New on Barcelona Llibres
On Sant Jordi’s Day, Barcelona City Council has a book stall on Passeig de Gràcia (stall 22, between carrer Provença and carrer Rosselló, side Besòs). The Sala Ciutat bookshop (Carrer de la Ciutat, 2) will also be open. You can obtain newly published books, along with those from previous years, all at a 10% discount. Check out all the publications and books on the Barcelona Llibres website, with free download.
Rebel·lió: La vaga de lloguers del 1931
Anapurna (illustration), Francisco Sánchez (script)
At the end of the Universal Exhibition of 1929, unemployment skyrocketed, and the working-class neighbourhoods rebelled because they could not pay the abusive price of rent.
Històries de la Model
Jordi de Miguel (script), Susanna Martín (illustration)
Through the testimony of the prisoners and their families, the comic takes an in-depth look at the evolution of Barcelona's correctional centre.
Les escoles de Barcelona dibuixen la ciutat
Various authors
The hundred best drawings of 10 and 11-year-old students from various Barcelona schools in a book in the “Travel Card” collection.
Barcelona gegantera
Nico Alonso Crozet
Exhaustive collection of the tradition of figures of giants in our city, from the first giants to the living and iconic images of each of Barcelona’s neighbourhoods.
Survey Barcelona
Adrià Goula (original ideas), different authors (photographs and texts)
A project that provides the collective view of five photographers about Barcelona and different actions out in recent years.
Atles MUHBA d’història de Barcelona
MUHBA, Joan Roca Albert (project management), D. A. (text)
The first historical atlas of the city to be published. An original, innovative and rigorous work with high-quality cartographies, maps and photographs.
L'últim naturalista: Jordi Sabater i Pi
Toni Pou
The biography—based on letters—of one of the world’s most important primatologists. A life filled with adventures in Africa and scientific discoveries.
Altres Brosses
Joan Maria Minguet
Joan Brossa and poetry in action, live: when no one talked about performance, he was already testing new frontiers.
Barcelona, gener de 1939. La caiguda
Francesc Vilanova Vila-Abadal
A detailed graphic and documentary account of the arrival of Franco's troops, those who welcomed them and how the city's occupation was carried out.
Barcelona desapareguda de Giacomo Alessandro II
Víctor Oliva Pascuet, Jorge Álvarez, Enric Comas Parer, various authors (photography)
This sibling of the first compilation —as courageous and worthwhile as the first— offers, once more, an unparalleled collection of old photographs of the city.
Gráfica anarquista. Fotografía y Revolución social 1936-1939
Andrés Antebi, Pablo González, Teresa Ferré and Roger Adam
The social, economic and everyday life of an uprising which was suppressed, revealed now through photos stored away in boxes for a very long time.
Gráfica anarquista. Utópica tinta 1931-1939
Observatori de la Vida Quotidiana
During the Spanish Civil War, a group of artists used their pencils to construct a world borne of the libertarian, ant-fascist and anti-capitalist ideal.