A Room Of One's Own

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...

Rodoreda Merce

Barcelona, early 1930s: Natalia, a pretty shop-girl from the working-class quarter of Gracia, is hesitant when a stranger asks her to dance at the fiesta in Diamond Square. But Joe is charming and forceful, and she takes his hand.They marry and soon have two children; for Natalia it is an awakening, both good and bad. When Joe decides to breed pigeons, the birds delight his son...

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...