant Jordi’s day. him fight for their ideals, to go back to his family and • “Víctor Amela proves he the town, the lost dignity, to life or to death. 420 pages. Víctor Amela (1960) has worked as a knows how to use the journalist half his life. Since 1984, he Tomàs Penarrocha Penarrocha, her father, is known in diferent lines of the plot, has been writing chronicles, reviews and he keeps some surpri- Forcall as the Blond, because the color of his hair. and interviews for La Vanguardia. He ses for the reader that will is a regular contributor to radio and keep everyone stuck to TV shows, teaches journalism and the seat.” (...) “Significant- mass communication, and has received ly, women play a strong many prestigious awards. Amor contra Roma role as well.” Carles Barba, He is the author of many non fiction Historical La Vanguardia. Urgídar, a young Iberian books such as Història cultural de from Lesera, arrives in Rome Rights sold to: l’audiovisual, La televisió-espectacle, in the year 12 BC with the Algunas cosas que he aprendido Planeta (Spanish and intention of training as an haciendo la contra, Estampas de la Catalan) orator and poet. There he meets Ovid, vida forcallana. His first novel was El Belfond (French) whom he befriends, and witnesses the cátaro imperfecto. Amor contra Roma creation of his Ars Amatoria. is his second work of fiction. Rights sold to Ediciones B (Spanish and Catalan). Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 10 LA RUEDA DEL OLVIDO CARI ARIÑO Women’s Fiction WHY THIS NOVEL? La rueda del olvido is an emotional story in which the • Cari Ariño’s first novel main characters, Alicia and Bautista, are looking for sold 22,000 books in 6 balance in their lives. The discovery of a portrait in an months. Two editions. Isaac Asimov’s novel will leave a mark between them. • Two parallel stories, intriguing and full of Throughout the pages, the reader will find two parallel plotwiss. stories connected through Alicia’s current time, a young • For readers who fell in woman who has just suffered a deep heartbreak, and love with titles like Sue- Bautista, an expat living in France after the Spanish Civil ños a medida or Diamant War who, against his will, remembers the past. Blau. As a connection between them, a missing anarchist, Biel, 296 pages. Cari Ariño was born in 1958 in and a love in the horizon, Julien. Maella, an Aragonese town in the Catalan speaking area. Before she Oblivion and pain will be the freezing knife that will went to college to study Comparative extinguish the love’s fire. Literature, she taught herself reading French modern classics such as Balzac And hope, a remote spark that struggles to light the Rights sold to: and Flaubert. Currently she combines flame. Ediciones B (Spanish and her job as a public servant at the El latido del tiempo Catalan) Barcelona Town Hall with her always Women’s fiction / Historical Novel El latido del tiempo is a family saga that walks us through passionate and generous work as a the 20th century, portraying its customs and manners. writer. Her aim as an author is to make This is an addictive story about the struggle of three readers enjoy and endure in their own heroines –grandmother, daughter and granddaughter– that flesh the adventures of a lineage of try to survive the prejudices and turmoils of their times. women that appears in her novels. Throughout its pages we will learn first hand about the La rueda del olvido is her second changes brought by the 20th century –big or small–: from the Second Spanish Republic to the beginnings of the novel. current millenium. Enjoy the Booktrailer! Rights sold to Ediciones B (Spanish). Sandra Bruna Author’s Catalogue 2017 // Page 11