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  • The Winds of Change
    Joan Fallon
    The Winds of Change is a story of love, loyalty and betrayal on the eve of the Spanish Civil War, when the country is political turmoil with strikes and demonstrations, unemployment is high and the people are starving. In this complicated love triangle we meet Ramon, a member of the Republican Left, who has accidentally killed a policeman and is on the run from the Guardia Civi...
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  • Dark Heart
    JOAN FALLON
    When a well known film star is murdered during the Málaga Film Festival, the Guardia Civil turn once more to Jacaranda Dunne and her team for help.Although Jacaranda-known to everyone as JD-is still basking in the success of solving her first case for the Guardia Civil, she can see that this crime is far from straightforward.The killer has left a trail of clues for the police t...
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  • Sophie is Still Missing
    Joan Fallon
    Jacaranda Dunne-known to everyone as JD-is an ex-Metropolitan police officer who has moved to Málaga to open a detective agency. At first, the work is routine, missing dogs, stolen passports and unfaithful husbands. Then one day a woman bursts into the agency, waving the photo of a young girl; it’s her missing daughter, Sophie.Together with her best friend, Julie-both aged four...
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    16,42 €

  • The Prisoner
    Joan Fallon
    The Prisoner is an exciting, fast moving story of adventure and romance set in the exotic and vibrant 11th century city of Málaga, and is the third novel in The City of Dreams series. It opens when a young Moorish prince wakes to the filth and stench of his new home; at first he can’t understand what’s happened to him. Where is he? Gradually he remembers what his brother Hasan ...
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  • The Pirate
    JOAN FALLON
    Set in 11th century Málaga, ’The Pirate’ is the second book in The City of Dreams trilogy. This fast moving and exciting historical novel takes the reader into the medieval world of the merchants and seafarers who sail along the western coast of the Mediterranean, and the pirates who terrorise them.Early one morning, the ambitious pirate captain, al-Awar, makes a lightning raid...
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  • The Apothecary
    JOAN FALLON
    In the first novel in a new historical series set in Moorish Spain, Joan Fallon sets the action in the busy medieval port of Málaga. Following on from the successful al-Andalus series, we meet up again with the younger members of the family who had escaped from the besieged city of Córdoba.Makoud, now a middle-aged apothecary, has come to Málaga with his family to work. Shortly...
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  • Palette of Secrets
    Joan Fallon
    Palette of Secrets is a mystery story about a famous artist, Nancy Miller.  Nancy is growing old and is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. She has been persuaded by her agent to publish her memoirs but needs a ghost writer to help her to write them.  She finds a young woman called Ana who is keen to take on the job.  However, as Nancy starts to recount her life story, it becom...
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    16,34 €

  • LOVE IS ALL
    JOAN FALLON
    When Mark tells his wife that he has been having an affair with her oldest and dearest friend, he sets off a chain of events that reverberates throughout his whole family and changes the lives of those he loves forever.Love Is All tells the heart-breaking story of a family still grieving after the death of the youngest son, five years previously. Teresa, Mark and their two grow...
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    15,43 €

  • THE RING OF FLAMES
    JOAN FALLON
    It is the year 1008 AD and al-Mansur, the despotic ruler of al-Andalus is dead. Without his iron grip the country is heading for civil war. Rule and order have collapsed and anarchy reigns. If Ahmad wants to keep his family safe they must leave Córdoba but before he can take action, the enemy lays siege to the city and their escape is cut off. For two years they struggle to sur...
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    15,45 €

  • THE THREAD THAT BINDS US
    Joan Fallon
    On the surface Susan seems to have a normal, loving family, but there are secrets in her past that she cannot share with anyone. Because of this she is considered by those who know her to be an aloof and cold woman. One day her home is burgled and amongst the debris Susan discovers the worn photograph of a young boy. She becomes obsessed with tracing this child, now presumably ...
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    16,00 €

  • The Eye of the Falcon
    Joan Fallon
    When the caliph of al-Andalus, al-Hakim II, dies leaving an eleven-year-old boy as his heir, Queen Subh knows that her son is in danger-other members of the Omayyad court have their eyes on the throne.Captured by slavers and brought to Córdoba as a child, Subh has risen to become the most powerful woman in the realm. A woman of great intelligence, beauty and ambition, she does ...
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    16,43 €

  • The Shining City
    JOAN FALLON
    This is the story of a city, a city that is now in ruins: Madinat al Zahra.  The year is 947 AD, a time when southern Spain is under the rule of the Moors and now considered the Golden Age of Spain. The ruler, Caliph al Rahman III is rich, powerful and cultured.  His lands are, at long last, at peace and the capital, Córdoba, is considered to be not only the most beautiful city...
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    19,73 €

  • The Only Blue Door
    JOAN FALLON
    It is September 1940, Maggie and her young siblings, Grace and Billy, are living in the East End of London with their parents. Their father has been killed at Dunkirk and their mother goes into hospital to have her fourth child, leaving the children with a neighbour. In one of the worst bombing raids of World War II their home is destroyed and the neighbour is killed. Bewildere...
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  • Spanish Lavender
    JOAN FALLON
    'Spanish Lavender' is a love story set in the Spanish Civil War. In January 1937, Elizabeth, a young English girl decides to remain in Spain when the rest of her family return to the peace of England. Alone in the devastated city of Málaga she makes friends with two young men, Juan, an idealistic Spaniard and Alex, a pragmatic Englishman. Together they make their escape...
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    17,13 €

  • Santiago Tales
    Joan Fallon
    SANTIAGO TALESA journey in search of loveBeth is a woman whose life is falling apart; there are problems with her marriage, her career is in the doldrums and her health is not good.  When she discovers her husband has been leading a double life she realises she has to get away from the cosy village life where everyone knows your business and spend some time alone. She decides t...
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    15,64 €

  • Loving Harry
    JOAN FALLON
    Fashion designer Carla Kane has been too busy climbing the career ladder to sustain a long-term relationship – until she meets the charming, charismatic Harry Wilkinson, and falls deeply in love for the first time. There’s only one problem: Harry is already married to Barbara, a stay-at-home wife who’s been content until now to devote all her energies to looking after her husba...
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    17,07 €

  • The House on the Beach
    JOAN FALLON
    "The House on the Beach" is a novel set in the years after the Civil War, in a Spain ruled by the military dictator Francisco Franco. This is a time when women had little independence; they were expected to lead prescribed lives, dominated by first their fathers and then their husbands. Rocio and Inma first meet as children. Despite coming from very different social backgrounds...
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    15,49 €