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The Thinking Tank

The Thinking Tank
  • Author(s): Jae de Wylde
  • Location(s): Costa del Sol, London, Rutland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s/80s and 2004

1970, London, England Sally, dressed in brown visits Father Christmas at a church fair. He rescues her as she trips and stumbles into his arms. As he hoists her onto his lap she thinks she feels the breath of...

The White Company

The White Company
  • Author(s): Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Location(s): England, France, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 14th Century

The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle was the best selling book of its time. Set in the mediaeval era, this work presents a time when swordsmen and archers were the best kind of army. From Britain to France...

The White Goddess: An Encounter

The White Goddess: An Encounter
  • Author(s): Simon Gough
  • Location(s): Deya (Deià), Madrid
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Simon Gough is the great nephew of Robert Graves, who over 50 year ago wrote his own book titled The White Goddess: in this he explores the folklore, mythology, religion and magic within Europe. This is Gough’s account of...

The White Island

The White Island
  • Author(s): Stephen Armstrong
  • Location(s): Ibiza
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

The White Island is, and always has been, a magnet for hedonists. Its history reads like a history of pleasure itself. It is also a story of invasions and migrations, of artists and conmen, of drop-outs and love-ins. The...

The Winterlings

The Winterlings
  • Author(s): Cristina Sánchez-Andrade
  • Location(s): Galicia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th century

Two sisters return to the small parish of Tierra de Chá in Galicia after a long absence, to the former home of their grandfather, from which they fled when they were just children. At Tierra de Chá, nothing and...

The Woman in Valencia

The Woman in Valencia
  • Author(s): Annie Perreault, Ann Marie Boulanger (Translator)
  • Location(s): Valencia
  • Era(s): Contemporary and 2025

While on vacation with her family in Valencia, Claire Halde witnesses a shocking event that becomes the catalyst for a protracted downward spiral and a profound personal unravelling as she struggles to come to grips with her role in...

Two Sketches of Disjointed Happiness

Two Sketches of Disjointed Happiness
  • Author(s): Simon Kinch
  • Location(s): Seville, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A bench looking out onto the harbour on the French-Spanish border; a cash-strapped existence strolling the sunbaked streets and promenades of Seville, or the cold embrace of the daily grind back in hometown USA; Granville, cut adrift in Europe,...

Un Amor

Un Amor
  • Author(s): Sara Mesa, Katie Whittemore (translator)
  • Location(s): La Rioja
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On the heels of a cryptic mistake, Nat arrives in the rural village of La Escapa. She rents a small house from a negligent landlord, adopts a dog and begins to work on her first literary translation. But nothing...

Under The Sun

Under The Sun
  • Author(s): Lottie Moggach
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía), Costa del Sol
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Anna’s friends and family think she is living the dream in her beautiful finca under the Spanish sun. But the reality is far from perfect. The handsome, complicated man she was building a life with has left with little...

Village of the Lost Girls

Village of the Lost Girls
  • Author(s): Agustín Martínez
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees (Catalonia)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

Five years after their disappearance, the village of Monteperdido still mourns the loss of Ana and Lucia, two eleven-year-old friends who left school one afternoon and were never seen again. Now, Ana reappears unexpectedly inside a crashed car, wounded...

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