Títulos en Coming of age

Ich war ein Echo aus Qual und Gehorsam, ein Schatten ohne Namen. Die Dunkelheit, in der ich so lange ausgeharrt habe … sie ist noch immer in mir. Ich wurde geboren, um zu gehorchen, denn ein Beta-Wolf zu sein, bedeutet, seinen Alpha zu unterstützen. Adrian Rinaldi, meinen dunklen Ritter, der mich führt, nicht benutzt. Der mich liebt, nicht schlägt. Er gab mir einen Namen, setzte die Scherben in mir Stück für Stück zusammen, bis ich wusste, wer ich bin. Ich bin Cameron Black.

A disturbing portrayal of privileged and immoral LA teenagers, Less Than Zero is a cult classic. In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Filled with relentless drinking in seamy bars and glamorous nightclubs, wild, drug-fuelled parties, and...

Con un lenguaje estético audaz que rompe los moldes tradicionales, Vimos casas hundirse es una novela «de iniciación a la disidencia amorosa, sexual y familiar, una reconstrucción sobre cómo el poder político y económico van tramando sus redes para enmarañar nuestro futuro. Una novela...

Magnolia, South Carolina, 1980: Austin Foster is barely a teenager when her mama dies giving birth to twins, leaving her to pick up the pieces while holding her six siblings together and doing her best to stop her daddy from retreating into his personal darkness.   

Sentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dream of becoming a writer is just a distant memory. With only the blossoming of the cherry trees to mark the passing of time, he spends his days in a tiny confectionery shop selling dorayaki, a type of pancake filled with sweet bean paste. Into his life comes Tokue, an elderly woman with disfigured hands and a troubled past. Tokue makes the best sweet bean paste Sentaro has ever tasted. She begins to teach him her craft, but as their friendship flourishes, social pressures become impossible to escape.

'Brilliantly written ... Twisty, dark and witty. A total page turner!' Karen Hamilton I know many things about Larissa. I know what she eats, which must-have brands she applies to her face, and the price of each carefully selected ‘piece’ in her multi-million-pound home in Belgravia. Because...

This audiobook is narrated with stunning authenticity by the author, Graeme Armstrong. The Times Top Ten Bestseller A Granta Best of Young British Novelist ‘Trainspotting for a new generation’ – Independent ‘An instant Scottish classic’ – The Skinny 2005. Glasgow is named Europe’s...

A haunting and tragicomic tale of the end of childhood, Annie John is told with Jamaica Kincaid’s trademark candour and complexity, and is a true coming-of-age classic. An adored only child growing up in Antigua, Annie has until recently lived a peaceful and content life. She is inseparable...

"El primer paso fue llevar la ciudad a la literatura, ahora la literatura se hace muro en una amalgama creativa". Mario Mendoza Hasta el momento en que su padre decide suicidarse, la vida de Marcos parece normal. Va al colegio, lee novelas de aventuras, tiene su grupo de amigos, de vez en cuando...

After Rita Racons fails her college’s required English course and her plans for a summer with friends are ruined, she loses all sense of direction. Until Rita heeds her free-spirited grandmother’s advice to get off their roof terrace and go out and find her place in the world. Boarding a plane from Barcelona to New York is just the beginning. Fate eventually lands Rita in Atlanta as an au pair with two questions: What is an au pair, and where the hell is Atlanta?

A los veinticuatro años, Fidel Centella se va de casa para compartir piso con tres amigos, apodados los Rayos. Es quizá el primer paso recto hacia la adultez, aunque la historia se centra en la desorientación de la juventud, así como en todo lo que nos pasa cuando no parece pasar nada, como aventuras mínimas en una vivienda caótica, corrupciones urbanas, dilemas sentimentales y hasta un conflicto familiar.

An evocative meditation on longing and buried resentment, set in the beautiful Croatian city of Zadar. Ivona has returned to her childhood home to care for her father. While there, she reconnects with the man she divorced over ten years ago and finds herself welcomed into his family life by him...

*A 'Most Anticipated Book of 2026' as selected by DAZED, THE NEW ARAB and LITHUB* 'Touching, infuriating and painfully true . . . [Strange Girls] demands to be read' Julia Armfield 'Captures the messy, tense and beautiful struggles where friendship meets longing . . . I envy whoever reads it...

"Monsters aren't real." That's what sixteen-year-old Lucy Brannigan has always believed, until, broke and desperate, she and her father move to an isolated farmhouse in the small Scottish town of Helsbridge. It's their last chance, and they have to make it work. For Lucy, life appears to be over. With no friends, and surrounded by miles of thick woodland, there's nothing to do. But why did the previous occupants leave their belongings behind?

Sardegna, anni cinquanta. In un entroterra rurale dove il tempo si misura per avvenimenti e per stagioni, una bambina, di nome Lellena, cresce ignorata dalla madre e senza un padre. Ultima di sette fratelli, sognatrice, sembra a tutti priva di voce: nulla ha da chiedere, nulla ha da spiegare. Un...

An unexpected tragedy leaves Professor Nathaniel Hunt a widower alone with a newborn baby. He hires a nanny. She’s young but well-qualified, with a simple life, a crazy name obsession, and a boyfriend she met at the grocery store.

High-school student Akari has only one passion in her life: her oshi, her idol. His name is Masaki Ueno, best known as one-fifth of Japanese pop group Maza Maza. Akari's dedication to her oshi consumes her days completely. She keeps a blog entirely devoted to him, religiously chronicling and analysing all his events. He is the spine of her life; she cannot survive without him. When Masaki is rumoured to have assaulted a female fan, facing waves of social media backlash, Akari's world falls apart.

A towering figure in the pantheon of twentieth-century literature, Thomas Mann has often been perceived as a dry and forbidding writer—"the starched collar," as Bertolt Brecht once called him. But in fact, his fiction is lively, humane, sometimes hilarious. In these fresh renderings of his best short work, award-winning translator Damion Searls casts new light on this underappreciated aspect of Mann's genius.

Alexis Spencer will use any inspirational quote to rationalize her failures and shortcomings. Her closest friends are a distant memory, and her college debt is still as high as the day she left. But that’s all fine and dandy, because “whatever will be, will be.” However, when Alexis loses her job and her relationship on the same day, there’s no quote strong enough to get her through that. In typical fashion, she blames the world for her problems, including her younger self, who should have tried harder.

Luca non ha neanche quattordici anni, ma ha una sensibilità silenziosa che lo rende diverso dai coetanei. Quando però lei scompare, e i carabinieri bussano alla loro porta, l'esistenza di Luca e dei suoi viene segnata per sempre. In un mondo diverso, lontanissimo da quello della sua infanzia, Luca prova a ricostruirsi, cresce e mette nuove radici, cercando di restituire un senso a parole come fiducia e appartenenza. A sostenerlo ci sono lo zio Umberto, che per lui dà tutto se stesso, e Flavia, una ragazzina determinata a fargli ritrovare la speranza nel futuro.