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O que é a vida se você não para um instante para repensá-la?Quando Goliarda Sapienza terminou de escrever A arte da alegria, tinha nas mãos quase mil páginas que nenhuma grande editora italiana quis

I feel like, soon, the day after tomorrow, some other people are going to come, a strong, bold race, and sweep us off the face of the earth like litter.Its a hot, beautiful summer in 1905, and Russias elite retreats to the countryside to swim, sip champagne and start affairs. When youre having this much fun, why care about anything else? But Vavara cant shake the feeling that theyre living on stolen time. How long can they go on ignoring the storm thats gathering on the horizon?A razor-sharp portrait of class, privilege and denial, Summerfolk was written by Maxim Gorky in 1904. This adaptation by Nina Raine and Moses Raine premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2026, directed by Robert Hastie.

Beauty, to us physicists, is something weve never seen before.A PhD student hunting dark matter collides with A disillusioned illusionist A teenage medium with a secret A murdered mathematician A trail-blazing astronomer Together, they investigate the greatest unsolved mystery of the universe. Aether explores physics, faith, and magic in rich theatrical spectacle to uncover humanitys insatiable fascination with the unknown.Emma Howletts play was first seen in TheatreGooses production at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2025. It published alongside a run at Jermyn Street Theatre, London, in 2026.

Nobody would get in this boat unless they had to. Me and my family, we had to.When they learn that Ahmet came to the UK after fleeing his own war-torn country, his classmates have The Greatest Idea in the World a magnificent plan to reunite Ahmet with his family. What follows is an unexpected and often hilarious adventure, all topped off with a terrific twist.Based on the best-selling and award-winning novel by Onjali Q. Rauf, this stage adaptation of The Boy at the Back of the Class is a joyful and heartfelt testament to the power of friendship, and a reminder that everyone needs a place to call home.Nick Ahads adaptation was first performed in a co-production between the Rose Theatre, Kingston, and Childrens Theatre Partnership in 2024, directed by Monique Touko, and was revived on a tour of the UK in 2026.

A new chapter of the Titan comics & Heroic Signatures massive narrative event: Tides of the Tyrant-King, marking the return of Thulsa Doom and his cataclysmic evil. In this hair-raising heist story, Conan returns to the cruel city of Shadizar to seek vengeance.Conan returns to Shadizar the Wicked, the worlds cruelest city, after an old ally is executed for daring to defy the cabal of nobles who rule. Hes come to ensure the tutelage of his dead comrades son, and Conans first lesson to the boytake revenge! The rich masters of Shadizar rule through masks. Finding them is nigh impossible, killing them pointless, for more moneyed men would only step forward. There is only one way to make them pay: rob them blind. To succeed, Conan assembles a crew to infiltrate the Gilded Garden, the fortress-palace where the citys elite hoard their wealth. If they can find it As the crew search for the Gilded Garden, they uncover it contains not only the rulers wealth but the sorcerous secrets of their powerancient pacts with dark gods.Conan must choose: is he merely a thief chasing coin and vengeanceor something far more dangerous? A rebel willing to topple a regime.

UNA PARTITURA. UNA FÓRMULA. UN PODER MORTAL.Viena, a principios de diciembre. Peter Dauson, periodista de la Ópera de Viena, recibe una confidencia inesperada que lo arrastra a una carrera contrarreloj: encontrar en 72 horas la partitura original del Lacrimosa de Mozart. Perdida desde hace decadas, es uno de los objetos mas codiciados por las elites politicas, sociedades secretas y mafias internacionales. Y no es para menos: en sus compases se esconde una antigua formula sumeria capaz de predecir la fecha exacta de cualquier muerte, un poder tan absoluto y perturbador que alimenta conspiraciones desde el siglo XVIII.Entre Viena, Salzburgo, Bruselas y Milan, Peter y la arqueologa Silvia Weits se ven arrastrados a una espiral de asesinatos rituales, traiciones y una red masonica que conecta el pasado con el presente. En su avance siempre un paso por detras de quienes quieren silenciar la verdad descubren que hay una partitura que mata, o por la cual la gente mata, y que seguir su rastro significa enfrentarse a quienes han protegido su secreto durante siglos.Este thriller entrelaza hechos reales la construccion de La Scala, el asesinato de Kennedy, las sombras que se mueven tras los grandes centros de poder europeos con una pregunta universal y profundamente humana: ¿hasta donde serias capaz de llegar para vencer el miedo a morir?

