Giving books still remains one of the best Christmas gifts. A book opens doors, opens up worlds and can make you travel without leaving the place.
In these last days before Christmas, when everyone is going crazy buying the latest Christmas gifts, the Sul Informação Below, we present some suggestions for books launched this year by authors from the Algarve – or those who reside here – in the most varied genres.
«Portuguese mistakes never again», by Analita Santos
The book «Erros de Português Nunca Mais», by Analita Santos, who is a regular contributor to Sul Informação As a chronicler, it is already in its second edition and has sold well across the country.
In fact, fifteen days after its release, the book «Erros de Português Nunca Mais» was in Bertrand's top national sales list for non-fiction books (between the book by Annie Ernaux, a Nobel Prize-winning writer for Literature, and the biography of the richest man in the world).
In this book, the Algarve author invites all those for whom writing is an essential tool and all those who want to ensure clear communication to join the challenge of learning the correct form of words and linguistic expressions in which it is most common to fail, presenting them in the right context, with simple and understandable examples, so that they are not repeated again.
The book, with a beautiful cover (the eyes eat too, right?), is much more than a guide to putting an end to grammatical and linguistic mistakes once and for all. Each doubt is illustrated by an excerpt from a Portuguese author, which adds depth to the work.
The book is on sale in the main bookstores, physical and online: Bertrand, Fnac, Wook. It costs 14,90 euros.
«Lithium», by José Carlos Barros
José Carlos Barros, writer and poet, was born in Trás-os-Montes, but has lived almost by the sea for many years, close to Vila Real de Santo António. At the end of 2021, he won the 2021 Leya Prize for his novel “As Pessoa Invisíveis”. Published in 2022 (and a great sales success), «The Invisible People» is a book that must be read, due to the quality of the writing and the captivating strangeness of the story.
But this year José Carlos Barros has already published a book of poetry, «Li – Lítio», which is on sale online at Flan de Tal publishing house. As the poet is from Boticas, where a lithium mine is planned for, which was even at the basis of the current political crisis, and as he is a landscape architect and a person very connected to nature, it is no wonder that he chose such a title for this booklet of his. poetry.
Francisco José Viegas considered it «a beautiful book of poems», adding: «a person goes through the slopes, forests, crosses streams, everything in that geography of Trás-os-Montes, and the lithium thing is there, like a blade» .
LITHIUM, poetry, Flan de Tal edition, elementary collection, 57 p., 2023. Price: 8 euros.
«BTMMTT» by João Mariano and the Understands
It's called «BTMMTT» and says it's «an adventure book», having as authors The Understands, a mountain biking group from Aljezur, created by local photographer and businessman João Mariano.
«BTMMTT» means All-Terrain Bicycle. This is, in fact, the first of the 10 Commandments with which the book opens. There are others, such as «A hard barnacle is worth a handful of withered ones». Do you see the tone?
Between Commandments, photographs, captions and short stories, this is a book for anyone who loves the Costa Vicentina and would like, even if only in their dreams, to get to some of the fantastic places that these Betetists discover.
Written by João Mariano, you can also buy the magnificent book «Entre as Águas», in a limited and exclusive series of 10 copies, with Print 18x13cm. The book is manually signed and numbered, with an embossed seal (white seal). It comes in a box constructed, by hand, from the reuse of different types of wood (from different previous uses – tables, doors, chairs, furniture…) and which here gain a new language and a new meaning. The top of the box has a low relief with the project logo engraved. No two boxes are the same and they are all a beautiful object.
To buy these or other books published by 1000 eyes by João Mariano, you can contact the email [email protected].
“Taís and Rajá – The Magic Portal”, by Fúlvia Almeida
“Taís e Rajá – O Portal Mágico” is the first book by Fúlvia Almeida, who combines the aspects of writer with those of journalist, performance artist and association leader
This children's book tells the adventures of a girl, Taís, and her cat, Rajá, who live in Loulé, but are “catapulted” to Tunisia by a quantum leap.
Once there, the two adventurers will have to solve mysteries and experience different adventures.
«It is a story that is full of mysteries to be discovered, strange things that happen», describes to Sul Informação the author, which intends this to be the first volume of several with the duo Taís and Rajá.
“Taís and Raja – The Magic Portal” is on pre-sale on the Writing Workshop website, the publisher that bet on the writer. At this stage, the book costs 12,60 euros.
