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Keep Walking, Your Heart Will Catch Up: A Camino de Santiago journey

Keep Walking, Your Heart Will Catch Up: A Camino de Santiago journey
  • Author(s): Cathay O Reta
  • Location(s): Santiago de Compostela
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): contemporary

“Keep Walking” is a modern-day pilgrimage, a spiritual journey, a physical feat. Cathay was in her mid-60s and entering a new phase of life. In phase one she had been single for 29 years. Phase two followed with 33...

Petra’s Ghost

Petra’s Ghost
  • Author(s): C.S. O'Cinneide
  • Location(s): Santiago de Compostela, Northern Spain
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): present

A woman has vanished on the Camino de Santiago, the ancient five-hundred-mile pilgrimage that crosses northern Spain. Daniel, an Irish expat, walks the lonely trail carrying his wife, Petra’s, ashes, along with the damning secret of how she really...

Death on a Galician Shore

Death on a Galician Shore
  • Author(s): Domingo Villar
  • Location(s): Galicia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A cleverly plotted, page-turning murder mystery set on the beautiful, rugged coast of Galicia in northwest Spain

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 Assassin’s Mark

The Assassin’s Mark
  • Author(s): David Ebsworth
  • Location(s): San Sebastian, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1930s

September 1938. Spain’s Civil War has been raging for two years, the outcome still in the balance. But rebel General Franco is so confident of winning that he has opened up battlefield tourism along the country’s north coast. Jack...

The Winterlings

The Winterlings
  • Author(s): Cristina Sánchez-Andrade
  • Location(s): Galicia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th century

Two sisters return to the small parish of Tierra de Chá in Galicia after a long absence, to the former home of their grandfather, from which they fled when they were just children. At Tierra de Chá, nothing and...

All This Will I Give to You

All This Will I Give to You
  • Author(s): Dolores Redondo, Michael Meigs (translator)
  • Location(s): Galicia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Present Day

When novelist Manuel Ortigosa learns that his husband, Álvaro, has been killed in a car crash, it comes as a devastating shock. It won’t be the last. He’s now arrived in Galicia. It’s where Álvaro died. It’s where the...

Beyond Imagination

Beyond Imagination
  • Author(s): Craig Briggs
  • Location(s): Galicia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Craig Briggs’s bestselling Journey to a Dream told the true-life story of his dream move to Spain with wife Melanie and their dog Jazz. Not for them the tourist-packed Costas of the Mediterranean or the hills of Andalucia; they...

Camino – or a peanut butter, marmite and banana butty

Camino – or a peanut butter, marmite and banana butty
  • Author(s): Lisa Rose Wright
  • Location(s): Galicia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): present

In hindsight, deciding to walk the Camino de Santiago carrying everything but the kitchen sink was probably a mistake. Realising the chance of reaching their destination in three short weeks is a big fat zero, Lisa and partner S...

Camino de Santiago in 20 Days: My Way On The Way Of St. James

Camino de Santiago in 20 Days: My Way On The Way Of St. James
  • Author(s): Randall St. Germain
  • Location(s): Santiago de Compostela
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Funny, touching, and inspiring! A book about really walking the Camino de Santiago! Perhaps it was the onset of middle-age or just too much diet cola, but in the Spring of 2010, Canadian boy, Randall St. Germain felt called...

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