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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...

Summer Ever After

Summer Ever After
  • Author(s): Jane Crittenden
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Can love bloom again under the heat of the Spanish sun? Ten years ago, while travelling before starting a cookery apprenticeship, Alice fell head over heels for Barcelona: the food, the sun and the gorgeous Andy Hall…Family tragedy sent...

Tattoo (Pepe Carvalho Mysteries)

Tattoo (Pepe Carvalho Mysteries)
  • Author(s): Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 2000s

The Catalan House

The Catalan House
  • Author(s): Susana Cory-Wright
  • Location(s): Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1930s- 1990s

Set against the backdrop of a family-owned vineyard in Catalonia, The Catalan House tells the story of three very different women, each with a secret of her own. Divided politics and unrequited love have left a once powerful family...

The City of Mist

The City of Mist
  • Author(s): Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Carlos Ruiz Zafon), Lucia Graves (translator)
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Historical, In Translation, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

A boy decides to become a writer when he discovers that his creative gifts capture the attentions of an aloof young beauty who has stolen his heart. A labyrinth maker flees Constantinople to a plague ridden Barcelona, with plans...

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