Viaje de reyes

Oxford, hoy en día. Kendra está escribiendo su tesis sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Así conoce a Isabel McFarland, una pintora que sobrevivió a los bombardeos del Blitz de Londres. Pero lo que parece una simple entrevista se convertirá en una historia llena de sorpresas. Londres, 1940. Mientras la ciudad queda reducida a escombros, cientos de niños son evacuados al campo. Es el destino de las hermanas Emmy y Julia Downtree. Un día, Emmy recibe una carta que le cambiará la vida: la señora Crofton le ofrece la oportunidad de convertirse en su aprendiz de costura. Diseñar ha sido...

Narrada en primera persona, esta novela nos cuenta cómo la vida de Lucrecia Borgia, a pesar de su inteligencia y su fuerza de voluntad, estuvo bajo el dominio de dos hombres tan ambiciosos como despiadados: su padre, el papa Alejandro VI, y su hermano César.

A colicky baby. A know-it-all in-law. What is that awful smell? The start of such an amazing family adventure is enough to send one exhausted Mom running… ...but only briefly, and only to the nearby lake shore, with its promise of solitude and serenity. Alas, even this temporary escape is ruined as her peaceful meditation turns into a thorough cataloguing of her parental shortcomings. She may never become the Supermom she pretends to be, but can she pull it together long enough to survive this vacation? Fans of Erma Bombeck and parents everywhere will appreciate this humorous, relatable...

Carlo and Margherita are a young couple who could be considered happy. A couple like many. Until the misunderstanding. This is how they begin to call a hint of doubt that is slowly eroding their marriage. Someone saw, someone warned, colleagues spoke, and the alleged betrayal ends up becoming a powerful alibi that opens the door to fantasies. Are we capable of not falling into the temptation of being unfaithful to our own feelings? Marco Missiroli tells it with a poignant and enveloping style, addressing the heart of her characters: he, she, the other. Ourselves. Get ready to read your own...