In 1936, Agustín Santos flees into the mountains of La Palma as political repression transforms the island. His pursuer, Floro the Ferret, brings personal rivalry into the hunt, while Emilia waits below. Love and vengeance become inseparable from the violence unleashed after the military uprising.
Doctor Guillermo García lives in postwar Madrid under an assumed identity, protected by papers from a friend whose life he once saved. When their paths cross again, that friendship draws him into espionage and the hidden networks connecting Spain to Europe's defeated fascists.
Miguel and Helena meet in a care home in Tarifa and decide to travel together in an old Datsun. Their route through Spain toward Malmö becomes a confrontation with regrets, memories and unfinished business. The journey asks what freedom and a new beginning can mean late in life.
Retired screen legend Evelyn Hugo chooses an obscure journalist, Monique Grant, to record the truth about her life. Behind the account of seven marriages lies a career shaped by ambition, intimacy and carefully managed appearances. As Monique listens, the reason for Evelyn’s unexpected choice becomes increasingly significant.
Rupi Kaur brings poems and drawings together in five sections organised around the life of a flower. The collection moves through loss, recovery and growth while considering love, family roots and migration. Its short pieces connect personal vulnerability with the effort to rebuild a sense of belonging.
Sentenced to house arrest in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov must exchange his privileged life for an attic room in Moscow’s Metropol Hotel. Within its corridors, friendships and unexpected responsibilities create a new existence, while the transformation of Russia reaches him through the people crossing its doors.
In Northern California during the 1960s, lonely teenager Evie Boyd is drawn to Suzanne and the girls surrounding a charismatic leader. Their ranch appears to offer belonging and freedom. Evie’s desire for acceptance carries her towards a group whose intimacy conceals an increasingly disturbing capacity for violence.
Two families in a Basque town are pulled apart by ETA’s violence. Threats against Bittori’s husband collide with her friend Miren’s loyalty to a son drawn into militancy. Moving through their shared past, the novel follows the damage done to friendship, family ties and the possibility of reconciliation.
Lily builds a new life in Boston and begins a relationship with Ryle, a surgeon whose attraction is difficult to resist. The return of Atlas, her first love, reconnects her with a painful past. Her hopes for the future become entangled with questions about love, trust and the choices she can make.
Soledad hires a younger escort to accompany her to the opera and provoke a former lover’s jealousy. An act of violence turns the arrangement into an unpredictable relationship, intertwining her fears about ageing with the troubled writers whose lives she is studying.
Maggie runs a guesthouse on an island, cultivating a quiet life that keeps painful memories at a distance. She believes she has left love behind until Alejandro arrives. Their encounter unsettles the refuge she has built and raises the possibility of beginning again without escaping the past.
After losing her partner, Marina takes a temporary job at El Jardín del Ángel, an unusual flower shop. There she meets women facing turning points in work, love and family life. Their friendship, encouraged by the shop’s owner Olivia, helps them reconsider the choices and dependencies that have shaped their lives.
In 1939, Hannah and her family board the Saint Louis hoping to escape Nazi Germany for Cuba. Decades later, a letter from Havana leads young Anna toward the history her family has lost. Their linked stories follow exile, separation and the effort to recover names and relationships threatened by forgetting.
In 1960s Mexico City, Juan Guillermo seeks revenge for his brother’s killing, confronting religious fanatics protected by corrupt police. Far away in the Yukon, a young hunter pursues a wolf. Their parallel stories connect grief, survival and the forces that can turn a life towards violence.
Muriel leaves Manila for Spain and enters the social world of the 1970s, where she falls for an aspiring artist. Their relationship develops amid ambition, celebrity and class expectations. The novel follows the tension between private feeling and the public roles that an increasingly visible life demands.
Residents of a Madrid neighbourhood face the pressures of an economic crisis through ordinary routines, family worries and small acts of help. Their intersecting lives form a collective portrait of dignity and solidarity when security can no longer be taken for granted.
Four college friends arrive in New York with ambitions that change as their lives unfold over decades. Their bond centres increasingly on Jude, whose painful past tests the possibilities and limits of friendship, care and the families people build for themselves.
After the success of a deeply personal book, writer Delphine struggles to return to her work. Her friendship with the intriguing L. seems supportive, then becomes increasingly controlling. The story unsettles the boundary between lived experience and invention as intimacy begins to threaten the narrator’s independence.
Bea loses her job and discovers her fiancé’s infidelity with a television presenter in a devastating run of events. Returning to her family offers a chance to regroup, though little proceeds according to plan. The romantic comedy follows the upheavals and unexpected possibilities of starting over.
In late nineteenth-century Barcelona, prosperity and urban transformation coexist with sharp inequalities. Juan Pedro and Candela become part of a story in which love crosses social divisions, while family ambitions and political unrest test personal loyalties. The city’s promises of progress expose the conflicts beneath its growing wealth.