Life in Culebrón

In 2004 Spanish bookshops were intimidating places. Berlin Wall like there was nearly always a counter and the books were behind it. They w...

For years and years I've been fed up that my Spanish isn't as good as it should be. It's always seemed to me that without being ...

My latest book is a political biography about the bloke who was President of Spain, on the losing side, in the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War. I ...

I was sitting in the garden. I had my feet up and a beer in one hand and an electronic book in the other so I was reading and drinking or ...

"You use a lot of continuous tenses in your books. Is there any particular reason for that?". It's an interview on the BBC R...

I don't have any work between the end of June and the beginning of September. No pay either so it's not quite as good as it sounds...

I read something, in an electronic newspaper, yesterday that said that our President, Mariano Rajoy, isn't a big reader. It went on ...

Reading is a funny thing. When I worked in the UK I grew to hate reading. I had to wade through so many pages of so much verbiage full ...

Once upon a time we lived in Ciudad Rodrigo in the province of Salamanca more or less on the border with Portugal. It was a lovely spot bu...