Winter Essentials We Love

Author: João Moreira Dos Santos, Language: Portuguese 

Luís Villas Boas é unanimemente considerado o «pai» do jazz em Portugal. Nascido em Lisboa, a 26 de Março de 1924, numa família com fortes tradições musicais e ligada à cultura em geral. A ele se devem a criação do programa de rádio mais influente na divulgação do jazz, Hot Club, transmitido ininterruptamente entre 1945 e 1969, a organização das primeiras jam sessions, a autoria dos primeiros artigos de imprensa informados, a fundação das primeiras instituições jazzísticas nacionais - Hot Clube de Portugal, 1948; Discostudio, 1958; Luisiana Jazz Club, 1965 -, e a produção dos primeiros grandes concertos: Sidney Bechet, 1955; Count Basie, 1956; Bill Coleman, 1959. No final dos anos de 1970 teve um papel decisivo na promoção do ensino, fundando as escolas do Hot Clube de Portugal - onde se têm formado nos últimos cerca de 50 anos as sucessivas gerações de músicos que mantêm o jazz como um género musical vivo -, e do Luisiana Na década de 1980, juntamente com Duarte Mendonça, viria a ter os seus próprios programas de jazz - Aqui Jazz (1978-1979), Jazz Magazine (1978-1979), Club de Jazz (1982-1985) e Jazz para Todos (1986). Para celebrar o 100 º aniversário do nascimento de Luís Villas Boas este livro reúne uma primeira narrativa biográfica e, através de 70 entrevistas à imprensa, rádio e televisão, dá-lhe a palavra, acompanhando a evolução do seu pensamento e acção ao longo de quase 50 anos, bem como o percurso do jazz no Portugal do século XX.

Sobre o Autor

 João Moreira dos Santos, autor do livro “O pai do jazz em Portugal”, com doutoramento em Ciências da Licenciado em Comunicação pelo ISCTE, é natural de Lisboa, com uma carreira de mais de trinta anos na área da comunicação, como docente universitário e diretor em gabinetes ministeriais e em empresas multinacionais, nomeadamente a ABB e a Ericsson. É desde 2022 vice-presidente e diretor de comunicação da Égide – Associação Portuguesa das Artes.

É autor de dez livros sobre a história do jazz em Portugal. Movimento Filarmónico no concelho do Montijo, edições colibri (2016), Roteiro do jazz, da Casa Sassetti (2012), Jazz em Cascais, da Casa Sassetti (2009), Jazz na Terceira – 80 anos de história (2008), Jazz segundo Villas Boas, da Assírio &Alvim (2007) são alguns dos livros que escreveu sobre jazz.

English Summary

A biography about Luis Villas-Boas, The Portuguese Father of Jazz. 

Author: Fernando Pessoa Translated to English by Johnathan Griffin 

Dramatic, lyrical and ranging over four distinct personae, these poems by one of Portugal's greatest poets trace a mind shaken by intense suffering and a tireless search for meaning.

Author: Elinor Cleghorn translated to Portuguese by Carla Ribeiro.

Levantem a mão se alguma vez viram os vossos sintomas totalmente ignorados por um médico!… Elinor Cleghorn mergulha na história de como o sistema médico falhou com as mulheres – desde a Grécia Antiga até aos problemas modernos, e de como as mulheres são muitas vezes vistas como fontes não fiáveis do que sentem nos próprios corpos.» Cosmopolitan

Em A Mulher e a Medicina, Elinor Cleghorn escreve uma história pioneira sobre a saúde das mulheres – desde o «útero errante» da Grécia Antiga à ascensão dos julgamentos de bruxas na Europa; do surgimento da histeria como diagnóstico amplo para distúrbios difíceis de identificar à evolução da compreensão sobre hormonas, menstruação, menopausa ou a endometriose – reunida numa obra abrangente e fascinante.

É um legado revoltante de sofrimento, mistificação e erros de diagnóstico que revela como a ciência, moldada por um mundo de homens, falhou em compreender e cuidar do corpo feminino. Repleto de estudos de caso e exemplos de mulheres que sofreram, desafiaram e reescreveram a ortodoxia médica, este livro faz um apelo urgente por uma medicina mais íntegra, que valorize os testemunhos e as experiências das mulheres, libertando-as de séculos de desinformação e negligência.

