Books

Czechoslovakia, 1942. Jan’s father has been summarily executed by the Nazis. His mother and his older sister Maria have disappeared, and his younger sister Lena has been removed to a remote farm in the German countryside. With Europe in the throes...
By: Maureen Myant

Emili Rossell, the young owner of one of Barcelona’s top galleries, receives an old manuscript written by an Italian architect about the “Invisible City” – an ambitious project dreamt up by King Charles III to build an alternative capital city in...
By: Emili Rosales

With these provocative thoughts on the central questions of living, Dr Simon May catches our minds off guard in areas as diverse as love, pride, self-esteem, gratitude, timing, lying, talking, knowing, suffering, escaping, silence, evil and thinking...
By: Simon May

After marrying Count Leo Tolstoy, the author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace , Sofia Behrs kept a detailed diary until his death in 1910. Sofia's life was not an easy one: she idealized her husband, but was tormented by him; even her many...
By: Sofia Tolstoy

When the fictional amateur detective Carmen O’Inns is called upon to investigate the mysterious death of a boy at a prestigious school, both teachers and pupils are in the frame as suspects. Meanwhile, the novelist Luisa Dávila, her creator, finds...
By: Carmen Posadas

Torn from his father and a loving sister, the young student Zuba is imprisoned for a crime he has not even thought about committing. His misfortune: to live in a world where corruption is rife and honest and law-abiding people are crushed by the...

As a young girl from a wealthy family, Ginko Ogino seems set for a conventional life in the male-dominated society of nineteenth-century Japan. But when she contracts gonorrhoea from her husband, she suffers the ignominy of divorce. Forced to bear...
By: Jun'ichi Watanabe

Very little is known about the life of poet Emily Dickinson. As a woman, she is most known as a recluse; as a poet, she is known for producing some of the most daring and original verse of the nineteenth century. This verse is often said to be her...
By: Paola Kaufmann

Jonathon Bender had something to say to the world, but the world wouldn’t listen. However, he left behind unsent letters addressed to relatives, friends, teachers, classmates, professors, roommates, employers, former girlfriends, his ex-wife, the...
By: Michael Kimball