Three periods converge around Johann Sebastian Bach and the afterlife of his music. A widowed composer meets a young soprano; a later exhumation raises unsettling questions; Glenn Gould prepares his recording of the Goldberg Variations. The novel connects these strands through love, musical creation and secrets carried across generations.
Marisa’s apparent success at a Madrid advertising agency conceals her contempt for corporate life and the dubious methods behind her career. A compulsory retreat in Segovia threatens to expose the persona she has constructed. Workplace rituals become the setting for a dark comedy of alienation and self-deception.
Violet Sorrengail expected a life among scribes, but her mother orders her to join the dragon riders at Basgiath War College. In a training system where rivals and dragons can be lethal, she must rely on knowledge and ingenuity while questioning what the kingdom’s leaders conceal.
At the remote Catalan farmhouse of Mas Clavell, a dying woman is awaited by the women who once lived there. Across a single day, their stories gather centuries of memory, bodily strangeness and dealings with the devil into a restless family history.
Several bodies are discovered on a construction site, with no apparent connection between the victims. Inspector Indira Ramos and her team must examine their pasts to understand the killings. Working alongside Iván Moreno, she faces a case that also puts a crucial personal relationship under pressure.
Violet Sorrengail has survived her first year at Basgiath, but the next stage of training brings new pressures and hostile leadership. Knowledge that threatens the college’s official history forces her to weigh loyalty, secrecy and the cost of protecting those she loves.
Mara encounters prejudice when she begins teaching at a new school, far from the acceptance she knows at her family’s market stall. When two Roma pupils consider leaving education, she must reconcile loyalty to her community with her determination to challenge expectations that limit young women.
Some time after her death, seventy-nine-year-old Hilda Bustamante wakes in her grave and makes her way home. Her return disrupts the lives of her husband, their adopted granddaughter and the people around them. An impossible event becomes a way to explore ageing, affection and the bonds through which a community faces loss.
In sixteenth-century Turin, an inquisitor, a young engineer and a cast of divided families become entangled in political violence. An elusive murderer and a conspiracy against Rome connect their ambitions in a Renaissance Italy fractured by war and powerful dynasties.
Twelve-year-old Aída grows up in southern Tenerife, caught between her mother, her cousin Moco and her friend Yaiza. The pressures and vulnerabilities of adolescence meet the possibilities offered by games and the internet. The novel explores the search for another way to inhabit a body and a world that can feel hostile.
Ten women born under dictatorship confront the limits imposed on their ambitions. Through family responsibilities, artistic desires, neighbourhood struggles and encounters with feminism, their lives trace the choices a generation fought to make possible. The novel brings these often overlooked women into view as models for the daughters who followed them.
Following a devastating defeat, Darrow struggles to return to the people and republic he hopes to protect. His journey brings old companions and new alliances into a conflict with Lysander, whose ambitions threaten to restore the system Darrow fought to overthrow.
Facing a terminal diagnosis and disciplinary action, Barcelona inspector Julián Leal returns to his Galician hometown. A series of deaths appears to connect with his own history. As his remaining time contracts, the investigation forces him to confront a past that refuses to stay buried.
Couples approach separation, former lovers try again and desire unsettles relationships that seemed easier to name. These stories follow different forms of intimacy in the city, from jealousy and expectation to disappointment. Across their encounters, the characters discover how strongly their sense of themselves depends on being seen by someone else.
A child’s death draws suspicion towards the Greens, an Irish family living in London. A tabloid reporter sees an opportunity for a sensational story. As the family’s history emerges, the novel examines the private failures and inherited wounds concealed beneath an easily marketable account of blame.
Paedyn survives among a magical elite by hiding that she has no powers. Rescuing a prince draws her into a deadly competition, where each challenge threatens to expose the secret that makes her very existence a crime.
When her daughter disappears during Boston’s turbulent summer of 1974, Mary Pat begins asking questions her neighbourhood’s criminals want silenced. A nearby death and mounting racial tensions pull her search into the structures of power surrounding her community.
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.
A man wakes in medieval England without his memory and with only fragments of an extraordinary travel guide. Pursued by people from his own world, he turns to local companions while trying to discover both his identity and the reason he came.
After being dismissed by the older man she has been staying with, Alex refuses to leave Long Island. With little money and a talent for reading other people’s desires, she moves between wealthy households, testing the fragile boundary between an invited guest and an unwelcome intruder.