«A Mulher e a Medicina apresenta uma história de como a anatomia, a fisiologia e a psicologia femininas foram abordadas ao longo dos séculos. A mensagem é clara: oiçam as mulheres.» Science Magazine.

sobre o Autor 

Elinor Cleghorn é historiadora cultural, escritora e investigadora. Doutorada em Humanidades e Estudos Culturais em 2012, foi investigadora pós-doutoral na Ruskin School of Art, na Universidade de Oxford, num projeto interdisciplinar que uniu as artes às humanidades médicas.
Os seus estudos sobre a saúde das mulheres e a sua história foram publicados em meios como The Wall Street Journal, BBC History, BBC Science Focus, New Scientist e Vogue. Já apresentou a sua investigação em programas como BBC Woman’s Hour, NPR e vários podcasts internacionais.
A sua obra A Mulher e a Medicina foi traduzida e publicada em vários países.
Vive em Sussex, no Reino Unido.

English Summary 

In Woman and Medicine, Elinor Cleghorn writes a groundbreaking history of women's health—from the 'wandering womb' of Ancient Greece to the rise of witch trials in Europe; from the emergence of hysteria as a broad diagnosis for disorders difficult to identify to the evolution of understanding about hormones, menstruation, menopause, or endometriosis—all gathered in a comprehensive and fascinating work

Author: José Martinho Gaspar

"Uma obra de divulgação com centenas de acontecimentos da nossa História. Viaje no tempo e descubra os momentos e as figuras que marcaram a História de Portugal em cada mês do ano. De Janeiro a Dezembro, o professor José Martinho Gaspar revela a origem do mês correspondente e apresenta secções informativas e curiosas relacionadas com o respectivo mês. "

sobre o Autor

José Martinho Gaspar nasceu em Água das Casas - Abrantes, em 1967. Professor de História por missão, descobriu na palavra escrita um hobby e uma paixão.
Começou por publicar ao nível da história / história local, em que já trouxe a público Os Discursos e o Discurso de Salazar (2001), A Primeira República em Abrantes (2005), Água das Casas: Memórias de uma comunidade (2015), Sport Lisboa e Abrantes/Sport Abrantes e Benfica: 100 anos(2016) e Almanaque da História de Portugal(2020). Ainda nesta área, dirige a revista Zahara desde a sua fundação em 2003.
Venceu, em 2007, um primeiro prémio literário, seguindo-se-lhe outros, trajeto que culminou com a conquista do Prémio Nacional de Literatura Lions de Portugal, em 2019. No domínio da ficção, publicou em 2012 o livro de contos Histórias Desencantadas; em 2015, estreou-se na literatura para a infância com Um Mundo Quadrado: Visto aqui deste lado; voltou aos contos, em 2017, com Histórias de Ter de Ser; em 2020, trouxe a público Vidas por Fios, o seu primeiro romance.
Vinte anos depois do primeiro, Histórias daqui e dali é o seu décimo livro a solo.

 English Summary

Travel back in time and discover the moments and figures that marked the History of Portugal in each month of the year. From January to December, Professor José Martinho Gaspar reveals the origin of the corresponding month and presents informative and curious sections related to the respective month.

Written by Antonio Lobo Antunes, Translated to English by Margaret Jull Costa

A profound and genre-defying work of literature about love, death, and illness from one of Portugal’s most celebrated writers
 
“One of the essential writers of our tormented times.”—Alberto Manguel, Times Literary Supplement
 
“Little prepares one for this extraordinary book, in which each chapter, covering a single day, and lasting a single sentence, offers a teeming stream of consciousness. . . . Even pain is alive, and alive is the word for this book, alive and enduring.”— Michael Autrey, Booklist
 
Incapacitated after the removal of a malignant tumor, the narrator, António, spends his days in a Lisbon hospital enduring the humiliations of severe illness. As he drifts in and out of consciousness, he revisits fragments of his life and the people who passed through it. He recalls the village where he lived as a child near the Mondego River amid the eucalyptus and pines, his parents and grandparents and their tight-knit community of potato farmers and tungsten miners, and the woman he loved—an unexpected polyphony of voices and places sounding in sharp counterpoint to debilitating pain.
 
By the Rivers of Babylon conjures the past and the present all at once, revealing the power of memory to embolden us in the face of extraordinary suffering. This is António Lobo Antunes’s homage to the beauty of a cherished life in its confrontation with imminent death.

Abour Author

António Lobo Antunes (1942–2026), born in Lisbon and trained as a psychiatrist, is the prizewinning author of more than thirty books, including Fado Alexandrino, The Inquisitors’ Manual, The Splendor of Portugal, and What Can I Do When Everything's on Fire? Margaret Jull Costa has been a literary translator for over thirty years.

