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April in Spain

April in Spain
  • Author(s): John Banville
  • Location(s): San Sebastian
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘He wanted to know who she was, and why he was convinced he had some unremembered connection with her. It was as simple as that. But he knew it wasn’t. It wasn’t simple at all.’ When Dublin pathologist Quirke...

The Assassin’s Mark

The Assassin’s Mark
  • Author(s): David Ebsworth
  • Location(s): San Sebastian, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1930s

September 1938. Spain’s Civil War has been raging for two years, the outcome still in the balance. But rebel General Franco is so confident of winning that he has opened up battlefield tourism along the country’s north coast. Jack...

Summer in San Sebastian

Summer in San Sebastian
  • Author(s): Joy Skye
  • Location(s): San Sebastian
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Abigail’s world has disintegrated, leaving her jobless, homeless, and loveless in a remarkably brief space of time. Where else can she lick her wounds but in Spain with her dippy Aunt May. She pulls on her big girl pants,...

The Girl Who Crossed Mountains

The Girl Who Crossed Mountains
  • Author(s): Lelita Baldock
  • Location(s): San Sebastian, The Basque Country, The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

On either side of the Pyrenees mountains, two women will risk everything to do what’s right… Abene García, a fisherman’s daughter, must make a terrible choice: risk being caught in the crossfires of the escalating Spanish Civil War or...

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