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Chasing the Sun

Chasing the Sun
  • Author(s): Judy Leigh
  • Location(s): Mexico, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“..in these times where travel abroad is limited, a story where the central character has adventures in Spain and Mexico can transport readers to a sun-soaked destination where the sights, the food and the culture are absorbing…” Sun, Sangria...

Checkmate

Checkmate
  • Author(s): Mark Dewar
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Historical
  • Era(s): 10th Century

Tenth century Spain. Cordoba, the capital of Moorish Spain is at the centre of a power struggle in the medieval world. With its diverse population of Muslims, Christians and Jews, political and religious rivalries are never far from the...

Chestnut, Cherry & Kiwi Fruit Sponge

Chestnut, Cherry & Kiwi Fruit Sponge
  • Author(s): Lisa Rose Wright
  • Location(s): Galicia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000s

What do you do when you have almost, but not quite, finished renovating one ruin?… Buy another one of course! After seven years living in the remote northwest of Spain, Lisa and husband S are finally getting near to...

Chickens, Mules and Two Old Fools

Chickens, Mules and Two Old Fools
  • Author(s): Victoria Twead
  • Location(s): Spain, Almería (Almeria), Andalusia (Andalucía)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Humour, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Present day

The first in the hilarious series by New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. If Joe and Vicky had guessed what relocating to a tiny mountain village in Andalucía would REALLY be like, they might have hesitated…...

City of Buried Ghosts

City of Buried Ghosts
  • Author(s): Chris Lloyd
  • Location(s): Girona (Gerona)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(The Catalan Crime Thrillers Book 2) Still recovering from the tragedy that hit her team, Elisenda takes on a new case. Except it’s not new. On an archaeological dig by the coast a body is uncovered, seemingly executed with...

City of Drowned Souls

City of Drowned Souls
  • Author(s): Chris Lloyd
  • Location(s): Girona (Gerona)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(The Catalan Crime Thrillers Book 3) The second a child disappears, the clock starts ticking. When the son of a controversial local politician goes missing at election time, Detective Elisenda Domènech is put on the case. They simply must...

City of Good Death

City of Good Death
  • Author(s): Chris Lloyd
  • Location(s): Girona (Gerona)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

A serial killer is targeting hate figures in the Catalan city of Girona – a loan shark, a corrupt priest, four thugs – leaving grisly clues about his next victim. Each corpse is posed in a way whose meaning...

Connectedness

Connectedness
  • Author(s): Sandra Danby
  • Location(s): Málaga
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Now, and the 1980s

TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD, ARTIST JUSTINE TREE HAS IT ALL… BUT SHE ALWAYS HAS A SECRET THAT THREATENS TO DESTROY EVERYTHING Justine’s art sells around the world, but does anyone truly know her? When her mother dies, she returns...

Costa del Churros

Costa del Churros
  • Author(s): Isabella May
  • Location(s): Costa del Sol
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The rain in Spain doesn’t mainly fall on the plain… Brits abroad Belinda, Julia, Laura and Georgina need more than the sweetness of churros with chocolate dipping sauce to save them from their unsavoury states of affairs. Cue Carmen...

Dancing Through Life, a Memoir, Volume 1

Dancing Through Life, a Memoir, Volume 1
  • Author(s): Shirley Read-Jahn
  • Location(s): England, Greece, Spain, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1940's onwards

Straddling the century, this colourful memoir tells of a childhood with an English rose and an English-German spy as parents, the confusions of a Dickensian schooling, coming of age in London’s legendary sixties, before becoming a cave-dwelling hippy on...

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