Language: English

Length: 248 pgs

Written by Antonio Lobo Antunes, Translated to English by Jeff Love

A novel about the horrors of war and its aftermath from one of Europe's most brilliant authors

In this direct and vigorous tale, award-winning author Ant nio Lobo Antunes returns to the subject of the Portuguese colonial war in Angola with a dramatic account of atrocity and vengeance. Drawing on his own bitter experience as a soldier stationed for twenty-seven months in Angola, Lobo Antunes tells the story of a young African boy who is brought to Portugal by one of the soldiers who destroyed the child's village, and of the boy's subsequent brutal murder of this adoptive father figure at a ritual pig killing.

Deftly framing the events through an assembly of interwoven narratives and perspectives, this is one of Lobo Antunes's most captivating and experimentally written books. It is also a timely consideration of the lingering wounds that remain from the conflict between European expansionism and its colonized victims who were forced to accept the norms of a supposedly superior culture.

About author 

António Lobo Antunes, born in 1942 in Benfica, is considered to be Portugal's greatest living writer. The author of more than twenty novels, including What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, he has won many awards and makes his home in Lisbon.

Jeff Love is a research Professor of German and Russian at Clemson University, has published three monographs, edited two collections of articles and translated three books, two philosophical treatises, one German, the other Russian, and a novel by renowned Portuguese author António Lobo Antunes. Professor Love’s primary research fields are German and Russian philosophy and theory of the novel. He has given talks at universities throughout Europe as well as in China and contributed to the Philosophical Salon at the LA Review of Books. He has been awarded, among others, the John E. Sawyer Fellowship at the National Humanities Center (2014-2015), the University Research Scholarship and Artistic Achievement Award (2018) at Clemson University and the Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities (1997-1998) while at Yale University.

Written by Clarice Lispector, translated to English by Idra Navey.

The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector’s mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door—crushing the cockroach—and then watches it die. At the end of the novel, at the height of a spiritual crisis, comes the most famous and most genuinely shocking scene in Brazilian literature…

Lispector wrote that of all her works this novel was the one that “best corresponded to her demands as a writer.”

About Author

Clarice Lispector (1920–1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called "astounding" (Rachel Kushner), "a penetrating genius" (Donna Seaman, Booklist ), and "one of the twentieth century's most mysterious writers" (Orhan Pamuk). Caetano Veloso is one of Brazil's foremost musicians. Idra Novey is the award-winning author of the novels  Those Who Knew  and  Ways to Disappear . She teaches fiction in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.

Written by Jose Saramago, Translated by Giovanni Pontiero

Written by Jose Saramago, translated by 

A wry, fictional account of the life of Christ by the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, “Illuminated by ferocious wit, gentle passion, and poetry” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). For José Saramago, the life of Jesus Christ and the story of his Passion were things of this earth: a child crying, a gust of wind, the caress of a woman half asleep, the bleat of a goat or the bark of a dog, a prayer uttered in the grayish morning light. The Holy Family reflects the real complexities of any family, but this is realism filled with vision, dream, and omen. Saramago’s deft psychological portrait of a savior who is at once the Son of God and a young man of this earth is an expert interweaving of poetry and irony, spirituality and irreverence. The result is nothing less than a brilliant skeptic’s wry inquest into the meaning of God and of human existence.

About Author

JOSE SARAMAGO is one of the most acclaimed writers in the world today. He is the author of numerous novels, including All the Names, Blindness, and The Cave. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Giovanni Pontiero (10 February 1932 - 10 February 1996) was a British scholar and translator of Portuguese fiction, most notably the works of José Saramago. His translation of the Saramago work The Gospel According to Jesus Christ was awarded the Teixeira-Gomes Prize for Portuguese translation.

Written by Paulo Coelho, Translated to English

New York Times Bestseller

“In Brida, my third novel, which I wrote just after The Alchemist, I tell the story of a young woman who dives into sorcery and her experiences with different magical traditions. I explore many themes that are dear to me, such as the Great Mother, pagan religions, and the perceptions of love.”

-- Paulo Coelho

This is the spellbinding tale of Brida, a beautiful young Irish woman, and her quest for knowledge. On her journey, she meets a wise man who teaches her about overcoming her fears, and a woman who teaches her ancient rituals. They see in her a gift, but must let Brida make her own voyage of discovery.

