Spain
Henry A. Kamen
A concise historical survey introduces the major transformations of Spain.
History Spain · Zamora
Ramón Sender Barayón
A son investigates his mother’s murder during the Spanish Civil War.
Memoir Spain · Portugal
Joseph F. O’Callaghan
Medieval Iberia unfolds through its kingdoms, institutions and religious communities.
History Spain
Juan Lalaguna
An accessible history connects Spain’s past with the country travellers encounter.
History Spain · Barcelona · Catalonia
Robert Hughes
Barcelona’s art and architecture open onto the history of Catalan identity.
History Spain · Seville
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
A Spanish bullfighter’s success brings fame, temptation and mounting danger.
Fiction Spain
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway explores bullfighting’s rituals and his own fascination with the spectacle.
Nonfiction Spain
W. Somerset Maugham
Maugham turns his research and travels into essays on Spanish culture.
Essays Spain
Rose Macaulay
Rose Macaulay explores the Spanish coast from the Pyrenees to the Portuguese frontier.
Travel writing Spain
Ernest Hemingway
A bridge-demolition mission tests love and loyalty during Spain’s Civil War.
Historical fiction Spain · Catalonia · Barcelona
George Orwell
Orwell’s Spanish war service leads from the front to Barcelona’s political divisions.
Memoir Italy · Spain · Greece · Tuscany · Catalonia · Cyclades · Apulia
Patience Gray
Gray follows rural Mediterranean food through seasons and traditions, finding everyday ingenuity in kitchens from Tuscany to Apulia and beyond.
Nonfiction Spain
James A. Michener
Michener explores Spain through its landscapes, history and enduring customs.
Travel writing Spain
Godfrey Goodwin
Architecture offers a route into the history and inheritance of Islamic Spain.
History Spain · Alcarria
Camilo José Cela
A walking journey finds Alcarria in its villages and passing encounters.
Travel writing Morocco · Mediterranean
Amin Maalouf
Hasan al-Wazzan's journeys cross Granada, Morocco and the Mediterranean, following a scholar whose changing homes reveal the upheavals of the sixteenth century.
Historical fiction Spain · Madrid
Hugh Thomas
Writers from different periods reveal Madrid through fiction and personal accounts.
Literary anthology Spain · Seville
Barnaby Conrad
A veteran bullfighter faces a younger challenger in Seville.
Fiction Spain · Girona
José María Gironella
Gironella’s family chronicle follows divided loyalties into the Spanish Civil War.
Historical fiction Spain
José María Gironella
A family chronicle explores the difficult peace after Spain’s Civil War.
Historical fiction Spain · Ibiza · Mediterranean
Tristan Jones
An unlikely sailing partnership finds adventure and companionship around Ibiza.
Travel writing Spain · Vitoria
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe battles intrigue and dishonour during the campaign toward Vitoria.
Historical fiction Spain · Salamanca
Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe confronts battle and espionage during the Salamanca campaign.
Historical fiction Spain · Yegen · Andalusia
Gerald Brenan
Gerald Brenan discovers Andalusian village life through years spent in Yegen.
Travel writing Spain
Jan Morris
Jan Morris builds a portrait of Spain from its regions and cultural habits.
Travel writing Spain
Robert Graham
Spain’s passage from dictatorship to democracy is examined through contemporary reporting.
Nonfiction Spain
John A. Crow
Spain’s literature, art and politics are explored within a broad cultural history.
History Spain · Granada · Alhambra
Washington Irving
A stay in Granada’s Alhambra inspires travel sketches and Moorish legends.
Travel writing France · Spain · Marseille
Joseph Conrad
A Marseille love affair becomes entangled with Spain’s Carlist cause.
Fiction Spain
Peter S. Feibleman
An American girl’s Spanish journey leads to a complicated encounter with a count.
Fiction 
