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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...

Six Car Lengths Behind an Elephant

Six Car Lengths Behind an Elephant
  • Author(s): Lillian McCloy
  • Location(s): India, Japan, Spain, Venezuela
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th century

“If you’re married to a spy, the always fraught arena of a relationship turns into a positive minefield. What does that all-night absence mean? What can you begin to say to the kids? In Six Car Lengths Behind an...

Slow Travels in Unsung Spain

Slow Travels in Unsung Spain
  • Author(s): Brett Hetherington
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary (Late 2010s)

This is a warts n’ all trip through some of Spain’s hidden gems: towns, cities, landscapes and cultural highlights that are typically overlooked by foreign tourists but which the Spanish often keep to themselves. Against a backdrop of strikes...

Someone Else’s House

Someone Else’s House
  • Author(s): Jessica Vallance
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

We all want to live like a local. Stay in a ‘home away from home’. But if it’s someone else’s house, then you’re not the only one with the key. Lauren has finally dumped her dead-weight boyfriend, and what...

Somewhere Else

Somewhere Else
  • Author(s): Alex J Milan
  • Location(s): Portugal, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Current

Haunted by a past tragedy, thirty-one-year-old Isabel leads a nomadic lifestyle, following her two golden rules: never stay anywhere for more than two years and never get too close to anyone. When she meets the charismatic Vanessa, she breaks...

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