Resultados Editorial "SAGA Egmont" en Ficción contemporánea

Visceral and poetic, these short stories reveal everyday miracles and trivialities, human desires and anxieties in a very recognizable reality. The woman who cooks soup for the lover whose fidelity she questions, the man who loses courage when faced with the birth of his child, the married couple who know they have embarked on their last summer together. In English for the first time, readers of Tove Ditlevsen and Tove Jansson will be thrilled to discover the debut short story collection of a celebrated Danish writer.

This is... Denise. Married to Ray, her first and only love, Denise has never, for one moment, regretted putting the husband she idolised on a pedestal above everyone and everything else. But, after forty years of marriage, he is gone, leaving Denise to discover that their perfect marriage was fatally flawed. Now she faces a future alone. But first, she must face the betrayals of the past. This is... Claire. The estranged daughter of Denise, the woman who put her husband before her children, Claire took the opposite path and devoted her life to raising her family, sacrificing.

Every morning, Kerry gets up, goes on her post-round, talks to the locals, and then goes home again. Once a month, she has Sunday lunch with her perfect sister’s perfect family. Life is simple, life is fine. Her sister, Beth, thinks Kerry is kidding herself. She thinks Kerry needs to move out of their parents’ annexe, find a better job, and maybe even meet a man. Beth is determined to make Kerry get a life... whether Kerry likes it or not. But Kerry knows something Beth doesn’t.

Tucked away in a near-derelict library in the center of London, The House of Marvellous Books is a publishing house on the brink of financial disaster. With assistant Ursula asleep at her desk, head publisher Gerard going health and safety mad, and chief editor Drusilla focused on finding a supposedly priceless but famously missing manuscript, there is hardly anyone left to steer the ship. Young Mortimer Blackley, assistant editor, charts the descent of the House in his logbook as it lurches from one failure to the next.

When their last embryo is accidentally given to another woman, Quinn and James reminisce about the child they gave up 4 years prior... All Quinn has ever wanted is to be a mother. Although her husband James brings her comfort, the knowledge they have no embryos left, and that their child is out there being raised by another family, is tearing them both apart. When the clinic tells Quinn and James they have the right to spend time with little Emily, at first they hesitate. Of course, they would never want to come between Emily and her loving family.

Three strangers all caught in the deep end... but can they help each other float through? After tragically losing her husband and being left a single mother to two children, Gabriella has only one escape for herself - swimming at a local London lido to clear her mind. A constant stream of both new and familiar faces visit the lido like Gabriella, but she doesn't suspect any are suffering quite like her until she meets Helen - who swims to escape her emotionless husband, and Ian - who feels lost in the deep end after becoming unemployed and unable to tell his husband.

"In the desert, no one can hear you, queen." Justin David’s newly-released novella is part creepy coming-of-age story, part black-comedy, set partly in buzzing 1990s London and partly in barren New Mexico wildlands. When Jamie meets Matthew in Soho, he’s drawn to his new-age charms. But when he follows his new friend across the planet to a remote earth-ship in Taos, bizarre incidents begin unfolding and Matthew’s real nature reveals itself: he’s a manipulative monster at the center of a strange cult.

An action-filled reimagining of the famous Greek myth, Jason and the Golden Fleece, brilliantly told by classicist Mark Knowles. He has come to take what is yours... Iolkos, Thessaly. 1230 BC. King Pelias has grown paranoid, tormented by his murderous past and a prophecy of the man who will one day destroy him. When a stranger arrives to compete in the Games of Poseidon, Pelias is horrified, for this young man should never have grown to manhood. He is Jason, Pelias' nephew, who survived his uncle's assassins as a child. Now Jason wants his revenge – and the kingdom.

Life in the spotlight was never going to be easy... Jess's life was turned upside down when her blog went viral. Now, with hundreds of thousands of followers, Jess is now navigating the trials and tribulations of a world online. Being a mummy blogger was originally an escape, but now it seems to be turning into a career. And after one wrong post on her social media channels, Jess discovers that life in the spotlight isn't always peachy.

"It was the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring... except a clot of blood, creeping up from Ted's leg to his brain, to kill him as he slept..." Recently widowed Philly keeps dreaming of her dead husband Ted – strange dreams of a paranormal alternate reality: why is her new husband Robbie so interested in them? He works for a mysterious genetic research company called Portal Inc. But what exactly is Robbie's job? Did he seduce Philly by feeding her experimental new drugs? Was Ted's death intended? Such suspicions make Philly doubt her own sanity.

"You go too far, my friend. You are near dangerous ground." Neil Fischer is travelling to a village in East Germany that he has unexpectedly inherited – his father’s former hometown of Marschwald. Knowing it has been left to deteriorate for decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Neil is determined to restore the derelict village to its former glory, as his demanding late father would surely have wanted. But when he arrives, he is met with hostility, mistrust and underlying menace.

