December 2025 Issue
John Foot
Grave Matters
Travels Through the Spanish Civil War
By Nick Lloyd
El Generalísimo: Franco – Power, Violence and the Quest for Greatness
By Giles Tremlett
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July 2025 Issue
Michael Eaude
Exposed Entrails
Time of Silence
By Luis Martín-Santos (Translated from Spanish by Peter Bush)
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November 2024 Issue
David Abulafia
Legends of the Phantom Rider
El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary
By Nora Berend
November 2024 Issue
Thea McLachlan
All That She Wants
Mammoth
By Eva Baltasar (Translated from Catalan by Julia Sanches)
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October 2024 Issue
Marina Scholtz
Interview with the Vampire
Thirst
By Marina Yuszczuk (Translated from Spanish by Heather Cleary)
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June 2024 Issue
Sarah Moorhouse
Summertime Sadness
Living Things
By Munir Hachemi (Translated from Spanish by Julia Sanches)
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May 2024 Issue
Francesca Peacock
Springtime in Barcelona
The Time of Cherries
By Montserrat Roig (Translated from Catalan by Julia Sanches)
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February 2024 Issue
Daniel Rey
Priests with Pick Axes
How the Spanish Empire was Built: A 400-Year History
By Felipe Fernández-Armesto & Manuel Lucena Giraldo
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June 2023 Issue
Stephen Taylor
Cast Away in Patagonia
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By David Grann
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April 2023 Issue
John Foot
Fascists & Fantasists
Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain
By Paul Preston
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August 2022 Issue
Duncan Wheeler
Don Quixote Meets Don Juan
España: A Brief History of Spain
By Giles Tremlett
Incomparable Realms: Spain During the Golden Age, 1500–1700
By Jeremy Robbins
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July 2022 Issue
Michael Eaude
Hello, Oppression
Goodbye, Ramona
By Montserrat Roig (Translated by Megan Berkobien & Maria Cristina Hall)
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July 2021 Issue
David Abulafia
Alhambra Confidential
City of Illusions: A History of Granada
By Helen Rodgers & Stephen Cavendish
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April 2021 Issue
Linda Porter
This Earth, This Realm, This Castile
The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster
By Helen Carr
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October 2020 Issue
Robin Simon
He Painted It Black
Goya: A Portrait of the Artist
By Janis A Tomlinson
April 2020 Issue
Linda Porter
A Catholic & a Gentleman
Mary and Philip: The Marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain
By Alexander Samson
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March 2020 Issue
David Gilmour
Rogues & Republicans
A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain 1874–2018
By Paul Preston
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October 2019 Issue
David Gilmour
One Nation or Two?
Violencia: A New History of Spain – Past, Present and the Future of the West
By Jason Webster
After the Fall: Crisis, Recovery and the Making of a New Spain
By Tobias Buck
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May 2019 Issue
Anthony Pagden
Not Quite Master of All He Surveyed
Emperor: A New Life of Charles V
By Geoffrey Parker
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November 2018 Issue
David Gilmour
Put Out More Flags?
Scots & Catalans: Union & Disunion
By J H Elliott
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