About Author

Paulo Coelho is the author of "The Alchemist", he was born in 1947 in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Being the author of 30 books that have sold over 320 million copies in 170 countries, he has become one of the most widely read authors in the world today. Paulo Coelho has been a United Nations Messenger of Peace since 2007 and this has allowed him to continue to promote intercultural dialogue and to focus on the needs of children. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters and the recipient of over 115 awards and honours, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the Grinzane Cavour Book Award and the Chevalier de l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur, to name a few.

Written by Jose Saramago, Translated to English by Giovanni Pontiero

From Nobel Prize–winner José Saramago, “a capacious, funny, threatening novel” of wandering souls and political upheaval in 1930s Portugal (New York Times Book Review).

The year is 1936, and the dictator António de Oliveira written by Jose Saramago, Translated to English by 

Salazar is establishing himself in Portugal, edging his country toward civil war. At the same time, Dr. Ricardo Reis has returned home to Lisbon after a long sojourn in Brazil. What’s brought him back is word that the great poet, Fernando Pessoa, has died. With no intention of resuming his practice, Reis now dabbles in his own poetry, wastes his days strolling the boulevards and back streets, engages in affairs with two different women—and is followed through each excursion by Pessoa’s ghost.

As a fascist revolution roils, and as Reis’s path intersects with three relative strangers—two living, one dead—Reis may finally discover the reality of his own chimerical existence.

Called “a magnificent tour-de-force, perhaps one of the best novels published in Europe since World War II” (Bloomsbury Review) and “altogether remarkable” (Wall Street Journal), The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis is a PEN Award winner.

About Author

Written by Paulo Coelho, Translated to English by Alan R. Clarke

The extraordinary international bestseller.

“It’s a brilliant, magical, life-changing book that continues to blow my mind with its lessons."—Neil Patrick Harris, actor

“Translated into 80 languages, the allegory teaches us about dreams, destiny, and the reason we are all here.”—Oprah Daily

Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, this beloved work of philosophical fiction, The Alchemist, has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.

This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and soul-stirring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried near the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself a king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles in his path. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a profound journey of spiritual self-discovery.

Lush, evocative, and deeply humane, the story of Santiago is an eternal testament to the transforming power of our dreams and the importance of listening to our hearts.

About Author:

Paulo Coelho, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1947, is one of the bestselling and most influential authors in the world.The Alchemist,The Pilgrimage,The Valkyries,Brida,Veronika Decides to Die,Eleven Minutes,The Zahir,The Witch of Portobello,The Winner Stands Alone,Aleph,Manuscript Found in Accra, andAdultery, among others, have sold 150 million copies worldwide.

edited by Helder Macedo and Thomas Earle with illustrations by André Carrilho.

Luís de Camões (1524(?)–1580) lived in a world in transition. The existential pilgrimage recorded in his poetry is a search for something as inde?nable, and as revolutionarily modern, as the pursuit of happiness on earth. In the process, he was a poet of doubt rather than certainty, rupture rather than continuity, immanence rather than transcendence, experience rather than faith and, at the end of a life “scattered in pieces throughout the world”, he found fragmentation instead of the totality he had desired.

His majestic epic poem, The Lusiads, centred on the pioneering voyage of Vasco da Gama to the East, which opened the doors of Renaissance Humanism to the modern world, is as much the celebration of a nation (Portugal) as an autobiographical representation of his own life. C. M. Bowra, in his major work on epic poetry, From Virgil to Milton, characterizes The Lusiads as “the epic of Humanism”. And Schlegel, one of the founders of Romanticism, considers it “the supreme example of epic poetry” and “the only heroic poem of the Modern period”. But it is an ambiguous epic, situated between a past deserving celebration and the vision of a future contaminated by doubt and uncertainty.

Camões’ lyric poetry has been comparatively neglected, but it is certainly no less impressive. Indeed, The Lusiads can be better understood from the perspective of his lyric poetry. And, in translation, both gain by being as close as possible to the original. This bilingual edition provides an ample selection of the poet’s lyric verse complemented by some passages of the epic, avoiding the constrictions of rhyme and metre.

