Secretos en la arena

La gran dama de las letras inglesas presenta una historia sobre los inextricables conflictos entre ambición, vida familiar y realización personal. «Una experiencia literaria abrumadora [...], una proeza intelectual.» Shashi Tharoor, The Washington Post Frederica, recién casada y madre de un niño de cuatro años, vive en la campiña inglesa, prisionera de un marido celoso de su pasado y de una vida que trunca todas sus ambiciones. Ante la imposibilidad de un acuerdo, huye a Londres con su hijo Leo, retoma el contacto con sus antiguos compañeros de Cambridge, consigue un puesto de...

Constantinopla, año 389. Una soleada mañana de marzo una larga comitiva sale de la iglesia de los Santos Apóstoles portando un féretro. Su destino, Carranque. A la cabeza, Achantia, la viuda, cumple la última voluntad de su marido: regresar a Hispania. Así comienza esta novela en la que Bernabé Mohedano recrea la vida y el larguísimo viaje de uno de los hombres más influyentes del Imperio y mano derecha del emperador Teodosio, Materno Cinegio, quien murió cuando iba a ser elevado a cónsul de Oriente. A su lado, durante su azarosa vida, junto a personajes de indeleble calado...

In 336 AD, Constantine leads the Roman Empire, and Christianity has become the official religion. Arius, accused of heresy after the council of Nicea, has regained the emperor's favor. But when he goes to receive the communion that will reintegrate him into the Church, he dies under mysterious circumstances. Gratus has been called upon by the emperor to investigate the death before it destroys the newly formed Church, but he must battle Constantine's demons as well as his own in order to solve the mystery. En 336 AD, Constantino gobierna el imperio romano y el cristianismo se ha convertido en ...

The road of Sandra Miller’s life is strewn with the corpses of those who loved her or simply got in her way. She was born in a small town in Maine on a stormy night with thunder and lightning sent by the devil himself. She was born to be bad, and yet her evil is hidden well beneath bright green eyes and a sexual presence no man can resist. She focuses on the so-called stronger sex, weaving a web of seduction until she catches her prey, and the road of her life has been strewn with the corpses of those who loved her—and those simply got in her way. She continues on her hellish path, even...