Arthur Phillips Libros

Cuando en los años veinte Howard Carter descubre la tumba de Tutankamon, el más asombroso hallazgo de la historia de la arqueología, el egiptólogo Ralph Trilipush se juega su reputación profesional y la fortuna de su prometida en su obsesión por encontrar el enterramiento de un faraón apócrifo basándose en un jeroglífico pornográfico. Mientras, un implacable detective australiano llamado Harold Ferrell, se enfrenta al caso de su carrera recorriendo el globo en busca de un asesino. Y de otro. Y probablemente de otro más. Esta inquietante, divertida y laberíntica novela se inicia en las llanuras del desierto egipcio en 1922 y serpentea por los tugurios de Australia o los salones de baile de Boston, pasando por Oxford, los campos de batalla de la Primera Guerra Mundial y una turbulenta corte real. Y su mejor baza es que las dos tramas principales, aparentemente inconexas y rebosantes de intriga, confluyen en un final explosivo tan inevitable como sorprendente.

When Constance married Joseph Barton, she believed she had found the perfect husband. But after the troubled birth of their daughter Angelica, Constance begins to fear for her life and avoids her wifely duties.

In a gripping new novel, Queen Elizabeth's spymasters recruit an unlikely agent for a critical mission during a time of uncertainty in 1601. With the queen dying and no heir in sight, the kingdom is on edge, and any thought of her death is considered treasonous. As potential successors vie for position, King James VI of Scotland emerges as the leading candidate. However, the spymasters, seasoned veterans of England's long struggle against terror and religious extremism, suspect that James may not be the Protestant he claims to be. If he secretly adheres to Catholicism, it could undo decades of conflict and lead to chaos. Faced with this dilemma, Geoffrey Belloc, a seasoned operative from England's religious wars, devises a plan to uncover James's true beliefs. He recruits Mahmoud Ezzedine, a Muslim physician abandoned during the last Ottoman diplomatic mission, as his undercover agent. Ezzedine, an outsider desperate to return to his family, becomes the perfect candidate for this high-stakes mission. As the story unfolds, readers are drawn into a world of intrigue and deception, questioning the very nature of truth. Arthur Phillips crafts a unique and thrilling narrative that captivates and challenges at every turn.

Each song on Julian’s iPod, “that greatest of all human inventions,” is a touchstone. There are songs for the girls from when he was single, there’s the one for the day he met his wife-to-be, there’s one for the day his son was born. But when Julian’s family falls apart, even music loses its hold on him. Until one snowy night in Brooklyn, when his life’s soundtrack—and life itself—start to play again. Julian stumbles into a bar and sees Cait O’Dwyer, a flame-haired Irish rock singer, performing with her band, and a strange and unlikely love affair is ignited. Over the next few months, Julian and Cait’s passion plays out, though they never meet. What follows is a heartbreaking dark comedy, the tenderest of love stories, and a perfectly observed tale of the way we live now.

Five American expatriates living in Budapest in the early 1990s seek to establish themselves and make their fortunes in a city still haunted by the tragedies of its Communist past.