Arnau se reencuentra con su hija Aurora tras años sin contacto. Decide llevarse a la niña a vivir con él a su piso de Barcelona, donde ambos se enfrentan a una convivencia extraña y desconocida. Poco a poco aprenden a habitar una relacion que parece escrita en la sangre, pero influida por las consecuencias de una memoria heredada.Este presente dialoga con la infancia de Arnau en el Delta del Ebro, un territorio marcado por la dureza de la posguerra, donde crecio en una familia atravesada por silencios, perdidas y episodios oscuros. Entre campos de arroz y casas a la orilla del mar, una llegada inesperada y una perdida temprana dejaran en Arnau una herida emocional que condicionara su manera de ejercer la paternidad.Con una prosa sensorial y contenida, Laia Viñas recoge la tradicion literaria de Merce Rodoreda y Montserrat Roig en una novela que explora el vinculo entre maternidad y violencia, las decisiones que arrastramos y como la historia -intima y compartida- se incrusta en nuestro cuerpo y configura la forma en que amamos.Hay abejas que zumban dentro de nuestras cabezas y Laia nos lo recuerda de una manera tan delicada, tan linda, tan dolorosa... Una novela luminosa incluso en su desgarro. LANA CORUJOLa he disfrutado muchisimo. Que importante es saber de donde venimos para reconciliarnos con la herida. @marialeonbooksUna saga familiar brutalmente madura, oscura a ratos, plagada de personajes verosimiles, plasmada con flow en una lengua fresca y expresivisima. KIKO AMAT, BabeliaViñas escribe con madurez extraordinaria sobre las transmisiones familiares viciadas y la posibilidad de renunciar a su herencia. ESTELA SANCHISUna novela intimista, poetica, con personajes densos, sometidos a un ambiente inexorable. JULIA GUILLAMON

PREMIO LITERARIO AMNISTÍA INTERNACIONALUna novela emblemática, traducida a veintiséis lenguas.A cincuenta años del inicio de la dictadura militar en Argentina, A veinte años, Luz sigue sumando lectores.El nacimiento de su hijo permite a la joven Luz iluminar una region oscura de su memoria. Fue una intuicion fugaz, pero desde ese instante la duda sobre su verdadero origen paso a convertirse en una obsesion: ¿era ella, como habia creido durante veinte años, hija y nieta de adeptos a la dictadura argentina o, por el contrario, era la hija, nacida en cautiverio, de dos desaparecidos? Como si de repente cayese la venda que le tapaba los ojos, su pasado entero cobra un nuevo sentido. Luz despierta de su letargo y se arroja a una busqueda tenaz y obsesiva de la verdad, que va iluminando los rincones mas sombrios de la sociedad en la que se ha educado. La historia que, poco a poco, se va desvelando es la de un pais dividido por un regimen de terror, herido por la tortura, el horror de las desapariciones, la infame ocultacion y la posterior traicion del olvido.De la confusion de tantos lacerantes acontecimientos ha surgido un edificio literario de categoria: una estructura, unos personajes creibles, un punto de vista, un lenguaje rico y expresivo. Lluis Satorras, El PaisNovela apasionante, de esas que no se pueden soltar; femenina y politica en el mejor sentido de ambas palabras, sobre la busqueda de identidad de una chica robada al nacer durante la dictadura argentina. Beatriz Pottecher, El MundoElsa Osorio se aleja dramaticamente de lo facil, ahonda, crea situaciones, personajes: se pregunta por la condicion humana en condiciones tan extremas.Maruja Torres, El PaisCon mezcla de ternura y dura realidad, de calido humor y denuncia implacable, Elsa Osorio describe el paisaje humano de la sociedad argentina, compuesto por personajes pertenecientes a distintas clases sociales y de ideologias contrarias.Ana Maria Moix, ABCDecia un autor que escribia para no ir al psiquiatra. Elsa Osorio es mucho mas ambiciosa: ha publicado una novela para tumbar en el divan a su pais y exorcizar una de sus mayores tragedias: el robo de niños durante la dictadura militar. Santiago Tarin, La Vanguardia

¿QUIÉN ES EL HERMANO DEL FAMOSO PRESENTADOR DE LA HORA DE CHARLIE? ¿ES UN PSICÓPATA? ¿ES UN FANTASEADOR? ¿O UN ESCRITOR EN BUSCA DE FABULOSAS HISTORIAS, DE LO EXCITANTE Y LO EXTRAORDINARIO, DONDE SOLO HAY ANODINA REALIDAD? El intento de suicidio del famoso presentador televisivo de La hora de Charlie, vuelve a reunir a dos hermanos separados durante años por un tragico acontecimiento ocurrido en su infancia, y es tambien el disparador que precipita los hechos de la historia.Envuelto en una atmosfera entre la realidad y el sueño, el enfermo hermano del presentador, el torturado, o, quizas, psicopata protagonista que fantasea con la idea de vengarse de su hermano por haberle arrebatado a su madre años atras, va dejando tras de si un rastro de violencia y de muerte, pero tambien de compasion, entusiasmo y pasion juvenil, hechos no siempre claramente achacables a el, pero si inequivocamente relacionados con la especial sensibilidad que lo domina.Su verdadera implicacion en todo ello no llegara a conocerse hasta el final, cuando un inesperado descubrimiento lo precipite hacia el abismo.

