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- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
In May 1980, 15-year-old Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in the old quarter of Barcelona. For seven days and nights no one knows his whereabouts… His story begins in the heart of old Barcelona, when he...
No Regrets: A Life in Catalonia
- Location(s): Barcelona, Catalonia, Figueres, Gerona, Tarragona
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Present
In 1999, at the age of 52, Dvora Treisman flew off with her cat Pumpkin from the San Francisco airport to begin a new life in Barcelona. Since then she has moved to Tarragona, the small fishing village of...
- Location(s): Girona (Gerona)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s/2000s
In the late 1970s, as Spain was adrift between the death of Franco and the rebirth of democracy, people were moving from the poor south to the cities of the north in search of a better life. But the...
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
The body of Stuart Pedrell, a powerful businessman, is found in a Barcelona suburb. He had disappeared on his way to Polynesia in search of the visionary spirit of Paul Gauguin. Who better to find the killer of a...
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
David Martin makes a living in Barcelona writing novels under s pseudonym. Following a troubled childhood he has made books his world. From his imagination come the deep mysteries of the deeper side of the city. He lives in...
The Book of Barcelona: A City in Short Fiction (Reading the City)
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Short Stories
A slighted wife escapes her family in a wealthy neighbourhood for the night and stumbles into the city’s red-light district… The head of security at Barcelona’s container port searches for a figure that only he has seen sneak into...
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
When Señora Mir lays her body across the abandoned tracks for a tram that will never arrive, she presents Ringo Kid with a riddle he will not unravel until after her death. In Ringo’s Barcelona, life endures in the...
- Location(s): Barcelona
- Era(s): 1888-1929
Onofre Bouvila travels to the city of Barcelona, a city with its own lifestyle, language and individuality – as his wealth grows and he prospers, his fortune is mirrored in the city around him As Onofre builds his fortune...
- Location(s): The Pyrenees (Catalonia)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
The 1930s, and an ageing, badly paid school teacher lives in a small, isolated village at the foot of the Pyrenees. One day he and the rest of the inhabitants stumble upon a short newspaper article about their own...
- Location(s): Barcelona, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
Fitzrovia, Soho in London, 1930s. Meredith Kerr is spending another evening of inebriation with three men. Harry Bowden, billy boyle and Arthur Lawler all want her for themselves. But Meredith has forgotten how to understand what it is she...
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