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Aclamado por Isaac Bashevis Singer como «el padre de la literatura moderna», Knut Hamsun inspiró, de hecho, a autores de la talla de Thomas Mann, Maksim Gorki, Franz Kafka y Hermann Hesse, y se hizo

Two women hunting the same killer. One seeks justice. One seeks fame. Both have something to hide.In a remote Scottish town where everyone knows everyone, the disappearance of local girl Poppy McCarthy should be impossible to hide. But as Detective Sarah Morton discovers, some secrets run deeper than blood.When internet sensation Casey Jones arrives to investigate, her viral YouTube videos about the case spark a media frenzy. The town divides: some worship Casey as a crusader for justice, others see her as a dangerous provocateur. For Sarah, shes a threat not just to the investigation, but to the fragile peace of a community already fracturing under pressure.As Caseys revelations start destroying lives, Sarah realizes shes dealing with something far more sinister than a fame-hungry influencer. Because Casey knows things about Poppy she shouldnt. And Sarah is beginning to suspect that the real predator isnt hiding in the shadowy hills of Galloway, but broadcasting to millions from plain sight...

Travis Smith is Death in the modern world. He lives with his cat in a grey English town. He offers people comfort in their final days and hours of life. Hes stoic, gentle, a little naive, despite what he knows. Hes handsome, he seems young, despite what he is. Each death has a meaning to him, and he never tries to change anyones fate. He listens and never judges, and ultimately escorts each of them to rest.Travis is desperately lonely, and when he crosses paths with young single midwife called Dalia who lives across the way and her boisterous eight-year-old daughter Layla, he cant help but be drawn to them. Dalia is beautiful and overwhelmed, and Layla seems to have a never-ending trove of small treasures to show Travis, and hes never felt the importance of making every moment count so clearly. Because he knows whats to come, and he cant make himself look away. As he learns what it means to really experience death, hes torn between his nature and his newfound understanding of theimportant things about being alive.

Penniless and newly orphaned Briar Monroe finds shelter at Thornby Manor, a brooding estate above a mist-shrouded lake. But whispers of a dead wife, an estranged son and locked-away secrets haunt its corridors Atmospheric, intoxicating and laced with peril a spellbinding historical mystery of love, betrayal, obsession and a house that will not release its pastWarwickshire, 1891. Recently orphaned and left destitute, Briar Monroe accepts the protection of Lord Danville and the shadowed sanctuary of Thornby Manor. The great house looms above a mist-shrouded lake, its corridors heavy with secrets not least the mysterious death of Lady Elizabeth Danville, and the unspoken tensions between her formidable widower and his magnetic son, Gabriel.As Briar navigates the undercurrents of a household ruled by watchful servants and locked doors, she is drawn ever deeper into a web of suspicion, desire and fear. Whispers in the night, figures at windows, and a constant sense of being watched leave her questioning not only the truth about Thornby, but her own safety within its walls.Atmospheric, intoxicating and laced with peril, Thornby Manor is a gothic tale of betrayal, obsession and a house that never forgets.A simmering, haunting debut for readers who loved Jane Eyre, Rebecca, The Woman in White and The Silent Companions

Leonie is one of twelve jurors. Chosen to decide the fate of a nurse accused of murdering his patients with lethal doses of adrenaline. But just as deliberations begin, an usher bursts in with news that will change everything. Britain is under chemical attack, and the courthouse is locked down. Instructed not to leave for their own safety, the jurors quickly realise that the real threat lies inside the building. The accused has escaped his cell and is on the loose. Hes playing twisted games with the group. And Leonie is his next target. Because he knows something about her. A secret shes kept hidden from the others - about just how far shell go to tip the scales of justice in her favour.

AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOWPoignant and tender. FERDIA LENNONA dynamic voice. IRENOSEN OKOJIELushly written and formally audacious . . . moving. NICOLAS PADAMSEEThis is the story of one mans weekend, a weekend in which everything could changeThese lines could change everything /He sips more of his tinny / Imagines a new lifeAidys just punched a co-worker, but he hasnt got time to deal with the fallout. With a deadline fast looming he must get home, knuckle down and finish the story hes been working on, a story he hasnt been able to stop thinking about. Its the story of a falling plane and of a grieving mother.Set across one weekend, About to Fall Apart is the exhilarating story of a man of mixed heritage - living on the Irish border - as he tries to stay positive, reconnect with his children and maybe, even, find his own birth mother.

