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Beneath the Lion’s Wings

Beneath the Lion’s Wings
  • Author(s): Marie Ohanesian Nardin
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After years of focusing on her career and neglecting her love life, Victoria meets a handsome gondolier while vacationing in Venice and decides to take another chance on romance. Victoria Greco has given up on finding love. A thirtysomething...

Betrayal in Venice

Betrayal in Venice
  • Author(s): David Canford
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Twentieth century

Immerse yourself in the beauty, mystery, and melancholy of Venice in this poignant novel about the cost of keeping secrets. Glen Butler finds his life forever altered when he saves a young woman in Venice at the end of...

Bitter Greens

Bitter Greens
  • Author(s): Kate Forsyth
  • Location(s): Venice, Versailles
  • Genre(s): Fairy Tales, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th / 17th Centuries

THREE WOMEN BOUND TOGETHER BY THE STRANDS OF FATE   Charlotte-Rose de la Force, exiled from the court of the Sun King Louis XIV, has always been a great teller of tales.   Selena Leonelli, once the exquisite muse...

Carnival for the Dead

Carnival for the Dead
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Carnival for the Dead is a suspenseful spin-off from the Nic Costa series, David Hewson’s detective novels of love and death in Italy. In Venice the past was more reticent. Beyond the tourist sights, San Marco and the Rialto,...

Carnival of Lies

Carnival of Lies
  • Author(s): D V Bishop
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1539

(Cesare Aldo series Book 5) Venice. Winter, 1539. When Cesare Aldo learns of a conspiracy to assassinate Duke Cosimo de’ Medici, he is hired to protect the ruler of Florence – with his life, if necessary. The deadly attack...

Ciao, Sandro

Ciao, Sandro
  • Author(s): Steven Varni, Luciano Lozano (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contmporary

Meet Sandro! As the loyal first mate to gondolier Nicola, Sandro knows everything about his home, the beautiful city of Venice. Sandro and Nicola go everywhere together. But today, Sandro is venturing out on his own for the first...

Coincidentally in Venice

Coincidentally in Venice
  • Author(s): Kate Zarrelli
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Best friends Ashley and Juliet, who’ve been made redundant from their marketing jobs during Covid, at last get to go to Venice. The long days of lockdown were made a little easier by looking at webcams of the deserted...

Dangerous

Dangerous
  • Author(s): Essie Fox
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn of 19th Century

When fiction is fatal… Living in exile in Venice, the disgraced Lord Byron revels in the freedoms of the city But when he is associated with the deaths of local women, found with wounds to their throats, and then...

Dark Harvest

Dark Harvest
  • Author(s): Orna O'Reilly
  • Location(s): Puglia, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The romantic canals of Venice and the sun-drenched olive groves of Puglia provide diverse Italian backdrops for this story of love and betrayal involving three very different women, toxic neighbours and two men with evil in mind. Claudia, a...

Daughter of Venice

Daughter of Venice
  • Author(s): Donna Jo Napoli
  • 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...

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