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Barcelona

Barcelona
  • Author(s): Robert Hughes
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): over time

Robert Hughes has been visiting Barcelona since the 1960s and he has written an epic tribute to a city he loves. He tells the story of the growth of this Mediterranean metropolis from its origins as a Roman colonial...

City of Wonders

City of Wonders
  • Author(s): Eduardo Mendoza, Nick Caistor (translator)
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1888 - 1929

Eduardo Mendoza’s classic novel about the birth of Barcelona as a world city, embodied in the rise of the ambitious and unscrupulous Onofre Bouvila “Though historical in subject matter, this story of Catalonian enterprise and Barcelonan ambition is thoroughly...

In Diamond Square

In Diamond Square
  • Author(s): Mercè Rodoreda
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

First published in 1962 as ‘La Placa del Diamant’, this is considered the most important Catalan novel of all time. This is a new English translation. It has previously been published in English as The Time of the Doves....

The Labyrinth of the Spirits

The Labyrinth of the Spirits
  • Author(s): Carlos Ruis Zafón (Carlos Ruis Zafon)
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

The Labyrinth of the Spirits is the fourth book in Zafón’s wonderful The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series As a child, Daniel Sempere discovered among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books an extraordinary novel that would change...

The Secret of Vesalius

The Secret of Vesalius
  • Author(s): Jordi Llobregat
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Daniel Amat has left Spain and all that happened there behind him. Having just achieved a brilliant role in Ancient Languages at Oxford University and an even more advantageous engagement, the arrival of a letter – a demand –...

The Snares of Memory

The Snares of Memory
  • Author(s): Juan Marsé
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1982 looking back to 1949

In January 1949 on an otherwise unremarkable day in an unremarkable Barcelona neighbourhood cinema, a prostitute is murdered in cold blood in the projection booth by the assistant projectionist, one Fermín Sicart. More than thirty years later, a screenwriter...

Barcelona Dreaming

Barcelona Dreaming
  • Author(s): Rupert Thomson
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2008

Set on the eve of the financial crash of 2008, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three stories that are linked by time and place, and also by the moving, unexpected interactions of a rich cast of characters. The...

Hello, Again

Hello, Again
  • Author(s): Isabelle Broom
  • Location(s): Aldeburgh, Barcelona, Guernsey, Hamburg, Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Philippa Taylor (Pepper to her friends) has big dreams. When she closes her eyes, she can picture exactly who she ought to be. The problem is, it’s about as far away from her real life in a small coastal...

Milk Teeth

Milk Teeth
  • Author(s): Jessica Andrews
  • Location(s): The North East (England), Barcelona, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across England, France and Spain. A girl grows up in the north of England amid scarcity, precarity and the toxic culture of heroin chic, believing...

Autumn in Catalonia

Autumn in Catalonia
  • Author(s): Jane MacKenzie
  • Location(s): Barcelona, Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

It is 1963, and in her mansion in the foothills of the Pyrenees, Joana idles her days away, banished by her powerful husband and alienated from her family. Meanwhile, in Barcelona, her daughter Carla is impoverished and in trouble.Hating...

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