Noviembre del 1944. Una bomba de la Luftwaffe está a punto de impactar contra la ciudad de Londres, truncando, en un solo instante, la vida de cinco niños.
Una tarda plujosa de novembre, un jove foraster de bona presència, tot just desembarcat, es presenta a la porta d?unes oficines al carrer Golden Hill: és el senyor Smith, amable, encisador, però estranyament propens a alimentar les...
Estamos todos tan de vuelta de todo, tenemos tanta información, tantas opiniones, tanta ironía. No es fácil escribir un ensayo que descoloque y escandalice, que presente una idea novedosa e inesperada. Spufford lo ha conseguido con...
When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole, his story became a myth embedded in the national imagination. Everyone remembers the doomed Captain Oates's last words: 'I'm just going outside, and I may be some time.'...
From the critically acclaimed and awardâwinning author of Golden Hill , an âextraordinaryâ¦symphonicâ¦casually stunningâ ( The Wall Street Journal ) novel tracing...
Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the twentieth-century magic called "the planned economy," which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the lands of capitalism could...
Britain is the only country in the world to have cancelled its space programme just as it put its first rocket into orbit. Starting with this forgotten episode, The Backroom Boys tells the bittersweet story of modern British engineers and inventors. Sad,...