El Rugido Del Jaguar

Diana Mosley (née Mitford) had brains, beauty and charm, wealth and social position: she risked everything to follow the dark new creed of fascism when, at twenty-two, she fell in love with Oswald Mosley, the British fascist leader, and committed her life to his ideas. In Germany she became a friend of Hitler and Goebbels; by 1940, she was in a damp cell in Holloway prison. Jan Dalley's fascinating and undeceived biography cuts through the mythology that has been built up around the Mitford sisters and around the Mosleys and reveals the truth about both an extraordinary life and the web of...

Un parto se complica más allá de lo razonable; a una niña le diagnostican una enfermedad incurable que la tiene encamada durante más de un año; una adolescente es agredida por un extraño mientras pasea por el campo; el avión en el que una joven viaja a Asia se precipita al vacío; una mujer se salva por los pelos de ser atropellada. Estos son algunos de los episodios –sucedidos en distintos momentos de su vida y en diversos países– que Maggie O’Farrell recoge en este particularísimo libro autobiográfico. Diecisiete roces con la muerte, como los llama su autora, que pudieron...

A birth that doesn't go as expected; a kid diagnosed with an incurable disease that keeps her in bed for more than a year; a teenage girl attacked by a stranger while strolling around the countryside; a woman that escapes a fatal accident by a hair's breadth. These are some of the episodes that are collected in this astonishing and intimate memoir: seventeen grazes with death, as the author calls them, that could have ended up in disaster.

Bernie Eccleston, el gran magnate de la Fórmula 1, es un tipo esquivo, misterioso, incluso siniestro, en cuyas manos las carreras de coches han devenido un negocio de miles de millones. ¿Cómo llegó este vendedor de automóviles usados a convertirse en un m