Justin and Emma share an unusual pattern: their former partners find lasting love immediately after dating them. They arrange a brief summer relationship, hoping to break the apparent curse. Family responsibilities and unexpected feelings soon make their carefully limited agreement much harder to keep.
These poems consider a daily life shaped by screens, machines and distant relationships. Conversations across generations meet questions about work, bodily appearance and online intimacy. Gómez Molina explores both the discomfort produced by digital systems and the possibility of using them to build forms of companionship.
A son stays beside his dying father and tries to preserve the stories that shaped their shared life. Gardening becomes a way to think about care, memory and what remains after a death. Moving between intimate recollection and Bulgaria's recent past, Gospodinov explores the difficulty of finding words for grief.
Every Thursday, retired Nicasio visits his grandson’s grave, keeping a private ritual alive after the 1980 school explosion in Ortuella. Through the lives of the boy’s family, the novel examines how an ordinary community and its relationships endure an irreversible loss.
In 1993, Blanca learns that her mother has left for good. As she grows up, she begins to fear that she possesses a supernatural gift, linking a child’s death to her own wishes. Abandonment, guilt and the search for belonging shape her passage through childhood and adolescence.
The Spanish Civil War fractures a family, a village and the wider territory around them. Historical violence meets impossible events in a narrative shaped by magical realism. Soldiers, children, artists and rural inhabitants form a collective portrait of a country coming apart and the absences it leaves behind.
Actor Tito Gil returns to his declining village with a theatrical project that might bring visitors and renewed hope. Finding the right actress becomes essential, and Paula enters the story. The collective performance draws together private longing and a community’s wish to survive, while theatre offers its participants another way to imagine their lives.
This historical novel imagines the origins of Tenerife’s Guanche communities and their resistance to Castilian conquest. Bencomo’s struggle intersects with rivalries between kingdoms and an enslaved woman’s search for her roots. Warfare and forbidden attachments connect personal destinies to the fate of an island.
Lai grows up in a working family in Beijing, finding encouragement in her grandmother and in the books she discovers. A university scholarship opens another world of friendships and possibilities. Her coming of age unfolds alongside the hopes and political tensions that lead to the protests of 1989.
Comedian Andy is trying to understand why Jen ended their relationship. With his career faltering and his friends moving into different stages of life, he searches for an explanation that will restore order. The novel considers heartbreak through the mismatch between personal narratives and another person’s experience.
Diego and Claudia prepare to celebrate their new house in Menorca when a woman from Diego’s past reappears. Their encounter at an American music festival two decades earlier left an enduring mark. Her return unsettles his present and raises questions about gratitude, intimacy and the lives built around unspoken experiences.
Growing up in a working-class neighbourhood of Madrid in the 1980s and 1990s, a young trans woman struggles to find a way to live openly. Her journey connects the pressures of class and violence with the friendship and solidarity of women who help her imagine another life.
On a roadside in early 1990s Spain, sixteen-year-old Catalina tries to get home before her parents’ curfew. The wait brings her troubled relationship with her body into focus, alongside the expectations and threats that shape her passage into adulthood.
Two young would-be militants cross into France to join ETA, only to find themselves stranded on a poultry farm as the organisation abandons armed struggle. Their determination to continue exposes the absurdities, rivalries and self-deceptions behind their revolutionary ambitions.
Nikki’s life on Bali is far removed from Alex’s world of London and private aviation. Their meeting brings thirty days in which attraction crosses differences in routine, expectations and experience. The first Bali novel follows a romance shadowed by the secrets each person brings into a seemingly idyllic setting.
Greta earns her living transcribing a sex therapist’s sessions in Hudson, New York. When she recognizes a patient’s voice outside the office, she enters a relationship shaped by knowledge she cannot admit possessing. Desire, secrecy and the ethics of listening become inseparable in their growing intimacy.
Nina’s precarious life in Madrid unravels when she loses her magazine job. Returning to her home city means living close to her mother and sister again, while the second novel she hoped to write remains unfinished. Family silences and frustrated expectations complicate her attempt to find a new direction.
Three periods converge around Johann Sebastian Bach and the afterlife of his music. A widowed composer meets a young soprano; a later exhumation raises unsettling questions; Glenn Gould prepares his recording of the Goldberg Variations. The novel connects these strands through love, musical creation and secrets carried across generations.
Marisa’s apparent success at a Madrid advertising agency conceals her contempt for corporate life and the dubious methods behind her career. A compulsory retreat in Segovia threatens to expose the persona she has constructed. Workplace rituals become the setting for a dark comedy of alienation and self-deception.
At the remote Catalan farmhouse of Mas Clavell, a dying woman is awaited by the women who once lived there. Across a single day, their stories gather centuries of memory, bodily strangeness and dealings with the devil into a restless family history.