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Dirty Little Secrets by Jo Spain EN
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FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CONFESSION Six neighbours, six secrets, six reasons to want Olive Collins dead. In the exclusive gated community of Withered Vale, people's lives appear as perfect as their beautifully manicured lawns. Money, success, privilege - the residents have it all. Life is good. There's just one problem. Olive Collins' dead body has been rotting inside number four for the last three months. Her neighbours say they're shocked at the discovery but nobody thought to check on her when she vanished from sight. The police start to ask questions and the seemingly ... continue
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El narrador, Alexander Cleave, está en medio de una crisis. Percibe que algo no está bien en su vida. Siente que el nudo central de su problema está en que toda su vida se ha ocupado más de representar que de ser, o de vivir, lo cual cuaja perfectamente con su profesión de actor (aunque el problema lo preceda).
"A veces me parece que es en esos intervalos de vacío, sin que fuera consciente de ello, cuando he vivido de forma más real y auténtica."
Hay al menos un aspecto de su vida que muestra otra cosa: la profunda conexi&oacu... continue
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El Faro de Blackwater by Colm Tóibín ES
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Después de varios años sin dirigirse la palabra, la enfermedad de Declan hará que la familia Devereux reestablezca los lazos que antaño les unieran y se sometan a un proceso de acercamiento en el que van a aflorar y aclararse algunos de los malentendidos que les distanciaron (relacionados muchos de ellos con la muerte del padre). Tóibin se ha convertido casi en un autor de culto entre los lectores gay. Sin embargo, no se trata de un autor sectario, como los demuestran la amplitud de sus éxitos precedentes en Europa. El autor vendrá a presentar su libro a Barcelona en el mes de abril (ver apart... continue
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El joven trovador by Archibald Joseph Cronin ES
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Durante años el público había estado esperando una novela de A.J. Cronin: y aquí El joven trovador, donde el propio autor se convierte en personaje, testigo y comentarista moral de la lacerante, espasmódica, contradictoria historia humana de Desmonde Fitzgerald, el hermoso joven, el hombre de Dios, el cantante, el humano siendo absorbido por un abismo erótico insondable, el aventurero, el inocente, el actor... A lo largo de un lapso de tiempo que va desde principios de siglo hasta nuestros días, en una variedad de ambientes que incluye el Dubl&i... continue
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Faithful Place by Tana French EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
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'Breathtaking -- an elaborately twisted ballad of class resentments, family burdens, regret and passion' The Washington Post 'An author of exceptional talent and insight' Sunday Independent 'In all your life, only a few moments matter. I was lucky. I got to see one of mine face to face, and recognise it for what it was.' The course of Frank Mackey's life is set by one defining moment when he was nineteen. The time his girlfriend, Rosie Daly, failed to turn up for their rendezvous in Faithful Place, failed to run away with him to London as planned. Frank never heard from, or of, her again. Twen... continue
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Felicia's Journey by William Trevor EN
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"Perfectly executed and chilling... a sad and oddly moving tale of lost opportunities and misplaced hopes.""—The New York Times “Trevor was our twentieth century Chekov."—Wall Street Journal Felicia is unmarried, pregnant, and penniless. She steals away from a small Irish town and drifts through the industrial English Midlands, searching for the boyfriend who left her. Instead she meets up with the fat, fiftyish, unfailingly reasonable Mr. Hilditch, who is looking for a new friend to join the five other girls in his Memory Lane. But the strange, sad, terrifying tricks of chance unravel both hi... continue
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Follow Me to Ground : A Novel by Sue Rainsford EN
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One of Literary Hub’s Favorite Books of the Year A haunted, surreal debut novel about an otherworldly young woman, her father, and her lover that culminates in a shocking moment of betrayal—one that upends our understanding of power, predation, and agency. Ada and her father, touched by the power to heal illness, live on the edge of a village where they help sick locals—or “Cures”—by cracking open their damaged bodies or temporarily burying them in the reviving, dangerous Ground nearby. Ada, a being both more and less than human, is mostly uninterested in the Cures, until she meets a man named... continue