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A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome

A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome
  • Author(s): Alberto Angela
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 115AD

The year is 115 AD and Imperial Rome is at the height of its power. The reader wakes in a rich patrician home and discovers frescoes, opulent furnishings and richly appointed boudoirs. Strolling through the splendours of the Roman...

Blood in the Tiber

Blood in the Tiber
  • Author(s): Annelise Freisenbruch
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 70BC

A senator bleeds to death in his bath… And as the authorities turn a blind eye, Hortensia, daughter of the capital’s most celebrated orator, feels compelled to investigate a trail of murders that lead to the dark heart of...

Bullets of Palestine

Bullets of Palestine
  • Author(s): Howard Kaplan
  • Location(s): Vienna, Jerusalem, Lebanon, London, Rome
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

Two agents. Two opposing sides. Israeli Agent Shai is dispatched to eliminate a terrorist threat. To succeed in his mission Shai must win the trust of Palestinian Agent Ramzy who will help him gain access to the infamous and...

Coins in the Fountain

Coins in the Fountain
  • Author(s): Judith Works
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Through wit, wry humor, and enticing descriptions of food and travel adventures, Judith takes you on a journey into the heart of what it is truly like to live in the Eternal City. A combination of Innocents Abroad meeting...

Conclave

Conclave
  • Author(s): Robert Harris
  • Location(s): Vatican City
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world’s most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have...

Michelangelo And The Pope’s Ceiling

Michelangelo And The Pope’s Ceiling
  • Author(s): Ross King
  • Location(s): Vatican City
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 1500s

In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The thirty-three-year-old Michelangelo had very little experience of the physically and technically taxing art of fresco; and, at twelve thousand square feet, the ceiling...

My Father’s House

My Father’s House
  • Author(s): Joseph O'Connor
  • Location(s): Rome, Vatican City
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

(The Rome Escape Line Trilogy Book 1) When the Nazis take Rome, thousands go into hiding. One priest will risk everything to save them. September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. The war’s...

Robert Venturi’s Rome

Robert Venturi’s Rome
  • Author(s): Stephen Harby, Frederich Fisher
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

A guidebook to the city of Rome seen through the eyes of Robert Venturi, re-interpreted by two subsequent Rome Prize fellows A vital text for young architects, focusing on the interrelationship between architecture, art and landscape

Rome Was!

Rome Was!
  • Author(s): Randolph Langenbach
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 18th Century to present

The book will be designed so that it can be used, not only by scholars, but also by tourists and travellers in Rome Guides readers on a modern-day version of the 18th Century Grand Tour that was originally inspired...

Saving Rome

Saving Rome
  • Author(s): Megan Williams
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 2000s

Amid the bustle of Rome, the Vespas and the Fiats, the cigarettes and teetering high heals, Megan K Williams, a Rome-based writer and correspondent, captures the essence of this bustling city. This is an insider’s eye on the love,...