spain & portugal

The fourth novel in the immensely satisfying Captain Alatriste series by Arturo Pérez-Reverte opens with a Spanish galleon sailing into a home port that is festooned with English corpses - the slain enemies, fruit of a failed Anglo-Dutch attack on Cádiz. The tone is not triumphant but exhausted. Alatriste, his young protégé Íñigo and his 
battered comrades are tired of adventures. But they need another one that pays well. An air of cynical resignation pervades The King's Gold. Pérez-Reverte, even as he stages exhilarating scenes, darkens the mood, making this novel one of his finest.

Juanna la Loca, the mad daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella.

Did Christopher Columbus hide his true identity? Modern day/historical
thriller seeks to unravel the truth.

A young Spaniard's family is destroyed by the Inquisition. He follows Cortez to Mexico where he eventually wins treasure and respect, then returns to Spain to challenge the church for his family's honor.  HYRF  See also Movies and TV.

Story of the peasant girl who became St. Margaret

Beautiful, talented Leonor de Balenguer y Hassam is more interested in music than marriage, while Templar knight Reynaud is seeking his true identity.  Traveling together, both keeping secrets, attraction flares, but Reyknows he can't offer Leonor what she deserves.

Recreates the life story of the author of the classic novel Don Quixote, in which he survives his humble beginnings and international espionage only to cross paths with such contemporaries as the real William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.

A novel of the Spanish Inquisition, as expected

A medieval Spanish knight becomes a vampire to whom women are irresistibly drawn.

i didn't expect a kind of second Jean Plaidy novel about the Inquisition!  NH

The building of a cathedral in 14th century Barcelona.,

Spoiled with beauty, riches, and adoration, a young girl from Avila is sent to a convent because of her budding relationship with a local bachelor, but discovers instead an unparalleled spiritual fervor, one so powerful as to be condemned as sinful by some. 

The year is 1518 and the discovery of chocolate in the New World, and its subsequent importation back to Europe, will have grave consequences for one young conquistador.

Family saga beginning in Medieval Spain

Mary's husband, Philip II of Spain

A novel of Ferdinand and Isabella

Isabella of Castile.

The daughters of Ferdinand and Isabella, including Katherine of Aragon and Juana la Loca, plus the story of the Inquisition and persecution of Spanish and Portuguese Jews.

Isabella of Castile

Young adult novel from the "Royal Diaries" series

A mystery threatens a Jewish bookseller during the Inquisition.  NH