The finest Valley and Mountain Walks

48 worthwhile walks on Europes most popular holiday island. A paradise for hikers, peaceful forests, picturesque valleys and adventurous ravines, bizarre coastlines and wild craggy summits of the Tramuntana. With exact description, walking maps at a scale of 1:50 000 / 1:75 000 and countless tips on places to visit and sights to see.

sold new: 19:50€

Ciceron Guides

“Walking in Mallorca” quickly established itself as the most comprehensive guidebook to the island, with particular emphasis on the rugged Serra de Tramuntana. June Parker’s routes have been walked afresh, carefully checked and amended where necessary, and are now presented with new mapping and plenty of colour pictures. This book will entice walkers well off the beaten track, enabling them to explore the most diverse terrain around the island. Rugged mountain walks contrast with remote valleys, while waymarked trails give way to long-forgotten mule tracks and hidden mountain passes. Some walks run close to breathtaking cliff coastlines, while others pass through sleepy villages where welcome refreshment can be obtained. Birdwatchers, geologists and historians will find abundant interest throughout Mallorca, and a full introduction explains about facilities around the island. Language notes are given in native Catalan and Castilian Spanish, enabling visitors to pass the time of day with local people and make the most of their visit to the island.

Sold  new: 22.50€

Mr Nice Howard Marks

During the mid 1980s Howard marks had 43 Aliases, 89 phone lines and owned 25 companies trading throughout the world.

At the height of his creer he was smuggling consignments of up to 30 tons of marijuana, and had contact with organisations as diverse as MI6, the CIA, the IRA, and the Mafia. Following a worldwide operation by the drug enforcement agency, he was busted and sentenced to 25 years in prison at Terre Haute Penetentiary, Indiana. He was released in April 1995, after serving 7 years of his sentence. Told with hmour, charm and candour, Mr Nice is own extraordinary story.

William Graves

Life in Majorca wirh Robert Graves

As a five-year-old child, William Graves is taken in 1944 from England to a mountain village in Majorca, where his father, the poet Robert Graves, had returned with his new family to the place where he had lived before the war with Laura Riding. Young William grows up in the writer’s shadow, while experiencing the way of life of the Majorcans which have hardly changed for hundreds of years, and participating in the day-to-day activities of the village. William Graves conveys the texture of life in Majorca - the food, the pattern of the seasons, the camaraderie and rivalries within the village, and the growing sense, from the 1960s onwards, that his fragile paradise was under threat. The book is also a portrait of Robert Graves, his “Muses” and his entourage, and a study of how the son of a famous father finds his own identity.

Price 13.50€

For Terraces, Balconies & Windowsills

Clodagh & Dick Handscombe

The Complete guide to terrace, balcony and windowsill gardening in Spain and other Mediterranean Countries. Packed with practical infomation and tips, this book will help resident and non-resident owners of apartments in towns and villages, inland and on the coast, make the best use of the space available to them. Includes designing aand maximising growing space, selecting plants for sunny, semi-shady or shady locations.

Price 15.00€

Robert Graves

The ever-popular novelist and story-teller Robert Graves wrote fascinating and durable stories, here collected together in a single volume for the first time by the poet’s daughter Lucia Graves.

Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. Apart from a year as Professor of English Literature at Cairo University in 1926, he earned his living by writing, mostly historical novels, including: I, Claudius; Claudius the God; Count Belisarius and many others. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That, in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. He also translated Apuleius, Lucan and Suetonius for the Penguin Classics, and compiled the first modern dictionary of Greek Mythology, The Greek Myths. Robert Graves died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929

Price: 19.50€

Evan S Connell

During the vile days of the Spanish Inquisition, Francisco Goya, a renown Spanish painter, painted royalty, street urchins and demons with the same brush, bringing his own distinctive touch to each. This unusual man and his ghastly times are the perfect subject for Evan S. Connell, one of our greatest and least conventional writers. This unorthodox biography shines with wit, erudition and prodigious research. To say Connell is intimate with his subject is an understatement: He seems to be inside Goya’s famously impenetrable skin.

Price 7.50€ Hardback. All our books are sold in prestine condition

Ildefonso Falcones

14th-century Spain is enjoying a golden age of prosperity. It is building a magnificent church to overlook their harbour. In its shadow, Arnau, a young serf on the run from his feudal lord. Arnau’s journey from slave to nobleman is the story of a struggle between good and evil that will turn Church against State and brother against brother.

Price: 7.50€ All our books are sold in prestine condition.

Norman Lewis

After World War II, Norman Lewis returned to Spain and settled in the remote fishing village of Farol, on what is now Costa Brava. Voices of the Old Sea describes his three successive summers in that almost medieval community where life revolved around the seasonal sardine catches, Alcade’s bar, and satisfying feuds with neighboring villages. It’s lucky Lewis was there when he was. Soon after, Spain was discovered by its neighbors in a more prosperous northern Europe, and the tourist tide that ensued flowed inexorably over the old ways of the town and its inhabitants.

Price 12.90é

Giles Tremlett

TRAVELS THROUGH A COUNTRY´S HIDDEN PAST.

The appearance - sixty years after that war ended - of mass graves containing victims of Franco’s death squads has finally broken what Spaniards call ‘the pact of forgetting’. At this charged moment, Giles Tremlett embarked on a journey around Spain - and through Spanish history. Tremlett’s journey was also an attempt to make sense of his personal experience of the Spanish. Why do they dislike authority figures, but are cowed by a doctor’s white coat? How had women embraced feminism without men noticing? What binds gypsies, jails and flamenco? Why do the Spanish go to plastic surgeons, donate their organs, visit brothels or take cocaine more than other Europeans?

Price 11.50