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The Return

The Return
  • Author(s): Victoria Hislop
  • Location(s): Granada, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s, 2000s

Sonia orders a cup of coffee in a little cafe and with the serendipitous event she finds herself learning about one family’s fight to survive the Civil War. An insightful exploration of the horros of the war. Creative dance...

The Rocks

The Rocks
  • Author(s): Peter Nichols
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 2005 looking back 60 years

Set on the island of Mallorca, The Rocks is a double love story told in reverse. Opening in 2005 with a dramatic event that seems to seal the mystery of two lives, the story moves backwards in time, unravelling over sixty...

The Sheep Walker’s Daughter

The Sheep Walker’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Sydney Avey
  • Location(s): California, The Basque Country
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

A Korean War widow’s difficult mother dies before revealing the identity of her daughter’s father and his cultural heritage. As Dee sorts through what little her mother left, she unearths puzzling clues that raise more questions: Why did Leora...

The Spanish Game

The Spanish Game
  • Author(s): Charles Cumming
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The setting in Madrid is a change from London, where Milius is usually based. Alec Milius is asked to explore the possibility of his finance company investing in Basque country – he meets with a politician, who then disappears….

The Spanish Garden

The Spanish Garden
  • Author(s): Cherry Radford
  • Location(s): Almería (Almeria)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Andie finds herself in the midst of a media scandal that threatens to end her career as a TV garden designer and her relationship with fellow presenter Johnny. On impulse, she decides to rent her grandmother’s old home in...

The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War
  • Author(s): Gerald Brenan
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

This is the classic account of the Spanish Civil War, Brenan was there observing and processing in the this richly detailed account.

The Summer House by the Sea

The Summer House by the Sea
  • Author(s): Jenny Oliver
  • Location(s): Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Every Summer has its own story… For Ava Fisher, the backdrop to all her sun-drenched memories – from her first taste of chocolate-dipped churros to her very first kiss – is her grandmother’s Summerhouse in the sleepy Spanish seaside...

The Summer of Dead Toys

The Summer of Dead Toys
  • Author(s): Antonio Hill
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

When the death of a young witness in a case of human trafficking and voodoo provokes the normally calm Inspector Salgado to beat someone up, he is swiftly removed from the project. Instead, he is sent to investigate a...

The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises
  • Author(s): Ernest Hemingway
  • Location(s): Pamplona, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

A masterpiece, post World war 1: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley, who travel from the wild nightlife of Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain, in the company of a group of expatriates – moral dissolution, unrequited...

The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World’s Greatest Piece of Cheese

The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World’s Greatest Piece of Cheese
  • Author(s): Michael Paterniti
  • Location(s): Guzmán
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

In the picturesque village of Guzmán, Spain, in a cave dug into a hillside on the edge of town, an ancient door leads to a cramped limestone chamber known as “the telling room.” Containing nothing but a wooden table...

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