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As an actress, Diana Quick was forever trying on the mask of other people's lives - raiding her own memory to service the character she was playing. Coming from a large, noisy family in Kent that seemed to be plain-speaking and straightforward, she was astonished to find on her beloved father's death that his childhood in India was far from idyllic. She was then thunderstruck to hear that he was to have a requiem mass. She had no idea he was Catholic. She discovered that his stepmother had got rid of him and his sister upon marrying his father and that he had grown up in almost total...

There is very scarce information on the author of this peculiar book, that many scholars consider initiated the British appetite for the Spanish colonies in South America. Accarette -as he calls himself- or Accarette du Biscay -as appears in the English translation of his story- seems to have been a French-Basque adventurer who traveled twice to South America between 1657 and 1660 under the false identity of a Spanish subject, as the Spanish regime would not allow non-subjects to disembark in its colonies. His most evident purpose -a fact Accarette does not hide- was the lucrative smuggling...

«Parece que no soy capaz de ser, si es que pretendo ser algo. No soy nada: un escritor que no escribe nada, salvo un diario. Un amante que no es capaz de amar. Un padre que no ejerce. Un marido lejano». Los diarios íntimos de Héctor Abad Faciolince pueden leerse como una novela de formación. Aquí se incluyen los que van desde finales de 1985 (cuando era un estudiante de 27 años) hasta la publicación de su libro más aclamado,El olvido que seremos, en 2006. En ellos se relatan las angustias de alguien que, aunque quería ser escritor, escribía muy poca ficción y mucho sobre sus...

En 1999 Estopa logró hacer historia al vender más de millón y medio de copias de su primer álbum. En los veinte años que han transcurrido desde entonces, David y Jose Muñoz han revolucionado el panorama musical español y latinoamericano, cosechando éxito tras éxito con cada nuevo disco. A través de las numerosas conversaciones y entrevistas con el reconocido periodista y crítico musical Jordi Bianciotto, David y Jose Muñoz hacen un completo repaso de su trayectoria profesional, desde sus primeras actuaciones improvisadas en la calle hasta los megaconciertos en los principales...