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For fans of The Midnight Library and In Five Years, The Unwritten Rules of Magic is a spellbinding novel that blends magic and memory in an unforgettable journey through love, grief, and the hidden cost of perfection across three generations of women. “[Narrator Mia] Hutchinson-Shaw does an...

Having a crush on her drop-dead-gorgeous boss could get Hopewell General intern Jaclyn Campbell fired... especially with the prestigious Virginia hospital reeling from a shocking scandal. But head resident Lucien De Winter is impossible to resist. And he’s arousing a healthy dose of desire as he wages an all-out war to make the sheltered Southern belle his own. Because Lucien knows that the only thing to cure his acute condition is a lifetime of love.

At nearly ninety, retired nature writer Hattie Bloom prefers the company of birds to people, but when a fall lands her in a nursing home she struggles to cope with the loss of independence and privacy. From the confines of her 'room with a view' - of the car park! - she dreams of escape. Fellow...

An impossible decision in the chaos of D-Day. Ripples that cascade seventy-five years into the present. And two lives transformed by the tenuous resolve to reach out of the darkness toward fragments of light. Cancer stole everything from Ceelie—her peace of mind, her selfimage, perhaps even...

Daisy’s had a tough year. After losing her mother and struggling with a job she hates, she really needs a break. So, when her boyfriend suggests a summer getaway, Daisy jumps at the chance, organising a romantic trip to her friend Clemmy’s new glamping site. What better to help her heal than long walks in the fresh air and sipping prosecco under the stars?     

Grey’s Anatomy meets Scrubs in this brilliant debut novel about a young doctor’s struggle to survive residency, love, and life. Having spent the last twenty-something years with her nose in a textbook, brilliant and driven Norah Kapadia has just landed the medical residency of her...

Acusada de robo, vive confinada en la casa de un extraño, lo que da pie a una reflexión profunda y muy íntima que la protagonista pone por escrito en un cuaderno dirigido a un destinatario concreto: su primer amor, y con este ejercicio confesional da cuenta de su vulnerabilidad ante los hombres que aparentan protegerla, pero que de modo inexorable la van anulando hasta cerrar sobre ella los muros de una prisión de la que solo podrá escapar por medio de las palabras.

Es probable que en la literatura mexicana no exista un personaje parecido a Ausencia Bautista Lumbres: huérfana y muy pobre en su infancia, acaudalada y autónoma a partir de que su padre adquiere una próspera mina y muere. Sin más dueño que sí misma, entre amantes y opulencia, y con la complicidad de la fiel Enedina, Ausencia se dedica a gozar de la vida y de su cuerpo eternamente joven sin consecuencias ni remordimientos, por lo que su conflicto viene de un lugar más profundo, de un cuestionamiento filosófico de la feminidad, de su existencia frente al otro.

En 1976, cuando Minotauromaquia obtuvo el Premio Xavier Villaurrutia, el medio literario mexicano se escandalizó por el arrojo con que la novela narra el desencuentro con uno de los protagonistas del universo intelectual ultramasculino de la época. Quizá lo más irritante haya sido la extraordinaria habilidad poética que Tita Valencia muestra en cada párrafo de esta novela profunda, estremecedora y honesta.