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Valencia For 91 Days

Valencia For 91 Days
  • Author(s): Jürgen Horn, Michael Powell
  • Location(s): Valencia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Valencia For 91 Days is collection of stories, photography and advice from three months spent in one of Spain’s best cities. Mike and Jürgen are travelers who spend 91 days in various locations around the world, capturing the history,...

Waiting for Columbus

Waiting for Columbus
  • Author(s): Thomas Trofimuk
  • Location(s): Seville, Spain
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary / 15th Century

He appears out of the sea, washed up naked, in the treacherous Straits of Gibraltar. Seemingly delirious, and claiming to be Christopher Columbus, he is taken to an insane asylum in Seville, where astonishingly he starts to reveal the...

Walking Backwards (Up an Apostle’s Nose)

Walking Backwards (Up an  Apostle’s Nose)
  • Author(s): Alison Chandler
  • Location(s): Santiago de Compostela
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1970s and 2010s

This beautiful literary memoir framed in six days walking on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela in 2015 is a love letter to Spain and to women’s lives. It weaves together rich seams of hard reality with profound lyricism,...

Water-Blue Eyes

Water-Blue Eyes
  • Author(s): Domingo Villar
  • Location(s): Vigo, Galicia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Amid the aroma of the sea and the Galician pines, a young saxophonist is found dead in his swanky flat overlooking the beach. The murder seems to have taken place after an encounter with a lover, but the way...

We All Fall Down

We All Fall Down
  • Author(s): Various
  • Location(s): Venice, Edinburgh, Greece, Ireland, Italy, London, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Medieval, Renaissance

Plague has no favorites. In this anthology, USA Today, international bestselling, and award-winning authors imagine a world where anyone—rich, poor, young, old—might be well in the morning and dead by sundown. Readers will follow in the footsteps of those...

What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain’s Camino de Santiago

What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain’s Camino de Santiago
  • Author(s): Jane Christmas
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): early 2000s

To celebrate her 50th birthday and face the challenges of mid-life, Jane Christmas joins 14 women to hike the Camino de Santiago de Compostela. Despite a psychic’s warning of catfights, death, and a sexy, fair-haired man, Christmas soldiers on....

What’s the Girl Worth

What’s the Girl Worth
  • Author(s): Christina Fitzpatrick
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Catherine Kelly explores the loss she experienced when her Father abandoned her as a child, she navigates her way through Madrid – along the cobble stoned alleys, the splendid sights, the heat filled courtyards in the company of Esteban....

When Every Road Whispers My Name

When Every Road Whispers My Name
  • Author(s): Maria Vano
  • Location(s): United States (USA), England, Greece, Hungary, Morocco, Spain
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000-2021

One middle-aged woman with no money, three suitcases, a big dream, and a desire to see it all, sets out to live her best solo life. Calling on memories from her teen years when she lived in Rome, Italy,...

When I Sing, Mountains Dance

When I Sing, Mountains Dance
  • Author(s): Irene Solà, Mara Faye Lethem (Translator)
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees (Catalonia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

When Domenec – mountain-dweller, father, poet, dreamer – dies suddenly, struck by lightning, he leaves behind two small children, Mia and Hilari, to grow up wild among the looming summits of the Pyrenees and the ghosts of the Spanish...

White Villa

White Villa
  • Author(s): Emily Hourican
  • Location(s): Ibiza
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

What happens when you invite an outsider in? It was supposed to be the holiday of a lifetime – a luxury villa in Ibiza, a group of university friends, and their last chance to cut loose before embarking on...

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