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A sexual and romantic saga, this is a colourful tale about class and community, and the varieties of human experience. From the French author of "The Most Beautiful Book In The World", translated by Howard Curtis.

Età di lettura: da 7 anni.

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Galizia, terra di foreste e di prati, di pioggia e cieli sconfinati, di mare e santuari. In paese la vita scorre lenta e tranquilla, scandita dai lavori della campagna e, la sera, dal bicchiere di vino al bar, rigorosamente tra uomini. Niente sembra in grado di smuovere quella routine che pare cadenzata sulle note di un flamenco in lontananza, finché in paese, catapultata da un¿altra vita, arriva Suiza. Suiza ha la pelle bianca quanto quella d...

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Una volta, porgendomi un mio romanzo da autografare, un lettore mi disse di essere un archivista e mi chiese se potevo essere interessato a ricevere i documenti storici su cui stava lavorando. Per qualche anno, pur imparando dettagli anche atroci, non ci trovai storie interessanti da sviluppare. Poi un giorno ricevetti una sua telefonata: aveva trovato un paio di lettere che il Comitato internazionale della Croce rossa aveva mandato ai nostri ...

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Reveals the humanity and passion for life of Lucrezia Borgia, as well as her dark side, showing her as a modern woman for her time.

The unmissable conclusion to the "Marseilles" trilogy, translated by Howard Curtis and reissued with a new cover look. 'Izzo's Marseilles is ravishing. Every street, cafe and house has its own character' "Globe & Mail

A new novel from the Italian crime writer, whose previous work includes "The Fugitive" and "Gang Of Lovers". Marco Buratti looks into a robbery-turned-murder from two years earlier. Translated by Antony Shugaar.

A novel from a French author, which moves between the lives of a 16th century mystic in Flanders, a Viennese noblewoman in the early 20th century and a contemporary Hollywood star.

Translated for the first time into English, this collection of Jean Claude-Izzo's personal essays is a must for all fans of Izzo's previous "Marseille Trilogy".

The Athenian Women offers a powerful vision of class struggle, the subjugation of women, and the courage needed to change the course of history.

Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award and the European Union Prize for Literature 2019. "His mistakes are my inheritance. The rotten blood he gave me is the blood I will pass on." For twenty years, Daniel Hardesty has lived with the emotional scars of a childhood trauma which he is powerless to undo. One August morning, Daniel and his estranged father Francis-a character of irresistible charm and roiling self-pity-set out on a road trip th...

Prisoners of Geography meets Bill Bryson: a funny, fascinating, beautifully illustrated-and timely-history of countries that, for myriad and often ludicrous reasons, no longer exist. "Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They're all equally implausible once you get up close." Countries die. Sometimes it's murder, sometimes it's by accident, and sometimes it's because they were so ludicrous they didn't deserve to exist in the f...

A 2020 INDIES INTRODUCE AND INDIE NEXT LIST PICK A number 1 best-seller in France and in Italy, where it was dubbed Italy's favorite "lockdown novel, " Fresh Water for Flowers is an intimately told story about a woman who definitely believes in happiness, despite it all. Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her life is lived to the predictable rhythms of the often funny, always moving confidences that...