La secuoya

Alessia pasa por momentos delicados: su marido la ha abandonado por su secretaria, su trabajo de agente inmobiliaria está en pleno declive y, para ella, su existencia deja de tener sentido. Justo cuando toma la decisión de rendirse, recibe una carta póstuma de su abuela Ornella, a la que nunca conoció, en la que esta le revela el motivo que la alejó de la familia: su obsesión por desentrañar un antiguo misterio oculto en el diario de una antepasada, Alonza di Pietro, una afamada meretriz del siglo XVII. Alessia descubre los turbios secretos de alcoba de hombres de alcurnia y estado,...

Francisco Delicado's El Retrato de la Lozana Andaluza is a satire that ridicules and denounces blood purity and the codes of conduct of the elite in early modern Spain and Italy. The novel published in Venice in 1528 was written in the form of a dialogue. Its author, the Spanish clergyman and publisher Francisco Delicado escaped from Rome a year earlier due to the anti-Spanish ideas. Published anonymously, the novel depicts the life of the underworld of Rome during the first third of the sixteenth century, especially among the community of Spanish Jews who progressively moved to Rome after...

EDICIÓN ESPECIAL ESTUCHE CON LAS TRES PRIMERAS NOVELAS DE LUPIN. LA SERIE DE TELEVISIÓN DE NETFLIX DE LA QUE TODO EL MUNDO ESTÁ HABLANDO.

Three women in a Scottish fishing village look toward the future after a devastating tragedy in this life-affirming novel inspired by historical events. After a catastrophic storm tore through the village of Eyemouth in 1881, the villagers have slowly started to move on. Inconsolable at the loss of her husband, Rosabelle Maltman has left Scotland to start a new life, leaving her son behind. Meanwhile her sister-in-law, Jessie, is finding ways to manipulate the men of the village for her own gains. But it is their mother-in-law Effie who is the lynchpin of the family, who keeps the community...