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Amazon desatadoAlmost ten years ago, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone captured the rise of Amazon in his bestseller The Everything Store. Since then, Amazon has expanded exponentially, inventing novel products like Alexa and disrupting countless industries, while its workforce has quintupled in size and its valuation...
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DiariosAn essential document to understand the ins and outs of a great writer… Six years after his death, the reader has in his hands the diaries that the author reviewed and prepared for publication. With forewords by Marta Sanz and Fernando Valls. "Rafael Chirbes...
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En la prisión de SiberiaYoann Barbereau was a promising official at the head of the Alliance Française in Irkutsk, in Siberia, when he was imprisoned on charges of a crime he had not committed. The FSB, heir to the KGB, created a set of false evidence to incriminate...
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El último vals de SissiEmpress Sissi is best known for the idyllic life that has been transferred from the cinema and some romantic novels, but it is very far from reality because we have a document that is unpublished: the diary of Lucheri Louis, who murdered the empress....
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Emilio CastelarIn this biography, Manuel Serrano delves into the figure of Emilio Castelar, the most important Spanish republican of the 19th century. He was a convinced Europeanist who with his word and his writings contributed to forging European consciousness and the need to face the...
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Diálogo con mi sombraThe visceral and carnal Pedro Juan Gutiérrez reviews his busy life and his provocative work, his influences and his working methods… Pedro Juan interviews Pedro Juan. The writer makes an agile and exhaustive review of his life and his work in which nothing is...
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Parte de míThe reader is holding in their hands the diary of a writer during the first year of the pandemic. A peculiar diary, since she wrote it in successive Instagram entries, under the hashtag #ParteDeMí. The first entry is from April 17, a month after...
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El hombre que salvó los cerezosEach year, the flowering of cherry blossoms marks the beginning of spring. But if it weren’t for the pioneering work of an English eccentric, Collingwood “Cherry” Ingram, Japan’s beloved cherry blossoms could have gone extinct. Ingram first fell in love with the Sakura, or...
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En la casa de los sueñosA revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other PartiesIn the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse....
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LobasIn the tradition of Antonia Fraser, David Starkey, and Alison Weir, prize-winning historian Helen Castor delivers a compelling, eye-opening examination of women and power in England, witnessed through the lives of six women who exercised power against all odds - and one who never...
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LeninSince the birth of Soviet Russia, Vladimir Lenin has been viewed as a controversial figure, both revered and reviled for his rigid political ideals. Still, he continues to fascinate as a man who made history and who created the first Communist state, a model...
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Pedro CasaldáligaIn this book, Juan Jose Tamayo invites us to a fascinating walk through the life of Pedro Casaldaliga. For our protagonist, it’s the "journey of the people towards liberation". "Walk with", not lead, or star, or substitute. The leading role in his liberation belongs...
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Vivir no es tan divertido y envejecer un coñazoOscar Tusquets was writing a book "about the pain of growing old and the acceptance of dying" when the pandemic broke out and, of course, he could not resist the temptation to include some of his reflections, always insightful and politically incorrect: the government’s...
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Che GuevaraAcclaimed around the world and a national best-seller, this is the definitive work on Che Guevara, the dashing rebel whose epic dream was to end poverty and injustice in Latin America and the developing world through armed revolution.Jon Lee Anderson’s biography traces Che’s extraordinary...
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Juan de MesaWith less than a decade of colossal work, Juan de Mesa (Córdoba, 1583-Seville, 1627) has gone down in history as one of the most acclaimed sculptors in works representing the passion and death of Christ. His life story is short and it is full...
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Julio Romero de Torres, Vida y obraCórdoba, land of culture and great artists, was the hand that rocked the cradle of one of the great painters in history: Julio Romero de Torres. City and painter become one through these pages, where the lesser known details of the life and work...
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Permiso para retirarmeAfter asking permission to live and feel, now Alfredo Bryce Echenique asks permission to retire. Divided into five parts, emerges the emotional and tragicomic evocations of their journeys: childhood in Peru, the school and family environment, the adventurous father and the sensitive mother, and...
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Amar a LawrenceThe mysteries of female desire. Catherine Millet addresses the life and work of D. H. Lawrence. Catherine Millet, author of the scandalous The Sex Life of Catherine M., delves into the work of D. H. Lawrence, author of the once scandalous Women in Love and...
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La desaparición de Agatha ChristieIn this book, readers will find the most surprising questions and answers about the biographies of some of the most prominent writers of world literature, such as Agatha Christie, Mary Shelley, Yukio Mishima and Arthur Conan Doyle, who fulfill the topic that reality surpasses...
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Vlad DraculeaThis book narrates the rise and fall of the Wallachian voivode commonly known as Vlad Tepes or Vlad the Impaler, whose greed and cunning allowed him to conquer the throne of Wallachia. The history of this personality inspired Bram Stoker to create the most...
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