Blog #Alastair Boyd

The Christmas / New Year holiday is so long in Spain, and the weather forecast for this year is so bad, that we need something to do indoors, other than watching end-to-end Christmas films and TV repeats. How about reading a good book? Here are The Culture Vulture's suggestions for a festive reading list in no particular order. The writers are American, English, Irish, Norwegian, Ukrainian and two Spanish.

Ronda has attracted many writers - foreigners as well as Spaniards - over the years. Here is a selection of people, 'Dead' or 'Alive', who have been moved to write about the 'Ciudad Soñada'. From American Ernest Hemingway to Austrian Rainer Maria Rilke; from Scottish Lord Alastair Boyd to Englishman Guy Hunter-Watts.