Spanning four generations, Isabel Allende's family saga is populated by an often eccentric cast of characters. Together, men and women, spirits, the forces of nature and of history, converge in a brlliantly realised novel.

A magnificent sweeping tale from the international bestselling author of 'The House of the Spirits'.

The vibrant new novel from Isabel Allende takes her back to her homeland of Chile, and tells the story of the first Spanish woman to arrive on its shores with the Conquistadors in the 1500s.

The life story of Isabel Allende -- one of the world's favourite writers -- is as exotic, passionate and inspiring as one of her novels.

In December 1991, Allende's daughter Paula, aged 26, fell gravely ill and sank into a coma. This book started as a letter to Paula written during the hours spent at her bedside, and became a personal memoir and a testament to the ties that bind families -- a brave, enlightening, inspiring true story.

Presents the story of Eva Luna where fact and fiction merge.

Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, poets and leaders of a movement they call visceral realism, leave Mexico City to track down the poet Cesarea Tinajero, who disappeared into the Sonora desert - and obscurity - decades before. But the detectives are themselves hunted men, and their search for the past will end in violence, flight, and permanent exile.

Explains author's travels to a remote country in search of a strange beast and his encounters with the people.

This remains one of the most celebrated books of erotic poetry published in the last 100 years. Neruda was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1971.

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the crucial events of his life.

Presents the tales of the strange joys and sadnesses of South America.

Santa Teresa, on the Mexico-US border, is an urban sprawl that draws in lost souls. Among them are three academics on the trail of a reclusive German author; a New York reporter on his first Mexican assignment; a widowed philosopher; and a police detective in love with an elusive older woman. But there is darker side still to the town.

A translation of Pablo Neruda's poems that were written in Los versos del capitan as a celebration of his love for his third wife, Matilde Urrutia - a love affair that is itself celebrated in the acclaimed film Il Postino .

An unnamed narrator attempts to piece together the life and world of an enigmatic would-be poet turned military assassin during Pinochet's regime in Chile.

In the town of El Idilio, buried deep in the jungle on the bank of a small Amazon tributary, lives Antonio Bolivar, a recluse. This simple man has discovered a quiet passion for romantic tales, which he reads with great appetite.

How Pinochet and his allies brought terrorism to three continents. Reveals the extent of US support for the dictator and the true story of Pinochet's crimes.

The most authorative book available on Chile, now updated with a new 5,000-word introduction.

2004 is the centenary of Neruda's birth, and this collection, regarded as Neruda's most important work, is re-issued in honour of that occasion.