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Cortés enters Mehxicoh-Tenoxtitlan with his nine captains, his two translators –Friar Aguilar and Malinalli, interpreter and lover–, his troops and their horses. There the princess Atotoxtli, sister and wife of Moctezuma, accompanied by the priests, entertains them with a meal, and later the emperor...

Fourteen-year-old Charlie Matters is up to no good, but for a very good reason. Without parents, peerage, or merit, he steals what he needs, living day-to-day until he’s old enough to enlist to fight the Germans. After barely surviving the Blitz, Charlie knows there’s...

In 1863, at the most critical moment of the North American Civil War, the members of the diplomatic mission that President Lincoln sent to Santiago de Chile became the unexpected heroes of one of the most overwhelming tragedies in contemporary world history: death of...

Venice, 1486. Across the lagoon lies Murano. Time flows differently here – like the glass the island’s maestros spend their lives learning to handle.Women are not meant to work with glass, but Orsola Rosso flouts convention to save her family from ruin. She works...

Philippe Sands explores the hidden truth behind the relationship between Nazism and the Pinochet regime. Drawing on documents, testimonies and conversations, Philippe Sands tries to shed light on the fascinating story that links the arrest of Augusto Pinochet with the life of Nazi officer...

In Aguafuertes, Jesús del Campo paints a colorful picture of the Baroque, a time when the air smelled of gunpowder and the seas of spices. Each of these extraordinary vignettes, drawn with the finesse of a historian, transport us to an era in which...

In the early 1960s, a group of activists organized clandestinely to provide emotional support, advice, and perform abortions safely, affordably, and without distinctions of ethnicity or social class. By day they were students, housewives and exemplary wives, but, abandoning their masks, they went out...

In the realm of appearances, monsters are not what we think. The Louvre, 1655. Catherine Beauvais, known as Cateau, la borgnesse, displays her striking ugliness through the corridors of the most beautiful palace in the world. Catherine has unique knowledge of plants thanks to...

It’s 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic...

This work has become, over time, a milestone in Colombian literature and one of the most studied texts to understand the origin of the violence that still plagues this country today. Its fresh and rich language has allowed the novel to endure and to...

Florence, mid-16th century. Lucrezia, third daughter of the Grand Duke Cosimo de' Medici, is a quiet and perceptive girl, with a singular talent for drawing, who she enjoys in her discreet and quiet place in the palazzo. But when her sister Maria dies, just...

On the first page of this book we find a man facing a firing squad. We are in the Congo, in 1964. That man, kidnapped by the rebels along with fifteen hundred other Westerners, is the young Belgian consul in Stanleyville. His name is...

Best novel of 2021 according to El País... England, 1580: Agnes, a peculiar girl who seems to answer to no one and who is able to create mysterious remedies with simple combinations of plants, is the talk of Stratford, a small english town. When...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERPraise for A Deadly Education:“The dark school of magic I’ve been waiting for."—Katherine Arden, author of Winternight Trilogy"A book so magnificent that your eyes will melt… Novik is simply brilliant".—Kiersten White, author of The Dragon's Daughter.“The can’t-miss fantasy of fall 2020,...

It's 1562 and Teresa de Jesus, at forty-seven, is housed in the Luisa de la Cerda palace in Toledo. She dedicates herself to writing a text destined to become a decisive work in the autobiographical genre, The Book of Life, which must please its...

This biographical novel or novelised biography reconstructs the life of a real character who seems as if he has come straight out of fiction. A rash and extravagant character, with an almost implausible life story allows the author to sketch a convincing portrait of...

England, 1643. Rebecca West lives with her mother in a ramshackle house in the wretched village of Manningtree. They manage to make a living as seamstresses, but times are hard. Most of the men are away fighting in wars and food is often scarce....

Gálib Ibn Abd al-Rahman, The Most Powerful General of al-Andalus. This fast-paced historical novel rescues from the shadows of history the compelling figure of one of the most important figures of 10th-century al-Andalus: the Slavic slave Gálib, who would be freed by ‘Abd al-Rahman...

In 2018, Zoe Rosenzweig is reeling after the loss of her beloved grandfather, a Holocaust survivor. She becomes obsessed with finding out what really happened to her family during the war. Vienna, 1946: Chana Rosenzweig has endured the horrors of war to find herself,...

Stubborn, plain-spoken and from an unimpressive family, Lydia Polk never expected to be accepted into the Royal Academy of Witches. Now, with Hitler’s army rampaging across Europe, the witches of Britain have joined the war effort, and Lydia is key to the cause: she...