Matt Bomer's heart-rending narration in this new audiobook edition offers a fresh and poignant listening experience of Hanya Yanagihara's timeless modern classic. Perfect if you're an A Little Life fan or a new listener. 'I'm not exaggerating when I say this novel challenged everything I thought I knew about love and friendship. It's one of those books that stays with you forever' – Dua Lipa The million-copy bestseller, Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life, by the author of To Paradise, is an immensely powerful and heartbreaking novel of brotherly love and the limits of human endurance. Winner of Fiction of the Year at the British Book Awards Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Shortlisted for the Women's Prize Finalist for the US National Book Award for Fiction When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their centre of gravity. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he'll not only be unable to overcome – but that will define his life forever. 'Yanagihara takes you so deeply into the lives and minds of these characters that you struggle to leave them behind' – The Times Read by Golden Globe winner and star of Fellow Travellers, Matt Bomer. 'Matt Bomer’s narration brings a steady and thoughtful presence to an emotionally intense novel . . . His ability to balance the novel’s dark themes with its moments of warmth ensures a compelling listening experience' – AudioFile Magazine

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A Little Life

'One of the greatest storytellers of our time' Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing In this unforgettable portrait of human frailty and resilience, Kristin Hannah reveals the indomitable character of the modern American pioneer and the spirit of a vanishing Alaska-a place of incomparable beauty and danger. The Great Alone is a daring, beautiful, stay-up-all-night story about love and loss, the fight for survival, and the wildness that lives in both man and nature. ‘A woman has to be tough as steel up here. You can’t count on anyone to save you and your children. You have to be willing to save yourselves’ Thirteen-year-old Leni is coming of age in a tumultuous time. Caught in the riptide of her parents’ passionate, stormy relationship, she dares to hope that Alaska will lead to a better future for her family, and a place to belong. Her mother, Cora, will do anything and go anywhere for the man she loves, even if it means following him into the unknown. As Leni grows up in the shadow of her parents’ increasingly volatile marriage, she meets Matthew. And Matthew – thoughtful, kind, and brave – makes her believe in the possibility of a better life. ‘A masterclass’ - Karen Swan, author of The Stolen Hours ‘A rich, compelling novel of love, sacrifice and survival, as epic as the Alaskan landscape it so vividly describes’ - Kate Morton, author of Homecoming

The Great Alone

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century. From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for growing up in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn, New York demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her family’s erratic and eccentric behavior—such as her father Johnny’s taste for alcohol and Aunt Sissy’s habit of marrying serially without the formality of divorce—no one, least of all Francie, could say that the Nolans’ life lacked drama. By turns heartbreaking and uplifting, the Nolans’ daily experiences are raw with honestly and tenderly threaded with family connectedness. Betty Smith has, in the pages of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, captured the joys of humble Williamsburg life—from “junk day” on Saturdays, when the children traded their weekly take for pennies, to the special excitement of holidays, bringing cause for celebration and revelry. Smith has created a work of literary art that brilliantly captures a unique time and place as well as deeply resonant moments of universal experience. Here is an American classic that ""cuts right to the heart of life,"" hails the New York Times. ""If you miss A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, you will deny yourself a rich experience.""

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

The million-copy bestselling series. Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s heartwarming Tales from the Cafe, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time . . . From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes a story of four new customers each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Cafe Funiculi Funicula's time-travelling offer. Among some faces that will be familiar to readers, we will be introduced to: The man who goes back to see his best friend who died 22 years ago The son who was unable to attend his own mother’s funeral The man who travelled to see the girl who he could not marry The old detective who never gave his wife that gift . . . This beautiful tale tells the story of people who must face up to their past, in order to move on with their lives. Continue the heartwarming storytelling with Before Your Memory Fades, Before We Say Goodbye and Before We Forget Kindness - all out now!

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Tales from the Cafe

The Bestselling Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick 'One of the greatest storytellers of our time' - Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing Soon to be a major motion picture, Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale has captured the hearts of millions of readers becoming a number one bestseller across the world. It is a heart-breakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the endurance of women. 'I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I’d like to be known' This story is about what it was like to be a woman during World War II, when women’s stories were all too often forgotten or overlooked . . . Vianne and Isabelle Mauriac are two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals and passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path towards survival, love and freedom in war-torn France. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime. ‘A rich, compelling novel of love, sacrifice and survival’ – Kate Morton, author of Homecoming ‘Movingly written and plotted with the heartless skill of a Greek tragedy, you’ll keep turning the pages until the last racking sob’ – Daily Mail ‘I loved The Nightingale . . . great characters, great plots, great emotions, who could ask for more in a novel?’ – Isabel Allende, bestselling author of The House of the Spirits ‘A griping tale of family, love, grief and forgiveness’ – Sunday Express The Nightingale has sold more than 4 million copies globally, TIME, February 2021

The Nightingale

Winner of the 1997 Booker Prize. The richly exotic story of the childhood the twins Esthappen and Rahel craft for themselves amongst India’s vats of banana jam and mountains of peppercorns. Here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian novel by a woman. Arundhati Roy’s ‘The God of Small Things’ is an astonishingly rich, fertile novel, teeming with life, colour, heart-stopping language, wry comedy and a hint of magical realism. Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, Southern India, ‘The God of Small Things’ tells the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel. Amongst the vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in their grandmother’s factory, they try to craft a childhood for themselves amidst what constitutes their family – their lonely, lovely mother, their beloved Uncle Chacko (pickle baron, radical Marxist and bottom-pincher) and their avowed enemy Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grand-aunt).

