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Leonardo da Vinci, twelve years old and a bastard, leaves the Tuscan countryside to join his father in Florence with dreams of becoming a painter. Francesco Salviati, also a bastard and scorned for his too-dark skin, dedicates himself to the Catholic Church with grand...

Brought up in a devout household in Ireland, Jay is now living in London with her girlfriend, determined to live day to day and not think too much about either the future or the past. But when she learns that her beloved older brother,...

Casona was a Spanish playwright and master of the Generation of '27. His work is characterized by the conflict between reality and fantasy, the escape to a better poetic world, the search for happiness, the redemptive power of love, the reality of dreams... The...

Casona, a Spanish playwright and teacher of the Generation of '27, seeks to create in the audience an ethical revulsion based on Western morality and secularized Christian commandments. The Boat Without a Fisherman is a good example of criticism of those who are always...

I wrote "Kill Yourself, Love with a Spirit of Revenge." I don't remember anything except that one afternoon at the end of a thunderstorm-filled summer in 2011, at my house in the French countryside, I threw myself onto the grass. In other words, "I...

This is an intimate and thoughtful novel in which the character, Camilo, travels to New York in search of answers about Miguel Carnero, an enigmatic man who could be his real father. While his mother lies dying in Mexico, Camilo embarks on a personal...

In this collection of short stories, Federico Falco portrays a series of characters who confront the bewilderment of everyday life amidst rural landscapes, shaky beliefs, and shifting relationships. From the construction of a cemetery that symbolizes a village's pride, to the spiritual and sexual...

This book reveals the author's struggle with her recurring themes—injustice, moral ambiguity, the blade of cruelty at the heart of human relationships—much more nakedly than in her novels. Bestial Crimes presents a handful of revenge stories, in which subdued dogs, goats, elephants, and pigs...

In the midst of a marital crisis, Clara Montsalvatges sends an email to her siblings, Álvaro and Amanda, to inform them that she is divorcing Joan-Marc. Her personal problems lead her to question what she wants to do with her life and what others...

Scoundrel, lustful libertine, infamous and irresistible anti-hero. When the most decorated coward of the Victorian era accepts Tom Brown's innocent invitation to participate in a cricket match, he has no idea that he will end up caught in a chain of misadventures that will...

Year 2100. The Museum of the 21st Century opens. The text we read is from the permanent exhibition catalog, written with poetic and essayistic force by an artificial intelligence. It recounts humanity's ancestral relationship with technology; how hybrids and algorithmic consciousnesses were born; how...

Can love, the power of good even in adversity, endure beyond the life we know and extend across centuries and places? Six lives intersect here in an unexpected way in order to draw a world, prophetic and strange at the same time, in which...

Fernando Pessoa's passion for the detective genre is well documented in his writings: "One of the few intellectual diversions that persists in what remains of humanity's intellectual life is the reading of detective novels. Among the inestimable and small number of happy hours that...

Fernando, after a brilliant career despised by his father, a successful engineer, has just started out as a journalist when he crosses paths with a wealthy businessman who, to his surprise, asks him to find his son, Michael, who has left without a trace...

On the day Stockholm police officer Hanna Ahlander’s personal and professional lives crash, she takes refuge at her sister’s lodge in the Swedish ski resort paradise of Åre. But it’s a brief comfort. The entire village is shaken by the sudden vanishing of a...

Meet Detective Constable Vera Stanhope, star of the television series Vera... Ten years have passed since the body of fifteen-year-old Abigail Mantel was found in a ditch and Jeanie Long, her father's girlfriend, was convicted of the crime. Just as Emma Bennett, the victim's...

In this gripping fantasy by Sabaa Tahir, the fates of three young outcasts collide in an empire on the brink of collapse. Aiz, an orphan fueled by vengeance and love for her people, finds her fury unleashed from within a brutal prison. Sirsha, a...

Two decades ago, the Bloodmoons ruthlessly murdered Saffron Killoran’s parents, destroying her idyllic childhood. Hell-bent on revenge, she lies her way into Silvercloak Academy—the training ground for her city’s elite order of detectives—with a single goal: to bring the Bloodmoons to justice. But when...

Emily Wilde has spent her life studying faeries. A renowned dryadologist, she has documented hundreds of species of Folk in her Encyclopaedia of Faeries. Now she is about to embark on her most dangerous academic project yet: studying the inner workings of a faerie...

France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across...