Blogs in January 2022

The Exhumation 22nd January 2022

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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A Turning Wind 3rd January 2022

Would you trust Ludo da Portovenere? From the trading colony of Goa to the royal courts of England and Spain, Ludo da Portovenere fulfils dangerous secret commissions for three kingdoms on his own terms, and for his own reasons....

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Meet Me in Madrid 3rd June 2021

In this sexy, sophisticated romantic comedy, two women juggle romance and career across continents. Charlotte Hilaire has a love-hate relationship with her work as a museum courier. On the one hand, it takes her around the world. On the...

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The Forging of a Rebel 9th October 2020

The Forging of a Rebel is an unsurpassed account of Spanish history and society from early in the twentieth century through the cataclysmic events of the Spanish Civil War. Arturo Barea’s masterpiece charts the author’s coming-of-age in a bruised...

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The Hive 8th October 2020

Banned for many years by the Franco regime, Cela’s masterpiece presents a panoramic view of the degradation and suffering of the lower-middle class in post-Civil War Spain. Readers are introduced to over a hundred characters through a series of...

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