William Graves

Life in Majorca wirh Robert Graves

As a five-year-old child, William Graves is taken in 1944 from England to a mountain village in Majorca, where his father, the poet Robert Graves, had returned with his new family to the place where he had lived before the war with Laura Riding. Young William grows up in the writer’s shadow, while experiencing the way of life of the Majorcans which have hardly changed for hundreds of years, and participating in the day-to-day activities of the village. William Graves conveys the texture of life in Majorca - the food, the pattern of the seasons, the camaraderie and rivalries within the village, and the growing sense, from the 1960s onwards, that his fragile paradise was under threat. The book is also a portrait of Robert Graves, his “Muses” and his entourage, and a study of how the son of a famous father finds his own identity.

Price 13.50€

For Terraces, Balconies & Windowsills

Clodagh & Dick Handscombe

The Complete guide to terrace, balcony and windowsill gardening in Spain and other Mediterranean Countries. Packed with practical infomation and tips, this book will help resident and non-resident owners of apartments in towns and villages, inland and on the coast, make the best use of the space available to them. Includes designing aand maximising growing space, selecting plants for sunny, semi-shady or shady locations.

Price 15.00€

Robert Graves

The ever-popular novelist and story-teller Robert Graves wrote fascinating and durable stories, here collected together in a single volume for the first time by the poet’s daughter Lucia Graves.

Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. Apart from a year as Professor of English Literature at Cairo University in 1926, he earned his living by writing, mostly historical novels, including: I, Claudius; Claudius the God; Count Belisarius and many others. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. He also translated Apuleius, Lucan and Suetonius for the Penguin Classics, and compiled the first modern dictionary of Greek Mythology, The Greek Myths. Robert Graves died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929

Price: 19.50€

James Reston, Jr.

Columbus, the Inquisition and the defeat of the Moors

Set against the fury and strife that arose from the cinders of medieval Europe, “Dogs of God” chronicles one of the most savage epochs in human history. In an effort to consolidate their powers on the Iberian Peninsula and free themselves from the yoke of the Vatican, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella turned to the priest Tomas de Torquemada, who argued that an Inquisition would strengthen the sovereigns’ authority throughout Spain, particularly in the coming campaign against the Moors of Granada. When Granada Fell, tens of thousands of Muslims were given the choice of converting to Christianity or facing death or banishment. Torquemada then turned his ferocity on Spain’s Jews, forcing upon them the same grim choice…Reston’s compelling narrative brings all of the horrors of the Spanish Inquisition into a terrifyingly brutal focus. But, Reston looks beyond the dark deeds of 1492 as well, capturing the excitement of exploration and promise of the future that were born in the same year as Ferdinand and Isabella turned their eyes toward the creation of a modern empire - and a young sea captain named Christopher Columbus.

Price: 7.50€ Hardback. All our books are sold in Excellent Condition.

Evan S Connell

During the vile days of the Spanish Inquisition, Francisco Goya, a renown Spanish painter, painted royalty, street urchins and demons with the same brush, bringing his own distinctive touch to each. This unusual man and his ghastly times are the perfect subject for Evan S. Connell, one of our greatest and least conventional writers. This unorthodox biography shines with wit, erudition and prodigious research. To say Connell is intimate with his subject is an understatement: He seems to be inside Goya’s famously impenetrable skin.

Price 7.50€ Hardback. All our books are sold in prestine condition

Jane S Gerber

A History of the Sephardic Experience

A narrative history of the Sephardic Jews discusses the first Jewish settlements of Roman times, Sephardic relations with Christian and Muslim societies, Spain’s Golden Age, and the expulsion of the Jews.

Price 7.50€  All our books are sold in excellent condition.

Ildefonso Falcones

14th-century Spain is enjoying a golden age of prosperity. It is building a magnificent church to overlook their harbour. In its shadow, Arnau, a young serf on the run from his feudal lord. Arnau’s journey from slave to nobleman is the story of a struggle between good and evil that will turn Church against State and brother against brother.

Price: 7.50€ All our books are sold in prestine condition.

Janet Mendel

AND MORE GREAT DISHES FROM SPAIN

This striking cookbook is a celebration of the sunny flavours os Spain. Above all olive oil, garlic, fresh fruits and vegetables in an attractive presentation of classic recipes and stunning colour photographs.

Price 10.90 euros

Richard Tapper

Tapas is a contemporary collection of delicious recipes for Spanish appetisers.

Featuring a wide varietyof recipres for Fish, Seafood, Eggs, Savories, Vegetables, Desserts.

With inspiring photography and recipes that make cooking as easy as can be.

Price 10.00 euros

Norman Lewis

After World War II, Norman Lewis returned to Spain and settled in the remote fishing village of Farol, on what is now Costa Brava. Voices of the Old Sea describes his three successive summers in that almost medieval community where life revolved around the seasonal sardine catches, Alcade’s bar, and satisfying feuds with neighboring villages. It’s lucky Lewis was there when he was. Soon after, Spain was discovered by its neighbors in a more prosperous northern Europe, and the tourist tide that ensued flowed inexorably over the old ways of the town and its inhabitants.

Price 12.90é