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Digital Fortress

Digital Fortress
  • Author(s): Dan Brown
  • Location(s): Seville, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2000s

Part set in Sevilla, this is the novel about the NSA’s invincible code-breaking machine encountering a mysterious code it cannot break. Call in Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician and cryptogrpher. Her discovery sends shock waves through the corridors...

Hits Different

Hits Different
  • Author(s): Tasha Ghouri, Lizzie Huxley-Jones
  • Location(s): Ibiza
  • Genre(s): Disability, Coming of Age, Fiction, New Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Cassie needs a change. She’s in a job she hates, dating a guy who couldn’t care less about her, and secretly dreaming of making her dance ambitions a reality. But that’s all they are, dreams. Because no way could...

House of the Deaf

House of the Deaf
  • Author(s): LaMar Herrin
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Ben Williamson has lost a daughter in a Basque separatist bombing in Madrid. Ben struggles with all the questions about the violence of her untimely deathand he needs to understand why this happened. In his search for answers he...

I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
  • Author(s): Irene Solà, Mara Faye Lethem (Translator)
  • Location(s): Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Nestled among rugged mountains, in a remote part of Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, bandits, deserters, ghosts, beasts and demons, sits the old farmhouse called Mas Clavell. Inside, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed while family and...

Leaving the Atocha Station

Leaving the Atocha Station
  • Author(s): Ben Lerner
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his attitude towards art. Fuelled by strong coffee and self-prescribed tranquillizers, Adam’s ‘research’ soon...

Monsignor Quixote

Monsignor Quixote
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Monsignor Quixote is the village priest, elevated to the rank of monsignor through a clerical error, who travels to Madrid in a Seat 600, together with his best friend Sancho, the Communist ex-mayor of the village. Set in La...

The Antiquarian

The Antiquarian
  • Author(s): Julián Sánchez
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Modern back to Middle Ages

An intriguing letter from his adoptive father, Artur, turns novelist Enrique Alonso’s world upside down. Artur, a well-known antiquarian in Barcelona, reveals that he has discovered an ancient manuscript, but he feels uneasy, as though he’s in over his...

The Cruise Connection

The Cruise Connection
  • Author(s): Peter Kerr
  • Location(s): Mallorca, The Canary Islands (Las Islas Canarias)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

In this, the third in the series of humour-spiked ‘Bob Burns Investigates’ mysteries, the droll Scottish Detective Inspector is once again aided by foxy forensic scientist, Julie Bryson, and abetted by keener-than-smart rookie detective, Andy Green. A finger is...

The Lone Man

The Lone Man
  • Author(s): Bernardo Atxaga
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

Two Basque gunmen on the run after a bomb attack find refuge in a hotel whose owner, Carlos, used to belong to their movement. With the World Cup in progress, the Polish football team is staying in the hotel....

The Street of the Three Beds

The Street of the Three Beds
  • Author(s): Roser Caminals-Heath
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

In the shady backstreets of late nineteenth-century Barcelona, where nothing is quite what it seems, a prosperous heir’s carefree life is turned upside down when he investigates the mysterious disappearance of his working-class mistress Maurici Aldabò is the scion...

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