Initially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the security guard's smile.
The security guard adores babies. Perhaps...

Eduardo Mendoza's classic novel about the birth of Barcelona as a world city, embodied in the rise of the ambitious and...

At 3 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon in 1911, Oskar Johansson is caught in a blast in an industrial accident. The local newspaper...

In 1927, the great and the good of Paris gather at the funeral of the wealthy banker, Marcel Pericourt. His daughter, Madeleine,...

The journey had taken on its own momentum, it had become an autonomous, independent entity, she was searching for love, and was...

A polyphonic novel following the fortunes and failures of the inhabitants of a small Basque mining town over the course of forty...

In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, fifty prominent Nationalist prisoners are executed by firing squad. Among them is...

Lord of All the Dead is a courageous journey into Javier Cercas' family history and that of a country collapsing from a...

The year is 1903, and twenty-two years have passed since Astrid Hekne died in childbirth. Her son Jehans lives on a modest...

Norway, 1880. Winter is hard in Butangen, a village secluded at the end of a valley. The lake has frozen, and for months the...

When an Israeli tech exec disappears from Charles de Gaulle airport with a woman in red, logic dictates youthful indiscretion....

Refugee Camps In Africa Are Swelling

And Europe has closed its borders. The refugees have no future, no hope, and no money to...

Anthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value the collection of a Spanish duke. At a welcome lunch...

Nothing could please a chef more than a chance to learn the secrets of a Baron's castle kitchen. Having travelled the length and...

On the third day of Ramadan, the village wakes to find the severed heads of nine of its sons stacked in banana crates by the bus...

A beautiful, blistering life story told amid the wreckage of a car crash

I might no longer exist here at this moment
this...

Jean Daragane, writer and recluse, has purposely built a life of seclusion away from the Parisian bustle. He doesn't see many...

Two dead at the Adell house . . .

But nothing in the duty officer's report can prepare Melchor Marin for what he finds. A...

Lisbeth Salander's mentor and protector Holger Palmgren is dead, and she has been gone from Stockholm since his funeral. All...