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The Continental Affair

The Continental Affair
  • Author(s): Christine Mangan
  • Location(s): Belgrade, Granada, Istanbul (Constantinople), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 1960s

Meet Henri and Louise. Two strangers, travelling alone, on the train from Belgrade to Istanbul. Except this isn’t the first time they have met. It’s the 1960s, and Louise is running. From her past in England, from the owners...

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...

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...

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...

Flower from Castile (Book 1 – Alhambra Decree)

Flower from Castile (Book 1 – Alhambra Decree)
  • Author(s): Lilian Gafni
  • Location(s): Granada, Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1400s

The Flower from Castile Trilogy opens in 1491 during the tumultuous unification of Spain under Catholicism. The battle for the conquest of Granada, which was held by the Islamic Moors for 700 years, empties Spain’s coffers and decimates the...

Pasodoble

Pasodoble
  • Author(s): Martin Cross
  • Location(s): Alpujarras, Andalusia (Andalucía), Granada
  • Genre(s): Crime, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

The high Alpujarra mountains in Granada province, southern Spain. When human remains are found in a village reservoir, Inspector Moreno’s investigations uncover a dangerous world of gangsters, prostitutes and eccentric British expats. Solving crime is thirsty work, but Moreno...

Tales of the Alhambra

Tales of the Alhambra
  • Author(s): Washington Irving
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 2000s

This is a dreamlike novel of Granada and the Alhambra – it is considered to be one of the most entertaining travelogues ever written. Guitar music sets the tone, together with fact, fantasy and secret chambers – it transports...

The Hand of Fatima

The Hand of Fatima
  • Author(s): Ildefonso Falcones
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1564

Snared between two cultures and two loves, one man is forced to choose… 1564, the Kingdom of Granada. After years of Christian oppression, the Moors take arms and daub the white houses of Sierra Nevada with the blood of...

The Last Days of the Bus Club

The Last Days of the Bus Club
  • Author(s): Chris Stewart
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s two decades since Chris Stewart moved to his farm on the wrong side of a river in the mountains of southern Spain and his daughter Chlöe is preparing to fly the nest for university. In this latest, typically...

The Poet’s Wife

The Poet’s Wife
  • Author(s): Rebecca Stonehill
  • Location(s): Granada
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s onwards

Granada, 1920. Free-spirited Luisa and young poet Eduardo fall in love, cementing a bond that can never be broken. Behind the jasmine filled courtyard, perched amongst houses like clouds on a hilltop, stands a beautiful villa; Carmen de las Estrellas....

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