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Daughters of Spain

Daughters of Spain
  • Author(s): Joan Fallon
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 20th century

Daughters of Spain gives a gripping account of the hard won changes within society for the women of Spain, through the eyes and experiences of the women themselves. I first began to think about writing this book in the...

Spanish Lavender

Spanish Lavender
  • Author(s): Joan Fallon
  • Location(s): Málaga
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1937 Spanish Civil War

‘Spanish Lavender’ is a love story set in the Spanish Civil War. The war has been raging for months and now Elizabeth and her parents have been ordered to leave Spain and return to Britain. The young English woman...

Loving Harry

Loving Harry
  • Author(s): Joan Fallon
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance

Fashion designer Margery Kane has been too busy climbing the career ladder to sustain a long-term relationship – until she meets the charming, charismatic Harry Wilkinson, and falls deeply in love for the first time. There’s only one problem:...

Santiago Tales

Santiago Tales
  • Author(s): Joan Fallon
  • Location(s): Northern Spain, Santiago de Compostela

The Camino de Santiago – the stories behind why people decide to walk this special and unique path, inspired by The Canterbury Tales

The House on the Beach

The House on the Beach
  • Author(s): Joan Fallon
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

The House on the Beach is a novel set in the years after the Civil War, in a Spain ruled by the military dictator General Francisco Franco. Childhood friends, Rocio and Inma, come from very different worlds. Inma is...

Between the Sierra and the Sea

Between the Sierra and the Sea
  • Author(s): Joan Fallon
  • Location(s): Málaga, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s onwards

It’s January 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Elizabeth, a young English girl decides to remain in Spain when the rest of her family return to the peace of England. Alone in the devastated city of Malaga she makes friends...

Dark Heart

Dark Heart
  • Author(s): Joan Fallon
  • Location(s): Málaga
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st century

When a well known film star is murdered during the Málaga Film Festival, the Guardia Civil turn once more to Jacaranda Dunne and her team for help. Although Jacaranda—known to everyone as JD—is still basking in the success of...

Palette of Secrets

Palette of Secrets
  • Author(s): Joan Fallon
  • Location(s): Costa del Sol, Marbella
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950s and later

As a young woman Nancy made some mistakes. Now her past is coming back to haunt her. Nancy Miller, once a well-known artist, spends her time quietly in the south of Spain. One day her agent tells her she...

Sophie is Still Missing

Sophie is Still Missing
  • Author(s): Joan Fallon
  • Location(s): Málaga
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st century

Jacaranda Dunne—known to everyone as JD—is an ex-Metropolitan police officer who has moved to Málaga to open a detective agency. At first, the work is routine, missing dogs, stolen passports and unfaithful husbands. Then one day a woman bursts...

Strawberry Moon

Strawberry Moon
  • Author(s): Joan Fallon
  • Location(s): Málaga, Gibraltar
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st century

On Midsummer’s Eve the bodies of two young gypsies are found in a solitary spot near a beach in Málaga. It looks like the couple committed suicide—a lovers’ pact to end it all—and the police are quick to close...

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