Ten top books set in Barcelona

Malcolm Burgess is the publisher of Oxygen Books' City-Lit series, featuring writing on cities including Berlin, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Venice and Dublin.

For the Guardian, in 2011 he named ten of the best books set in Barcelona, including:

Jimmy Burns, Barça: A People's Passion, 2000

The story of Barça, the city's legendary football club founded in 1898, is also the epic story of Barcelona and Catalan nationalism.

"The English … watch the heaving, whirling mass of foreign humanity around them, a vortex that allows for no dissent, that relegates the token hundred-odd Real Madrid fans to the most isolated heights of the Camp Nou … the hum of the crowd is overwhelming, its fanaticism disquieting."
• Camp Nou

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--Marshal Zeringue