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Francesco Pasquale was born in Sapri, in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, a little further south than Giuseppe Verdi, during the same years as Richard Wagner and Robert Schumann. This book recounts his adventures and travels, just as it brings us closer to...

The Odyssey recounts the adventures of the hero who, after causing the destruction of Troy, embarks on his mythical journey back to his kingdom of Ithaca. Lost in a universe teeming with dangers, the aging warrior Odysseus must transform himself into a formidable sailor...

“I’m not asking if my memories are true. I don’t know what I’m asking. Like a bird, I gather twigs to build myself a shelter; there I will protect what will be born. I still don’t know what its form will be. To remember...

Reading a book by Nora Ephron is like sitting down to dinner with a good friend. Within its pages, you'll find a menu of unmistakable wit, brimming with hilarious analyses of almost everything, from her aversion to handbags and wrinkles to juicy indiscretions about...

The fourth Shetland novel. Shetland detective Jimmy Perez knows it will be a difficult homecoming when he returns to Fair Isle to introduce his fiancée to his parents. With the autumn storms raging, the island is cut off from the rest of the world....

A remote retreat... Nestled high in the Tuscan hills lies Villa Volpone, home to renowned crime writer Jonah Moore and his creative writing course. It’s also the last place retired DCI Dan Armstrong expected to spend his retirement! Dan’s no writer, but maybe this...

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rectory alongside his widowed mother - opinionated, fearless, ever-so-slightly annoying Audrey - and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda. When Daniel announces a plan to install a...

In the final years of the Tsarist empire, the figure of Grigori Rasputin emerges from the depths of the Siberian steppe to establish himself at the heart of power in St. Petersburg. In this work, Klabund constructs a raw portrait of the Russian monarchy’s...

In 1403, Ruy González de Clavijo sets out for Tamerlane’s court as an envoy of Henry III. The fate of Castile hangs in the balance during the embassy to the Great Khan. Thousands of leagues from home, beyond treacherous seas and scorching deserts, a...

Winter of 1952. Penelope Fitzgerald’s life is crumbling: her husband — brilliant, yet consumed by alcohol — can no longer support the household; debts are mounting, and she, pregnant with her third child, sees almost no way out. Then, an unusual letter arrives: the...

This atlas combines more than 170 images — including maps, photographs, and detailed graphics — with extensive, well-documented texts organized into 24 chapters (15 dedicated to the Old Testament and 9 to the New Testament). It offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the...

This is one of Bohumil Hrabal's most widely read and acclaimed novels, with numerous editions worldwide and a film adaptation by Jiří Menzel that won the 1967 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. We present it now in a new translation by Monika...

Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian, meets Ian Drake, a ten-year-old boy who becomes her favorite reader. The problem Lucy faces is that the boy needs her help to hide his books from his mother, an authoritarian woman who censors his reading and sends...

Translated into Spanish for the first time, May Goodness Be With You is, along with Everything Flows, the last book Vasili Grossman wrote. If Everything Flows is his political testament, May Goodness Be With You is his personal testament. In late 1961, when he...

You are much more than your personality type. The Enneagram Map to Your Deeper Self is an invitation to see ourselves as more than we believe we are, to learn and engage in practices that liberate us from automatic patterns. “This is a great...

Just because your body keeps functioning or you don’t feel pain doesn’t mean you’re in good health. The body doesn’t negotiate: it compensates... until it’s exhausted. Radiologist Amad Abu-Suboh has spent years observing his patients from the inside, seeing people who seemed to be...

Tyrants aren’t born. They’re made. A journey to the heart of a dynasty steeped in blood, intrigue, and danger. A young emperor will seize the throne of Rome. His name is Lucius Domitius Enobarbus. To everyone, Nero. His predecessor, Claudius, has died of poisoning....

The inner hell of women: that ceaseless ebb and flow of thoughts, impulses, emotions, and ideas that we hide — that we learned to repress, to silence, to prevent from manifesting clearly in the world — because we do not want to be branded...

In the spring of 1970, in the city of Pretoria, a boy named Joe discovers Muhammad Ali, the legendary boxer formerly known as Cassius Clay. In a country marked by distance, violence, and silence, the champion represents more than just a boxer: he is...

In Maxims and Advice, Arthur Schopenhauer offers lucid and compelling guidance on the art of living. Far from promising instant happiness or becoming a simple self-help recipe book, his reflection starts from an uncompromising premise: life is not meant to be enjoyed, but to...