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Granada: The Light of Andalucía

Granada: The Light of Andalucía
  • Author(s): Steven Nightingale
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Yearning for a change, Steven Nightingale took his family to live in the ancient Andalucian city of Granada. But as he journeyed through its hidden courtyards, scented gardens and sun-warmed plazas, Steven discovered that Granada’s present cannot be separated...

Happily Never After

Happily Never After
  • Author(s): Rachel North
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

I wouldn’t miss this wedding for the world. It will be my last chance to put a stop to it… A small group of family and friends head to a beautiful, secluded location in the mountains of Mallorca for...

Hidden Steel

Hidden Steel
  • Author(s): Stuart Field
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), London, Spain
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): modern

The second book of the John Steel thriller series. This finds John Steel on a mysterious Cruise ship on its maiden voyage, It’s a journey to go from Southhampton UK to New York via Spain. Steel finds there is...

Holiday in the Hills

Holiday in the Hills
  • Author(s): Lilac Mills
  • Location(s): Tenerife
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How do you write a romance novel with a broken heart? Ivy is suffering from writer’s block after a disastrous affair with her (now ex) publisher. Her agent suggests an extended holiday to get her writing career back on...

Homeland

Homeland
  • Author(s): Fernando Aramburu
  • Location(s): The Basque Country
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Miren and Bittori have been best friends all their lives, growing up in the same small town in the north of Spain. With limited interest in politics, the terrorist threat posed by ETA seems to affect them little. When...

Hotel Florida

Hotel Florida
  • Author(s): Amanda Vaill
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Spanish Civil War

Amid the rubble of a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe, the Hotel Florida on Madrid’s chic Gran Via has become a haven for foreign journalists and writers. It is...

House of Dreams

House of Dreams
  • Author(s): Fanny Blake
  • Location(s): Costa del Sol
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How to Make a Bomb

How to Make a Bomb
  • Author(s): Rupert Thomson
  • Location(s): Cadiz, Crete
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Philip Notman, an acclaimed historian, attends a conference in Bergen, Norway. On his return to London, and to his wife and son, something unexpected and inexplicable happens to him, and he is unable to settle back into his normal...

I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
  • Author(s): Irene Solà, Mara Faye Lethem (Translator)
  • Location(s): Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Nestled among rugged mountains, in a remote part of Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, bandits, deserters, ghosts, beasts and demons, sits the old farmhouse called Mas Clavell. Inside, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed while family and...

I Wish I Had a River

I Wish I Had a River
  • Author(s): Martha Reynolds
  • Location(s): Portugal, France, Galicia, Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Pediatrician Anna Drury has been contentedly married to her husband Nick for three years when he receives a terminal diagnosis. In the two weeks before the fatal illness claims his life, Nick makes three urgent requests that Anna is...

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