The American Dan Brown (Exeter, 1964) has won hundreds of millions of readers around the world thanks to the mysteries that Robert Langdon, a professor of symbology at Harvard University, must always solve against the clock. The 61-year-old novelist left the institute where he taught thanks to the overwhelming success ofThe Da Vinci Code (2003; in Catalan in Columna), but he has retained the affable demeanor with which he taught English and Spanish—he lived in Madrid for a time in the 1980s—to his students.

"Little by little I drown, stuffed with blue mussel jellyfish, segmented coral, shaved posidonia and overfishing: I grow irreversibly old." The narrator who Montse Barderi (Sabadell, 1969) has chosen the sea for his new novel, which speaks from our present and explains his fascination with a girl, Daniela, whose life he follows, full of obstacles and disappointments, until she reaches her full potential.

When, at the age of 21, Xavier Bosch (Barcelona, ​​​​1967) visited New York City for the first time, the impression was so strong that three decades later he needed to return to write it, but from the point of view of a young aspiring publicist, Edda Leveroni. The girl stars Diagonal Manhattan, I return to the Writer and Journalist's Column after a brief hiatus in Universe. If March 32 (2023) focused on "the dangers of political propaganda" and had previously delved into the lights and shadows of journalism, here "closes the tableau on communication" focusing on its "most luminous branch, advertising." And he does so based on the story of a young woman who makes her way to the United States – and who learns to love – while her father tries to resolve several crises he has at the advertising agency he founded in Barcelona.

Quentin Tarantino has not had enough with changing the history of cinema of the last three decades thanks to films such as Reservoir dogs (1992), Pulp fiction (1994) and Inglourious Basterds (2009): two years after releasing Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, he is making his debut as a writer with a novel that sets off with the same characters from the movie to expand the universe at a fast and addictive pace. Published in Catalonia by Columna and Reservoir Books a few days after its United States release, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood brings back Rick Dalton, a western film star past his prime, along with his chauffeur and stunt specialist Cliff Booth, with the menacing shadow of Charles Manson, who along with his family sought to shake the foundations of the capitalist society of the late 1960s, lurking in the background. The action of the novel takes place in 1969 in Los Angeles, a city marked by the worldwide success of the film industry, as glamorous as it is inhospitable.