The God of Small Things

La esperada nueva novela de María Gainza: una enigmática y fascinante historia de falsificadores en el mundo del arte bonaerense. Esta es una novela sobre falsificadores y falsarios, con personajes reales que parecen de ficción. La narradora, una crítica de arte que trabajó para una tasadora por cuyas manos pasaban obras falsificadas, relata una historia singular, aunque advierte: «No esperen nombres, estadísticas, fechas. Lo sólido se me escapa, solo queda entre mis dedos una atmósfera imprecisa, técnicamente soy una impresionista de la vieja escuela. Además, todos estos años en el mundo del arte me han vuelto un ser desconfiado. Sospecho en especial de los historiadores que con sus datos precisos y notas heladas a pie de página ejercen sobre el lector una coerción siniestra. Le dicen: "Esto fue así." A esta altura de mi vida yo aprecio las gentilezas, prefiero que me digan: "Supongamos que así sucedió."» En el centro de la trama hay un personaje llamado la Negra, que falsifica lienzos de la pintora Mariette Lydis, retratista de la alta sociedad bonaerense. Aparecen también un lugar llamado Hotel Melancólico en el que viven varios artistas, y una película de culto sobre beatniks bonaerenses en la que asoma la Negra, figura escurridiza donde las haya... Esta es una novela sobre el arte y la vida, sobre el engaño y la manipulación, sobre la realidad y la ficción, sobre lo vivido y lo contado; una narración sinuosa, enigmática y envolvente que seduce y atrapa. Tras deslumbrar a la crítica con El nervio óptico, María Gainza vuelve a tomar el mundo de la pintura como punto de partida y despliega de nuevo su inusitado talento en una obra magnética. «Una voz narrativa que parece capaz de todas las proezas estilísticas» (Ernesto Montequín). «Una voz sorprendente» (Qué Leer). «Nueva y emocionante voz» (Cees Nooteboom).

La luz negra

La novela más adictiva del año de manos de la reina de la novela policíaca británica «Un clásico policial muy sólido.» Juan Carlos Garrido, El País Una casa arde en Oxford… y sus cenizas ocultan una verdad terrible. Las apacibles calles de Oxford se encuentran en plenas celebraciones navideñas, cuando un incendio irrumpe en la oscuridad de la noche. Los bomberos se afanan en apagarlo y logran localizar a dos niños. Pero todos se preguntan dónde están los padres, y más aún cuando se confirma que el incendio fue provocado. Cara Hunter vuelve con una nueva entrega de la serie del inspector Adam Fawley, que deberá descubrir quién ha provocado el fatídico siniestro y por qué. Tras ¿Quién se ha llevado a Daisy Mason? y El sótano de Oxford, este es, sin duda, el caso más aterrador al que deberá enfrentarse el detective. Han dicho de ella: «Fascinante.» Shari Lapena «No podrás dejarlo.» Peter James «Absorbente.» Ian Rankin La crítica ha dicho:/b> «Crea tensión con maestría y juega al despiste con el lector hasta el final. Publishers Weekly «Recuerda al mejor Hitchcock, con giro tras giro y un ritmo trepidante. Menudo talento.» Daily Mail «Una experiencia que te sumerge en una lectura compulsiva.» Scotsman «Un misterio que te engancha y te mantiene en vilo hasta la última página.» Daily Express «Te atrapa.» The Irishman «Hunter se confirma como una maestra del suspense.» The Sunday Times «Admirable el dominio del ritmo y de la tensión.» The Times

Fuego en Oxford

El libro que faltaba de Almudena Grandes. Las historias y las escenas cotidianas que resumen el mundo de una escritora irrepetible. « Escalera interior es Almudena en estado puro.» Luis Landero «Almudena Grandes era una maestra en contar el momento histórico a través de la vida cotidiana. Era insustituible… Y ahí nos dejó otros Episodios Nacionales monumentales.» Pepa Bueno «Almudena mira por una mirilla y te invita a que lo hagas tú también... Te haces una idea muy clara de cómo era ella como mujer, como persona y como activista.» Carmen Machi «El último regalo de Almudena Grandes. Pequeñas historias extraordinarias de la gente común.» Cristina Ros, Eldiario.es «La épica de los pequeños momentos … Un deleite y un goce, además de un homenaje a una de nuestras escritoras más notables.» Javier García Recio, Faro de Vigo «Debería ser lectura obligatoria en todos los colegios. Hay un momento en que las distintas generaciones literarias se acarician y este texto lo demuestra con una atrevida y perturbadora ambición emocional.» Sonia Fides, Heraldo de Aragón «Una oda a lo cotidiano y a la educación sentimental.» Marta Alberca, ElPlural Escalera interior es el murmullo de los patios de luces que recogen olores de guisos, ruidos de cacharros y cucharones, risas, confidencias susurradas a media voz, buenos días y buenas noches que se intercambian en el rellano; es el murmullo que recoge nuestra rutina, la de la gente de a pie, en esas realidades pequeñas que son las que esconden las grandes historias. Las que, durante años, Almudena Grandes imaginó y regaló a sus lectores en El País Semanal, donde, cada quince días, a veces como narraciones, otras como escenas, y otras más como crónicas, levantaba personajes, vidas que merecían ser contadas. Como la suya, porque en estos artículos Almudena Grandes también se convertía en anfitriona y nos invitaba a entrar en su cocina, en su casa, en su mundo, que olía al salitre de Cádiz, al bullicio de Madrid. De ese modo, estas historias, que son relatos, también nos ayudan a conocer mejor a la mujer detrás de la escritora, esa que siempre supo vernos, narrarnos, entender las miserias y las grandezas humanas que oculta cada uno de esos rostros con los que nos cruzamos por la calle. Reunidos y ordenados ahora por Elisa Ferrer, las narraciones de este libro muestran una vez más la maestría y la capacidad de evocación de una de las autoras españolas más recordadas y queridas de la literatura española reciente.

