Spain Fiction

Miren and Bittori have been best friends all their lives, growing up in the same small town in the north of Spain. With limited interest in politics, the terrorist threat posed by ETA seems to affect them little. When Bittori’s husband starts receiving threatening letters from the violent group, however – demanding money, accusing him of being a police informant – she turns to her friend for help. But Miren’s loyalties are torn: her son Joxe Mari has just been recruited to the group as a terrorist and to denounce them as evil would be to condemn her own flesh and blood.

Recorrer los senderos más recónditos de la naturaleza sobre las huellas que deja a su paso el rebaño trashumante. Probar la sed del lobo cuando está sediento, conocer de cerca los códigos de supervivencia y lealtad de la manada bajo la piel del que aúlla a la luna, cantando al cielo nocturno. Ver con tus propios ojos cómo las leyendas de las marismas cobran vida. La España del silencio es el título que recibe la colección de novelas del mundo rural escrita por Borja Cardelús....

Journalist Simone Jarrett and Carling Lake sheriff Lance Webb have kept their casual affair clandestine to avoid gossip. But as his feelings for Simone deepen, Lance is troubled by the knowledge that she’s hiding something. Then, after twenty years, the Card Killer strikes again. And Simone’s secret puts her in the killer’s sights. Now the two must team up to find the murderer…and save Simone’s life.

The Sagrat militiamen suspend their hunt for Alejandro and return to Valencia to discover that they have become the prey. When Rafael Perato is abducted at the Inquisitor’s funeral, he finds himself facing a new and dangerous enemy. What his captor wants with him is unclear, but as the days turn to weeks, Rafael is plunged deeper and deeper into a web of deceit and betrayal.

Janelle Marshall's life is finally going according to plan. Her perfect, upscale career - and her perfect, successful boyfriend - will make her future as secure and predictable as her childhood never was. And with luck, Little Bill, the grandfather who raised her, will someday understand why she'd rather play it safe than be impulsive. But just when she should be happiest, she gets a distressing call: Little Bill has gone missing. Now Janelle must go to the one place she's long avoided - the tiny mountain town of Mammoth Falls, South Dakota.

Serena McDaniels is successful, sassy, and saved. Life is good. She has a loving husband and a new home. But there's one dream that remains just out of reach. When she left a high-profile advertising agency to pursue her dreams of having a family, Serena never imagined that the stress of her husband's pastorate and their desire to follow God's will might delay their dreams of becoming parents. And when a dear friend makes a life-altering decision to leave an abusive relationship, Serena knows she has to help.

Paradigma del Romanticismo español más auténtico, Larra fue un agudísimo observador de la realidad que lerodeaba. Sus artículos de costumbres son ventanas abiertas a la España del siglo xix; sus comentarios políticos, dardosenvenenados contra unas estructuras anquilosadas; sus textos de crítica literaria, acertados análisis repletos depropuestas e ideas para mejorar el panorama de las letras españolas y desligarse de la por entonces omnipresenteinfluencia de la literatura francesa.

Summer ends, the season changes, and Coro, an artist frightened off by what her own paintings may represent, gets in her car and drives for hours in the middle of the night until she chances upon Betania, an isolated house existing in a world of its own. It's an unfamiliar place inhabited exclusively by women who, strangely, all seem to know her. Like adherents of an ancient cult, the women of Betania all dress the same, carry out strange rites and celebrations, and live alongside goats and innumerable dogs against a landscape dominated by a mountain that seems to block out the sunlight.

There was no quiet homecoming for Nikki King. Not with a body discovered on her lakefront property and Terrence Sutton’s unexpected arrival. The police detective is convinced his sister’s disappearance and the threats Nikki has been receiving are connected. Nikki would rather avoid the man who once let a family feud tear them apart, but can she afford to refuse his protection? Not with danger lurking in the dark water just beyond her doorstep.

Claire Walker has always had her life in perfect order, including her high-powered job at one of Manhattan's top corporate law firms. Yet the one thing she cannot seem to find is a perfect love to complete it, until fate pushes Matías de León into her path. Matías is a Spanish artist who is everything that Claire is not: free-spirited and creative, chaos to her order. She falls for him, hard—and he for her. A year later, however, Claire begins to question everything about their relationship. How can they possibly work long-term when they're so different? Might it be best to end it?

