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Carmen and the House That Gaudí Built

Carmen and the House That Gaudí Built
  • Author(s): Susan Hughes, Marianne Ferrer (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A joyful celebration of the nature-inspired work of architect Antoni Gaudí Carmen Batlló and Dragon, her imaginary salamander friend, love exploring the woods behind their home. But when Carmen’s family announces a move to the city, Carmen is miserable....

Catfish Alley

Catfish Alley
  • Author(s): T M Stratton
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Tommy Chisholm is in trouble. His dream life in Barcelona is unravelling. He’s broke, his writing career has stalled, and maybe it’s time to pack up and go home. When he’s recruited by an organised crime gang to help...

Cautery

Cautery
  • Author(s): Lucía Lijtmaer, Maureen Shaughnessy (Translator)
  • Location(s): Barcelona, Madrid, Massachusetts
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary / 17th Century

Fantasies, or are they premonitions, of a great wave, an impending apocalypse, threaten to swamp a young woman trapped in a slowly curdling relationship. From the outside it all looks good—the casually elegant apartment, the cocktail parties, the impressive,...

City of Buried Ghosts

City of Buried Ghosts
  • Author(s): Chris Lloyd
  • Location(s): Girona (Gerona)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(The Catalan Crime Thrillers Book 2) Still recovering from the tragedy that hit her team, Elisenda takes on a new case. Except it’s not new. On an archaeological dig by the coast a body is uncovered, seemingly executed with...

City of Drowned Souls

City of Drowned Souls
  • Author(s): Chris Lloyd
  • Location(s): Girona (Gerona)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(The Catalan Crime Thrillers Book 3) The second a child disappears, the clock starts ticking. When the son of a controversial local politician goes missing at election time, Detective Elisenda Domènech is put on the case. They simply must...

City of Good Death

City of Good Death
  • Author(s): Chris Lloyd
  • Location(s): Girona (Gerona)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

A serial killer is targeting hate figures in the Catalan city of Girona – a loan shark, a corrupt priest, four thugs – leaving grisly clues about his next victim. Each corpse is posed in a way whose meaning...

Death in Spring

Death in Spring
  • Author(s): Mercè Rodoreda
  • Location(s): Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Death in Spring is a dark and dream-like tale of a teenage boy’s coming of age in a remote village in the Catalan mountains; a place cut off from the outside world, where cruel customs are blindly followed, and...

Even the Darkest Night

Even the Darkest Night
  • Author(s): Javier Cercas
  • Location(s): Terra Alta, Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Melchor Marín novel. Winner of Spain’s biggest literary prize – the Premio Planeta When Melchor goes to investigate the horrific double-murder of a rich printer and his wife in rural Cataluña nothing quite adds up. The young cop...

I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness
  • Author(s): Irene Solà, Mara Faye Lethem (Translator)
  • Location(s): Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Nestled among rugged mountains, in a remote part of Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, bandits, deserters, ghosts, beasts and demons, sits the old farmhouse called Mas Clavell. Inside, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed while family and...

Isla and the Happily Ever After

Isla and the Happily Ever After
  • Author(s): Stephanie Perkins
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Barcelona, Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hopeless romantic Isla has had a crush on brooding artist Josh since their first year at the School of America in Paris. And, after a chance encounter in Manhattan over the summer break, romance might be closer than Isla...

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