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A collection of chilling tales, ironic, unsettling, imbued with dread and with droll humour A dapper Paris doctor dispenses a treatment for dissatisfied wives. A mother auditions for her first porn movie. A writer working on a study of pain makes himself the subject of his experiments. A voyeur mistakes a murderer for a fellow peeping tom ... these are some of the characters observed by the narrator of these chilling stories. Ironic, unsettling, imbued with dread and with droll humour, Javier Marias' short tales cast a shrewd, sardonic eye on humanity.

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Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me is a gripping and moving meditation on the hold that the dead have over the living, by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. Victor, a ghostwriter, is just about to have an affair with Marta, a married woman, when - in the bedroom, half-undressed - she drops dead in his arms. He panics and slips away. But Marta's family are all too aware that she was not alone when she died, and Dean, the widowed husband, is determined to find out who was sharing her bed that night. Victor, accustomed to a life of pretending, finds that he cannot live in the shadows forever.

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The Infatuations is a critically acclaimed novel by the great Spanish writer Javier Marias. Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same cafe. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there, and she feels obscurely bereft. It is only later, when she comes across a newspaper photograph of the man, lying stabbed in the street, his shirt half off, that she discovers who the couple are. Some time afterwards, when the woman returns to the cafe with her children, who are then collected by a different man, and Maria approaches her to offer her condolences, an entanglement begins which sheds new light on this apparently random, pointless death. With The Infatuations, Javier Marias brilliantly reimagines the murder novel as a metaphysical enquiry, addressing existential questions of life, death, love and morality.

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'I am myself my own fever and pain' Jacques Deza has been told he has a gift: he can see through people; guess just from their faces what will become of them. When he encounters the enigmatic Bertram Tupra at a party, Deza is persuaded to join a mysterious underground group. His task: to observe an assortment of people - politicians, celebrities, seemingly ordinary citizens - and predict their next move. But where will Deza's descent into this twilight world eventually take him? The first part of Javier Marias' masterly trilogy asks how well we truly know and understand those around us.

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A thrilling new literary offering from the acclaimed author of The Infatuations and A Heart So White 'For a while, she wasn't sure that her husband was her husband. Sometimes she thought he was, and sometimes not...' Berta Isla and Tomas Nevinson meet in Madrid. Young and in love, they quickly decide to spend their lives together - never suspecting that they will grow to be total strangers, both living under the shadow of disappearances. Tomas, half-Spanish and half-English, has an extraordinary gift for languages and accents. Leaving Berta to study at Oxford, he catches the interest of a certain government agency, and its mysterious agent, Bertram Tupra. Tomas is determined to evade the agent's attentions but his fate is sealed by an escalating series of events that will affect the rest of his life - and that of his beloved Berta. Finishing his time at Oxford, he returns to Madrid to marry her, already knowing that the life they planned has been lost forever. Darkly gripping, Berta Isla examines a relationship condemned to secrecy and concealment, to pretence and conjecture, to resentment mingled with loyalty. With meticulous insight and understanding of the human soul, Marias examines the urge to change our destiny, and the hopeless exile we bring upon ourselves.