UNA FISCAL RESPETADA.Jessica Yardley ha logrado reconstruir su vida, junto con su hija, después de que condenaran a su exmarido, Eddie Cal, a pena de muerte por haber cometido una serie de brutales asesinatos.UN EXMARIDO ASESINO EN SERIE.Pero esa calma se ve interrumpida cuando el FBI le pide que colabore en la investigacion de un posible imitador de Cal, lo que la llevara a tener que visitarlo en la carcel para lograr que les ayude.UNA NUEVA OLA DE HOMICIDIOS QUE LE TRAERAN DE VUELTA SUS PEORES PESADILLAS.Jessica tendra que aceptar el encargo y navegar por las turbias aguas de su pasado, mientras su presente y futuro se vuelven cada vez mas confusos. El nuevo asesino es extremadamente sangriento y tiene una mente maestra. Jessica quedara atrapada en una investigacion mucho mas siniestra de lo que nadie podria haber imaginado jamas.

Fingir una relación es fácil. Lo difícil es no enamorarse…Es rico, insoportable y el mejor amigo de mi hermano. Yo soy la chica invisible en la que nunca se fijó. Ahora fingimos ser pareja en público

Publicada por primera vez en México tras su exitoso lanzamiento en España, donde fue reconocida como una de las mejores novelas negras de 2022 y galardonada con el Premio Morella Negra, Natalia M. Alcalde le da un brillante giro a este genero y ofrece en Delirio una deliciosa fusion del noir con el realismo magico, El Pais.A Renata siempre la han perseguido sueños premonitorios. Una madrugada se le presenta la vision de un crimen atroz bajo circunstancias poco claras, pero con un lugar definitivo: el hotel Delirio, ubicado en Guanajuato, propiedad del famoso escritor Juan Jose Suarez y a donde su amiga Kika se dirige huyendo de su pareja. Con ayuda de las cartas del tarot, Renata busca desentrañar la identidad de la victima y del asesino para ganarle al destino. Sin embargo, las fronteras entre intuicion, delirio y realidad permanecen desdibujadas y cuando ella finalmente comprenda lo ocurrido sera muy tarde, pues no solo sera incapaz de virar la suerte, sino que la sociedad ya habra encontrado a su culpable

The ongoing saga of Valdemar enters a new era with this epic trilogy, from the New York Times bestselling author and Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.Beloved legend-in-his-own-mind Kelvren, a true luminary among gryphons, leads an air force of foreign agents and a flotilla of craft into the mystery of Lake Evendims storm-sieged center. The second explosion of the Cataclysm occurred there, but why was it less destructive than the first one? Kelvren and old friend Firesong think the answers will also explain the surge of otherworldy, deadly creatures bringing lethal chaos to Valdemar. Displaced allies and shocking truths are discovered among the Lakes horrors and twisted islands tortured by magics fury!

Podolia, 1911: one day, a stranger arrives at the shtetl. He walks with a limp, appears to be deaf and has the look of a vagrant. The tight-knit community is on the point of chasing him out, but the local tzaddik sees the spark of holiness in his eyes. Named Rafael, he settles in the shtetl and begins forming close relationships with members of this Hasidic community - and slowly, this incomprehensible, magnetic figure stirs up buried feelings and old conflicts. Is he a divine figure, as some speculate, or does his arrival presage disaster?Written in poetic prose that draws on fascinating elements of Jewish folklore and mysticism, Golem reconstructs a vanished world with a spellbinding combination of the real and the fantastical.

Return to Sunday Times-bestselling author Adrienne Youngs lush Greco-Roman inspired fantasy, where young lovers Luca and Maris must traverse the bloody warzone that their city has become to spite the gods and rekindle their romance.The war is just beginning.When the city fell, Maris lost everything--her freedom, her future, and the man she loved. Now, with Luca trapped behind the gates of Isara, she makes a choice that will change her life forever: to don the armor of the enemy and march back into the heart of the city she was forced to flee. Every step brings her closer to Luca, but also deeper into the blood-soaked machine of war.Inside Isaras walls, Luca wrestles with a truth more dangerous than any sword. Once the symbol of the Loyal Legion, he has lost the thing he was truly fighting for--Maris. The shift of the war has left him to question whether he has become a pawn of the gods, and with betrayal lurking in every shadow, Luca must decide who he is: the dutiful soldier forged by rebellion, or the man willing to risk everything for love.Across battlefields and through broken temples, Maris and Lucas treacherous paths through Isara are set to collide. And when the gods demand sacrifice, it comes in a form no one could have expected.

