Ana Obregón and Prince Henry of England have signed the two most anticipated and most explosive books in the world of music this year. The actress, with El chico de las musarañas, and the Duke of Sussex, with En la sombra, have also managed to lead the lists of bestsellers in non-fiction. For those who have not yet done so, these are two interesting and quick reads to accompany the hot summer days. Other media figures, be they royals, celebrities, influencers or famous people have also chosen to tell episodes of their lives in biographies, but there are those who have dared to publish novels, children’s stories or even self-help books based on their own experiences.
The boy with the shrews
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The actress bares herself in this book that was started by her son Aless Lequio, who died of cancer. It recounts the young man’s illness, the arrival of death and even narrates his frustrated suicide attempt. It also clarifies the reasons that prompted her to undertake the surrogacy of her granddaughter. Hard and striking, although also tender and full of filial love.
In the shadow
A book that has caused a crisis in the United Kingdom. The Duke of Sussex shares in his biography, which was actually written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist J.R. Moehringer, family secrets that have caused an even greater estrangement from the British royal house. He crosses red lines that can still take their toll, recounting details of his participation in military operations against the Taliban or confessing to drug use.
The hidden passion of Johann Sebastian Bach
Love knows no age. This is the underlying message of the novel that the publicist presented accompanied by his girlfriend at the time, Natalia Almarcha, 21 years younger than him. A significant age difference like the one that separated Bach and the soprano he fell in love with and who ended up being his second wife. A fiction, then, about a very personal subject for Mejide.
the last dream
The filmmaker surprises the reader with an intimate book that he divides into twelve stories that speak volumes about him. It is actually a kind of self-portrait that evokes different stages of his life, from his native Mancha to the present day through Madrid de la Movida.
When I stop being me
The Catalan actress, winner of the Goya for Camino, shares her testimony about Alzheimer’s and some of the most memorable episodes of her life. Diagnosed with this disease more than three years ago, she explains her experience and her day-to-day life with a disease that has been hijacking her memory.
the baroness
snow blacksmith
The journalist novelizes the life of Tita Cervera based on real events that Baroness Thyssen herself told her over the course of three years. In the end, what was supposed to be a biography has acquired the form of a fictional narrative due to the conflict that has existed between the author and the aristocrat, who has announced that she herself is writing her own memoirs.
Crime
Carmen Chaparro
The presenter, a regular writer of novels, proposes on this occasion one of those frenetic-paced thrillers that grabs the reader from the first page. The story is set in Madrid and begins in the capital’s Plaza de España when ten hotel guests rush into the void.
My mom and I are a happy family.
Maria Zurita
The cousin of King Felipe VI has written a children’s story that narrates her own family reality as a single mother of a small boy. Therefore, an autofiction that aims to normalize family realities that escape the most traditional conceptions.
Agatha Ruiz de la Prada. My story
With the journalist Pedro Narváez, the designer and aristocrat writes a very personal book in which she defends her feminism and vindicates the role of women in a world of powerful men. The Marchioness of Castelldosríus, Baroness of Santa Pau and grand of Spain explains little-known episodes of her life.
start from scratch
The presenter has decided to share his story of self-improvement that allowed him to leave behind the long drug addiction that almost killed him. The book is a hymn to resilience and explains how he was able to overcome a self-destructive attitude to embrace another new reality full of happiness and inner peace.
RE moment
The actress makes her debut as a writer with a very intimate book in which she tries to show herself as she is, either through texts that narrate snippets of her life or with unretouched photographs. A song to life without makeup and a call to value the things that really matter.
the wind will carry us
The presenter exploits her more literary side with a poetic book of few words but full of sensations and feelings. Deep and evocative reading that reflects on universal aspects, such as love, the passage of time or chance.
So you don’t forget
The psychologist and businesswoman signs a kind of self-help book in the form of an epistle addressed to her children Dylan and Alma, the result of her relationship with the singer Alejandro Sanz. Perera starts from her own experience and gives tools to gain self-esteem, work on personal growth or live fully.
