Javier Cercas is the author of novels, stories and essays. His novel Soldiers of Salamis has sold over 500,000 copies in Spain, been filmed and has been published in twenty languages. He lives in Girona, where he teaches Spanish Literature at the University.

'Javier Cercas is one of the hottest properties in contemporary Spanish fiction ... Cercas is a superficially humorous and profoundly disturbing author. In his novels, reality is less convincing than fiction and fantasy never stranger than truth' Amanda Hopkinson, Observer 'Both funny and sinister ... The Motive is a small comic masterpiece with a satisfyingly bleak ending ... It is a pleasure to read such original, haunting stories in which so much is said with such wit and insight and above all with such refreshing economy' Anne Chisholm, Sunday Telegraph 'Light, clever and enjoyable ... assured and accomplished' Allan Massie, Daily Telegraph 'Javier Cercas has some twisty Nabokovian fun with the plot ... the stories convey a sense of a novelist at play' Financial Times

Javier Cercas is the author of novels, stories and essays. His novel Soldiers of Salamis has sold over 500,000 copies in Spain, been filmed and has been published in twenty languages. He lives in Girona, where he teaches Spanish Literature at the University.

'Javier Cercas is one of the hottest properties in contemporary Spanish fiction ... Cercas is a superficially humorous and profoundly disturbing author. In his novels, reality is less convincing than fiction and fantasy never stranger than truth' Amanda Hopkinson, Observer 'Both funny and sinister ... The Motive is a small comic masterpiece with a satisfyingly bleak ending ... It is a pleasure to read such original, haunting stories in which so much is said with such wit and insight and above all with such refreshing economy' Anne Chisholm, Sunday Telegraph 'Light, clever and enjoyable ... assured and accomplished' Allan Massie, Daily Telegraph 'Javier Cercas has some twisty Nabokovian fun with the plot ... the stories convey a sense of a novelist at play' Financial Times

Javier Cercas is the author of novels, stories and essays. His novel Soldiers of Salamis has sold over 500,000 copies in Spain, been filmed and has been published in twenty languages. He lives in Girona, where he teaches Spanish Literature at the University.

'Javier Cercas is one of the hottest properties in contemporary Spanish fiction ... Cercas is a superficially humorous and profoundly disturbing author. In his novels, reality is less convincing than fiction and fantasy never stranger than truth' Amanda Hopkinson, Observer 'Both funny and sinister ... The Motive is a small comic masterpiece with a satisfyingly bleak ending ... It is a pleasure to read such original, haunting stories in which so much is said with such wit and insight and above all with such refreshing economy' Anne Chisholm, Sunday Telegraph 'Light, clever and enjoyable ... assured and accomplished' Allan Massie, Daily Telegraph 'Javier Cercas has some twisty Nabokovian fun with the plot ... the stories convey a sense of a novelist at play' Financial Times