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A collection of thirty short stories that move along the edges of the existential and the social, the tender and the ironic. Set against the backdrop of Greece , and drawing deeply from its unique spirit and contradictions, each story reveals a subtle fracture in the surface of daily life, where a person confronts themselves, the systems that enclose them, and the illusions they invent just to endure. These are finely tuned explorations of the human psyche —part microscope, part mirror— unveiling the quiet absurdities we all share .

Brought to you by Penguin. Alberto Ruiz-Tagle was once the quiet, unknowable, unpromising member of Chile’s young poetry scene. But the military coup of 1973 sees Alberto reborn as Chile’s leading celebrity poet, Carlos Wieder. Known for his daring sky poems, penned in smoke high above the...

En una remota región rural de Hungría azotada por el viento y la incesante lluvia, unos pocos miembros de una fallida cooperativa llevan una vida anodina en un pueblo ya casi fantasmal mientras aguardan impotentes a que un milagro les devuelva el futuro. Hasta que un día reciben la noticia de que, en la carretera que conduce a la aldea, se ha avistado al astuto y carismático Irimiás, desaparecido años atrás y al que daban por muerto.

Brought to you by Penguin. Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix is dying. A priest, a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a poet, in his feverish delirium the crucial events of his past swell around him. From glimpses of the great poet Pablo Neruda, the German writer Ernst Junger and his...

تتناول رواية ابنة القس حياة دوروثي، ابنة رجل دين تعيش تحت ضغوط اجتماعية ودينية قاسية، قبل أن تنقلب حياتها بشكل مفاجئ. تمر البطلة بتجارب صعبة تكشف معاناة الفقر والاستغلال والضياع النفسي في المجتمع الإنجليزي آنذاك. يعرض جورج أورويل من خلال الرواية نقدًا للمجتمع والطبقات الاجتماعية والتشدد الديني بأسلوب واقعي مؤثر.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A town at a crossroads. A community divided. A future no one can agree on. For generations, Hollisford has been sustained by hard work, shared traditions, and the institutions that bind neighbors together. But when economic decline and a contentious...

Una historia de periodismo, chantaje y corrupción que se lee como un thriller. En la Cataluña donde Jordi Pujol ganaba una tras otra las elecciones y los medios construían la imagen de un oasis libre de corruptelas, la trayectoria del periodista y abogado Alfons Quintà (1943-2016)...

מיום שהניח כיפה על ראשו ועלה לעיר הצדיקים משתדל משה בן צוק בכל כוחו לשכוח את חייו הקודמים, ובייחוד את איילת, אהבת נעוריו. אלא שאז, בדיוק כשנדמה לו שהוא מצליח, מטיל עליו הבוס שלו - ראש העיר - משימה שמאיימת להצית הכול מחדש. המקווה האחרון בסיביר הוא רומן מלא תשוקה וקסם, שאורג שורה של סיפורי אהבה המתנקזים בסופו של דבר אל רגע שערורייתי אחד.

Cuba Libre: Reborn is a compelling blend of history, fiction, and an optimistic future. Set in iconic Havana, Cuba, this novel explores the nation’s enduring struggle for sovereignty and its quest to redefine itself in a changing world. Against a backdrop of political intrigue and cultural transformation, Cuba Libre: Reborn brings to life the vibrant streets of Havana and the resilience of its people. The story captures the tension between Cuba’s revolutionary past and its aspirations for a brighter, more independent future.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA 'It is rather awful, Emma thought as she walked across the fields down to the farm, how this business is leading us all into subterfuge and deception, and we can't really tell who is friend and who is enemy ... ' Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic...

The acclaimed political thriller that first introduced the unforgettable Francis Urquhart MP and launched Michael Dobbs’ No 1 bestselling career. Michael Dobbs’ entertaining tale of skulduggery and intrigue within the Palace of Westminster has been a huge hit with the public. Its scheming...

Hugh Laurie, Rory Bremner and Morwenna Banks star in this six-part comedy series that sends up both politics and traditional sitcom conventions 1993, and the party of the loony right and centre sweeps to power, changing the face of politics forever and drastically disrupting the very normal...

Francis Urquhart’s eventful career as Prime Minister comes to a spectacular end in the final volume in the Francis Urquhart trilogy – now reissued in audio. He schemed his way to power in ‘House of Cards’ and had a memorable battle of wills with the new king in ‘To Play the King’...

Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman gives an understated and exemplary performance of this satiric look at the unreality of American media culture. Chance, the enigmatic gardener, becomes Chauncey Gardiner after getting hit by a limo belonging to a Wall Street tycoon. The whirlwind that follows brings Chance to his new status of political policy advisor and possible vice presidential candidate. His garden-variety political responses, inspired by television, become heralded as visionary, and he is soon a media icon.

Back in Washington, DC for the funeral of his college roommate, Mac Callahan reluctantly agrees to spend one night in Senator Price Redding’s apartment before flying home to Alabama. But when a dead, naked woman falls from the closet of Redding’s secret bachelor pad and into Mac’s arms, someone must atone for the sins of the sitting senator. The perfect setup for murder will lead to an immaculate warrant for the arrest of former FBI agent Mac Callahan. But the scandal he stumbled into wasn’t meant for him.

L'insurgé, c'est l'histoire de la Commune de Paris que Jules Vallès a connue de l'intérieur.

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "Terrific . . . gripping . . . A literally shattering climax."—The New York Times Book Review All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire’s richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of summer. The world’s largest...

Set against the backdrop of America's Great Depression and Dust Bowl, a family of farmers from Oklahoma head west in search of work, only to discover thousands like them are also on the move. Following a violent altercation with some locals, they head back on the road with their dream of a promised land in tatters. And life is set to get much worse for the Joads....

La memoria de un lugar donde todo era posible… hasta que dejó de serlo. En el puerto de La Habana desembarca una mañana de principios de los años 50 un joven asturiano, Patricio, sin otro patrimonio que sus ganas de comerse el mundo y sin otro afán que dejar atrás una aldea aún envuelta...

In a tale taut with tension, events unfold hour by hour from the perspectives of nine people involved. They include Willie himself, who knows what really happened, and his father, desperately trying to reach the town jail to see his son one last time; the prosecuting lawyer, haunted by being forced to seek the death penalty against his convictions, and his wife, who believes Willie to be innocent; the priest who has become a friend to Willie; and a mother whose only son is fighting in the Pacific, bent on befriending her black neighbours in defiance of her husband.