Títulos em Político

Brought to you by Penguin. Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2025 The knock on the door changed everything. Until then, we were happy; we knew who we were. ‘You’ve got the wrong person,’ I told him. ‘My wife is gentle and kind. She wouldn’t hurt a fly.’ In 1939, when she was...

A moving and haunting portrait of a Palestinian immigrant’s heroic efforts to heal his community and birth love from tragedy ‘This is one of those rare stories that feels at once universal and impossibly strange, rooted in the ordinary challenges of the American Dream but lashed to horrors...

Berlin im Jahr 2025. Die Gas-Lobby jubelt: Einer von ihnen soll zum Minister ernannt werden – der allseits beliebte Karsten Richter. Karstens Mutter, eine Klimaaktivistin der allerersten Generation, hat kein gutes Gefühl bei der Karriere ihres Sohnes. An ihrer Erziehung liegt es nicht, aber die Zukunft unseres Planeten liegt ihm so gar nicht am Herzen. Stattdessen persönlicher Erfolg und die Anerkennung seiner Freunde zwischen Wirtschaft und Politik. Der Kanzler ist alarmiert, Richter versucht, die Situation zu retten, da erhält er einen Anruf: Seine Mutter wurde entführt!

O Dia em que o Mundo Virou O mundo não terminou com uma guerra. Terminou com uma transmissão. Exatamente às 08:00 GMT, todas as grandes redes ficaram em silêncio por seis segundos. Sem anúncios. Sem música. Sem âncoras embaralhando papéis. Apenas uma pausa digital e plana que parecia mais longa do que realmente era.

Die Welt endete nicht mit einem Krieg. Es endete mit einer Sendung. Genau um 08: 00 GMT verstummten alle großen Netzwerke für sechs Sekunden. Keine Werbung. Keine Musik. Keine Anker, die Papiere mischen. Nur eine flache, digitale Pause, die sich länger anfühlte, als sie war. In diesen sechs Sekunden erstarrten die Märkte, Satelliten kalibrierten neu, und Regierungen griffen instinktiv nach Telefonen, die nicht klingelten. Dann kamen die Bildschirme zurück. Drei Fahnen füllten den Rahmen. Nicht die Flaggen, die jemand erwartet hatte.

Primavera de 1977. Miguel Duarte acaba de llegar a Barcelona. Tiene veinte años, es camarero del Nebraska, un bar de las Ramblas donde el jefe sueña con protagonizar una película del Oeste, y vive esperando algo que lo eleve por encima de su timidez. Para eso está Montse, una estudiante acomodada por la que siente una atracción irresistible. Tras implicarse en política, con ella experimentará el amor, el sexo y los placeres de la vida.

With one impatient phone call, a young Christopher Isherwood is drawn into the film industry. On the other end of the line is the brilliant yet temperamental Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann. Christopher’s job is to rescue the script of a saccharine love story set in nineteenth-century Vienna, a film called Prater Violet. Meanwhile, in the real Vienna of 1934, the Austrian right crushes a socialist uprising. Bergmann is distraught; his family is in danger in Vienna, while his prophecy of a coming war goes unheeded by his British colleagues.

On a train to Berlin in late 1930, William Bradshaw locks eyes with Arthur Norris. This chance encounter ignites a close friendship between the two Englishmen, one that draws Bradshaw into the seedier quarters of the city. Here, Norris runs a dubious import–export business and lives in excited fear of his bullying secretary, his creditors and his dominatrix girlfriend, Anni. Yet there is something sinister about Norris himself. Bradshaw’s new companion is a man of contradictions: heavily in debt but extraordinarily lavish, excessively polite but sexually deviant.

'A white-knuckle ride of a thriller . . . Immersive, enraging and terrifyingly plausible' Erin Kelly, author of The Skeleton Key Your body. Their Choice. The Hope Party's new laws have transformed Great Britain: the countryside rewilded, children's rights prioritised, and births on the rise. But...

TRIUNVIRATO 2030 El día en que el mundo se inclinó. El mundo no terminó con una guerra. Terminó con una emisión. A las 08: 00 GMT en punto, todas las grandes cadenas quedaron en silencio durante seis segundos. No hay anuncios. Sin música. No hay anclas moviendo papeles. Solo una pausa digital plana que parecía más larga de lo que era. En esos seis segundos, los mercados se congelaron, los satélites se re-calibraron y los gobiernos instintivamente buscaron teléfonos que no sonaban.

