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- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Venice, 1919 Seventeen years ago, the grand Venetian Palazzo degli Angeli was Phoebe Wyndham’s home; now, the neglected walls of the palazzo are just a haunting reminder of all she has lost. Arriving back in Italy after a plea...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): times gone by
Aribella lives in Venice, the daughter of an impoverished lace-maker. But she has a deadly secret: when angered, sparks shoot from her fingertips. Unable to keep her power hidden, she flees – but when dark spectres rise from the...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
An enchanting tale of magic, friendship and adventure for readers aged 9 and up – from bestselling author, Holly Webb. Colette lives with her mother, making beautiful dresses for the rich women of Venice. She’s never known her father,...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): N/A
An enchanting tale of magic, mermaids and adventure for readers aged 9 and up – from bestselling author, Holly Webb. Venice is faced with terrible danger . . . Can the friendship between a young girl and a mermaid...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Time Slip
- Era(s): Modern and back in time
When your life flashes before your eyes, what will matter most? For Wilbur it was his time with Maggie, the love of his life. Their honeymoon in Venice. Before he threw it all away. Years later, on the brink...
- Location(s): Venice, North London
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): Early 1900s
Venice, 1911. Monica is a fourteen-year-old with a wild imagination and an unbearably dull governess named Rose Driscoll. She was supposed to be entering the most exciting time of her life but, with her parents and uncle now dead,...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
The Passion is a fairy tale about survival and broken-heartedness, cruelty, obsession and madness. Henri had a passion for Napoleon and Napoleon had a passion for chicken. From Boulogne to Moscow Henri butchered for his Emperor and never killed...
- Location(s): England, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
The paper is stiff and brittle with age as Kate unfolds it with trembling hands. She gasps at the pencil sketch of a rippling waterway, lined by tall buildings, curving towards the dome of a cathedral. She feels a...
- Location(s): Venice, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1943 /2017
Venice, 1943 The world is at war, and Stella Jilani is leading a double life. By day she works in the lion’s den as a typist for the Reich; by night, she risks her life as a messenger for...
- Location(s): Rome, Salò, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): 1970s
It is September 1974. Two men meet by chance in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema, the designer responsible for realising the spectacular...
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