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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...

The Diver and The Lover

The Diver and The Lover
  • Author(s): Jeremy Vine
  • Location(s): Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Soaked in sunlight, love and the mysteries surrounding a famous artist The Diver and the Lover is a novel inspired by true events. It is 1951 and sisters Ginny and Meredith have travelled from England to Spain in search...

The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and other stories

The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and other stories
  • Author(s): Teresa Solana
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

A dark, humorous collection of stories by one of Spain’s best-known crime writers. The oddest things happen. Statues decompose and stink out galleries, two old grandmothers are vengeful killers and a prehistoric detective trails a triple murder that is...

The Gaudí key

The Gaudí key
  • Author(s): Esteban Martín
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Early Twentieth Century

In the early twentieth century, when Barcelona was celebrated as the center of modernist art and design, the grand master of an ancient religious brotherhood prepares to die – passing the care of a sacred relic to a prominent...

The Holiday Swap

The Holiday Swap
  • Author(s): Zara Stoneley
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

Two women, two very different lives – one perfect solution to a Christmas holiday fraught with potential pitfalls. The Holiday Swap. Florence Cortes has the perfect life – an apartment in the trendiest district of Barcelona, a job she...

The Lonely Hearts Club

The Lonely Hearts Club
  • Author(s): Raul Nunez
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A night porter in a sleazy Barcelona hotel, the only thing the 40-year-old Antonio Castro has going for him is his resemblance to Frank Sinatra. Thinking he has nothing to lose, Antonio joins a lonely hearts club and into...

The Madness

The Madness
  • Author(s): Narcís Oller, Douglas Suttle (Translator)
  • Location(s): Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid/Late 19th Century

Written in nine chapters separated into three blocks, Narcís Oller’s The Madness is one of the first literary pieces of work to aim to truly analyze the social and genetic causes and results of mental illness. Told through the...

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