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A new year opens for us to illuminate it with light and with the wisdom of the fairies. From the pages of this diary, these inspiring magical beings will accompany you in your daily life and fill your 2025 with optimism. Use it to...

Walk with the fairy folk for another year. Let yourself be infected by the joy and light of these magical creatures with the 2025 edition of the Fairy Calendar. A new year opens before us to be illuminated by the light and wisdom of...

The stories of Liliana Colanzi explore various ways of narrating time, such as the geological journey in a cave, the search for the historical roots of rubber exploitation in the ruins of an Amazonian village, or the dislocated temporality of a religious colony where...

A woman wakes up in an overturned car at night, surrounded by smoke and the smell of gasoline. Her legs are numb, and glass is embedded in her back. She realizes she's the driver and hears a sweet voice calling her name. A 15-year-old...

The literary testament of Sam Shepard, written in the last months of his life, when a degenerative disease was taking over his body. Faced with this situation, the writer stood up, in a last gesture of resistance through writing. The result was this short,...

This book should be the next Hidden Figures—a must-read for those interested in the era, says the Washington Post. In 1916, tycoon George Fabyan hires Elizebeth Smith, a Quaker teacher and poet, to find secret messages in Shakespeare’s plays. Her mission shifts as she...

New torments and new horrors come to life on these pages. Specters dwell in the shadows. The unknown resides in the darkness. Fear never sleeps.

The moving story of a man who lost everything except the strength to find himself, in a charming little store. Dolko lives on the street and sleeps at the Seoul station. Some time ago he had a job, a house, a family, but one...

Sylvia Plath, known for her poetry, was also a remarkable prose writer. This collection of stories, essays, and diary excerpts highlights her focus on art, intelligence, and imagination. It explores her early concerns with mental illness, creativity, and themes centered on femininity. This evocative...

The Pax Romana, a revered golden age, saw the Roman Empire at its peak, stretching from Scotland to Arabia and containing a quarter of humanity. Starting in 69 AD with four Caesars in quick succession and ending with Hadrian’s death seven decades later, Pax...

Dorothea Dodds, who has spent 59 years unnoticed while caring for her family, decides to escape her life by house- and pet-sitting across the English countryside. With her cousin Mary’s help, Dorothea starts a journey of self-discovery through others’ lives, uncovering clues about her...

Unexplained deaths and disappearances. Attraction and desire in three intertwined stories. A couple's honeymoon in South America is suddenly interrupted by an intruder. An experienced doctor is overcome with an uncontrollable desire to protect a young resident who works at her hospital. A man...

The story of a boy and a journey. In the 1950s, it was not only men and women who moved from the south to the north in search of work, but also children. This novel is the story of one of them, Ninetto. Having...

In Sicily during the Peloponnesian War, Syracusans imprison defeated Athenians in a quarry. Lampo and Gelon, two idle potters who love poetry and drink, decide to feed the Athenians if they recite lines from Euripides. They then plan to stage a production of Medea....

The sixth installment of the saga, in a new edition. It always happens like this. One day in September, someone does something weirder than usual and from that moment on, for a month and sometimes even two, normality is banished to Fairy Oak. They...

Hanno Tomoko, aka Panko, a shy 30-something office worker, and Takahashi Ryohei, a tough yet tender-hearted bike shop owner, are officially dating but face challenges. Their relationship starts with misunderstandings, and things worsen when Takahashi learns Panko is being harassed at work. He wants...

Marko, a Russian university student, was forced to distance himself from his beloved for ten years. After much effort, he finally recovers his heart kidnapped by space pirates. To do so, he will have to face the very god of the universe and sacrifice...

Lee Yeongjun is the heir to a prestigious company that he runs with an iron fist. Handsome and intelligent, but above all self-centered, he considers himself to be perfection made person. So when his personal assistant, Kim Miso, tells him that she wants to...

Distraction isn’t new. Early Christian monks also struggled to focus despite dedicating their lives to God. They developed strategies to combat distraction, detailed in "How to Focus," a collection of insights from John Cassian’s fifth-century Collationes. Cassian and his friend Germanus traveled Egypt asking...

I want to eat decently even if I'm busy. When his sister gets married, Ume starts living alone for the first time. Independence is not as nice as it is painted. You have to clean, do laundry and cook every meal of the day....