Andanzas

Escalera interior

El best seller del nuevo maestro del terror, Grady Hendrix Cuando Louise se entera de que sus padres han muerto, teme volver a casa. No quiere dejar a su pequeña con su ex y volar a Charleston. No quiere enfrentarse al domicilio familiar, donde se amontonan los restos de la vida académica de su padre y de la constante obsesión de su madre por los títeres y los muñecos. No quiere aprender a vivir sin las dos personas que mejor la han conocido y más la han querido del mundo entero. Sobre todo, no quiere tener que lidiar con su hermano, Mark, que nunca ha salido de Charleston, es incapaz de conservar un empleo y no lleva bien el éxito de Louise. Por desgracia, ella lo necesita, porque, para vender esa casa, va a hacer falta algo más que una manita de pintura y retirar los recuerdos de toda una vida. Pero hay casas que no se dejan vender, y la de Louise y Mark tiene otros planes para ellos dos… Grady Hendrix, autor superventas del New York Times, aborda el clásico de la casa encantada en una nueva y apasionante novela que explora hasta qué punto el pasado ―y la familia― pueden llegar a aterrarnos más que cualquier otra cosa.

Cómo vender una casa encantada

Primero llegan la tormenta y el rayo y la muerte de Domènec, el campesino poeta. Luego, Dolceta, que no puede parar de reír mientras cuenta las historias de las cuatro mujeres a las que colgaron por brujas. Sió, que tiene que criar sola a Mia e Hilari ahí arriba en Matavaques. Y las trompetas de los muertos, que, con su sombrero negro y apetitoso, anuncian la inmutabilidad del ciclo de la vida. Canto yo y la montaña baila es una novela en la que toman la palabra mujeres y hombres, fantasmas y mujeres de agua, nubes y setas, perros y corzos que habitan entre Camprodon y Prats de Molló, en los Pirineos. Una zona de alta montaña y de frontera que, más allá de la leyenda, conserva la memoria de siglos de lucha por la supervivencia, de persecuciones guiadas por la ignorancia y el fanatismo, de guerras fratricidas, pero que encarna también una belleza a la que no le hacen falta muchos adjetivos. Un terreno fértil para liberar la imaginación y el pensamiento, las ganas de hablar y de contar historias. Un lugar, quizás, para empezar de nuevo y encontrar cierta redención. De la obra de Irene Solà se ha dicho: «Lo que triunfa en todo el relato es la alegría de narrar» (Ponç Puigdevall, El País); «El oficio narrativo entendido como un esfuerzo de construcción, de ir y volver, de no dar nada por bueno a la primera, de jugar con la fina línea que separa la realidad y la ficción» (Esteve Plantada, Nació Digital). «Una novela que pone voz a aquellos que jamás pudieron contar su propia historia» (Gemma Marchena, Última Hora)

Canto yo y la montaña baila

Una versión inusitada de la tragedia clásica pasada por el tamiz de una sensibilidad moderna y salpicada de referencias culturales contemporáneas, sensualidad y un fino sentido del humor. Murakami en estado puro. Kafka Tamura se va de casa el día en que cumple quince años. Los motivos, si es que los hay, son las malas relaciones con su padre –un famoso escultor convencido de que su hijo repetirá el aciago sino del Edipo de la tragedia clásica– y la sensación de vacío producida por la ausencia de su madre y su hermana, que se marcharon también cuando él era muy pequeño. Sus pasos le llevarán al sur del país, a Takamatsu, donde encontrará refugio en una peculiar biblioteca y conocerá a la misteriosa señora Saeki. Si sobre la vida de Kafka se cierne la tragedia (en el sentido clásico), sobre la de Satoru Nakata ya se ha abatido: de niño, durante la segunda guerra mundial, sufrió un extraño accidente del que salió con secuelas, sumido en una especie de olvido de sí, con dificultades para comunicarse... salvo con los gatos. A los sesenta años abandona Tokio y emprende un viaje que le conducirá también a la biblioteca de Takamatsu. Así, las vidas y destinos de los personajes se van entretejiendo en un curso inexorable que no atiende a razones ni voluntades. Pero, a veces, hasta los oráculos se equivocan.

Kafka en la orilla

Vivir con miedo a perder es negarse a vivir. El esperado regreso a la novela de Paul Auster. «El retrato de este hombre reflexivo que abraza la pérdida y el amor es una revelación magnífica y llena de suspense de los dramas encubiertos de cualquier vida.» Booklist «Una emocionante reflexión acerca de lo que significa amar a alguien. A Auster siempre le han encantado el azar, el eco, y en Baumgartner, esa obsesión maravilla y electriza.» Financial Times «Una novela preciosa sobre el consuelo de la memoria. Un libro para subrayar.» Publishers Weekly Baumgartner es un eminente escritor y profesor universitario, tan excéntrico como increíblemente tierno, que hace nueve años perdió a su mujer. Su vida estuvo definida por el amor profundo y duradero que sentía hacia Anna y ahora, con 71 años, continúa luchando por vivir en su ausencia. Su historia común arranca en 1968, cuando se conocen como estudiantes sin dinero en Nueva York y a pesar de ser casi opuestos en muchos aspectos, inician una apasionada relación que se prolongará a lo largo de cuarenta años. La superación del duelo por la pérdida de Anna se intercala con historias maravillosas -desde su juventud en Newark hasta la vida de revolucionario fracasado de su padre en Europa del Este- y con una poderosa reflexión acerca del modo en que amamos en distintas etapas de la vida.

