Fiction

The jungle that surrounds and lurks. Secondary roads and rainy streams. A farm called Alegría. Lives of those who rarely get what they want, lives of coming and going, lives accommodated to violence or that disappear in a swipe. With her writing, Margarita García...

One of the most exciting, lucid, and disturbing texts that English literature has offered us in recent decades... Roland Michell, an obscure English literature graduate, makes a discovery that could catapult his academic career: two unfinished, never-sent letters that reveal the relationship between Randolph...

With dystopian settings and characters caught between nostalgia and boredom, the stories feature overwhelmed parents, young people facing personal crises, and scientists confronting the collapse of reality. Europa reveals how advanced technologies, rather than liberating us, deepen boredom and alienation: a meditation on the...

Cam, an African American, and TJ, of Korean origin, reunite after years apart. They were inseparable as children and together they discovered their homosexuality. A novel about love, friendship, ghosts from the past, the heartbreak of loss, the most intimate desires and secrets, familial,...

Bukowski always wrote out of vital necessity, with the urgency of someone who only finds meaning on a blank page. This volume brings together Wine-Stained Notebooks, Absence of the Hero, and, for the first time in Spanish, The Mathematics of Breath and the Route,...

Two works by Shakespeare (“The Merchant of Venice” and “Antony and Cleopatra”) that were largely misread and unfairly relegated to the background.

The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie’s once-lucrative car business is going under―but Dickie is spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife, Imelda, is selling off her jewelry on eBay and half-heartedly dodging the attention...

Could rats have traveled on the famous ship RMS Titanic and lived the same experiences as its passengers? Would these small rodents have gone unnoticed or could they have been mistaken for legitimate passengers on this famous voyage? What adventures did all these unexpected...

It was in a gloomy apartment in Vanves, during her French exile, that Tsvetaeva wrote this text, which recounts little Marina's encounter with the devil in her sister's room, where she took refuge to read forbidden books. With mocking prose, sometimes exalted, sometimes icy,...

These fourteen stories, published by Kafka in 1920, bring together visionary narratives whose protagonists—the doctor who comes to a patient’s bedside on a stormy night, the craftsman whose town has been invaded by a fearsome nomadic tribe, the imperial messenger who will never reach...

A book of brilliant, adventurous stories from the award-winning Doug Dorst. With the publication of his debut novel, Alive in Necropolis, Doug Dorst was widely celebrated as one of the most creative, original literary voices of his generation-an heir to T.C. Boyle and Denis...

Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. A mission calls for a master of...

After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last has grown bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes...

A selection of horror stories that show the darkest side of the plant world. An anthology that brings together names like Roald Dahl, Eudora Welty and H.P. Lovecraft. Bloodthirsty orchids, entire forests that rebel against those who massacred them, mushrooms as beautiful as they...

Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient and eager to please, she accepts this closed world where, with all the enthusiasm of the outsider, her desires and passions become...

In January 1536, a dying Catherine of Aragon, stripped of her title and imprisoned in Kimbolton Castle, is denied all visitors—even her daughter. But her loyal friend Mary of Salinas defies Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell to be by her side in her final...

A scathing and surprisingly relevant fable that sharply exposes the pitfalls of power and corruption. In this exquisite allegory, the animals of Manor Farm rise up against their human oppressors in the hope of building a fair and equal society. However, they soon discover...

A terrible crime shocks Seville. A man is arrested. A young lawyer faces a case that could change her destiny. When Carmen Laguillo agrees to defend biotechnologist Dámaso Dorado, she has no idea that she will become entangled in a web of interests and...

Seville awakens in shock. With the countdown to Holy Week in full swing, the image of the Esperanza Macarena has disappeared from its basilica without a trace. Next to the Virgin, the chaplain has been brutally murdered. Who could dare to strike such a...

Fernando VII, the most hated monarch in Spanish history, a traitor to his people, servile to Napoleon and stubbornly committed to absolutism, became the obsession of many. What if the only way to prevent his return was to eliminate him? In the midst of...