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April in Spain

April in Spain
  • Author(s): John Banville
  • Location(s): San Sebastian
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘He wanted to know who she was, and why he was convinced he had some unremembered connection with her. It was as simple as that. But he knew it wasn’t. It wasn’t simple at all.’ When Dublin pathologist Quirke...

Barcelona Dreaming

Barcelona Dreaming
  • Author(s): Rupert Thomson
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2008

Set on the eve of the financial crash of 2008, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three stories that are linked by time and place, and also by the moving, unexpected interactions of a rich cast of characters. The...

Black Storms

Black Storms
  • Author(s): Teresa Solana, Peter Bush (Translator)
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

A country that doesn’t acknowledge its past is destined to repeat its mistakes. Why murder a sick old man nearing retirement? An investigation into the death of a professor at the University of Barcelona seems particularly baffling for Deputy...

Bread and Oil: Majorcan Culture’s Last Stand

Bread and Oil: Majorcan Culture’s Last Stand
  • Author(s): Tomas Graves
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink
  • Era(s): 2000s

On the island of Mallorca pa amb oli (bread and oil) is rubbed with garlic or tomatoes and salt, as it is in many other Mediterranean countries. Graves starts with this simple dish as a starting point to explore...

Bueno (The Cantabria American School Series #1)

Bueno (The Cantabria American School Series #1)
  • Author(s): Christy Esmahan
  • Location(s): Bilbao, Northern Spain, Santander
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Have you ever worked in a place where everyone around you was against you? Welcome to Harvey’s life. Shortly after his brother dies in northern Spain, Harvey decides to leave his home in Houston and take a job in...

Confessions

Confessions
  • Author(s): Jaume Cabré
  • Location(s): Catalonia, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Looking back over centuries

Drawing comparisons with Shadow of the Wind, The Name of the Rose and The Reader, and an instant bestseller in more than 20 languages, Confessions is an astonishing story of one man s life, interwoven with a narrative that...

Far

Far
  • Author(s): Rosa Ribas
  • Location(s): Central Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a housing development in the middle of the nowhere, one of the many that were built in Spain, but never finished because of the crash, lives a small community of neighbours, trying to lead a normal life, despite...

Going Local in Gran Canaria

Going Local in Gran Canaria
  • Author(s): Matthew Hirtes
  • Location(s): Gran Canaria
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Whether you’re visiting Gran Canaria courtesy of picking up a last-minute bargain break or planning to relocate there, Going Local in Gran Canaria is the book for you. Covering everything from places to see on your holiday to property...

Happy as a Partridge: Life and Love in Madrid

Happy as a Partridge: Life and Love in Madrid
  • Author(s): Kate Boyle
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Evie Fuller is quite simply fed up. Single, unemployed and rapidly approaching her thirtieth birthday, she finds London life is weighing heavy. When a month of free language lessons offers an escape route, she heads to Madrid for sun-soaked...

Haunted Magpie

Haunted Magpie
  • Author(s): Anna Nicholas
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modernn

Eccentric, headstrong and engaging, Isabel Flores Montserrat is a cross between a highly charged Precious Ramotswe (The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency) & Phyrne Fisher (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries). When 33-year-old Isabel Flores Montserrat quits a promising career with the...

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