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Tras la aclamadaBerta Isla, llegaTomas Nevinson. Una intriga absorbente sobre quienes nunca olvidan. Uno De Los Mejores Libros De 2021 Segunel Cultural,Babelia, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, El Huffposty Gq Novela Ganadora Del Premio Gregor Von Rezzori - Ciudad De Florencia "Quiza sea la mejor de cuantas Javier Marias ha publicado hasta ahora." Jose-Carlos Mainer,El Pais "Yofuieducado a laantigua, ynuncacrei que mefueran aordenar undia quematara aunamujer. A lasmujeres no se lastoca, no se lespega, no se leshacedano..." Dos hombres, uno en la ficcion y otro en la realidad, tuvieron la oportunidad de matar a Hitler antes de que este desencadenara la Segunda Guerra Mundial. A partir de este hecho, Javier Marias explora el enves del "No mataras". Si esos hombres quiza debieron disparar contra elFuhrer, ?cabe la posibilidad de hacerlo contra alguien mas? Como dice el narrador deTomasNevinson, "ya se ve que matar no es tan extremo ni tan dificil e injusto si se sabe a quien". Tomas Nevinson, marido de Berta Isla, cae en la tentacion de volver a los Servicios Secretos tras haber estado fuera, y se le propone ir a una ciudad del noroeste para identificar a una persona, medio espanola y medio norirlandesa, que participo en atentados del IRA y de ETA diez anos atras. Estamos en 1997. El encargo lleva el sello de su ambiguo ex-jefe Bertram Tupra, que ya, mediante un engano, habia condicionado su vida anterior. La novela, mas alla de su trama, es una profunda reflexion sobre los limites de lo que se puede hacer, sobre la mancha que casi siempre trae la evitacion del mal mayor y sobre la dificultad de determinar cual es ese mal. Con el trasfondo de episodios historicos de terrorismo, Tomas Nevinson es tambien la historia de que le sucede a quien ya le habia sucedido todo y a quien, aparentemente, nada mas podia ocurrir. Pero, mientras no terminan, todos los dias llegan... Lacritica hadicho: "Imposible decidir si es su mejor novela; es, en todo caso, una de las que mas van a atraer." J. A. Masoliver Rodenas,La Vanguardia "Siempre que leo a Marias tengo la sensacion que estoy escuchando una sinfonia." Julia Navarro,Hoy por Hoy "Una historia poderosa con un pulso gigantesco. [...] Una asombrosa reproduccion de la realidad. [...]La novela es brutal." Antonio Lucas,El Mundo "Me gustaria estar en la piel de alguien que todavia no haya leido la ultima novela de Javier Marias y le este esperando en una libreria. Menudo festin le aguarda." Jose Carlos Llop,The Objective "Marias escribe como siempre, como nadie, [...] porque esta a otra cosa, a elevarnos, a hacer #por que no# con nosotros lo que Shakespeare hizo con su tiempo y las gentes de su tiempo." Alberto Olmos,El Confidencial "Su novela definitiva." Karina Sainz Borgo,Vozpopuli "Aqui esta Javier Marias reflexivo, el ironico, el comediante, el severo, [...] el romantico y el pesimista sin aspavientos. [...]Ojala la disfruten tanto como yo." Manuel Rodriguez Rivero,Babelia "Extraordinaria." Nadal Suau,El Cultural

