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Indiscretion

Indiscretion
  • Author(s): Hannah Fielding
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1950s

Secrets, danger and passion under the scorching Spanish sun from the Award-winning author of The Echoes of Love. Set in the wild landscape of Andalucia, Indiscretion is a compelling story of love and identity, danger and desire, and the...

It Started With Malaga

It Started With Malaga
  • Author(s): Karen O’Connor
  • Location(s): Málaga, Southern Spain
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): April 2024

Karen tags along with her son who is on a work trip to Marbella, Spain. But she checks out nearby Malaga and stays there while he is at is conference. She reads all she can in the six weeks...

Learning to Lose

Learning to Lose
  • Author(s): David Trueba
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 2000s

Sylvia turns 16 and is involved with in a car accident. Behind the wheel of the other car is a young football player from Argentina. The capricious meeting sets in motion a life that takes unexpected directions. Murder and...

Leaving Tangier

Leaving Tangier
  • Author(s): Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Location(s): Barcelona, Tangier
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s onwards

Young Moroccans gather regularly in a seafront cafe to gaze at the lights on the Spanish coast glimmering in the distance. Azel, the protagonist, is intent on leaving in one way or another. On the brink of despair he...

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...

Lost in Ibiza

Lost in Ibiza
  • Author(s): Rebecca Frayn
  • Location(s): Ibiza
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Environmental
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On her twenty-first birthday, environmental activist Alice learns that the man who has raised her is not her father after all. She is surprised to learn that her biological father, William, is a property developer based in Ibiza, where...

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 Ruiz Zafón (Carlos Ruiz 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...

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