This week Eoghan talks to the author and journalist Michael Eaude. Michael is the author nine books, including ‘Catalonia, a Cultural History’, ‘Triumph at Midnight of the Century - A Critical Biography of Arturo Barea’ and ‘Sails and Winds - A Cultural History of Valencia’. And during the last 25 years he has also worked as a self-described "necrologist", writing some 70 obituaries for The Guardian on leading cultural and political figures from Spain’s 20th century. He as now just published his first novel - ‘The Bones in the Forest’ - available from Clapton Press. As with his celebrated non-fiction work, the novel deals with Spain’s reckoning with its recent past and the country’s cultural and historic fault lines as the action jumps back and forth between the revolutionary 1930s and then the early 2000s. If you like what we are producing, please consider making a donation at our Buy Me a Coffee page here - ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thesobremey⁠

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