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After university and Sandhurst, Charles Thoroughgood has now joined the Assault Commados and is on a four-month tour of duty in Armagh and Belfast. The thankless task facing him and his men -- to patrol the tension-filled streets through weeks of boredom punctuated by bursts of horror -- takes them through times of tragedy, madness, laughter and terror. Alan Judd tells Thoroughgood's tale with verve, compassion and humour. The result is an exceptionally fine novel which blends bitter human incident with army farce.

"Un acontecimiento literario de altísima importancia". Así define este descubrimiento editorial el presidente de la Real Academia Galega, Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín, en el prólogo a "Bretemada", el poemario inedito de Gonzalo Lopez Abente (Muxia, 1878-1963) el escritor a quien, hace precisamente 40 años, en 1971, se le dedicaba el "Dia das Letras Galegas". El libro contiene un total de cien poemas. "Bretemada" es una metonimia de Galicia.

Atticus O´Sullivan, last of the Druids, has a peaceful life running an occult bookshop in Arizona. His neighbours and customers think that this handsome, tattooed Irish dude is about twenty-on years old _ when in fact, he´s twenty-one centuries old. He draws his power from the earth, possesses a sharp wit and wields an even sharper magical sword known as Fragarach, the Answerer.

A close-knit street, the clink of glass on glass, summer heat. Two girls on the brink of adolescence, throwing cartwheels on the grass. Two girls who tell each other everything. Until one shimmering afternoon, one of them disappears. Lizzie is left with her dread and her loss, and with a fear that won't let her be. Had Evie tried to give her a hint of what was coming, a clue that she failed to follow? Caught between her imaginary guilt, her sense of betrayal, her own powerful need, and the needs of the adults around her, Lizzie's voice is as unforgettable as her story is arresting.

Henry Graves has dedicated his life to the prison service, but he is unprepared for the challenge his new and secret assignment brings. Tasked with managing a government facility hidden deep in the countryside, Henry finds himself tested as never before: by the confused and frightened prisoners, by the sinister Dr Silk and, above all, by his conscience. Tom Clarke, a precocious but naive journalist, has his own problems meanwhile. His career - and his life - is turned upside down by the arrival of Julia Priestley, who seeks his help in finding her estranged husband, Arthur, an innocent dentist who has been arrested under severe new anti-terrorism legislation. The authorities admit they have taken him but will not say where he is being held - or why. Discovering a trail that implicates those at the very top of government, Tom and Julia begin a quest to find Arthur, and the truth about his incarceration. But some people will stop at nothing to keep the facility's secret hidden, and soon the couple find themselves fighting for their lives...

?Brasil? i ?Menjar-me el cor? són dos viatges necessaris; l?un és cap a l?exterior, il?altre voldria explorar el jo endins de l'autora. Dos viatges que ara ja no se saben distingir; l'autora ja no sap quin dels dos la porten mes lluny d'ell amateixa, o quin l?apropa mes a la seva essencia.

Nou volum de la col·lecció Mínima de la Biblioteca de Catalunya, una aproximació a l'estil i la temàtica de la revista manuscrita de la Colla Cargol, produïda dins el context social de la postguerra pels set fills d'Albert Bastardas i Dolors Parera i les seves parelles i alguns dels seus fills respectius. Els autors de l'estudi són la doctora Joana Escobedo, directora de la Unitat Bibliogràfica de la Biblioteca de Catalunya, i Josep M. Cadena, periodista i crític d'art català.