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From the critically acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, an irresistible novel of fame, power, beauty, and truth—and a blazing renovation of the form. This program is read by the author. The movie star M is one of the most recognizable faces of our time. Her image is everywhere. It has...

»Ein herzzereißendes Porträt von Amerikanern, die von der Welt nach 9/11 zum Anderssein verbannt wurden.« Jennifer Egan »Genau der Schriftsteller, den wir brauchen.« Daniel Kehlmann, FAZ »Leidenschaftlich, verstörend, fesselnd.« Salman Rushdie Ayad Akhtars »Homeland Elegien « ist ein...

Ein Aufbegehren gegen die Einsamkeit 1985 nimmt sich eine junge Pianistin in Neubrandenburg das Leben. Dreieinhalb Jahrezehnte später stößt die Schriftstellerin Helene Bukowski auf ihre Geschichte. Behutsam nähert sie sich Christina, sucht in ihrer Biografie nach Rissen und Erschütterungen...

What happens when the life you’ve built perfectly is the one you can no longer live? Sean was good at his job. He knew how to pace a slide deck, read a boardroom, and make a twenty-million-pound renewal sound like a foregone conclusion. But in the middle of a high-stakes meeting in London, the practiced mask of corporate competence finally cracked. In a single moment of uncontrolled laughter, he walked out of his career, left his laptop glowing on the table, and didn't look back.

The frigate Astrea leaves Spain for the Philippines in the late 1770s. Captain Alejandro Malaspina must bring the entering governor and his family to Manila. Lucia, the Governor's daughter is promised to the son of the exiting Governor. Astrea's Second Officer, Carlos is gravely wounded during a storm, and Pedro, Lucia's older brother and a student of medicine in Granada, heals his wounds. Lucia nurses Carlos. They fall in love. In Manila, the Franciscan sisters care for Carlos, and Lucia joins the convent rather than marry the despicable son of the exiting Governor.

Esta novela recrea la fascinante vida de Irene de Atenas, la emperatriz que gobernó Bizancio durante más de veinte años. La historia de una joven de extraordinaria belleza, que pasó de crecer en la miseria a regir el destino del imperio más poderoso de su tiempo. El retrato de alguien que logró atesorar un poder inconcebible para una mujer en el siglo VIII de nuestra era.

Some men love you. Some men ruin you. And some men are the lesson you never forget. Dance with the Devil is an autobiographical fiction novel about a woman rebuilding her life—until she meets Danny, the charming, intense, magnetic man who slips into her world like fate… and slowly begins to dismantle it from the inside out.

Panama, 1991. A broke 21-year-old throws a Hail Mary: the shortest Army contract possible, fleeing divorce and fatherhood. He ends up as MP Investigator "Eagle 12" in the sticky heat post-Operation Just Cause. One brutal weekend in Coco Solo barracks changes everything. Dawn anxiety, party highs, stripper nights, and self-deception collide with harsh reality—a neglected daughter, money demands, inescapable regret. Raw and inspired by true events, Eagle 12 captures the choking isolation of military life: jungle humidity vs. weak AC, fragile hope against relentless duty.

A restrained family novel concerned with pride, class, and the slow unravelling of authority within a once-ordered household. As a marriage falters and relationships subtly realign, ordinary decisions begin to carry unintended consequences. Written with psychological precision, it observes how silence, misjudgment, and the refusal to look closely can quietly reshape a life.

England, 1787. Mary Wollstonecraft is an avowed spinster. At 28, she moves to London to live independently as a writer. With her publication of A Vindication for the Rights of Woman a few short years later, she emerges as a leading figure for women's equality. But when a humiliating faux pas threatens her reputation, Mary travels to Paris to write about the French Revolution, where she unexpectedly falls in love with American adventurer Gilbert Imlay.

Jewish refugee Felix Wolff believes he has found safety in England, but he is arrested and thrown into a British internment camp as a suspected Nazi spy. To clear his name and join the fight against Hitler, he must break free of a system that mistakes him for the very evil he fled. Fresh off his ruthless campaign in Poland, Sicherheitsdienst agent Karl Vogt is sent on a chilling mission: to devise a system for controlling the growing Jewish population within the Reich. His cold efficiency lays the groundwork for a coming horror the world has yet to comprehend.

A surreal and intimate novel about a disillusioned artist who, plagued by mysterious visions, must navigate a series of personal and existential crises that upend their way of life, by the award-winning author of Brown Girls. Fresh off the success of their first novel, a writer – intense...

In the shadows of London's Highgate Cemetery, Ngaroma stands before her great-great-grandfather's crypt, unknowingly about to unravel a tale that spans two centuries and two hemispheres. Victorian New Zealand sets the stage for an extraordinary story of two brothers bound by blood but divided by empire. Hōhepa, born to a British captain and a Māori mother, navigates a precarious path between two worlds during a time of mounting colonial tensions.

Una novel·la històrica d'alè èpic que ens transporta a un passat vibrant i desconegut Durant mil anys, un llibre sagrat ha passat de mà en mà. Des de la Tàrraco romana fins a la Barcelona de Jaume I, passant pel setge del Toledo visigòtic i la Còrdova dels Omeies, la Hagadà, un tresor...

Una obra literària impecable. Un testimoni impressionant. Un llibre que ha fet història. Seduïda a l'edat de catorze anys per Gabriel Matzneff, cèlebre escriptor de cinquanta, Vanessa Springora desgrana, tres dècades més tard, el control i la manipulació que aquell home va exercir sobre...

In 1963, three college friends at the University of Michigan are on the cusp of adulthood, full of dreams and discovering their place in the world. But when two of them become pregnant, they face an impossible reality: abortion is illegal, birth control is hard to come by, and society is quick to judge. Set in the years before Roe v. Wade, The Reluctant Womb follows these young women as they grapple with love, shame, secrecy, and the consequences of choices no one should be forced to make alone.

Als Elsie Lindtner, vierzigjährig, ins "gefährliche Alter" kommt, verlässt sie ihren Mann und zieht sich in ein eigens für sie gebautes Haus auf einer dänischen Ostseeinsel zurück. Ohne männliche Begleitung will sie "die Jahre des Übergangs" verbringen. Als sie endlich begreift, dass sie in Wahrheit vor der Leidenschaft für einen jüngeren Mann flüchtete, ist es zu spät. Er liebt sie nicht mehr. Und ihr Mann hat sich längst mit einer jüngeren Frau getröstet.

‘May well be the most perfectly constructed, moving, and beautiful novel I've ever read’ ANN PATCHETT Acclaimed Pulitzer-Prize winner Yiyun Li, returns with a sweeping historical epic, following two extraordinary musicians on the rise. In Dublin, as the eighteenth century nears its end, a...

Premier volet de la saga Les espérances inachevées, L’indomptable ouvre un récit où l’espoir persiste face à ce qui ne cède pas. Christian Beaudry y déploie une tension feutrée et une énergie farouche, portée par des trajectoires en quête d’accomplissement. Entre élans interrompus et volonté de tenir, ce premier tome pose les jalons d’une histoire sensible et tenace, qui laisse planer l’attente et donne envie de poursuivre. Une écoute immersive, habitée par la force de l’indomptable et la beauté des espérances encore à accomplir.

1969: Albert Speer, l'architetto star del regime, ministro dell'armamento e gerarca prediletto di Hitler, pubblica le sue memorie. Grazie a questa rivisitazione del suo passato (a partire dalle monumentali, megalomani messe in scena ideate per i congressi e le adunate naziste fino agli ultimi convulsi, terribili giorni della caduta del Reich) porta a compimento l'ultima delle sue metamorfosi.