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  • 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...

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...

The Villa

The Villa
  • Author(s): Ruth Kelly
  • Location(s): Balearic Islands (Illes Balears)
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Villa in Paradise It’s destined to be the ultimate reality show: Ten contestants. A luxurious villa on a stunning private island. Every moment streamed live to a global audience who have unprecedented control over those competing for the...

Things that happen to you in Barcelona when you’re Thirty

Things that happen to you in Barcelona when you’re Thirty
  • Author(s): Llucia Ramis
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

What happens when you turn thirty and still don’t know what you want to be when you grow up? In this witty and sharply observed portrait of a generation, lost thirtysomethings grapple with, and avoid, the responsibilities of adulthood...

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