Books and eBooks about Spain – in English
Mar 11, 2013
Publishers’ support for independent bookshops – the Books4Spain experience By Rod Younger, Managing Director of www.Books4Spain.com 17 March 2013 Given the debate about what support publishers can give independent bookshops, I would like to give our experience in this regard. A year ago we launched Books4Spain, an exclusively online bookshop specialising in...
Feb 4, 2013
Books4Spain: The bookseller putting Spain on the map by Anna Nicholas and first published on Daily Telegraph expat blog on 17 July 2012 A decade ago, having just bought a dilapidated old finca in rural Majorca, I felt inspired to read as much about Spain, my soon-to-be new home, as I possibly could. Back in London I became a member of the Cervantes Institute and...
Feb 3, 2013
Interview with Ann Bateson of Madrid Live Listen to the short version of my interview (4 mins) with Ann Bateson, presenter of Madrid Live, the weekly English language radio show from Radio Circulo, the radio station of the Circulo de Bellas Artes, where I discuss why Spain has attracted so many foreigner writers and what books about Spain are essential reading...
Feb 3, 2013
La Pasion de Books4Spain por Espana!! Books4Spain es una web creada para difundir eBooks y libros sobre España en inglés. Esta librería on-line ha sido fundada en 2011 por Rod Younger, anglo-español que ha llegado a hacer realizar una de sus múltiples ideas en el mundo librario. Su principal objetivo es apoyar el interés sobre nuestro país, enfocándolo...
Feb 1, 2013
A potted history of Catalonia from middle ages to early 20th Century Rod Younger discusses the history of Catalonia with Selina MacKenzie of Talk Radio Europe and explains why he thinks the Catalans have such a strong nationalist streak after regularly having its powers emasculated by the central authorities in Madrid, from Ferdinand & Isabel to Philip V...
Feb 1, 2013
Que literatura moderna Española esta en Books4Spain Books4Spain es una web creada para difundir eBooks y libros sobre España en inglés. Esta librería on-line ha sido fundada en 2011 por Rod Younger, anglo-español que ha llegado a hacer realizar una de sus múltiples ideas en el mundo librario. Su principal objetivo es apoyar el interés sobre nuestro país,...
Jan 29, 2013
Interview re causes of Spanish Civil War (on Talk Radio Europe) The Spanish Civil War is a very emotive subject even today, more than 70 years after its end, and it remains the most written about war of the modern era. It continues to attract attention and controversy from a variety of “factions”, including Spanish Judge Garzon Baltazar. My...
Jan 23, 2013
Looking for a book on Spain? Here’s the one-stop specialist, and in English by David Wishart for www.thetraveleditor.com Spain is always in the news. The stories used to be more fun, mind you, such as the exchange between the Franco-era policeman and the English girl, in a bikini, on the Costa beach. “Senorita,” he said, “I have to inform you that two...