The Day the World Tilted. The world did not end with a war. It ended with a broadcast. At exactly 08:00 GMT, every major network went silent for six seconds. No ads. No music. No anchors shuffling papers. Just a flat, digital pause that felt longer than it was. In those six seconds, markets froze, satellites recalibrated, and governments instinctively reached for phones that did not ring. Then the screens came back. Three flags filled the frame. Not the flags anyone expected.

A college instructor embarks on a fanatical quest to save his job—and enact righteous revenge—in this brilliantly acerbic satire of university politics during the early Cold War years Henry Mulcahy's future is in question. An instructor of literature at Jocelyn College, an institute of higher learning renowned for its progressive approach to education, he has just received word that he will not be teaching next semester. He strongly suspects that his dismissal has been engineered by his nemesis, the college president, who Henry believes resents his superior skills as an educator.

When Gren Moritz is elected head of the global government of Rivennia, he is ridiculed and isolated by others in power for his stance against the rise in genetic engineering. Following his inauguration, Gren is lured into the dark shadows of the Liffdom Lodges, a covert gambling syndicate that controls Rivennia. The Lodgers promise political backing, but it comes at a price – Gren must partake in a macabre wager. His fellow players are anxious analyst Samuel Rosendale and sharp-tongued supermodel Primula Zhang.

Demons is Dostoevsky’s profound and moving novel of politics, psychology, and social upheaval. Exploring how ideas come to possess those who espouse them, this is a story of unforgettable characters who pass through times of love, enlightenment, betrayal, and tragedy. Their story and the story of their life together show how the choices they make in turn make a fabric of destiny and how the fate of their people rests on the nature of an idea.

Mia Verita is living life FFS: Forty, Female, Single, (and finally free). After a painful divorce leaves her unemployed and battling self-doubt, she sets her sights on something bigger: flipping a long-held red seat in the Texas legislature. With no political background, a dwindling bank account, and ghosts from her past tracking her every move, Mia steps onto the campaign trail determined to spark change.

Depois de anos longe, um misterioso homem regressa a sua cidade natal. Do autor de Sátántangó e ganhador do prêmio Nobel. Uma alegoria extrema do fim das ilusões. . Após décadas de exílio na Argentina, um velho aristocrata arruinado por dívidas de jogo, o barão Béla Wenckheim, regressa à sua cidade natal, uma localidade húngara perdida no mapa e mergulhada em poeira, loucura e ressentimento. Os habitantes, desesperados, projetam no Barão a figura de um salvador, alguém que poderá trazer redenção e prosperidade ao lugar.

The year is 1896 and the nation is in turmoil. After a shocking election – in which political order is upended as an outsider is chosen to be the next president – New York is thrown into chaos. Mobs of protestors swarm the streets, the economy shakes and whispers of various conspiracies echo through the blocks of the city. As the new president, Mr. Bryan, takes office, powerful, unseen forces begin to sinisterly shape America's future. Fast-paced and an unnerving portrayal of misplaced power, 1900; or The Last President is a chilling reminder of how quickly fear can unravel a republic.

Le jour où le monde s'est tourné. Le monde ne s'est pas terminé par une guerre. Cela s'est terminé par une diffusion. À exactement 08h00 GMT, toutes les grandes chaînes sont restées silencieuses pendant six secondes. Pas de publicités. Pas de musique. Pas d'ancres à manipuler des papiers. Juste une pause plate, numérique, qui semblait plus longue qu'elle ne l'était. En six secondes, les marchés se sont figés, les satellites se sont recalibrés, et les gouvernements ont instinctivement cherché des téléphones qui ne sonnaient pas. Puis les écrans sont revenus.

“2048 – Le ceneri dell’Europa” è un romanzo visionario e politico che racconta il crepuscolo di un continente che ha smarrito la propria anima.

A beloved judge is murdered. His virus-infected laptop holds an ancient secret. Young lawyer Joshua Sutton, together with doctoral candidate Samantha Bollinger and tech wizard Mark Roth, are thrust into a deadly three-day quest for answers—a quest that leads them across millennia.