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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...

Red Smoking Mirror

Red Smoking Mirror
  • Author(s): Nick Hunt
  • Location(s): Mexico, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

The year is 1521 in the Mexica city of Tenochtitlan. Twenty-nine years earlier, Islamic Spain never fell to the Christians, and Andalus launched a voyage of discovery to the New Maghreb. For two decades the Jewish merchant Eli Ben...

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

Shadows Over the Spanish Sun

Shadows Over the Spanish Sun
  • Author(s): Caroline Montague
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1930s

A country in the shadow of war. A love that burns through the decades… Mia Ferris’s heart has always belonged in Spain. Every childhood summer was spent at her grandfather’s hacienda, riding together amongst the olive trees or listening...

Sharpe’s Rifles

Sharpe’s Rifles
  • Author(s): Bernard Cornwell
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1800s

It is 1809. Napoleon’s army is sweeping across Spain. Lieutenant Richard Sharpe is newly in command of his demoralized squad, and his task is to lead them to safety: but he has to negotiate the hostile countryside infested by...

Sinco (Cantabria American School series #2)

Sinco (Cantabria American School series #2)
  • Author(s): Christy Esmahan
  • Location(s): Bilbao, Northern Spain, Santander
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Sinco is the second book in the Cantabria American School series, following Bueno. Harvey Jones, the headmaster from Texas, is back for a second year at the school. He is dating the lovely Carmen, and ready to face the...

Sisters

Sisters
  • Author(s): Michelle Frances
  • Location(s): Elba, Italy, Northern Spain, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From Elba to Italy, through the South of France and into Spain. Is blood really thicker than water? Abby and Ellie were never close as children. Now in their thirties, they each harbour deep-rooted resentment for the other –...

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