"There is a fish on the sand; I see it clearly. But it is not on its side, lying still. It is partly upright. It moves. I can see its gills, off the ground and wide open. It looks as though it’s standing up." A few decades into the twenty-first century, in their permanently flooded garden in Cornwall, Cathy and her wife Ephie give up on their vegetable patch and plant a rice paddy instead. Thousands of miles away, ex-pat Margaret is struggling to adjust to life in Kuala Lumpur, now a coastal city. In New Zealand, two teenagers marvel at the extreme storms hitting their island.

"Address Book" is the new work of fiction by the Costa-shortlisted author of "Skin Lane". Neil Bartlett’s cycle of stories takes us to seven very different times and situations: from a new millennium civil partnership celebration to erotic obsession in a Victorian tenement, from a council-flat bedroom at the height of the AIDS crisis to a doctor’s living-room in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic, they lead us through decades of change to discover hope in the strangest of places.

"Du är en av de som får två liv i ett." Så hade astrologen sagt till Malin. Var det nu hennes andra liv började? Var det såhär hon skulle börja det, som singel och barnlös? Hon och Peter hade beslutat om ett halvårs prövotid, utan anledning egentligen, de visste båda att det tog slut för länge sedan. Sorgen finns där, sorgen över att det inte blev som hon tänkt. Men, hon har sin systerdotter Vera, hon har fina vänner, en bra karriär och hon bor i sitt drömhus. Dessutom är hon fortfarande snygg, inte ett enda grått hårstrå har hon.

If you keep dangerous secrets you’ll pay the ultimate price... In the South of France, playground of the rich and famous, world renowned chef Dexter Franklin is organising a night to remember. As he opens the doors to his exclusive restaurant for the first time, he’s handpicked a list of guests, as hot and dazzling as the St Tropez sun itself: Mew Stanton: Fashionable, beautiful and a notorious TV chef, Dexter’s ex-girlfriend has all the ingredients for success. As her books fly off the shelves, a secret from her past is about to surface with explosive consequences.

"What I did to them was terrible, but you have to understand the context. This was London, 2016." Bohemia is history. Paul has awoken to the fact that he will always be better known for reviewing haircuts than for his literary journalism. He is about to be kicked out of his cheap flat in east London and his sister has gone missing after an argument about what to do with the house where they grew up. Now that their mother is dead this is the last link they have to the declining town on the north-west coast where they grew up.

"- Sophia, vil du gifte dig med mig? spurgte Charles. - Jeg kan ikke, sagde hun stille. - Hvorfor dog ikke? - På grund af min bedstefars død... svarede hun. - Jamen, Sophia, selv om det er trist, et der vel ikke noget mærkeligt ved, at en gammel mand på over firs år dør? - Jo, hviskede hun. - Han blev formodentlig myrdet." Familien Leonides var engang en stor, lykkelig familie, som boede komfortabelt i et smukt hus i en af Londons fashionable forstæder. Men da Aristide Leonides døde, stod det klart, at et af familiemedlemmerne var morderen...

Nura är 25 år gammal och redan fyrbarnsmamma när hennes make kommer hem med flygbiljetter till ett land långt borta. Familjen ska fly det fattiga liv de lever som förtryckta kurder av stammen Bertyian i Turkiet och söka en bättre tillvaro i Sverige. I den här boken berättar Dilsa, ett av Nuras fyra barn, om denna livsomvälvande resa.

Den arbetslöse Erik Hammar har spenderat de senaste fem åren på sin bästa vän Johns soffa. Han har en jur.kand. i bagaget men lever helt utan ambitioner. Varför anstränga sig när det är mycket roligare att göra ingenting alls? En dag inser dock Erik att hans vänner och bekanta ser honom som ett enda stort misslyckande. Och när John dessutom får nog av sin inneboende, och kastar ut honom på gatan, leder det till ett bryskt uppvaknande.

MODELL OCH MAMMA MED HELA VÄRLDEN DÄREMELLAN. Emilia lever livet som fotomodell i New York när hon blir gravid och ställs inför ett ultimatum: karriär eller familj? Med bröstmjölkspumpen i handväskan flyger hon mellan blöjbyten i Sverige och internationella modelluppdrag på exotiska platser. Mellan det trygga äktenskapets fredagsmys och spännande flörtar på Manhattans exklusivaste cocktailpartyn. Emilia vill vara en närvarande mamma, en tillgiven fru och en duktig dotter för sin sjuka pappa – samtidigt som hon drömmer om att lyckas i den krävande modevärlden.