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The Alchemist’s Apprentice

The Alchemist’s Apprentice
  • Author(s): Dave Duncan
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Historical
  • Era(s): Renaissance (16th century)

To the legendary clairvoyant Maestro Nostradamus, the future is forever in motion. But for young swordsman Alfeo Zeno, his apprentice and protector, the present is hard enough to contend with. His days are spent poring over astrology charts and...

The Anonymous Venetian

The Anonymous Venetian
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A Banker is found dead, dressed as a transvestite prostitute. Two more deaths follow. And Brunetti is seraching for the connection and perpertrator. Set in glorious Venice, each page is like walking down another Campo.

The Assassin of Venice

The Assassin of Venice
  • Author(s): Alyssa Palombo
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

Valentina Riccardi is many things: beautiful, cultured, deadly. As one of Venice’s famous courtesans, she’s perfectly positioned to seduce powerful men, get them alone, and assassinate them. Spies. Traitors. Who they are doesn’t matter—only that they made an enemy...

The Black Violin

The Black Violin
  • Author(s): Maxence Fermine
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th Century

The Book of Unholy Mischief

The Book of Unholy Mischief
  • Author(s): Elle Newmark
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Food and Drink, Historical
  • Era(s): Renaissance (late 15th century)

It is 1498, the dawn of the Renaissance, and Venice teems with rumors about an ancient book that holds the secret to unimaginable power. It is an alchemist’s dream, with recipes for gold, immortality, and undying love. But while...

The Book of Venice (Reading The City)

The Book of Venice (Reading The City)
  • Author(s): Orsola Casagrande (Editor)
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

With its gondola-filled canals and beautiful architecture, the floating city of Venice is unlike anywhere else in the world. It is a city where apparent opposites intersect; at once aquatic and terrestrial, past and present, east and west, spiritual...

The Case of the Missing Madonna

The Case of the Missing Madonna
  • Author(s): Lin Anderson
  • Location(s): Cannes, Eze, Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Private investigator Patrick de Courvoisier unearths a shocking wartime secret in this stylish Cannes-based mystery series. Brother Robert from the abbey on St Honorat, a picturesque island off the French coast, has requested Patrick de Courvoisier’s help in locating...

The Christmas Letter

The Christmas Letter
  • Author(s): Emily Stone
  • Location(s): England, London, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Travel from the gorgeous English countryside to romantic Venice with the bestselling author of One Last Gift and Always, in December Emily Stone. Every December Holly writes to a stranger who is spending Christmas alone, and every year she...

The Colour Storm

The Colour Storm
  • Author(s): Damian Dibben
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1510

Venice, 1510. The world’s greatest artists gather to enjoy fame, fortune, and colour. When a wealthy merchant discovers a mysterious new pigment, he knows it would create a masterpiece in the right hands. For struggling artist Giorgione ‘Zorzo’ Barbarelli,...

The Daughter of The Merchant of Venice

The Daughter of The Merchant of Venice
  • Author(s): Stephen Sturgess
  • Location(s): Crete, Istanbul (Constantinople), Venice
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 16th Century

The Daughter of the Merchant of Venice is an intriguing love story that follows the romance between an apprentice artist named Stefano D’Alvino and Giustina Boschetti, the daughter of a Venetian merchant. Theirs is a story of love, betrayal, forgiveness,...

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