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A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for fifteen years, reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their lives.

The Sunday Times bestselling sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy.

Gretel, una mujer en sus treinta, se reencuentra con su madre, Sarah, quien padece alzhéimer, dieciséis años después de haber sido abandonada. Como lexicógrafa, Gretel comprende que las palabras y los recuerdos son cambiantes. Sarah ha sido para ella un "fantasma" que consume su vida, pero al finalmente poder hacerle preguntas que la atormentan desde su adolescencia, descubre que la memoria de su madre es confusa y fragmentada. Antes de su separación, vivieron juntas en una casa flotante en los canales de Oxford, un lugar aislado y lleno de supersticiones, donde enfrentaban sus miedos encarnados en el Bonak, una criatura mítica que representaba sus temores. Su vida se complica con la llegada de Marcus, un joven vagabundo que se aloja en su barco y cuya misteriosa presencia desencadena preguntas sobre su pasado. A través de una reimaginación del mito de Edipo en un contexto transgénero, la joven autora Daisy Johnson explora las complejidades de las relaciones madre-hija, los prejuicios de género y la construcción de la identidad. Con una prosa intensa y cautivadora, invita al lector a navegar por un laberinto de emociones, atmósferas inquietantes y destinos inevitables.

After the brutal murder of his great-uncle, Julius Caesar, Octavian, a shy and scholarly youth of nineteen, suddenly finds himself heir to the vast power of Rome. He is destined, despite vicious power struggles, bloody wars and family strife, to transform his realm and become the greatest ruler the western world had ever seen.

After scheming his way to power, newly elected Prime Minister Francis Urquhart faces a crisis that could destroy his Government. But as he plots the drastic measures needed to save his political future he finds one determined man standing in the way - the idealistic new King. Urquhart will stop at nothing to cling to power. As he prepares to expose the scandalous activities of certain members of the royal household, he threatens to bring down not only his Royal opponent, but also the Monarchy itself.

This is the story of a quiet man, destined to be a farmer but who becomes an academic. It is book in which nothing and everything happens and is possibly the greatest novel you've never read. 'It's simply a novel about a guy who goes to college and becomes a teacher. But its one of the most fascinating things that you've ever come across' Tom Hanks, Time William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death, his colleagues remember him rarely. Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value - of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history - and in doing so reclaims the significance of an individual life. 'A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life' Ian McEwan 'A brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise and elegant novel' Nick Hornby INTRODUCED BY JOHN McGAHERN

Con passo lento, ma a volte anche con scatti poderosi, la scrittura propriamente e dichiaratamente gay è entrata e si è installata nell'orizzonte letterario italiano, liberandosi da schemi grotteschi e marginali e dalle idee stereotipate. Sempre di più il testo letterario viene valutato per quel che è: un insieme di armonie (o disarmonie) lessicali, costruzione o distruzione di scenari, tessuto di dialoghi e trame, indipendentemente dalle abitudini sessuali di chi l'ha scritto. Gli autori presenti in questa antologia sono ormai dei veri scrittori, senza bisogno di ulteriori etichette.