In 2010 he published a biography of Catherine of Aragon, the Spanish infanta who became Henry VIII's first wife, with Faber and Faber in London and Walker in New York. Catherine of Aragon was BBC Radio 4's " Book of the Week" and was short-listed for the HW Fisher Best First Biography Prize. It has been translated into Spanish, Russian and Polish. Mr. Tremlett['s]...affectionate yet critical intimacy with the country helps to make this book much more than an ordinary journalistic survey....Extended residency has...allowed Mr. Tremlett to gather off-beat stories distinctly revealing of his adoptedland."--"Wall Street Journal "(Francis X. Rocco) His biography of Isabella of Castile – the Spanish queen who sent Columbus to the Americas – was published in 2017. [4] It won the Elizabeth Longford Prize in 2018. [5] It was a top-selling history book in Spain in 2018 and has also been translated into Portuguese and Chinese. [ citation needed] The book explained why and made it clear that the divisions are still present in society today. Something I experienced first-hand from living in Barcelona.

Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past

Anyone that is interested in Spain and its history in any way should read Ghosts of Spain. You will learn a lot from it and it will open your eyes to the country and its many foibles.He graduated in Human Sciences at the University of Oxford in 1984 and has also studied at the Universities of Barcelona and Lisbon. The war deeply divided Spain along ideological lines. The fascists led by Franco committed numerous atrocities and a lot of the dead were placed in mass graves that have only recently begun to be dug up. Before I lived in Spain, I thought I knew what it was like. My thinking diverted to stereotypes about the country. I thought it would be a land of sun, sea, sand and sangria. Tremlett has written a smart and highly readable book that mixes incisive political history with sophisticated cultural reporting.""-""Seattle"" Times "(Robin Updike) Mr. Tremlett['s]...affectionate yet critical intimacy with the country helps to make this book much more than an ordinary journalistic survey... .Extended residency has...allowed Mr. Tremlett to gather off-beat stories distinctly revealing of his adopted land."-- "Wall Street Journal "(Francis X. Rocco)

Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and its Silent Past

While there is merit to this, the country is much, much more than that. It is a culturally and geographically diverse country that is much more than just a stereotype.

One of the biggest shadows is in regard to the Spanish Civil War, which saw anywhere between 149,213 to 2,000,000 people killed. George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia gives an account of what Spain was like during the war if you want to do some further reading.

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The book goes into depth on a variety of topics about Spain. The civil war is an illuminating one as I didn’t know much about it before I moved there, and a lot of people were reluctant to talk about it. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and learnt a lot from it. I enjoyed it so much that I read it in two days! If anyone is living in Spain as an immigrant, then this book will shed a lot of light on the country for you! Who should read Ghosts of Spain? Tremlett] paints a rich, multicolored canvas of one of Europe's most fascinating nations.""--Entertainment Weekly"Tremlett has written a smart and highly readable book that mixes incisive political history with sophisticated cultural reporting.""--""Seattle"" Times "(Robin Updike) Giles E.H. Tremlett (born Plymouth, 1962) [1] is a historian, author and journalist based in Madrid, Spain. Tremlett has written a smart and highly readable book that mixes incisive political history with sophisticated cultural reporting."--"Seattle Times" They were hit hard by Franco as he suppressed their cultural identity amidst his totalitarian rule. Despite the passing of time, they have never forgotten what happened and that has been passed down through the generations.

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An] incisive and engaging book... .[Tremlett's] sober analysis of how the Madrid train bombings of March 11, 2004...exposed deep fissures in Spanish society is the best report I've read on the subject... .[A]n invaluable book. Indeed, since it appeared in Britain last year, 'Ghosts of Spain' has become something of a bible for those of us "extranjeros" who have chosen to live in Spain. A country finally facing its past could scarcely hope for a better, or more enamored, chronicler of its present."-- "New York Times Book Review" (Sarah Wildman) Tremlett hits his stride, though, in his retelling of the events surrounding the Madrid train bombings in March 2004. The links with Al-Andalus and the Reconquista, underlined both by the terrorists and the then prime minister, José María Aznar, are woven into the narrative. Find sources: "Giles Tremlett"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( March 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) His book Ghosts of Spain: Travels through a country's hidden past (2007) [3] was translated into five languages.The image of Spain that is often portrayed does not match up with the reality on the ground. It’s a much more interesting and diverse country than it is given credit for. Takeaway 2 – The country has never come to terms with the Civil War Tremlett] paints a rich, multicolored canvas of one of Europe's most fascinating nations.""--Entertainment Weekly""This well traveled journalist...knows his subject as he ventures through the past to explain the present personality of a country so varied that even in modern times its complicated medieval legacy is part of everyday life." "--""Washington"" Times" (Ann Geracimos) Benidorm is the archetypal Spanish beach resort and is popular with many north European tourists. Prior to the tourist boom in Spain, there wasn’t much activity. It was a modest beach-side village where fishermen, sailors and farmers made up the bulk of the people, not tourists. It may seem to the outside like Spain is a monolithic country, but once you live there and travel around, it becomes clear that there are a lot of people who don’t buy into the idea of being Spanish.