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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 Valencia Expat Club

The Valencia Expat Club
  • Author(s): June Patrick
  • Location(s): Valencia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dahlia Delaney’s marriage just imploded, her friend group picked a side (not hers), and her fancy San Francisco life now fits into a single suitcase. Armed with a broken heart, a freelance marketing gig, and one blurry childhood memory...

The Villa

The Villa
  • Author(s): Jess Ryder
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Destination 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, Destination 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...

The Water Rituals

The Water Rituals
  • Author(s): Eva Garcia Sáenz
  • Location(s): The Basque Country, Álava Province
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Kraken is back for the second installment in the acclaimed White City Trilogy, and this time he investigates a series of ritualistic murders that target expectant parents, only to find that the key to uncovering the killer may be...

The Way of Love: On The Camino de Santiago

The Way of Love: On The Camino de Santiago
  • Author(s): Angela Leslee
  • Location(s): Northern Spain
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

There must be easier ways to heal and grow, than walking 500 miles across Spain. But it’s hard to imagine one filled with more adventure, laughter and excitement. The author sets off armed with idealistic expectations and a backpack....

The Wind from the East

The Wind from the East
  • Author(s): Almudena Grandes
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía), Madrid
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Internationally celebrated author Almudena Grandes has produced her finest work yet with The Wind from the East, a blend of two narratives set alternately in Madrid and an Andalusian town by the sea. Sara Gómes Morales,given up at birth...

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