“Kalasha”, by Ana Abrão
“Kalasha” is a book that tells stories not only through words, but essentially through the images that Ana Abrão, its author, captured over the three months she lived with this community.
There are 162 photographs, spread over 144 pages, that take us on a journey into the daily life of the Kalasha, a polytheistic minority that lives in the mountains of Pakistan.
Ana Abrão has already visited more than 30 countries, but when she travels she tries to go to «unconventional destinations», as that is where she feels inspired to create.
At 57 years old, the photographer sees these trips as «a kind of celebration of freedom» and tries, through books, to show people a world that they sometimes don't have the courage to discover.
“Kalasha” is Ana Abrão’s second book, costs 35 euros and can be ordered here.
"Battle". by Sandro William Junqueira
Actor João de Brito pitched an idea to Sandro Wiiliam Junqueira to write «Battle». Sir Scratch and Jorge Ramos do Ó then came together and a book and a show were born, which debuted in Faro, at Teatro das Figuras, in November, but later traveled to other lands (Portel, Sines and Ponte de Sor). within the scope of the “National Odyssey” project at Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II.
The book «Batalha», with the text of the play, was published by E-Primatur, and can be purchased on your website for 9.90 euros.
«Three Sevens», by Eduardo Jorge Duarte
The young author Eduardo Jorge Duarte, born in Monchique, but living and working in Viseu, has already published books of poetry, chronicles and even «Montanário», in diary form.
«Três Setes», released this December, by the publisher On y va, brings together short stories written for the author's section in Jornal de Monchique, after being revised and expanded. Writing them allowed him to break out of the prison of his own self.
As he himself explains: «Leaving freely through the door of imagination, they were an opportunity to break the shackles of reality and not remain fossilized into a single vision of things and the world.
It can be purchased on the website Wook or the publisher On y goes.
«Sun and Salt», by Fátima Mártires
Distinguished with the «Santos Stockler Literary Prize», from the Municipality of Lagoa, in an edition in which the challenge was «Lagoa, Sustainable City», the novel sun and salt sensitized the Jury «by the way in which the theme was developed, in an intelligent, slick way, with some humor, in a coherent and cohesive text».
The Jury also noted that the author «escaped facilitism and commonplace, shrewdly criticizing the political and economic exploitation of 'green values' and demolishing the myths and untruths that sustain the good conscience of modernity».
It can be purchased on the publisher's website Let's go.
«Areia», by Clara Andrade
Clara Andrade is the very active librarian from Lagoa, but also a painter, with numerous exhibitions already held, a short story writer and now a poet.
The author brings together, in «Areia», poems that make up a whole where linear and circular time, reality and dreams, intersect and combine, as in a magical witches' cauldron. This whole is a reading of life lived: life in its multiple, tragic or grandiose facets, where time is the most strongly felt and affirmed dimension.
It can be purchased on the publisher's website On y goes.
«Sounds and Memories in Terras de Luz», by Glória Marreiros
Glória Marreiros, a writer born in Monchique but residing in Portimão for many years, launched, in May, «Sons e Memórias em Terras de Luz», a poetic anthology.
According to the book's author, «each language has its meter, its rhythm, its music. Likewise the Portuguese language which, over the centuries, has given birth to wonderful poetic works that embrace this concert of sounds and words that comes to us from our elders and that makes us who we were, who we are and who we will become. to be".
«We, who speak and write in Portuguese and love every word, every verse, every poem, we who do not fall into the temptation of using foreign words, constructions or metrics, we want to continue this long and proud lineage of magnificent tailors from language that preceded us», assures Glória Marreiros.
The book costs 15 euros and can be purchased at Âncora Editora website.
«Flowers Planted in Vases of Solitude», by Idalina Rocheta Rodrigues
Teacher with a degree in School Administration, retired, writer and author of several books, the most recent of which is the novel «Flores Plantadas em Vasos de Solidão», Idalina Rodrigues centers the story on the experiences of Jaime, born in Brazil to Portuguese emigrant parents, and his adaptation, in Portugal, to the poor context and to love, fictional situations leading to the internalization of a historical reality that occurred in our country.
The book can be purchased on the website Colibri Editions or Wook.
«The Battle of Aljezur», José Augusto Rodrigues
The fourth edition of the book «The Battle of Aljezur», which results from the research carried out by José Augusto Rodrigues, about a sad episode of World War II, was released in August, marking 80 years since a German plane crashed off the coast of Aljezur, after aerial combat with English planes defending a convoy of ships.