Hannahs love life is in ruins, writers block hits, and her agent sends her to Sicily to finish her sequel. But when murder strikes, Hannahs life turns into the crime novel shes meant to write. Darkly funny, atmospheric, and full of twists, the second instalment in an addictive series.______Hannah is miserable. Her love life is in ruins, her contract demands a sequel to her bestselling crime debut and shes out of ideas. After a mortifying TV interview, her agent ships her off to a sun-drenched Sicilian villa with a simple order: finish the book. No distractions. No excuses.But inspiration doesnt strike murder does.When a night out ends in murder, Hannah finds herself at the centre of a murder investigation again. The police want her out of the way, and the only person who seems to believe her is a young but charming Italian police officer. That is, until she doesnt.Soon Hannah is chasing suspects, fleeing crime scenes, and doing whatever it takes to avoid becoming the next victim. She came to write a crime novel. Now shes trapped inside one.Dark, sly and deliciously atmospheric, Under the Blazing Sun is the second novel in the award-winning series featuring accidental sleuth and disgruntled literary author Hannah, whose pursuit of plot twists keeps turning dangerously real.____

One of the most brilliant British writers working today.SpectatorWho decides the rules of the games we play?In August 2007, or thereabouts, a young philosopher leaves Oslo, heading for Greece, on a mission to find Theodoros Apostolakis, the head of the Society of Lost Things. Fortunately, Apostolakis isnt lost, but everything else is: ancient libraries, entire civilisations, priceless books and a beautiful box, once used to play the world-famous game of Seven. The hunt for this small thing, among the countless lost things, becomes an absurdist quest through time and space: from the earliest human societies to the advent of AI.Told, shared and mythologised by our narrator, along with a wild cast of dreamers, philosophers, poets, rebels and optimists, Seven is an extraordinary, uplifting journey through an ever darkening world.

Internationally recognized as a socially important work of gay literature Roger Austen. Originally published in Europe in the 50s to avoid prosecution for obscenity, The Gaudy Image is one of the most important lost gay novels. Set in New Orleans and featuring a colourful cast of louche but loveable characters, the story follows Titania aka Thomas Schwartz through the backstreets, bars and club of the French Quarter in search of the perfect lover the Gaudy Image. A beautifully written story that is both elegant and caustically humorous, erotic and sympathetic

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONSuch a joy Ocean VuongItll break and remake your heart Andrew Sean GreerYou want this gorgeous book RO KwonIN TOKYO, the son works as an English tutor, drinking his nights away with friends at a gay bar. Hes entangled with a married man, too. But while he has built a chosen family in Japan, he is estranged from his family in America, particularly his mother, whose preference for the sons troubled homophobic brother pushed him to leave home. Then, in the weeks leading up to Christmas, ten years since theyve last seen each other, the mother arrives uninvited on his doorstep. Separated only by the sons cat, the two of them clash. The mother, wrestling with memories of her youth in Jamaica and her own complicated brother, works to atone for her missteps. The son initially struggles to forgive, but as they share meals, conversations and an eventful trip to one of the oldest cities in Japan, both mother and son start to reckon with the meaning of home - and whether, perhaps, they can find it in each other.

Agosto de 2020. Sophia espera el veredicto de su padre sobre la obra de teatro que acaba de estrenar. Ella es una joven autora y él, un escritor famoso cuyas novelas no han envejecido demasiado bien. La obra de Sophia ha recibido criticas muy favorables, pero su padre ha evitado cuidadosamente leerlas. Cuando las luces se apagan y se abre el telon, comprende que su hija ha expuesto su vida de forma descarnada: el verano que ambos pasaron juntos en Sicilia, y en el que el le dictaba su ultima novela, sirve como trama para una critica incisiva y muy ingeniosa de los usos y costumbres sexuales de los hombres de su generacion. "El hipocrita" combina con maestria distintos tiempos y planos de ficcion para iluminar hasta el ultimo rincon de una compleja relacion padre e hija, que es tambien el relato de como se tensa el vinculo entre dos generaciones cuando a una le llega el momento de sustituir a la otra.

Los acontecimientos de esta historia tienen lugar en Bélgica durante el invierno de 1971, coincidiendo con un periodo de transformación económica y social, marcado por el desempleo.Una joven familia, atrapada entre la ilusion de los sueños y la descarnada realidad, vive nomada en una furgoneta. Rowen esta marcado por sudestino. Aun joven para ser adulto, mayor para ser niño, se enfrenta a la condicion de ser padre primerizo en unas condiciones desoladoras. Y recurre a la via facil de la estafa y el hurto para intentar cubrir las necesidades de su pequeña recien estrenada familia.El paisaje siempre se manifiesta gris y sordido, el invierno gelido y las interminables lluvias son el rival perfecto que se ensaña con el cuerpo y el alma de los personajes.

