Attua’s responsibility for his family’s thermal baths in the Pyrenees overturns the future he imagined with Cristela. Against the upheavals of the nineteenth century, love must contend with loyalty and inherited duties. Their story follows the lasting consequences of decisions made under pressure from family and history.
Dublin students Frances and Bobbi enter the social circle of an older married couple after a poetry performance. As Frances grows closer to the husband, Nick, shifting loyalties complicate the boundaries between friendship, desire and the stories people tell about themselves.
A couple raise their five daughters in an isolated desert home, protecting a life built around a concealed past. When a travelling stranger asks to stay, his curiosity unsettles the household and exposes the dangers beneath its apparent tranquillity.
A meeting on a train in 1933 changes the lives of Carmen Trilla and army captain Federico Escofet. Their relationship challenges an unhappy marriage and the conventions of Spanish society, then faces civil war and exile. Drawing on real lives, the novel explores the choices and family consequences of pursuing a forbidden love.
Javier Aznar’s chronicles follow journeys, friendships, summer days and the uncertainty of love. Their recurring concern is the brief moment that survives in memory long after it has passed. Observations of everyday life connect pleasure with nostalgia and the impulse to return to places that can never quite be the same.
Painter Helena Guerrero returns to Madrid and finds family documents that may illuminate her sister’s unsolved murder in Rabat. Her search moves between an intimate tragedy in 1969 and events preceding the Spanish Civil War. Photographs, memories and omissions challenge the family history she thought she knew.
An orphaned heir travels through feudal Japan under the protection of his family’s last surviving samurai. Elsewhere, a physician faces a conspiracy among powerful clans, bringing two paths of exile and survival into a country’s fragile passage from war to peace.
In Tangier in March 1937, Lorenzo Falcó must persuade the captain of a ship carrying Spanish gold to change allegiance. Among spies and smugglers, he again encounters the Soviet agent Eva. Their confrontation tests the uneasy boundary between professional loyalty, attraction and personal survival.
Still seeking revenge against the men who destroyed her family, Mia Corvere defies the assassins who trained her. She enters a gladiatorial arena to reach a protected enemy, but the games expose conspiracies that complicate both her mission and her loyalties.
At Tokyo’s Marble Café, a woman writes in a notebook while a young waiter prepares her usual hot chocolate. Around this small meeting place, a series of connected lives unfolds. Ordinary gestures and chance encounters reveal how people can influence one another without ever understanding the full extent of their connection.
Maggie O’Farrell revisits seventeen occasions when death came close, from childhood illness to the dangers surrounding childbirth and chance encounters. Arranged through memories rather than a conventional life story, these essays examine the precariousness of survival and the relationships that make each narrow escape matter.
On an island where jade grants extraordinary abilities, rival clans fight to control the capital’s streets and its magical economy. The Kaul family’s struggle to defend its position becomes more dangerous when a new drug threatens the rules supporting their power.
Sofía’s contented life revolves around books, her cat and her work at the Café de Alejandría. She is not looking for a relationship when Héctor walks through the door. Their immediate attraction opens the first part of a story about two people whose existing circumstances complicate the possibility of a new love.
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.
The Everstorm transforms Roshar and awakens people long held in servitude. Dalinar attempts to build a coalition against the coming disaster, while Kaladin and Shallan encounter truths that challenge the stories their own side tells about the war.
Robert Langdon arrives in Bilbao for a presentation by futurist Edmond Kirsch, who promises answers to fundamental questions about human existence. When the event descends into chaos, Langdon and museum director Ambra Vidal must protect a discovery that powerful forces want to suppress.
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.
A baby’s skeleton is discovered during work on a London house. Journalist Kate Waters sees a story behind the brief report and begins to investigate. The discovery reaches women whose lives are connected to a long-hidden loss, drawing private histories into an increasingly difficult search for the truth.
Edith Eva Eger recounts surviving Auschwitz and rebuilding her life after the war. Her later work as a psychologist brings her experience into conversation with the struggles of her patients. The memoir considers trauma, memory and the choices through which she sought a life beyond the control of her past.