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
May 2018 Issue
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
A Voyage Round His Father
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library
By Edward Wilson-Lee
May 2000 Issue
Tristan Garel-Jones
Looking Death in the Face Daily
Bullfighting
By A L Kennedy
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October 2017 Issue
John Carlin
Yes We Catalan
The Struggle for Catalonia: Rebel Politics in Spain
By Raphael Minder
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September 1998 Issue
Anthony Blond
Too Much to Do
The Grand Strategy of Philip II
By Geoffrey Parker
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September 1998 Issue
Raymond Carr
How Stalin Ruined the Spanish Republic
Arms for Spain: The Untold Story of the Spanish Civil War
By Gerald Howson
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May 2017 Issue
John Edwards
Sovereign of the Seas
Isabella of Castile: Europe’s First Great Queen
By Giles Tremlett
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April 2017 Issue
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Handing over the Keys to Paradise
The Moor's Last Stand: How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End
By Elizabeth Drayson
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February 2017 Issue
Adam Hopkins
Bullfight Detector
Footprints in Spain: British Lives in a Foreign Land
By Simon Courtauld
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May 1993 Issue
Raymond Carr
Ethnic Cleansing Time
Isabel the Queen: Life and Times
By Peggy Liss
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May 1980 Issue
Robert Brian Tate
Cervantes
Cervantes, a Biography
By William Byron
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