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Tripping on Love

Tripping on Love
  • Author(s): Carrie Stone
  • Location(s): London, Marbella
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Twenty-something, Lizzie Saunders, has found herself newly single, newly fired and living as a Room Mate. Not quite the life plan she’d had in mind for herself. Only after securing a job at an independent travel company, does she...

Under Suspicion

Under Suspicion
  • Author(s): Helen and Morna Mulgray (the Mulgray Twins)
  • Location(s): Tenerife
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 2000s

DJ Smith, Undercover investigator for HM Revenue & Customs, is sent to Tenerife to infiltrate a money-laundering organisation run by Ambrose Vanheusen, a ruthless criminal with an obsession for his Persian cat, Samarkand Black Prince. DJ’s passport into Vanheusen’s...

A Barcelona Heiress

A Barcelona Heiress
  • Author(s): Sergio Vila-Sanjuán
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

A fascinating look into the elegant and turbulent Barcelona of the 1920s, and a historical detective novel—based on real events and characters—that unravels an intricate web of political intrigue and chronicles the end of a dazzling era In the...

Blood on the Saddle

Blood on the Saddle
  • Author(s): Rafael Reig
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Future

The first of Reig’s acclaimed-in-Spain titles to be translated into English (and shortlisted for the Booker-like Premio Fundación Lara in 2003) is at its core a witty, thrill-a-minute detective story, but it ranges exhilaratingly across genres. The book opens...

Our Last Days in Barcelona

Our Last Days in Barcelona
  • Author(s): Chanel Cleeton
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1936, 1964

Barcelona, 1964. Exiled from Cuba after the revolution, Isabel Perez has learned to guard her heart and protect her family at all costs. After Isabel’s sister Beatriz disappears in Barcelona, Isabel goes to Spain in search of her. Joining...

The Best Thing that Can Happen to a Croissant

The Best Thing that Can Happen to a Croissant
  • Author(s): Pablo Tusset
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 2000s

If you can get beyone the title, then this, Tusset’s debut novel, will whisk you into the life of Pablo “Baloo” Miralles, a dissolute black sheep of the finance family Miralles and Miralles. In his 30s he takes to...

The Hotel Life

The Hotel Life
  • Author(s): Javvier Montes
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern and 19th Century

Featured in Granta’s The Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists issue in 2010, Javier Montes blends literary narrative and compelling intrigue to great effect in this novel. A journalist employed to review hotels for a newspaper finds himself unexpectedly playing...

The Prisoner of Thiago

The Prisoner of Thiago
  • Author(s): Jamie d'Antioc
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía), Granada
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1500s

A touching tale of determination, female friendship and love against all odds. Inspired by a true story, The Prisoner of Thiago is a gripping historical novel that lays bare the suffering and fear endured by the Moriscos of Spain...

A Bookseller in Madrid

A Bookseller in Madrid
  • Author(s): Mario Escobar
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

How can the words of the past help heal the horror of the present? For as long as she can remember, Barbara Spiel has always found solace in books. Born in Germany and having come of age in a...

A Case Of Noir

A Case Of Noir
  • Author(s): Paul D Brazill
  • Location(s): England, France, Poland, Spain
  • Genre(s): Noir
  • Era(s): 21st century

In snow smothered Warsaw, Luke Case, a boozy English hack with a dark secret, starts a dangerous affair with a gangster’s wife. Case escapes to the sweltering Spanish heat where he meets a colourful cast of characters, including a...

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