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Stone in a Landslide

Stone in a Landslide
  • Author(s): Maria Barbal
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees (Catalonia)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Novella
  • Era(s): 1920s onwards

The beginning of the 20th century: 13-year-old Conxa has to leave her home village in the Pyrenees to work for her childless aunt. After years of hard labour, she finds love with Jaume – a love that will be...

The Frost on His Shoulders

The Frost on His Shoulders
  • Author(s): Lorenzo Mediano
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees (Catalonia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

The 1930s, and an ageing, badly paid school teacher lives in a small, isolated village at the foot of the Pyrenees. One day he and the rest of the inhabitants stumble upon a short newspaper article about their own...

Village of the Lost Girls

Village of the Lost Girls
  • Author(s): Agustín Martínez
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees (Catalonia)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

Five years after their disappearance, the village of Monteperdido still mourns the loss of Ana and Lucia, two eleven-year-old friends who left school one afternoon and were never seen again. Now, Ana reappears unexpectedly inside a crashed car, wounded...

Blackbirds Baked In A Pie

Blackbirds Baked In A Pie
  • Author(s): Eugene Barter
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees, The Pyrenees (Catalonia)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink

At age 60 Eugene Barter, along with her sister and brother-in-law, moved to a house in the foothills of the Pyrenees to start an auberge. This is the story of her experiences. Humorous and often self-mocking, always gentle and...

Mira’s Way

Mira’s Way
  • Author(s): Amy Maroney
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees (Catalonia), The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Era(s): sixteenth century and modern day (dual timeline)

History brims with silenced stories. Will Mira’s be one of them? Mira’s Way, book two of The Miramonde Series, continues the mesmerizing tale of a Renaissance-era female artist and the modern-day art scholar who risks everything to learn her...

When I Sing, Mountains Dance

When I Sing, Mountains Dance
  • Author(s): Irene Solà, Mara Faye Lethem (Translator)
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees (Catalonia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

When Domenec – mountain-dweller, father, poet, dreamer – dies suddenly, struck by lightning, he leaves behind two small children, Mia and Hilari, to grow up wild among the looming summits of the Pyrenees and the ghosts of the Spanish...

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