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Goats from a Small Island

Goats from a Small Island
  • Author(s): Anna Nicholas
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000s

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

Good Night Papa: Short Stories from Japan and Elsewhere
  • Author(s): Simon Rowe
  • Location(s): Japan, Australia, Bali, China, Fiji, Mexico, Spain, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Current

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...

Granada: A Novel

Granada: A Novel
  • Author(s): Radwa Ashour
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

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...

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...

Hot to Go

Hot to Go
  • Author(s): Kristen Bailey
  • Location(s): England, Mallorca, Seville
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The vacation ended. The heat didn’t… Meet Suzie Callaghan: French teacher, newly single, newly heartbroken. After an awful break-up, she heads to Mallorca for a much-needed holiday with her cousins, expecting sun, sangria, and siestas. She isn’t expecting to...

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...

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