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  • AN ENGLISHMAN IN MADRID
    AN ENGLISHMAN IN MADRID
    EDUARDO MENDOZA
    "A funny, gripping and perfectly balanced blend of P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene" Independent "Highly enjoyable read" Spectator Anthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value the collection of a Spanish duke. At a welcome lunch he encounters José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder and leader of the Falange, a nationalist party whos...
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  • THE ISLAND
    THE ISLAND
    ANA MARÍA MATUTE
    'This is an old and wicked island. An island of Phoenicians and merchants, of bloodsuckers and frauds'Expelled from her convent school for kicking the prioress, and abandoned by her father when her mother dies, rebellious teenager Matia is sent to live with her domineering grandmother on the island of Mallorca. In the hot, oppressive stillness of an adolescent summer, she learn...
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  • THE INVISIBLE GUARDIAN
    THE INVISIBLE GUARDIAN
    DOLORES REDONDO
    A killer at large in a remote Basque Country valley, a detective to rival Clarice Starling, myth versus reality, masterful storytelling the Spanish bestseller that has taken Europe by storm.The naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztan. Less than 24 hours after this discovery, a link is made to the murder of another girl the month before. Is this th...
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  • WINTER IN MADRID
    WINTER IN MADRID
    C. J. SANSOM
    Fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafón's The Shadow of the Wind and Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong will fall in love with Winter in Madrid, the arresting novel from C.J. Sansom. In September 1940, the Spanish Civil War is over and Madrid lies in ruins while the Germans continue their march through Europe. Britain stands alone as General Franco considers whether to abandon neutrality and enter ...
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  • A MOMENT OF WAR
    A MOMENT OF WAR
    LAURIE LEE
    A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in Laurie Lee's acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with RosieLaurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept mountains alone to contact Republican sympathisers, he was immediately suspected of being a Nationalist spy. Impri...
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  • THE LIFE OF LAZARILLO DE TORMES
    THE LIFE OF LAZARILLO DE TORMES
    W.S. MERWIN
    Spain has produced two books that changed world literature: Don Quixote and Lazarillo de Tormes, the first picaresque novel ever written and the inspired precursor to works as various as Vanity Fair and Huckleberry Finn. Banned by the Spanish Inquisition after publication in 1554, Lazarillo was soon translated throughout Europe, where it was widely copied. The book is a favorit...
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  • MODERN CLASSICS HOMAGE TO CATALONIA
    MODERN CLASSICS HOMAGE TO CATALONIA
    GEORGE ORWELL
    'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. Here he brings to bear all the force of his humanity, passion and clarity, describin...
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  • A HEART SO WHITE
    A HEART SO WHITE
    JAVIER MARÍAS
    "In the middle of a family lunch, Teresa, just married, goes to the bathroom, unbuttons her blouse and shoots herself in the heart. What made her kill herself immediately after her honeymoon? Years later, this mystery fascinates the young newlywed, Juan, whose father was married to Teresa before he married Juan's mother. As Juan moves closer to the truth, he begins to question ...
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  • THE SUN STRUCK UPWARDS
    THE SUN STRUCK UPWARDS
    LUKE DARRACOTT
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  • DON QUIXOTE
    DON QUIXOTE
    CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE
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  • THE ANGEL'S GAME
    THE ANGEL'S GAME
    CARLOS RUIZ ZAFÓN
    In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. Close to despair, he receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas Corelli, who makes him the offer of a lifetime--write a book unlike anything that has ever existed--a book with the power to change hearts and minds. In r...
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  • RED QUEEN
    RED QUEEN
    JUAN GOMEZ-JURADO
    Now an Amazon Prime Original series, Red Queen is the first in Juan Gómez-Jurado's internationally bestselling thriller series, translated by Nick Caistor. Winner of the Cognac Prize 2022 with more than two million copies sold in Spain alone. Sunday Times - Best Thriller Books of the Year 'A Spanish spin on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo . . . A female Sherlock Holmes' - The...
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  • HOMAGE TO CATALONIA
    HOMAGE TO CATALONIA
    GEORGE ORWELL
    Homage to Catalonia remains one of the most famous accounts of the Spanish Civil War. With characteristic scrutiny, Orwell questions the actions and motives of all sides whilst retaining his firm beliefs in human courage and the need for radical social change. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edg...
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  • DON QUIXOTE OF THE MANCHA
    DON QUIXOTE OF THE MANCHA
    MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
    The story of the Spanish knight Don Quizote whose devotion to the tales of chivalry leads him into a series of bizarre adventures in the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, blends fantasy, comedy and gripping narrative in a way that has appealed to children ever since it was first published. All the wisdom and humour of Cervantes' great seventeenth-century classic are...
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    16,25 €