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Killer on the Set

Killer on the Set
  • Author(s): P N Johnson
  • Location(s): Greece, London, Spain
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A dream role in a hit TV drama is not all it seems when actor Holly Elding is warned to turn down the part and run for her life! A missing actress, a superyacht full of stolen art, an...

Lanzarote

Lanzarote
  • Author(s): J H Wallace
  • Location(s): Lanzarote
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th Century

In the repressive religious environment of Lanzarote in the early 1700s, Milagro, young, beautiful and naïve, is the target of every man who sees her, including her wealthy stepfather. But when she lets herself be seduced by the handsome...

Lanzarote

Lanzarote
  • Author(s): Michel Houellebecq
  • Location(s): Lanzarote
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse, walks into a travel agency to book a week in the sun. Sensitive to his limited means and dislike of Muslim...

Legacy

Legacy
  • Author(s): Hannah Fielding
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Love, intrigue and redemption under the scorching Spanish sun, Legacy is Book 3 in the Andalucian Nights Trilogy by Hannah Fielding, award-winning author of Indiscretion and The Echoes of Love. A troubled young journalist goes undercover in Spain, and...

Lord of All the Dead

Lord of All the Dead
  • Author(s): Javier Cercas
  • Location(s): Extremadura
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Lord of All the Dead is a courageous journey into Javier Cercas’ family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war. The author revisits Ibahernando, his parents’ village in southern Spain, to research the life of...

Lost Paradise: The Story of Granada

Lost Paradise: The Story of Granada
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Drayson
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

From the early Middle Ages to the present, foreign travellers have been bewitched by Granada’s peerless beauty. The Andalusian city is also the stuff of story and legend, with an unforgettable history to match. Romans, then Visigoths, settled here,...

Love and Ruin

Love and Ruin
  • Author(s): Paula McLain
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), China, Finland, Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

In 1937, courageous and independent Martha Gellhorn travels to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War, and finds herself drawn to the stories of ordinary people caught in devastating conflict. She also finds herself unexpectedly...

Love in the City by the Sea

Love in the City by the Sea
  • Author(s): Lilac Mills
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemmporary

Sometimes crossing the finish line is only the first step Tess Barton is stuck in a rut. Her dream of becoming an artist has stalled as she works three jobs just trying to survive. She’s barely got time to...

M is for Spain

M is for Spain
  • Author(s): Gillian Rioja, Stephen Mackey
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Melancholy, motherhood, mistakes, misgivings, magic and mayhem. All find their way into M is for Spain, a collection of 14 contemporary short stories with a focus on the experiences of expatriates in their adoptive home. At the heart of...

Mac and His Problem

Mac and His Problem
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Mac is not writing a novel. He is writing a diary, which no one will ever read. At over sixty, and recently unemployed, Mac is a beginner, a novice, an apprentice – delighted by the themes of repetition and...

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