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Travels with my Donkey

Travels with my Donkey
  • Author(s): Tim Moore
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000s

One man’s story of the pilgrimage to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela across northern Spain – on Shinto, the donkey, an unusual means of transport. This is an entertaing look at man’s relationship with animals, a compassionate book...

Tread Softly

Tread Softly
  • Author(s): J J Marsh
  • Location(s): Vitoria
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘You don’t attract trouble, you go looking for it.’ On a sabbatical from the Metropolitan Police, Beatrice Stubbs is considering her future while touring Northern Spain. In the Basque County, she encounters a distant acquaintance. Beautiful, bloody-minded journalist Ana...

True’s Love

True’s Love
  • Author(s): T L Clark
  • Location(s): Ibiza
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Short synopsis: Mild admin by day, wild clubber by night travels to Ibiza for fun in the sun. The detail: In this book we find promiscuous Amanda living the highlife. We get to hear about a selection of her...

Two Old Fools in Spain Again

Two Old Fools in Spain Again
  • Author(s): Victoria Twead
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía), Almería (Almeria), Spain
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Humour, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Present

#4 in the bestselling Old Fools series When Victoria and Joe return to their Spanish mountain village, they are still reeling from their year in the Middle East. Sighing with relief, they prepare to settle down to a peaceful...

Two Old Fools in Turmoil

Two Old Fools in Turmoil
  • Author(s): Victoria Twead
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2015

★ New York Times Bestselling author ★ “James Herriot meets Driving over Lemons” When dark, sinister clouds loom, Victoria and Joe find themselves facing life-changing decisions. Happily, silver linings also abound in this, the fifth Old Fools chronicle. A...

Two Steps Forward

Two Steps Forward
  • Author(s): Graeme Simsion, Anne Buist
  • Location(s): France, Northern Spain, Santiago de Compostela
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Zoe, a sometime artist, is from California. Martin, an engineer, is from Yorkshire. Both have ended up in picturesque Cluny, in central France. Both are struggling to come to terms with their recent past – for Zoe, the death...

Under the Spanish Stars

Under the Spanish Stars
  • Author(s): Alli Sinclair
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present day1930s/40s

Amid the vivid beauty of Granada, a woman entrusted with unraveling a family secret will discover the truth about her heritage–and the alluring promise of love… When her beloved grandmother falls ill, Charlotte Kavanagh will do whatever she asks...

Until The Curtain Falls

Until The Curtain Falls
  • Author(s): David Ebsworth
  • Location(s): Northern Spain, Madrid
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1938-39

October 1938 and foreign correspondent Jack Telford is on the run in northern Spain, territory now controlled by Franco’s fascists. And he’s killed somebody close to the Generalísimo’s heart. Telford’s a hunted man, and hunted by three different and...

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...

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