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Hello, Again

Hello, Again
  • Author(s): Isabelle Broom
  • Location(s): Aldeburgh, Barcelona, Guernsey, Hamburg, Lisbon
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Philippa Taylor (Pepper to her friends) has big dreams. When she closes her eyes, she can picture exactly who she ought to be. The problem is, it’s about as far away from her real life in a small coastal...

Homage to Catolonia

Homage to Catolonia
  • Author(s): George Orwell
  • Location(s): Catalonia, Ebro Valley
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Orwell’s book about how he joined the ranks of the anti fascists during the Civil War, in which he was actively involved.

House on the Bridge: Ten Turbulent Years with Diego Rivera

House on the Bridge: Ten Turbulent Years with Diego Rivera
  • Author(s): Sharon Upp
  • Location(s): London, Paris, Spain
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1910s

This is story of Diego Rivera’s first wife, Angeline Beloff, an artist from pre-revolutionary Russia and her relationship with him in, part set in Belle Époque Paris.

Katie and the Spanish Princess

Katie and the Spanish Princess
  • Author(s): James Mayhew
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to WW2

Make art an adventure for your child with classic picture book character, Katie! For over 25 years, Katie has stepped into the most famous and familiar paintings in the world for an exciting adventure. This latest edition of a...

Keep Walking, Your Heart Will Catch Up: A Camino de Santiago journey

Keep Walking, Your Heart Will Catch Up: A Camino de Santiago journey
  • Author(s): Cathay O Reta
  • Location(s): Santiago de Compostela
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): contemporary

“Keep Walking” is a modern-day pilgrimage, a spiritual journey, a physical feat. Cathay was in her mid-60s and entering a new phase of life. In phase one she had been single for 29 years. Phase two followed with 33...

Milk Teeth

Milk Teeth
  • Author(s): Jessica Andrews
  • Location(s): The North East (England), Barcelona, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across England, France and Spain. A girl grows up in the north of England amid scarcity, precarity and the toxic culture of heroin chic, believing...

Mucho Caliente!

Mucho Caliente!
  • Author(s): Francesca Prescott
  • Location(s): Ibiza
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Thirty-seven year old Gemma hadn’t reckoned on being seated next to Latino heartthrob Emilio Caliente on the flight to Ibiza. She’s bravely dismissed her cheating husband’s generous divorce settlement, opting instead for a creatively satisfying, financially independent, bohemian lifestyle...

Night Boat to Tangier

Night Boat to Tangier
  • Author(s): Kevin Barry
  • Location(s): Algeciras, Ireland
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The book moves between fiction Berehaven in Ireland and Algeciras. It’s late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras and two fading Irish gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover has been lost, a daughter...

Petra’s Ghost

Petra’s Ghost
  • Author(s): C.S. O'Cinneide
  • Location(s): Santiago de Compostela, Northern Spain
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): present

A woman has vanished on the Camino de Santiago, the ancient five-hundred-mile pilgrimage that crosses northern Spain. Daniel, an Irish expat, walks the lonely trail carrying his wife, Petra’s, ashes, along with the damning secret of how she really...

Slow Trains Around Spain

Slow Trains Around Spain
  • Author(s): Tom Chesshyre
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Between soaring mountains, across arid deserts, parched plains and valleys of fruit orchards and olive groves, down glittering coastlines and along viaducts towering above plunging ravines… there is no better way to see Spain than by train. Tom Chesshyre...

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