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2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect...

In the summer of 1941, on the New England shores where they were raised, Evelyn and Joseph fell in love. Now, more than sixty years later, with a lifetime between them, they have gathered their three grown children to share the staggering news: she...

In The Traitor Hero, Antonio Torremocha transports us to the convulsive Europe of the 16th century to discover the extraordinary life of Pedro Navarro. From his humble beginnings as a shepherd in the Roncal Valley, Navarro rises to the highest military spheres, navigating a...

Obtuvo el Gran Premio RTL-LIRE 2024. Próximamente se publicará en Estados Unidos (Other Press), Italia (Rizzoli), Países Bajos (Xander) y Alemania (Insel Verlag).

Immerse yourself in the mind of the man who changed the course of history. I, Hernán transports you to the heart of the 16th century, where the ambitions of an empire and the fate of the New World collide in the figure of Hernán...

1919. A fatal injury in the Great War cuts short Lou Crane's brilliant dancing career. At the funeral of his best friend, an acquaintance takes pity on him and gets him a position as a performing arts teacher in a remote town whose inhabitants...

West Yorkshire, 1904. When recently graduated Ruby May takes a nanny position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she...

A story about what happens in companies when they want to change their culture to adapt to the new business reality, and the method that can help them achieve positive change. The fabrika method is a new comprehensive training system for business teams designed...

It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not...

On August 23, 1927, anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in the electric chair after one of the most famous, dramatic and controversial trials in American judicial history. They were two Italian immigrants who had been arrested in the midst of an...

This is a story of perseverance, individual improvement and team spirit. With origins in the North American Depression and a few years after World War II, Daniel James Brown narrates the epic of the team of eight rowers and their coxswain from the University...

In 220 B.C., Qin Shi Huang unifies China under the Mandate of Heaven. His empire standardizes laws and launches massive works like the Great Wall and his mausoleum. Yet in Xianyang, the imperial jewel, lies a darker, dangerous city. There, a blind healer, a...

On January 26, 1936, Dmitri Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk was performed at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow with Stalin secretly watching from a box. The next day, Pravda published an editorial titled "Chaos Instead of Music," reportedly written by Stalin, criticizing the opera....

Amid World War II's chaos, young Spanish Communist María Millán loses her mother and brother, fleeing to France. There, after her father's death and a change of identity, she joins the French Resistance. Captured in Lyon, she's sent to Ravensbrück. Meanwhile, Hans Kammler leads...

Set in California during WWII, The Properties of Thirst tells an epic love story against a backdrop of hardship. Rocky Rhodes battles the Los Angeles Water Department draining his ranch’s aquifers, where he raised his twins and mourns his late wife. As the U.S....

In 4th century B.C. Greece, faced with the imminence of being subjected to a forced marriage to a man she doesn't even know, Lastenia of Mantinea hastily leaves home. Her immediate destination is the nearby temple of Artemis, run by the priestess Cleo, whom...

A young writer living abroad returns to South America to say goodbye to his dying father. At his parents' house, he discovers a stash of documents (articles, maps, photographs) and unknowingly begins to uncover his father's obsession with the disappearance of a local man....

January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in Halifax, Canada, Laura receives word of Freddie’s death in combat, along with his personal...

On September 28, 1940, the Cappellini submarine of the Italian fascist navy left the port of La Spezia heading to the Atlantic, via Gibraltar. In command was the veteran commander Salvatore Todaro. During their mission, they sighted a Belgian ship, the Kabalo. A naval...

This is the story of Milena Jesenská, who many know as Kafka's friend. And yes, the months of loving and intellectual relationship with Franz Kafka marked the lives of both. Nothing was the same for Milena, she transformed. She gained confidence in herself, in...