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.

Of all the things that Jaume Clotet (Barcelona, ​​​​1974) has experienced with The Brotherhood of the Fallen Angel (Columna, 2024), the novel's sales and reader success is one of the most unexpected surprises. "We've sold more than 20,000 copies, we've had five editions, and it was among the five most purchased books of last year," notes Columna editor Glòria Gasch. "It was such a success that, at presentations and during the signings for Sant Jordi, people asked me if I would do more," explains Clotet. Given that response, the writer and journalist, former Director General of Communication for the Catalan government, has decided to continue the story of Brother Bernat, a monk of Montserrat, with a second novel, The skull of the apostle (Columna), which hits bookstores this Wednesday with a sales of 10,000 copies in Catalan and 3,000 in Spanish with Destino. And it won't be the last: Clotet is already preparing the third book, which will close the trilogy and which she hopes to publish in 2026.

"I have good memories of my childhood summers, but I don't remember anything in particular," admits journalist, historian, and writer Jaume Clotet. He says that they were all a kind of Blue Summer Permanent. Like in the early 1980s series, he spent his days cycling with his friends and hanging out at the pool. He's clear that the summer of his life is much more recent, in 2024, when his partner gave him a trip to the Faroe Islands for his fiftieth birthday, a destination he'd had in his head for decades. He was convinced he'd never go; it's unusual, has a poor tourist infrastructure, and is difficult to get to: "When you've been dreaming about a place for years, once you go, you might find it's not that great, but the trip was everything I expected and more."