Una crítica posmodernista del capitalismo y el catolicismo.Don Quijote cabalga de nuevo. Pero ahora es una mujer, dama andante que vagabundea entre Londres y Nueva York. No son los libros de caballeria los que la han enloquecido y lanzado al mundo, sino la experiencia transfiguradora de un aborto. Y no tiene que verselas con molinos de viento, sino con los hechiceros de su tiempo: con la historia americana y con Richard Nixon, aun lider de un mundo de pesadilla poblado por dueñas de prostibulos, transexuales y sacerdotes masoquistas. ¿Y que busca esta imprevisible Don Quijote? El amor, o quiza solo el conocimiento de lo que es el amor, para asi salvar el mundo. Pero que los lectores no se engañen: en el universo de Kathy Acker el amor no es mas que una dialectica de amo y esclavo, una mitologia cruel, una ficcion del lenguaje inventada por los hombres a espaldas de las mujeres, un conflicto entre poderes.Como su Quijote, Acker vivio entre Nueva York y Londres y se movio en la escena de vanguardia, con gente como David Byrne o Laurie Anderson. La publicacion del libro, en 1986, marco un punto de inflexion en su obra. Con el, Acker emprendio una reescritura radical del deseo, entendido como estructura que desestabiliza la identidad o juego de dominacion y resistencia.Hasta ese momento, el sexo en su obra habia sido tratado como una parodia del poder o una mercancia dentro del capitalismo tardio; sin embargo, Don Quijote, que fue un sueño fue el primer libro en el que la autora abordo frontalmente las relaciones sexuales entre mujeres y la fluidez del genero. A lo largo del texto van asomando sus influencias, como la apropiacion textual de William S. Burroughs, la performatividad de Gertrude Stein o la teoria feminista de Helene Cixous, que Kathy Acker no solo absorbio, sino que subvirtio, ganandose los calificativos de estrella de la vanguardia postpunk y primera pornografa feminista.

"Este libro no pide permiso ni perdón. Lo que se ofrece aquí no se lee: se consume con la voluntad quebrada de quien responde a la llamada del miedo. Es un gualicho narrativo que fermenta entre médanos, jagueles y cuerpos que no saben si estan vivos, muertos o en transito. El sol no despierta a los muertos, pero si los exhibe en toda su dimension decadente, como heridas abiertas. Cada cuento es una estacion de penitencia, una vuelta mas al cordon que nos ata a lo que no se puede nombrar. El numero trece marca el compas, no como supersticion, sino como estructura ritual. Si en Ataudes vacios la autora glorificaba lo macabro, aqui lo encarna, lo vuelve espejo. Y cuando todo nos previene de que debemos alejarnos del dañino reflejo, la adiccion a lo perverso ya nos puso frente a esa imagen distorsionada que no es otro que uno mismo. Hay belleza, si, pero de esa que duele. No espere redencion, piedad o moraleja. Da igual si cierra el libro o lo deja abierto. Siempre sabra que algo lo ha contaminado. Algo que, como una sombra china tras el delicado papel de arroz que separa lo abominable de lo real, lo invita a desentrañar ese misterio que llevamos escrito en nuestra propia cara" (Diana Tori).

La mejor tragicomedia política de nuestros tiempos.En un 2011 no del todo inconcebible, la sociedad ha abrazado la Paridad Mental, una ideología que proclama la igualdad intelectual absoluta y amenaza con redefinir la esencia misma de la inteligencia. Bajo sus nuevos postulados, palabras como listo o tonto se convierten en tabu, y combatir la discriminacion de las mentes menos favorecidas pasa a ser el caballo de batalla de una renovada lucha por los derechos civiles. Las universidades censuran las lecturas obligatorias para evitar cualquier sugerencia de superioridad o inferioridad mental, y hasta clasicos como El idiota de Dostoievski se consideran problematicos solo por lo que parecen insinuar sus titulos.Pearson Converse, profesora universitaria de Literatura, observa con creciente escepticismo esta tremenda deriva hacia la homogeneidad intelectual y la restriccion del lenguaje, y el dia que su hijo Darwin es amonestado en el colegio por tachar de estupida la camiseta de un compañero, dice basta. Con una aversion atroz a cualquier tipo de dogma desde que los testigos de Jehova marcaran su infancia, Pearson no esta dispuesta a que las nuevas tesis de la Paridad Mental aplasten el espiritu de sus hijos ni el de sus alumnos.Cuando sus controvertidas decisiones docentes y su empeño por preservar la libertad de pensamiento en un mundo que amenaza con apisonar todas las diferencias la situen en el centro de una tormenta ideologica, Pearson se refugiara en su mejor amiga, Emory, con la que puede despacharse a gusto y compartir sus ideas socialmente reprochables sobre el movimiento paritario. O eso cree Enfrentada a la censura, el ostracismo de sus colegas e incluso a la intervencion de los servicios sociales, Pearson debera encontrar la mejor estrategia para alzar su voz en una sociedad en la que la disidencia y la meritocracia intelectual se castigan como una vieja herejia.Con una prosa incisiva y su sarcasmo marca de la casa, Shriver vuelve a la carga con esta lucida e inquietante novela sobre un presente y un futuro en los que la lucha por mantener la integridad se hace mas necesaria que nunca. Una distopia divertidisima, mordaz y aterradoramente verosimil.

