Blogs in May 2022

Even the Darkest Night 1st May 2022

A Melchor Marín novel. Winner of Spain’s biggest literary prize – the Premio Planeta When Melchor goes to investigate the horrific double-murder of a rich printer and his wife in rural Cataluña nothing quite adds up. The young cop...

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Lord of All the Dead 17th June 2019

Lord of All the Dead is a courageous journey into Javier Cercas’ family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war. The author revisits Ibahernando, his parents’ village in southern Spain, to research the life of...

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The Impostor 12th February 2018

Who is Enric Marco? An old man from Barcelona who claims to be a Nazi concentration camp survivor and rises to be president of Spain’s leading Holocaust survivor movement, the Friends of Mauthausen. By the time he is unmasked...

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Outlaws 28th May 2014

In the late 1970s, as Spain was adrift between the death of Franco and the rebirth of democracy, people were moving from the poor south to the cities of the north in search of a better life. But the...

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Soldiers of Salamis 1st January 1970

The unnamed voice of this book is a contemporary journalist, who is investigating the story of Rafael Sanchez Mazas, a “good, not great” writer from the 1930s,set against the final moments of the Spanish Civil War. Sometimes philosophical, sometimes...

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