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- 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...
Happy as a Partridge: Life and Love in Madrid
- 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...
- 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
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1860s
Plots abound in the Madrid of 1868. Everyone is discussing them apart from the fencing master, Don Jaime, currently working on the Treatise on the Art of Fencing. Dark violence crosses his path when he is approached by a...
- Location(s): Madrid
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Julio, a writer from Chile and his wife are suffering a bit of a marital crisis. They are offered the chance to stay in a luxurious apartment in Madrid one Summer. Julio begins to fantasize about a beautiful woman...