
Book Review: Niebla by Miguel de Unamuno (1914)
There is a famous anecdote about the Basque-born writer Miguel de Unamuno (b.1864), which Hugh Thomas documents in his excellent book,...

Sin Noticias de Gurb (1991) by Eduardo Mendoza
This week in book review it's Eduardo Mendoza's science fiction parody, Sin Noticias de Gurb, in which two alien shapeshifters explore...

Book Review: Barcelona 1700 by Albert Garcia Espuche
This week in Book Review we delve into a well-preserved layer of Barcelona's history. Based on author Albert Garcia Espuche's own...

The Tree of Knowledge by Pío Baroja (1911)
This week in Book Club: Spanish realist Pio Baroja’s semi-autobiographical account of a medical student in an existential pickle in...
The Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones
This book followed on from the immense success of another piece of Barcelona period fiction - Zafon's The Shadow of The Wind - onto the...

Victus by Albert Sánchez Piñol
‘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...

Six Great Books About Spain in English
Whether it’s Norman Lewis eulogizing Costa Brava fishermen, Robert Hughes taking on Barcelona’s modernist monuments or Hemingway’s Civil...

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

Spanish Book Club: Los Mares del Sur by Manuel Vazquez Montalbán
This week, a postmodern take on the hardboiled detective novel, the Planeta-award winning and internationally acclaimed Los Mares del...