Mother of Pearl
Romantic novel set in Liverpool. It uses multiple time frames, almost always two: one in 1939, when World War II begins, and another in 1971, when Amy is released from prison. The novel introduces the...
Literature - Psychological
Brat Farrar
The Ashbys are English landowners dedicated to horse breeding. They have always lived in the small town of Clare and guided a peaceful quiet life led by Aunt Bee, who takes care of her four nephews after...
Nothing That Meets the Eye
Fourteen short stories by the author, some unpublished, others published in magazines, and only two of them having appeared in a book, specifically in Once. The initial impression, upon reading "A Quiet...
Anna O
This novel, the first by the English author Matthew Blake, has become an editorial success in many countries. The author studied English literature at the universities of Durham and Oxford and has worked...
The Night of Shooting Stars
The novel takes place in Berlin in 1944, just days before Operation Valkyrie: it could be considered a thriller due to the tension it generates, and although it is fiction, the setting is historical, as the...
Professor Andersen's Nigh
This short novel, straddling the line between psychological fiction and essay, immerses us in the innermost reflections of Pál Andersen, a fifty-year-old professor, divorced, solitary, and skeptical. The...
China dolls
The story unfolds in San Francisco (California) between 1938 and 1948, beginning amidst the lingering effects of the Great Depression of 1929 and extending past the Second World War into the late twentieth...
All the Missing Girls
Ten years ago Nicolette Farrel left her small town of Cooley Ridge after Corinne, her best friend, disappeared without a trace. In Philadelphia she has a successful existence where she lives with her fiancé...
The Good Luck of Right Now
38 years old and single, Bartholomew Neil has only four things in his life: his mother, the library, going to mass on Saturdays, and the family friend Father McNamee. His mom gets cancer and dies....
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Ivan Ilich is a civil servant in the tsarist administration whose main aspiration, like that of his colleagues, is to climb the social ladder to maintain his welfare and remain part of the aristocracy....