Brenda would never have imagined that her daily life could so easily be tipped into chaos. One cold and rainy afternoon an encounter with a charming stranger sets off a chain of lies that will shake the very core of her life.

Bay's gone blank. She doesn't remember her house built on the red earth of Western Australia, nor that her garden is on the coral reef of Ningaloo. She has forgotten that she fought to save the oceans and that humpback whales were her family.

Ernesto Agular, an Argentinian journalist of around forty, is an obituary writer for a Barcelona newspaper. His boss asks him to write an article on the disappearance of the Italian physicist Ettore Majorana.

This novel is the revelation of the year and has been a success on social media, charming its readership. The story is based on real events narrated by guide dog Cross about friendship, love and overcoming problems.

Marcela and Oscar live a typical middle class life in the centre of São Paulo: they have just had their flat re-floored, they go to residents' meetings and they spend their evenings in front of the television.

It is many years since Barcelona was merely the capital of Catalonia. Barcelona is one of the mainstays of the Mediterranean and one of the most visited cities in the world.

Carlos Ovelar, the owner of a modest photographic agency in Madrid receives a call from Alberto Bastida, an important lawyer from Santiago de Compostela, asking for his help in finding Bastida's daughter Ania, who disappeared a few days earlier.

What is the source of Arthur Conan Doyle's strange belief in fairies, so at odds with the analytical spirit of his best known creation? How did Peter Pan manage without Tinker Bell after she was finally laid to rest in Neverland?

"They went along the Rue de Siene, hardly even seeing the street, so wrapped were they in each other. Jean-pierre, a guide who wants to please, was explaining the curiosities of the neighbourhood, while she listened in silence.

This is a work that, without complexes or affectation, approaches the prickly, multifaceted, grim and authentic reality of women in Cuba with all their casuistries and possibilities. No added sweeteners.