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There Are No Happy Loves

There Are No Happy Loves
  • Author(s): Sergio Olguin, Miranda France (translator)
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A NEW CRIME INVESTIGATION BY FEARLESS BUENOS AIRES JOURNALIST VERONICA ROSENTHAL Haunted by nightmares of her past, Verónica is soon involved in a new investigation. Darío, the sole survivor of a car accident that supposedly killed all of his...

Twelve Minutes of Love

Twelve Minutes of Love
  • Author(s): Kapka Kassabova
  • Location(s): Argentina, Buenos Aires, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Kapka Kassabova first set foot in a tango studio ten years ago and, from that moment, she was hooked. With the beat of tango driving her on and the music filling her head, she’s danced across the world, from...

Wondering, the Way is Made

Wondering, the Way is Made
  • Author(s): Luke F D Marsden
  • Location(s): Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future, Travelogue

In a pre-apocalyptic near future, against a backdrop of a faltering global civilization and a living planet in slow-motion death throes, a young, free-spirited couple, Joss and Tina, decide to quit the programme and go on a voyage of...

Winters in the South

Winters in the South
  • Author(s): Norbert Gstrein
  • Location(s): Argentina, Buenos Aires, Croatia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

As ethnic tensions escalate into war, Marija returns in confusion to her native Croatia – call it a mid-life crisis. She soon takes up with a young soldier, but her age does not give her the least power over...

A Storm hits Valparaiso

A Storm hits Valparaiso
  • Author(s): David Gaughran
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires, Lima, Mendoza
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 19th Century

In 1810, José de San Martín deserts the Spanish Army and returns home to Buenos Aires to lead a bloody revolt against his former masters. Struggling with an increasing dependence on opiates, San Martín forms a secret army of...

Elena Knows

Elena Knows
  • Author(s): Claudia Piñeiro, Frances Riddle (Translator)
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across...

Encore Valentine

Encore Valentine
  • Author(s): Adriana Trigiani
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the same book as Brava, Valentine. Meet the Roncalli and Angelini families, artisans of handcrafted shoes in Greenwich Village since 1903. Valentine’s dreams are dashed when her grandmother names her brother and nemesis Alfred her partner at...

Open Door

Open Door
  • Author(s): Iosi Havilio
  • Location(s): Argentina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When her partner disappears, a young veterinary assistant drifts from the city towards Open Door, a small town in the Argentinean Pampas named after its psychiatric hospital. Embarking on a new life in the country, she finds herself living...

77

77
  • Author(s): Guillermo Saccomanno
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction

Buenos Aires, 1977. In the darkest days of the Videla dictatorship, Gómez, a gay high-school literature teacher, tries to keep a low profile as one-by-one, his friends and students begin to disappear. When Esteban, one of Gómez’s favorite students,...

A Maid of Kent

A Maid of Kent
  • Author(s): Jan Evans
  • Location(s): Argentina, The Falkland Islands, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Sophie, a successful interior designer, finds herself falling for Nick, a naval pilot, but is he too scarred by events he witnessed in the Falkland Islands? Is the sensitive and down to earth Greg, a friend since childhood, the...

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