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Geralt the Witcher battles monsters, demons and prejudices alike in Sword of Destiny, the second collection of adventures in Andrzej Sapkowski's groundbreaking epic fantasy series that inspired the Netflix show and the hit video games. Geralt is a Witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless hunter. Yet he is no ordinary killer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. Sword of Destiny is the follow up to The Last Wish, and together they are ...

‘The small room was thick with dark blue uniforms. Bull’s wool the men called the material. Silver buttons. Black boots. Caps. Batons holstered in shiny black leather cylinders. Handcuffs hanging from coat hooks, the keys dangling on thick green ribbon. Dusty files on shelves. Shiny whistles on silver chains. Ink. Nibbed pens. Blotting paper. The big map of the district on the wall and beside it a rainfall chart. The men having broken their “at ease” positions, gathered into the middle of the room. His father seemed lost. Like a man with a herd of cattle he could no longer control.’ ...

La revisión irónica y meticulosa que el escritor Juan Tallón hace de sus lecturas preferidas es un paseo por la historia de la literatura, ya sea en forma de novelas, cuentos, ensayos filosóficos, poesía o diarios. Desde Parménides hasta los autores contemporáneos a él, Tallón aplica su ojo cínico a un centenar largo de obras, que van tejiendo una malla de la que es difícil sustraerse, aunque sólo sea para tomar aire. La huella que han dejado los libros que ha leído se confunde con su propia vida, con anécdotas de los escritores, con opiniones muy personales y con ese gusto que...

El cuerpo que Patrick Fort está examinando en clase de anatomía intenta decirle que ha sido víctima de un asesinato. La vida ya es suficientemente extraña para el obsesivo Patrick, que padece el síndrome de Asperger, incluso antes de tratar de...