Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple...
Hemingway covered the Civil War in 1937 and in response wrote this novel. Set in the mountains of Spain, it deals with antifascist guerrillas, loyalty, courage and love.
Galdos’s four-part Fortunata and Jacinta (1886-7), the masterpiece among his almost 80 novels, tells the turbulent story of two women, their husbands and their lovers, set against the intricate web of dynastic alliances and class contrasts of Madrid in...
In these stories Madrid is the apex of a triangle stretching to Lisbon and Tangier. Characters meet the unexpected in a borderland between Europe and Africa, from the fall of dictators to a surge in trans-Mediterranean migration. An Arab...
This is the fifth and final book in Peter Kerr’s award-winning pentad of fun-filled Mallorcan travelogues, which also includes Snowball Oranges, Mañana Mañana, Viva Mallorca! and A Basketful of Snowflakes.After three years of hard work, the Kerr family say...
LOVE DOESN’T ALWAYS PLAY BY THE RULES . . . Hannah has been married to Graham since they were eighteen – a union of desperation to escape their strict families. He’s the only man she’s ever kissed and honestly,...
Sometimes being in the wrong place at the wrong time can lead to an unexpected romantic adventure. Nancy Smart is in the wrong place at the wrong time when she becomes accidentally embroiled in a plan to kidnap the...
In her former life, Anna Nicholas was in PR. She heads off form London to a more remote life on Mallorca with her family. She gets close to opening her dream of opening a cattery, her toad is kidnapped,...
Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere is a collection of short fiction fifteen stories high, nine countries wide, and peopled with wily, quick-witted, dim-witted, hapless, helpless, strong and gentle characters. These are tales about people with...
Set in southern Spain before the expulsion of the Arabs and Jews. A blend of Granadan rule and Arabic mores blend into a powerful novel, exploring the loss of a conquered populace. The book binder Abu Jaafar and his...
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