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- Location(s): Umbria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WWII
1943. Wartime Italy. Casa Maria sits at the heart of the small Umbrian town of Amatino, famous for its food, wine and the di Luca and Capaldi families who run it. But now Italy is consumed by war and...
Chickens Eat Pasta: Escape to Umbria
- Location(s): Umbria
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Chickens Eat Pasta is the tale of how a young Englishwoman starts a new life after watching a video showing a chicken eating spaghetti in a mediaeval hill village in central Italy. Unlike some recent bestsellers, this is not...
The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper club
- Location(s): Orvieto
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Food and Drink
- Era(s): Modern
Every week on a Thursday evening, a group of four Italian rural women gather in a derelict stone house in the hills above Italy’s Orvieto. There – along with their friend, Marlena – they cook together, sit down to...
- Location(s): Umbria
- Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A sun-baked terrace. The rustle of vines. And the clink of wine glasses as the first cork of the evening is popped… Welcome to Italy. A place that holds the answer to Zia-Lucia Costa Chalmers’ many questions. Not least,...
- Location(s): Umbria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1931-2011
Haunted by a lifetime of regret and on the eve of his 80th birthday, Francesco Corbelli reassembles his family at the ancestral home, ‘Il Rifugio’, on the shores of Lake Trasimeno. His intention is to put right all the...
- Location(s): Umbria
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
Being a homebody, Nancy never would have spent a year in Italy had it not been for her husband’s wanderlust. The couple didn’t go there to buy or restore a house or to heal a trauma from the past....
- Location(s): Umbria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Set amidst Umbria’s landscape of desires and memories, a cast of characters collide in a web of deceit, greed and fallibility. At the centre of these overlapping stories is the cunning lawyer, Mancini, who has an unerring ability to...
- Location(s): Orvieto
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
This is the same book as “An Umbrian Love Story: Coming home to Via del Duomo”. A couple in love and a barrle full of eccentric characters. It is a great story of integrating into rather conservative Italian life...
- Location(s): London, Umbria
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Lainey Hollingsworth is the anchor in her home. In addition to managing her husband’s writing career, she oversees the daily operations of a chaotic family: a rebellious teenage daughter, a stepson who blames her for ruining his life, and...
- Location(s): North Africa, South Africa, Umbria
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): World War II and 21st century
HISTORICAL FICTION Diana G Armstrong picks up her story as she and her husband continue to live several months of the year in a remote village in Umbria, Italy. It is here that she uncovers the fact that her...
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