Erika Powell has lived in hiding for years to protect her son from his wealthy, tyrannical grandfather. Wary of strangers, she’s suspicious of James West, who’s renting a neighboring cabin, despite their sizzling chemistry. But when attempts are made on Erika’s life, James fears he may have endangered her—because the undercover PI’s investigation of Erika may have led someone dangerous right to her.

The inspector frowned and examined the earth under the trees. As he scanned the glade, his stomach lurched. One, two, three, four. Five, counting the mound of earth disturbed under the tent. Somebody had cleared the earth of its natural layer and sown their own flowers. In five places. Five graves. A young woman, Fiona Holland, has gone missing from a small Irish village. A search is mounted, but there are whispers. Fiona had a wild reputation. Was she abducted, or has she run away?

Best friends since the fifth grade, Vaughn, Reenie, Susan, and Audrey have always been considered the most likely to write the Great American Novel, marry a prince, find fame, and run the world, respectively. Now in their 50s, they are all still chasing those dreams - which sometimes makes the "girls" collide.

Wer das Heute verstehen will, findet im Gestern Antworten, die unter die Haut gehen... In dem abgelegenen spanischen Dorf Los Isidros entspinnt sich 1938 unter dem politischen Druck von Diktator Franco eine dramatische Geschichte, deren Auswirkungen bis ins Deutschland von heute spürbar bleiben: Die blutjunge Inés verliebt sich in den unerschrockenen Freiheitskämpfer Manuel, der für seinen Traum eines demokratischen Spaniens einen hohen Preis bezahlt. Während sein Bruder Vicente von einem Leben als Mönch träumt, lenkt eine unheilvolle Begegnung das Schicksal aller Beteiligten in ungewollte Bahnen.

Повествование основано на реальных событиях во время объединения Испании. Испания, ведомая Фердинандом Вторым и Изабеллой Кастильской, взлетела на вершину своего могущества. Политика хитроумного короля приносила богатые плоды. Отобрана вся страна у короля Португалии. Обманом отрезаны южные уделы от Франции. Хозяин юга Европы и севера Африки он – Король Фердинанд, а точнее его руками и наставлениями Изабеллы, вывел из дремоты и сделал всемогущей "Manu interpida" - инквизицию.

From sun-drenched Spain to the icy halls of an English Earl... Catalina Esperanza Navarro had been shielded in comfort in Barcelona which had been bracing itself against the turmoil of Napoleonic conquest. As the cherished daughter of a shrewd Spanish merchant, her life had been one of privilege. But when the shadow of war had fallen across Spain, her father, desperate to secure her future, had orchestrated a transaction that sent her across the seas. Hugh Wentworth, the Earl of Strathmore, a man known for his icy control, desperately needed a wealthy bride to save his crumbling estate. ...

Grahame Mayer specialises in selling books, not solving mysteries. So when he’s asked to play private investigator and track down a soldier from the Spanish Civil War, he wonders if it’s some sort of test – and if so, what will happen if he fails.... Armed with fresh information, he is sent to Glasgow on the trail of Jock Cameron, and a meeting with a former nurse who knew him back in Spain furnishes Grahame with further clues. But despite these new leads, the elusive Jock remains tantalisingly out of reach.

On a sweltering summer day, the streets of Old Madrid that once resonated with the laughter of children playing are empty and silent. But inside the apartment buildings there is life as families faithfully wait for updates about an army uprising in Spanish Morocco. Before long, their greatest fears come true. As rebel troops storm Madrid and chaos fills the streets, six-year-old Mari wonders why she cannot go outside to play. Unfortunately, she has no idea she is about to be trapped inside the abyss of what is rapidly becoming a ruthless civil war.

What’s a local girl to do when she catches her long-term boyfriend doing the nasty on their sofa with another women? Cry? Fall apart? Not Lily! Armed with a new look, her best friends, and a fresh take on life, Lily hightails it to Spain for sun, sangria, and Spanish men. But Lily quickly discovers that leaving bad mojo behind isn’t as easy as getting on a plane.

A fun adventure in a Spain that never was, in the vein of Dumas and Stevenson, with more than a taste of Cervantes. Don Rodriguez is a young nobleman who is banished from the family castle, and must set out with his rapier and mandolin to win his own estate, and perhaps even a bride. Along with his trusty servant Morano, he journeys far into the heart of the mythical Shadow Valley. Echoes of The Princess Bride resonate throughout.