Mar 28, 2013

Literary Pursuits: British Spies in Spain – Fact meets Fiction An extract from the conversation between authors Jimmy Burns and Maria Duenas before a packed audience, ‘un lleno hasta la bandera’, at Instituto Cervantes London and gracefully hosted by the Institute Cervante’s Director Julio Crespo MacLennan. First published in Anglo Spanish...

Mar 7, 2013

Gisela Radant Wood, the woman who does know how to read maps! by Sara Fontán and first published in Spanish Sierra de Gata digital 02/03/2013 Walking in Extremadura, recently published and available online, is an essential book for the rural tourism business of our sierra.  The book captures, for the first time, and from the pen of an islander from Great...

Mar 5, 2013

Carlos Saura, my life in flamenco – an interview with Flamenco News  An interview with Carlos Saura, renowned Spanish film director and flamenco enthusiast, by Steve Carr, published in the Summer 2012 edition of Flamenco News. Steve Carr is  joint editor of Flamenco News which is the magazine of the Peña Flamenca de Londres and the only flamenco...

Feb 25, 2013

The New Yorker: Interview with Colm Tóibín Posted by Deborah Treisman 25 February 2013 Your story in this week’s issue, “Summer of ’38,” is set in Spain, partly during the Spanish Civil War. You’ve written nonfiction about Spain—“Homage to Barcelona”—and your novel “The South” is set in Barcelona and involves a veteran of the Spanish...

Words by Rob Innis http://robinnis.wordpress.com/ Expat life frequently takes many unexpected twists and turns. When Linda Palfreeman arrived in Albatera she had no idea that she would end up becoming one of the leading experts in the British involvement with the International Brigade (IB). The IB comprised of British (and other nationalities) of volunteers...

Dec 28, 2012

Meet Christoper Gortner, author of The Queen’s Vow and The Last Queen Any amusing anecdotes when writing The Queen’s Vow or The Last Queen? One of my friends is a Renaissance Faire re-enactor and helped me try on a gown with a fake pregnancy belly to get a sense of what it must have been like to carry an unborn child dressed in period garb. Actually, I...

Nov 29, 2012

Meet Eva Wiseman author of The Last Song   The Last Song is a young adult fiction novel is set in Toledo, Spain during the Spanish Inquisition where Isabel’s family feels safe from torture and burnings (auto de fe) because she’s catholic and her father works for the court of Ferdinand and Isabella (Los Reyes Católicos / The Catholic Kings). But she is...

Nov 16, 2012

GENESIS OF AN AUTHOR Jill Stewart likes her home comforts and is distinctly unimpressed by El Valero, despite the fact that her son constructed it stone by stone and beam by beam with the sweat of his own brow. There is a lounge with quarry stone floor and an open log fire – the only form of heating – a galley-style kitchen and what appears, beneath...