Spent : a Comic Novel

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...

Alderton, Dolly

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WITH A NEW CHAPTER ON TURNING THIRTY. READ AND LOVED IT? GIFT IT TO A FRIEND! 'There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it' Lisa Taddeo, author Three Women 'The book we will thrust into our friends' hands. Alderton feels like a best friend and your older sister all rolled into one and her pages wrap...

Bechdel, Alison

Vuelve Alison Bechdel con una novela gráfica coral en la que el capitalismo tardío, el poliamor, el cambio climático y la mismísima cotidianidad son también protagonistas «Drástica, sarcástica y fantástica».LA Times Un libro ocurrente y político que cuestiona la realidad mundial y la incertidumbre del mañana Los días de cierta historietista llamada Alison Bechdel transcurren,...

Bechdel, Alison

Tras nueve años de silencio, llega la obra de madurez de Alison Bechdel.Un libro emocionante y necesario. UNO DE LOS 100 LIBROS MÁS DESTACADOS DE 2021 SEGÚN THE NEW YORK TIMES Y DE LOS MEJORES DE 2021 SEGÚN BABELIA, THE OBJECTIVE Y ESQUIRE «De lo mejor que se ha publicado: una obra maestra del género.»Manuel Rodríguez Rivero, Babelia Durante toda su vida, Alison Bechdel ha bu...

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...

Bechdel, Alison

La verdadera Biblia del cómic lésbico undergound. Una selección de las reivindicativas y divertidas viñetas que Alison Bechdel publicó en distinta prensa gay y lésbica de Estados Unidos desde los años 80 hasta 2008. CONSIDERADA UNA DE LAS 25 OBRAS MÁS INFLUYENTES DE LA LITERATURA QUEER DE POSGUERRA SEGÚN THE NEW YORK TIMES A lo largo de más de tres décadas, el pionero Unas les...

Bechdel, Alison

Un relato tragicómico en formato de memorias de la vida de una familia americana. En 2006 Houghton Mifflin publicó sus memorias gráficas, Fun Home: Una tragicomedia familiar, el exitoso relato de maduración que se ha calificado como «proeza de retrato familiar» y un «raro y original ejemplo del porqué las novelas gráficas han ocupado la conversación sobre la Literatura American...

Bechdel, Alison

Alison Bedchel, autora del bestseller Fun Home, regresa a su exitosa saga familiar con las memorias de su madre, una historia familiar y sobrecogedora. Si has leído la primera novela gráfica de Alison Bechdel, Fun Home. Una familia tragicómica, puedes obviar este texto de contraportada para sumergirte inmediatamente en la lectura de uno de los libros del año. Si, por el contrar...