Not all are hidden by luxuriant, pointy moustaches... The painter's only novel is a baroque and decadent tale set in the 1930s, first published in 1944.
An excellent Catalan novel from the 1970s, about flight and return, in which the Civil War still looms over the tail-end of Franco's era and modernity blooms. A marvellous evocation of Barce... read more
The mayor of Barcelona is being blackmailed with a sex tape from her student days and there are several interested parties who would gladly see her resignation. The first in a new series by ... read more
Nevinson, the retired spy whom we met in Berta Isla, becomes entangled in the lives of three women. The last novel by this late and much lamented author is labyrinthine and brilliant...
The plight of post-Civil War Madrid is told through the voices of over 300 characters. A new NYRB edition of this raucous, fragmentary novel, first published in 1950.
Two experts incorporate much new evidence from wrecks and archives: this new book has a reasonable claim to be the definitive account of the Armada. Illustrated.
Vicenzo Fontano, the elderly owner of a bookshop, looks back over their conjoined lives on the eve of its closure for redevelopment by greedy speculators. Political and cultural dissidents, ... read more
Corberó (1935-2017) was a Catalan sculptor known for his monumental works for public spaces. For nearly fifty years he also constructed an extraordinary modernist labyrinth of buildings on ... read more
Born into an English Catholic family in 1538, she was married into the Spanish Court. After her husband's death she took on the role of unofficial ambassador in Spain, keeping on the good si... read more
The first monograph in English on Luisa Roldán (1652-1706), one of the great Spanish sculptors in polychromed wood in the C17th, which places her in the broader context of the Spanish Baroq... read more
Another in this terrific series that has already included anthologies from Japan and Italy. Stories from the C19th to the present chosen by the greatest living translator of Spanish literatu... read more
These lovely house-blessers are the latest subject for Moss, following his 'Wren' and ' Robin', and a decade after Horatio Clare's glorious 'A Single Swallow'. Illustrated.
Explores the world and campaigns of the late-medieval imperialists, the Christian adventurers whose mind-sets are as remote to us today as were those of the Aztecs and Incas to them.
There are extraordinarily few books set on the island of Majorca. This is the first English translation of a novel published in Spanish in 1960, four years after Lorenç Villalonga’s The D... read more
PP has written numerous books on Fascist Spain. No one is better qualified to write this big history - why corruption has been so tenacious, and the continuing conflict between centrism and ... read more
The penultimate novel by the great Marías, who very sadly died in September 2022. Themes, characters and ideas resurface throughout his work, both the standalone novels and the astonishing ... read more