Books

The imposing rocky landscape of the Priorat region persists as a link between the present and darker remembrances of the volunteers who came to fight in the Civil War

An Irish writer moves off the beaten tourist track only to discover the surprising city of Girona

Gaudí's work was already drawing international acclaim from visitors just two years after the architect's death

A lesbian detective is hired by a glamorous woman, Frankie, who is in fact a transsexual to look for her husband, Ben, who turns out to be a woman. It is (you've guessed right) a comedy about sexual identity

A leading figure in contemporary literature, John Banville –who also writes crime novels under the pseudonym Benjamin Black– delves into the selfish side of love

Stefanie Kremser presents, The Day I Learned to Fly, a novel that tells of how a girl searches for her mother though in a spirit of joyfulness and vitality

The Spanish Civil War inspired many British writers. Last month's article looked at the heroines of Angela Jackson's novel Warm Earth. This month we return to the war, but to discuss hesitancy rather than heroism, in Stephen Spender's fine but simple poem, Port Bou

A South African born writer takes us along with her on a pilgrimage to Mallorca's sacred monastery of Lluc

Warm Earth, the fourth in our series of works of fiction looking at Catalonia through foreign eyes, tells the dramatic and moving story of British women working as nurses and organisers with the International Brigades during the 1936-39 Civil War

An excellent description of the city of Tarragona by a 19th century Scot whose keen eye missed little