Swansea writer and academic Jim McCarthy has translated from the Spanish a superb collection of short stories from award-winning writer Fernando Villamía as well as all six award-winning plays by Spanish playwright Antonio Tabares.


An anthology of plays by award-winning playwright Antonio Tabares now available for the first time in English. Powerful, moving and inspiring, Tabares’ work stands at the forefront of contemporary Spanish drama. Ingeniously playful, intellectually sharp and dazzlingly constructed, these plays teem with ideas about the destructive pressures of modern society, despair and redemption, and the enduring power of love.

This is book two of two, translated by Jim McCarthy, and contains the following plays:

  • Quartet for the End of Time
  • An Hour in the Life of Stefan Zweig
  • The Fausto Project

An anthology of plays by award-winning playwright Antonio Tabares now available for the first time in English. Powerful, moving and inspiring, Tabares’ work stands at the forefront of contemporary Spanish drama. Ingeniously playful, intellectually sharp and dazzlingly constructed, these plays teem with ideas about the destructive pressures of modern society, despair and redemption, and the enduring power of love.

This is book one of two, translated by Jim McCarthy, and contains the following plays:

  • The Tip of the Iceberg
  • BookCrossing
  • Perchance to Dream

Winner of the Max Aub International Story Competition & Winner of the Gabriel Miró Short Story Prize.

A killer camera. A haunted suit. An impossible love. Music that can’t be heard, a terrifying phobia, an extraordinary shoe.

The Other Side of the Photo is a collection of tales about love, guilt, obsession and memory from prize-winning storyteller Fernando Villamía. Lauded for his perfectly constructed stories and brilliantly polished language, each tale is a journey into the inexplicable. Taut, tense and disturbing, the stories hook the reader, drawing them into the characters’ world, where everyday reality shatters to reveal the strange dimensions of a mysterious world that lies ominously beneath the surface.


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