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Story of the Lost Child

Story of the Lost Child
  • Author(s): Elena Ferrante
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The fourth and final book of the internationally renowned and bestselling Neapolitan novels One of the major publishing events of 2015, this dazzling saga of two women – the brilliant Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila – firmly establishes...

The Passenger: Naples

The Passenger: Naples
  • Author(s): Various
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In recent years, Naples has been the subject of countless books, films and TV series, making it even more difficult to imagine a Neapolitan normality, if it exists at all. As Naples becomes the most filmed city in Italy, where...

The Temple of Fortuna

The Temple of Fortuna
  • Author(s): Elodie Harper
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): AD79

The final instalment in Elodie Harper’s Sunday Times bestselling Wolf Den Trilogy A courtesan in Rome. Playing for power. Haunted by her past. Her name is Amara. How will her fortunes fall? Amara’s journey has taken her far, from...

The Temptation to Be Happy

The Temptation to Be Happy
  • Author(s): Lorenzo Marone
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Cesare is a seventy-seven-year-old widower and cynical troublemaker. He has lived his whole life by his own rules and has no intention of changing now. Aside from an intermittent fling with a nurse called Rossana, he spends his days...

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
  • Author(s): Elena Ferrante
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila have become women. Both have attempted pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance and submission. They are afloat on the...

Gomorrah

Gomorrah
  • Author(s): Roberto Saviano, Virginia Jewiss (translator)
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Published to coincide with the eponymous blockbuster film, Roberto Saviano’s groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller and has to date sold 750,000 copies in Italy alone. Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities,...

The Story of a New Name

The Story of a New Name
  • Author(s): Elena Ferrante
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th century

The second book in Ferrante’s lauded Neapolitan novels. Elena and Lila are now in their twenties. While marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that...

My Brilliant Friend

My Brilliant Friend
  • Author(s): Elena Ferrante
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense and generous hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante’s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these...

Darkness for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone

Darkness for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone
  • Author(s): Maurizio de Giovanni
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The second title in de Giovanni’s new series set in contemporary Naples. A child is kidnapped. A high-class apartment is burgled. The two crimes seem to have no connection at all until Inspector Lojacono, known as ‘the Chinaman’, starts...

Footprints in the Ash

Footprints in the Ash
  • Author(s): Stanley Salmons
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 79AD and Modern

On mountain slopes south of Pompeii a group of Roman citizens flees the doomed city, leaving their footprints in a layer of volcanic ash. Two thousand years later the footprints are rediscovered, and a joint Anglo-Italian dig is set...

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