Thank you for your reply, could not figure out how to reply to you. I did what you suggested but I do not know how to save the master page as a repeating template.
The first page looks ok with the book title and page number, however I can't figure out how you apply that toward all the odd pages.
Try with Page > Apply Master Page, then choose a master page (top right) and to which pages to apply it. There are more infos about that in Scribus Manual (Help > Scribus Manual), please take a look.