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	Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote 'Didn't I tell you they were only windmills? And only someone with windmills on the brain could have failed to see that!' Voted the greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute, Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire, the cunning Sancho Panza. As they roam the world together, the aging Quixote's fancy leads them wildly astray. At the same time the relationship between the two men grows in fascinating subtlety. Often considered to be the first modern novel, Don Quixote is a wonderful burlesque of the popular literature its disordered protagonist is obsessed with. Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0140449094 Published: 2003 Paperback: 1056 pages, 129 x 198 mm Price: £9.99


	Federico Garcia Lorca - Selected Poems Spain's greatest and most well-loved modern poet, Lorca has long been admired for the emotional intensity and dark brilliance of his work, which drew on music, drama, mythology and the songs of his Andulucian childhood. From the playful Suites and stylized Gypsy Ballads, to his own dark vision of urban life, Poet in New York, and his elegaic meditation on death, Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, his range was remarkable. This bilingual edition provides versions by distinguished poets and translators, drawing on every book of poems published by Lorca and on his uncollected works. Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 014118583X Published: 2001 Paperback: 368 pages, 129 x 198 mm Price: £12.99


	Javier Marias - Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me Víctor has left his new mistress, Marta, dead on her bed. He has put some food out for Marta's little boy, who had taken so long getting to sleep, and had slipped the tape with its compromising messages from her answering machine into his pocket before creeping off. An unexpected end to what was supposed to be an evening of passion - but the girl had suddenly taken ill and died in his arms. Marta's elderly father is afflicted that his daughter died alone, but the rest of the family are all too aware that she was not alone when she died, and Deán, the widowed husband, is determined to find out who was sharing her bed that night. All might have remained undiscovered, but Víctor cannot endure living with shadows and, as it turns out, there is another who must also bring secrets into the open. Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0099448378 Published: 1998 Paperback: 320 pages, 198 x 130 mm Price: £6.99


	Pedro Calderon - Life is a Dream One of the masterpieces of the Spanish Golden Age. It is foretold that Prince Sigismund will become a tyrant. Alarmed, his father, the king, imprisons him. When he is released for a day as an experiment he proves the omens only too right, and, as a result, is incarcerated once more. Sigismund persuades himself that all that has passed is a dream and emerges to rule wisely and justly. When premiered in Edinburgh, this new version was hailed as 'the star of the festival? John Clifford's translation reclaims a Spanish masterpiece for the modern stage' - The Guardian, UK Publisher: Nick Hern Books ISBN: 1854591886 Published: 1998 Paperback Price: £3.99


	Juan Goytisolo - Marks of Identity A Spanish exile returns from Paris to his family home in Barcelona. This first volume of Goytisolo's great trilogy which includes Count Julian and Juan the Landless, Marks of Identity is a revealing autobiographical reflection on exile. Goytisolo comes to the conclusion that every man carries his own exile about with him, wherever he lives. The narrator (Goytisolo) rejects Spain itself and searches instead for poetry 'the word without history'. Marks of Identity is a shocking and influential work, and an affirmation of the ability of the individual to survive the political tyrannies of the last century and the current one. Born in Barcelona in 1931, Juan Goytisolo is one of Spain's greatest modern writers. A bitter opponent of the Franco regime, his early novels were banned in Spain. In 1956 he moved to Paris. Since then he has written extensively on the city as melting-pot, the expulsion of the Moors from Europe and the art of reading. In 2004 Goytisolo was awarded the Juan Rulfo International Latin American and Caribbean Prize for Literature. Publisher: Serpent's Tail ISBN: 1852427671 Published: 2003 Paperback: 352 pages Price: £7.99


	Camilo Jose Cela - Journey to the Alcarria Journey to the Alcarria is travel writing at its best - picaresque in the tradition of Cervantes, elegaic, evoking a Spain that has almost ceased to exist. In the summer of 1946, seven years after the end of the Spanish Civil War, Camilo Jose Cela set out on foot to discover the heart of Spain. He chose the Alcarria, in the north-east corner of New Castile, because he believed that the region - peasant, simple, rustic - would suit his purposes: it was a place where nothing ever happened; it was a place remarkable for its Spanishness. Camilo Jose Cela was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989. Publisher: Granta ISBN: 1862071330 Published: 1998 Paperback: 144 pages Price: £5.99


