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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): 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): 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....
- 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 –...
- 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...
- 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): Catalonia, Spain
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Looking back over centuries
Drawing comparisons with Shadow of the Wind, The Name of the Rose and The Reader, and an instant bestseller in more than 20 languages, Confessions is an astonishing story of one man s life, interwoven with a narrative that...
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