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All My Mothers

All My Mothers
  • Author(s): Joanna Glen
  • Location(s): Córdoba
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

MEET EVA MARTÍNEZ-GREEN, AN ONLY CHILD FULL OF QUESTIONS ABOUT HER BEGINNINGS. But between her emotionally absent mother and her physically absent father, there is nobody to answer them. So Eva begins a journey to find these answers for...

The Orange Grove

The Orange Grove
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Seville
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back

An unforgettable story of past love and family secrets, set in sunny Seville Holly loves making marmalade. Now she has a chance to leave her stressful city job and pursue her dream – of returning to the Dorset landscape...

The Spanish House

The Spanish House
  • Author(s): Cherry Radford
  • Location(s): Almería (Almeria)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Juliana makes a modest living as an ‘ethnic’ TV/film extra – even though the only connections with her Spanish heritage are her cacti, Spanish classes, and some confused memories of a Spanish mother she hasn’t seen since she was...

A Darker Night

A Darker Night
  • Author(s): P J Brooke
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

The sequel to Blood Wedding. During Granada’s spectacular Easter processions, Sub-Inspector Max Romero has a visitor, his sister, Susanna. She is preparing a T.V. programme on San Juan de la Cruz, Spain’s sixteenth century mystic poet. In the ruins...

A Meeting in Seville

A Meeting in Seville
  • Author(s): Paul A Mendelson
  • Location(s): Seville
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to 1980s

A Meeting in Seville follows a couple whose marriage is on the rocks. They return to Seville on Semana Santa (Easter) for a `second honeymoon’, a gift from their daughter, only to encounter their own younger selves, on their...

A Parrot in a Pepper Tree

A Parrot in a Pepper Tree
  • Author(s): Chris Stewart
  • Location(s): Andalusia (Andalucía)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2000s

A PARROT IN A PEPPER TREE, the sequel to Lemons, follows the lives of Chris, Ana and their daughter, Chloë, as they get to grips with a misanthropic parrot who joins their home, Spanish school life, neighbours in love,...

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...

An Echo of Scandal

An Echo of Scandal
  • Author(s): Laura Madeleine
  • Location(s): Tangier, Andalusia (Andalucía), Gibraltar
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1970s looking back to 1920s

In the dead of night, with blood on her hands, she made her escape. Accused of murder, Alejandra flees her home, escaping to the southern edge of Spain, where she faces a life of poverty and destitution. Seduced by...

Blood Wedding

Blood Wedding
  • Author(s): P J Brooke
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 2000s

A death of a Muslim student, Leila, turns into a terrorist attack in Grenada. Max Romero takes on the investigation, and finds that she was researching the impact of the Spanish Civil War on his own home village in...

Court of Lions

Court of Lions
  • Author(s): Jane Johnson
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern and 15th Century

Kate Fordham, escaping terrible trauma, has fled to the beautiful sunlit city of Granada, the ancient capital of the Moors in Spain, where she is scraping by with an unfulfilling job in a busy bar. One day in the...

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