On the morning of Friday, July 9, 1943, a combat squadron made up of four planes Focke-Wulf 200 C-4 Condor of III/KG.40 (Kampfgeschwader 40), which had taken off from the Bordeaux-Mérignac base, at 3:30 am, attacked an allied naval convoy – four freighters escorted by two destroyers – which was sailing in Portuguese territorial waters, off the Costa Vicentina.
At the beginning of the attack, two English reconnaissance fighter-torpedo boats and a fighter-bomber, based in Gibraltar, appeared in defense of the ships.
The combat took place between the capes of Sines and São Vicente. O Beaufighter H shot the Focke-Wulf Nicolaus and he crashed, in flames, at the tip of Atalaia.
All of his crew died: Commander Nicolaus and his comrades – Hans Weigert (sergeant), Walter Beck (sergeant), Martin Angermann (sergeant), Johann Bauer (first sergeant), Werner Riecke (sergeant) and Ernst Friedrich Herppich ( Primeiro-Corporal) – who are buried in the Aljezur cemetery.
This is the fourth revised and expanded edition of the book, which now includes new documents and details.
The book costs 19 euros and can be purchased on the Anchor Editor.
«Encyclopedic Survey of Families in the Municipality of Vila Nova de Portimão», by Nuno Campos Inácio
Nuno Campos Inácio is a renowned researcher of Algarve history who has focused in particular on genealogy, being the author of numerous works, released by his publisher Arandis.
Not long ago he launched the first volume of the «Encyclopedic Survey of the Families of the Municipality of Vila Nova de Portimão», a documentary chronology.
This is the first volume of «a vast work (consisting of 5 volumes), which has around 2.000 pages, with documents produced up to the elevation of Portimão to city, on December 11, 1924», and which is «the result of a documentary and genealogical investigation to which the author has dedicated himself for 17 years».
The book costs 30 euros and can be purchased on the Arandis publisher website.
«The Book of Returns», by Manuel Neto dos Santos
Manuel Neto dos Santos, who published his first book of poetry in 1988, launched another book a few days ago, called «The Book of Returns».
It is a lyrical and philosophical record about the «great truths of dreams, life and death» and waits for «poetry to take you around the world again». With the book, the author pays tribute to his mother and returns to his origins and childhood.
The work was prefaced by writer Luís Barriga, published by Arandis Editora, supported by Associação ALDEPA and União de Freguesias.
«Louletano Desportos Clube – 100 years of Forming Generations», by Neto Gomes
Neto Gomes, dean journalist and communicator from the Algarve, recently launched the book “Louletano Desportos Clube – 100 anos A Formar Gerações”.
The work takes a journey through the life of the club, one of the most eclectic in the south of the country, from June 6, 1923, the date of its foundation, to the present day. Photos, newspaper clippings, testimonies from athletes, coaches, managers or associates, stories that mix with the history of the municipality and the country, and many curiosities brought by the hand of journalist, communicator and writer Joaquim Neto Gomes.
This book adds to the vast work already published by this author within the scope of the region's history, with emphasis on Algarve sport.
Southern
It is not, strictly speaking, a book, but rather a magazine. However, the way this 280-page magazine is laid out, in book format, makes it fit perfectly into this list of suggestions.
Number 3 of Meridional, the Journal of Mediterranean Studies, coordinated by Maria da Graça A. Mateus Ventura, involves the collaboration of 20 authors from different geographies on both sides of the Mediterranean: Portugal, Spain, Morocco and Israel, and uses three languages – Portuguese, Spanish and French.
From Lídia Jorge to Luís Castro Mendes, from Fernando Quiles to José Alberto Alegria, there are many and varied articles to read in this Meridional.
The Meridional is a magazine of chronicles and essays about the Mediterranean, the Algarve and the Alentejo, which combines the rigor of academic research with literary expressiveness.
From the 21st, the magazine/book will be on sale at the Elifalma stationery store, in Portimão. We sell directly through the website.
Orders through emails: [email protected] or [email protected], indicating NIF for receipt issuance.
Shipping by national mail (free shipping) upon prior payment by bank transfer (with receipt sent) in the amount of €10,00, to NIB: 0035 0648 0005 0328 6305 1.
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