All Fours

Feito, Virginia

"Sensationally unhinged" - SUNDAY TIMES"Simmering with rage, propulsive and laugh-out-loud funny" - CATRIONA WARD""Weird and wonderful" - LUCY MANGAN, GUARDIANWinifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She'll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But the long...

Rooney, Sally

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, compe...

Alice Oseman

harlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met ... until one day when they're made to sit together. They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance.But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is more interested in Charlie than either of them realised.By Alice Oseman, winner of the YA Book Prize,...

Vallejo, Irene

A fascinating and profound, yet delightfully personal take on books in the ancient world, with many illuminating insights into more modern literature and life.' - Paul Strathern, author of Ten Cities that Led the World Long before books were mass produced, those made of reeds from along the Nile were worth fighting and dying for. Journeying along the battlefields of Alexander t...

Bechdel, Alison

All her life, Alison Bechdel has searched for an elusive secret. The secret to superhuman strength. She has looked for it in her favourite books, the lives of her heroes, celibacy, polyamory, activism, therapy, and most obsessively, in her lifelong passion for exercise. Skiing, running, karate, cycling, yoga, weight lifting - you name it, she´s tried it. "Oh, to be self-suffici...

O'farrell, Maggie

A stunning new departure for Maggie O'Farrell's fiction, HAMNET is the heart-stopping story behind Shakespeare's most famous play.On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home?Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medici...

July, Miranda

La mejor novela de 2024 según The New Yorker y The New York Times. «Profundo, subido de tono y profundamente humano, una brillante obra de arte de una mente completamente abierta y audaz ».Emma Cline Una artista medio famosa anuncia su intención de cruzar el país en coche, de Los Ángeles a Nueva York. Afrontar un largo viaje por carretera parece un buen modo de repensarse a sí ...

July, Miranda

Un debut novelístico deslumbrante que te desconcertará, por una de las voces más originales del panorama actual, un icono del indie americano: Miranda July. La vida de Cheryl Glickman está sometida a las fantasías y creencias más dispares, así como a un excéntrico sistema de reglas y rituales. Cree fervientemente en historias de amor que traspasan los siglos y tiene una estrech...

July, Miranda

LA MILLOR NOVEL·LA DE L'ANY PER A _THE NEW YORKER _I _THE NEW YORK TIMES_. Una artista relativament famosa decideix creuar el país en cotxe, de Los Angeles a Nova York. Li sembla que aquest viatge pot servir per repensar-se ella mateixa i el seu matrimoni. Amb tot planificat i tres setmanes lliures al davant, s'acomiada de la família i enfila l'autopista. Però, inesperadament, ...

July, Miranda

A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey. Miranda July´s second novel confirms the brilliance of her ...

July, Miranda

Mientras intentaba terminar el guion de su segunda película, El futuro, Miranda July se obsesionó con una sección de periódico, el PennySaver, donde cualquier persona puede vender lo inimaginable. Acompañada por la fotógrafa Brigitte Sire, July recorrió Los Ángeles para descubrir quién estaba detrás de esas ofertas y, así, saber «cómo se las ingenia alguien en la vida: dónde co...

July, Miranda

Una dona que fantasieja mentre el seu veí pateix un atac d'epilèpsia; una jove que ensenya natació a tres avis al terra de casa seva; un esperpèntic taller de romanticisme... Miranda July ens mostra la tragicomèdia de ser conscients que no tenim cap connexió profunda amb la gent que ens envolta, sinó que simplement hi compartim espais: un pati comú, classes de costura o el fora...