A young woman spends the summer back in the working-class Barcelona neighbourhood where she grew up. Conversations with her childhood friend Yaiza share space with family difficulties and doubts about adulthood. Her observations of bodies, desire and popular culture expose conflicts between her political ideas and the class and gender expectations around her.
Debates about offensive art and political correctness provide the starting point for this essay on freedom of expression. Lijtmaer questions the practice of dismissing protesters as oversensitive. She examines how arguments about censorship can obscure political power and weaken the legitimacy of public dissent.
In Seville in 1993, nine-year-old Marina spends the summer with her grandmother while worrying about her mother’s health. Her curiosity about bodies and adulthood accompanies fears she cannot easily share. The novel follows a child’s unruly inner life and the affection that gives her room to face a confusing world.
A father travels through Argentina with his son, trying to protect him from a secret order that seeks immortality. Their inherited connection to the supernatural draws family history into a wider landscape of political violence, privilege and rituals with a devastating human cost.
Raised by a wealthy godmother despite her humble origins, Elisa Montero grows up feeling between worlds in early twentieth-century Madrid. She wants to become a journalist and choose her own future. Class expectations, restrictions on women and a changing country test her determination to give that ambition a life.
A Van Gogh portrait bought by a Japanese businessman disappears after his death. Years later, five strangers are brought together in a search that leads from Paris to Japan. Their pursuit of the missing painting links an art-world mystery with an unfamiliar landscape of beliefs and customs.
Sara Mesa follows a homeless woman with health problems and a disability as she tries to obtain income support. The account examines the paperwork and obstacles separating a promised entitlement from practical access. Her experience becomes a way to question public assumptions about welfare and the prejudice directed at people living in poverty.
A teenager has been entering neighbours’ houses and looking through their computers. Anonymous letters admitting the intrusions spread unease through a quiet suburb. When a woman is found murdered, the secrets behind familiar doors acquire a different weight, and knowing one’s neighbours becomes a troubling proposition.
Having reached the skies, Spensa learns that both her father’s past and humanity’s place in the galaxy are more complicated than she believed. Determined to protect her people, she travels beyond home while confronting unsettling discoveries about her own abilities.
In this selection of short columns, Leila Guerriero follows the traces that love, loss, reading and ordinary encounters leave behind. Private memories become starting points for questions that extend beyond a single life. The pieces draw attention to how much can remain unresolved beneath an apparently familiar moment or feeling.
Tiffy needs an affordable home, while Leon works nights and needs extra income. Sharing a flat and a bed at different times seems practical, even though they have never met. Notes exchanged around the apartment gradually turn their unusual arrangement into a more personal connection.
Faye gave up her own ambitions to help Jack build a successful business and raise their daughter. When his betrayal dismantles their privileged marriage, she finds herself facing both financial ruin and the past she has concealed. Her response turns lost independence into a carefully planned campaign of revenge.
Marco Carrera’s life unfolds through family fractures, enduring love and successive losses. Moving between different periods, the novel pieces together his efforts to remain steady while everything around him changes. Parents, partners and a granddaughter connect an intimate history to the future he hopes to protect.
Painter Alicia Berenson stops speaking after killing her husband. A psychotherapist determined to break her silence pursues the story behind the crime, but his growing fixation brings his own motivations into question as much as those of his patient.
Murders in distant locations suggest that the Four Monkey Killer’s reach is wider than investigators believed. Amid institutional corruption and conflicting accounts, a suspect’s unexpected surrender forces Sam Porter and the authorities to reconsider the story behind their pursuit.
The order responsible for managing death moves closer to authoritarian control while the intelligence governing the wider world falls silent. The trilogy’s concluding volume brings its competing visions of immortality, conscience and power toward a final confrontation.
A group of friends sets off in a motorhome to celebrate a hen party, carrying more secrets than they admit. Coco’s hidden feelings for her best friend are part of the emotional tangle. Sharing a confined space on the road tests the stories they tell one another and the friendships those stories protect.
A fatal lightning strike opens a chorus of voices in the Pyrenees. People, animals, ghosts and the landscape itself tell interconnected stories of loss and survival, bringing the region’s memories into the rhythms of everyday life.
Murders in Vitoria begin to resemble crimes described in a newly published historical novel. As Kraken and Esti pursue the connections between fiction, medieval punishments and present-day families, the investigation places the people closest to them in danger.
Sancia Grado, a thief with unusual abilities, is hired to steal an artifact from a guarded warehouse in Tevanne. The object could overturn the magical technology that sustains the city’s powerful Merchant Houses. As those who want it pursue her, Sancia must find unlikely allies and confront a system in which coded instructions give ordinary objects extraordinary properties.