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| Author: | George Orwell |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Catalogue number: | 88768 |
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Republished in the Contemporary Penguin Classics series, this book remains one of the best accounts of the Spanish Civil War.
| Author: | Colm Toibin |
| Publisher: | Picador |
| Catalogue number: | 103938 |
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A celebration of Barcelona, moving from the city's origins and expansion to more recent history and the lives of its famous inhabitants. Written with deep knowledge and affection.
| Author: | Norman Lewis |
| Publisher: | Picador |
| Catalogue number: | 51867 |
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Shortly after the Second World War Norman Lewis made three successive summer visits to the remote Catalan fishing village of Farol, in the Costa Brava.
His book is a moving account of the hardships...
| Author: | Robert Hughes |
| Publisher: | Harvill Press |
| Catalogue number: | 94609 |
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"Barcelona is an attempt at total history: Social, political , cultural, economic ¿ Hughes includes descriptions of buildings - and he is as good on the bony grandeur of Catalan gothic as he is on the...
The Basque History of the World
| Author: | Mark Kurlansky |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 93141 |
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The author considers the possibility that the Basques may be one of the oldest people in Europe. Whether or not this is so there is no doubt that the region has always been strongly independent. In...
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