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Blue Murder

Blue Murder
  • Author(s): David Burke
  • Location(s): Menorca
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

Detective Inspector Frank Harmer thought early retirement would mean living the dream in the sun on the Balearic Island of Menorca. He thought wrong. The dream suddenly turns sour when a body turns up in a local bay. Who...

Briefly, A Delicious Life

Briefly, A Delicious Life
  • Author(s): Nell Stevens
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Gothic, Historical, LGBTQIA+
  • Era(s): 1830s

In 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her children travel to a monastery in Mallorca. They are there to create and to convalesce, to live a simple life after the wildness of their Paris days. Witness to this tumultuous...

Bulls, Bands, and London

Bulls, Bands, and London
  • Author(s): John Meyer
  • Location(s): Pamplona, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Neil Jarvis believes that the wild and sexy Jordan is the best thing in his otherwise predictable life. So when she mysteriously disappears in England after their first big fight, he drops everything in order to search for her...

By fire, by Water

By fire, by Water
  • Author(s): Mitchell James Kaplan
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 15th century Spain

Luis de Santángel, chancellor to the court and longtime friend of King Ferdinand, has had enough of the Spanish Inquisition. As the power of Inquisitor General Tomás de Torquemada grows, so does the brutality of the Spanish church and...

Camille and the Raising of Eros

Camille and the Raising of Eros
  • Author(s): William Rose
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Spain, 1920s. The lives of three Carmelite nuns intersect and develop through a period of intense experience. In their personal histories there is great contrast, from the artistic exuberance of Paris in ‘La Belle Époque’ to slavery in Africa,...

Camino – or a peanut butter, marmite and banana butty

Camino – or a peanut butter, marmite and banana butty
  • Author(s): Lisa Rose Wright
  • Location(s): Galicia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): present

In hindsight, deciding to walk the Camino de Santiago carrying everything but the kitchen sink was probably a mistake. Realising the chance of reaching their destination in three short weeks is a big fat zero, Lisa and partner S...

Camino de Santiago in 20 Days: My Way On The Way Of St. James

Camino de Santiago in 20 Days: My Way On The Way Of St. James
  • Author(s): Randall St. Germain
  • Location(s): Santiago de Compostela
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Funny, touching, and inspiring! A book about really walking the Camino de Santiago! Perhaps it was the onset of middle-age or just too much diet cola, but in the Spring of 2010, Canadian boy, Randall St. Germain felt called...

Carmen and the House That Gaudí Built

Carmen and the House That Gaudí Built
  • Author(s): Susan Hughes, Marianne Ferrer (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A joyful celebration of the nature-inspired work of architect Antoni Gaudí Carmen Batlló and Dragon, her imaginary salamander friend, love exploring the woods behind their home. But when Carmen’s family announces a move to the city, Carmen is miserable....

Catfish Alley

Catfish Alley
  • Author(s): T M Stratton
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tommy Chisholm is in trouble. His dream life in Barcelona is unravelling. He’s broke, his writing career has stalled, and maybe it’s time to pack up and go home. When he’s recruited by an organised crime gang to help...

Cautery

Cautery
  • Author(s): Lucía Lijtmaer, Maureen Shaughnessy (Translator)
  • Location(s): Barcelona, Madrid, Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary / 17th Century

Fantasies, or are they premonitions, of a great wave, an impending apocalypse, threaten to swamp a young woman trapped in a slowly curdling relationship. From the outside it all looks good—the casually elegant apartment, the cocktail parties, the impressive,...

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