Our listings represent a highly selective reading list on Spain and matters Spanish, especially in the sections on history. Most titles are in print, although we've included a few older classics, many of them easy enough to find in secondhand bookshops and libraries. For all books in print, publishing details are in the form (UK publisher; US publisher), where both exist; if books are published in one country only, this follows the publisher's name (eg Serpent's Tail, UK). University Press has been abbreviated as UP, o/p signifies out of print.
If you have difficulty finding any title, an excellent source for books about Spain - new, used, and out of print - is Books On Spain, PO Box 207, Twickenham, TW2 5BQ, UK (tel & fax 020/8898-7789,
www.books-on-spain.com
).
Impressions, travel and general accounts
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History
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Fiction and poetry
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Specialist guidebooks
Phil Ball
Morbo - The Story of Spanish Football
(When Saturday Comes Books, UK). Excellent and well-written account of the history of Spanish football from its nineteenth-century beginnings with the British workers at the mines of Río...
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Wildlife
Frederic Grunfeld and Teresa Farino
Wild Spain
(Sheldrake Press; Prentice Hall). A knowledgeable and practical guide to Spain's national parks, ecology and wildlife.
Heinzel, Fitter and Parslow
Collins Guide to...
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Food and wine
Coleman Andrews
Catalan Cuisine
(Grub Street, UK). Best available English-language book dealing with Spain's most adventurous regional cuisine.
Nicholas Butcher
The Spanish Kitchen
(Macmillan, UK). A...
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