There is a famous anecdote about the Basque-born writer Miguel de Unamuno (b.1864), which Hugh Thomas documents in his excellent book,...

This week in book review it's Eduardo Mendoza's science fiction parody, Sin Noticias de Gurb, in which two alien shapeshifters explore...

This week in Book Review we delve into a well-preserved layer of Barcelona's history. Based on author Albert Garcia Espuche's own...

This week in Book Club: Spanish realist Pio Baroja’s semi-autobiographical account of a medical student in an existential pickle in...

This book followed on from the immense success of another piece of Barcelona period fiction - Zafon's The Shadow of The Wind - onto the...

‘There are men who are born smeared in a patina of moral oil; misfortune slides off them like water. But those same men stain everything...

Whether it’s Norman Lewis eulogizing Costa Brava fishermen, Robert Hughes taking on Barcelona’s modernist monuments or Hemingway’s Civil...

‘Sometimes we give to the devil what he already has.’ The historian and novelist Arturo Pérez-Reverte shaped his career as a war...

This week, a postmodern take on the hardboiled detective novel, the Planeta-award winning and internationally acclaimed Los Mares del...