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Este libro, en el que nos encontramos con algunos de sus mejores textos, contiene doce cuentos en los que el amor, la tristeza y, muy especialmente, los libros y los libreros son los protagonistas.

La escritora escocesa Ali Smith es una de las autoras más destacadas de los últimos años en el Reino Unido y su Cuarteto estacional, uno de los proyectos más ambiciosos e inspiradores de la literatura europea actual. 

Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances? Ali Smith's remix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled and sold. It is about girls and boys, girls and girls, love...

En el presente, Sacha sabe que el mundo está en problemas. Su hermano Robert sólo es un problema. Su madre y su padre están teniendo problemas. Mientras tanto, el mundo está en crisis, y la verdadera debacle ni siquiera ha comenzado todavía. En el pasado, un verano encantador. Un Un hermano y una hermana diferentes saben que están viviendo en el tiempo prestado.

¿Qué une a Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, el Brexit, el presente, el pasado, un hombre de luto por los tiempos perdidos, una mujer atrapada en los tiempos modernos? La respuesta está en Primavera, una novela luminosa, generosa y llena de esperanza, en la que, al igual que en Otoño e Invierno, la autora escocesa está haciendo algo más que analizar las injusticias de nuestra época: nos ilumina el camino para salir de la pesadilla.

How to Be Both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving, genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of the 1460s. There's the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless, structural gets playful, knowing gets mysterious, fictional gets real - and all life's givens get given a second chance.

Brought to you by Penguin. O brave new world, that has such people in't. Once upon a time not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house. What does it mean? It’s a truism of our time that it’ll be the next generation...

Grief. Guilt. Gardening. And one very inconvenient crush. She came back to fix her life. She didn’t expect to inherit half a garden centre—and a love triangle. Jess Bennett thought she'd left small-town Ashcombe behind for good. But when her London life goes up in flames, she returns home to sort out her mum’s affairs… and discovers she’s now co-owner of Fletcher’s Garden Centre. Unfortunately, the other owner is Callum Fletcher—grumpy, buttoned-up, and inconveniently handsome. Even worse? His younger brother Jamie just joined the team, bringing charm, chaos, and smoothie-related flirtation.

Some stories deserve a second chance—even if it’s with your biggest rival. Grace Hampton plays by the rules. Paul Callaghan never even reads them. Once, they were the dream team of Sheffield Uni’s student paper—and a couple on the brink of forever. But when Grace landed the internship Paul wanted, he walked out of her life with a parting shot and a grudge the size of Fleet Street. Now, after a brutal media merger, the pair are forced to co-write a column neither of them wants… while sharing an office, a byline, and a history neither can ignore.

Dios había muerto: para empezar. Y el romanticismo había muerto. La gallardía había muerto. La poesía, la novela, la pintura, todas habían muerto, y el arte había muerto. El teatro y el cine habían muerto. La literatura había muerto. Muchísimas cosas habían muerto. Sin embargo, otras no habían muerto, de momento. La vida todavía no había muerto. La revolución no había muerto. La igualdad racial no había muerto. El odio no había muerto.

Seine Muse ist verschwunden. Sein Manuskript ein Chaos. Und seine einzige Hoffnung? Die Frau, die nicht mehr an Happy Ends glaubt. Lara Yates repariert beruflich Liebesgeschichten – doch sie selbst hat schon lange aufgehört, an sie zu glauben. Als scharfzüngige Lektorin weiß sie, dass Liebesromane einer Formel folgen und das wahre Leben selten das perfekte Ende bereithält. Bestsellerautor Rory Keane hingegen hat seine Karriere auf Happy Ends aufgebaut – bis ihn eine Schreibblockade lahmlegt. Die Deadline rückt immer näher und sein Buch droht zu scheitern.

"The crow crossed the sky, slow-beating her wings. Beat, beat, beat. It was night, not yet morning, and her feathers were so black that she coasted the air invisible above the city wall." Thus begins Ali Smith's retelling of Sophocles' tragedy, about a young Theban princess who decides to bury...

NOMINATED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE The unmissable finale to Ali Smith's dazzling literary tour de force: the Seasonal quartet concludes in 2020 with Summer In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile...

From the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet 'Artful is a revelation; a new kind of book altogether . . . it could have only been written by Ali Smith. An intimate study of grief that makes you glad to be alive' Jackie Kay 'Playful...

Lara Yates fixes love stories for a living, but she stopped believing in them a long time ago. As a sharp-tongued editor, she knows romance follows a formula, and real life rarely delivers the perfect ending. Bestselling author Rory Keane, on the other hand, has built his career on happily-ever-afters—until he hits a creative wall. With a deadline looming and his book falling apart, he needs help, and Lara is the only one who can whip his manuscript (and him) into shape.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Discover Ali Smith's dazzling, once-in-a-generation series, the Seasonal Quartet, a tour-de-force quartet of novels about love, time, art, politics, and how we live right now What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin...

As an only child reeling from the demolition of her parents’ toxic marriage, the New York City underground music scene offers a young Ali a different family of misfits and talented outsiders to belong to. She becomes the bass player for edgy band Speedball Baby, a decision that will take her around the world—from onstage at the legendary CBGBs to the red-light district of Amsterdam. She’s often the only girl in a broken-down tour van, being strip-searched at the Croatian border, chased by lunatics, and navigating the seedy underbelly of a male-dominated music scene.

Rachel Holmes is a high-powered PR exec with a laser focus on success. Her life revolves around landing the next big deal. Dan Rhodes used to be a soap opera star—now, he’s a single dad living a quiet life, far from the limelight. When a travel mix-up leaves Rachel stranded on the wrong side of the country, her plans for a career-defining pitch go up in smoke. Instead, she finds herself navigating an unexpected connection with the charming—but stubborn—Dan and his daughter, Chloe.

A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death *Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, New Statesman, Esquire and the New European* Franz...

I 1500-tallets England strejfer en forældreløs pige rundt. Det er mørke tider: epidemier raser, brutalitet og barbari råder. Pigen kommer i lære hos en kvindelig smed, og det er netop smedekunsten og et uventet venskab, der holder hende oppe. Femhundrede år senere har en ny epidemi ramt England og verden. Sandy Gray, en billedkunstner midt i livet, frygter at smitte sin skrøbelige far, der er indlagt efter et slagtilfælde. Derfor vil hun heller ikke se nogen mennesker, hun har i det hele taget besluttet sig for at melde sig ud af samfundet.