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The Spanish Bow

The Spanish Bow
  • Author(s): Andromeda Romano-Lax
  • Location(s): Barcelona, Madrid
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1890s - 1940s

A rich novel of music, politics and life, seen throught the eyes of Feliu

The Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War
  • Author(s): Hugh Thomas
  • Location(s): Madrid, Spain
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Spanish Civil War

Since its first publication, Hugh Thomas’s The Spanish Civil War has become established as the definitive one-volume history of a conflict that continues to provoke intense controversy today. What was it that roused left-wing sympathizers from all over the...

The Spanish Promise

The Spanish Promise
  • Author(s): Karen Swan
  • Location(s): Spain, Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

One of Spain’s richest men is dying. But as he prepares his estate, his family is shocked to discover he is making plans to give away his wealth to a young woman they have never even heard of. Who...

The Story of Ferdinand

The Story of Ferdinand
  • Author(s): Munro Leaf
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1930s

All the other bulls run, jump, and butt their heads together in fights. Ferdinand, on the other hand, would rather sit and smell the flowers. So what will happen when Ferdinand is picked for the bullfights in Madrid? 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 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...

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...

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...

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....

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