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....
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...
The Winds of Change is a story of love, loyalty and betrayal on the eve of the Spanish Civil War, when the country is political turmoil with strikes and demonstrations, unemployment is high and the people are starving. In...
Deira isn’t the kind of woman to steal a car. Or drive to France alone with no plan. But then, Deira didn’t expect to be single. Or to suddenly realise that the only way she can get the one...
What if – to find yourself – you had to run away? Last year was meant to be when Holly got her happy-ever-after. But stuck in a job that’s going nowhere, and a relationship that feels more like it’s...
Twenty-eight year old Hannah is ready for an adventure. She and her colleagues are in Spain for a month to film a documentary, and it’s a dream come true. Not least because Hannah will get to spend long summer...
Fictional El Descaro is inspired by Javea. When Effie Coulston drops dead on the floor of her bar in a small Spanish town mid-business meeting, her daughter Daniella feels it’s her duty to return for the funeral. But Daniella...
The sun … the ocean … the farmhouse … the scammer… the police… the 3-legged dog? George and Ellen have retired to sunny Mallorca. Social butterfly Ellen is itching to make yacht-owning friends while George’s heart is set on...
Author(s): Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa (translator)
Location(s): Spain
Genre(s): Suspense, Espionage
Era(s): 1990s
‘The most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature’ Boston Globe Spain in the 1990s is beset by a simmering campaign of terror from Basque separatists ETA, with periodic atrocities shattering an illusory calm. Against this backdrop, retired...
“D’you think we should just get married then?” asked S, apropos of nothing, over the breakfast table one morning. For two people struggling to understand a foreign language in a remote part of Northwest Spain, Lisa and her partner,...
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