The story revolves around the illegal reclassification of a piece of land for use as a golf course and the action takes place in the (fictional) coastal town of Los Cipreses as well as in Granada, Madrid, London, the Cayman Islands and Seville. The story centers around the sale of a large piece of land by a local businessman.
This action-packed thriller drew the following accolades from the press when it was first published in the early '90s. "A confident, strenuous debut" by writer Des Wilson. (The Sunday Times). "Its crooks-as-developers ingredient keeps the plot simmering nicely." (The Guardian). "If you're flying off to the sun for your holidays, it's an ideal read."
Early spring 1635. A storm and pirate raid interrupts rogue Italian merchant Ludovico da Portovenere's routine voyage from Constantinople to Amsterdam, disrupting his plans and entangling others in a secret commission. This is an exciting historical adventure/espionage/romance based on true events. Consistent 5 star ratings on Amazon and Goodreads.
The powerful second psychological thriller featuring Javier Falcon, the complex detective from 'The Blind Man of Seville'. At seven years old, Mario Vega faces a terrible tragedy -- his parents are dead in an apparent suicide pact. But Inspector Javier Falcon has his doubts. In the brutal heat of a Seville summer, he dissects the disturbing life of the boy's father, Rafael Vega.
I travel for the sake of travelling, to escape from myself and others. I travel to make a dream come true, quite simply, or to change skin if you like.' In May 1840, Théophile Gautier, the enfant terrible of the French Romantic movement, set off by coach from Paris for a journey to Spain. Hired by the journal La Presse to send back regular installments of travelogue.
In Almagen, a small village in the Andalucian mountains, Staffe nurses himself back from the brink of death. His idyllic new life in Spain appeals and Staffe is becoming a part of the community. One day his friend, Manolo, takes Staffe to visit Almeria and tells him about a body that has been found buried in an old greenhouse by the Mediterranean.
Best-selling author Michael Morpurgo turns his storytelling skills to the drama and tragedy of the Spanish Civil War, illustrated by Michael Foreman. TORO,TORO is the story of a young boy growing up in Andalucia, Spain, on a farm rearing bulls for the bull ring. Antonito hand rears a little black calf and they become firm friends, but the boy doesn't yet understand the fate of the black bulls -- the corrida and death.
Silver and Time is a supernatural mystery set in contemporary and 15th Century. Spain. When teacher Kate impulsively moves to the Costa del Sol, her everyday world is rocked by terrifying nightmares and inexplicable time-slip episodes. Gradually, the past begins to take her over.
Peaceful, picturesque...the little village lost in the mountains of Spain is an escapist's dream. But dark currents lurk below the community's placid surface. British writer David Baird's latest book - Don't Miss The Fiesta! - takes readers on a chilling roller-coaster ride. Fleeing from his scandalous past, an expatriate falls for a beautiful young village girl only to encounter an explosive mixture of deep passions and old hatreds.
Blood Wedding is set in a village community in Lorca's Andalusia, and tells the story of a couple drawn irresistibly together in the face of an arranged marriage. This tragic and poetic play is the work on which his international reputation was founded. Like many of Lorca's passionate and intensely lyrical plays that focus on peasant life and the forces of nature.
In "The House of Bernarda Alba", a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and needs. The other plays here also portray female characters whose desires are tragically and violently frustrated: a woman's longing for a child in "Yerma", and a bride's yearning for her lover in "Blood Wedding".
How far can you take poetic licence? In this romantic comedy, Maria has to translate a book into Spanish. And makes a few changes. Maria is a frustrated writer who has never managed to get her work into print. She turns her hand to translating novels into Spanish, however, the only thing the editor can offer her is a second-rate detective series.
Acclaimed as one of the greatest literary works of all time Don Quixote has delighted generations of readers since it was first published in Spain in 1605. This timeless work which the comic adventures of a bold knight and his faithful squire as they ride out to right wrongs and rescue fair ladies. Biting satire and brilliant irony characterise this tale, regarded as the first modern novel.
Beneath the majestic towers of the Alhambra, Granada's cobbled streets resonate with music and secrets. Sonia Cameron knows nothing of the city's shocking past; she is here to dance. But in a quiet cafe, a chance conversation and an intriguing collection of old photographs draw her into the extraordinary tale of Spain's devastating civil war in this part of Andalucia.
Sub-inspector Max Romero is asked to help investigate the death of Leila, a beautiful Muslim postgraduate student, researching the impacts of the Spanish Civil War on Max's home village in the Sierra Nevada. The prime suspect, Hassan, has links to a supposed terrorist group but the police's insensitive handling of the case leads to his tragic suicide.
Snared between two cultures and two loves, one man is forced to choose...1564, the Kingdom of Granada. After years of Christian oppression, the Moors take arms and daub the white houses of Sierra Nevada with the blood of their victims. Amidst the conflict is young Hernando, the son of an Arab woman and the Christian priest who raped her.
During Granada's spectacular Easter processions, Sub-Inspector Max Romero has a visitor, his sister, Susanna. She is preparing a T.V. programme on San Juan de la Cruz, Spain's sixteenth century mystic poet. In the ruins of San Juan's monastery on the Alhambra hill, they meet a charismatic environmentalist, Francisco Yepes, who later that day finds the body of a gypsy guitarist in a cave.
Lilli Eden has never forgotten the summer she spent in Malaga, Spain, at her friend, Jimena's. Or Sanchez Varellano, Jimena's brother. They shared smouldering glances all that summer but no more for Sanchez was engaged. Or so she thought.
Four years on Lilli feels she's finally grown past their searing mutual attraction but upon gaining control of her parents' trust fund, she discovers her deceased Uncle Jeremy had secretly invested it in a Varellano business expansion.
