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Living La Vida Loca

Living La Vida Loca
  • Author(s): Belinda Jones
  • Location(s): Buenos Aires, Havana, Seville
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Carmen has been feeling the need to break free for Too Darn Long. So when her equally frustrated friend Beth suggests the ultimate escape – dancing their way through a series of scorchingly-hot countries – she can’t resist! There’s...

Loving Harry

Loving Harry
  • Author(s): Joan Fallon
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance

Fashion designer Margery Kane has been too busy climbing the career ladder to sustain a long-term relationship – until she meets the charming, charismatic Harry Wilkinson, and falls deeply in love for the first time. There’s only one problem:...

Marina

Marina
  • Author(s): Carlos Ruis Zafón (Carlos Ruis Zafon)
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In May 1980, 15-year-old Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in the old quarter of Barcelona. For seven days and nights no one knows his whereabouts… His story begins in the heart of old Barcelona, when he...

Mother Hens

Mother Hens
  • Author(s): Sophie McCartney
  • Location(s): Ibiza, Cheshire, Las Vegas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Cara Carmichael’s bestie is finally getting hitched, and she’s over the moon because it means one thing and one thing only… Whoah, they’re going to Ibiza! Swapping the school run for old skool club classics; four friends are leaving...

Mr Lynch’s Holiday

Mr Lynch’s Holiday
  • Author(s): Catherine O'Flynn
  • Location(s): Almería (Almeria), Costa del Sol
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘I’m looking forward to seeing you and Laura and getting my first taste of “abroad”.’ Eamonn Lynch stares at the letter announcing the imminent arrival of his father, Dermot. His first thought is: I’ll make an excuse, I’ll put...

No Regrets: A Life in Catalonia

No Regrets: A Life in Catalonia
  • Author(s): Dvora Treisman
  • 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...

Outlaws

Outlaws
  • Author(s): Javier Cercas
  • Location(s): Girona (Gerona)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s/2000s

In the late 1970s, as Spain was adrift between the death of Franco and the rebirth of democracy, people were moving from the poor south to the cities of the north in search of a better life. But the...

Pasodoble

Pasodoble
  • Author(s): Martin Cross
  • Location(s): Alpujarras, Andalusia (Andalucía), Granada
  • Genre(s): Crime, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

The high Alpujarra mountains in Granada province, southern Spain. When human remains are found in a village reservoir, Inspector Moreno’s investigations uncover a dangerous world of gangsters, prostitutes and eccentric British expats. Solving crime is thirsty work, but Moreno...

Sacred Sierra: A Year on a Spanish Mountain

Sacred Sierra: A Year on a Spanish Mountain
  • Author(s): Jason Webster
  • Location(s): Castellon
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000s

Jason Webster had lived in spain for 15 years whne he and his partner Salud, a flamenco dancer, choose to relocate from Valencia to the mountains. to an isolated and run down farmhouse. This is the first year of...

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

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