Septimio Severo

Cuyano alborotador devuelve a Domingo Faustino Sarmiento toda la entrañable humanidad que la historia escolar le había negado.

Philip Norman's family considered themselves genteel yet somehow became involved in the opportunistic world of seaside trade on the Isle of Wight. With masterly skill, Norman recreates his upbringing among this gallery of social misfits - his handsome but unstable father Clive, once a dashing RAF officer, now a reluctant showman at the end of Ryde Pier, his pub-owning Uncle Phil, who dresses as a woman every New Year's Eve, and his irresistible Grandma Norman who presides over her rock kiosk and rules the troubled family like a Mafia don. The year is 1953. While Britain celebrates the...

This award-winning picture book does the impossible. It condenses the life of the late, great Nelson Mandela in a way children will be able to understand and appreciate.

Re-creates the journey of an extraordinary heroine through the twentieth century and the realities of life in the American spotlight, with the help of many of her never-before interviewed family and friends.