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A faulty boiler almost kills Marta Jiménez Serrano and her partner in their home in November 2020. Years later, she reconstructs the accident alongside the relationship that preceded it and the difficult recovery that followed. Her personal account brings love, anxiety and ordinary domestic life into contact with the shock of nearly losing everything.
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Pedro Ruiz approaches contemporary life through humour, polemic and occasional poetry. His observations turn to digital dependence, public outrage and social habits, inviting readers to examine the everyday absurdities in which they may also take part.
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Laura C. Vela brings together memories, conversations and messages while revisiting abuse experienced during adolescence. The book follows the effort to find words for what happened and to reconsider her own history. Rather than arranging pain into a neat resolution, it records the uneven work of rebuilding a sense of self.
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Fatherhood changes Alejandro Zambra’s sense of time, reading and everyday life. These essays, stories and poems move between caring for a child and reconsidering one’s own childhood. Family routines, books, football and play become occasions to explore how parents and children continually remake one another.
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Alba Cardalda explores why saying no can feel difficult in friendships, relationships and the workplace. The book introduces ways to express needs and establish boundaries through assertive, empathetic communication. Everyday situations illustrate how fear of rejection or conflict can shape behaviour, inviting readers to reconsider the space they give their own priorities.
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Ana Pérez introduces psychological concepts through practical exercises for everyday situations. The book addresses issues including boundaries, self-esteem, procrastination and uncertainty, inviting readers to examine their reactions and habits. Its short explanations and suggested tools offer a structured starting point for reflecting on difficulties that can otherwise feel hard to name.
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Alejandro Palomas revisits childhood abuse and the silence that surrounded it, considering how unspoken experiences persist into adult life. This autobiographical account connects vulnerability, family relationships and writing with the difficult act of finding words for what had remained hidden.
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Rosa Montero explores the relationship between literary creation and an unconventional inner life. Personal memories meet writers’ biographies and ideas drawn from psychology and neuroscience. Moving between essay and autobiography, she considers the consolations of writing and the tensions that can accompany an intensely imaginative mind.
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Daniel Jiménez revisits his father’s attempt to create a television programme and the dispute that followed its apparent appropriation. Investigating that unfinished fight draws him into family memories, creative ambition and financial sacrifice. The account examines what a son inherits when a parent’s struggle for recognition continues to shape their shared life.
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Andrea Ros questions the expectations and inherited rules surrounding motherhood. Drawing on the perspective behind the Madremente community, she argues for mothers to describe their own experiences and articulate their needs. The book approaches raising children as a shared conversation rather than an ideal of effortless perfection.
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Javier Zamora recalls the journey he undertook at nine to join his parents in the United States. Leaving El Salvador, he travels with strangers through dangers he can barely understand, discovering unexpected forms of care and companionship along a route that lasts much longer than promised.
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Andrew Morton traces Elizabeth II’s life from a childhood outside the expected line of succession to seven decades on the throne. The biography places family relationships and personal discipline alongside public duty, examining the pressures of maintaining a monarchy through political, social and cultural change.
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Luis García Montero follows the illness and loss of his partner, Almudena Grandes, through poems grounded in everyday life. Walks, hospital visits and the silence of familiar rooms become ways of measuring absence. The collection brings love, care and memory together as the poet learns to inhabit a world changed by bereavement.
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Ángel Martín reconstructs the mental health crisis that led to his hospitalisation and the work of rebuilding his life afterward. Written from personal experience, the account combines candour and humour while examining lost contact with reality, the support of others and the difficulty of speaking openly about psychiatric illness.
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Adam Grant examines the ability to revise beliefs, question expertise and remain curious when certainty is tempting. Research and stories from work, education and public debate illustrate the difficulties of changing one’s mind. He explores how individuals and groups can make room for disagreement and intellectual reconsideration.
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Rafia Zakaria examines how influential strands of Western feminism have sidelined women of colour and reproduced colonial assumptions. Drawing on political analysis and personal experience, she argues for a movement that takes different histories and unequal distributions of power seriously.
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Marta D. Riezu assembles a personal collection of people, objects and places associated with an unforced kind of elegance. Public libraries, artists, animals and ordinary habits share space in these short reflections. A dictionary of affinities extends an inquiry into taste, attention and the quiet pleasures found close at hand.
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Marta D. Riezu asks what it means to dress fairly in an industry driven by constant replacement. Attention shifts from the shop window to the people who make clothes and the resources behind them. Repairing, exchanging and buying less become ways to reconsider taste, responsibility and the everyday habits that fill a wardrobe.
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Ana Iris Simón revisits a childhood among fairground workers and farmers before examining her own generation’s urban life. Family memories become a way to question ideas of progress, independence and security, contrasting inherited working-class experience with the precarious expectations surrounding young adulthood.
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Irene Vallejo follows the invention and survival of books through the ancient Mediterranean world. Moving among writers, readers, libraries and manuscript workshops, she connects the materials that carried words with the people who preserved and passed them on.
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