A Room Of One's Own

Serrano, Beatriz

Life can't go on like this - can it? This book is for everyone who has ever wanted more: more time, more meaning, more connection.On the surface, Marisa's life looks enviable. She lives in a nice apartment in the heart of Madrid, her friendly neighbour and lover Pablo lives downstairs, and she's risen quickly through the ranks at a successful advertising agency.And yet Marisa h...

Duhnam, Lena

In this rowdy, frank reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between, the remarkable mind behind the hit series Girls and the bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl asks whether fulfilling her creative ambitions has been worth the pain.For the last decade, as she's spent countless hours in doctor's waiting rooms searching for diagnoses, treatments, and relief, ...

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 ...

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...

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,...

Roig, Montserrat

Spring, 1974. After twelve years abroad, Natàlia Miralpeix returns to Barcelona and her family. Change is in the air: revolution sexual, political and artistic is simmering. Franco may still be in power, but his death is only two years away. The younger generation write poetry, listen to Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, and talk of a freer future. The older generation, though, ca...

Woolf, Virginia

LA NOVELA MÁS POPULAR DE VIRGINIA WOOLFUna de las obras maestras de la literatura universal en una edición de lujo para coleccionarEl 13 de junio Clarissa Dalloway recorre el Londres de la posguerra para preparar la fiesta que dará esa noche. Mientras elige flores y ajusta detalles, su mente viaja al pasado: a los veranos en Bourton, a las amistades y amores que marcaron su juv...

Woolf, Virginia

«El 21 de enero de 1931, un día antes de impartir su célebre conferencia "Profesiones para mujeres", Virginia Woolf cuenta que, al hilo de esa charla, se le acaba de ocurrir "—¡Dios mío, qué emoción!— un libro nuevo, una secuela de Una habitación propia, sobre la vida sexual de las mujeres [...], que tal vez se titule Professions for Women". Ese nuevo libro, que, tras doce títu...

Woolf, Virginia

Violet recopila tres narraciones de Virginia Woolf en 1907, acerca de su íntima amiga de la juventud, Violet Dickinson. Virginia contaba entonces con 26 años y aún faltaban 7 para publicar su primera novela. Nuestra edición incluye un prólogo de la traductora y experta en la obra Patricia Díaz Pereda e ilustraciones originales a color en papel couche de Andrea Reyes, y simula d...

Woolf, Virginia

Las olas constituye una de las empresas literarias de mayor altura de la tradición literaria inglesa. Esta novela está tejida a partir de los pensamientos de seis amigos; Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny y Louis. Woolf construye un monumento literario de una altura imponente en el que trata de capturar el flujo de conciencia de estos personajes. Enmarcados entre estampas q...

Woolf, Virginia

Virginia Woolf nació y vivió en Londres, una ciudad que palpita con fuerza en cada uno de sus libros. Nada le resultaba más estimulante que vagabundear por sus calles, siempre llenas de novedades que observar y comentar. Para ella, la capital era mucho ...

Woolf, Virginia

3A EDICIÓ UN ASSAIG COMBATIU QUE CONTINUA SENT UN REFERENT ABSOLUT PER AL PENSAMENT FEMINISTA. «Tanca amb clau les teves biblioteques, si vols, però no hi ha cap porta, cap pany, cap forrellat que pugui aturar la llibertat de la meva ment.» Aquesta és, probablement, la frase més coneguda de l'obra de Virginia Woolf. La va escriure a Una habitació pròpia, on aborda, sobretot, le...