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Después de un último y fallido intento por recomponer la relación, Julia y Romeo deciden separarse.Están en los cuarenta, no tienen hijos y les queda mucho por vivir, así que resuelven terminar su matrimonio de la misma manera que lo iniciaron: suavemente, con ternura y sin conflictos. Pero la separacion no va a ser ni tan suave, ni tan tierna, ni tan pacifica.Con una prosa intima y profundamente humana, Roto se mete en la cocina de los vinculos: en lo que se dice mal, en lo que no se dice nunca, en lo que se hereda sin querer. Habla del deseo cuando ya no es novedad, de la familia como un sistema imperfecto y del duelo que convive con la risa.Entre tramites, cenas incomodas, viajes, terapias y refranes fuera de lugar, Julia y Romeo van a descubrir, con torpeza y bastante humor, que la vida no se ordena sola, que amar tambien puede ser cansador y que separarse no siempre es fracasar.

Cuando ocho estudiantes son seleccionados para un prestigioso curso de narrativa inmersiva dictado por la enigmática actriz y escritora Meredith Graffan, jamás esperan cometer un crimen. El premio del curso es la fama, pero los metodos creativos de Graffan son muy poco ortodoxos: saltar de acantilados al mar helado, caminar a ciegas entre el trafico, revelar los mas oscuros secretos. Aislados durante lo mas cruel del invierno en una mansion antigua y a merced de una tutora que desafia sus limites, cuando el grupo se reduce a la mitad, Effy, Isaac, Ness y Arlo comienzan a sospechar que la mujer los esta poniendo unos contra otros, y que la historia que la catapulto a la fama el asesinato de su mejor amiga podria no ser como Graffan la cuenta.Y no les quedara mas remedio que volverse contra ella.

La muerte inesperada de su madre soltera hace que Akiko, subdirectora en una editorial, se replantee su vida. Y cuando la trasladan a otro departamento, decide renunciar a su trabajo y regresar a su ciudad natal. Alli remodela el querido izakaya de su difunta madre y lo convierte en un restaurante que ofrece un menu diario sencillo con ingredientes frescos y naturales: ensaladas, sandwiches, sopas y pequeños cuencos de fruta. Con la ayuda de un gato callejero llamado Taro, su amable y trabajadora ayudante de cocina, Shima-chan, y un grupo de vecinos muy especiales, Akiko se embarca en una nueva aventura y, poco a poco, se reconcilia con los complicados recuerdos de su pasado. Escrita con una prosa sencilla pero elegante, Un dia para sopas, pan y gatos es una novela conmovedora sobre el dolor, el amor, la soledad, la aceptacion del pasado y del presente, y sobre el placer de disfrutar de una buena comida.

Allina Strauss parece tener una vida idílica en un pueblo alemán: trabaja en la librería de su tío, hace strudel con su tía y pasa los fines de semana con sus amigos y su prometido. Pero es 1939, Adolf Hitler es canciller y la familia de Allina esconde un terrible secreto: su madre biologica era judia, lo que la convierte en una mischlinge, es decir, una mestiza segun las Leyes de Nuremberg. Una fatidica noche, tras perder a todos sus seres queridos, Allina se ve obligada a trabajar como enfermera en una fabrica de bebes estatal llamada Hochland Home. Alli es testigo y participe de los horrores del despiadado programa eugenesico de Heinrich Himmler: las mujeres de sangre pura permanecen en los hogares Lebensborn con el unico proposito de perpetuar la poblacion aria, dando a luz a miles de bebes que son adoptados por buenas familias nazis. Allina debe mantener en secreto su identidad judia para sobrevivir, pero en el momento en que descubre el abandono que se produce en el hogar, decide no solo salvarse a si misma, sino tambien a los niños a su cargo. Y cuando conoce a Karl, un oficial de alto rango de las SS con sus propios secretos, ambos deben decidir cuanto estan dispuestos a compartir el uno con el otro. La casa de los girasoles es una novela debut meticulosamente documentada sobre la Alemania nazi. Los hilos de esta conmovedora y desgarradora historia tejen una trama sobre la perdida, el amor, la amistad, la traicion y los secretos que enterramos para salvar a los demas... y a nosotros mismos.

