The Magic Finger

Autor: Roald Dahl Editorial: Puffin Books, 2022 Nº de págs.: 56 Resumen: Every saturday morning the Gregg family goes off to shoot animals and birds. But the girl who lives next door hates hunting. Now it’s made her so angry that she’s PUT THE MAGIC FINGER ON THEM ALL. And very strange things have begun to happen…

 

The Enormous Crocodile

Autor: Roald Dahl Editorial: Puffin, 2016 Nº de págs.: 58 Resumen: The Enormous Crododile is planning what to have for his lunch. This foul fiend, wants to eat something juicy and delicious. His teeth sparkle like knives in the sun and he’s getting hungrier and hungrier. But what can the greedy, grumptious brute guzzle up? Beware! He’s looking for someone… someone that looks a lot like you…

 

The Night Portrait

Autor: Laura Morelli Editorial: One More Chapter, 2020 Nº de págs.: 455 Resumen: Milan, 1492: When a 16-year old beauty becomes the mistress of the Duke of Milan, she must fight for her place in the palace – and against those who want her out. Munich, World War II: After a modest conservator unwittingly places a princeless Italian Renaissance portrait into the hands of a high-ranking Nazi leader, she risk her life to recover it.

 

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Autor: Anthony Doerr Editorial: 4th Estate, 2021 Nº de págs.: 626 Resumen: Doerr has created a tapestry of times and places that reflects our own vast interconnectedness – with other species, with each other, with those who lived before us and those who will be here after we’re gone. Dedicated to “the librarians, then, now, and in the years to come”.

 

The Skylark's Secret

Autor: Fiona Valpy Editorial: Lake Union, 2020 Nº de págs.: 303 Resumen: Loch Ewe, 1940. When gamekeeper’s daughter Flora’s remote highland village finds itself the base for the Royal Navy’s Arctic convoys, life in her close-knit community changes forever. In defiance of his disapproving father, the laird’s son falls in love with Flora, and as tensions build in their disrupted home, any chance of their happiness seems doomed.

 

The House at Silvermoor

Autor: Tracy Rees Editorial: Quercus, 2020 Nº de págs.: 490 Resumen: England, 1899. Josie has never questioned her life in a mining village on the South Yorkshire coalfield. But everything changes when she meets Tommy from the neighbouring village. Tommy has been destined for a life underground since the moment he was born. But he has far bigger dreams.

 

The Book of Lost Names

Autor: Kristin Harmel Editorial: Welbeck, 2021 Nº de págs.: 453 Resumen: In 1942, Eva is forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her Jewish father. Finding refuge in a small town, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children escaping to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with Rémy, a mysterious forger, Eva realises she must find a way to preserve the identities of those too young to remember.

 

The Winter Sea

Autor: Susanna Kearsley Editorial: Simon & Schuster, 2020 Nº de págs.: 509 Resumen: 1707. On the passing of the uncaring uncle, a distant relative offers orphan Sophia Paterson what she longs for most: a home. Slains Castle, on the rugged Scottish coast. Present day. Enchanted by the ruins of the castle, Carrie McClelland settles in the nearby village, hoping to turn this all-but-forgotten story into her next novel.

 

The House in the Cerulean Sea

Autor: T.J. Klune Editorial: Tor, 2021 Nº de págs.: 400 Resumen: Linus Baker leads a quiet life. At forty, he has a tiny house with a devious cat and his beloved records for company. One day, Linus must travel to an orphanage where six dangerous children reside. There, their guardian Arthur Parnassus, will do anything to protect his wards. As Arthur and Linus grow ever closer, Linus must choose between duty and his dreams.

 

The Maidens

Autor: Alex Michaelides Editorial: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022 Nº de págs.: 360 Resumen: The Maidens are Cambridge University’s most exclusive society, whose members are selected by the charismatic profesor of Greek tragedy, Edward Fosca. When one of the Maidens is murdered, grieving young therapist Mariana Andros is drawn back to the idyllic campus where she was once herself a student...

 

Hamnet

Autor: Maggie O’Farrell Editorial: Tinder Press, 2020 Nº de págs.: 372 Resumen: Hamnet is a novel inspired by the son of a famous playwright. It is a story of the bond between twins, and of a marriage pushed to the brink by grief. Above all, it is the tender reimagining of a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, but whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays ever written.

 

Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief

Autor: Rick Riordan Editorial: Puffin, 2013 Nº de págs.: 374 Resumen: Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a greek god. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. Now I spend my time battling monsters and generally trying to stay allive.

 

The Twelve Tasks of Flavia Gemina

Autor: Caroline Lawrence Editorial: Orion, 2015 Nº de págs.: 213 Resumen: Flavia is suspicious of the new woman in her father’s life, Cartilia Poplica. She’s certain that Cartilia has an ulterior motive, but to find out the truth Flavia must perform twelve tasks – like the Greek hero Hercules. Mystery and adventure for four young detectives in Ancient Roman times...

 

Troubled Blood

Autor: Robert Galbraith Editorial: Sphere, 2020 Nº de págs.: 929 Resumen: Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough, who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974. Despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on.

 

The Flight Portfolio

Autor: Julie Orringer Editorial: Vintage, 2019 Nº de págs.: 562 Resumen: Marseille, 1940. Varian Fry, a Harvard-educated journalist and editor, arrives in France. Recognizing the darkness descending over Europe, he and a group of like-minded New Yorkers formed the Emergency Rescue Committee, helping artists and writers escape from the Nazis and immigrate to the United States.

 

The Mirror & The Light

Autor: Hilary Mantel Editorial: 4th Estate, 2020 Nº de págs.: 883 Resumen: England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith’s son from Putney emerges from the spring’s bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour...

 

The Long Flight Home

Autor: A. L. Hlad Editorial: Hodder, 2019 Nº de págs.: 378 Resumen: As enemy fighter planes blacken the sky, Susan Shepherd finds comfort at her home in Epping Forest, where she and her gandfather raise homing pigeons. Thousands of miles away, Ollie Evans, a young American pilot decides to travel to Britain to join the Royal Air Force. But Ollie doesn’t expect his quest to bring him instead to the National Pigeon Service – a covert new operation involving homing pigeons – and to Susan.

 

The Bastard of Istanbul

Autor: Elif Shafak Editorial: Penguin, 2019 Nº de págs.: 363 Resumen: Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. All the Kazanci men die in their early forties, victims of the mysterious family curse, so it is a house of women. Among them comes Asya’s feisty American cousin, and she’s bringing long-hidden family secrets, connected with Turkey’s turbulent past…

 

The Searcher: A Novel

Autor: Tana French Editorial: Viking, 2020 Nº de págs.: 451 Resumen: Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a remote Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force, and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But then a local kid comes looking for his help. Against his will, Cal discover that even in the most idyllic small town, secrets lie hidden, people aren’t always what they seem, and trouble can come calling at his door. Enlace a reseña

 

Love Is Blind

Autor: William Boyd Editorial: Penguin, 2019 Nº de págs.: 370 Resumen: Around the turn of the twentieth century young pianist Brodie Moncur quits Edinburgh's slate skies for the lights of Paris, his preacher father's words of denunciation ringing in his ears. There he joins forces with the fiery Irish virtuoso John Kilbarron and together the pair take Europe by storm...