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- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Coming of Age, Magical Realism
- Era(s): 20th century
‘No one in this city has believed in me for two thousand years. I’m unknown and unloved. And I’m very, very ill.’ He sighed, and the sound chilled her blood. ‘Give me your hand.’ Dionysus, god of wine and...
- Location(s): Geneva, Egypt, Rome, St Moritz, Turkey, Vatican City
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Present
Pope Gregoire XVII was last seen waving to the crowd at Saint Peter’s square from the famous Apostolic Palace window. Despite several layers of tight security, neither the Gendarmerie nor The Entity (the Vatican’s secret service) or the Swiss...
Jake Atlas and the Keys of the Apocalypse
- Location(s): Rome, Morocco
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
JAKE ATLAS: TOMB ROBBER, TREASURE HUNTER, TROUBLEMAKER This fourth riveting Jake Atlas adventure takes Jake and his family to Rome, where they uncover the secret history of a Roman legion sworn to protect four mysterious keys. The keys hold...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 70AD onwards
From the hilarious, celebrated cartoonist Gary Northfield – author of The Terrible Tales of the Teenytinysaurs! – comes a brand-new illustrated chapter book series set in Roman times! From a smelly watering hole deep in the heart of the...
- Location(s): Rome, Tuscany
- Genre(s): Romance, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Keira Brody’s Roman holiday isn’t living up to the hype until mysterious compatriot, Leo Callinan, walks through her door. Journalist Keira smells a big story. Enigmatic Leo is charming and fun, but why the secrecy about his trouble with...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Dante Torre spent eleven young years in captivity – held by a man known only as The Father – before outwitting his abductor. Now working for the police force, Torre’s methods are unorthodox but his brilliance is clear. When...
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