The Bricks that Built the Houses: the Sunday Times Bestseller by Kate Tempest
Becky, Harry, and Leon are leaving London in a fourth-hand Ford with a suitcase full of stolen money. In a mess of tangled loyalties and impulses. But can they truly leave the city that’s in their bones?
Kate Tempest’s novel reaches back through time–through […]
Esco a fare due passi: il primo libro di Fabio Volo. Un ottimo libro per chi desidera distendersi in una lettura leggera,realistica e divertente.
Nico, 28 anni, un lavoro da deejay, un discreto successo con le donne, è il protagonista di questo libro.
Affetto da una inguaribile sindrome di Peter Pan, si cimenta con i grandi temi […]
«The Last Photograph» by Emma Chapman. Evocative, harrowing…tackless love and war with aplomb
He walks into the living room and June is dead.
He centres her, checking the light. Focusing, he clicks the shutter.
He’ll ask himself later, if he knew. It’s easy to say that he had acted without thinking, out of instinct.
Rook Henderson is an award-winning […]
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley in Linguae Girona
1883. Thaniel Steepleton returns home to his tiny London apartment to find a gold pocket watch on his pillow. Six months later, the mysterious timepiece saves his life, drawing him away from a blast that destroys Scotland Yard. At last, he goes in search of […]
I almost forgot about you the new book by Terry McMillan.
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting To Exhale is back. With the inspiring story of a woman who shakes things up in her life to find greater meaning
In «I Almost Forgot About You», Dr. Georgia Young’s wonderful life–great friends, family, and […]
The Handmaid’s Tale: the bestseller book from Margaret Atwood.
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead.
She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on […]
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: House Edition. The special edition for 20 Years in Linguae Bookshop Girona
Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw …
Twenty years ago these magical words and many more flowed from a young writer’s pen, an orphan called Harry Potter was freed from the cupboard under the stairs – and a global phenomenon started. Harry […]
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler: Brilliant, funny, sad and sensitive.
Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is grounded by loneliness and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts. Till he meets Muriel, a deliciously peculiar dog-obedience trainer who up-ends Macon’s insular worl. And thrusts […]
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski: he brought everyone down to earth, even the angels.
In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled […]
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri: The Number One New York Times Bestseller.
These eight short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri are quiet, penetrating, and meticulously written. The first five stories are distinct, while the last three are interrelated. Lahiri’s prose seems so clean and precise that it is very easy to turn page after page. Each story […]