Biblioteca Formentor

Baumgartner

Lowen Ashleigh recibe un encargo que le cambiará la vida: Jeremy, el flamante marido de Verity Crawford, una de las autoras más importantes del momento, la contrata para terminar la serie de libros en la que trabajaba su mujer antes de sufrir un grave accidente que la ha dejado en coma. Cuando Lowen se instala en la mansión del matrimonio para poder trabajar con los materiales de Verity, descubre una autobiografía escondida en la que Verity hace confesiones escalofriantes. Lowen decide ocultarle el manuscrito a Jeremy, pero a medida que sus sentimientos por él comienzan a intensificarse, se da cuenta que ella podría beneficiarse si Jeremy leyera las palabras de su mujer.

Verity. La sombra de un engaño

Todo final tiene un principio. Y todo empezó con Atlas. La esperada continuación de Romper el círculo (It Ends with Us). Lily y su exmarido, Ryle, acaban de pactar la custodia compartida de su niña cuando Lily se encuentra de nuevo con su primer amor, Atlas. Después de casi dos años separados, está entusiasmada porque, por una vez, el tiempo está de su lado, e inmediatamente dice que sí cuando Atlas le pide una cita. Pero su alegría se desvanece cuando piensa que, aunque ya no están casados, Ryle sigue teniendo un papel en la familia, y no consentirá que Atlas Corrigan esté presente en su vida y en la de su hija. V olver a empezar alterna entre las perspectivas de Lily y Atlas y continúa justo donde nos dejó Romper el círculo. Descubriremos más sobre el pasado de Atlas y seguiremos a Lily en busca de una segunda oportunidad de encontrar el amor verdadero mientras tiene que lidiar con un exmarido celoso.

Volver a empezar (It Starts with Us)

Una bellísima novela sobre la gratitud, sobre lo importante que es poder dar las gracias a aquellos que nos han ayudado en la vida. «Hoy ha muerto una anciana a la que yo quería. A menudo pensaba: "Le debo tanto." O: "Sin ella, probablemente ya no estaría aquí." Pensaba: "Es tan importante para mí." Importar, deber. ¿Es así como se mide la gratitud? En realidad, ¿fui suficientemente agradecida? ¿Le mostré mi agradecimiento como se merecía? ¿Estuve a su lado cuando me necesitó, le hice compañía, fui constante?», reflexiona Marie, una de las narradoras de este libro. Su voz se alterna con la de Jérôme, que trabaja en un geriátrico y nos cuenta: «Soy logopeda. Trabajo con las palabras y con el silencio. Con lo que no se dice. Trabajo con la vergüenza, con los secretos, con los remordimientos. Trabajo con la ausencia, con los recuerdos que ya no están y con los que resurgen tras un nombre, una imagen, un perfume. Trabajo con el dolor de ayer y con el de hoy. Con las confidencias. Y con el miedo a morir. Forma parte de mi oficio.» A ambos personajes –Marie y Jérôme– los une su relación con Michka Seld, una anciana cuyos últimos meses de vida nos relatan estas dos voces cruzadas. Marie es su vecina: cuando era niña y su madre se ausentaba, Michka cuidaba de ella. Jérôme es el logopeda que intenta que la anciana, que acaba de ser ingresada en un geriátrico, recupere aunque sea parcialmente el habla, que va perdiendo por culpa de una afasia. Y ambos personajes se involucrarán en el último deseo de Michka: encontrar al matrimonio que, durante los años de la ocupación alemana, la salvó de morir en un campo de exterminio acogiéndola y ocultándola en su casa. Nunca les dio las gracias y ahora querría mostrarles su gratitud... Escrita con un estilo contenido, casi austero, esta narración a dos voces nos habla de la memoria, el pasado, el envejecimiento, las palabras, la bondad y la gratitud hacia aquellos que fueron importantes en nuestras vidas. Son las respectivas gratitudes las que unen a los tres inolvidables personajes cuyas historias se entrelazan en esta conmovedora y deslumbrante novela. «Delphine de Vigan continúa su valiosa exploración de los sentimientos íntimos que rigen nuestra existencia, iniciada con Las lealtades» (Corinne Renou-Nativel, La Croix). «Una novela de una fuerza extraordinaria sobre las deudas morales y los lazos invisibles» (Mohammed Aïssaoui, Le Figaro). «Una novela dulce como un bálsamo que habla del humanismo y de lo que debemos a los demás» (Nathalie Collard, La Presse). «Conmovedora, realista, es a la vez un ejercicio de estilo y una invitación a decir gracias, con palabras y gestos, antes de que sea demasiado tarde» (Marie-France Bornais, Le Journal de Québec). «Solar y delicada» (Raphaëlle Leyris, Le Monde).

Las gratitudes

MÁS DE 10 MILLONES DE LECTORES NO PUEDEN EQUIVOCARSE. Lisa Jewell regresa con una inquietante novela que ha arrasado internacionalmente. Thriller del Año en los British Book Awards. Crime Book del Año en los Fingerprints Awards. Alix Summer, presentadora de un popular pódcast, celebra su cuadragésimo quinto cumpleaños en un pub. Allí conoce a Josie Fair, quien también está celebrando su cumpleaños, y descubren que nacieron el mismo día en el mismo hospital. Unos días más tarde vuelven a coincidir, esta vez fuera del instituto de los hijos de Alix. Josie ha estado escuchando todos sus programas y cree que su vida podría ser un tema interesante para su programa . Lo que de entrada parece una buena idea, poco a poco se va convirtiendo en algo inquietante y extraño. Josie consigue meterse en la vida de Alix… y en su hogar, convirtiéndose Alix en la protagonista de su propio pódcast. ¿Quién es realmente Josie Fair? ¿Y qué oculta? «El thriller más apasionante que leí este año», Daily Express. «Sumamente retorcida», Emily Henry. «Ignorarás todo y a todos hasta que hayas terminado», India Knight. «Absolutamente brillante», Clare Mackintosh.

