Transcription - Kate Atkinson

In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever.

Ten years later, now a producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence.

Transcription is a work of rare depth and texture, a bravura modern novel of extraordinary power, wit and empathy. It is a triumphant work of fiction from one of this country’s most exceptional writers.

The Force - Don Winslow

Detective sergeant Denny Malone leads an elite unit to fight gangs, drugs and guns in New York. For eighteen years he’s been on the front lines, doing whatever it takes to survive in a city built by ambition and corruption, where no one is clean.

What only a few know is that Denny Malone himself is dirty: he and his partners have stolen millions of dollars in drugs and cash. Now he’s caught in a trap and being squeezed by the FBI, and he must walk a thin line of betrayal, while the city teeters on the brink of a racial conflagration that could destroy them all.

Don Winslow’s latest novel is a haunting story of greed and violence, inequality and race, and a searing portrait of a city on the edge of an abyss. Full of shocking twists, this is a morally complex and riveting dissection of the controversial issues confronting society today.

El resto de sus vidas - Jean-Paul Didierlaurent

Ambrose es un buen chico, guapo y de buena familia. Sólo tiene un defecto: su trabajo consigue que todos estornuden…o salgan corriendo. Es embalsamador y lo sabe todo sobre cadáveres, sobre su reacción al oxígeno y al tiempo, e intenta mantenerlos en buen estado al menos hasta que pase el velatorio.

Ambrose conoce a Monelle, una cuidadora de ancianos, como Samuel, judío superviviente de un campo de concentración alemán, a quien se le ha detectado una enfermedad terminal. Por eso, decide marchar a Suiza para que le practiquen la eutanasia, y Ambrose y Monelle deciden acompañarle.

En ese alocado viaje que los llevará a los tres a recorrer Europa, Ambrose descubrirá que el diagnóstico de Samuel era equivocado y que la muerte del anciano no es, de momento, inminente.