Santana’s Spanish Phrase Book
Compiled by Liz Parry

Category: Reference/Spanish Language
Format: Trade paperback, 128pp, 4 x 5, Color Illus.
ISBN: 84-89954-47-X
Price: $9.95

Available March 2006
Veteran phrase book author and journalist Liz Parry has put together a wholly different kind of phrase book for the Spanish language, designed for people of all ages who are serious about having fun in Spain. The book is comprehensive in its approach, with an easy-to-follow pronunciation guide and up-to-date vocabulary.

This is a phrase book that will help English-speaking tourists and residents get the most out of their time in Spain. It presents all aspects of the Spanish lifestyle from manners to regulations, including all the words and phrases you need in everyday situations, together with an insight into Spanish customs.

This exciting new book will help readers really enjoy his and her “Spanish experience”—warts and all.

Great Dishes from Spain
Janet Mendel and John Wood

Category: Cooking
Format: Trade paperback, 128pp, 7 x 10, Color Photos
ISBN: 84-89954-48-8
Price: $28.00

Available March 2006
Veteran cookbook writers Mandel and Wood have put together a book with fifty recipes from every region of Spain. There are recipes for different kinds of tapas, gazpacho, and paella. Readers will find delectable concoctions for soups and salads, sizzling chicken, succulent meats and savory seafood.

These are all kitchen-tested and beautifully photographed. Recipes are clear and so easy to follow that cooking them is a pleasure. There is also a wealth of information on Spain’s superb wines, cheeses, ham, and olive oil in special sections on gourmet products. This book is truly an essential item for all lovers of Spanish cuisine.

Indeed, this is a wonderful gift for friends and family wherever they may live in the world!

Spain: A Literary Companion
Jimmy Burns

Category: Literature/Culture/History
Format: Trade paperback, 256pp, 5 x 8, Illus.
ISBN: 84-89954-52-6
Price: $26.00

Available March 2006
Acclaimed journalist and author Jimmy Burns draws on the observations of an entertaining blend of travelers, writers, soldiers, adventurers, saints and sinners from early times to the present day in Spain. Here is Spain with all its idiosyncrasies, in a compelling narrative that is part travelogue, part anthology, and a wide-ranging portrait of a country and its people.

This book will surprise and entertain readers with incisive accounts of battlefield experience, tributes to Spain’s three cultures, the joys of Spanish food and wine, the enduring nature of regional identity, the passions of flamenco and bullfighting, and the changes brought to the country by tourism.

This is required reading for anyone interested in Spain, its history, culture, politics and people.

Travellers in Spain: An Illustrated Anthology
David Mitchell

Category: Travel/Essays/History
Format: Trade paperback, 207pp, 5 3/8 x 8 1/4, 56 B & W Illus.
ISBN: 84-89954-33-X
Price: $24.95

Available March 2006
This entertaining collection includes more than four centuries of commentary by distinguished visitors to Spain.

From Casanova to the Duke of Wellington, from Ernest Hemingway to Robert Graves, from Evelyn Waugh to George Melley, this is a lively and fascinating assortment of opinion and observation that ranges from the adoring to the outrageous, from the passionate to the bigoted, from the hilarious to the thoughtful.

Travellers in Spain is an invaluable key to understanding the Spanish character . . . and to understanding why Spain has fascinated more foreigners than any other nation in the world.

Birds of Iberia
Clive Finalyson and David Tomlinson

Category: Onithology
Format: Paperback, 218pp, 8 x 9 3/8, 150 Color & 17 B&W Illus.
ISBN: 84-89954-28-3
Price: $50.00

Available March 2006
Since the early days of the Victorian naturalists who discovered the ecological treasures of the Iberian Peninsular, the region has attracted innumerable visitors. Despite this, there have remarkably few books on birds and bird watching.

In this stunning volume, printed on heavy glossy stock throughout, the authors guide us to the main habitats of the species of birds which are found in the region as well as the more important ornithological sites.

