Books

The Civil War book Between Two Fires by David Baird is exactly the kind of thing you would hope to find when you are aimlessly looking through the shelves in a bookshop

Expecting better luck, an aristocrat and her family experience an eventful welcome to Catalonia

Pla called Life Embitters 'narrative literature', a book combining a youth's passion to understand the world and a revised mature take on the follies of human behaviour

Joanna Trollope, a former chair of the UK's Orange Prize for books, has recently made the mainstream news with her comments criticising UK literary festivals for their commercialism.

June 8 is the CCCB and Pen Català's third edition of Orwell Day

An antipodean writer joins in with the festivities of the ancient tradition of the pig slaughter and sausage making

The book Curioses històries de Barcelona invites readers to learn more about the city's mysterious side, explaining events and legends from Barcelona's 2,000-year history

A British writer describes how she was forced to flee her beloved Mallorca at the outset of the Civil War

With Catalonia's international profile rising, Catalan literature translated into English has finally arrived opening up a world of quality for all readers

The Diada de Sant Jordi is these days dominated by the Catalan tradition of exchanging books for roses but the origins of the festival are rooted in the Saint George legend