The Seamstress

Duhnam, Lena

Granta Books

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, ...

Aber, Aria

Bloomsbury

**Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025****Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award****A Time Book of the Year 2025**Born in Germany to Afghan parents, Nila has spent her adolescence disappointing her family while searching for her voice. Now in Berlin's techno-filled warehouses, their walls still scarred by the ravages of the last century, she has found her tribe....

Kawakami, Mieko

Pan Books

A gripping, hypnotic account of young women trying to survive in Tokyo and the wounds of the past that wont heal, Sisters in Yellow is the bold and brilliant new novel from International Booker shortlisted author, Mieko Kawakami. Kimiko Yoshikawa, a sixty-year-old woman, is on trial for holding a girl in captivity for many years. When Hana stumbles across a newspaper account of...

Slimani, Leïla

Faber

Leïla Slimani has a knack for breaking taboos.' TIMES'Slimani is a fearless writer.' EVENING STANDARDQ: If your house was burning down, what would you take with you?A: I'd take the fire.This is the story of two sisters, Mia and Inés. Two girls enveloped in love, trapped by the social conventions of Casablanca at the dawn of the twenty-first century and silenced by the political...

Ernaux, Annie

Fitzcarraldo Editions

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, cultural habits, language, photos, books, songs, radio, television, advertising and news headlines. Annie Ernaux invents a form that is subjective and impersonal, private and communal, and a new ...

July, Miranda

Canongate Books

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 ...

Duenas, Maria

Simon & Schuster

The inspiring international bestseller of a seemingly ordinary woman who uses her talent and courage to transform herself first into a prestigious couturier and then into an undercover agent for the Allies during World War II.Between youth and adulthood...At age twelve, Sira Quiroga sweeps the atelier floors where her single mother works as a seamstress. At fourteen, she quietl...

Duenas, Maria

Planeta

Vuelve María Dueñas autora de la inolvidable El tiempo entre costuras con una novela que te cautivará.Hui de un crimen involuntario. Hui de los hombres que no me quisieron. Hui de una guerra. Esta es mi historia, entre España y Orán, junto al Mediterráneo. Orán. Años 20, siglo xx. En esta ciudad africana de origen árabe, pulso español y administración francesa desembarca una jo...

Duenas, Maria

Planeta

De la autora de Tiempo entre costuras, la novela nos ofrece un viaje de amores cruzados, secretos silenciados y vidas suspendidas entre dos mundos.Incapaz de recomponer sus propios pedazos y con el fin de despegarse de su ayer, la profesora Blanca Perea acepta a la desesperada lo que anticipa como un tedioso proyecto académico en una insignificante universidad californiana. El ...

Dueñas, María

Planeta

Cuatro destinos. Dos misiones. Una mujer. Vuelve a sumergirte en un tiempo inolvidable junto a la protagonista de El tiempo entre costuras.La segunda gran guerra llega a su fin y el mundo emprende una tortuosa reconstrucción. A pesar de que Sira afronta el futuro con ansias de serenidad. No lo logrará, sin embargo. El destino le tendrá preparada una trágica desventura que la ob...

Dueñas, María

Planeta

Hui de un crimen involuntario. Hui de los hombres que no me quisieron. Hui de una guerra. Esta es mi historia, entre España y Orán, junto al Mediterráneo. Orán. Años 20, siglo xx. En esta ciudad africana de origen árabe, pulso español y administración francesa desembarca una joven con el falso nombre de Cecilia Belmonte. En apariencia, ha cruzado el Mediterráneo para escapar de...

Dueñas, María

Planeta

Vaig fugir d'un crim involuntari. Vaig fugir dels homes que no em van voler. Vaig fugir d'una guerra. Aquesta és la meva història, entre Espanya i Orà, al costat del Mediterrani.Orà. Anys vint, segle XX. En aquesta ciutat africana d'origen àrab, amb influència espanyola i administració francesa, desembarca una jove amb el nom fals de Cecilia Belmonte. Aparentment, ha travessat ...