Iron Men In Wooden Boats

Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis's masterful new novel is a story about the end of innocence, and the perilous passage from adolescence into adulthood, set in a vibrantly fictionalized Los Angeles in 1981 as a serial killer begins targeting teenagers throughout the city. Seventeen-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past....

Rupi Kaur

u003ciu003eHealing Through Wordsu003c/iu003e is a guided tour on the journey back to the self, a cathartic and mindful exploration through writing.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbru003e This carefully curated collection of exercises asks only that you be vulnerable and honest, both with yourself and the page.u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbru003e u003cbru003e You d...

O'farrell, Maggie

A stunning new departure for Maggie O'Farrell's fiction, HAMNET is the heart-stopping story behind Shakespeare's most famous play.On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home?Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medici...

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Hiram Walker is born into bondage on a Virginia plantation. But he is also born gifted with a mysterious power that he won't discover until he is almost a man, when he risks everything for a chance to escape. One fateful decision will carry him away from his makeshift plantation family - his adoptive mother, Thena, a woman of few words and many secrets, and his beloved, angry S...

This box set of the 50 books in the new Penguin Modern series celebrates the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics list and its iconic authors. Including avant-garde essays, radical polemics, newly translated poetry and great fiction, here are brilliant and diverse voices from across the globe. Ground-breaking and original in their day, their words still have the pow...

Louisa May Alcott

'I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.'Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four "little women" enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England The charming story of the March sisters, Little Women has been adored by generations. Readers have rooted for Laurie in his pursuit of Jo's hand, cried over little Beth's death, and dreamed of travelling...

Conde Cid, Alfredo

EDICIÓN COMEMORATIVA DO XXXV ANIVERSARIO DA PUBLICACIÓNDurante o reinado de Filipe II de Habsburgo, na década do 1580, chega a Compostela o novo Inquisidor, coa misión de rematar co contrabando de libros prohibidos.Na década do 1980, un escritor en crise dá clases de Literatura en Aix-en-Provence, Francia, buscando algunha idea para unha nova novela.Ambas historias, aparentemen...

Conde Cid, Alfredo

En ôA propósito de lo políticoö, de Ézaro Ediciones, Alfredo Conde relata su accidentada navegación por la política gallega y española.El texto, organizado por décadas, comienza por contextualizarnos en la carrera cultural y literaria del autor para, poco después, hacer balance de su paso por la vida política justo cuando nuestro país se metía de lleno en la ansiada democracia,...

Conde Cid, Alfredo

Conde Cid, Alfredo

Esta nueva entrega de Alfredo Conde constituye el relato deltránsito del autor en su accidentada navegación por el sistemaliterario, en realidad, por dos sistemas literarios, el gallego y elespañol, tan parecidos y tan diferentes. En él dice el autorresponder, a propósito de lo literario, a preguntas que, cuando él másnecesitaba dar respuestas, nadie se las hizo. En unos casose...