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Roman Stories

Roman Stories
  • Author(s): Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Short Stories, Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies comes an exquisitely crafted work of fiction. Jhumpa Lahiri sets her gaze on the eternally beautiful city, illuminating the frailties of the human condition and dissecting lives lived...

Rome Noir

Rome Noir
  • Author(s): Chiara Stangalino nd Maxim Jakubowski
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1980s and Modern

16 short stories set in and around the outskirts of Rome, edite by Chiara Stangalino and Maxim Jakubowski. A varied take on lives in the city, some jaded and visceral, others jaunty and explosive.

Rome: the Emperor’s Spy

Rome: the Emperor’s Spy
  • Author(s): M C Scott
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 100s

From the back cover: Rich characterisation and spine tingling adventure combine in a vividly realised novel set amid the bloodshed and the chaos, the heroism and murderous betrayal of ancient Rome.

Stumble Stones: A Novel

Stumble Stones: A Novel
  • Author(s): Marilyn Baron
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hallelujah Weiss, writer for the steamy sudser As the Planet Spins, gets a second chance at love when she flees to Italy to get over her recent divorce, courtesy of her cheating ex-husband’s credit card. A woman scorned, Hallelujah...

The Italian Teacher

The Italian Teacher
  • Author(s): Tom Rachman
  • Location(s): Rome, London, New York City (NYC), The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1955

Rome, 1955 The artists are gathering together for a photograph. In one of Rome’s historic villas, a party glitters with socialites and patrons. Bear Bavinsky, creator of vast, masculine, meaty canvases, is their god. He is at the centre...

The Measure of Life

The Measure of Life
  • Author(s): Judith Works
  • Location(s): Rome, Vashon Island
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1994 -2014

A story of love and loss, lies and truth, begins in Rome as Nicole shares a cappuccino and cornetto with her Italian tutor. The meeting sets off a chain of events that upends the course of her life. While...

The White Devil

The White Devil
  • Author(s): Domenic Stansberry
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): contemporary

In the hot, shadowy streets of Rome, Vicki Wilson’s lovers keep turning up dead. Vittoria, as she’s known in Italy, is a small-time actress who left behind a dark past in her native Texas and followed her fading writer...

The Wife Who Ran Away

The Wife Who Ran Away
  • Author(s): Tess Stimson
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Kate Forrest is invisible… Ned, the husband she adores, doesn’t seem to know she’s alive, and her two charming children have grown into stroppy adolescents. Her boss is suddenly shunting her towards career Siberia, and her demanding mother is...

When in Rome

When in Rome
  • Author(s): Nicky Pellegrino
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1950s, 1960s

Rome in the 1950s, there’s nowhere quite like it. The narrow stone streets, the fountains and piazzas full of life in the heat of the day, the cafes and bars full of music and desire by night… This is...

Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies

Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies
  • Author(s): Catherine Mack
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast, Pompeii, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, New Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ten days. Eight suspects. Six cities. Five authors. Three bodies. One trip to die for. Eleanor Dash, bestselling author of the Vacation Mysteries series, is on a book tour along the gorgeous Amalfi Coast when life starts imitating art...

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