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- Location(s): Catalonia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
An intoxicating story of collapse and survival Mei is a forty-two year-old editor living in Barcelona. After years of unsuccessfully trying to become pregnant, and having grown apart from her husband, she decides to escape her crude reality when...
- 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...
- 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...
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
A country that doesn’t acknowledge its past is destined to repeat its mistakes. Why murder a sick old man nearing retirement? An investigation into the death of a professor at the University of Barcelona seems particularly baffling for Deputy...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
No Regrets: A Life in Catalonia
- Location(s): Barcelona, Catalonia, Figueres, Gerona, Tarragona
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Present
In 1999, at the age of 52, Dvora Treisman flew off with her cat Pumpkin from the San Francisco airport to begin a new life in Barcelona. Since then she has moved to Tarragona, the small fishing village of...
- 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...
- 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 –...
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