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Travel journalism returns. In the 21st century the planet has been mapped, measured, photographed and explained down to the last detail. Is finding Terra Incognito, savouring something approaching a discovery an impossible task? Not for an exceptional reporter who follows in the wake of the great masters of literary journalism, from Robert B.
Oliver inherits a large colonial house in the coastal village of Suances, Cantabria. In renovating the house they find the squashed corpse of a baby, alongside something completely anachronistic.
Pedro Manuel Martín Lodares is a modern crusader. A crusader in an irrational world full of hatred, a crusader in the Spanish Civil War. Narrated by his nephew, the novel recounts the latter's memories of the stories his uncle told him and his sister about the experiences of his youth.
Honour, vengeance and fate. The Legend of the Samurai lashed by the wind. 'They were times in which the ocean tanned nations and tempered men'. Year 1600, Dámaso Hernández, sub-lieutenant of the Tercios, is sailing to the Philippines, where he hopes to prosper so as to gain the hand of the girl Constanza.
The fifth and, for the moment, last in the series of noir novels featuring Inspector Mascarell. December 1949, a small-time thief comes to the inspector asking for help to get him safely out of a monumental mess: he has stolen the briefcase of a supposedly English tourist who has just been murdered. Now they're after him. What is in the briefcase?
When the journalist Marta Vilas discovers the body of a driver floating in the Vigo harbour, she doesn't imagine that the small toy the murderer hid in his pocket is about to change her life. That click, from the first series of the discontinued Famobil, is the only thing that seems to tie this murder to that of the civil guard rescued by a fisherman in Cangas, at the other side of the river.
We don't choose our parents, or what we like, or what we're good at. We don't choose who we fall in love with… Or our enemies. we don't choose our talents, or weaknesses. We don't choose, so we don't choose even our sins. Or the country we're born in, or the name will be called by all the people we love, who we also do not choose. Life chooses us. And sometimes it doesn't even do that.
Sara is a young university student who is responsible, nervous and shy. She has only had one relationship in her life and at the moment she's not interested in men. Her life takes a 180 degree turn when she meets Abel. Abel is a cultured, intelligent man who knows how to listen and talk. Hard, but also warm. Mysterious, cold at times, loving at others.