Don Quixote

Isabel Allende

'A magical storyteller' Daily Mail It is 18th century Saint Domingue, and Tété never knew her parents. All she knows is that her mother was a slave, and that her white father's identity will forever remain a mystery. As a child she is sold to the plantation-owner Toulouse Valmorain, and finds herself subjected to his unwanted attentions. Still, in spite of everything, she fin...

Isabel Allende

'Allende is a master storyteller at the peak of her powers' Los Angeles Times It is 1538 in Spain, and Inés' shiftless husband left her years ago. He had travelled to Chile to be a part of the new colonies; he didn't expect that Inés would be bold enough to follow him. Determined to leave her stifling homeland behind, Inés sets out on a journey to the New World. Soon after a...

Juan Gómez-Jurado / Gã3Mez-Jurado Juan

'As agile as a matador, Gómez-Jurado skilfully balances exhilarating thrills with the melancholy that is the price of Antonia's gifts' - The Times "I hope you haven't forgotten me. Shall we play?" Antonia Scott has an unusually gifted forensic mind. She's the lynchpin of a top-secret project, Red Queen, created to work across borders to solve the most devious and dangerous cr...

Juan Marsé

'Spain's finest contemporary novelist' Guardian 'Juan Marsé's contribution to European fiction has been consistently remarkable' Times Literary Supplement From one of Spain's most acclaimed authors, comes an extraordinary novel about ambition and longing set against the backdrop of post-war Barcelona. Teresa is everything he wants. She is beautiful, charming, rebellious, and...

Manni Coe

AN iPAPER BEST NEW BOOK OUT IN AUGUST 2025'Beautifully written and deeply moving' CLARE BALDING 'An important voice' CATHY RENTZENBRINK'I devoured it in a day . . . An open-hearted book' CLOVER STROUDThe Corner is a place where birds with broken wings will come to heal.Looking to begin a new chapter after years on the move, Manni Coe and his partner take a risk and buy 'The Cor...

Javier Cercas

"A father's worst nightmare - Melchor Marín's teenage daughter has disappeared. Years have passed since Melchor took revenge for his mother's murder and at last found peace with his daughter Cosette in the sleepy backwater of Terra Alta. But her idyll is shattered when one day Cosette, now seventeen, discovers that her father has been concealing the truth of her mother's death-...