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Gelato Sisterhood on the Amalfi Shore

Gelato Sisterhood on the Amalfi Shore
  • Author(s): Chantal Kelly
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Warmed by the brilliant Campania sun and the lemon-scented breeze off shimmering Mediterranean waters, the Amalfi Coast has been seducing travelers since Roman times. Lush terraced mountainsides brimming with grape vines and olive groves tumble down to meet the...

DREAMLAND and other stories

DREAMLAND and other stories
  • Author(s): Jan Mazzoni
  • Location(s): Positano
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1980s

A young boy runs away to sea. An elderly countess finds a stray dog – and love. A Patricia Highsmith fan follows in her idol’s footsteps, in more ways than one. A woman goes in search of her roots...

I Love Capri

I Love Capri
  • Author(s): Belinda Jones
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast, Capri, Verona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Kim Rees became a translator for the glamorous jet-set lifestyle. So, five years later, how come she’s ended up in a basement flat in Cardiff translating German computer games in her dressing gown? Fortunately her mother has a plan...

A Book of Secrets

A Book of Secrets
  • Author(s): Michael Holroyd
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast
  • Genre(s): Biography, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1900s

Set high above Ravello on the Amalfi Coast is the Villa Cimbrone, and is the unifying anchor for a cast of characters who in fact never meet. Empathic prose captures their lives, the author focusses on some of the...

Meeting in Positano

Meeting in Positano
  • Author(s): Goliarda Sapienza, Brian Robert Moore (Translator)
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast, Positano
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

In this charming, deeply atmospheric novel set against the Amalfi Coast of the 1950s, two women form an intense and lasting friendship that embodies the paradoxes of Italian society. Inspired by her own adventurous, unconventional life, actress and writer...

See the Amalfi Coast

See the Amalfi Coast
  • Author(s): Frances M Thompson
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): Modern

Martin is a 50-something Yorkshireman with a penchant for swearing and making model aircraft in his shed. He also likes football and many years ago when a small, longhaired Argentinian started to play for Napoli FC, Martin became aware...

Sex and Genius

Sex and Genius
  • Author(s): Conrad Williams
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast, Positano
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In Michael Lear’s opinion, James Hilldyard is the master of the contemporary novel. Travelling to this genius’ home in Italy, Michael is disappointed when Hilldyard turns down the TV profile he wants to produce, but is bafflingly offered a...

Stones of the Madonna

Stones of the Madonna
  • Author(s): Jan Mazzoni
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast
  • Era(s): 1939

It’s 1939 and Lily and her American doctor husband James have come to the Amalfi coast in southern Italy in search of a new start. And how could they not be happy in a place where the scenery is...

That’s Amore

That’s Amore
  • Author(s): Carol Grace
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 2000s

In this delicious contemporary romance, Carol Grace whisks readers away to Italy’s sunny Amalfi Coast, where whitewashed villas and fragrant lemon trees sit high atop craggy cliffs . . . and romance is always in the air. Ever since...

The Invitation

The Invitation
  • Author(s): Lucy Foley
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Rome, 1950s. One fateful night, Hal Jacobs meets Stella, a beautiful society darling from New York. To Hal, flailing in the post-war darkness, she’s a point of light. They’re from different worlds, but both trying and failing to carve...

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