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Premio de la Critica - Premio Dulce Chacon de Narrativa Espanola - Premio Lettura 2018 deIl Corriere della Sera (Italia) Mejor libro del ano segunBabelia (El Pais). Seleccionado entre los mejores libros del ano en ABC Cultural y La Vanguardia y recomendado por El Periodico y La Razon. Un dia cualquiera, "un dia estupido", condicionara el resto de su existencia. Berta Isla es la envolvente y apasionante historia de una espera. "Durante un tiempo no estuvo segura de si su marido era su marido. A veces creia que si, a veces creia que no, y a veces decidia no creer nada y seguir viviendo su vida con el, o con aquel hombre semejante a el, mayor que el. Pero tambien ella se habia hecho mayor por su cuenta, en su ausencia, era muy joven cuando se caso. " Muy jovenes se conocieron Berta Isla y Tomas Nevinson en Madrid, y muy pronta fue su determinacion de pasar la vida juntos, sin sospechar que los aguardaba una convivencia intermitente y despues una desaparicion. Tomas, medio espanol y medio ingles, es un superdotado para las lenguas y los acentos, y eso hace que, durante sus estudios en Oxford, la Corona ponga sus ojos en el. Un dia cualquiera, "un dia estupido" que se podria haber ahorrado, condicionara el resto de su existencia, asi como la de su mujer. Berta Isla es la envolvente y apasionante historia de una espera y de una evolucion, la de su protagonista. Tambien de la fragilidad y la tenacidad de una relacion amorosa condenada al secreto y a la ocultacion, al fingimiento y a la conjetura, y en ultima instancia al resentimiento mezclado con la lealtad. O, como dice una cita de Dickens hacia el final del libro, es la muestra de que "cada corazon palpitante es un secreto para el corazon mas proximo, el que dormita y late a su lado". Y es tambien la historia de quienes quieren parar desgracias e intervenir en el universo, para acabar encontrandose desterrados de el. Resenas: "Una novela maravillosa. [...]Berta Isla recuerda por que la ficcion, en manos de sus mejores practicantes, sigue siendo la unica forma de conocernos cabalmente." Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Babelia "Marias ha dado una extraordinaria vuelta de tuerca a su propia obra, alcanzando una precision, y emocion, y misterio, como hoy uno no encuentra en buena parte de sus contemporaneos. Soberbia." Fernando R. Lafuente, ABC Cultural "Marias ha forjado una obra maestra [...]. La gran literatura vuelve a estar escrita en espanol, para privilegio nuestro." Jose Maria Pozuelo Yvancos, ABC Cultural "Creo queBerta Isla es una de las mejores -quiza la mejor- novelas de Marias. [...] Admiro su capacidad para ahondar en lo mas recondito del ser humano." Julia Navarro, ABC Cultural "Berta Isla es una de las mas complejas y atrevidas novelas del autor y, sin duda, la mas inquietante y desolada." Jose-Carlos Mainer, Babelia "La autenticidad, sumada al talento narrativo, es una de las grandes virtudes de Marias. Berta Isla es un magnifico ejemplo." J. A. Masoliver Rodenas, La Vanguardia "Lo que cabe en Berta Isla somos nosotros. Aquello que nos impulsa y que nos duele. Lo que no sabemos, pero sospechamos." Antonio Lucas, El Mundo "De nuevo Javier Marias ha fraguado una novela excepcional. Como instalado en una altisima cota de calidad literaria, el talento del escritor no desfallece ni se conforma con los caminos ya explorados." Domingo Rodenas, El Periodico

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Spain in the 1990s is beset by a simmering campaign of terror from Basque separatists ETA, with periodic atrocities shattering an illusory calm. Against this backdrop, retired British Secret Service member Tomas Nevinson - now living a quiet life in his hometown Madrid - is approached by his sinister former handler, Bertram Tupra, with an offer to bring him back in from the cold, for one last assignment: a favour for Tupra, for old times' sake, which is also a favour for a powerful Spanish friend. His mission: to go back undercover, in a small Spanish town, to find out which of three women who moved there a decade ago is in fact an ETA terrorist, on loan from the IRA, now on the run and living there incognito. Everything about the assignment is shadowy - from who exactly Nevinson will be working for to the question of what 'justice' he may need to mete out if he is somehow able to unmask one of the three women. But, still in his forties and lured by the appeal of once again being on the inside, he accepts the job. As he gets closer to the three women, his task becomes ever harder. How - or who - to choose between these three? Intimately involved with each of them, as lover, colleague or friend, he can find no firm clue to resolve the question. But under increasing pressure from his paymasters, choose - and act - he apparently must… Charting a world where right and wrong, and good and evil, are irreparably blurred, Javier Marias takes us on a journey of rare and unforgettable suspense in this, the final novel written before his untimely passing in 2022.

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All Souls is a compelling black comedy of Oxford life by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by John Banville, author of The Sea. The pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracts many eyes at an Oxford college dinner, not least those of a visiting Spanish lecturer (desperate to escape his conversation with an obese economist about an eighteenth-century cider tax). As they begin an affair, meeting in hotel bedrooms away from the eyes of Clare's husband, the Spaniard finds himself increasingly drawn into the strange world of Oxford, 'one of the cities in the world where the least work gets done', in a story of lust, loneliness, vanity and memory. Filled with brilliant set pieces and pin-sharp observation, All Souls is a masterpiece of black humour.

