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Legacy

Legacy
  • Author(s): Hannah Fielding
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Love, intrigue and redemption under the scorching Spanish sun, Legacy is Book 3 in the Andalucian Nights Trilogy by Hannah Fielding, award-winning author of Indiscretion and The Echoes of Love. A troubled young journalist goes undercover in Spain, and...

Love in the City by the Sea

Love in the City by the Sea
  • Author(s): Lilac Mills
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemmporary

Sometimes crossing the finish line is only the first step Tess Barton is stuck in a rut. Her dream of becoming an artist has stalled as she works three jobs just trying to survive. She’s barely got time to...

Mac and His Problem

Mac and His Problem
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Mac is not writing a novel. He is writing a diary, which no one will ever read. At over sixty, and recently unemployed, Mac is a beginner, a novice, an apprentice – delighted by the themes of repetition and...

Marks of Identity

Marks of Identity
  • Author(s): Juan Goytisolo
  • Location(s): Barcelona, Spain
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s onwards

An exile returns to Spain from France to find that he is repelled by the fascism of Franco’s Spain and drawn to the world of Muslim culture. In this novel, Juan Goytisolo, one of Spain’s most celebrated novelists, speaks...

Mira’s Way

Mira’s Way
  • Author(s): Amy Maroney
  • Location(s): The Pyrenees (Catalonia), The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Era(s): sixteenth century and modern day (dual timeline)

History brims with silenced stories. Will Mira’s be one of them? Mira’s Way, book two of The Miramonde Series, continues the mesmerizing tale of a Renaissance-era female artist and the modern-day art scholar who risks everything to learn her...

Murder in Barcelona

Murder in Barcelona
  • Author(s): Christina Koning
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1937

#6 Blind Detective series Summer, 1937. Frederick Rowlands’ peaceful holiday in Cornwall is derailed when a film star is found dead in his hotel. The suspicious nature of Dolores La Mar’s death points to murder and Rowlands soon finds...

Offside

Offside
  • Author(s): Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘The centre forward will be killed at dusk…’ To revive its sagging fortunes, Barcelona FC has bought the services of Jack Mortimer, European Footballer of the Year. No sooner has Mortimer taken possession of his company Porsche than death...

Permafrost

Permafrost
  • Author(s): Eva Baltasar, Julia Sanches (Translator)
  • Location(s): Catalonia, Brussels
  • Genre(s): LGBTQIA+, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Permafrost’s no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover, a no-hope employee, and a some-time suicidal student of her own dislocated self. As she tries to break out of the roles set for her by a controlling, overprotective mother, a...

Private Life

Private Life
  • Author(s): Josep Maria De Sagarra, Mary Ann Newman (Translator)
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

In 1932 Josep Maria de Sagarra set out to write the great Catalonian novel, an urban antidote to the rural tales and timid missives about folk customs that had previously prevailed in the Catalonian literature. Private Life was the...

Someone Else’s House

Someone Else’s House
  • Author(s): Jessica Vallance
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

We all want to live like a local. Stay in a ‘home away from home’. But if it’s someone else’s house, then you’re not the only one with the key. Lauren has finally dumped her dead-weight boyfriend, and what...

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