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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Madrid, 1957. Daniel, young, wealthy and unsure of his place in the world, views the city through the lens of his camera. Ana, a hotel maid whose family is suffering under the fascist dictatorship of General Franco. Lives and...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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