The City Of Mist Carlos Ruiz Zafón

W&N £14.99 Ruiz Zafón will always be remembered for his magnificent The Cemetery Of Forgotten Books tetralogy, and this posthumously published collection of 11 stories revisits many of the concerns of that series, as well as featuring some of the same characters. Inevitably, it lacks the imaginative heft of his longer works, but two standout stories – about a visit by Gaudí to New York and a reimagining of Cervantes’s creative life – make it worth the price of admission alone.