Nada de esto es verdad

«Todavía recuerdo aquel amanecer en que mi padre me llevó por primera vez a visitar el Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados.» Un amanecer de 1945, un muchacho es conducido por su padre a un misterioso lugar oculto en el corazón de la ciudad vieja: el Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. Allí, Daniel Sempere encuentra un libro maldito que cambia el rumbo de su vida y le arrastra a un laberinto de intrigas y secretos enterrados en el alma oscura de la ciudad. La Sombra del Viento es un misterio literario ambientado en la Barcelona de la primera mitad del siglo xx, desde los últimos esplendores del Modernismo hasta las tinieblas de la posguerra. Aunando las técnicas del relato de intriga y suspense, la novela histórica y la comedia de costumbres, La Sombra del Viento es sobre todo una trágica historia de amor cuyo eco se proyecta a través del tiempo. Con gran fuerza narrativa, el autor entrelaza tramas y enigmas a modo de muñecas rusas en un inolvidable relato sobre los secretos del corazón y el embrujo de los libros cuya intriga se mantiene hasta el final.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

La Sombra del Viento

Young Charlotte Mortimer loves her job teaching the poor children in the local school and she is happy with her steadfast fiancé Luke. Then, one day, a terrible mining explosion rocks the town and suddenly everything Charlotte thinks she knows is thrown into doubt. The arrival of wealthy businessman Justin Harvard complicates things further. Charlotte must marry him to save the school she loves even if it means sacrificing everything else that is dear to her. There are secrets and lies at every turn to challenge her; will she ever make it as a bargain bride? And can she ever love the austere man who has married her and saved her beloved school from certain destruction?

Bargain Bride

When his plane crash-lands in the Mexican desert, Walter Faber experiences the first of several remarkable coincidences that lead him almost unconsciously on a personal journey into his past. Faber is a truly dedicated technologist-engineer: he distrusts emotions and believes only in the calculable. Yet it is by a series of totally incalculable events that he encounters a lost friend, a former lover, and a daughter he has never known, until gradually he is caught in a tragedy of starkly classical horror. Ranging from New York to the sweating jungles of Guatemala, and from Dusseldorf to the ruins of Corinthm he is moved relentlessly along a path towards illumination, fulfilment, and destruction. Homo Faber penetrates deeply into the soul of modern man, who arrogantly assumes the superiority of his own handiwork over nature's. But this common attitude often masks an ingrained self-distrust, a sense of inadequacy, and alientation from one's deepest and most genuine feelings. A recurring theme in Frisch's writing is man's need to rediscover his past, derive self-knowledge, and atone for his failings. Caught by the fate they have prepared for themselves, his characters discover their own existence in a "sphere where the comic and the tragic meet". And Frisch, as one critic has remarked, "is one of the rare writers who can show both at once".

Homo Faber (Unabridged)

Devon, 1918. When Jessie Hale loses her nursing job, she leaves London to become the nurse maid to the Kendle family. On arrival she finds the family in disarray. When their elderly Nanny suffers a bad fall, Jessie has to try to bring the household together. Gradually Jessie finds her place in their lives. Jessie soon starts to love her life at Kendlebury Hall, but problems arise when her feelings for her employer start to change…

Jessie's Promise

Jessie Price has travelled the drovers' roads from South Wales to London's Smithfield Market, and becomes a milkmaid in London. Her ambition to own her own dairy grows, and she is helped by young Albie. Meanwhile, Non Jones is miserable when Caradoc leaves her and their son to go to London on the drove, and when she receives news of a terrible accident, her world falls apart. Jessie is devastated when Albie is arrested and sent to Newgate prison. She knows that he is innocent, and will rely on Non to speak for him in court. But Non has many worries of her own, and hasn't given up hope that she will be reunited with Caradoc . . .

Halfpenny Field

La aventura americana de Rafael Guastavino, el arquitecto español de Nueva York. Nueva York 1881: en uno de los barrios más populares malviven el pequeño Rafaelito y su padre, Rafael, un reputado maestro de obras valenciano que lucha por demostrar su talento en la gran urbe. Lo acecha la ruina absoluta. Pero gracias a su genio infatigable, ese hombre alcanzará fama y fortuna al construir los edificios emblemáticos que han dado su perfil a Nueva York. Javier Moro nos presenta al singularísimo Rafael Guastavino, un auténtico genio de la construcción que deslumbró a los grandes magnates norteamericanos, conquistados por las técnicas que empleaba en sus obras para evitar los incendios, el mayor mal de las megalópolis del siglo XIX. Tuvo una vida jalonada de éxitos: de su estudio salieron construcciones tan «neoyorquinas» como la Estación Central, el gran hall de la isla de Ellis, parte del metro, el Carnegie Hall o el Museo Americano de Historia Natural.

ESPASA NARRATIVA

A prueba de fuego

Jo Docherty and Hattie Contaldo have a vision – a holiday retreat in the heart of the Lake District exclusively for guests of "a certain age" wishing to stimulate both mind and body with new creative experiences. One hotel refurbishment later and the Best Boomerville Hotel is open for business! Perhaps not surprisingly Boomerville attracts more than its fair share of eccentric clientele: there's fun-loving Sir Henry Mulberry and his brother Hugo; an impoverished artist with more ego than talent; a charming Porsche-driving James Bond lookalike, as well as Kate Simmons, a woman who made her fortune from an internet dating agency but still hasn't found "The One" herself. Will the residents get more than they bargained for at Boomerville?

The Best Boomerville Hotel

From the ashes of the war, can love blossom? Rhian Gray left her home in Sweyn's Eye to make a life for herself in Yorkshire, where she learnt the skills of spinning and weaving. She also learnt to love Mansel Jack, a charismatic and ambitious mill-owner. When Rhian returns to Sweyn's Eye, it is to a town torn apart by anxiety and uncertainty, by the devastation of the Great War, a town whose worker's lives are governed by fear. Amidst the anguish and dedication of the women who were left behind, Rhian must decide where her own future lies - in respectable marriage to Heath Jenkins, her former sweetheart - or in the arms of Mansel Jack.

