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Offside

Offside
  • Author(s): Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘The centre forward will be killed at dusk…’ To revive its sagging fortunes, Barcelona FC has bought the services of Jack Mortimer, European Footballer of the Year. No sooner has Mortimer taken possession of his company Porsche than death...

One Mallorcan Summer

One Mallorcan Summer
  • Author(s): Peter Kerr
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Having battled and succumbed to the mañana pace of rural Mallorca, spring sees Peter Kerr and family relaxing into a supposedly simpler way of life, growing oranges on their little valley farm, Ca’s Mayoral. However, even after the trials,...

One Mallorcan Summer

One Mallorcan Summer
  • Author(s): Elise Darcy
  • Location(s): Mallorca, Southwold
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century / present

One Mallorcan Summer. Two heart-rending secrets. Three lives changed forever. When Clara and Ralph meet again by chance, forty years have passed since they were teenage sweethearts and a tragedy tore them apart. Both reeling from a recent event...

One More Chance At Love

One More Chance At Love
  • Author(s): Rebecca Rohman
  • Location(s): St Lucia, Australia, Guatemala, Mallorca, San Francisco, The Philippines
  • Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
  • Era(s): Present Day

Thirty years ago, as teenagers, lawyer, Bobby McLean and travel writer, Sicora Clarke shared an intense love affair and had a happy future planned. But when Sicora ended it with no explanation and Bobby never heard from her again,...

Orange Blossom Days

Orange Blossom Days
  • Author(s): Patricia Scanlan
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In a beautiful southern Spanish town, where the sea sparkles and orange blossoms scent the air, the gates of a brand new apartment complex, La Joya de Andalucía, glide open to welcome the new owners. Anna and Austen MacDonald, an...

Origin: (Robert Langdon Book 5)

Origin: (Robert Langdon Book 5)
  • Author(s): Dan Brown
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever”. The evening’s host is his friend and former student,...

Our Secret Summer

Our Secret Summer
  • Author(s): R S Grey
  • Location(s): Ibiza
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What happens in Ibiza . . . could change everything I’ve spent years stuck behind a desk, always doing the practical, predictable thing. But when my sister’s untimely death leaves me with her unfinished bucket list, I have no...

Out in the Open

Out in the Open
  • Author(s): Jesús Carrasco, Margaret Jull Costa (translator)
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A young boy has fled his home. Crouched in his hiding place he hears the shouts of the men hunting him. When the search party has passed, what lies before him is an infinite, arid plain, one he must...

Out of Sight

Out of Sight
  • Author(s): Martin Granger
  • Location(s): United States (USA), Kazakhstan, Malaysia (Malaya), Spain, United Kingdom
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When rogue junk collides with a television satellite 22000 miles into space cosmologist Harry Stones approaches film director Nathalie Thompson to make an investigative documentary. Undeterred by Harry’s lack of sight, their quest leads them from the peaks of...

Painter to the King

Painter to the King
  • Author(s): Amy Sackville
  • Location(s): Spain, Madrid
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 17th Century

This is a portrait of Diego Velazquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, to his death 38 years and scores of paintings later. It is a portrait of a relationship that is not...

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