La rebelión de las lentejas

Dictator, el cierre de la soberbia «Trilogía de Cicerón» de Robert Harris, una maestro de la novela histórica a la altura de Robert Graves, Mary Renault y Marguerite Yourcenar, nos sumerge en los últimos años de la vida de Cicerón y de la República romana. Roma, siglo I a.C. Un hombre. Unos ideales. Y el fin de una época. Hubo un tiempo en que Marco Tulio Cicerón tenía a Julio César en su mano; de haberla cerrado, lo habría destrozado. La fortuna, sin embargo, les ha llevado en direcciones opuestas: mientras su mayor enemigo marcha hacia el norte para tomar el mando de la Galia, ...

El relato ganador del primer concurso Flash Romántica. Una complicada historia de amor y aventuras. Había una vez, en un reino muy lejano, una princesa que no estaba dispuesta a casarse con cualquiera. Esto no es una historia de princesas como las que ya te han contado tantas veces. Un cuento diferente, donde la princesa lucha escribe su propio destino, se bate en duelo y es capaz de ver más allá de la magia.

Born November 5, 1884, in London, James Elroy Flecker received his education at Uppingham and Trinity College, Oxford. He joined the Consular Service in 1908, was posted to Constantinople in 1910, and from 1911 to 1913 Flecker served as vice-consul at Beirut.These appointments reinforced his life-long love for the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Suffering from tuberculosis, he moved to Switzerland where he died January 3, 1915. Influenced both by his classical education and by his experiences in the Orient, he published five books of poetry, The Bridge of Fire (1908), Thirty-six Poems...

A spellbinding novel that will resonate with readers of Mark Haddon, Louise Erdrich, and John Irving, Perfect tells the story of a young boy who is thrown into the murky, difficult realities of the adult world with far-reaching consequences. Byron Hemmings wakes to a morning that looks like any other: his school uniform draped over his wooden desk chair, his sister arguing over the breakfast cereal, the click of his mother's heels as she crosses the kitchen. But when the three of them leave home, driving into a dense summer fog, the morning takes an unmistakable turn. In one terrible moment,...