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Into The Burning Dawn

Into The Burning Dawn
  • Author(s): Natalie Meg Evans
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1940 - 1943

Twenty-one-year-old Imogen Fitzgerald was raised in an English orphanage and never knew her parents. So when World War Two breaks out, she refuses to leave the life she’s worked so hard to build for herself, teaching English to young...

Invitation to Italy

Invitation to Italy
  • Author(s): Victoria Springfield
  • Location(s): Procida
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Abi is distraught when her ex-husband Alex takes their twelve-year-old daughter, Chloe to spend the summer with his glamorous fiancée Marisa and her parents at their home on the beautiful Italian island of Procida. Persuaded by her best friend...

La Cucina

La Cucina
  • Author(s): Lily Prior
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

La Cucina combines the sensuous pleasures of love and food, simmering in the heat of a Sicilian kitchen. Rose Fiore is a solitary middle-aged librarian who has resigned herself to a loveless life, and expresses her passionate nature through...

Lampedusa

Lampedusa
  • Author(s): Steven Price
  • Location(s): Italy, Lampedusa, Sicily
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

In 1943, an Allied bomb destroyed the Lampedusa palace in Palermo; in 1955, Giuseppe Tomasi is diagnosed with advanced emphysema. Shortly after, profoundly aware of his mortality, he begins work on a novel, imagining the life of his great-grandfather...

Loyalty

Loyalty
  • Author(s): Lisa Scottoline
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Loyalty can save a soul — or destroy one. Franco Fiorvante is a handsome lemon-grower who has toiled for years on the estate of boss Baron Zito. Franco dreams of owning his own lemon grove, but the rigid class...

Malacqua

Malacqua
  • Author(s): Nicola Pugliese
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

After a four-day deluge, Naples is flooded. Buildings collapse, sinkholes appear. Strange events spread across the city: ghostly voices emanate from a medieval castle and five-lire coins begin to play music, but only to ten-year-old children. A melancholy journalist...

Mussolini’s Island

Mussolini’s Island
  • Author(s): Sarah Day
  • Location(s): San Domino, Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Leading up to WW2

Francesco has a memory of his father from early childhood, a night when life for his family changed: their name, their story, their living place. From that night, he has vowed to protect his mother and to follow the...

One Italian Summer

One Italian Summer
  • Author(s): Rebecca Serle
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

When Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn’t just Katy’s mum, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make...

One Italian Summer

One Italian Summer
  • Author(s): Catherine Mangan
  • Location(s): Ischia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Escape to Italy this summer and fall in love with the perfect holiday romance! When Lily’s long-term relationship ends, she flees her life in New York to travel to her best friend’s wedding on the sun-drenched Italian island of...

One Summer in Sicily

One Summer in Sicily
  • Author(s): Nancy Barone
  • Location(s): Lipari
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A new fun and fresh rom-com set in Sicily by Canadian-Italian author Nancy Barone. In an attempt to resuscitate her twenty-five-year-old marriage, aerophobic Gillian Dobson knocks down a few tranquilisers and takes a dreaded flight to the Sicilian Island...

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