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.
Disillusioned policeman Germinal Ibarra has moved to A Coruña after a murder investigation brought him unwanted recognition. An injured woman’s request to see him reopens questions he hoped to leave behind. Elsewhere on the Galician coast, Paola is also hiding, and their paths approach through concealed histories.
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.
Darrow's years of infiltration give way to open rebellion against the rulers of the solar system. To turn resistance into a chance of freedom, he must rebuild alliances and persuade divided people to risk their lives for a future beyond the caste system.
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.
After her family is destroyed in a failed rebellion, Mia Corvere seeks the skills to take revenge. Her path leads to a school of assassins, where rivalry, secret loyalties and her unusual relationship with shadows make every lesson dangerous.
In a society that has eliminated ordinary causes of death, selected scythes must control the population. Two reluctant apprentices learn what this responsibility demands, confronting the moral consequences of a system that places other people’s lives in their hands.
Reports of an ancient artefact send Wax south to investigate powers thought lost with the Lord Ruler. The journey uncovers unfamiliar peoples and new clues about a secret organisation, widening the stakes beyond the mysteries of his own family.
Anne and Marco attend a dinner next door, leaving their baby at home and checking on her throughout the evening. When they return to an empty crib, suspicion falls on the parents. Detective Rasbach’s investigation exposes pressures and secrets beneath the couple’s apparently comfortable life.
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.
Detective Erika Foster investigates a doctor's suffocation during a London heatwave. When another death follows the same pattern, she searches for the connection between victims whose private lives are carefully concealed, unaware of how closely the killer may be watching her.
Ritualised murders return to Vitoria just as the man convicted of a similar series is preparing for temporary release. Criminal profiler Kraken investigates whether the new deaths expose an old mistake or a new accomplice, amid a city steeped in history and folklore.
Mark Manson questions the demand to stay positive and succeed at everything. His account of personal change centres on deciding what deserves attention, accepting limitations and taking responsibility for choices. Anecdotes and arguments explore how values shape the problems people choose to face and the effort they give them.
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.
Lola Pons Rodríguez explores the history of Spanish through short pieces about words, spelling and everyday speech. Familiar linguistic puzzles become opportunities to trace changes across generations and centuries. The collection invites readers to approach their own language with curiosity about both its past and its continuing transformation.
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.
Kaz Brekker is offered a dangerous job with a reward large enough to change his life, but he cannot attempt it alone. He assembles six people with different skills and reasons to risk the mission. Drawn from Ketterdam’s criminal world, they must turn an uneasy alliance into a working crew while facing an assignment whose difficulty is matched by the tensions within the group.
Oliver inherits a seaside house in Cantabria and begins renovating it, only to discover a baby’s remains concealed in a wall. Further deaths draw investigator Valentina Redondo into a case where the building’s hidden history unsettles the present.
Fumio Sasaki recounts his decision to reduce his possessions and reconsider the importance he attached to status and comparison. Alongside practical suggestions for letting objects go, he describes the changes he experienced in daily life. The book presents minimalism through a personal experiment in having less.