Circe by Madeline Miller

Circe by Madeline Miller

Revisiting classic mythologies to offer new novels with the pull of the epic and the fantastic is already a resource that works well. Recent cases such as those of Neil Gaiman with his book Nordic Myths, or the increasingly widespread references among authors of historical novels ...

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The Whisperer, by Donato Carrisi

The Whisperer, by Donato Carrisi

In a kind of hybrid narrative between other great references of the Italian black genre such as Camilleri or Luca D´Andrea, to name generational poles of success, Donato Carrisi manages to combine the most brutal noir with the most disturbing enigmas around the minds convinced of that the gift of ...

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If this is a woman, of Lorenzo Silva and Noemí Trujillo

If this is a woman

Primo Levi himself would be proud of the title of this novel that evokes the beginning of his trilogy on Auschwitz. Because, apart from exceptions on contexts, the cruelty of the exposure of the human being in the last instance, to the most evil of the human being himself, as I already wrote in a similar sense ...

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The Two Sides of Truth, by Michael Connelly

Book the two faces of the truth

The black market for drugs is no longer just a matter of illegal trafficking from vessels that infiltrate large shipments of cocaine, opiates or whatever is necessary. Caches can now be moved more underground between drug labels. And Michael Connelly has decided to tackle the depths of that ...

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Malaherba, by Manuel Jabois

Malaherba Book

If you recently spoke of "Everything else was silent," the first novel by the journalist and prominent columnist Manuel de Lorenzo, now it's time to tackle a new literary debut by another great young journalist: Manuel Jabois. And the truth is that coincidences are also prolonged in the exercise of a narrative ...

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Long petal of the sea, of Isabel Allende

Long sea petal

Most of the great stories, epic and transformative, transcendental and revolutionary but always very human, start from necessity in the face of imposition, rebellion or exile in defense of ideals. Almost everything worth telling happens when the human being gives that ...

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A Perfect Marriage, by Paul Pen

A perfect marriage

A good suspense writer, such as Paul Pen already is, knows in advance that the greatest of thrillers can be located in the everyday life of a well-connected family. Because normality is always that thin layer hardened on the volcano. Not everything we were is what ...

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The Disappearance of Annie Thorne by CJ Tudor

The disappearance of Annie Thorne

CJ Tudor recently arrived to hang the band of author of thrillers openly connected with the purest horror genre. At least that fear that connects with childhood fears, those that make us keep looking under the bed or quickly look for the light switch. ...

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A thousand nights without you, Federico Moccia

A thousand nights without you

Lovers of Federico Moccia's pink narrative, probably the most recognized male author in this type of literature, labels too often as exclusively female, is back with a new adventure for hearts eager for lost, forgotten, wonderfully current passions or for arrive ... A thousand nights without ...

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Flight 19, by José Antonio Ponseti

Flight 19 book

In a straight line from Puerto Rico to Miami and reaching a third vertex that reaches the Bermuda Islands in the jaws of the North Atlantic. The roughness of the sea, the unpredictable weather and some probable phenomenon of terrestrial magnetism have ended up supporting the myth about the incidences of ...

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Eight million gods, by David B. Gil

Eight million gods

It is curious that the one who best immerses us in fascinating settings in the history of Japan is David B. Gil. Great current Japanese writers such as Murakami or Kenzaburo Oe achieve a very special literary mix. And yet it is David who ends up storming the bookstores with historical fictions about that world ...

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The disgusting, by Santiago Lorenzo

The disgusting

I do not know what Daniel Defoe would think of this Iberian Robinson Crusoe with evident parody overtones that in the end ends up being oriented more to a current humorous criticism in which it is shown that survival beyond the era of connectivity is possible, at best from …

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