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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...

A Chorus of Cockerels: Walking on the Wild Side in Mallorca

A Chorus of Cockerels: Walking on the Wild Side in Mallorca
  • Author(s): Anna Nicholas
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Life in rural Mallorca continues to hold its magic for Anna and her family. When not juggling work deadlines, chatting with Johnny the toad or managing her ever-growing menagerie, Anna sets off to explore the lesser-known areas of the...

A Darker Sky

A Darker Sky
  • Author(s): Mari Jungstedt, Paul Norlen (Translator), Ruben Eliassen
  • Location(s): The Canary Islands (Las Islas Canarias)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Canary Island Book 1) Murder is killing the mood at a yoga tourist destination. As dawn breaks on the Canary Islands, a fisherman discovers a woman lying dead on the rocks nearby, her body arranged like a piece of...

A Good Life

A Good Life
  • Author(s): Virginie Grimaldi
  • Location(s): The Basque Country
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Emma and Agathe are sisters. They were thick as thieves when they were young but have always been as different as can be. Agathe, the younger sister, is disorderly, chaotic, and fiery. Five years older, Emma has always been...

A Heart so White

A Heart so White
  • Author(s): Javier Marías
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Heart so White is the breathtaking international bestseller and IMPAC Award-winning masterpiece by Javier Marías, whose highly-anticipated new novel The Infatuations is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by Jonathan Coe. A...

A House in the High Hills

A House in the High Hills
  • Author(s): Selina Scott
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000s

Life in Spain, in the house that captured her heart, the neighbours, the friends, the scenery and the building work that that nearly finished her! But it is the arrival of a dog that makes her veer off course…

A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars

A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars
  • Author(s): Yaba Badoe
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía), Cadiz
  • Genre(s): Magical Realism, Young Adult

*Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2018. *Nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Award 2018. A powerful, haunting debut that steps seamlessly from the horrors of people-trafficking to the magic of African folklore. Sante was a baby when she was...

A Long Petal of the Sea

A Long Petal of the Sea
  • Author(s): Isabel Allende
  • Location(s): Spain, Chile
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1939

September 3, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles’ splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe. Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy...

A Long Winter

A Long Winter
  • Author(s): Colm Tóibín
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees (Catalonia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

One snowy morning, after arguing with her husband, Miquel’s mother walks out from their home high up in the Pyrenees and does not return. With his younger brother stationed far away on military service and his father cast out...

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