Although it takes place in the 17th century, Modern fairies, the first novel by the British author Clare Pollard (Bolton, 1978) that we can read in English thanks to Club Editor and the work of Yannick Garcia, is written from a radically contemporary perspective. Presented with more sense of humor and irreverence than the Hamnet of Maggie O'Farrell (L'Altra / Libros del Asteroide, 2021) and in a more credible tone than the torn-apart rereading of the Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë by Emerald Fennell, 2026, Pollard sends readers to the lavish Parisian salons in which writers such as Charles Perrault (1628-1703) and Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy (1652-1705) contributed to popularizing and redefining the fairy tales that, in many cases, had grown above all thanks to word of mouth among the rural population.

This year he has read a lot and he hates recommending just one book, but there was one that left its mark on him: I gave you eyes and you looked into the darkness, by Irene Solà. "It has a completely different style than what I have been reading lately," explains Vicenç Calafell, one of the three members of the musical group HadasThe novel tells the story of a lineage of women who live in a farmhouse and explores a world made of myths, superstitions, and fables.

Ferran Pi (Palma, 2001), Vicenç Calafell (Esporles, 2001) and Àngel Exojo (Santa Eulalia de Ronçana, 2001) They met while studying Catalan philology in Mallorca and their friendship gave rise to Fades, a pop music group. queer and Catalan. Irreverent and outspoken, Fades champions Catalan culture and the rights of the LGBTQ+ community through festive, uninhibited music that earned them the 2024 Enderrock Award for Breakthrough Artist. After the album Friends and Autotune (2023) and Metallix (2024), now the group continues the party with Metallix: Afterparty, (Satélite K, 2025) a more electronic and mischievous revision of the previous album that features collaborations with Samantha Hudson, SVSTO and Papa Topo. The Fades tour will pass through Primavera Sound on June 6th, Acampada Jove (Sant Sadurní d'Anoia) on July 11th, Mobofest (Mallorca) on July 25th and Cangrejo Festival (Menorca) on September 26th and 27th.