A dozen stories by Javier Marias, "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" ("The Boston Globe").
Victims of mistaken identity, sponging relatives, amateur sleuths, eavesdroppers, professional liars, assassins, and failed bodyguards populate the short stories in When[...]

A second installment of a three-part tale that began with Fever and Spear finds MI6 recruit Jacques Deza discovering a dark side of his employer when Tupra, his spy-master boss, unrepentantly participates in a disturbing act of violence.[...]

Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, with its heightened tensions between meditations and noir narrative, with its wit and and ever deeper forays into the mysteries of consciousness, brings to a stunning finale Marias s three-part Your Face Tomorrow. Already this novel has been acclaimed exquisite (Publish[...]

Having left Spain after the break-up of his marriage, Jacques Deza has allowed a friend to talk him into working for an MI6-like organisation run by the enigmatic Bertram Tupra. Deza's role is a seemingly innocuous one: he is to observe and comment on the behaviour of certain people. But watching an[...]

"A Heart so White" is the breathtaking international bestseller and IMPAC Award-winning masterpiece by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel "The Infatuations" is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by Jonathan Coe. "A Heart so White" begin[...]

"The Man of Feeling" is a story of love and memory by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel "The Infatuations" is published in 2013. On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a young opera singer becomes fascinated by those in his compartment: a middle-aged businessman, his alluring wife a[...]

"The Infatuations" is a metaphysical murder mystery and a stunningly original literary achievement by Javier Marias, the internationally acclaimed author of "A Heart So White" and "Your Face Tomorrow". Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same cafe. And every day she enjoys watching a ha[...]

"Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me" is a riveting novel of infidelity and a man trapped by a terrible secret.
Marta has only just met Victor when she invites him to dinner at her Madrid apartment while her husband is away on business. When her two-year-old son finally falls asleep, Marta and Vi[...]

By one of the most important voices in contemporary world literature, a darkly comic novel about that most British of institutions, Oxford University.
In "All Souls," a visiting Spanish lecturer, viewing Oxford through a prismatic detachment, is alternately amused, puzzled, delighted, and disgus[...]

A story of love and memory.
On a train journey from Paris to Madrid a young opera singer becomes fascinated by those in his compartment: a middle-aged businessman, his alluring wife and their male traveling companion. Soon his life of constant travel, luxury hotels, rehearsal and performance wi[...]

From Rudyard Kipling to James Joyce, Emily Bronte to Vernon Lee and Henry James to Joseph Conrad, this title focuses on these well-known literary figures.[...]

Best short-story work of 2012 according to the readership of El Pa s, and an ideal doorway into the universe of Javier Mar as. Mysterious doctors, bodyguards, ghosts, an aspiring porn star, a couple murdered by an African lance, mobsters fallen from grace, a mercenary who tries to dissuade his prosp[...]