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- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Kat has never wanted to live a small life. She’s an adventurer, a food writer who travels the world visiting far-flung places and eating unusual things. Now she is about to embark on her biggest adventure yet – a...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 2000s
Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Questura is shocked to hear that his friend Brett Lynch, lover of La Scala diva Flavia Petrelli, has been savagely beaten. Then a man’s body is found and a terrible confrontation awaits Brett...
- Location(s): Veneto
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Adventure
- Era(s): Modern
How does an Italian become Italian? Or an Englishman English, for that matter? Are foreigners born, or made? In An Italian Education Tim Parks focuses on his own young children in the small village near Verona where he lives,...
Ashes to Ashes, Diamonds to Dust
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Mordern day
Venice sets the stage for a diamond caper gone wrong, where everyone is someone else, and no one can be trusted. During her Venetian trip to participate in an international art exhibition, Carla Romano brings along her deceased friend’s...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1400s to Victorian
Emily is called upon, along with her husband Colin to help solve the murder. This leads her into the depths of a centuries old feud between warring families, and a star-crossed love story worthy of Romeo and Juliet.
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Photography
- Era(s): 21st Century
The mysterious allure of the ancient floating city of Venice is captured in this book of evocative photography and beguiling words of a diverse group of contemporary Venetophiles. The luminous photographs, in both color and black and white, compliment...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Photography, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Dream of Venice Architecture is an intimate journey through the remarkable Venetian urban landscape. A cadre of 36 notable international architects and architectural writers explore the elements that make Venice unique in the world. Dream of Venice Architecture reveals...
Dream of Venice in Black and White
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Nonfiction, Photography
- Era(s): Contemporary
Dream of Venice in Black and White reveals Venice as a narrative in chiaroscuro. Over 50 photographers have documented the city to create a visual legacy of elegant realism in light and shadow. The acclaimed Italian author Tiziano Scarpa...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
In Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon’s first novel in the Commissario Brunetti series, readers were introduced to the glamorous and cut-throat world of opera and to one of Italy’s finest living sopranos, Flavia Petrelli. Now, many years later, Flavia...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
The author spent a Summer with the gondoliers to find out what they are really about. She looks behind the mystery of the gondoliere and brings them to life.
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