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On July 4, 1776, the United States Declaration of Independence was signed. Spanish assistance to the War of Independence was so significant and substantial that it is truly difficult to understand how it could have been concealed for 250 years. American historiography has systematically...

Evil lurks in the shadows. The winter calm of the idyllic Swedish village of Åre is shattered when Johan Andersson, a former Olympic skier much loved in the area, is found bound and beaten to death in the middle of the forest. The crime...

For Federico García Lorca, New York was the discovery of the avant-garde, capitalism, and modern life. The clash between his profound sensitivity and the contrasts of New York reality unleashed his creativity and was the genesis of an incomparable work, full of admiration, pain,...

Krakow, 1945. Stefan Trzyniecki — the young doctor who survived the psychiatric ward at the Transfiguration Hospital and the extermination camp among the dead — returns to a city devastated by war, covered in rubble and ash, where mutilated facades and empty walls seem...

In the small and the insignificant: that is where life hides, that is where it builds its nest. Our narrator suffers from a strange syndrome: he has pathological empathy, he is able to enter the memories of others without permission. Thus, he travels from...

Seven singular voices of contemporary Spanish narrative — Pilar Adón, Jorge Carrión, Iván de la Nuez, Miguel Angel Hernández, Alicia Kopf, Valentín Roma, and Irene Solà — take on the challenge of writing original stories connected to or inspired by the work of Joan...

Francesco Pasquale was born in Sapri, in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, a little further south than Giuseppe Verdi, during the same years as Richard Wagner and Robert Schumann. This book recounts his adventures and travels, just as it brings us closer to...

The Odyssey recounts the adventures of the hero who, after causing the destruction of Troy, embarks on his mythical journey back to his kingdom of Ithaca. Lost in a universe teeming with dangers, the aging warrior Odysseus must transform himself into a formidable sailor...

“I’m not asking if my memories are true. I don’t know what I’m asking. Like a bird, I gather twigs to build myself a shelter; there I will protect what will be born. I still don’t know what its form will be. To remember...

Reading a book by Nora Ephron is like sitting down to dinner with a good friend. Within its pages, you'll find a menu of unmistakable wit, brimming with hilarious analyses of almost everything, from her aversion to handbags and wrinkles to juicy indiscretions about...

The fourth Shetland novel. Shetland detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to Fair Isle to introduce his fiancée to his parents. With the autumn storms raging, the island is cut off from the rest of the world....

A remote retreat... Nestled high in the Tuscan hills lies Villa Volpone, home to renowned crime writer Jonah Moore and his creative writing course. It’s also the last place retired DCI Dan Armstrong expected to spend his retirement! Dan’s no writer, but maybe this...

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rectory alongside his widowed mother - opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey - and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda. When Daniel announces a plan to install a...

In the final years of the Tsarist empire, the figure of Grigori Rasputin emerges from the depths of the Siberian steppe to establish himself at the heart of power in St. Petersburg. In this work, Klabund constructs a raw portrait of the Russian monarchy’s...

In 1403, Ruy González de Clavijo sets out for Tamerlane’s court as an envoy of Henry III. The fate of Castile hangs in the balance during the embassy to the Great Khan. Thousands of leagues from home, beyond treacherous seas and scorching deserts, a...

In an asylum office in Switzerland, an interpreter listens every day to those who have escaped from hell. The voices he translates — Russian refugees bearing with them wars, losses, and unspeakable wounds — strike him like a blow: each story is a new...

Winter of 1952. Penelope Fitzgerald’s life is crumbling: her husband — brilliant, yet consumed by alcohol — can no longer support the household; debts are mounting, and she, pregnant with her third child, sees almost no way out. Then, an unusual letter arrives: the...

This atlas combines more than 170 images — including maps, photographs, and detailed graphics — with extensive, well-documented texts organized into 24 chapters (15 dedicated to the Old Testament and 9 to the New Testament). It offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the...

This is one of Bohumil Hrabal's most widely read and acclaimed novels, with numerous editions worldwide and a film adaptation by Jiří Menzel that won the 1967 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. We present it now in a new translation by Monika...

Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian, meets Ian Drake, a ten-year-old boy who becomes her favorite reader. The problem Lucy faces is that the boy needs her help to hide his books from his mother, an authoritarian woman who censors his reading and sends...