When Laura Cameron, a philosophy professor at a London university, is found dead in a bizarre echo of the Reeva Steenkamp case, the questions are myriad. Her friend and colleague, Esther Luck, is as shocked as everyone else.But Esther knows more than shes letting on. After two years battling ovarian cancer, her notions of what makes life worth living, of what her future holds, have changed utterly. Held in a tense web of intrigue between Lauras widower Jack, her ex Michel, and her conventional family, Esther is given the chance of new life on borrowed time as the mystery of Lauras death deepens.What follows is an exploration of guilt, mortality, freedom, time and the brilliant and beautiful puzzle of being alive.

In an opulent villa near the English Channel lives a family. The father has a safe, a spanner, a candle and a maid called Rose. The son has a swing, a croquet set, a raincoat, a car. Some members of the family read crime novels to fall asleep (the father), some instead of sleeping (the son), and some to ease the loneliness of an unhappy marriage (the mother). Their equilibrium is shattered in the wake of a shocking incident and the twenty minutes of silence that follow. Darkly comedic and wonderfully strange, Twenty Minutes of Silence is a truly original take on the crime genre, inspired by a true story. Here Helene Bessette builds a world of intrigue, a world punctured by startling disruptions and unexpected shifts, and in doing so destroys and remakes the crime novel, creating a form wholly new.

In stories of exquisite compression, Japanese-Argentine writer Alejandra Kamiya conjures absences, shadows and all that must remain unsaid.As dawn breaks, a woman prepares to make a perfect breakfast for her husband and son, while a subtle note of disquiet grows louder. A Japanese prisoner of war resolutely obeys a command as precise as it is inexplicable. Two girls discover themselves through electrically charged games, which they will recall in letters for the rest of their lives.Enigmatic yet sharply clear, The Fallen Trees Are Also the Forest is a book of quietly shattering epiphanies from a unique voice in international fiction.

What does it mean to lose yourself and is that something you should be aiming for? A young woman with little interest in games takes up a job in Frankfurt at a famous gaming company, naively set on reinvention. On her morning commute, in the familiar clutches of tedium and self-loathing, she encounters a nice-eyed stranger who returns her forgotten umbrella and finds herself catapulted into a dizzying, year-long whirlwind of obsession not just with this endlessly attractive spectre, but also with the feverish karaoke trips from which she draws the ultimate solace. With astonishing existential acuity, Polly Bartons formidable debut novel renders the paradoxes of modern life in all its complexity, in deliriously self-conscious prose that is at once propulsive, titillating and bitingly funny. Echoing with the sounds of Whitney Houston and The Cure, reaching for the sublime in dark, sweaty boxes, What Am I, A Deer? is an exhilarating exploration of authenticity, fantasy, romance and intoxication.

Set in what may be the future, and centred on six women sharing a space in some sort of crumbling apartment tower, Ruins, Child is remarkable for its irresistible sweep, wit, and prickly splintered truth. Giada Scodellaros novel is like a precious old mirror: dropped, looking up at you, flashing light and bits of the undeniable. With the pulsating sway of its liquid mosaic narrative, the novel may recall Virginia Woolfs The Waves, but is entirely its own animal: kaleidoscopic, pointedly disorienting in its looseness, and powered along by snatches of speech from its compelling ensemble cast, often vernacular, often overheard. Its a book seemingly drawn from deep wells of Black American reality: Scodellaros female protagonists push back against authority in the very vivacity of their telling, setting afoot a freeing-up and a mysterious inversion of marginalization. A surreal musing, Ruins, Child uses the lens of urban infrastructure, social commentary, folklore, choreography and collective listening to create an ethnography of place and an ode to communal ruins.