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The Last Camino

The Last Camino
  • Author(s): Mackenzie Rhodes
  • Location(s): Central Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A woman walks the Camino de Santiago meeting new friends and finding a version of herself that she thought was lost. One year after her husband’s death, Julie embarks on the 500-mile Camino de Santiago, a journey of pain,...

The Last Fiesta

The Last Fiesta
  • Author(s): Andy Rumbold
  • Location(s): Northern Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1995

It’s summer 1995 and Dan Willis is living in Santander, northern Spain, trying to get his life back on track, when he receives an unexpected call from an old school friend and Gulf War veteran, Billy Wyatt, who wants...

The Last Sunrise

The Last Sunrise
  • Author(s): Anna Todd
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Between chronic health issues and an overprotective mother, twenty-two-year-old Oriah Pera feels like she’s stuck waiting for her life to begin. But when her mother’s job takes them to Majora, Ry’s ready to break free and make this summer...

The Legacy of the Bones (The Baztan Trilogy, Book 2)

The Legacy of the Bones (The Baztan Trilogy, Book 2)
  • Author(s): Dolores Redondo
  • Location(s): The Basque Country, Baztán valley
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The second book in Dolores Redondo’s atmospheric Baztan trilogy, featuring Inspector Amaia Salazar. With masterful storytelling and a detective to rival Sarah Lund, this Spanish bestselling series has taken Europe by storm. IT TAKES JUST ONE WORD TO STIR...

The Life Impossible

The Life Impossible
  • Author(s): Matt Haig
  • Location(s): Ibiza
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don’t understand yet . . . When retired Maths teacher Grace is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better...

The Lonely Hearts Club

The Lonely Hearts Club
  • Author(s): Raul Nunez
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A night porter in a sleazy Barcelona hotel, the only thing the 40-year-old Antonio Castro has going for him is his resemblance to Frank Sinatra. Thinking he has nothing to lose, Antonio joins a lonely hearts club and into...

The Lustful Youth of Rodrigo Borgia

The Lustful Youth of Rodrigo Borgia
  • Author(s): Elena Martignoni, Michela Martignoni
  • Location(s): Italy, Spain
  • Genre(s): Novella, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): renaissance

A sort of prequel to the television series “The Borgias”, here Rodrigo Borgia is a man in his youthful prime looking back on what has shaped him and with an eye toward his future. The story opens on a...

The Madness

The Madness
  • Author(s): Narcís Oller, Douglas Suttle (Translator)
  • Location(s): Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid/Late 19th Century

Written in nine chapters separated into three blocks, Narcís Oller’s The Madness is one of the first literary pieces of work to aim to truly analyze the social and genetic causes and results of mental illness. Told through the...

The Madrid Connection

The Madrid Connection
  • Author(s): Tim Parfitt
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(The Connections Book 2) On the night Madrid hosts the Champions League Final, disaster erupts at the Prado Museum: a guard is murdered and a Caravaggio is stolen. British art detective Benjamin Blake, hoping for a quiet few days...

The Mallorca Cat Café

The Mallorca Cat Café
  • Author(s): Jan Edwards
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 21st century

Life seems idyllic for Laura Lundon. The presenter of a successful morning show on an English radio station shares an apartment in Mallorca’s capital, Palma, with her photographer boyfriend Carlos McCloud, and their rescue cat, Harry. Laura is also...

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