The intrigues of Dolores Redondo, the human dilemmas of Julia Navarro, and the adventures of Arturo Pérez-Reverte return this autumn with new titles, marking the start of the literary season that will also bring eagerly anticipated new works from the young Canary Andrea Abreu and the veteran Ian McEwan.
All Nights, All Cities (Destino) is the title of Dolores Redondo’s new novel. The Donostian author of the Baztán Trilogy returns to bookstores with an “absorbing story” that continues the literary universe of the tranquil valleys. The protagonist this time is a writer, Benedict Newman, whom the police question after real events identical to those that appear in his latest book.
Two years after her last major novel, Julia Navarro returns to readers with A Modern Family (Plaza & Janés), and does so with a novel about a successful septuagenarian marriage that, through generational conflicts, reveals how the world they once knew no longer exists.
Also from another veteran, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, is The Most Dangerous Hypothesis (Alfaguara), an adventure and initiation novel with the sea as a backdrop and a boy raised by his grandparents who embarks on a quest for answers about his origins.
The autumn will also bring the eagerly awaited new book from Andrea Abreu, one of contemporary literature’s most surprising phenomena, with Panza de burro (Barrett). The Canarian writer, who has signed with Anagrama, now releases Pajaritos preñados, a new coming-of-age novel, marked by a style rich in original oral language.
From Seix Barral they also guard closely the latest from Alana S. Portero (The Bad Habit), a novel titled Cosamala, in which the author turns a real Civil War crime into a tale of witches—a story described as “halfway between Wuthering Heights and Blood Wedding.”
Meanwhile, Ian McEwan invites readers to travel into his ingeniously devised new literary game with What We Can Know (Anagrama), a novel about a solitary academic investigator who delves into the underpinnings of a 2014 literary gathering and a love poem that may contain clues to a crime needing clarification.
The Idea of Returning (Siruela), by Diego del Alcázar, speaks of the impossibility of going back to a place and remembering who you are. The action intertwines two worlds, that of Fausto, an elderly mountaineer who has lost his wife, and that of Adrián, an academic who built his career in New York and returns to his childhood home.
Other authors presenting a new book include those writing under the pseudonym Carmen Mola, who unveil The Orphans (Planeta), a novel that gathers everything that has made Jorge Díaz, Agustín Martínez, and Antonio Mercero a new phenomenon in crime fiction, including a brisk pace and well-rounded characters.
Upcoming also are anticipated releases for readers from authors such as Rosa Montero (A Day in Clarita’s Life, Alfaguara), Alicia Giménez-Bartlett (Dead on Paper, Destino), Paula Klein (The Love Invented, Lumen Prize 2026), Guillermo Fesser (At 55 Miles Per Hour, Anaya), and Rebecca Yarros (The Day of the Threshing, Planeta).
Also noteworthy for its controversy is Luisgé Martín‘s From Hatred (Altamarea), an essay in which, the publisher explains, he explores the limits of writing, the reader’s responsibility, and the role of cultural institutions, written after the withdrawal of his previous work, The Hate, based on his conversations with the killer José Bretón, which Anagrama did not publish.
This September will also bring premieres in fiction for the comedian Ángel Martín (The Day We Gave It All, Planeta) and for the actress from the film Sorda, Miriam Garlo (Flying with a Broken Wing, Roca).
Among international voices, the autumn will feature the New Yorker Joyce Carol Oates (Frenzy, Alfaguara), Patrick Radden Keefe (The Son of the Oligarch, Seix Barral), Charlotte Wood (The Retreat, Libros del Asteroide), Camilla Läckberg (The Cry of the Dead, Planeta), and Camille Laurens (Girl, Malpaso).