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- Location(s): Malta, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1575
A novel set in the ghetto of Venice and Malta in 1575. Hannah Levi is a Jewish midwife whose husband, Isaac, is being held as a slave by the Knights of Jerusalem in Malta. Hannah needs to raise money...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 17th Century and Modern
In seventeenth century Venice, Alessandra Rossetti, a courtesan, becomes entangled in a dangerous political intrigue that threatens to destroy the Venetian Republic. She alone has the power to reveal a Spanish plot. But to do so would threaten the...
The Venetia Betrayal (Cotton Malone)
- Location(s): Central Asia, Venice
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Various
For ex-field agent Cotton Malone the stakes have never been higher: a deadly virus that could wipe out civilisation as we know it – and a cure that lies buried in the past. A secret international coalition has created...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Thriller
Fenner burned Rosenfeld’s message, reminding himself wryly that he was behaving in the very best tradition. This was a game not too difficult to learn, he thought. A game? A game in deadly earnest. A vacation in Venice that...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2000s
“A city’s dark secret holds the key to the gates of hell”…. Tom Shaman, on a visit to Venice, finds himself immersed in a series of ritual killings. He teams up with his colleague and together they delve into...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
My secret plan to move to Venice was ready. It was time to see if my wife would buy into the idea of leaving our home to live for an entire year in a foreign country. And thus the...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
As a teenager, Lucy McBride, is roused from her slumber by the sound of rich, haunting classical music coming from the stereo. It is a life changing moment and from that point she devotes herself to the study of...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
In a city as ancient as Venice, myths and legends passed down from generation to generation record more than just love or murder. They are the storehouse of a city’s mores, emblems of its identity. In Venetian Curiosities, acclaimed...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 18th Century
Carnival Time 18th Century Venice…… Considered useless by his cold-hearted father, Nico Foscari, eldest son of one of the founding families in Venice, hides his pain behind gambling, drinking and womanizing. After her husband’s untimely demise, Marietta Gatti returns...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th century
This is the ultimate novella set in Venice, from the master of storytelling. In the decaying city, struggling with an unnamed epidemic, Gustav von Aschenbach becomes obsessed with an exquisite Polish boy, Tadzio. An ode to beauty, and the...
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