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Pasodoble

Pasodoble
  • Author(s): Martin Cross
  • Location(s): Alpujarras, Andalusia (Andalucía), Granada
  • Genre(s): Crime, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

The high Alpujarra mountains in Granada province, southern Spain. When human remains are found in a village reservoir, Inspector Moreno’s investigations uncover a dangerous world of gangsters, prostitutes and eccentric British expats. Solving crime is thirsty work, but Moreno...

Shadows Over the Spanish Sun

Shadows Over the Spanish Sun
  • Author(s): Caroline Montague
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1930s

A country in the shadow of war. A love that burns through the decades… Mia Ferris’s heart has always belonged in Spain. Every childhood summer was spent at her grandfather’s hacienda, riding together amongst the olive trees or listening...

South from Granada

South from Granada
  • Author(s): Gerald Brenan
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1920s, 1930s

In South from Granada, Brenan chose to live in the small village of Yegen, in the mountains near Granada, well inland and a world away from the larger Andalucian towns. He rented an old home, and some characters who...

Tales of the Alhambra

Tales of the Alhambra
  • Author(s): Washington Irving
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 2000s

This is a dreamlike novel of Granada and the Alhambra – it is considered to be one of the most entertaining travelogues ever written. Guitar music sets the tone, together with fact, fantasy and secret chambers – it transports...

The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society

The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society
  • Author(s): Chris Stewart
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Late 1900s

3rd in the “Lemons” Trilogy. The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society finds Chris and his family still living o their farm, El Valero, and with its easy ‘Sun-Lit’ charm and funny, evocative anecdotes, it will draw in new and old...

The Blind Man of Seville

The Blind Man of Seville
  • Author(s): Robert Wilson
  • Location(s): Seville
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 2000s

Easter week in Seville, a time of passion and processions. The first book that features the detective, Javier Falcon. The case of a man, who is bound, gagged and dead in front of his television, with terrible self inflicted...

The Forgetting River

The Forgetting River
  • Author(s): Doreen Carvajal
  • Location(s): Arcos de la Frontera
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

The Forgetting River chronicles Carvajal’s quest to find out the truth about her family’s history. A practising Catholic the author had a sense there was a more complex element to the life of her family. She discovered her Jewish...

The Hand of Fatima

The Hand of Fatima
  • Author(s): Ildefonso Falcones
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1564

Snared between two cultures and two loves, one man is forced to choose… 1564, the Kingdom of Granada. After years of Christian oppression, the Moors take arms and daub the white houses of Sierra Nevada with the blood of...

The Last Days of the Bus Club

The Last Days of the Bus Club
  • Author(s): Chris Stewart
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s two decades since Chris Stewart moved to his farm on the wrong side of a river in the mountains of southern Spain and his daughter Chlöe is preparing to fly the nest for university. In this latest, typically...

The Poet’s Wife

The Poet’s Wife
  • Author(s): Rebecca Stonehill
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s onwards

Granada, 1920. Free-spirited Luisa and young poet Eduardo fall in love, cementing a bond that can never be broken. Behind the jasmine filled courtyard, perched amongst houses like clouds on a hilltop, stands a beautiful villa; Carmen de las Estrellas....

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