Blogs in September 2023

Solea 29th September 2023

(Marseilles Trilogy, 3) The third and final installment in the remarkable Marseilles Trilogy (Total Chaos, Chourmo), Soleacontinues Jean-Claude Izzo’s distinctive brand of vibrant crime writing, skillfully evoking a time and place that has captured the hearts and imaginations of...

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Total Chaos 29th September 2023

(Marseilles Trilogy, 1) Fabio Montale is the perfect protagonist in this city of melancholy beauty. A disenchanted cop with an inimitable talent for living who turns his back on a police force marred by corruption and racism and, in...

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Foul Deeds and Fine Dying 11th June 2023

Pellegrino Artusi, the great gastronome and amateur detective, is back. It is 1900 and Pellegrino’s famed cookbook is in its fifth edition. Flushed from his fortune and success, our hero joins a weekend party at the Tuscan castle of...

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Last Summer in the City 26th July 2021

A cult classic of Italian literature published in English for the first time, with a foreword by André Acimen, author of Call Me By Your Name In the late 1960s, Leo Gazzara left his family in Milan and moved...

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Garlic, Mint, & Sweet Basil 5th February 2021

A short sublime book on the three things dearest to Jean-Claude Izzo’s heart: his native Marseilles, the sea in all its splendor, and Mediterranean noir–the literary genre his books helped to found. This collection of writings shows Izzo, author...

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