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More Ketchup than Salsa: Confessions of a Tenerife Barman

More Ketchup than Salsa: Confessions of a Tenerife Barman
  • Author(s): Joe Cawley
  • Location(s): Tenerife
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2000s

Childhood sweethearts, Joe and Joy are broke and bored. They’re also tired of smelling of fish. When offered the chance to escape from the dreary market stalls of England to run a bar on a sub-tropical island, they recklessly...

Or the Bull Kills You

Or the Bull Kills You
  • Author(s): Jason Webster
  • Location(s): Valencia
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Chief Inspector Max Cámara thinks in proverbs – ones his Anarchist grandfather repeats all the time – but he hates one thing above all… bullfighting. So when he’s roped into investigating the murder of Spain’s most celebrated matador, found...

Putting Right the Past

Putting Right the Past
  • Author(s): Ian Wilfred
  • Location(s): Tenerife
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Carole Harding is in her 50s. She divorced her husband after he cheated on her with a prostitute. She hated her life – working in a Bristol supermarket – and the only exciting thing she’d done was to go...

Sinfully Summer

Sinfully Summer
  • Author(s): Aimee Duffy
  • Location(s): Marbella
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Notorious heiress Alexa Green has certainly been enjoying her most recent girls-holiday in Marbella. Just as we thought, she’s been knocking back the cocktails and showing off her fabulous bikini body on the beach… but rumour has it she’s...

Snowball Oranges: One Mallorcan Winter

Snowball Oranges: One Mallorcan Winter
  • Author(s): Peter Kerr
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000s

Peter Kerr turned his daydream of moving to Spain into reality.From snowy Scotland to snowy farmhouse in Mallorca! A wrong turn on an earlier trip brought him to the house of his dreams. Thus ensues a life populated by...

Spain

Spain
  • Author(s): Jan Morris
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1960s

Spain is one of the absolutes. Nothing is more compelling than the drama, at once dark and dazzling, of that theatre over the hills – the vast splendour of the Spanish landscape, the intensity of Spain’s pride and misery,...

The Barefoot Queen

The Barefoot Queen
  • Author(s): Ildefonso Falcones
  • Location(s): Madrid, Seville
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 18th Century

1748, Seville: Caridad, a former Cuban slave, wanders the streets of the city. Forced to leave behind her young son, she has just arrived by boat to forge a new life for herself in Spain. When she meets Milagros...

The Gannet has Landed

The Gannet has Landed
  • Author(s): Peter Kerr
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The story follows Scottish would-be-vet, Doogie O’Mara as he takes up a position with a UK tour operator based on the island. Fiction as real life….

The Good Suicides

The Good Suicides
  • Author(s): Antonio Hill
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Young, free and … dead Senior staff at Alemany Cosmetics company come home with a secret after a team-building course in a remote country house. Now, they are committing suicide, one by one. Soon, they may all be dead....

The Group

The Group
  • Author(s): Rachel Willson-Broyles (Translator), Sigge Eklund
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Hanna moves to Spain for an internship at the prestigious Prado gallery, she finds herself spending her days buried in the museum’s stifling archives, and her nights alone in a tiny rented flat. Then one day she sees...

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