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Soldiers of Salamis

Soldiers of Salamis
  • Author(s): Javier Cercas
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1930s

The unnamed voice of this book is a contemporary journalist, who is investigating the story of Rafael Sanchez Mazas, a “good, not great” writer from the 1930s,set against the final moments of the Spanish Civil War. Sometimes philosophical, sometimes...

The Continental Affair

The Continental Affair
  • Author(s): Christine Mangan
  • Location(s): Belgrade, Granada, Istanbul (Constantinople), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1960s

Meet Henri and Louise. Two strangers, travelling alone, on the train from Belgrade to Istanbul. Except this isn’t the first time they have met. It’s the 1960s, and Louise is running. From her past in England, from the owners...

The Oblique Place

The Oblique Place
  • Author(s): Caterina Pascual Söderbaum
  • Location(s): Austria, France, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The discovery of photographs in an album – of her Spanish grandfather who joined Hitler’s Wehrmacht and her father in the uniform of Franco’s army- leads Caterina Pascual Söderbaum to explore her family’s links to some of the most...

The Spanish Cove

The Spanish Cove
  • Author(s): Cherry Radford
  • Location(s): Almería (Almeria)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern Day

The perfect escapist romance. Let yourself be whisked away to sun-drenched Spain for a holiday you won’t forget. For fans of Rosanna Ley, Jennifer Bohnet and Lucy Coleman. Piano teacher Marina Meyer is delighted when her mother offers to...

Court of Lions

Court of Lions
  • Author(s): Jane Johnson
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern and 15th Century

Kate Fordham, escaping terrible trauma, has fled to the beautiful sunlit city of Granada, the ancient capital of the Moors in Spain, where she is scraping by with an unfulfilling job in a busy bar. One day in the...

The Drago Tree

The Drago Tree
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): Lanzarote
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Haunted by demons past and present, geologist Ann Salter seeks sanctuary on the exotic island of Lanzarote. There she meets charismatic author Richard Parry and indigenous potter Domingo, and together they explore the island. Ann’s encounters with the island’s...

Death on a Galician Shore

Death on a Galician Shore
  • Author(s): Domingo Villar
  • Location(s): Galicia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A cleverly plotted, page-turning murder mystery set on the beautiful, rugged coast of Galicia in northwest Spain

Stone in a Landslide

Stone in a Landslide
  • Author(s): Maria Barbal
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees (Catalonia)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Novella
  • Era(s): 1920s onwards

The beginning of the 20th century: 13-year-old Conxa has to leave her home village in the Pyrenees to work for her childless aunt. After years of hard labour, she finds love with Jaume – a love that will be...

533: A Book of Days

533: A Book of Days
  • Author(s): Cees Nooteboom
  • Location(s): Sant Lluís
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Though a tireless explorer of distant cultures, for more than forty years Cees Nooteboom has also been returning to Menorca, “the island of the wind”, and it is in his house there, with a study full of books and...

The Family on Paradise Pier

The Family on Paradise Pier
  • Author(s): Dermot Bolger
  • Location(s): England, Russia, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 20th Century

A stunning historical saga set in the early decades of the twentieth century which follows the lives and loves of one extraordinary family. We first meet the Goold Verschoyle children in 1915. Though there is a war going on...

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