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Kill The Father

Kill The Father
  • Author(s): Sandrone Dazieri
  • 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...

Lady of the Eternal City

Lady of the Eternal City
  • Author(s): Kate Quinn
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 100s CE

(The Empress of Rome Book 4) Sabina may be Empress of Rome, but she still stands poised on a knife’s edge. She must keep the peace between two deadly enemies: her husband Hadrian, Rome’s brilliant and sinister Emperor; and...

Last Prophecy of Rome

Last Prophecy of Rome
  • Author(s): Iain King
  • Location(s): Iraq, Istanbul (Constantinople), New York City (NYC), Rome
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

NEW YORK: A delivery van hurtling through Wall Street, blows up, showering the sky with a chilling message: America is about to be brought down like the Roman Empire. And there is only one man that can stop it...

Lost on Me

Lost on Me
  • Author(s): Veronica Raimo, Leah Janeczko (Translator)
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s-2000s

Vero has grown up in Rome with her eccentric family: an omnipresent mother who is devoted to her own anxiety, a father ruled by hygienic and architectural obsessions, and a precocious genius brother at the centre of their attention....

Lucifer’s Game

Lucifer’s Game
  • Author(s): Cristina Loggia
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Espionage, Historical
  • Era(s): 1942

Spies, military secrets, and a personal crusade for freedom… Rome, 1942. Cordelia Olivieri is a young, determined hotel owner desperate to escape Mussolini’s racial persecution. But as Fascist leaders gather in Rome, Cordelia is suddenly surrounded by the world’s most ruthless...

Mistress of Rome

Mistress of Rome
  • Author(s): Kate Quinn
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 96AD

Passion. Treachery. Murder… A heart-stopping epic about a Jewish slave girl and Rome’s greatest gladiator, who become involved in a plot to assassinate an emperor Orphaned by Rome’s savage legions, Thea, a slave girl from Judaea, has learned what...

Mr Chicken Arriva a Roma

Mr Chicken Arriva a Roma
  • Author(s): Leigh Hobbs
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern

Mr Chicken has always loved reading about Rome. Now it’s time to see it in the flesh. With his helpful phrasebook, a friendly guide and an insatiable appetite, Mr Chicken is ready for anything. From the creator of the...

My Roman Year

My Roman Year
  • Author(s): André Aciman
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s

1960s Rome. As teenage André stands on the dock, his mother fusses over their luggage – 32 suitcases, trunks and tea chests that contain their world. The ship will refuel and return to Alexandria, the home where they have...

Nero

Nero
  • Author(s): Conn Iggulden
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): AD37

ANCIENT ROME, AD 37 It begins with a man’s hand curled around another’s throat. Emperor Tiberius first dispatches a traitor. Then his whole family. Next all his friends. It is as if he never existed. THIS IS ROMAN JUSTICE....

Nighthawks

Nighthawks
  • Author(s): Lambert Nagle
  • Location(s): Rome, Boston
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When art, money and power collide… A Mafia boss addicted to beautiful art. A Catholic priest who knows too much. A modern-day Jay Gatsby. And a woman on the run. Disgraced London detective Stephen Connor is given an ultimatum:...

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