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- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Young Adult
- Era(s): 1500s
In 1592, Donata is a noble girl living in a palazzo on the Grand Canal. Girls of her class receive no education and rarely leave the palazzo. In a noble family, only one daughter and one son will be...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
Aurelio Zen returns to his native Venice to investigate the disappearance of a rich American resident but he soon learns that, amid the hazy light and shifting waters of the lagoon, nothing is what it seems. As he is...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
The twisted maze of Venice’s canals has always been shrouded in mystery. Even the celebrated opera house, La Fenice, has seen its share of death. But nothing so horrific and violent as that of world-famous conductor, Maestro Helmut Wellauer...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
When a young woman returns from holiday to find her elderly neighbour dead, she immediately alerts the police. Commissario Brunetti is called to the scene but, though there are signs of a struggle, it seems the woman has simply...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Food and Drink
- Era(s): Present
Venice’s historic bars and cafés offer a window on the city’s past and present. And there is a dazzling array of drinks to choose from―cocktails, aperitivos, wines from the Venice hinterland and around the Adriatic, spirits from the foothills...
- Location(s): Venice, Sant'Erasmo
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
During the interrogation of an entitled, arrogant man suspected of giving drugs to a young girl who then died, Commissario Guido Brunetti acts rashly, doing something he will quickly come to regret. In the aftermath, he begins to doubt...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Children, Fantasy, Historical
- Era(s): 15th century
In Venice in 1487, the secrets of glassblowing are guarded jealously. Renzo, a twelve-year-old laborer in a glassworks, has just a few months to prepare for a test of his abilities, and no one to teach him. If he...
Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
- Location(s): Paris, London, New York City (NYC), Tokyo, Venice
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Flâneuse , noun, from the French. Feminine form of flâneur , an idler, a dawdling observer, usually found in cities. That is an imaginary definition.’ If the word flâneur conjures up visions of Baudelaire, boulevards and bohemia – then...
- Location(s): Venice, Dorset, Lisbon, Prague
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The bestselling author of The Lemon Tree Hotel returns with an enchanting new holiday read about family bonds and following your heart, wherever it might take you… With her marriage in danger of falling apart, Joanna returns home to...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
Do you believe in magic? Elena Montella has some problems. Their names are Reuben, Mark and Prof and she’s engaged to all three of them. But it’s time she made her mind up because they’re all expecting a wedding...
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