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Javier Mar铆as was one of Spain鈥檚 foremost writers when he died aged 70 in September 2022. A writer of short stories, essays and novels including The Infatuations, Tomorrow In the Battle Think On Me, and his epic espionage trilogy, Your Face Tomorrow, he was often rumoured to be next in line for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Now Mar铆as's last novel, Tom谩s Nevinson, has just been published in English. In the book he returns to the figure of the spy, as Tom谩s is called out of retirement to track down a woman involved in a series of ETA bombings. In typical Marias style, the spy novel becomes a meditation on memory, deception and the inescapability of the past.

Chris Power is joined by the renowned translator Margaret Jull Costa, who worked with Javier Mar铆as for over thirty years. Valerie Miles, co-founder of Spanish Granta, and the literary critic Boyd Tonkin to discuss Tom谩s Nevinson and the themes of Javier Mar铆as unique brand of fiction.

Booklist 鈥� Sunday 26 March and Thursday 30 March

Tom谩s Nevinson by Javier Mar铆as: Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
The Infatuations by Javier Mar铆as: Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Mar铆as: Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Your Face Tomorrow 1: Fever and Spear by Javier Mar铆as: Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Your Face Tomorrow 2: Dance and Dream by Javier Mar铆as: Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Your Face Tomorrow III: Poison, Shadow and Farewell by Javier Mar铆as: Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
A Heart So White by Javier Mar铆as: Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Mar铆as: Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Berta Isla by Javier Mar铆as: Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
When I was Mortal by Javier Mar铆as: Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
All Souls by Javier Mar铆as: Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Between Eternities by Javier Mar铆as: Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
The Man of Feeling by Javier Mar铆as: Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Dark Back of Time by Javier Mar铆as: Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
The Eye by Vladimir Nabokov
A Thousand Forests In One Acorn: An Anthology of Spanish Language Fiction by Valerie Miles