The poetry of Camões helps us to understand not only the time in which he lived but also our own time. (Based on the introduction by Helder Macedo)

Author Anísio Franco

Lisbon is a city bathed by a clear, magical light. Everyone knows this side of the city but few are aware of the mysterious shadows cast by that same light.
The stories within these pages lift the veil over episodes sometimes unimaginable, others brutally realistic, others yet of comical irony, whilst others may cause goosebumps. Mummies kept in crypts, buried cities, nuns who lived like princesses, museums forgotten by time, statues that refuse to stand still, an enigmatic castle, serpents that protect the future king: these are just some of the episodes among the many mysterious tales one might recount about Lisbon. An unique and unknown Lisbon to be discovered in the pages of this book.

À luz da Lua, um pequenino ovo descansava numa folha. Num domingo de manhã o sol quente chegou e PLOC!..., de dentro do ovo saiu uma lagartinha magra e esfomeada.

A edição desta obra em português representa um marco no panorama editorial, uma vez que apresenta aos mais novos um dos clássicos contemporâneos, com o design inovador e as brilhantes ilustrações que têm o cunho inconfundível de Eric Carle.

English Overview 

The time-honored classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar is now available in two bilingual formats, bringing together two languages for the ultimate reading and learning experience. With easily readable side-by-side English and Spanish text, it's perfect for children learning to speak either language.

About author 

Eric Carle (25 de junho de 1929, Siracusa, Nova Iorque, 1929 - 23 de maio, 2021, Northampton, Massachusetts) foi autor de mais de 70 livros, Eric Carle começou a ilustrar em 1967, depois de trabalhar numa agência publicitária. Estudou na prestigiada escola de arte "Akademie der Bildenden Künste", na Alemanha, país onde residiu na sua infância. Regressou aos EUA em 1952, onde trabalhou como designer gráfico no "The New York Times". O primeiro livro de sua completa autoria foi "1,2,3, to the Zoo" (1968), ao qual se seguiu "The Very Hungry Caterpillar". Foi galardoado com os prémios da Feira Internacional do Livro Infantil de Bolonha, da Associação de Livreiros Infantis e da Associação Americana de Bibliotecas. Eric Carle afirmou: "Creio que a passagem de casa para a escola é o segundo maior trauma da infância; o primeiro, certamente, é nascer. Em ambos os casos trocamos um ambiente caloroso e protetor por outro desconhecido. Acredito que as crianças são criativas por natureza e capazes de aprender. Nos meus livros tento minimizar esse temor, substituí-lo por uma mensagem positiva. Quero mostrar-lhes que aprender é realmente fascinante e divertido."

Written by Isabel Minhos Martins, ilkustrated by Madalena Matoso

Dizem os especialistas que a descoberta do mundo começa logo na barriga da mãe. Lá dentro, aconchegados, já ouvimos música, reconhecemos vozes, acompanhamos ao segundo as emoções maternas. Mas é como se todas as descobertas aguardassem por uma confirmação… uma confirmação que chega no dia em que nascemos. Aí sim, começa a grande aventura. Do respirar, do provar, do sentir… Pelas páginas deste livro desfilam algumas das descobertas que nos fizeram (e fazem) espantar. Descobertas tão simples como a cor que pinta o fundo do mar, o som de uma folha ao pousar no chão, ou o cheiro das férias quando chega o verão. Um livro que dá as boas-vindas a todos os bebés.

English Overview 

All children love to hear the story of how they arrived in the world. When I Was Born revisits the adventure of discovering the world for the first time. Breathing, seeing, hearing, tasting, and touch are encountered afresh in this beautifully illustrated, poetic tale, reintroducing readers to the richness and delight of life. Children and adults alike will love award-winning illustrator Madalena Matoso's colorful and touching images, accompanied by a text that is ideal for reading aloud.

Written by Isabel Minhos Martins, illustrated by Yara Kono. Language: Portuguese.

Este é um livro que recomenda alguma ginástica para os olhos Perguntas (muitas) e desafios divertidos para que ninguém nos hipnotize (!) e para que nada do que é importante fique de fora do nosso olhar — e dos nossos radares.

Estás a ver com olhos de ver?

Este livro pertence à Coleção Cantos Redondos

Nesta coleção, fazemos do "objeto livro" um lugar verdadeiro, onde os leitores participam na construção de cada aventura, jogando, brincando, produzindo sons e movimentos

English Overview

This is a book which suggests some gymnastics for your eyes. Questions (aplenty) and fun challenges to ensure that we don’t get hypnotised(!) and that nothing important gets overlooked, nothing slips under the radar.

So then, have you got your eyes wide open?

40 pages / 220 x 260 mm
ISBN: 978.989.9061.32.3 / RRP: 16,90€
1st Edition: October 2025

language: Portuguese