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For fifteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all powerful Protector. Now someone has gone to the surface and found no destruction, no war. The authorities have been telling a massive lie…

Alice Montgomery goes missing in 2015. Seven years later, her best friend Hannah is bouncing from city to city, forever feeling the need to outrun something, but unsure what. With the niggling need to move nipping at her heels, Hannah decides to return home – a small coastal town in Western Australia – for the first time since she left, to help her mum after surgery and confront their fractured relationship. When Hannah hears that Marnie Montgomery, Alice's mum, has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, she is seized by terror that she will never know the truth of her friend's disappearance.

Born at the end of the old world, Miriam grows up during The Great Reckoning, a sprawling, decades-long war that nearly decimates humanity and strips her of friends and family. Devastated by grief and loneliness, she emotionally exiles herself, avoiding relationships or allegiances, and throws herself into her work--disengagement that serves her when the war finally ends, and The New Society arises.

Hailed as “The Paris Review of BIPOC literature,” Kweli Journal has been a launching pad for many of today’s most celebrated writers. This powerful anthology marks the journal’s 15th anniversary, showcasing 15 unforgettable stories curated by founder Laura Pegram. With a foreword from award-winning author Edwidge Danticat, the narratives included in this vivid anthology explore the devastation of leaving home and the struggle to adapt to reimagined lives, lost loves, distant families, and buried pasts.

This extraordinary Strega Prize-winning novel confirms Domenico Starnone's reputation as one of Italy's greatest living writers. Told against the backdrop of Naples in the 1960s, a city that itself becomes a vivid character in this lush, atmospheric novel, The House on Via Gemito is a masterpiece of Italian fiction.

After her first ex abandoned her and her second ex let her down, Eve has worked hard to rebuild her family’s life and now, she’s doing just fine, or so she thinks. She definitely doesn’t have the time or the energy to trust anyone else with her fragile heart. But then eldest son Tom drops a bombshell and precocious daughter Anna is determined to make Eve see that there is a man in her life who could be absolutely perfect for her.

Slag. Noun. A promiscuous woman, of cheap or questionable character. Mostly derogatory. Sometimes affectionate. Takes one to know one… Sisters Sarah and Juliette are going on a whisky-fuelled campervan road-trip across Scotland to celebrate Juliette’s birthday – and they’re going to dig up some demons from the past.

Tre giorni dura il ritorno a Trieste di Alma, che dalla città è fuggita per rifarsi una vita lontano, e ora è tornata per raccogliere l’imprevista eredità di suo padre. Un uomo senza radici che odiava il culto del passato e i suoi lasciti, un padre pieno di fascino ma sfuggente, che andava e veniva al di là del confine, senza che si potesse sapere che lavoro facesse là nell’isola, all’ombra del maresciallo Tito "occhi di vipera". A Trieste Alma ritrova una mappa dimenticata della sua vita.

هل سمعت عن هذه الرواية من قبل ؟!! إنّها تتربع على صدر قائمة أفضل مئة رواية عربية.

رواية شائكة، مُتعبة وقريبة للقلب، ستشعر بأنَّك عاصرتَ بعض أحداثها وتتفاجىء بأحداث وتفاصيل أخرى لم تنتبه إليها يومًا.

إحدى روايات القائمة القصيرة لجائزة البوكر 2012 على الرَّغم من نهايتها الغريبة والتي خالفت جميع التوقعات، وربما كانت هذه النهاية بحبكتها الذكية السبب في وصول الرواية إلى قائمة البوكر القصيرة.

روايةٌ عجيبة فعلى الرَّغم من قصرها ومن كونها العمل الأول لكاتبها إلّا أنّها استطاعت اقتناص الجوائز الأدبية والتربّع في مجالس الحديث وعلى صفحات مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي.

En esta novela hablan por primera vez y en primera persona algunas de las mujeres que amaron al emperador Carlos V: su madre Juana de Castilla; sus tías Margarita de Austria y Catalina de Aragón; sus hermanas Leonor, Isabel, María y Catalina; su mujer Isabel de Portugal; sus amantes Germana de Foix, Bárbara Blomberg y Johanna van der Gheynst; sus hijas María y Juana; su bastarda Margarita de Parma y sus sobrinas Cristina y Dorotea.

1715: With the country on the brink of rebellion, Dorothy Forster’s life at Bamburgh Hall is ruled by the men in her life – her feckless brothers stirring up trouble at court, her elderly father with his dangerous secrets and the man she loves who the world seems determined to keep her apart from. As tensions grow, Dorothy finds herself caught between the warring factions, danger everywhere. Then Dorothy discovers her family are the keepers of the legendary Rose, the talisman both sides believe will guarantee them victory in this deadly conflict.

When aspiring writer Allison moved to L.A., she expected her life to finally take shape. After years of dwelling in grief over her brother's unexpected and untimely death, and allowing her mercurial parents' feelings and desires to infect her own, she almost feels ready become the main character in her own story again. After a serendipitous run in with famed radio DJ Reid Steinman, an idol of her father’s, Allison is rapidly drawn under his spell, while also developing an unanticipated, tangled relationship with his adult daughter, Maddie.

Behind the Mirror is a deeply emotional and empowering story that pulls back the curtain on a seemingly perfect life. Margaret Sinclair, a successful and admired woman, has everything—or so it seems. Beneath the flawless facade lies a world of hidden pain, where she struggles to survive in an abusive marriage. As she embarks on a journey of self-discovery, courage, and healing, Margaret learns that true strength comes not from pretending, but from facing the truth behind the mask.

Desmitifica la toponimia mágica poniéndoles rostro a los vecinos de carne y hueso que habitan esos lugares. Y no marcha solo en esta aventura. Le acompaña un imaginero de semblanzas, un cazador de horizontes, como es Navia. Ilumina su texto un ilustrador de escenas de cuento como es David de las Heras.

Historias de gente común y vida cotidiana en Zaragoza, Madrid y Barcelona. Gente que debe adaptarse y sobrevivir a una nueva realidad, donde prevalecen la precariedad, la explotación laboral, y las hipotecas.

Alejandría, Egipto, siglo iv. Los cristianos se hacen con el control de la sociedad dejando a un lado a los sabios y filósofos que cultivan y mantienen la sabiduría clásica que hizo de Alejandría una referencia del conocimiento. En este mundo, la joven Hipatia, matemática y astrónoma de refinada cultura, no duda en desafiar a la Iglesia. Tanto su trágica muerte como el silencio que cayó sobre ella fueron el alto precio que hubo de pagar, pero no el único.

"Tenía Baroja un gato, negro como el de los cuentos de brujas, y dos abrigos. Uno oscuro, de paño, de diario, algo raído, y otro que guardaba en el armario, gris, para las ocasiones especiales. Con él y con un pañuelo de seda blanco al cuello, como el de un aviador de biplano, grabó un día para el cine; los pasillos de la casa cruzados de cables y las habitaciones cubiertas de esa luz homicida de los focos. ¿Todo esto consumirá mucha electricidad, no?, preguntaba con persistente racanería."