Fiction

Ten years after the tragic death of her husband, Dolores Ayala, owner of an old photographic studio that has run out of clients, receives the most unusual assignment of her entire career: to photograph a deceased person on the day of his burial. Accepting...

Kai hates his job, shares a flat with his two best friends and doesn't know what to do with his life. Denis lives controlled by a dictatorship marked by technological and futuristic advances. Bahari aspires to become the best sentinel for her promotion in...

The story of a man and the houses he has lived in. A character whose name we do not know –it is simply Me–, but we do know all the details of his life. It is reconstructed in a succession of fragments: the complex...

On an August night in Norway, a glow suddenly lights up the sky: it is a huge new star that rises dizzyingly, without anyone being able to explain it. Magnetized, restless, some characters observe her amid their own crossroads. A novel full of threatening...

Collette LeSange is a lonely artist who heads an elite fine arts school for children in upstate New York. Her youthful beauty masks the dark truth of her life: she has endured centuries of turmoil and heartache in the wake of her grandfather’s long-ago...

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...

People go to Huntington Beach in search of the endless parties, the ultimate highs, and the perfect waves. Ike Tucker has come to look for his missing sister and for the three men who may have murdered her. In that place of gilded surfers...

It's unbelievable, but it's true: a first-class international museum −the Reina Sofía− commissioned a work from a sculpture star, the North American Richard Serra, for its inauguration in 1986, The sculptor delivers a piece created ad hoc for the room in which it was...

The old woman Lucha is about to be killed by her husband before the astonished gaze of her granddaughter. The origin of the rancor accumulated for decades dates back to the early morning of January 2, 1921. The young Lucha experienced the shipwreck of...

«The emperor looked in the mirror. No one was to discover that he could not see his new clothes». A timeless tale about the value of truth and the liberating power of laughter.

Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice. It seems like any other day. You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate...

Two literary geniuses coexist in the Barcelona of the sixties. Just a few meters separate their apartments, they see each other almost daily. They write about each other, share friendships, party nights, conversations about books and writing, and above all the brilliant start to...

OK--- In this harrowing and hilarious memoir, Jennette McCurdy, star of the television series iCarly and Sam & Cat, recounts her struggles as a child actress -- eating disorders, addictions and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother -- and how she regained control...

The swimmers are unknown to one another except through their private routines (slow lane, medium lane, fast lane) and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out...

The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything—everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's also the last...

Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian who has come...

Orphaned as a baby, nineteen-year-old Signa has been raised by a string of guardians, each more interested in her wealth than her well-being, and each has met an untimely end. Her remaining relatives are the elusive Hawthornes, an eccentric family living at Thorn Grove,...

Thirteen years ago, Delphine Léger abandoned her prestigious soloist spot at the Paris Opera Ballet for a new life in St. Petersburg––taking with her a secret that could upend the lives of her best friends, fellow dancers Lindsay and Margaux. Now thirty-six years old,...

In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she’s been hanging around...

Molly the maid is alone in the world. She's a nobody, used to going unnoticed at her job at the Regency Grand Hotel, fluffing up pillows, fixing guests' messes, sweeping up their secrets. She's just a maid, why should anyone notice her? But Molly...