Sweyn's Eye

Spinner's Wharf

Darby Kane thrills with this twisty domestic suspense novel that asks one central question: shouldn't a dead husband stay dead? Lila Ridgefield lives in an idyllic college town, but not everything is what it seems. Lila isn’t what she seems. A student vanished months ago. Now, Lila’s husband, Aaron, is also missing. At first these cases are treated as horrible coincidences until it’s discovered the student is really the third of three unexplained disappearances over the last few years. The police are desperate to find the connection, if there even is one. Little do they know they might be stumbling over only part of the truth…. With the small town in an uproar, everyone is worried about the whereabouts of their beloved high school teacher. Everyone except Lila, his wife. She’s definitely confused about her missing husband but only because she was the last person to see his body, and now it’s gone.

Pretty Little Wife

This brilliant audio edition is read by actor, comedian and writer Cariad Lloyd, as seen on Have I Got News for You, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Peep Show and creator of GriefCast ‘This year’s Eleanor Oliphant’ Claire Allan ‘Astonishing’ Ruth Hogan‘Strikingly brilliant’ Sun Jillian Safinova can do many things. She can speak five languages. She can tell when someone is lying from the sound of their voice. And she can always find a silver lining. But there’s one thing Nova can’t do. She can’t see. When her brother convinces her to have an operation that will restore her sight, Nova wakes up to a world she no longer understands. And then she meets Kate, whose past hides a different kind of darkness. Together, can they both open their eyes to the lives they could be living? Everyone is talking about The Rules of Seeing: ‘A tender, tense drama about love and the unexpected places you can find it’ Sunday Express ‘A quirky love story which promises to make you see the world in a completely new way’ Daily Mail ‘Joe Heap’s fascinating debut makes you think about the things most of us take for granted’Good Housekeeping ‘An inspiring story of love, loss and friendship’ #1 bestselling author Catherine Alliott ‘It really made me re-evaluate how I see the world…outstanding’Katy Regan, author of Big Little Man ‘A book that reveals the world in a different light and changes the way you see it…Extraordinary’ Sunday Times bestseller Miranda Dickinson ‘Startlingly, outstandingly good’ Benjamin Ludwig, author of Ginny Moon

The Rules of Seeing

Single mother Sally Lachlan has a secret that has haunted her for a decade, although perhaps it is time to let it go. A chance meeting with a fellow scientist, the charismatic geneticist Anthony Blake, reawakens her desire for love. But as Sally finally lets down her guard, her teenage daughter Charlie begins to ask questions about her late father. As Sally delves into her history, guided by her therapist Helen, old events are turned over and examined – memories of her husband Jeff, her friend Zoë, and what really happened between the three of them all those years ago. Both the past and the future are places Sally prefers not to think about, but if she wants to find happiness, she must first come to terms with her previous marriage. Only then can she be honest with Charlie…and herself.

A Perfect Marriage

Emma Price is only a pit bank wench, but she wins the love of Paul Felton, younger brother of the colliery owner. Carver Felton has no intention of seeing his brother throw away his future and rapes Emma, leaving her pregnant. Emma is taken in by butcher Samuel Hollington and his wife and gives birth to her son. Once Carver Felton has achieved his business ambitions, he turns his attentions to finding an heir to the Felton fortune.

Pit Bank Wench

Working at the Foyles bookshop was Molly Cooper's dream job. But with the country at war, she's determined to do her bit. So she gathers her courage and sets off for the East End - and her first day working at Silvertown munitions factory. It's hard manual labour, and Molly must face the trials and tribulations of being the new girl in addition to the relentless physical work. The happy-ever-afters she read about in the pages of her beloved books have been lost to the war. And yet the munitions girls unite through their sense of duty, and the friendships that blossom in the most unlikely of settings. . .

Foyles Girls

The Foyles Bookshop Girls at War

Ireland, 1851. After enduring years of the devastating potato famine, Ellen Kittrick is a survivor. To put food on the table, and to stop the landowner's agent from tearing down their cottage due to unpaid rent, Ellen defies her family and works at an Englishman's manor. But with an unemployed husband, and a secretive brother-in-law wanting her for his own, she must face every challenge with new strength. With aid coming from the unlikely source of Englishman Rafe Hamilton, Ellen leaves Ireland with what is left of her family to start again in a new country. But will the colony give her the security and happiness she longs for, especially when she has left her heart behind? Can Ellen thrive in a strange land - or has she made the greatest mistake of her life?

Distant Series

A Distant Horizon

When Betty Palmer's sister dies under suspicious circumstances whilst landing her Tiger Moth, Betty and three other women pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary in WWII England unite to discover who killed her and why. Estranged from her family, Penny Blake wants simply to belong. American Doris Winter, running from a personal tragedy, yearns for a new start. Naturally shy Mary Whitworth-Baines struggles to fit in. Together though, they are a force to be reckoned with as they face the mystery that confronts them. Against the backdrop of war, when ties of friendship are exceptionally strong, they strive to unravel the puzzle's complex threads, risking their lives as they seek justice for Betty's sister.

A Wing and a Prayer

1914, Australia: As war is declared, the idyllic world of Blue Water Station is torn apart when Oliver, the eldest grandson and heir, shares his desire to enlist in the army. His enthusiasm ignites his brother, cousins and friends to do the same, but upsets his sister, Tilly. After a tragic family incident, she is left to run the cattle station and take care of the older folk. A chance meeting with a sophisticated lieutenant opens up a friendship through letters, but it's a rogue stockman who attracts her attention – with dire consequences… Surviving a baptism of battle fire in Gallipoli, Oliver is sent to the Western Front. But as the terrors of war impact him, he feels the heavy guilt of encouraging the others to follow him into combat. Will he, and they, ever make it home to Blue Water?

