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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...

Sophie is Still Missing

Sophie is Still Missing
  • Author(s): Joan Fallon
  • Location(s): Málaga
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st century

Jacaranda Dunne—known to everyone as JD—is an ex-Metropolitan police officer who has moved to Málaga to open a detective agency. At first, the work is routine, missing dogs, stolen passports and unfaithful husbands. Then one day a woman bursts...

Spanish Practices

Spanish Practices
  • Author(s): Richard Townsend
  • Location(s): Northern Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Spanish Practices’ weaves together nearly half a century of observations by Rico, an Englishman married into an eccentric family in a left-behind corner of Spain. Among others, we meet Macu, the maiden aunt who runs the family wine business...

Spiritual and Walking Guide: Leon to Santiago on El Camino

Spiritual and Walking Guide: Leon to Santiago on El Camino
  • Author(s): Stacey Wittig
  • Location(s): Northern Spain
  • Genre(s): Travelogue

Today’s most complete spiritual guide for walking from León, Spain, to Santiago de Compostela on El Camino de Santiago. A pilgrimage helps you let go of fears and find peace that passes understanding. How can you be still and...

Strawberry Moon

Strawberry Moon
  • Author(s): Joan Fallon
  • Location(s): Málaga, Gibraltar
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st century

On Midsummer’s Eve the bodies of two young gypsies are found in a solitary spot near a beach in Málaga. It looks like the couple committed suicide—a lovers’ pact to end it all—and the police are quick to close...

Summer Ever After

Summer Ever After
  • Author(s): Jane Crittenden
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Can love bloom again under the heat of the Spanish sun? Ten years ago, while travelling before starting a cookery apprenticeship, Alice fell head over heels for Barcelona: the food, the sun and the gorgeous Andy Hall…Family tragedy sent...

Summer in San Sebastian

Summer in San Sebastian
  • Author(s): Joy Skye
  • Location(s): San Sebastian
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Abigail’s world has disintegrated, leaving her jobless, homeless, and loveless in a remarkably brief space of time. Where else can she lick her wounds but in Spain with her dippy Aunt May. She pulls on her big girl pants,...

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