A chance encounter with a gorgeous cosplayer sends a young woman hurtling through a portal into a world of hunky orcs and fated mates.This funny, sexy monster romance is perfect for fans of Tusk Love and Katee Robert.MEET CUTES BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS.Thena just wants to survive FantastiCon with minimal human interaction and maximum sarcasm. She didnt plan for a seven-foot-plus cosplayer built like a Norse god, painted green, who smells like he was forged in the wilds of Valhalla and seems hell-bent on ruining her day.But Viggo Klausson isnt a cosplayer. Hes the High Chieftain of the Eastern Orcs, and hes spent two years in the human world searching for his soulmate. The moment he scents Thena, he knows she belongs to him. But despite the thrumming attraction that leads her straight through a portal into Viggos world Thena doesnt believe in destiny, or some cosmic mating bond, and she absolutely did not sign up for this.When an ancient power wakes inside Thena, shes forced to learn the rules of Viggos complicated world, fast. If she wants to survive, shell have to navigate a new world and a future she never asked for, all while fighting against the one thing more dangerous than the world around her: her growing, undeniable attraction to the man who swears shes his.

A twisty and colourful retelling of Christina Rossettis Goblin Market that sees changeling Toast navigate the dangerous den of faerie dealers to save her human sister for being framed for murder. Perfect for readers of conniving unscrupulous fairy tale fantasies like After the Forest by Kell Woods and Nine Goblins by T. Kingfisher.Toast is a changeling child whose life has always been for trade. Ever since her goblin parents ripped her away from the human family that raised her, Toast has struggled to find security in the transactional world of the fabled goblin market, where anything can be bought and everything has a price. As a guide for humans that stumble into the Market, shes learned that the fae world is cruel to the unwary.The only fae friend she trusts is the enigmatic Kulm, the ageless guardian whose existence anchors and protects the Market. But when the wayward human Sam stumbles into the Market and Kulm is found murdered, Toast will have to barter harder than ever before. Sam is accused of the murder though Toast knows shes innocent. With the begrudging help of a goblin fruit-addicted artist, a reluctant kelpie, and a fae princess with her own agenda, Toast will traverse the strange, fluid and twisting halls of the Market in search of the rarest commodity amongst the fae: the truth.When the high fae courts take advantage in the power vacuum left by Kulms death, its Toasts home and her strange community that is threatened by stakes greater than one murder. Whats more, the abduction of Sams sister by the high faewhich caused Sam to seek the Market in the first placemakes their role in Kulms death suspect. Exactly what trade are the power-hungry fae scheming? And can any of Toasts market-bound family afford the dangerous cost?Ultimately, when bartering for the very heart of the Market itself, Toast will have to decide where her loyalties lie, the value of a home, and whats not for sale.

We cant look out for the land unless we love the land, and we cant love the land unless we know its stories.Taffy Thomas MBEThis book is the third in a trilogy of nature-inspired volumes of folk tales by well-loved storyteller Taffy Thomas. Collected over many years spent travelling the length and breadth of the British Isles in his work as a professional storyteller, and told in his well-honed style, these traditional tales are engaging, entertaining, humorous and powerful. With captivating illustrations and a centre section of illustrated trails by the talented illustrator and animator Dotty Kultys, this collection will reconnect readers to the land through story.

1904: Naive booksellers assistant Henry Canning arrives at Hareswood Lodge to catalogue the library of its late owner. But hes unprepared for the horrors that lurk within Matthew Hobbes collection and something even more terrible that still lingers in the room itself.The present day, and a young council officer is tasked with finding the story behind an unassuming brick building that is all that stands in the way of a vast new housing development. But to the concern of his colleagues, Ben finds himself growing more and more obsessed with the secret of Hobbes Folly. Why does it have no doors or windows? Is it to keep people out to keep something too awful to imagine trapped inside?Adam Macqueens Haunted Tales were a collection of short stories whose chills lingered long in the imagination. Now, in his first full-length ghost story, he channels the masters of the genre both old and new in two intertwined narratives that build into a horrifying whole and will ensure readers never look at the view beyond their windows in quite the same way ever again.

The worlds most unlikely crime solving duo is back and this time Irish nun Sister Agatha Murphy and Indian hotel owner Avtar Mehta discover that family secrets are the most deadly.When the tyrannical head of one of Delhis richest families is found dead inside a locked room within the historic Elephant House, Sister Agnes and Avtar must solve an impossible murder.All the children have motives, but would any of them really kill their mother for her money? Or is her death payback for a much deeper debt?As the city builds bonfires to celebrate the festival of Lohri, Sister Agatha and Avtar face backstabbing siblings, a gangster with untold influence, a police siege and a cigarette-stealing elephant. Avtar and Sister Agatha are on the hunt for a murderer, but is someone pulling their strings? When a killer is prepared to do the unthinkable, no one is safe and no one can be trusted.