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Dark Back of Time is a compelling story of the way in which reality blurs into fiction by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. It is translated by Esther Allen in Penguin Modern Classics. 'We lose everything because everything remains except us', says the mysterious narrator of this extraordinary novel, which meditates on the transience, chance and fragility of life. As a man called Javier Marias recalls the strange events and people that shaped his past, including ghostly literary figures, a pilot, an adventurer, a brother who died as a child and the king of an island in the Caribbean, we begin to question the nature of time, memory and reality itself. Here the writer is both a keeper of memories and a purveyor of illusions, destined to be lost in the dark back of time. Javier Marias was born in Madrid in 1951. He has published ten novels, two collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into thirty-two languages and won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White. He is also a highly practised translator into Spanish of English authors, including Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Thomas Browne and Laurence Sterne.

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'Fear is the greatest force that exists, as long as you can adapt to it' Jacques Deza has been recruited into an undercover spy network by the inscrutable Bertram Tupra. But when he is forced to witness an act of horrifying brutality in a night-club, he finds himself falling apart, haunted by his own memories of the bloodshed of the Spanish Civil War. As Deza tries to disentangle himself from an increasingly disturbing world, the second volume in Javier Marias' magnificent trilogy explores violence, corruption and what we are capable of.

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'For personal reasons, or for reasons I don't know myself, I began feeling old, and I began keeping notebooks. I was nearing the age of sixty' Georges Simenon's autobiographical notebooks, in which he recorded his observations, experiences, anxieties and 'all the silly ideas that pass through my head', are one of the most candid self-portraits of a writer ever put to paper. Here, as the celebrated author ruthlessly examines his tortuous writing methods, his past, his fame, his intimate relationships and his fears of ageing, the result is an unsparing, often painfully revealing insight into a man trying both to find and to escape himself.

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''Do you ever wonder if you've lived the life you were meant to?' I ask her. She sighs, and dips her head. 'Even if I do, what difference will it make?' In 1988, two eight-year-old girls with almost identical names and the same love of ballet meet for the first time. They seem destined to be best friends forever and to become professional dancers. Years later, however, they have both been dealt so many cruel blows that they walk away from each other into very different futures - one enters a convent, the other becomes a minor celebrity. Will these new, 'invisible' lives be the ones they were meant to live, or will they only find that kind of salvation when they are reunited twenty years later?

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A Heart so White is the breathtaking international bestseller and IMPAC Award-winning masterpiece by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by Jonathan Coe. A Heart so White begins as, In the middle of a family lunch Teresa, just married, goes to the bathroom, unbuttons her blouse and shoots herself in the heart. What made her kill herself immediately after her honeymoon? Years later, this mystery fascinates the young newlywed Juan, whose father was married to Teresa before he married Juan's mother. As Juan edges closer to the truth, he begins to question his own relationships, and whether he really wants to know what happened. Haunting and unsettling, A Heart So White is a breathtaking portrayal of two generations, two marriages, the relentless power of the past and the terrible price of knowledge.

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A gorgeous lyrical book celebrating the beauty in the world, no matter how old you are. This visually stunning book is a celebration of the special bond between a grandparent and child as they share the magic, joy and love in the world, both past and present. There is magic in everything. The world is a spinning star, No matter how old you are. This book brings together two of the most exciting talents in children's books - Andy Stanton and David Litchfield. Andy Stanton is the bestselling author of MR GUM and David Litchfield is the award-winning illustrator of THE BEAR AND THE PIANO.

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When I was a boy, I had a favourite treat. It was when my mum made . . . Chocolate cake! Ohhh! I loved chocolate cake. Fantastically funny and full of silly noises, this is Michael Rosen's love letter to every child's favourite treat, chocolate cake. Brought to life as a picture book for the first time with brilliant and characterful illustrations by Kevin Waldron.