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A Turning Wind

A Turning Wind
  • Author(s): J G Harlond
  • Location(s): El Escorial, Madrid
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 17th Century

Would you trust Ludo da Portovenere? From the trading colony of Goa to the royal courts of England and Spain, Ludo da Portovenere fulfils dangerous secret commissions for three kingdoms on his own terms, and for his own reasons....

A Wedding in the Sun

A Wedding in the Sun
  • Author(s): Leonie Mack
  • Location(s): France, Spain, The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Four exes and a wedding. And a road trip no one expected… Jo Watters would rather do anything than go to her ex-husband Ben’s wedding to perfect Monica, and if it wasn’t for her beloved children she would already...

A Week To Remember

A Week To Remember
  • Author(s): Ruth O'Leary
  • Location(s): Galicia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A novel of the Camino de Santiago When Strangers Collide, Lives Are Forever Altered. Paula Paula has an anxiety attack at her 60th birthday party and realises that her life must change. While her friends are settling into retirement,...

Adrift

Adrift
  • Author(s): M A Hunter
  • Location(s): Balearic Islands (Illes Balears)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A stag do, six old friends … and a secret they’d all kill to protect.   When Pete and his friends set sail on a private yacht in the Balearics to celebrate Fergus’ upcoming wedding, they’re all looking forward...

Albi

Albi
  • Author(s): Hilary Shepherd
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Spain in the 1930s. Nine-year-old Albi runs messages for people. He likes to help out, especially now that his country is at war with itself. He is a go-between. However, life becomes difficult when he misunderstands what it is...

All This Will I Give to You

All This Will I Give to You
  • Author(s): Dolores Redondo, Michael Meigs (translator)
  • Location(s): Galicia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Present Day

When novelist Manuel Ortigosa learns that his husband, Álvaro, has been killed in a car crash, it comes as a devastating shock. It won’t be the last. He’s now arrived in Galicia. It’s where Álvaro died. It’s where the...

Almodis the Peaceweaver

Almodis the Peaceweaver
  • Author(s): Tracey Warr
  • Location(s): The South of France (Le Midi), Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 11th century

A story of love, adventure and scandal based on the real life of the eleventh-century Countess Almodis de la Marche. At a time when a noblewoman’s purpose is to produce heirs, Almodis resolves to create her own dynasty. Almodis’...

Amanda in Spain: The Girl in the Painting

Amanda in Spain: The Girl in the Painting
  • Author(s): Darlene Foster
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): present day

Amanda Jane Ross is certainly becoming a world traveller; she’s now in sunny Spain on vacation with her friend Leah. While there, she encounters a mysterious young girl who looks eerily like the girl in a famous painting she...

An English Girl in Spain

An English Girl in Spain
  • Author(s): Alice Murray
  • Location(s): Seville
  • Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary /1990s

Katie Jones had always liked horses, dogs and men. In that order. Until, that is, Dan de Loubens had come along while she was working as a groom in France in her twenties and changed everything. But time moves...

Andalucia: A Literary Guide for Travellers

Andalucia: A Literary Guide for Travellers
  • Author(s): Andrew and Suzanne Edwards
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Miscellaneous
  • Era(s): Various

Andalucia is the quintessence of Spain and yet, historically and culturally, it is utterly unlike the rest of the country. Its literary history began with the Romans and reached an early flowering when Arabic poets drew on centuries of...

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