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Emperor of Rome

Emperor of Rome
  • Author(s): Mary Beard
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 44 BCE to 235 CE

What was it really like to rule and be ruled in the Ancient Roman world? In her international best-seller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome. Now, she shines her spotlight on the emperors who ruled...

Eternal

Eternal
  • Author(s): Lisa Scottoline
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1937

Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as the best of friends despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoming a novelist; Marco the brash and athletic son in a family of professional cyclists; and Sandro...

Eternal City

Eternal City
  • Author(s): Mark Thompson
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Life can change in a split second, and so it does for twenty-eight-year-old photographer Finn Chambers. One careless decision at the Cimitero Acattolico in the eternal city of Rome, finds him falling head first onto Shelley’s tomb, to his...

Find Me

Find Me
  • Author(s): André Aciman
  • Location(s): Paris, Florence, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this spellbinding new exploration of the varieties of love, the author of ‘Call Me by Your Name’ lets us back into his characters’ lives years after their first meeting In ‘Find Me’, Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel,...

Fortune’s Favourites (Masters of Rome – 3)

Fortune’s Favourites (Masters of Rome – 3)
  • Author(s): Colleen McCullough
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): BC

Gods of Rome (Rise of Emperors #3)

Gods of Rome (Rise of Emperors #3)
  • Author(s): Gordon Doherty, Simon Turney
  • Location(s): Rome, Italy, Milan, Ravenna, Turin (Torino)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late Antiquity, Late Roman Empire

For one to rule, the other must die. 312 AD is a year of horrific and brutal warfare. Constantine’s northern army is a small force, plagued by religious rivalries, but seemingly unstoppable as they invade Maxentius’ Italian heartlands. These...

History: A Novel

History: A Novel
  • Author(s): Elsa Morante
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1940s

HISTORY was written nearly 3 decades after Morante spent a year hiding from the Germans in remote farming villages in the mountains south of Rome. There she witnessed the full impact of the war and first formed the ambition...

How It All Blew Up

How It All Blew Up
  • Author(s): Arvin Ahmadi
  • Location(s): Rome, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Eighteen-year-old Amir Azadi always knew that coming out to his Muslim family would be messy, but he wasn’t expecting it to end in an airport interrogation room. Now, he’s telling his side of the story to the stern-faced officer....

I am Livia

I am Livia
  • Author(s): Phyllis T Smith
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 100BC / 100AD

Her life would be marked by scandal and suspicion, worship and adoration… At the tender age of fourteen, Livia Drusilla overhears her father and fellow aristocrats plotting the assassination of Julius Caesar. Proving herself an astute confidante, she becomes...

Imperium

Imperium
  • Author(s): Robert Harris
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 70 BC

When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the...

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