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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...

The Mallorcan Bookseller

The Mallorcan Bookseller
  • Author(s): Pete Davies
  • Location(s): Mallorca, Armenia, India, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

“Is Anna in?” It took just three words to change his life. Sam Martínez, a London detective, is put on sick leave suffering from PTSD resulting from a firearms incident that went wrong and his best friend was shot....

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 Man of My Life

The Man of My Life
  • Author(s): Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After a visit to Argentina, Spain’s most famous detective Pepe Carvalho is back in his beloved Barcelona and is swiftly embroiled in a murderous scandal amid the murky politics of 21st century Catalonia. When the son of a rich...

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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