Land

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

O'farrell, Maggie

Libros del Asteroide

Inédita en español, una nueva pieza del extraordinario universo de Maggie O'Farrell: un libro cautivador sobre la forma en que la familia moldea nuestra vida. Paseando por Londres, Stella se cruza con un hombre que la devuelve a un momento insoportable de su pasado. Este encuentro la perturba tanto que deja inmediatamente el trabajo y, sin avisar a nadie, se instala en un recó...

O'farrell, Maggie

L'altra Editorial

La Stella, jove i plena d'energia, fuig de Londres per enfrontar-se a un secret d'infantesa que li va marcar la vida i va fer que el seu destí quedés lligat per sempre al de la seva germana Nina. A l'altra banda del món, en Jake celebra el cap d'any xinès, però un seguit de circumstàncies tràgiques i una boda precipitada el duran des de Hong Kong fins al Regne Unit, on comença...

O'farrell, Maggie

L'altra Editorial

Plena de l'esperit i l'energia amb què Maggie O'Farrell va il·luminar la història shakespeariana de Hamnet, El retrat de matrimoni ens transporta a la Itàlia del segle XVI. La Lucrezia, tercera filla del poderós duc de Medici, és una noia discreta i independent que creix feliç a l'ombra dels seus germans, lliure per observar els tresors de palau, explorar els passadissos secre...

O'farrell, Maggie

Libros del Asteroide

Un emotivo retrato de ficción de la joven duquesa Lucrezia de Médici, que tuvo que aprender a sobrevivir en una corte turbulenta. Florencia, mediados del siglo XVI. Lucrezia, tercera hija del gran duque Cosimo de' Medici, es una niña callada y perspicaz, con un singular talento para el dibujo, que disfruta de su discreto y tranquilo lugar en el palazzo. Pero cuando muere su he...

O'farrell, Maggie

Headline Book Publishing

On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help.Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. Neither parent knows that one of the children will not survive the week.Hamnet is a...

O'farrell, Maggie

Libros del Asteroide

Women's Prize for Fiction 2020«Su mejor novela hasta la fecha. Hamnet demuestra que siempre hay nuevas historias que contar.» The Guardian Agnes, una muchacha peculiar que parece no rendir cuentas a nadie y que es capaz de crear misteriosos remedios con sencillas combinaciones de plantas, es la comidilla de Stratford, un pequeño pueblo de Inglaterra. Cuando conoce a un joven p...