Brooklyn

Mcfadden, Freida

Piatkus

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Welcome to the family," Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh.I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I'll soon learn that the Winchesters' secrets are far more dangerous than my own... Every day I clean the Win...

Ypi, Lea

Allen & Uwin

‘There is something about the human spirit, she would say, that withstands all attempts at offence, injury or humiliation ... we call it dignity'When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps in 1941 posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with unsettling questions. Growing up, she was told records of her grandmother's youth were ...

Kuan, R.f.

Harpercollins Publishers, Ltd

Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick.But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and - inconveniently - in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter Murdoch, is going after him.But Hell is not as t...

Orwell, George

Vintage Books

JOIN THE OBSESSION'These might be the most beautiful books I've ever seen? Get them in an art gallery''The marbled paper ...

Welsh, Irvine

Jonathan Cape

It is the late 1980s, the closing years of Thatcher's Britain. For the Trainspotting crew, a new era is about to begin - a time for hope, for love, for raving.Leaving heroin behind and separated after a drug deal gone wrong, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie each want to feel alive. They fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead; they follow the call of the ...

Oates, Joyce Carol

Fourth State

Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox's car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an u...

Toibin, Colm

Lumen

AMOR, SUSPENSE Y APRENDIZAJE SENTIMENTAL EN EL PIRINEO CATALÁN «El ejemplo más impactante de la tensión emocional de Tóibín» (The Guardian) por el autor multipremiado de Brooklyn, Long Island y El Mago, que ha sido llevada al cine por Andrew Haigh. «Desde la primera línea en una historia de Colm Tóibín uno está sumergido por completo en una conciencia. Da igual que sea una nov...

Toibin, Colm

Debolsillo

The Master es la inimitable mirada de un espléndido escritor, Colm Tóibín, a la vida de uno de los artistas más emblemáticos: Henry James. Podemos imaginarlo por las calles de Londres, intentando buscar consuelo al fracaso de su obra teatral. Más tarde lo vemos caminar por Venecia, cruzando puentes para ir a una recepción fastuosa y aburrida, o rastreando en las aguas de la la...

Tóibín, Colm

Saloria

The Catalan Girls, la novel·la inèdita en anglès de Colm Tóibín, es publica ara en català amb el nom d’Una casa al Pallars. Tres germanes —la Núria, l’Eulàlia i la Montse— marxen de molt joves cap a l’Argentina. Cinquanta anys després, però, i de manera inesperada, els arribarà l’oportunitat de retornar a Burg, el poble del Pall...

Tóibín, Colm

Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona -Cccb

Orwell no podia preveure que la transició de dictadura a democràcia que va viure Espanya a partir del 1975, any de la mort de Franco, seria un model de decòrum, exquisidament coreografiat. ...

Tóibín, Colm

Ara Llibres

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Tóibín, Colm

Arcadia

Els assaigs i apunts aplegats en aquest volum són un exercici de memòria autobiogràfica; són el resultat de reviure els records a través del llenguatge, en què la veu literària i el to els converteix en una nova experiència. No és la crònica duns fets, el que ens arriba, sinó la narració dallò que la distància ha fixat en el relat. Colm Tóibín ens porta a lEnniscorthy de la se...