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7th November 2021 VALENCIA BOOKS…’LA BALADA DEL BAR TORINO’ RAFA LAHUERTA YÚFERA
Rafa Lahuerta Yúfera is a Valencian writer, blogger and former member and founder of the Valencia CF supporter’s group Gol Gran. His book “La balada del bar Torino” (in reference to the bar in C/Barcelonina where Valencia C.F. was founded back in 1919) was published to acclaim. It is more than just a book about […]
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24th October 2021 VALENCIA BOOKS (FOOTBALL) / ‘HISTORIAS DEL LEVANTE UD…’
##«HISTORIAS DEL LEVANTE UD. 110 años de resistencia (1909-2019)» Felip Bens • José Luis García Nieves Marking the occasion of the foundation of Levante UD, García Nieves and Bens, with the encyclopedic ‘Historias del Levante UD’, have written an impressive selection of the 40 most emotional episodes and characters in the history of the oldest […]
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20th September 2021 VALENCIA BOOKS…LUCRECIA BORGIA (1480-1549) “Under a new light”
##‘LUCRECIA BORGIA (1480-1549)… Under a new light’, is a new and informative biography that pays attention to the significant aspects of the life of the protagonist and the society in which she lived. Writer Isabel Barceló Chico deals with the life of Lucrecia Borgia, daughter of the Valencian pope Alexander VI, through a very interesting […]
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14th May 2021 VALENCIA FOOTBALL AND VALENCIA BOOKS… ‘LIBRE’ THE BIOGRAPHY OF RICARDO ARIAS
##Born in 1957 in Catarroja (Valencia), Ricardo Arias played 521 matches for Valencia CF, from 1976 to 1992. On 14th May of 1980, he scored the deciding penalty for Valencia CF v Arsenal…that won the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup for the Spanish side. 24/7 VALENCIA: Could you tell us more about the biography of Ricardo […]
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11th March 2021 WILLIAM SHAKESBEER (BASED IN VALENCIA)
24/7 VALENCIA: Could you tell us more about William Shakesbeer? WILLIAM SHAKESBEER: “William Shakesbeer is an online, secondhand, English bookstore, based in Valencia. It’s run by myself, Nic (Nicola) and my husband, Nick. I’m Irish/British and Nick is British. We wanted to make secondhand English books for adults and children available and affordable in Valencia. […]
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5th February 2021 BOOKS: ‘THE HIPPIE TRAIL: A HISTORY’ EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH SHARIF GEMIE
## 24/7 VALENCIA: 1. What was the inspiration for your book, ‘The Hippie Trail: A history’? SHARIF GEMIE:Two things inspired me. One was a conversation with an Afghan friend; probably back in the early 1990s. He’s almost the same age as me, and he just threw in the comment: “And then there were the hippies—they […]
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13th November 2020 VALENCIA BOOKS…LAMAR HERRIN
24/7 VALENCIA:Could you tell us something about your background and experiences? LAMAR HERRIN: I first wanted to be a professional baseball player, then an actor. But I was never much of an actor. While working on a film called ‘Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea’ for eight weeks (I was the sonar operator in […]
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4th June 2020 VALENCIA BOOKS…’BLOOD MED’ BY JASON WEBSTER
##24/7 VALENCIA: Could you tell us in detail about your detective book set in Valencia, ‘Blood Med’? JASON WEBSTER:It is the fourth in the Chief Inspector Max Cámara series, and it takes a hard look at the economic crisis in Spain and the powerful effect it is having on society. Hospitals are understaffed and running […]
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16th April 2020 VALENCIA BOOKS DOLORES GARCÍA (EXCLUSIVE ‘24/7 VALENCIA’ INTERVIEW)
24/7 Valencia:Tell us something about your background and education. Dolores García: I was born in the 1960s in Melilla, a Spanish city in North Africa. It is a small, cosmopolitan city that is located off the coast of Malaga and Granada. It has been Spanish for more than 500 years, at the request of the […]
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28th February 2020 VALENCIA BOOKS…ALAN THOMPSON (writing as JEREMY DEAN)
24/7 Valencia: Can you tell us what your book is about? Alan Thompson: Cucarachas or Cucuruchos: An English Teacher’s Spanish Dilemma is my second book describing the experiences of a (fictional) British teacher working in the Valencian community. It’s a humorous ‘year-in-the-life’ story of Jeremy’s mishaps, all very loosely (or sometimes, not so loosely) based […]
