Damnare silentium

On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a London crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days before they reached their current eminence: Clive is Britain's most successful modern composer, and Vernon is a newspaper editor. Gorgeous, feisty Molly had other lovers, too, notably Julian Garmony, Foreign Secretary, a notorious right-winger tipped to be the next prime minister. In the days that follow Molly's funeral, Clive and Vernon will make a pact with consequences that neither could ...

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Durante la Semana Santa de 1766 en Madrid se produce el «Motín contra Esquilache» aunque realmente iba dirigido contra el rey Carlos iii, viéndose el monarca obligado a desterrar al odiado ministro y a aceptar entre otras exigencias populares la bajada del precio del pan. Los tumultos culminan el 1 de abril de 1767 con la expulsión de España e Indias de casi cinco mil jesuitas, acusados de ser los auténticos promotores del motín. Antonio Valladares de Sotomayor, escritor y periodista, lleva a cabo una trepidante investigación, ayudado por Jérôme Chevalier, policía francés, para...

Three wise and witty novels of the sixties, sexuality, and the South by a New York Times–bestselling “strong, salty, original talent” (Doris Lessing). Kinflicks: “An ambitious, funny, lucid and unfailingly honest” coming-of-age novel set in the 1960s American South (The New Yorker). Tart-tongued Tennessean Ginny Babcock seems to live in an idyllic world—and her mother documents every moment for the family’s home movies. But mother’s “kinflicks” don’t capture everything about Ginny. Not by a long shot. Original Sins: In this “thoroughly endearing” novel, Sally, Emily, ...