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The Hand of Fatima

The Hand of Fatima
  • Author(s): Ildefonso Falcones
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1564

Snared between two cultures and two loves, one man is forced to choose… 1564, the Kingdom of Granada. After years of Christian oppression, the Moors take arms and daub the white houses of Sierra Nevada with the blood of...

The Happy City

The Happy City
  • Author(s): Elvira Navarro
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern and 19th Century

“I feel terrible. Although he doesn’t say it, I know he had been hoping the whole time that I would explain it all somehow: but I can’t explain it, because I don’t understand anything.” These disturbing words, almost a...

The Hideaway

The Hideaway
  • Author(s): Sheila O'Flanagan
  • Location(s): Costa Blanca, Valencia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The breathtaking novel from Sunday Times bestselling Sheila O’Flanagan, author of THE MISSING WIFE and WHAT HAPPENED THAT NIGHT. Perfect for readers of Catherine Alliott and Marian Keyes. What would you do if you discovered you were living a...

The Honeymoon

The Honeymoon
  • Author(s): Rona Halsall
  • Location(s): Brighton, Menorca
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘I’m your husband, Chloe. We’re a partnership now and we do what’s best for us as a couple.’ Chloe finally feels like she’s got her life together. After a difficult childhood and losing both parents, she worked hard for...

The House on the Beach

The House on the Beach
  • Author(s): Joan Fallon
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century

The House on the Beach is a novel set in the years after the Civil War, in a Spain ruled by the military dictator General Francisco Franco. Childhood friends, Rocio and Inma, come from very different worlds. Inma is...

The Last Days of the Bus Club

The Last Days of the Bus Club
  • Author(s): Chris Stewart
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s two decades since Chris Stewart moved to his farm on the wrong side of a river in the mountains of southern Spain and his daughter Chlöe is preparing to fly the nest for university. In this latest, typically...

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Cherry Radford
  • Location(s): Beachy Head, Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

After the break-up of her marriage, Imogen escapes to her aunt’s converted lighthouse on Beachy Head. Writing for a tedious online magazine but hoping to start a novel, she wants to be alone until she finds an entrancing flamenco...

The Perfume Garden

The Perfume Garden
  • Author(s): Kate Lord Brown
  • Location(s): Valencia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s/early 1940s and early 2000s

High in the hills of Valencia, a forgotten house guards its secrets. Untouched since Franco’s forces tore through Spain in 1936, the whitewashed walls have crumbled, the garden, laden with orange blossom, grown wild. Emma Temple is the first...

The Poet’s Wife

The Poet’s Wife
  • Author(s): Rebecca Stonehill
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s onwards

Granada, 1920. Free-spirited Luisa and young poet Eduardo fall in love, cementing a bond that can never be broken. Behind the jasmine filled courtyard, perched amongst houses like clouds on a hilltop, stands a beautiful villa; Carmen de las Estrellas....

The Repentent Morning

The Repentent Morning
  • Author(s): Chris Paling
  • Location(s): Barcelona, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Fitzrovia, Soho in London, 1930s. Meredith Kerr is spending another evening of inebriation with three men. Harry Bowden, billy boyle and Arthur Lawler all want her for themselves. But Meredith has forgotten how to understand what it is she...

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