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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • FORTRESS OF EVIL: A TERRA ALTA INVESTIGATION
    FORTRESS OF EVIL: A TERRA ALTA INVESTIGATION
    JAVIER CERCAS
    "A father's worst nightmare - Melchor Marín's teenage daughter has disappeared. Years have passed since Melchor took revenge for his mother's murder and at last found peace with his daughter Cosette in the sleepy backwater of Terra Alta. But her idyll is shattered when one day Cosette, now seventeen, discovers that her father has been concealing the truth of her mother's death-...
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  • THE LADY BANDIT
    THE LADY BANDIT
    EMILIA PARDO BAZÁN
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Priests with shotguns, scheming lovers and a necrophiliac gravedigger haunt the fables of Emilia Pardo Bazán, the formidable Spanish aristocrat, intellectual and feminist. These stories paint a rich and variegated image of Old Spain - sometimes tender, often provocative, always entertaining. But if you decide to visit, be...
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  • BARCELONA
    BARCELONA
    MARY COSTELLO
    THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLERA marriage unravels in a Spanish hotel room as a young wife is haunted by a past love.A father travels to Paris to meet his scientist son and is exposed to his son's true nature.A woman attends a reading by a famous author and comes to some painful realisations about her own marriage.The stories in Barcelona reveal the underlying disquiet of modern lif...
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  • WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE
    WHAT WE TRIED TO BURY GROWS HERE
    JULIAN ZABALBEASCOA
    * Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist * "Daring... In What We Tried to Bury Grows Here, almost two dozen narrators vie to convey the danger and uncertainty of life in a country where "tomorrow you never knew who would throw you against the wall for the actions of today." We hear from priests and soldiers, mothers and children, prisoners and refugees. Amid the inevitable viol...
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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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  • THE PENGUIN BOOK OF SPANISH SHORT STORIES
    THE PENGUIN BOOK OF SPANISH SHORT STORIES
    MARGARET JULL COSTA
    This exciting collection celebrates the richness and variety of the Spanish short story, from the nineteenth century to the present day. Featuring over fifty stories selected by revered translator Margaret Jull Costa, it blends old favourites and hidden gems - many of which have never before been translated into English - and introduces readers to surprising new voices as well...
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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 CITY OF MIST
    THE CITY OF MIST
    CARLOS RUIZ ZAFÓN
    The echo of the novels of The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series resonates in the stories of Carlos Ruiz Zafón: gathered here for the first time - and some never before published in English - these stories are a celebration of one of the world's great storytellers A boy decides to become a writer when he discovers that his creative gifts capture the attentions of an aloof youn...
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  • RUTH
    RUTH
    GUILLEM VILADOT
    How does someone experience things from the viewpoint of the other sex? It is this question that has led to Guillem Vildot's creation of Ruth, the genre-defining story of a sex change told by the protagonist through a series of letters to an anonymous friend. Demonstrating the sentimental and intellectual intimacy of a man transitioning into a woman, Ruth describes a profound, ...
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  • BUÑUEL
    BUÑUEL
    FERMÍN SOLÍS
    A fascinating portrait of a pivotal period in the life of Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles depicts a decisive moment in the life of the great Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel: the moment when he doubted surrealism and contemplated embracing a more social type of cinema. At this crucial turning point in his career, he wanted to change the worl...
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  • HIDDEN PATH
    HIDDEN PATH
    ELENA FORTÚN
    Set in early twentieth-century Spain, Hidden Path is a lyrical coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of a woman painter who struggles to find her way with art and with the women she loved. The novel is narrated in the first-person, following María Luisa as she reflects on her life from the turn of the twentieth century through the outset of the Second Spanish Republic (...
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  • THE LABYRINTH OF THE SPIRITS
    THE LABYRINTH OF THE SPIRITS
    CARLOS RUIZ ZAFÓN
    "The internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author returns to the magnificent universe he constructed in his bestselling novels The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game, and The Prisoner of Heaven in this riveting series finale--a heart-pounding thriller and nail-biting work of suspense which introduces a sexy, seductive new heroine whose investigation shines a l...
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  • OFFERING TO THE STORM
    OFFERING TO THE STORM
    DOLORES REDONDO
    The final book in Dolores Redondo's atmospheric Baztan trilogy, featuring Inspector Amaia Salazar. With masterful storytelling and a detective to rival Sarah Lund, this Spanish bestselling series has taken Europe by storm. It begins with a murdered child. It ends in a valley where nightmares are born. When Detective Inspector Amaia Salazar is called in to investigate the d...
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  • THE LEGACY OF THE BONES
    THE LEGACY OF THE BONES
    DOLORES REDONDO
    The second book in Dolores Redondo's atmospheric Baztan trilogy, featuring Inspector Amaia Salazar. With masterful storytelling and a detective to rival Sarah Lund, this Spanish bestselling series has taken Europe by storm. IT TAKES JUST ONE WORD TO STIR THE GHOSTS OF THE PAST A year after arresting Jason Medina for the rape and murder of his step-daughter, Detective Inspecto...
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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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  • THE WATCHER IN THE SHADOWS
    THE WATCHER IN THE SHADOWS
    CARLOS RUIZ ZAFÓN
    A mysterious toymaker who lives as a recluse in an old mansion, surrounded by the mechanical beings he has created... an enigma surrounding strange lights that shine through the mists that envelop the small island on which the old lighthouse stands... a shadowy creature that hides deep in the woods... these are the elements of a mystery that bind 14-year-old Irene to Ismael dur...
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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 HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA
    THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA
    FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
    Federico García Lorca's extraordinarily powerful drama, the last he wrote before his assassination, explores the darkness at the heart of repression. When Bernarda's husband dies, she locks all the doors and windows. She tells her grown-up daughters to sew and be silent. But locks can't hold back the growing tide of desire. This English version of The House of Bernarda Alba, pu...
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  • THE MIDNIGHT PALACE
    THE MIDNIGHT PALACE
    CARLOS RUIZ ZAFÓN
    1916, Calcutta. A man pauses for breath outside the ruins of Jheeter's Gate station knowing he has only hours to live. Pursued by assassins, he must ensure the safety of two newborn twins, before disappearing into the night to meet his fate. 1932. Ben and his friends are due to leave the orphanage which has been their home for sixteen years. Tonight will be the final meeting of...
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  • THE PRINCE OF MIST
    THE PRINCE OF MIST
    CARLOS RUIZ ZAFÓN
    1943. As war sweeps across Europe, Max Carver's father moves his family away from the city, to an old wooden house on the coast. But as soon as they arrive, strange things begin to happen: Max discovers a garden filled with eerie statues; his sisters are plagued by unsettling dreams and voices; a box of old films opens a window to the past. Most unsettling of all are rumours a...
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  • DON QUIXOTE
    DON QUIXOTE
    MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA
    Don Quixote, originally published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, stands as Cervantes' belated but colossal literary success. A work which has achieved mythic status, it is considered to have pioneered the modern novel. Don Quixote, a poor gentleman from La Mancha, Spain, entranced by the code of chivalry, seeks romantic honor through absurd and fantastic adventures. His fevered...
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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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  • SPANISH BEAUTY
    SPANISH BEAUTY
    ESTHER GARCIA LLOVET / ESTHER GARCÍA LLOVET / RICHARD VILLAGE
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  • THE SHADOW OF THE WIND
    THE SHADOW OF THE WIND
    CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
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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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    31,25 €