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The Familiar

The Familiar
  • Author(s): Leigh Bardugo
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump...

Winter in Madrid

Winter in Madrid
  • Author(s): C J Sansom
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

The Spanish Civil War is over, Madrid is in ruins, the Germans continue their sweep through Europe, and Franco refuses to enter the Second World War. Unassuming spy, Harry Brett, is sent over to Spain and rekindles his friendship...

Far

Far
  • Author(s): Rosa Ribas
  • Location(s): Central Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a housing development in the middle of the nowhere, one of the many that were built in Spain, but never finished because of the crash, lives a small community of neighbours, trying to lead a normal life, despite...

Happy as a Partridge: Life and Love in Madrid

Happy as a Partridge: Life and Love in Madrid
  • Author(s): Kate Boyle
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Evie Fuller is quite simply fed up. Single, unemployed and rapidly approaching her thirtieth birthday, she finds London life is weighing heavy. When a month of free language lessons offers an escape route, she heads to Madrid for sun-soaked...

A Load of Bull

A Load of Bull
  • Author(s): Tim Parfitt
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1990s

The author is sent to work on Spanish Vogue, and stays for much longer. This is a light hearted look at the life he adopts, with plenty of wry and humourous observations about life in the Spanish capital

Duende

Duende
  • Author(s): Jason Webster
  • Location(s): Alicante, Madrid, Spain
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2000s

After a failed love affair, Jason Webster heads for Spain, the country that has long enthralled him. He is looking for “Duende”, the state during Flamenco that is part ecstasy, part melancholy, the essence of Spain’s signature art form....

Errant in Iberia

Errant in Iberia
  • Author(s): Ben Curtis
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

A life-changing move to Spain… This is the inspirational story of moving to a new country with nothing, then really living your dreams. Turning up in Madrid without a word of Spanish, Ben soon finds a job, beautiful language...

I am Venus

I am Venus
  • Author(s): Bárbara Mujica
  • Location(s): Madrid, Spain
  • Era(s): 17th Century

Many of the rest of Europe’s painters were heavily into the nude as an art form. The Spanish Inquisition was very much against this art form. This is the story of who the model might have been and the...

Learning to Lose

Learning to Lose
  • Author(s): David Trueba
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 2000s

Sylvia turns 16 and is involved with in a car accident. Behind the wheel of the other car is a young football player from Argentina. The capricious meeting sets in motion a life that takes unexpected directions. Murder and...

The Exhumation

The Exhumation
  • Author(s): Nick Padron
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1937 Spanish Civil War

In the fall of 1937, besieged Madrid lies in near ruins, its people struggling under nightly bombardments. Into this uncertain world, enter three Americans assigned with the task to find and exhume the remains of Robert Jordan – a...

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