Ana y Alicia se ven afectadas por la cruda enfermedad de su madre Amanda, quien se ha dedicado a pensar siempre en los demás, aunque su salud esté en juego. ¿Hasta dónde cada miembro de la familia debera entrgarse por ayudar al otro?.Amanda empieza a pasar por diferentes etapas donde su imaginacion se convierte en protagonista, mientras el temor y desesperacion se apoderan de Ana y Alicia, dando lugar a aciertos y desaciertos, pensamientos y preguntas.¿Meterse en el mundo imaginario de Amanda sera la respuesta o terminaran ambas envueltas en un laberinto del que no podran salir?.Todo es incierto, menos una idea en comun que las unira a Ana y Alicia en esta odisea: poner el corazon sobre todo.

«Un libro luminoso que nos reconcilia con el buen vivir y con la certeza de que hay vida más allá de la escritura». —Juan Pablo VillalobosUn híbrido luminoso entre la memoria, la crónica personal y e

Edna OBriens wonderful, wild and moving novel shocked the nation on its publication in 1960. Adapted for the stage by the author, The Country Girls, the play, is a highly theatrical and free-flowing telling of this classic coming of age story.This new edition of The Country Girls was published to coincide with its revival at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2019.

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!

Dealers ChoiceI feel its my duty to proclaim it from the rooftops: this is it, this is the play that will remind you, at the end of a year that has contained too few stand-out new-writing hits and far too many musicals, why we go to the theatre - and just how good it can get.TelegraphCloserPatrick Marbers searing follow-up to Dealers Choice establishes him as the leading playwright of his generation.Independent on SundayOne of the best plays of sexual politics in the language: it is right up there with Williamss Streetcar, Mamets Oleanna, Albees Virginia Woolf, Pinters Old Times and Hares Skylight.Sunday TimesHoward KatzAfter Dealers Choice (1995), his gripping study of self-destructive gamblers, and Closer (1997), a thrilling account of love, sex and betrayal, this third instalment of his trilogy set in contemporary London tackles the biggest themes of all - life, death, God and the human soul. Its great to see a contemporary dramatist wrestling with such material.TelegraphDon Juan in SohoOne of the foremost dramatic chroniclers of modern British life. Line by line, this is the best written of all Marbers plays. You want to hang around its phrases (how often does that happen in the theatre?): hardly a minute passes without a satirical swipe, a gutsy joke.ObserverThe Red LionMarber, in this riveting new piece, uses the world of non-league, semi-pro football to explore issues of trust and loyalty and the larger division between individual ambition and the collective ethic. If big issues emerge naturally from the action, it is because Marber is writing about a world he knows intimately. Everything feels right. Guardian

1984. Girlo Wolf is born into a world of pickets and poverty. Life on The Rock is precious, but growing up is far from easy. Struggling with her mental health and the backlash of childhood trauma, she falls into a dark underworld of sex, drugs and alcohol. Driven by the stories of home, Girlo finds freedom in writing and strives to become a poet, discovering that her words are a vehicle to recovery and survivorhood.A gut-punching tribute to the reality of life in post-industrial Britain, Gemma June Howells debut novel is an authentic portrayal of the intergenerational struggles of working-class communities and one womans journey to empowerment."A testament to the joy and redemption of breaking the rules and breaking the mould." Rachel Trezise"An omnivorous mind." Niall Griffiths"Fierce, furious and heartfelt, Howells The Crazy Truth explodes from the page" Carly Holmes