Kitty McKenzie

Southern Sons

Even in wartime, East End girl Nancy Evans has reason to hope. She's a rising star in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force and she'll be walking down the aisle any day now . . . but then a brutal night of bombing changes her life forever. Newly pregnant and single, Nancy swaps her blue uniform for a pinny, taking on housekeeping duties for handsome village doctor, David Denny. And though Nancy tries to stay cheerful and contribute to the war effort in any way she can, it isn't long before she finds herself leaning on David for comfort. . . But Nancy soon learns not everyone approves of her Poplar roots - or her romantic entanglement with David.

Girls in Blue

The East End Girl in Blue

Autor de una obra relativamente breve, pero inagotable en cuanto a imaginación y elegante en cuanto a depuración del lenguaje, Augusto Monterroso ha alumbrado algunas de las páginas más sobresalientes de la literatura hispanoamericana. Con su estilo impecable y engañosamente sencillo, siempre buscó huir del encasillamiento y la rutina, lo que le llevó a cultivar casi todos los géneros y parodiarlos con humor y maestría. El resultado es una obra de una riqueza extraordinaria que sigue sorprendiendo por su condensación en tan poco espacio. Este volumen recopila toda su obra de ficción: cuatro títulos que reúnen todos sus microrrelatos, cuentos y fábulas, algunos ensayos breves y otros textos narrativos, además de su única novela, Lo demás es silencio.

Cuentos, fábulas y lo demás es silencio

When her feisty grandmama takes her travelling, Prue is excited to explore outside of England. Determined to make the most of her holiday and have some fun, she wasn't prepared to meet a man who would make her question herself. In need of distraction, Brandon spends his time climbing mountains in Europe. The last thing he expected was to meet an attractive English rose with the same edgy spirit as himself. When Prue reveals past mistakes to Brandon, he must decide if she is the woman for him, but a tragic accident makes them both confront deeper feelings. Can they find in each other the missing element they need to make them whole, or will previous anguish taint their future?

Prue

She glanced down at the drawer in which she kept all her floppy disks. That and all the other drawers had been pulled out and thrown on the floor. They were empty, of course; along with the disks, all her notebooks and photographs were missing. Her last connections with the seventh scroll were lost. after three years of work, gone was the proof it had ever existed. A hunt for treasure. A battle to stay alive. When Royan Al Simma is the victim of a vicious attack that leaves her husband dead, her only thought is that she must continue their joint work: to use the secrets of the seventh scroll to find the hidden tomb of Pharaoh Mamose, and its untold trove of lost Egyptian riches. To do so, she must bury her grief and partner with the eccentric aristocrat Nicholas Quenton-Harper, a man who shares her passion for the ancient world. But the men who killed her husband are not yet finished. As Royan and Nicholas draw closer to the Pharoah's tomb, enemies are gathering - people who will stop at nothing to ensure the scroll's promised treasures are kept from Roman's hands.... The second book in the epic Egyptian series.

Egypt Series

The Seventh Scroll

Everyone thinks Lexi is crazy when she falls in love with Hollingsworth House, a crumbling old Georgian mansion in Yorkshire – and nobody more so than her husband, Dylan. But there's something very special about the place, and Lexi can sense it. Whilst exploring the grounds, she stumbles across an old diary, and within its pages she meets Allie, an Australian nurse who worked in France during the First World War. Lexi finally realises her dream of buying Hollingsworth, but her obsession with the house leaves her marriage in tatters. In the lonely nights that follow, Allie's diary becomes Lexi's companion, comforting her in moments of darkness and pain. As she reads, the nurse's scandalous connection to her beloved house is revealed, and Lexi realises that sometimes a glimpse of the past can help make sense of the future…

Where Dragonflies Hover

Join the Marsh family again as they spend Christmas with Millie and Jeremy at Chateau Dumont. It's a time of coming together, yet sisters Prue and Cece have very different ideas about how to celebrate the holiday and their clash of personalities also causes damage to their hearts. All Millie wants is a happy home, yet her warring sisters try her patience and she's stuck in the middle! Not only that, but her husband Jeremy is dealing with his own problems regarding his parentage, her mother is acting strangely, and her grandmother is as opinionated as always! Will Christmas at the Chateau bring the family together or tear them apart?

The Marsh Sagas

Christmas at the Chateau

Dazzlingly inventive, witty and mysterious: a writer pieces together the story of a young man's death in an exhilarating narrative puzzle reminiscent of the hit podcast Serial. A young man dies in a car crash – accident or suicide? An unnamed writer with an agenda of his own sets out to piece together Samuel's story. From friends, relatives and neighbours, a portrait emerges of a loving son, reluctant bureaucrat, contrived poser, loyal friend. But who was Samuel really, and what happened to him? In filling out the contours of his existence, the writer grasps at a fundamental question: how do we account for the substance of a life? Winner of the August Prize, Everything I Don’t Remember is an International Bestseller. Read for you by Jack Hawkins, reader of Station Eleven.

Everything I Don't Remember

It begins with the normally healthy Beth - aged-care worker, wife of David, mother of Lettie and Gem - feeling vaguely off-colour. A locum sends her to Dr Yi for some tests. 'There are a few things here that aren't quite right,' says Dr Yi, 'and sometimes it is these little wrongnesses that can lead us to the bigger wrongs that matter.' Beth is sent on to Dr Twoomey for more tests. Then to another specialist, and another. Referral after referral sees her bumped from suburb to suburb, bewildered, joining busloads of people all clutching white envelopes and hoping for answers. But what is actually wrong with Beth - IS anything, in fact, wrong with her? And what strange forces are at work in the system?

