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The Summer of the Spanish Woman

The Summer of the Spanish Woman
  • Author(s): Catherine Gaskin
  • Location(s): Jerez
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

Set at the beginning of the last century, and spanning the First World War and the Spanish Civil War, this is a gripping story of family pride, forbidden love, secrets and lies. When her grandfather dies without leaving a...

The Tale of Senyor Rodriguez

The Tale of Senyor Rodriguez
  • Author(s): Lou Gilmond
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1960s

What if you could be somebody else? It’s 1960s Mallorca and Thomas Sebastian is an English conman on the run. Hoping to evade his creditors, he’s taken an old Spanish finca as his hideout. He discovers the house untouched...

The Things We Need to Say

The Things We Need to Say
  • Author(s): Rachel Burton
  • Location(s): Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fran loves Will with all her heart. They had a whirlwind romance, a perfect marriage and a wonderful life. Until everything changed. Now Fran needs to find her way again and teaching a yoga retreat in Spain offers her...

The Three Golden Oranges

The Three Golden Oranges
  • Author(s): Alma Flor Ada
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Children

Far on the other side of the mountains, next to an enchanted castle, grows a tree with three golden oranges. It is there that the three brothers — Santiago, Tomás, and Matías — must journey if they wish to...

The Three-Cornered Hat

The Three-Cornered Hat
  • Author(s): Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 18th Century

One of the best-loved Spanish novels of all time, The Three-Cornered Hat is a hilarious tale of lust, intrigue and corrupt authorities set in eighteenth-century Andalusia. When the hideous and lascivious corregidor Don Eugenio takes a fancy to the...

The Time in Between

The Time in Between
  • Author(s): María Dueñas
  • Location(s): Morocco, Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Spain, 1936 and the brink of civil war. Aged twelve, Sira Quiroga was apprenticed to a Madrid dressmaker. As she masters the seamstress’s art, her life seems to be clearly mapped out – until she falls passionately in love...

The Time of the Doves

The Time of the Doves
  • Author(s): Mercè Rodoreda
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

Barcelona, early 1930s: Natalia, a pretty shop-girl from the working-class quarter of Gracia, is hesitant when a stranger asks her to dance at the fiesta in Diamond Square. But Joe is charming and forceful, and she takes his hand....

The Vagabond Mother

The Vagabond Mother
  • Author(s): Tracey Scott-Townsend
  • Location(s): Australia, Germany, Iceland, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present

All Maya Galen wanted was a happy family, stifling the inner urges she had to explore the wider world, for the sake of being there for her children. But parenting with her husband, Con, wasn’t always easy. Their eldest...

The Villa

The Villa
  • Author(s): Jess Ryder
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Three years ago, bride-to-be Aoife died at her own hen party. Now the hens have returned to the villa where that terrible weekend unfolded. They long for closure. But the moment they step back inside, old wounds open and...

The Villa Next Door

The Villa Next Door
  • Author(s): Beverley Harvey
  • Location(s): Menorca
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A dream holiday. A fractured marriage. A dangerous secret.   When Ryan and Emma Burrows win a luxury holiday to Menorca, it feels like the fresh start their marriage desperately needs. Seventeen nights in a sun-soaked villa with their...

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