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  • IN DIAMOND SQUARE
    IN DIAMOND SQUARE
    MERCE RODOREDA
    'A small masterpiece' COLM TÓIBÍN, DAILY TELEGRAPH 'The most beautiful novel published in Spain since the Civil War' GABRIEL GARCÍA MARQUEZ 'Rodoreda's writing pays such fierce and tender attention to the experience of being alive, and the tempest that ordinary life can be' HELEN OYEYEMI When we were all alone, and everyone was in bed and the streets empty, he said, you and I ...
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    13,75 €

  • TRAVELS THROUGH THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
    TRAVELS THROUGH THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
    NICK LLOYD
    A revelatory journey into the Spanish Civil War's physical and visual legacies, investigating how conflict is memorialised, and obscured, today. Fifty years after Franco's death, and almost ninety since the Civil War began, the scars of violence still run deep in Spain. Nick Lloyd traces this legacy through a series of road trips. Travelling through Catalonia and Aragón, among...
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    22,50 €

  • HOW THE SPANISH EMPIRE WAS BUILT
    HOW THE SPANISH EMPIRE WAS BUILT
    FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO / MANUEL LUCENA GIRALDO
    "A richly researched account of the clever, industrious and deeply practical men who followed in the footsteps, often literally, of Columbus, Cortés, Pizarro, Núñez de Balboa and others."—Wall Street Journal The untold story of the engineering behind the empire, showing how imperial Spain built upon existing infrastructure and hierarchies of the Inca, Aztec, and more, to furth...
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    16,25 €

  • EL GENERALÍSIMO
    EL GENERALÍSIMO
    GILES TREMLETT
    'Making Francisco Franco's long life and 38 years of dictatorship enjoyable reading is a daunting challenge ... Giles Tremlett nonetheless succeeds magnificently' PAUL PRESTON 'A magisterial, ground-breaking new portrait ... Sets a gold standard in Spanish Civil War history' ELISABETH DRAYSON From a scrawny, overlooked military graduate to the youngest general in Europe, Fran...
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    37,50 €

  • WHITE KING
    WHITE KING
    JUAN GÓMEZ-JURADO / GÃ3MEZ-JURADO JUAN
    'As agile as a matador, Gómez-Jurado skilfully balances exhilarating thrills with the melancholy that is the price of Antonia's gifts' - The Times "I hope you haven't forgotten me. Shall we play?" Antonia Scott has an unusually gifted forensic mind. She's the lynchpin of a top-secret project, Red Queen, created to work across borders to solve the most devious and dangerous cr...
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    12,50 €

  • LAST EVENINGS WITH TERESA
    LAST EVENINGS WITH TERESA
    JUAN MARSÉ
    'Spain's finest contemporary novelist' Guardian 'Juan Marsé's contribution to European fiction has been consistently remarkable' Times Literary Supplement From one of Spain's most acclaimed authors, comes an extraordinary novel about ambition and longing set against the backdrop of post-war Barcelona. Teresa is everything he wants. She is beautiful, charming, rebellious, and...
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    21,25 €

  • LITTLE RUINS
    LITTLE RUINS
    MANNI COE
    AN iPAPER BEST NEW BOOK OUT IN AUGUST 2025'Beautifully written and deeply moving' CLARE BALDING 'An important voice' CATHY RENTZENBRINK'I devoured it in a day . . . An open-hearted book' CLOVER STROUDThe Corner is a place where birds with broken wings will come to heal.Looking to begin a new chapter after years on the move, Manni Coe and his partner take a risk and buy 'The Cor...
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    21,25 €

  • ARMADA
    ARMADA
    COLIN MARTIN / GEOFFREY PARKER
    The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised Selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the Best Books of 2023 "Will surely become the definitive account."--Stephen Brumwell, Wall Street Journal In July 1588 the Spanish Armada sailed from Corunna to conquer England. Three weeks later an English fireship attack in the Channel--and then...
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    22,50 €

  • AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA, 700-2000
    AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA, 700-2000
    PEDRO LAINS / LEONOR FREIRE COSTA / REGINA GRAFE / ALFONSO HERRANZ-LONCÁN / DAVID IGUAL-LUIS / VICENTE PINILLA / HERMÍNIA VASCONCELOS VILAR
    This is a comprehensive long-run history of economic and political change in the Iberian Peninsula. Beginning with the development of the old medieval kingdoms, it goes on to explore two countries, Portugal and Spain, which during the early modern period possessed vast empires and played an essential role in the global economic and political developments. It traces how and why ...
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    49,99 €

  • MIAOW
    MIAOW
    BENITO PEREZ GALDOS
    A Dickensian tale of ambition, family, and financial ruin by the most important Spanish novelist after Cervantes, this tragicomic novel about a patriarch struggling to keep his ungrateful family from ruin is at turns scathing and hilarious.Ramón Villaamil has been a loyal civil servant his whole life, but a change in government leaves him out of a job and still two months short...
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    21,25 €

  • DK TOP 10 MADRID
    DK TOP 10 MADRID
    DK TRAVEL
    The world's favourite pocket travel guides Make the most of your trip to Madrid with this Top 10 guide. Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten, covering the very best that Madrid has to offer and ensuring that you don't miss a thing. Best of all, the pocket-friendly format is light and easily portable; the perfect companion while out and about. Inside this guide to...
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    12,50 €

  • KATHERINE OF ARAGON, SPANISH PRINCESS
    KATHERINE OF ARAGON, SPANISH PRINCESS
    HEATHER R. DARSIE
    On 4 November 1501, a fifteen-year-old girl arrived in England to marry the fifteen-year-old prince of that kingdom. Their parents, especially the boy's, hoped that the marriage would secure the future of their family on the throne. Much excitement surrounded the safe arrival of Katharine of Aragon from Spain to England. She and her husband-to-be, Arthur Tudor, were engaged yea...
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    28,75 €