Javier Marías

The final novel from one of the greatest writers of the past half century. Tomás Nevinson, a retired MI6 agent, is working for the British Embassy in Madrid when his former handler, the sinister Bertram Tupra, offers to bring him back inside for one last assignment. His mission—to catch and, if necessary, kill a terrorist gone to ground in Northern...

A breathtaking international bestselling novel about family secrets, and Javier Marías's masterpiece. In the middle of a family lunch, Teresa, just married, goes to the bathroom, unbuttons her blouse and shoots herself in the heart. What made her kill herself immediately after her honeymoon? Years later, this mystery fascinates the young newlywed Juan, whose father was married to Teresa before...

Volume one of Javier Marías's acclaimed and evocative novel in parts. Recently divorced, Jacques Deza moves from Madrid to London to start anew. At a party held by retired don, semi-retired spy and old friend Sir Peter Wheeler, he meets the inscrutable Bertram Tupra. Tupra is impressed by Deza's talent for seeing through people and enlists him in a mysterious...

A marriage built on lies, a man with many faces, an unpaid debt to the secret service - rich drama from the author of The Infatuations. 'For a while, she wasn't sure that her husband was her husband. Sometimes she thought he was, and sometimes not.' Berta and Tomas meet in Madrid and, though both young, they decide to spend...

Your Face Tomorrow, Volume 3 is the concluding part of Javier Marías's acclaimed and evocative 'novel in parts'. Jacques Deza is back in London and once again working for the secret intelligence agency run by Bertram Tupra. Deza finds himself forced to watch Tupra's collection of incriminating videotapes of important public figures. The recordings document unconventional private lives—and horrific acts....

A breathtaking reimagining of the classic themes of love, death, and memory by Spain's greatest living writer. Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same café. 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...

Volume two of Javier Marías's acclaimed and evocative novel in parts. The first volume of Javier Marías's novel in parts saw Jacques Deza questioning the morality of his position in an undercover network under the enigmatic Bertram Tupra. When Deza is forced to witness an act of unexpected brutality, he is shaken to his core. Witnessing this event triggers memories...

All Souls by Javier Marías is a darkly humorous Oxford novel, newly available in Penguin Modern Classics. The pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracts many eyes at an Oxford college dinner, not least those of a visiting Spanish lecturer who is desperate to escape his conversation with an obese economist about an eighteenth-century cider tax. As they begin an affair,...