The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke

Accused of killing her brother, Rachel Cade is sent to the workhouse to await trial. There, handsome landowner Jared Lytton comes to her rescue.  Despite being vindicated, Rachel is forced to leave the village. She meets the widow Beulah Thomas and her son William. Working on their farm, she is treated with kindness and when William asks for her hand in marriage, she agrees. But Rachel cannot forget Jared Lytton, whose path seems destined to cross hers.

A Promise Given

Cece is gifted a cottage in the Scottish Highlands. She doesn't want a cottage or to go to Scotland. But Cece learns that another 'unwanted gift' is suddenly very real and forces her to flee to Scotland. Old, rundown and in need of some tender care like Cece, the cottage becomes her bolt hole to lick her wounds. Only, she didn't plan on sharing her home with a runaway orphan or finding herself the interest of the local schoolteacher. And there's a certain brooding Highlander that she can't quite work out. . .However, just when Cece believes she might find her happy ever after, she is taught to take nothing for granted. Hurtful secrets are revealed, and happiness is destroyed. Who can she trust? Then, when she is at her lowest, one man shows her that not all is lost.

Marsh Sagas

Cece

1915. Working in a bustling cafe on London's Shaftesbury Avenue, Joyce Taylor dreams of opening her own restaurant. But when the man she loves enlists in the war, and a surprise request comes through from her dying grandmother, Joyce's life gets turned upside down. Struggling to keep the cafe afloat with her newfound responsibilities, it's not long before Joyce starts to feel the pressure might be all too much. Luckily, her supportive friends Annie and Rose are on hand to help. Despite all the madness, can Joyce find a way to make her dreams come true? And will her love story have a happy ending?

The West End Girls

Big Dreams for the West End Girls

Thirty-something jeweller, Emma Hamilton, returns to her childhood home town of Tingara, a charming historic village in the foothills of the Victorian Alps. Builder, Malcolm Webster, commutes to Tingara from nearby Bendigo each weekend to work on restoring a beautiful old Victorian homestead. When Emma and Mal meet, attraction flares; but he is younger and, wary after her failed marriage, Emma is not in the market for romance. Will Mal's humour and charm break down her barriers?

Tingara

Emma's Place

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A GUARDIAN FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A monstrous and brilliant book' Philip Pullman 'Wholly mesmerising and revelatory... Completely fascinating' William Boyd Sometimes discovery brings destruction When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness. Some of their discoveries revolutionise our world for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear. With breakneck pace and wondrous detail, Benjamín Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to break open the stories of scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible.

When We Cease to Understand the World

Perfect for fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid & A Star is Born, get swept away to the summer of love with this unforgettable, escapist hit… _________________________________________________________________ ‘If you enjoyed Daisy Jones and The Six, this will be a big hit with you too’ Red ‘Utterly transporting’Stylist The summer of 1969: Rising singer-songwriters Jane Quinn and Jesse Reid looked untouchable. Captivating crowds in festival meadows, lighting up turntables, intoxicating fans from coast to coast. It was a connection that inspired the greatest love songs. But nothing lasts forever. Beneath the hits that made them, a dark secret threatened to break them. Now it’s time to hear the whole story, finally revealed in Jane’s iconic album, Songs in Ursa Major . . . _________________________________________________________________ ‘Moving from New York to Los Angeles to Greece and the Grammys . . . a furious page turner’ Booklist ‘A fabulous read . . . ideal if you liked the movie A Star is Born’ Good Housekeeping ‘Splashy, engrossing reading. SONGS IN URSA MAJOR pure sun-soaked summer fun’ Kate Quinn ‘A love letter to the ‘70s music industry, but it’s so much more than that. It’s a brilliant examination of creativity, sacrifice and what we do for art’ Katherine Heiny

Songs in Ursa Major

Hope. No todos los bebés los trae la cigüeña es ante todo una confesión real y prácticamente en directo, sin velos ni miramientos, de una joven que en cada acción que emprende ve cómo su acariciado sueño de la maternidad se aleja, dejando un paisaje anímico desolado. Una confesión real, verídica y creíble que narra en detalle la crónica de todos y cada uno de los pasos que la joven pareja va tomando para llegar a ser padres, para formar una familia como mínimo de tres con la ayuda de la sanidad y la ciencia. La autora muestra en este libro su capacidad para explorar las emociones, hasta en sus pliegues más finos y delicados, al abordar un tema que todavía se mantiene en el terreno del tabú para muchas familias. En definitiva, este viaje hacia la maternidad, lleno de obstáculos, se convierte en un viaje a la madurez de una joven que se ha curtido en mil batallas y no se ha rendido.

Hope

Banished from her father's home, wheelchair-bound Esther Kerral is horrified when he forces her into an arranged marriage with Morgan Cosmore, the son of a local factory owner. Both fathers hope the union will save their ailing businesses; little do they know that each is as bankrupt as the other. Poor Esther must struggle as best she can not only to survive a loveless marriage, but also to build up a business of her own in a man's world.

A Handful of Silver

Cornwall, 1895. Grace Kellow is a young woman with a strong sense of who she is and where she comes from. As the daughter of a well-respected Cornish dairy owner Daniel Kellow, her existence in the village of Trehale is comfortable and peaceful. But then handsome Talek Danning comes striding over Hel Tor, and soon after his arrival Grace is hit with a revelation that leaves her questioning her identity and her place in the Trehale community. In her hour of need, Talek and his sister Amelia offer Grace sanctuary – but wherever Grace runs, her secret will follow…

Daniel's Daughter

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