Welcome to Kathryn Grays Hollywood or Home, a poetry collection with as much ruthless glamour as any Old Hollywood movie. These worldly-wise poems explore celebrity culture in a mode that is both seriously playful and playfully serious. Here, melancholy and humour, irony and sincerity can be often found in the same poem, creating a rich experience for the film buff or fan of celebrity culture, as the book is full of easter eggs and movie references.Spectres of Hollywood haunt the collection: moguls, politicians, starlets, and monsters. They leap from screen and stage to page, as in Portrait of my Superego as Mommie Dearest: youre / the one swinging the axe, Mommie.Famous actors drop in to entertain, for example in Meryl Streep is my Therapist or Six Ways of Looking at John Cazale, while writers do their best to pitch their best ideas, working hard to convince: Its "relatable". / Its really "relatable" stuff (High-concept).Film memorabilia is explored, likeThe Deer Hunter s bandana, as well as movie-business secrets: the title of As told by Alan Smithee refers to the alter ego that directors use in movie credits when they want to disown their films.Stock characters and plots show up, like the Handome Weeping Boy, and The Meet-Cute, that scene in a romantic comedy where a couple have a first hilarious or cute meeting. Classic 1980s movies like Pretty in Pink andTop Gun make their cameos. Power couples take their place, like Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner in Night and Day, 1957, and melodrama heightens to Douglas Sirks grand levels in Love. All the stories and characters loom larger than life, and asthe narrator asks, contemplating celebrity Tweets in Fresh Hell,Why cant life be EVERYTHING IN CAPS LIKE CHER?.In decadent celebrity culture, where a star is born every minute and becomes a flop even more quickly, these fierce and funny poems open space for the writer to reassess failures and successes, to overcome writers block, and to remember that we never stop longing for our old dreams to come true. Gray is writing at the top of her game with her much-anticipated second collection. Out of Hollywoods brutal disdain for failure, Gray manages to find spectacle and survival.Grays long-awaited second collection both celebrates and accuses the glamour and imagination of the movies in particular, and of art in general. Whether its Meryl Streep or Ferris Bueller or John Cazale shes writing of, Gray is illuminating, funny, and frequently moving. Underpinning the comedy and satire, though, is a real pain at lifes jolts and times relentlessness: "What happened to the script?", Nick Laird, author of Feel FreeHollywood or Home shines a light on the filmic quality of daily life, reminding us just how thin the membrane between fiction and reality can be. Within its pages we encounter the Mind in various guises: as an invalid from the nineteenth century, a rain-streaked window-pane and (my favourite) a cabinet populated by indescribable figurines. Bristling with energy, humour and kick-ass bravura, at the same time these poems tremble with deeply felt emotion. - Julia Copus, author of Girlhood

The first English-language collection from one of Indias most hard-hitting writers, these poems brilliantly exemplify writing as an act of resistance. Militant, satirical, and biting, Kalyani Charal pulls no punches in eviscerating paternalistic - and patriarchal - bourgeois socialists who speak on behalf of others.Writing from lived experience, Charal delineates the bourgeois values that fuel the social machinery of caste oppression, while drawing parallels with social and racial marginalisation around the world. Thus, in her poetry, the specificity of Dalit lives in Bengal, a region which prides itself on its Leftist history and enlightened culture, and whose partition into India and Bangladesh has left a legacy of communal tension, refugees, and statelessness, is at the same time the universality of precarity, marginality and dispossession. Finally, there is space for love - wistful and full-throated, with an attentiveness to the natural world that speaks to her claim that "all Dalit woman writers are eco feminists".

A Scots Quair is revolutionary - innovative in its form, deft and humorous in its use of the Scots language, courageous in its characterisation and politics. Central to the trilogy is Chris Guthrie, one of the most remarkable female characters in modern literature. In Sunset song, Gibbons finest achievement, the reader follows Chris through her girlhood in a tight-knit Scottish farming community: the seasons, the weddings, the funerals, the grind of work, the gossip. As the Great War takes its toll, machines repalce the old way of life. Cloud Howe and Grey Granite take Chris from her rural homeland to life in an industrial Scotland and the desperate years of the Depression. The triology as a whole is a major achievment, a picture of society undergoing traumatic and far-reaching transformation. Always readable, never sentimental, A Scots Quair is one of the most important works of Scottish literature.

T. S. Eliot took George Barker onto the Faber poetry list in 1935 with Poems, when Barker was only twenty-two. This was the beginning of a publishing association which would endure through nineteen further volumes. There was an earlier Collected Poems published in 1957, but this edition, published in 1987 towards the end of the writers life, is the definitive edition. Here, readers have access to the contents of all of those volumes together with lesser-known work published by smaller presses and journals both in the UK and abroad. The book allows us to follow the evolution of a major talent who subscribed to no school and scorned all affiliation, but whose work is uncompromisingly true in both its stylistic integrity and its unswerving conception of poetic responsibility.His work was passionate, intellectually challenging and highly original, his language incantatory and often hypnotic. Peter Wilby, Guardian

