In 2010, Poon's novel Alex y Robert was broadcast as a BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime and enchanted British audiences with the unlikely tale of an American woman matador in modern Spain. In order to write Novillera, its sequel, Poon trekked across Spain and France, hung out with trainee bullfighters, braved fly-ridden bull ranches, and fought 12 small toro in order to deliver to readers the closest fictional approximation of a front row seat in "crystal-clear...