Rebecca Harding Davis

Alfonso Calderón Squadritto nació en el seno de una familia de emigrantes italianos radicados en Chile. Se formó en la “provincia” chilena, y en liceos y universidades de la educación pública. Desde muy pequeño desarrolló un hábito omnívoro por la lectura y por lo que él denominó “el vicio de escribir”. Perteneció a la generación literaria del 50 e incursionó en casi todos los géneros. Admirado como uno de los hombres más eruditos del país y de memoria prodigiosa, dejó sus escritos más personales para ser publicados después de su muerte. El miedo de olvidar es el...

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...

Entretenida y entrañable novela que recrea la aventura del primer peregrino del Camino de Santiago, y relata fielmente la vida del apóstol, Patrón de España.

Before becoming one of the longest-ruling dictators of the twentieth century, Francisco Franco commanded troops in the kinds of wars that have since become all too familiar. He not only waged vicious counterinsurgency campaigns against Muslim warlords and defiant tribes in Morocco, but he also led a multinational force to victory in Europe’s “dress rehearsal†for World War II—the Spanish Civil War. Born into a military family in 1892, Francisco Franco first made a name for himself leading attacks against rebellious Moroccan warlords and tribesmen and by 1926 was...