Fiction

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is a brand new epic novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Paolini. Exploring new worlds is all Kira Navarez ever dreamed of doing. But now she has found her nightmare. On a distant planet ripe for a colony,...

Oscar has eaten the Christmas tree, and is about to make a start on the presents. But at least he hasn't eaten the magic reindeer food that allows the reindeer to fly . . . has he?! How is Santa going to deliver presents...

New Orleans is a safe haven for Celine Rousseau. Celine is quickly enraptured by the vibrant city, from its music to its fancy soirées, and even its danger. New Orleans becomes gripped by the terror of a serial killer on the loose--one who has...

After turning eight months pregnant, Alina learns that her daughter will not survive the birth. She and her partner undertake a process of acceptance and mourning. Laura, Alina's friend, refers to the conflict while reflecting on love and its incomprehensible logic, and strategies to...

The narratives included in this book are about science, its searches, attempts, experiments and hypotheses, and the changes it introduces in the world. Benjamin Labatut has written a book which speaks of discoveries that are the result of chance and the exploration of the...

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 is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family’s history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and...

This album tells the story of little Amelia, who from a very young age dreamed of flying the skies in an airplane. Mara dal Corso and Daniela Volpari gives us a story that invites us to dream, to break gender stereotypes, and to jump...

Poet de Quevedo meets his eternal ally in a journey across the Pyrenees. Caravaggio crosses the Piazza of San Luis in Rome, with two servants carrying the painting that will make him the first rock star in the history of art. Sudden Death uses...

This is a journey through madness and death resulting in stylized violence, narrated with irony and lyricism by Humbert himself. Lolita is also an acerbic and visionary portrait of the United States, its suburban horrors, and of motel and plastic culture. / La historia...

Could rats travel on the Titanic and live the same experiences as passengers? Did these little rodents hide? What incidents did all these unsuspected travel companions live? What fate did they run? The story is in these pages, and the end you will imagine....

Clover the bunny and his friends are on their first camping trip. But when itchy spots appear on Clover's paws, only Dr. KittyCat knows how to make him better. Supercute photographs of real puppies and kittens combine with hand-drawn green line art for a...

When Amy is born she doesn’t have much hair. Not for long! Soon her hair is the stuff of fairy tales - so long she could throw it down a tower to let up a handsome prince. Only, hair this long is also really...

Set in the 1860s, The Leopard tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the forces of democracy and revolution. The dramatic richness of observation and the seamless intertwining of public and private worlds place it among the greatest historical novels of...

Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrow. Two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town. Now, each summer, the sisters return, luring boys into...

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...

The main protagonist of this novel, branded as the emblem for its generation, is an antihero who has given up the fight. He is a thirty-year-old IT engineer who is fed up with his job and bored of his fellow human beings, and thinks...

On January 9th, 1993, Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife, his children, his parents, and then tried, unsuccessfully, to kill himself. The investigation revealed that he was not a doctor and had been lying since he was 18 years old. He was given a life...

Zambra takes us to Chile in the 1980s seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy. It speaks of a generation that learned to read and draw while their parents became the victims or accomplices of the Pinochet dictatorship. It describes how their lives...

After finding her mother Lucile dead in mysterious circumstances, Delphine de Vigan becomes a perceptive detective, determined to reconstruct the life of the deceased as a way of dealing with the pain of loss. During the narrator’s journey into the past of her family,...