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Collect Avios on World Book Day

This World Book Day, collect Avios with our reading recommendations. Simply access the online stores of Casa del Libro, Fnac or Agapea.com through Iberia Club Store and collect up to 13 Avios for every euro spent on books. Visit our Shopping section and start collecting with the best titles of the season.

  1. 1 Instrucción de novicias (Instructions for Novices), by Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita

    Recently published by Blackie Books, Instrucción de novicias offers a fascinating reconstruction of the lives of nuns in the 16th and 17th centuries. Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita have brought the Baroque era into the spotlight thanks to the huge success of their podcast Las hijas de Felipe (Philip’s Daughters), an audio space in which the two Brown University PhDs explore the intimate world of early modern convents through historical gossip, religious drama and previously unseen documents. Their research, spanning more than 15 years, led them to uncover manuscripts and testimonies that had never before been brought to light. The book recovers the voices of women such as Saint Teresa of Ávila, María de San José and Beatriz de la Concepción – nuns who experimented with alternative ways of living and created an extraordinary intellectual, social and emotional landscape within the only space where women could truly exercise autonomy: the convent.

    Through Iberia Club Store you can access Casa del Libro and collect 273 Avios when purchasing this book, which has been praised by publications such as The Guardian and The New York Times.

  2. 2 El ejército ciego (The Blind Army), by David Toscana

    On 26 March, Alfaguara publishes this new novel by David Toscana, which won the Alfaguara Prize for Fiction 2026. Born in Monterrey – one of Iberia’s new destinations from 2 June – Toscana fictionalises a real decision by Basil II, the Byzantine emperor who, in 1014, ordered 15,000 Bulgarian soldiers to be blinded after the Battle of Kleidion, leaving one out of every 100 with a single eye so they could guide the others home. In this novel, Toscana reflects with irony and wit on how the testimony of the defeated so often disappears from the official narrative of history – an aspect widely praised by the Alfaguara Prize jury. The award, presented on 27 January, means that El ejército ciego is being published simultaneously across the Spanish-speaking world. 

    Access Fnac through Iberia Club Store and you can collect up to 95 Avios with this novel, narrating a story that has waited ten centuries to be told.

  3. 3 La chica más lista que conozco (The Smartest Girl I Know), by Sara Barquinero

    Published on 12 March, this is the latest novel by Sara Barquinero. The writer and philosophy PhD, whose 2024 Los escorpiones (The Scorpions) was a critically acclaimed sensation, returns with a book that works simultaneously as a university survival guide, a reflection on consent, a philosophical meditation on the history of shame and a manifesto in defence of female friendship in male-dominated environments. In the novel, Alicia leaves her native Valladolid to study philosophy in Madrid, where she soon discovers that intelligence is not incompatible with cruelty. Published by Lumen, the book maps the geography of academic life – an environment where intellectual talent inevitably collides with class differences. It introduces the Spanish literary scene to the so-called campus novel, one of the most popular genres in recent Anglo-American literature.

    If you access Agapea.com via Iberia Club Store you can collect more than 176 Avios with this novel by one of the most promising voices in contemporary Spanish literature.

  4. 4 Poemas de amor. Antología (Love Poems: An Anthology), by Mario Benedetti. Selected and introduced by Elvira Sastre

    Also published by Alfaguara, one of the great figures of Latin American literature returns to bookshops with the help of poet Elvira Sastre. Released on 17 March, this anthology brings together a selection of poems chosen by Sastre – an avowed admirer of the Uruguayan writer – creating a journey through the many forms and experiences of love. Benedetti, author of celebrated poems such as ‘Hagamos un trato’ (‘Let’s Make a Deal’) and ‘La casa y el ladrillo’ (‘The House and the Brick’), has cultivated a wide range of literary genres, from short stories and novels to poetry, literary criticism and essays, in a career that spanned from 1945 until his death in 2009, with several works published posthumously. Elvira Sastre, meanwhile, began her literary career at just 21, when she released her first poetry collection, Cuarenta y tres maneras de soltarse el pelo. Since then, she has published ten books in various formats.

    Through Iberia Club Store you can access Casa del Libro and collect 234 Avios with this sensitive anthology.

  5. 5 Oxígeno (Oxygen), by Marta Jiménez Serrano

    This winter’s literary sensation has been Oxygen, a book in which Marta Jiménez Serrano recounts how she nearly lost her life. The author of bestsellers such as Los nombres propios (Proper Names) suffered a carbon monoxide leak in the boiler of her rented flat on a Saturday in 2020, as the landlord had failed to carry out the required inspections. Unable to detect the substance poisoning their home, she and her partner collapsed and nearly died. In this work, once again published by Alfaguara, Marta Jiménez Serrano reconstructs not only this accident and the moments in which she realised her life was slipping away, but also the preceding years in which she and her partner built a home together – the very home that would betray them – and the months that followed, in which she had to confront the fragility of existence itself. In her first autobiographical work, the author reflects on fear, coping with trauma and the vulnerability inherent in the housing crisis for a generation that will never be able to afford to live in a home of their own.

    Make your purchase at Agapea.com via Iberia Club Store and collectmore than 144 Avios with this powerful account of a near-death experience.

  6. 6 El narco y el nazi (The Narco and the Nazi), by David López Canales and Christian Bergmann

    Pepitas de Calabaza, an independent publishing house based in Logroño, has just released this winner of the Bodegas Olarra-Café Bretón literary prize 2025. Written by Spanish author and screenwriter David López Canales together with German investigative journalist Christian Bergmann, the book tells the story of two men who appear to belong to entirely different worlds yet ultimately cross paths. On one side is Roberto Suárez, the Bolivian drug trafficker who became one of the most prolific narcotics figures in 20th-century Latin America and whose story partly inspired films such as Scarface (1983). On the other is Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief in Lyon and a notorious war criminal during the Nazi occupation of France in World War II, who fled to Bolivia in 1951 with assistance from US intelligence services. El narco y el nazi recounts how these two criminals met in La Paz in the late 1960s, during the dictatorship of General Barrientos, and how they collaborated to build what became the largest cocaine-trafficking network of its time, helping to create – allegedly with CIA backing – the first narco state in history.

    If you access Fnac through Iberia Club Store, you can collect up to 110 Avios with this compelling work of historical investigation.

  7. 7 “Yo, folclórica”, de Juanra López

    Another new release in 2026 is the latest book by journalist and writer Juanra López, which looks at the secrets and confessions of the great divas of copla music. Published by Ediciones Agoeiro, Yo, folclórica reveals what is truth and what is myth in the lives of celebrities of the calibre of Isabel Pantoja, Rocío Jurado, Lola Flores, Carmen Sevilla and Imperio Argentina, among others. All this has been made possible thanks to the testimonies of contemporary figures in the genre such as Pastora Soler and María Peláe, direct relatives and the closest friends of these divas such as Lolita and Charo Reina, and journalists and producers including Carlos Herrera and Rafael Rabay.

    Get this book from 8 April at Casa del Libro by completing your purchase via Iberia Club Store to collect 286 Avios.

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