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From the pen of Henry Williamson, author of Tarka the Otter, comes the story of Salar - the ‘leaper’ - a five-year-old salmon returning to the stream of his birth. Salar’s migration through the rivers of Devon, surviving porpoises, seals, nets, fishermen, otters, poachers and weirs, is one of nature’s great journeys. Intense, brilliantly imagined and described from Salar’s point of view, this is a vivid and unsentimental picture of the people and wildlife of a river and its estuary. Originally published in 1935, Salar the Salmon combines Henry Williamson’s great talent as a writer with his insight as a naturalist.

El tiempo, en esta novela, fluye en dos direcciones: una, contra corriente, que es la que sigue el salmón en busca del lugar que le vio nacer. Otra, la del agua, que como la vida de Marieta avanza a trompicones mientras ella nos la cuenta. Malcasada en España por sus padres adoptivos, esta portorriqueña de origen se ha convertido en una profesora universitaria que, con ocasión de un congreso de su especialidad, regresa un día a San Juan de Puerto Rico.

El protagonista de estos cuatro relatos viaja a Barcelona, Río de Janeiro, Sao Paulo y Buenos Aires, recordando muchos años después de su regreso lo que encontró en estas ciudades. Es también un viaje espiritual a las profundidades humanas de este narrador que ansía desesperadamente sanar...

Yakov Blumkin claimed to have had nine lives. Born to a poor Jewish family and orphaned as a child, he was a Socialist Revolutionary, a terrorist, the assassin of the German ambassador Wilhelm von Mirbach, a poet close to the avant-garde, a member of Cheka, a military strategist, a secret agent, and Leon Trotsky’s secretary. Executed in 1929 on Stalin’s orders at the age of only twenty-nine, he has continued to inspire a powerful curiosity, and wild rumors and falsehoods about his extraordinary life abound today.

Una impactante parábola sobre una sociedad policial marcada por la censura de las palabras y la tiranía de las imágenes. En un mundo donde, a fuerza de pervertirlas, las palabras han perdido su significado, los niños se han hecho con el poder y han instaurado el silencio como norma. Junto a esa imposición han creado una religión de la imagen, cifrada en un monumental dispositivo que emite estímulos visuales sin descanso, y persiguen cualquier manifestación verbal o escrita.

Si el cuerpo es la frontera entre nosotros y el mundo, ¿cómo puede el cuerpo defendernos del horror? ¿Cuánto dolor puede soportar un hombre? ¿Puede el amor salvar a quien carece de esperanza? Éstas son algunas de las cuestiones implícitas en La ofensa, la historia de Kurt Crüwell, un joven sastre alemán a quien el estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial empujará a vivir una experiencia tan radical como insólita.

Two friends, read and chat about murder mysteries. We investigate a real-life case using advice from murder mystery authors. We review a book, find the sleuthing tips and hopefully, solve the case. We also crown our very own Queens of Crime, beyond Agatha Christie. And we have a feline sidekick, called Hercule. Come for the mystery, stay for the mischief...

The Terrible Business of Salmon & Dusk is a podcasted novel (of sorts). When Theodora Jones’s boyfriend disappears, she is the only person in the world who remembers him. Trying to find him leads her to the door of Salmon & Dusk (Detectives, thieves and time-travellers). Her life, your life and everyone else’s life will never be quite the same again. Written and read by Myke Bartlett. A Burnt Toast Production. Launches December 2023.

In this podiobook: Part film noir detective story, part fantasy adventure, part East End gangster tale, How to Disappear Completely concerns Theo Braithwaite, a failed actress and worse waitress, becoming involved in an unseen world populated by history's rejects and runaways from a secret society known as The Footmen. A stranger to London, waiting for life to come and find her, she is instead found by a part-time thief called Kilbey Salmon who, along with his rockabilly-obsessed partner, is attempting to eke out a living stealing things that have already been stolen and finding people who ...

Compared by critics to such masterful storytellers as Raymond Carver, Rick Bass, and Thom Jones, Elwood Reid, author of the acclaimed novel If I Don't Six, signals a powerful presence on the American literary landscape with his knockout story collection, What Salmon Know. Reid's characters are...

Translated for the first time into English, The Salmon Who Dared To Leap Higher by Ahn Do-hyun is a multi-million copy bestselling modern fable about finding freedom and a harmony with nature we have either forgotten or lost in the binding realities of life. The life of the salmon is a...

El jueves 11 de marzo del año 2004 la historia de un país llamado España cambió sin remedio. Esta novela narra cómo vivió aquella terrible jornada y cómo la reconstruyó más tarde sobre el papel un corrector, alguien que, obligado a enmendar los errores ajenos, se tropezó aquel día con una errata imborrable escrita sobre el libro de la realidad.

A celebration of adult literature and reading. The whole book industry, including booksellers, librarians and publishers, were invited come together and pick out their favourite titles to be included the final list of 25 books by authors from the UK and Ireland. The final list included fiction, poetry and memoirs, among others. There were some best sellers, some classics and some lesser known.