This book includes examinations of 150 bird species and the main areas in which they can be found. The descriptions provide the status of each species in Iberia as well as placing them in their global context. The Iberian Peninsula forms a distinct geographical environment, not only for the unique species found there, but also as the crossroads of the twice-annual journey between Europe and Africa made by most migratory birds. This is a major reference work for any bird watcher who plans a trip to the site or for the armchair traveler and the general reader.

With more than 150 full-color photographs and seventeen black-and-white sketches, Birds of Iberia is a treasure to have and to hold.

Birdwatching on Spain’s Southern Coast
2nd Edition
John R. Butler

Category: Onithology/Field Guides
Format: Paperback, 310pp, 5 x 8 3/4, 26 Color Illus. & 61 Maps
ISBN: 84-89954-38-0
Price: $35.00

Available March 2006
Birdwatchers will be enthralled by this detailed, profusely illustrated guide to birds at 39 major sites and 36 subsidiary sites on the Costa del Sol, Costa de la Luz, Costa de Almeria, Doñana and some inland sites.

Included in this comprehensive guide are detailed maps of all the sites that highlight each area’s features, points of interest and all access roads, tracks and footpaths.

A calendar provides not only the best times of year to visit these sites, but also the best times of day. There is a complete list of birds personally identified by the author at each site as well as general information on how to plan and get the most out of your trips.

There is also detailed information on wheelchair accessibility at each site.

A Selection of Wildflowers of Southern Spain
Betty Molesworth Allen

Category: Botany/Field Guides
Format: Trade Paperback, 256pp, 5 x 7 3/4, 200 Color Illus
ISBN: 84-89954-12-7
Price: $27.50

Available March 2006
Gardeners will revel in this lush collection of native Spanish wildflowers that grow primarily in Andalusia, where the climate is not unlike that of Southern California.

Selected by an award-winning botanist, this volume contains more than 200 full-color pictures; annotations include description, time of flowering, habitat, distribution, family ties and additional notes on cultivation.

Southern Spain is host to a rich variety of wildflowers in widely diverse habitats, from coastal plains to high mountains, some of them growing nowhere else in the world. In addition to the illuminating text which accompanies each illustration, there are also a plant guide by flower color, an introduction, a glossary and a list of botanical names and species.

Costa del Sol Walks:
All Along the Coast from Nerja to Manilva
Charles Davis

Category: Travel
Format: Trade paperback, 238pp, 4 1/2 x 7, Maps, 125 Color Illus.
ISBN: 84-89954-39-9
Price: $26.95

About the Book

There is another Costa del Sol that is a secret to most tourists and a hidden sanctuary for ramblers: thirty-four walking routes a short distance from the coastal resorts of the Costa del Sol, from Nerja to Manilva. Included here are easy-to-follow, detailed notes with times, distances and gradings; full color maps and photographs for each walk and clear instructions on how to get to the start of each route.

About the Author

Charles Davis was born in London and has travelled extensively in the United States, Africa and the Near East. In the early nineties, he settled in Spain, where he has dedicated his free time to walking, a passion that culminated in a hike along the Pyrenees from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. He has published walking guides to the Alpujarras, Mallorca, La Palma, La Gomera, and Andorra.

Walking in Andalucía:
The Best Walks in Southern Spain's National Parks
Guy Hunter-Watts

Category: Travel
Format: Trade paperback, 261pp, 4 1/2 x 7, 125+ Color Illus. and Maps
ISBN: 84-89954-24-0
Price: $26.95

About the Book

This full color guide to some of the very best walks in southern Spain, takes the walker on thirty-four routes—all starting and most finishing in beautiful villages—in the national parks of Grazalema, La Alpujarra, Cazorla, Los Alcornocales, Aracena and La Axarquia. There are easy-to-follow detailed route notes with times, distances and gradings, and full-color maps and photographs of each walk as well as advice on what to pack and when to walk, and sections on the best places to stay and eat in each area.

