Claudia Piñeiro recommends...

Recommendations12th June 2026

To celebrate Independent Bookshop Week we have twinned with Edinburgh-based indie publisher Charco Press. We asked one of their authors, Claudia Piñeiro (author of Cathedrals, Elena Knows, A Little Luck and more) for some book recommendations. We hope this list provides you with some reading inspiration!

In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1 cover

In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1

It is a river of words that is always such a pleasure to plunge into.

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Published: 2nd Oct '03

Format: Paperback

Price: £12.99

Disgrace cover

Disgrace

It’s a book that I love so much that I wish I had written it myself.

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Format: Paperback

Price: £9.99

The Little Virtues cover

The Little Virtues

Ginzburg just speaks to me in each and every one of her books.

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Published: 19th Apr '18

Format: Paperback

Price: £9.99

Kiss of the Spider Woman cover

Kiss of the Spider Woman

He’s the Argentinian author that I feel closest to.

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Published: 2nd Jun '22

Format: Paperback

Price: £9.99

Good and Evil and Other Stories cover

Good and Evil and Other Stories

It offers perfect precision in a genre that I admire: the short story.

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Published: 4th Jun '26

Format: Paperback

Price: £10.99

Not a River cover

Not a River

It describes characters and the river landscape with a gorgeous prose.

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Published: 23rd Jan '24

Format: Paperback

Price: £11.99

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Eartheater

It tells a story that needs to be read.

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Published: 14th Oct '21

Format: Paperback

Price: £10.99

The Adventures of China Iron cover

The Adventures of China Iron

It dares to re-write a classic with an unparalleled irreverence that only Cabezón Cámara can achieve.

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Published: 14th Nov '19

Format: Paperback

Price: £11.99