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Spain

Robert Brian Tate

Cervantes

Cervantes, a Biography

By William Byron

July 2016 Issue

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Novel Arguments

The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World

By William Egginton

Adam Hopkins

Holy Trails

The Santiago Pilgrimage: Walking the Immortal Way

By Jean-Christophe Rufin (Translated by Martina Dervis & Malcolm Imrie)

February 2016 Issue

Michael Eaude

Lodging in the Memory

Life Embitters

By Josep Pla (Translated by Peter Bush)

February 2016 Issue

John Brewer

Ars Longa…

The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez

By Laura Cumming

August 2015 Issue

Jan Morris

Though the Open Door

Everything Is Happening: Journey into a Painting

By Michael Jacobs

March 2003 Issue

Christopher Ross

Escape To Iberia

Duende: A Journey In Search of Flamenco

By Jason Webster

October 2003 Issue

Frances Spalding

Pain’s Painter

Goya

By Robert Hughes

November 2003 Issue

Paul Johnson

Coffers and Cannibals

Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire

By Hugh Thomas

December 2003 Issue

Bruce Palling

The Invisible Man

The Tomb in Seville

By Norman Lewis

March 2004 Issue

Michael Jacobs

Castles In The Sky

The Alhambra

By Robert Irwin

April 2004 Issue

Michael Jacobs

The Mosques Beneath

Andalus: Unlocking The Secrets of Moorish Spain

By Jason Webster

Raymond Carr

The Reign In Spain

Juan Carlos: A People's King

By Paul Preston

July 2011 Issue

Miranda France

Blood, Sweat and Tears

Into the Arena: The World of the Spanish Bullfight

By Alexander Fiske-Harrison

October 2008 Issue

Michael Jacobs

Into the Rebel Zone

We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War

By Paul Preston

March 2008 Issue

Michael Jacobs

A Golden Age?

Imagining Spain: Historical Myth and National Identity

By Henry Kamen

December 2007 Issue

John McEwen

I am God, I am God

A Life of Picasso: Volume III – The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932

By John Richardson (with the collaboration of Marilyn McCully)

Timothy Brook

Raise the Holy Sail

Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem

By Carol Delaney

The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama

By Nigel Cliff

October 2012 Issue

Caroline Moorehead

Intellectuals-at-Arms

I am Spain: The Spanish Civil War and the Men & Women Who Went to Fight Fascism

By David Boyd Haycock

Unlikely Warriors: The British in the Spanish Civil War and the Struggle Against Fascism

By Richard Baxell

March 2014 Issue

Frederic Raphael

In the Caudillo’s Shadow

Franco’s Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936

By Jeremy Treglown