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Iberia

Iberia
  • Author(s): James A Michener
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000s

Spain is Michener’s second home and he writes about the glories of the Prado, the bullfights, and everything that is Spanish: such a great storyteller, he magnificently captures the stunning variety of life and culture in Spain.

In Diamond Square

In Diamond Square
  • Author(s): Mercè Rodoreda
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

First published in 1962 as ‘La Placa del Diamant’, this is considered the most important Catalan novel of all time. This is a new English translation. It has previously been published in English as The Time of the Doves....

Songs for the Flames

Songs for the Flames
  • Author(s): Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Anne McLean (Translator)
  • Location(s): Colombia, Spain
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

A morally complex, searing set of stories by the award-winning author of The Sound of Things Falling and The Shape of the Ruins (shortlisted for the Booker International Prize 2019). A renowned photographer probes a traumatic incident in the...

Spanish Lavender

Spanish Lavender
  • Author(s): Joan Fallon
  • Location(s): Málaga
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1937 Spanish Civil War

‘Spanish Lavender’ is a love story set in the Spanish Civil War. The war has been raging for months and now Elizabeth and her parents have been ordered to leave Spain and return to Britain. The young English woman...

The Familiar

The Familiar
  • Author(s): Leigh Bardugo
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump...

The Labyrinth of the Spirits

The Labyrinth of the Spirits
  • Author(s): Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

The Labyrinth of the Spirits is the fourth book in Zafón’s wonderful The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series As a child, Daniel Sempere discovered among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books an extraordinary novel that would change...

The New Wife

The New Wife
  • Author(s): J P Delaney
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Finn Hensen gets a call from his sister Jess to say their father has died, neither is heartbroken. Their parents divorced many years ago, after which their father, Jimmy, continued to live a bohemian lifestyle in sun-soaked Mallorca,...

The Orange Grove

The Orange Grove
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Seville
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back

An unforgettable story of past love and family secrets, set in sunny Seville Holly loves making marmalade. Now she has a chance to leave her stressful city job and pursue her dream – of returning to the Dorset landscape...

The Orange House

The Orange House
  • Author(s): Isabelle Broom
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

HENRY AND VIOLET FELL IN LOVE HERE. AND SO WILL YOU. Henry and Violet first met in the garden of The Orange House on the beautiful island of Majorca. They promised their lives to each other, poured their love...

The Secret of Vesalius

The Secret of Vesalius
  • Author(s): Jordi Llobregat
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Daniel Amat has left Spain and all that happened there behind him. Having just achieved a brilliant role in Ancient Languages at Oxford University and an even more advantageous engagement, the arrival of a letter – a demand –...

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