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Death in Spring

Death in Spring
  • Author(s): Mercè Rodoreda
  • Location(s): Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Death in Spring is a dark and dream-like tale of a teenage boy’s coming of age in a remote village in the Catalan mountains; a place cut off from the outside world, where cruel customs are blindly followed, and...

Death In The Afternoon

Death In The Afternoon
  • Author(s): Ernest Hemingway
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

A fascinating look at the history and grandeur of bullfighting, Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation on the nature of cowardice and bravery, sport and tragedy, and is enlivened throughout by Hemingway’s pungent commentary on life...

Death of a Nationalist

Death of a Nationalist
  • Author(s): Rebecca Paweł
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Spanish Civil War

This war has drawn international attention. In a dress rehearsal for World War II, fascists support the Nationalists, while communists have come to the aid of the Republicans. Atrocities have devastated both sides. It is at this moment, when...

Don Quixote

Don Quixote
  • Author(s): Miguel De Cervantes
  • Location(s): La Mancha
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th Century

Widely regarded as the world’s first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote de La Mancha and his faithful squire,...

Eldorado Network

Eldorado Network
  • Author(s): Derek Robinson
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1941

1941. Hitler rampant. Spain neutral. Madrid, like Casablanca, the launching pad for spies from all sides. The most daring and audacious is codenamed ‘Eldorado’. Young, inexperienced, hotheaded, he had no right to survive, let alone succeed. Now his network...

Endless Possibilities

Endless Possibilities
  • Author(s): Craig Briggs
  • Location(s): Galicia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Craig left fulltime education aged eighteen and began a career in retail. At the age of 28 he found his true vocation after buying into a small printing business. After 13 years of blood, sweat, and holding back the...

Even the Darkest Night

Even the Darkest Night
  • Author(s): Javier Cercas
  • Location(s): Terra Alta, Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Melchor Marín novel. Winner of Spain’s biggest literary prize – the Premio Planeta When Melchor goes to investigate the horrific double-murder of a rich printer and his wife in rural Cataluña nothing quite adds up. The young cop...

Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting

Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting
  • Author(s): Michael Jacobs
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velazquez’s enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In Everything is Happening Jacobs searches for the ultimate significance of the painting by following the trails of associations...

Everything We Give

Everything We Give
  • Author(s): Kerry Lonsdale
  • Location(s): Sabucedo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the author of Everything We Keep comes the final novel in the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling Everything Series. Brimming with suspense, mystery, and romance, Everything We Give brings to a powerful close the gripping series...

Façade

Façade
  • Author(s): Helen Matthews
  • Location(s): Tunisia, Ibiza, London
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Suspense
  • Era(s): Current and 1990s

Façade by Helen Matthews A drowned child, estranged sisters, a once-perfect house Silence echoes louder than truth When seventeen-year-old Rachel’s baby brother drowns and her older sister, Imogen, escapes to live abroad with Simon, her musician boyfriend, Rachel must...

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