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Rolling Fields

Rolling Fields
  • Author(s): David Trueba
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dani Mosca is 40 and his father has just died. Fulfilling his father’s last wishes, Dani embarks on a road trip back to his childhood village, a three-hour hearse journey from Madrid. Leaving behind the busy streets of the...

Salt the Snow

Salt the Snow
  • Author(s): Carrie Callaghan
  • Location(s): Spain, Moscow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

American journalist Milly Bennett has covered murders in San Francisco, fires in Hawaii, and a civil war in China, but 1930s Moscow presents her greatest challenge yet. When her young Russian husband is suddenly arrested by the secret police,...

Secrets of the Pomegranate

Secrets of the Pomegranate
  • Author(s): Barbara Lamplugh
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Passionate, free-spirited Deborah has finally found peace and 
a fulfilling relationship in her adopted city of Granada – but when 
she is seriously injured in the Madrid train bombings of 2004, it is 
her sister Alice who is forced...

Seven Red Sundays

Seven Red Sundays
  • Author(s): Ramón J Sender
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

A masterpiece about a working men’s uprising in 1935 Madrid

Shadow of a Bull

Shadow of a Bull
  • Author(s): Maia Wojciechowska
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1965

Manolo Olivar was the son of his father. Which may not seem like a necessary thing to say. But in Manolo’s case it is. For his father had been Juan Olivar, the greatest bullfighter in all Spain. And Manolo...

Shadow of the Hawk: 7 (Master of War)

Shadow of the Hawk: 7 (Master of War)
  • Author(s): David Gilman
  • Location(s): France, Spain
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 1300s

Winter, 1364.   The King is dead. Defeated on the field of Poitiers, Jean Le Bon, King of France, honoured his treaty with England until his death. His son and heir, Charles V, has no intention of doing the...

Shadows the Sizes of Cities, A Novel

Shadows the Sizes of Cities, A Novel
  • Author(s): Gregory W Beaubien
  • Location(s): Morocco, Amsterdam, Chicago, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1994

While traveling with friends in Europe and Morocco, the young American reporter Will Clark is drawn into killing a drug dealer. Pursued by other gang members and the police, his bond with his companions broken and his sense of...

Shadows, Shells, and Spain

Shadows, Shells, and Spain
  • Author(s): John Meyer
  • Location(s): Northern Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lost and listless on the island of Mallorca, Jamie Draper searches for his estranged wife, Pam, who has left him without any explanation or warning. Exploring her last known location, Jamie stumbles upon an urgent letter from his missing...

Sing Like a Canary

Sing Like a Canary
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): Lanzarote
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Retired police officer Marjorie Pierce is on her way to Lanzarote to track down her old informer, Billy McKenzie. Billy ended Marjorie’s career, and she needs an explanation; an apology. Present and past soon collide when gangsters Eric and...

Singles, Set and Match

Singles, Set and Match
  • Author(s): Elaine Spires
  • Location(s): Ibiza, Antigua
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The fifth and final book in the Singles’ Series takes us to the Ibiza, the sparkling jewel of the Mediterranean then back to the vibrant, sultry Caribbean island of Antigua, where it all began. After making a hard decision...

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