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The Winds of Change

The Winds of Change
  • Author(s): Joan Fallon
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 20th century

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...

The Women Who Ran Away

The Women Who Ran Away
  • Author(s): Sheila O'Flanagan
  • Location(s): France, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

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...

The Year of Starting Over

The Year of Starting Over
  • Author(s): Karen King
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

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...

Then. Now. Always.

Then. Now. Always.
  • Author(s): Isabelle Broom
  • Location(s): Mojacar
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

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...

Thirty-One Bones:

Thirty-One Bones:
  • Author(s): Morgan Cry
  • Location(s): Jávea (Xàbia)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

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...

Tipping Point

Tipping Point
  • Author(s): Emily Benet
  • Location(s): Mallorca
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): current

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...

Tomás Nevinson

Tomás Nevinson
  • 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...

Tomato, Fig & Pumpkin Jelly

Tomato, Fig & Pumpkin Jelly
  • Author(s): Lisa Rose Wright
  • Location(s): Galicia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): present

“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,...

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me

Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
  • Author(s): Javier Marías
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

“No one ever suspects,” begins Tomorrow in the Battle Think On Me, “that they might one day find themselves with a dead woman in their arms….” Marta has just met Victor when she invites him to dinner at her...

Travels With a Stick

Travels With a Stick
  • Author(s): Richard Frazer
  • Location(s): Santiago de Compostela
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Almost 300,000 people `officially’ complete the journey to Santiago each year – hundreds of thousands more travel at least part of the way. In this book, Richard Frazer discovers on his pilgrimage to the shrine of St James the...

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