"And I struggle to find my place in this dark novel. I yearn for passion and despair for that is what makes good literature while Ishwari seeks a life of joy for herself and her son."A powerful novel from the author of Panty about a woman who runs away from home, seeking to free herself from the shackles of society and familial attachments, and instead devote her attentions to writing a novel. When she realises that her five year old son Roo has followed her, Ishwari struggles with her identity as a mother and the responsibilities that brings, versus the guilty knowledge that she cannot want her own child when his existence requires her to suppress her own dreams.Ishwari and Roo wander the streets at night, looking for a place to stay, until an elderly caretaker takes pity on them and offers them an empty room on the terrace of a guest house. Ishwari gets work as a caregiver to the handsome gentleman who lives next door, while Roo, who is lame, spends all day locked up in the room on the roof. Pulsating with raw energy, Abandon gives voice to the perpetual conflict between life and art.

In the dark alleys of human desperation, one truth remains: every soul has a price. Where Devils Stand is a chilling horror anthology that explores the twisted and terrifying consequences of encountering devils, whether metaphorical or real.Where Devils Stand invites readers into an anthology of gripping tales that explore the multifaceted nature of evil, the choices that define us, and the moments when we stand at the crossroads where devils appear.

The Last People Youd Expect is the second book from author Spencer Wise, following the publication of his 2018 debut, The Emperor of Shoes.

New York Times bestselling author Susan Dennard returns to paranormal romance with a suspenseful and darkly atmospheric summer mystery with fiery kisses and haunting melodies.Magpie Adams, a lonely teen pariah in the tourist town of Two Pines, finds her reputation in tatters after her ex-boyfriend cheated on her and then lied about it. With her only true friends being the dramatic Adeliade and her brooding twin brother Buck Taylor, Magpie finds solace in romance novels, and in noticing the tiny details that everyone else seems to miss.Things turn eerie when a museum exhibit honouring Two for Joy, the cult-classic romance filmed in that very town, gets vandalized: fake magpies are impaled with knitting needles, a mannequin is mutilated, blood is spilled. The town people brush it off as a prank. But Magpie knows better. Especially when the attacks seem to follow her.Magpie begins to suspect someone is recreating scenes from the movie, and she might be the stand-in for a missing woman from the 1970s: Becky, the forgotten body double whose face looks eerily like her own. Someone is covering up a decades-old death tied to the films crew. And someone doesnt want the truth revealed.As the mystery spirals toward murder, Magpie must use her uncanny empathy to uncover the past, and survive the present. Because Beckys story was never told.Until now.

In 2009, young Isla Blake disappeared from her sisters birthday party in Northumberland and she was never found.Fifteen years later, when an updated E-fit image of what Isla would look like now goes viral, everyone begins to suspect that the unassuming Ruby must be Isla Blake.Enveloped in a swarm of media attention and publicity, including that of Islas parents Keira and Finn, Ruby is thrust into the centre of a case she had never thought she would be a part of.As the case unfolds and Ruby begins to question her own identity, the same questions plague her over and over again. Is she Isla? If so, who took her? And what exactly happened to Isla all those years ago?

A queer, Black horror-thriller about a woman returning to the upstate New York town in which she grew up in order to uncover the terrifying truth about her mother and a set of terrifying paintings. From the author of the TikTok sensation Cinderella is Dead.Perfect for fans of Grady Hendrix and Riley Sagar.Jasmine Payton is glad that her mother is dead.Not that Antonia was much of a mother to begin with. Forced to endure alcohol-fueled rages her entire childhood, Jasmine escaped Antonias abuse as a teenager and never looked back. Now, shes an investigative journalist, is a mom herself, and has firmly put her past behind her when she gets the call to make arrangements for her deceased mother. Her hopes to quickly bury her and skip town are dashed when the police wont release her body, as Antonia is a suspect in a recent missing persons case.With nothing to do but wait for the detectives to work the case, Jasmine starts cleaning out Antonias belongings when she discovers several unsettling items: gruesome paintings that depict all manner of torture and a series of deranged letters in which Antonia admits to brutalizing inmates while she was the warden at the local prison.Trusting her journalistic instincts, Jasmine tracks down information about the now-abandoned prison, convinced that its still harboring deadly secrets tied to her mothers past. As she explores the bowels of the penitentiary, she uncovers the truth behind Antonias obsession with one inmate and how they connect to her disturbed paintings.