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The death of a wealthy businessman exposes tensions between his comfortable legacy and the history that made it possible. Members of two families confront an inheritance marked by Spain’s Civil War, exile and betrayal, as present-day attachments reopen questions their elders left unresolved.
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Mariam and Laila belong to different generations, but war and circumstances bring them into the same household in Kabul. Their uneasy relationship develops into a bond that helps them face violence and oppression. Against Afghanistan’s changing political landscape, the novel follows care, endurance and the cost of protecting another person.
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In 1852, governess Helen and aristocratic Gwyneira leave Britain for New Zealand, each facing a marriage arranged across an ocean. Their very different expectations meet the demands of an unfamiliar country. The opening novel of the trilogy traces the friendships and family ties that connect their new lives.
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In 1327, four children witness a deadly encounter in the woods near Kingsbridge and the concealment of a mysterious letter. The secret connects their futures, drawing private lives into a wider story of ambition, danger and struggles for power in medieval England.
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As Rome faces the military power of Carthage and Hannibal, a young Publius Cornelius Scipio grows into a decisive role. The opening novel of the Africanus trilogy follows his childhood and youth through political rivalries, family expectations and a war that threatens the future of Rome.
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Arnau Estanyol’s life unfolds in medieval Barcelona as the church of Santa Maria del Mar rises above the city. His changing fortunes bring him into contact with labour, trade and the ambitions of powerful households. Friendship and loyalty are tested by betrayal, social divisions and the threat of the Inquisition.
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Juvenal and César learn of their uncle’s lost love in the Sahara and of a daughter he may never have known. Their journey from Spain into the desert brings an old family story into contact with the hopes, dangers and migrations of the present.
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In the sixteenth century, Inés leaves Spain and crosses the Atlantic in search of a different life. Allende’s historical novel follows her relationship with Pedro de Valdivia and her participation in the Spanish conquest of Chile, bringing personal ambition into a violent colonial world.
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These stories approach terrorism in the Basque Country through lives marked by fear, coercion and loss. Families, neighbours and survivors carry wounds that reach beyond the attacks themselves. Fernando Aramburu examines the intimate consequences of violence and the difficult place of ordinary people within a fractured community.
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During the 1942 roundup of Jews in Paris, ten-year-old Sarah hides her little brother before being taken away. Sixty years later, journalist Julia Jarmond investigates the same events. Her research reveals a connection between Sarah’s fate and her own family, bringing a suppressed past into the present.
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In this wartime fable, Bruno moves with his family to an isolated house where his father has a new posting. Beyond a fence he meets Shmuel, a boy whose circumstances he does not understand. Their friendship develops across a boundary shaped by the violence of the adult world.
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When her marriage collapses, Joséphine needs a way to support her daughters. Her glamorous sister Iris proposes an arrangement: Joséphine will write a historical novel, while Iris takes the public credit. The book’s success unsettles both households and exposes the distance between appearances, ambition and affection.
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Five stories follow adolescents at moments when familiar certainties begin to break down. Through family tensions, loss and newly discovered passions, Almudena Grandes explores the encounters that alter a young person’s direction and the uneven passage toward an independent life.
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After the Spanish Civil War, refugee Joan Dolgut works as a waiter in Cannes and falls in love with Soledad Urdaneta, a wealthy Colombian’s daughter. Social barriers divide their lives, but the bond persists. Years later, their children reconstruct a concealed history that reshapes their understanding of their parents.
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After Portugal’s disastrous campaign in Morocco, a wounded king and a rogue who resembles him become linked by a royal ring. Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa builds an adventure around disputed identity, survival and power. Historical gaps open space for an imagined fate for King Sebastian and the man who could replace him.
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In 1908, seventeen-year-old Spaniard Anita Delgado marries the Maharaja of Kapurthala and enters a life in India far removed from her upbringing. This historical novel follows the attraction and strain of that union, placing private desires within the cultural and political expectations surrounding a princely household.
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In Nazi Germany, foster child Liesel Meminger discovers the power of words through the books she steals and learns to read. Narrated by Death, her story follows the ties she forms amid persecution and war, as acts of care and storytelling become ways to endure.
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Changed by the First World War, Byron Aldridge finds work policing a remote Louisiana sawmill. His younger brother Randolph arrives hoping to reconnect with him while managing the family business. Their different responses to violence and exploitation turn a struggle over the mill's future into a test of loyalty, courage and moral responsibility.
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Sold by his father, Kalil Mtube is forced to work on a cocoa plantation. Friendship and the desire for freedom help him resist a system that treats children as merchandise. His account follows exploitation, escape and the effort to reclaim a life that others have tried to control.
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Fifteen-year-old Kafka Tamura runs away from home, while the elderly Nakata follows an equally mysterious course. Their stories move toward one another through talking cats, unsettling coincidences and uncertain borders between dream and reality, as questions of fate and identity accumulate.
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