Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past

Giles Tremlett

July 2020 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by James Cameron Stewart

About this audiobook

The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing victims of Francisco Franco's death squads finally broke what Spaniards call "the pact of forgetting"-the unwritten understanding that their recent, painful past was best left unexplored. At this charged moment, Giles Tremlett embarked on a journey around the country and through its history to discover why some of Europe's most voluble people have kept silent so long. In elegant and passionate prose, Tremlett unveils the tinderbox of disagreements that mark the country today. Ghosts of Spain is a revelatory book about one of Europe's most exciting countries.

About the author

Giles Tremlett is an award-winning historian and non-fiction writer. He won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography in 2018 for his book Isabella of Castile, Europe's Fist Great Queen. He has been Madrid correspondent for The Guardian and The Economist.

Trained at Hull University and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, James Cameron Stewart is a veteran actor whose performances include roles in theater, film, and television. His credits include Outlander, Jericho, Flying Blind, Golden Years, Emmerdale, London's Burning, Eastenders, Coronation Street, and Holby City.