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The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q" is for "question mark". A world that bears a question....

A certain college girl who's loved books ever since she was a little girl dies in an accident and is reborn in another world she knows nothing about. She is now Myne, the sickly five-year-old daughter of a poor soldier. To make things worse, the world she's been reborn in has a very low literacy rate and books mostly don't exist. She'd have to pay an enormous amount of money to buy one.

El galardonado historiador narra la caída de una ciudad antigua en una espiral de violencia sin precedentes, una masacre que en 1860 marcaría el fin del antiguo orden otomano y el comienzo del Oriente Medio moderno. El 9 de julio de 1860, la ciudad de Damasco fue testigo de uno de los...

Un viaje poético por las orillas del río Ouse, donde Olivia Laing entrelaza naturaleza, historia y literatura en un relato cautivador sobre la memoria, el paisaje y la humanidad. Una mañana de verano, más de sesenta años después de que Virginia Woolf se ahogara en el río Ouse, Olivia...

La extraordinaria operación de rescate llevada a cabo en la embajada iraní de Londres en 1980, un evento histórico que marcó un hito en las operaciones de fuerzas especiales y capturó la atención mundial. El 30 de abril de 1980, seis hombres armados irrumpieron en la embajada iraní en...

Sigue el Universo Metro, la serie de novelas de ciencia ficción posapocalípticas del prolífico autor Dmitry Glukhovsky. Año 2034. Tras una guerra devastadora, gran parte del mundo ha quedado reducida a cenizas. Moscú se ha convertido en una ciudad fantasma y los pocos supervivientes se han...

Martha C. Nussbaum, una de las más célebres filósofas morales del mundo, nos ofrece una reflexión original y urgente sobre la cultura de violencia y abuso sexual hacia las mujeres en nuestra sociedad. Martha C. Nussbaum, una de las más célebres filósofas morales del mundo, nos ofrece una...

Hay una guerra contra la verdad. Si no la ganamos, la libertad será su víctima El compromiso de Occidente con la libertad, la razón y el liberalismo nunca ha estado tan amenazado como ahora. El peligro procede de las opresivas fuerzas de la corrección política. Gad Saad, científico del...

El esperado desenlace de la serie del internado Dunbridge Academy. Amor, intriga y secretos en el internado más exclusivo de Escocia. La vida de Olive saltó en pedazos en tan solo una noche cuando quedó atrapada en el devastador incendio de la Dunbridge Academy. Las heridas graves y la lenta...

Just as Myne gets her foot in the door of making paper, she collapses due to the sickness known as the devouring. She's getting better thanks to the help of those around her, but the devouring remains clouded in mystery. As the world expands, so too does her passion for making books! This volume is the conclusion to Part 1 and shows a glimpse into the future of the series!

Yuki Hirano is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against his will, in a forestry training program in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. No phone, no internet, no shopping. Just a small, inviting community where the most common expression is “take it easy.” At first, Yuki is exhausted, fumbles with the tools, asks silly questions, and feels like an outcast. Kamusari is the last place a city boy from Yokohama wants to spend a year of his life. But as resistant as he might be, the scent of the cedars and the staggering beauty of the region have a pull.

The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Miyamoto Musashi becomes a reluctant hero to a host of people whose lives he has touched and by whom he has been touched. Inevitably, he has to pit his skill against the naked blade of his greatest rival.

Winner of Audiobook of the Year at The Specsavers National Book Awards 2018 Penguin presents the audio edition of The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli, read by Benedict Cumberbatch. The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics takes us on an enchanting journey to discover the meaning...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes “an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and a deceptively simple old man. Now with a new introduction by the...

Read the modern classic about a young witch and her clever cat that started it all! Nostalgic fans of the Hayao Miyazaki film, Kiki's Delivery Service and newcomers alike will love this exciting new translation of the beloved fantasy story. "A gentle story of magic-tinged independence."—The...

A hugely enjoyable, must-listen murder mystery sure to appeal to fans of Elly Griffiths, Anthony Horowitz, and Agatha Christie, with one of the best and most satisfying conclusions you'll ever hear. A classic in Japan, available in English for the first time.

Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him. A classic of Japanese literature, I Am a Cat is one of Soseki's best-known novels. Considered by many as the greatest writer in modern Japanese history, Soseki's I Am a Cat is a classic novel sure to be enjoyed for years to come.

A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see, standing before him, the most extraordinary little fellow. "Please," asks the stranger, "draw me a sheep." And the pilot realizes that when life's events are too difficult to understand, there is no choice but to succumb to their mysteries. He pulls out pencil and paper... And thus begins this wise and enchanting fable that, in teaching the secret of what is really important in life, has changed forever the world for its readers.

Just as Myne gets her foot in the door of making paper, she collapses due to the sickness known as the devouring. She's getting better thanks to the help of those around her, but the devouring remains clouded in mystery. As the world expands, so too does her passion for making books! This volume is the conclusion to Part 1 and shows a glimpse into the future of the series!