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A Sister for Margot

A Sister for Margot
  • Author(s): Emma Clark Lam
  • Location(s): England, Ibiza
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 and Modern

In a Portsmouth theatre, with Hitler’s bombs raining down, the actress Maud falls in love with a young naval officer. She dreams however of seeing her name in lights and part of her resists getting embroiled in an affair....

A Vineyard in Andalusia

A Vineyard in Andalusia
  • Author(s): María Dueñas
  • Location(s): Jerez, Cuba (Republic of), Mexico City
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1860s

1861. A ruined silver-mine owner sets sail from Mexico City to seek his fortune in the New World. Mauro Larrera has just four months to pay his creditors, or his bankruptcy will be revealed and his family’s honour will...

A World Between Us

A World Between Us
  • Author(s): Lydia Syson
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Historical, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1936

Spain, 1936. Felix, a spirited young nurse, has travelled to Spain to help the cause of the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. But she is also following Nat, a passionate young man who has joined the International Brigades...

As I Walked out One Midsummer Morning

As I Walked out One Midsummer Morning
  • Author(s): Laurie Lee
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Historical, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1930s

Laurie Lee knows one sentence in Spanish – will you please give me a glass of water. That is enough to take him down to the South Coast of England over to Spain at a time when all the...

Autumn in Catalonia

Autumn in Catalonia
  • Author(s): Jane MacKenzie
  • Location(s): Barcelona, Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

It is 1963, and in her mansion in the foothills of the Pyrenees, Joana idles her days away, banished by her powerful husband and alienated from her family. Meanwhile, in Barcelona, her daughter Carla is impoverished and in trouble.Hating...

Barcelona Noir

Barcelona Noir
  • Author(s): Adriana V Lopez, Carmen Ospina
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Don’t be fooled – Barcelona, with all its illustrious colour and exterior finery, hasn’t always been able to curb its darker yearnings. Blame it on a bubbling, repressive concoction made with a pinch of Church, a touch of Crown...

Barcelona Skyline

Barcelona Skyline
  • Author(s): David C. Hall
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Barcelona is the stunning background to this unusual novel, sex, a killer uses sex to kill and the investigator likes the best in life. Add art trafficking and you have a good combination to make a good story.

Beautiful Lies

Beautiful Lies
  • Author(s): Clare Clark
  • Location(s): London, Scotland, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1880s

It is 1887, and an unsettled London is preparing for Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. For Maribel Campbell Lowe, the beautiful, bohemian wife of a maverick politician, it is the year she plans to make her own mark on the...

Blood Med: (Max Cámara 4)

Blood Med: (Max Cámara 4)
  • Author(s): Jason Webster
  • Location(s): Valencia
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Spain is corrupt and on the brink of collapse.The king is ill, banks are closing, hospitals are in chaos, homes are lost, demonstrators riot and rightwing thugs patrol the street. The tunnels beneath the streets are at once a...

Blood Song

Blood Song
  • Author(s): Johana Gustawsson
  • Location(s): Valencia, Falkenberg
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1938 and modern

Spain, 1938: The country is wracked by civil war, and as Valencia falls to Franco’s brutal dictatorship, Republican Therese witnesses the murders of her family. Captured and sent to the notorious Las Ventas women’s prison, Therese gives birth to...

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