Ian McEwan's tendency for existentialist composition, disguised in the particular dynamism of his plots and humanistic themes, always enrich the reading of his works of fiction, making his novels something more anthropological, sociological. Get to science fiction with the background of ...
After her breakthrough with the debut film "The Whole Truth", Karen Cleveland returns with a thriller drawn along the same lines as the first time. If the formula works, and if it is capable of abounding in a psychological tension around a domestic thriller that at the ...
Barcelona is always in good news when Ildefonso Falcones announces a new book. The city of Barcelona is a kind of recurring scene at different times. A place where this author locates on many occasions his always fascinating plots in which the most vivid intrahistories move between different periods ...
We return to historical fiction for a fresh take on Napoleon and his last days of power struggle. The retired emperor, practically ignored and forgotten on a small island, disconnected from a world plotted against him. But the most recognized strategist who knew how to govern with instinct ...
The arrival of this first novel in an overwhelming saga such as the series around the protagonist Ruth Galloway is great news if it ends up bearing fruit in its natural chain of sequels that have finally arrived in Spain. Because Elly Griffiths is a particular writer who has come to the genre ...
With his well-known virtuosity in locating black genre plots in the most unsuspected epoch in history, Craig Russell returns to a few days of sinister chicha calm in Europe. The interwar period looms over the precipice of the second time that weapons and ...
Let's start from the background of this novel. And it is that the tormented characters always tune in with that part of the reader that links them to their own past; with the errors or traumas that to a greater or lesser extent seem to intensely mark the fate of existence. Above …
For a long time Maxime Chattam had been giving a good account of his narrative capacity in a dark literature that epitomized the paranomal and the thriller. And as the thriller was given more prominence, it was also drawing more and more the attention of so many readers who find in it ...
The noir genre finds in money, as an abstraction, one of the most abundant leitmotifs in the darkness of the soul, where human ambition is born. A soul capable of everything because of that unbridled madness of pretending more and more. And this is one of those stories about ...
From the film script to the novel there are few steps. Another good example, in the thematic antipodes (as far as the novel is concerned) of Manuel Ríos, is David Trueba. Because beyond their generational coincidence, each of these two authors have turned very disparate concerns into the narrative. AND …
Of all the currents that have crossed old Europe, one of the most suggestive is the bohemian one, which has become one of the first forms of youth counterculture, practically outside the system, as later happened with the hippie movement, which, certainly, had not discovered anything. new. Also is true that …
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 ...