'We lose everything because everything remains except us'. In this book, the author recalls the strange events and people that shaped his past, including ghostly literary figures, a pilot, an adventurer, a brother who died as a child and the king of an island in the Caribbean, we begin to question the nature of time, memory and reality itself.

If Ranz has told no lies to his son Juan, that is because Juan has asked no questions. But when Juan marries, and his wife and father have things to tell each other, drama follows. And everything we learn about Ranz's troubled past seems set to repeat itself in a cycle of intrigue and violence.

Victor has left his new mistress, Marta, dead on her bed. An unexpected end to what was supposed to be an evening of passion - but the girl had suddenly taken ill and died in his arms. Dean, the widowed husband, is determined to find out who was sharing her bed that night."

At the centre of this brilliantly wrought tapestry of Oxford life unfolds a passionate, often imprudent affair between a young Spanish academic and a married, flighty, English woman.

This collection of twelve stories from the imagination of one of Spain's foremost literary writers includes the satirical ghost story of the title, a grisly tale of murder at the racetrack and a surprising insight into the life of a porn movie star.

The Infatuations is a critically acclaimed novel by the great Spanish writer Javier Marias. Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same cafe. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there, and she feels obscurely bereft. It is only later, when she comes across a newspaper photograph of the man, lying stabbed in the street, his shirt half off, that she discovers who the couple are. Some time afterwards, when the woman returns to the cafe with her children, who are then collected by a different man, and Maria approaches...

Revealing that Conrad actually hated sailing and Emily Bronte was so tough she was known as 'The Major', among many other stories of eccentricity, drunkenness and even murder, this book uses unusual angles and peculiar details to illuminate writers' lives in a new way.