Camila Batles Camila Batles i(A82329 works by)
Gender: Female
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17 10 y separately published work icon Lost & Found Brooke Davis , ( trans. Camila Batles with title Objetos Perdidos ) Barcelona : Umbriel , 2015 6864471 2014 single work novel (taught in 1 units)

'A heart-warming debut about finding out what love and life is all about.

'At seven years old, Millie Bird realises that everything is dying around her. She wasn't to know that after she had recorded twenty-seven assorted creatures in her Book of Dead Things her dad would be a Dead Thing, too.

'Agatha Pantha is eighty-two and has not left her house since her husband died. She sits behind her front window, hidden by the curtains and ivy, and shouts at passers-by, roaring her anger at complete strangers. Until the day Agatha spies a young girl across the street.

'Karl the Touch Typist is eighty-seven when his son kisses him on the cheek before leaving him at the nursing home. As he watches his son leave, Karl has a moment of clarity. He escapes the home and takes off in search of something different.

'Three lost people needing to be found. But they don't know it yet. Millie, Agatha and Karl are about to break the rules and discover what living is all about.' (Publication summary)

6 6 y separately published work icon The Inquisitor Catherine Jinks , ( trans. Camila Batles with title El inquisidor ) Barcelona : Roca Editorial , 2004 Z218859 1999 single work novel crime mystery historical fiction

'When his superior's dismembered corpse is discovered, fourteenth-century Inquisitor of Heretical Depravity, Bernard Peyre, attempts to investigate the crime. But he himself soon becomes an object of persecution - thanks to his involvement with a mysterious suspect and her beautiful daughter.'

Source: Author's website www.catherinejinks.com (Sighted 20/4/10)

21 y separately published work icon The Dolphin : Story of a Dreamer Sergio Bambaren , ( trans. Camila Batles with title El Delfín : historia de un sonador ) Barcelona : Ediciones B , 1996 Z447430 1995 single work novel fantasy
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