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Voices of the Old Sea

Voices of the Old Sea
  • Author(s): Norman Lewis
  • Location(s): Costa Brava
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

“Voices of the Old Sea” is Lewis’ masterly description of the Costa Brava on the cusp of tourist development in the 1950s, a place where men regulated their lives by the sardine shoals of spring and autumn and the...

The Shadow of the Wind

The Shadow of the Wind
  • Author(s): Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

It is Barcelona, 1945, post war, and a boy, Daniel awakes and can no longer remember his Mother’s face. Daniel’s widowed father, who deals in antiquarian books, introduces him to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books – each book waiting...

A Thunderous Whisper

A Thunderous Whisper
  • Author(s): Christina Diaz Gonzalez
  • Location(s): Guernica
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1930s/1940s

Ani believes she is just an insignificant whisper of a 12-year-old girl in a loud world. This is what her mother tells her anyway. Her father made her feel important, but he’s been off fighting in Spain’s Civil War,...

From Barcelona, with Love

From Barcelona, with Love
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Adler
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Celebrity star, Bibi Fortuna, flees the U.S. when her lover and her best friend killed in a car accident. The police are looking at Bibi. She flees to Barcelona, but her daughter, left behind, engages a P.I to see...

Cathedral of the Sea

Cathedral of the Sea
  • Author(s): Ildefonso Falcones
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 14th Century

Santa Maria del Mar is in the process of being built. This is the city of Barcelona, witnessing the building of a great cathedral. Arnau, son of the Estanyol family joins the guild of stone workers and helps build...

The Vacationers

The Vacationers
  • Author(s): Emma Straub
  • Location(s): Puigpunyent
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The Posts are going on their first family vacation in years, and it’s going to be a special one: Jim and Franny are taking their daughter Sylvia, son Bobby and his girlfriend, and Franny’s best friend Charles and his...

A Body in Barcelona (Max Cámara 5)

A Body in Barcelona (Max Cámara 5)
  • Author(s): Jason Webster
  • Location(s): Barcelona, Valencia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Suspense
  • Era(s): Modern

Tensions in Spain are rising: political violence and social unrest have suddenly re-emerged. Madrid is trying to keep a tight leash on Catalonia, where the call for independence is getting louder by the day. The last time Barcelona moved...

A Lizard in my Luggage

A Lizard in my Luggage
  • Author(s): Anna Nicholas
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Anna had never liked the idea of Mallorca, thinking it was for the disco and beerswilling fraternity. That was until her sister hired an au pair from a rural part of the island who said it was the most...

A Man of Understanding

A Man of Understanding
  • Author(s): Diana Janney
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It takes a man of understanding to rebuild a shattered soul, a man with a deep and learned grasp of philosophy and poetry, a man who can nurture and inspire an enquiring mind, a man with the wit and...

All Souls’ Day

All Souls’ Day
  • Author(s): Cees Nooteboom
  • Location(s): Berlin, Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Arthur Daane, a documentary film-maker and inveterate globetrotter, has lost his wife and child in a plane crash. In ALL SOULS’ DAY we follow Arthur as he wanders the streets of Berlin, a city uniquely shaped by history. Berlin...

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