by Costa del Sold | Dec 12, 2018 | Local People
This is the latest book of Short Stories published by local SEDELLA author John Hardy. Details of it (and all his books) can be found on the website www.johnhardysbooks.com, together with links to them all on Amazon, where they are published as both e-books and...
by Costa del Sold | Mar 30, 2017 | Around the Area, Blog, Local People
SEDELLA is one of the ‘White Villages’ of the Axarquia. It is also where I have lived for the past 22 years.. My new book, ‘Sedella – The story of a Spanish village’, is now available as an EBook and paperback from Amazon (www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B00IKIYBJ0) This...
by Costa del Sold | Aug 7, 2016 | Around the Area, Blog, Local People
Paradors are a chain of 94 state run hotels of exceptional quality, scattered throughout Spain. They were founded by Miguel Primo de Rivera, the then Prime Minister, in 1928. The first one, at Gredos near Madrid, was opened in that year by King Alfonso the13th. There...
by Costa del Sold | May 16, 2016 | Blog, Local People
Moonshine was first published in Insight magazine on the Costa del Sol, and subsequently in More Andalucían Mysteries. It is the shortest story I have written, as Insight wanted no more than 1000 words, and I managed it in 1072. Most of my stories are between 4000 and...
by Costa del Sold | Mar 7, 2016 | Blog, Local People
My name is Stephen Harris and I moved to Spain from Essex ten years ago. I ran a successful manufacturing business for 25 years back in the UK but when things began to slow due to manufacturing sector being moved to China I decided I was going to make a new start and...
by Costa del Sold | Feb 21, 2016 | Local People
Hi, my name is John Hardy and I write stories set in Andalucía, and I want to tell you a bit about myself and the stories. I was born in 1934 in Marske-by-the-Sea in North Yorkshire, England. I worked for many years as a quantity surveyor, before becoming a lecturer...
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