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The Cook of Castamar

The Cook of Castamar
  • Author(s): Fernando J Muñez, Rahul Bery (translator), Tim Gutteridge (Translator)
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 18th Century

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES SHE IS the daughter of a disgraced physician, forced to work in the kitchen of a great eighteenth-century Spanish house, hiding her intense agoraphobia from everyone. HE IS the Duke of Castamar, one of...

The Flanders Panel

The Flanders Panel
  • Author(s): Arturo Pérez-Reverte
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1980s

The clue to a murder in the art world of contemporary Madrid lies hidden in a medieval painting of a game of chess. In a 15th-century Flemish painting two noblemen are pictured playing chess. Yet two years before he...

The Forging of a Rebel

The Forging of a Rebel
  • Author(s): Arturo Barea
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Historical, Biography
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The Forging of a Rebel is an unsurpassed account of Spanish history and society from early in the twentieth century through the cataclysmic events of the Spanish Civil War. Arturo Barea’s masterpiece charts the author’s coming-of-age in a bruised...

The Fountains of Silence

The Fountains of Silence
  • Author(s): Ruta Sepetys
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1957

Madrid, 1957. Tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the welcoming guise of sunshine and wine while Spanish citizens are gripped by a dark secret. Daniel Matheson, the son of an oil tycoon, hopes to connect with the...

The Frozen Heart

The Frozen Heart
  • Author(s): Almudena Grandes, Frank Wynne (Translator)
  • Location(s): Madrid, Torrelodones
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Spanish Civil War

A sweeping epic saga about the Spanish Civil War – the Spanish DR ZHIVAGO. In the small town of Torrelodones on the outskirts of Madrid a funeral is taking place. Julio Carrin Gonzalez, a man of tremendous wealth and...

The Hive

The Hive
  • Author(s): Camilo José Cela
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

Banned for many years by the Franco regime, Cela’s masterpiece presents a panoramic view of the degradation and suffering of the lower-middle class in post-Civil War Spain. Readers are introduced to over a hundred characters through a series of...

The Infatuations

The Infatuations
  • Author(s): Javier Marías
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same café. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren’t there, and she feels obscurely bereft. It is only...

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 Man of Feeling

The Man of Feeling
  • Author(s): Javier Marías
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Glinting like a moonstone with layers of emotion, The Man of Feeling is a sleek and strange tale of cosmopolitan love. An affair between a married woman and a young man just becoming an opera star (curiously helped along...

The Monk

The Monk
  • Author(s): Matthew Lewis
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Ambrosio, the superior of the Capuchins in Madrid succumbs to temptations with one of his pentitents but ends up killing a her, so that he avoids discovery. Nevertheless he is discovered, tortured by the Spanish Inquisition and is sentenced...

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