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Angelica’s Time Machine

Angelica’s Time Machine
  • Author(s): Julian Bradbrook
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern and historical

Angelica is a young girl with a great talent for science and technology. Her father’s home office is filled with electronics and gadgets from which Angelica creates her own time machine. She travels through time and space on some...

As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel

As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel
  • Author(s): Rudy Rucker
  • Location(s): Antwerp, Brussels, Rome
  • Genre(s): Biography, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th Century

Sixteenth century Europe as depicted on Peter Bruegel’s canvasses. A street festival, skating, hunting in the snow are everyday life. Rucker tells the story of an artist, whose own life is little known. We follow the artist from the...

Beach Music

Beach Music
  • Author(s): Pat Conroy
  • Location(s): Rome, South Carolina
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th century

With the spectacular worldwide success of his unforgettable novel The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy established himself as a major international writer. He is known for his anguished and painfully honest insights into families and the human heart. He...

Beautiful World, Where Are You

Beautiful World, Where Are You
  • Author(s): Sally Rooney
  • Location(s): Dublin, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting...

Bella Toscana

Bella Toscana
  • Author(s): Nanette Littlestone
  • Location(s): Rome, Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2018

Rome, Italy: “You are looking for love for a long time,” she says. “Your soul needs this. Without this love you are only half alive.” Toscana Blake’s enthusiasm for life has fizzled. Though she dreams of more, the ever-practical...

Boudicca’s Daughter

Boudicca’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Elodie Harper
  • Location(s): East Anglia, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1st Century CE

Boudicca. Infamous warrior, queen of the British Iceni tribe and mastermind of one of history’s greatest revolts. Her defeat spelled ruin for her people, yet still her name is enough to strike fear into Roman hearts. But what of...

Brother of the More Famous Jack

Brother of the More Famous Jack
  • Author(s): Barbara Trapido
  • Location(s): Sussex, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Stylish, suburban Katherine is eighteen when she is propelled into the centre of Professor Jacob Goldman’s rambling home and his large eccentric family. As his enchanting yet sharp-tongued wife Jane gives birth to her sixth child, Katherine meets the...

Bullets, Butterflies, and Italy

Bullets, Butterflies, and Italy
  • Author(s): John Meyer
  • Location(s): Siena, Amalfi Coast, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Zack Curtis truly dreads his thirtieth birthday. Estranged from his family and friends, he hopes his trip to Italy will lift his spirits and trigger the inspiration for a happier life. But he soon offends an elusive mobster who...

Cabal (Aurelio Zen 03)

Cabal (Aurelio Zen 03)
  • Author(s): Michael Dibdin
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 2000s

On a dark November night, Prince Ludovico Ruspanti falls a hundred and fifty feet to his death in St Peter’s basilica in Rome. But there are too many questions and the papal authorities need help – Inspector Aurelio Zen...

Caesar’s Women (Masters of Rome – 4)

Caesar’s Women (Masters of Rome – 4)
  • Author(s): Colleen McCullough
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): BC

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