Ardor Benn is a professional con artist hired by a priest for an ambitious operation against a powerful king. He recruits forgers, impersonators, schemers and thieves to carry out a deception beyond the reach of one person. As the undertaking grows, its consequences extend past reputation and profit towards a danger facing human civilization.
In 1930s New York, three Spanish sisters inherit the responsibility of running their father’s restaurant after his sudden death. While pursuing compensation and navigating an unfamiliar city, they must negotiate family expectations, economic uncertainty and the beginnings of independent lives.
Raised in an isolated Idaho family, Tara Westover reaches university after a childhood without formal schooling. Education opens unfamiliar intellectual and social worlds, eventually taking her to Cambridge. Her memoir examines the cost of claiming an independent perspective when learning brings cherished family loyalties into question.
A wedding day reunites Amalia and her children, but an unexpected telephone call disrupts their plans. Over twenty-four hours, familiar tensions and concealed feelings reshape the celebration, revealing how this family’s affection survives through humour, vulnerability and imperfect understanding.
Théo and his friend Mathis are moving towards danger that the adults around them struggle to recognize. Their teacher Hélène is troubled by what she sees, while Mathis’s mother faces a crisis of her own. Four lives expose the protective and destructive possibilities of loyalty.
As the Night Court rebuilds after war, Feyre, Rhysand and their companions prepare for the Winter Solstice. This novella follows their efforts to find comfort in familiar bonds while the conflict’s lasting wounds complicate the prospect of peace.
Guests arrive at Mitchell's Inn in the Catskills for a weekend away. A winter storm cuts the electricity and isolates the hotel. A death that initially appears accidental is followed by another, leaving the guests to question the people sharing their retreat.
James Clear presents a practical approach to changing routines through small, repeated actions. He examines how cues, surroundings and rewards can support or obstruct behaviour, and proposes systems for making desired habits easier to repeat. The emphasis falls on everyday processes and gradual adjustment rather than relying on motivation alone.
Brief autobiographical pieces approach a life through its relationships: parents, children, love and the experiences that remain in memory. Fernando Aramburu assembles an indirect self-portrait from intimate scenes. Private joy and anxiety become a way of considering the bonds through which a person comes to understand himself.
Pilar Eyre fictionalises the life of actress Carmen Ruiz Moragas, whose relationship with Alfonso XIII unfolds against the pressures of fame and monarchy. Personal ambition and the desire for independence collide with a love affair constrained by public expectations. The novel places an unconventional woman within the social and political upheavals of her time.
In 1920s Cantabria, twins Estrella and Alma grow up within the wealthy Zuloaga family, inheriting unusual gifts passed through its women. A curse predicts that one sister will die before fifteen. Their bond develops amid family power, rivalries and the threatening inheritance attached to their home.
An injured young woman arrives at the FBI carrying notes, one of which names a woman who is murdered shortly afterwards. Inspector Bowring follows the apparent prediction into an older disappearance, where unresolved relationships and the possibility of foreknowledge complicate every explanation.
After three years in London, Ada returns to her village and reconnects with relatives, friends and an old love. She begins inventing stories about the people around her, turning homecoming into an exploration of fiction itself. Irene Solà interweaves lives and imagined lives to ask how telling stories changes our relationship with a place.
Dolly Alderton revisits the friendships, parties, romantic disappointments and misjudgements of growing into adulthood. Her memoir traces changing expectations of love through the experiences of her twenties. Beneath the dating stories runs an account of female friendship and the people who remain present as life becomes less predictable.
Macarena works for a fashion influencer in Madrid and shares her daily life with her friends Adriana and Jimena. The arrival of Leo threatens the distance she has tried to put between herself and a past relationship. This first volume of Canciones y recuerdos follows friendship and desire as old memories become present again.
Marian Rojas Estapé presents her account of the links between thought, emotion and responses to stress. Combining explanations of brain function with reflections on daily habits, she discusses goals, self-criticism and emotional awareness. The book sets out the author’s approach to understanding and changing recurring patterns.
Ten years after the revolution, Darrow and his allies are still fighting the forces of the old order. Their incomplete victory is viewed from several lives across the system, exposing the distance between overthrowing a hierarchy and building a lasting peace.
After her husband Jonás dies, photographer Lena returns to the lavender fields of the Alcarria to scatter his ashes. Grief brings her into contact with memories and relationships that have not settled into the past. The landscape becomes the setting for her attempt to live with absence and begin again.
A young bride is found murdered after her hen night in Madrid, repeating the pattern of her sister’s death seven years earlier. With the supposed killer already imprisoned, Elena Blanco must reopen the family’s history and question what the earlier investigation actually established.
After stabbing a riot police officer, Manuel hides in an abandoned village. Books, plants and modest supplies sent by his uncle sustain a life stripped of most possessions and company. His refuge becomes an experiment in needing less, and a pointed exploration of the society he has escaped.