	George Orwell - Homage to Catalonia When George Orwell joined up to fight in the Spanish Civil War, it seemed like the beginning of 'an era of equality and freedom'. In Homage to Catalonia he vividly chronicles his experiences: the revolutionary euphoria of Barcelona, the courage of the ordinary Spanish men and women he fought alongside, the terror and confusion of the front, his near-fatal bullet wound and the cynical betrayal of his allies. Here he brings to bear all the force of his humanity, passion and integrity to describe the bright hopes and desperate disillusionment of a chaotic, brutal war. 'A war story that is both brutally honest and lyrically beautiful' - Daily Telegraph, London Publisher: Penguin Classic ISBN: 0141187379 Published: 2003 Paperback: 256 pages, 129 x 198 mm Price: £7.99


	Ernest Hemingway - Death in the Afternoon Hemingway's passion for Spain and for the bullfight is renowned. In Death in the Afternoon he shares the sights, the sounds, the excitement and, above all, the knowledge which fuelled his passion for the 'the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped on a stick.' First published in 1932, Death in the Afternoon remains a classic for its historical account of the Corrida, for the stories of the great matadors, their banderilleros and picadors - the men who live every day with death - and for the stories of the bulls whose bravery is the primal root of the bullfight. Death in the Afternoon also contains some of the finest short stories Hemingway ever wrote, inspired by the intense life as well as the inevitable death of those hot, violent afternoons. Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0099285029 Published: 2000 Paperback: 352 pages, 198 x 129 mm Price: £7.99


	Arturo Perez-Reverte - The Seville Communion Murderous goings-on in a tiny baroque church draw the Vatican into the dark heart of Seville. A hacker gets into the Pope's personal computer to leave a warning about mysterious deaths in a small church in Seville that is threatened with demolition. Father Quart, a suave Vatican trouble-shooter, is sent to investigate. Experience has taught him to deal with enemies of the Church in all their guises, but nothing has prepared him for the stubborn faith of Father Ferro, or the appeal of the lovely Macarena Bruner, desperate to save the church of her ancestors from her ex-husband, the ruthless banker Pencho Gavira. As Quart is drawn into an intrigue as labyrinthine as the streets of Seville, soon more than his vocation is in danger. Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0099453967 Published: 1997 Paperback: 352 pages, 197 x 130 mm Price: £7.99


	Matthew Lewis - The Monk Savaged by critics for its supposed profanity and obscenity, and bought in large numbers by readers eager to see whether it lived up to its lurid reputation, The Monk became a succès de scandale when it was published in 1796 - not least because its author was a Member of Parliament and only twenty years old. It recounts the diabolical decline of Ambrosio, a Capuchin superior, who succumbs first to temptations offered by a young girl who has entered his monastery disguised as a boy, and continues his descent with increasingly depraved acts of sorcery, murder, incest and torture. Combining sensationalism with acute psychological insight, this masterpiece of Gothic fiction is a powerful exploration of how violent and erotic impulses can break through the barriers of social and moral restraint. Publisher: Penguin Classic ISBN: 0140436030 Published: 1998 Paperback: 416 pages, 129 x 198 mm Price: £8.99


	Graham Greene - Monsignor Quixote With Sancho Panza, a deposed Communist mayor, his faithful Rocinate, an antiquated motor car, Monsignor Quixote roams through modern-day Spain in a brilliant picaresque fable. Like Cervantes' classic, Monsignor Quixote offers enduring insights into our life and times. 'Graham Greene's best, most absorbing, adept and effortless novel' - Spectator Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0099283948 Published: 2000 Paperback: 256 pages, 200 x 133 mm Price: £7.99

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