Annabel Lyon

Narrado por la extraordinaria voz de Aristóteles, El maestro de Alejandro recrea la Grecia clásica para ofrecernos un magnífico retrato de dos personajes claves de la Historia, el pensador y el conquistador, cuyas vidas siguen teniendo eco en nuestros dias.Felipe de Macedonia le pide a su amigo el filosofo Aristoteles que sea el tutor de su hijo, Alejandro. Aristoteles se resiste dado el caracter rebelde del joven, pero acaba aceptando.Se establece asi una interesante relacion entre el gran filosofo y el sorprendente, carismatico y, a menudo, terrible adolescente. Alejandro, heredero del trono de Macedonia, sera obligado a tomar las armas muy pronto convirtiendose con los años en el legendario Alejandro Magno.** Novela ganadora del Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize en 2009Reseñas: No habia visto nada igual desde Yo, Claudio. Un triunfo de la erudicion y de la narracion.John Boyne, autor de El niño del pijama a rayasEl maestro de Alejandro es mucho mas que una hermosa novela narrada de un modo brillante: es tambien una profunda exploracion de aquellas cuestiones morales y filosoficas que turban al ser humano desde tiempos de Aristoteles. Russell Banks

Shortlisted for the prestigious Giller Prize and the Governor Generals Award Macedon. 367 BC. Philip II is bringing war to Persia. Forged in the warrior culture of Macedonia, the time has come for his young son Alexander to take up his inheritance of blood and obedience to the sword. It is a training that has made the boy sadistic; fiercely brilliant, but unstable. A dangerous trait in a king fated to rule the vastest empire of the ancient world. Compelled to teach this startling, precocious, sometimes horrifying child, Aristotle soon realises that what the boy needs most to learn - thrown before his time onto his fathers battlefields - is the lesson of the golden mean, the elusive balance between extremes that Aristotle hopes will mitigate the boys will to conquer in this age of fighting heroes...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTIONBlistering... The most truthful exploration of sisterhood I have enjoyed since FleabagThe TimesSo, so clever and so concise yet just goes into the most profound issues in such depth Vick Hope, Womens Prize for Fiction Judge 2021 [A] gripping read about sisters, guilt, grief and revenge... I couldnt put it down. Daily MailCompelling... A brave, even dangerous book. Preti Taneja, author of We That Are Young Saskia and Jenny are twins, alike in appearance only: Saskia has a single-minded focus on her studies, while Jenny is glamorous, thrill-seeking and capricious. Still, when Jenny is severely injured in an accident, Saskia puts her life on hold for her sister. Sara and Mattie are sisters with another difficult dynamic: Mattie needs almost full-time care, while Sara loves nothing more than fine wines, perfumes and expensive clothing, and leaves home at the first opportunity. But when their mother dies, Sara must move Mattie in with her. Gradually, Sara and Saskia learn that both their sisters lives, and indeed their own, have been altered by the devastating actions of one man... In turns razor-sharp, provocative and precise, Consent is a blistering novel of sisters and their knotty relationships, of predatory men and sexual power, of retribution and the thrilling possibilities of revenge.LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE

Felipe de Macedonia le pide a su amigo el filósofo Aristóteles que sea el tutor de su hijo, Alejandro. Aristóteles se resiste dado el carácter rebelde del joven, pero acaba aceptando. Se establece asi una interesante relacion entre el gran filosofo y el sorprendente, carismatico y, a menudo, terrible adolescente. Alejandro, heredero del trono de Macedonia, sera obligado a tomar las armas muy pronto convirtiendose con los años en el legendario Alejandro Magno. Narrado por la extraordinaria voz de Aristoteles, El maestro de Alejandro recrea la Grecia clasica para ofrecernos un magnifico retrato de dos personajes claves de la Historia, el pensador y el conquistador, cuyas vidas siguen teniendo eco en nuestros dias. "El maestro de Alejandro es mucho mas que una hermosa novela narrada de un modo brillante: es tambien una profunda exploracion de aquellas cuestiones morales y filosoficas que turban al ser humano desde tiempos de Aristoteles." Rusell Banks