About the Author

Guy Hunter-Watts worked as a trekking guide in the Andes and the Indian Himalayas before settling in Spain. He now works both as a walking guide and a travel writer—and is also the author of Small Hotels and Inns of Andalucía.

Spanish Vignettes:
An Offbeat Look Into Spain's Culture, Society & History
Norman Berdichevsky

Category: History/Culture
Format: Trade paperback, 280pp, 5 3/4 x 8 1/4, 32 Color Illus.
ISBN: 84-89954-40-2
Price: $26.95

About the Book

This book is for those foreigners who feel the need to relate to what they see and hear around them every day in Spain. Not an encyclopedia or textbook on Spanish culture, it presents thirty-four Spanish topics of interest in a readable way . . . giving an inside look into the country’s politics, history, arts, traditions, cuisine and folklore.

About the Author

Norman Berdichevsky is a native New Yorker currently living in Santiago de la Ribera, Spain. He holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is the author of The Danish-German Border Dispute. He is one of the contributors to Best Jewish Writing 2003, and has written for such journals as World Affairs, Midstream, Ariel, Contemporary Review, Journal of Cultural Geography, Israel Affairs and others.

The Sierras of the South:
Travels in the Mountains of Andalusia
Alastair Boyd

Category: Travel
Format: Trade paperback, 387pp, 5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 25 B&W Illus.
ISBN: 84-89954-35-6
Price: $26.95

About the Book

The dramatic sierras around Ronda is a region that in recent years has become popular with people recoiling from the over-development of the Costa del Sol, but which still, if you know where to look, retains the basic elements of that elusive Arcadia so many of us seek. The author first traveled there in the late ’50s and made a series of journeys by horse into the surrounding Andalusian countryside, which he described in his book The Road from Ronda. He returned to Ronda in the late ’90s to see if the Arcadia he had discovered all those years ago still existed. This book describes what he found.

About the Author

Alistair Boyd was an active member of the British House of Lords from 1976 to 1997. The journeys on which the present book is based were carried out between 1989 and 1991 during parliamentary recesses. In 1998, he returned permanently to Spain and now lives with his wife, Hilly, on a small farm outside Ronda.

Cooking in Spain
Janet Mendel

Category: Cooking
Format: Trade paperback, 370pp, 6 3/4 x 9, 16 Color Illus.
ISBN: 84-921229-1-9
Price: $29.95

About the Book

Paella, Tapas, Zarzuela, Cocido, and some of the world’s most interesting recipes for seafood, meat and vegetables . . . they’re all here.

Plus, complete information about Spain’s regional specialties and culinary history, how to buy the best at the market and how to prepare it in the kitchen, a complete Spanish/English glossary with more than 500 culinary terms, a handy conversion guide, an easy-to-use index to recipes and ingredients . . . all of it illustrated with color photographs.

About the Author

Janet Mendel is an American journalist who lives in southern Spain and has been writing about Spanish food for thirty years, contributing regularly to Lookout, Spain’s magazine in English. She is the author of My Kitchen in Spain, Tapas & More Great Dishes, and Traditional Spanish Cooking.

You & the Law in Spain
David Searl

16th Edition

Category: Law
Format: Trade paperback, 390pp, 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
ISBN: 84-89954-41-0
Price: $39.95

About the Book

David Searl, legal writer, broadcaster and lecturer in Spain for more than twenty years, takes you step by step through all aspects of Spanish law affecting foreigners, giving you sound advice and vital information on: moving to Spain; importing your possessions; residency; buying and selling property; building your home; renting and leasing; mortgages; insurance; real estate agents; lawyers; property and income taxes; driving in Spain; working and starting a business; employing others; birth, death, marriage and nationality; Spanish wills and inheritance taxes; your legal advisors; Spanish authorities; how to complain; your community rights and obligations; the Law of Horizontal Property in English; and much more.