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Rome for the Summer

Rome for the Summer
  • Author(s): Lynne Shelby
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kate Harper has always loved the painting that has hung in her parents’ dining room for years, never suspecting that it is worth a fortune. When her art dealer boyfriend cheats her family out of the proceeds of the...

Rome’s Last Noble Palace

Rome’s Last Noble Palace
  • Author(s): Kimberly Sullivan
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Fin de siecle/Contemporary

Two women. Two different centuries. One attic room American Isabelle Field has been shipped off to Rome to live with her aunt, Princess Elizabeth Brancaccio. Isabelle’s aunt and mother share a common goal – replicating Elizabeth’s success by marrying...

Secrets at the Rome Apartment

Secrets at the Rome Apartment
  • Author(s): Kerry Fisher
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Everyone has something to hide. Back then, I was a young woman, without the imagination to know how it would all end, and how the terrible consequences of the choices I made would echo down the years… 75-year-old Ronnie...

Sons of Rome (Rise of Emperors #1)

Sons of Rome (Rise of Emperors #1)
  • Author(s): Gordon Doherty, Simon Turney
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late Antiquity, Late Roman Empire

‘A page turner from beginning to end … A damn fine read’ Ben Kane. Four Emperors. Two Friends. One Destiny. As twilight descends on the 3rd century AD, the Roman Empire is but a shadow of its former self....

SPQR

SPQR
  • Author(s): Mary Beard
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 600sBC - 400sAD

Shortlisted for a British Book Industry Book of the Year Award 2016 Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories – from Romulus and...

Teddy

Teddy
  • Author(s): Emily Dunlay
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Summer 1969

It is the summer of 1969 and Rome is awash with glamour and intrigue. Teddy Huntley Carlyle is fresh off a plane from Texas with a new husband in tow and a new life on the horizon. After some...

Tender is the Night

Tender is the Night
  • Author(s): F Scott Fitzgerald
  • Location(s): Nice, Rome, Zurich
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1920s

Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are the Divers, Dick and Nicole who hold court at their villa. Into...

The Assassins of Rome

The Assassins of Rome
  • Author(s): Caroline Lawrence
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Children
  • Era(s): 79AD

Jonathan goes on a secret quest to Rome, and Flavia, Nubia and Lupus set out to find him. Their dangerous mission takes them to the Golden House of Nero where a deadly assassin is rumoured to be at work...

The Blue Demon

The Blue Demon
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Blue Demon is the eighth in the Nic Costa series, David Hewson’s detective novels of love and death in the Eternal City. Twenty years ago, a mysterious group called the Blue Demon committed a series of bizarre and...

The Book of Secrets

The Book of Secrets
  • Author(s): Anna Mazzola
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th Century

Rome, 1659. Months after the plague has ravaged Rome, men are still dying in unnatural numbers, and rumour has it that their corpses do not decay as they should. The Papal authorities commission prosecutor Stefano Bracchi to investigate, telling...

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