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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:...

One of those Malibu Nights

One of those Malibu Nights
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Adler
  • Location(s): California, Cannes, Rome
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

P.I. Mac Reilly and assistant Sunny are involved in Hollywood mogul intrigues. A woman holds a gun, and shoots, then goes missing. Allie Ray, star of the big screen also goes missing. The trail takes the investigators from Malibu...

Palazzo

Palazzo
  • Author(s): Danielle Steel
  • Location(s): Italy, Rome, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio assumes leadership of her family’s haute couture Italian leather brand. While navigating the challenges of running a company at twenty-three, Cosima must also maintain the elegant four-hundred-year-old family palazzo...

Paolo, Emperor of Rome

Paolo, Emperor of Rome
  • Author(s): Mac Barnett, Claire Keane (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A daring dog takes a whirlwind tour of Rome in search of freedom in new picture book from beloved storyteller Mac Barnett and masterful illustrator Claire Keane Paolo the dachshund is trapped. Though he lives in Rome, a city...

Private Rome

Private Rome
  • Author(s): James Patterson
  • Location(s): Rome, Vatican City
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Private series #18 A priest is murdered and a Private agent is the number one suspect. Jack Morgan is in Rome celebrating the opening of the new local Private office, when the party takes a deadly turn. Private agent...

Rachel Does Rome

Rachel Does Rome
  • Author(s): Nicola Doherty
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Novella, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The fourth instalment in this hilarious, romantic and unputdownable five-part series. Perfect for fans of Lindsey Kelk’s I Heart… novels. What do you do when your boyfriend of two months cancels Valentine’s Day? If you’re Rachel, you book a...

Reluctant Conspirator: The Legacy of Pliny the Elder

Reluctant Conspirator: The Legacy of Pliny the Elder
  • Author(s): Martin Diano
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Ancient Rome - 1st Century AD

In the first century AD, Rome was at the pinnacle of its power. Mighty as the empire was, Rome spends much of the first century in tumult. Politics had become a blood sport. Assassinations, treachery, and despotism were the...

Rodrigo Borgia’s Rose

Rodrigo Borgia’s Rose
  • Author(s): Elena Martignoni, Michela Martignoni
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Novella, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): renaissance

Rodrigo Borgia’s long-time mistress, Vannozza, tells her story of twenty years with the most powerful man in Italy with shameless honesty. Despite wild rumours, salacious gossip and being replaced in Rodrigo’s bed by a woman young enough to be...

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