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The Sound of One Hand Killing

The Sound of One Hand Killing
  • Author(s): Teresa Solana
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On assignment Eduard and Borja check out an exclusive meditation centre in the ritziest part of Barcelona, only to discover the director murdered, whacked in the head with a statuette of the Buddha. The violent death of a neighbour...

The South

The South
  • Author(s): Colm Tóibín
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950

This was the night train to Barcelona, some hours before the dawn. This was 1950, late September. I had left my husband. I had left my home. Katherine Proctor has dared to leave her family in Ireland and reach...

The Spanish Bow

The Spanish Bow
  • Author(s): Andromeda Romano-Lax
  • Location(s): Barcelona, Madrid
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1890s - 1940s

A rich novel of music, politics and life, seen throught the eyes of Feliu

The Summer Holiday

The Summer Holiday
  • Author(s): S E Lynes
  • Location(s): Cadaqués
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One loving couple. One surprise guest. One week to destroy everything… When the doorbell rings, I take one last look round the villa. The nuts and olives are in bowls; the white wine is chilling in the fridge; everything...

The Things We Need to Say

The Things We Need to Say
  • Author(s): Rachel Burton
  • Location(s): Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fran loves Will with all her heart. They had a whirlwind romance, a perfect marriage and a wonderful life. Until everything changed. Now Fran needs to find her way again and teaching a yoga retreat in Spain offers her...

The Time of the Doves

The Time of the Doves
  • Author(s): Mercè Rodoreda
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Barcelona, early 1930s: Natalia, a pretty shop-girl from the working-class quarter of Gracia, is hesitant when a stranger asks her to dance at the fiesta in Diamond Square. But Joe is charming and forceful, and she takes his hand....

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...

Winds of the Night

Winds of the Night
  • Author(s): Joan Sales
  • Location(s): Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Winds of the Night is the follow-up, published almost thirty years later, to Joan Sales’ acclaimed masterwork of the Spanish Civil War, Uncertain Glory. It describes the shell-shocked wasteland that was post-war Catalonia through the eyes of Cruells, a...

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