When he started writing The Brotherhood of the Fallen Angel (Column, Josep Pla Prize 2024), journalist Jaume Clotet (Barcelona, ​​1974) hadn't planned on writing a trilogy. But the success of that novel led him to consider continuing the adventures of the young woman from the squad, Berta Bosch, and the monk of Montserrat, Bernat Balaguer, with a second book. The apostle's skull (Column / Destiny, 2025) and with a third one that has just arrived in bookstores, The King's Sword (Column / Destiny, 2026). Clotet closes the saga with a book that cannot be read independently of the previous ones, because it answers many questions that he has been raising throughout the novels.The Brotherhood of the Fallen Angel It begins with Satan imprisoned in Rome. Now I've had to imagine how, who, when, and why the devil was imprisoned," the writer explains.

Priscilla Morris (United Kingdom, 1973) lives between Ireland and Romanyà de la Selva, but spent all the summers of her childhood in Sarajevo, her mother's hometown. Morris was 19 years old when the Bosnian war broke out and her grandparents and other relatives were trapped in the capital, which remained under siege for 1,425 days in what is known as the longest siege in modern history. Now she recounts these experiences in Black butterflies (Periscope, 2024; translated into Catalan by Marc Rubió), a debut novel that she has spent thirteen years writing and which has earned her many accolades. Among them, a nomination for the Women's Prize 2023 and a place among the 10 best historical fiction books of 2024 seconds The New York Times.