Editorial Almuzara will launch this work on April 23, coinciding with Book Day. The novel details the expedition of the ambassador of King Henry III of Castile, a journey that began in 1403 and concluded in 1406, taking the reader to the city of Samarkand, in present-day Uzbekistan.

The Embassy to Samarkand will be available at the Algeciras and La Línea Book Fairs, as well as in bookstores and on digital platforms. The official book presentation is scheduled for May 13.

Torremocha, known for his tireless educational work, returns to historical fiction a year after Alí Bey and following the success of The Librarian of Medina Azahara (Almuzara, 2022), which concluded his medieval tetralogy. This series includes titles such as The Cross of Belisarius, The Revenge of the Bastard King, and The Captive of the Alhambra.

With a doctorate in Medieval History and a degree in Philosophy and Letters, Antonio Torremocha has dedicated his career to teaching at Bachillerato and UNED, in addition to directing the Municipal Museum of Algeciras, where he promoted numerous studies on local history and heritage. He is a Full Academician of the Andalusian Academy of History and a member of several prestigious institutions, with research focused on the history of al-Andalus and the Reconquista.

His extensive bibliography combines historical research with narrative. Among his historical works are Algeciras between Christianity and Islam (1994) and Muslim and Christian Algeciras (8th-14th Centuries) (2015). In historical narrative, he has published True History of the Rogue Juan Pedroche (1998), Tariq and Musa, Conquerors of al-Andalus (2011), and more recently, Antonio Meulener, the Spanish Oppenheimer (2024) and The Traitor Hero (2024).