Filter:
- Location(s): Baiardo
- Genre(s): Novella, Romance
Juliet Carlsen is taking some much needed time out in the tiny northern Italian village of Baiardo, home to an arts school. Sunshine, serenity and general sense of ‘dolce vita’ weave their magic. The attentions of a local architect...
- Location(s): Dublin, Liguria, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s and 1990s
From the bestselling Irish novelist, here comes a sweeping tale of consequences that spans from the 1930s to the 1990s. “Last Train from Liguria” takes us on a journey from claustrophobic Dublin and the tense formality of London, to...
- Location(s): Italian Riviera
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
A notice in The Times addressed to ‘Those Who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine’ advertises a ‘small medieval Italian Castle to be let for the month of April’. Four very different women take up the offer: Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, both...
- Location(s): Genoa
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Chief Inspector Giacomo Amaldi knows he is dealing with a serial killer, a taxidermist who stalks his victims: amidst a garbage strike, the detective has to find his clues in this unnamed Italian city.
- Location(s): Italian Riviera, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Huda and Yvonne are on holiday in the Italian Riviera, enjoying the sun and the sparkling Mediterranean, reminiscent of their childhoods in Lebanon. Yvonne doesn’t know what she’s doing wrong, either there or back in London where she runs...
- Location(s): Rome, Florence, Portofino
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
When famed curator Giovanni Montefiore is shockingly murdered at the Italian Opera in Rome following his bold proclamation regarding the authenticity of the True Cross, there are many suspects, but suspicion falls heavily upon his nephew, Mario Montefiore. With...
- Location(s): Italian Riviera
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Etto finds himself adrift in his village on the Italian Riviera. He has recently lost his Brother and Mother and has a tense relationship with his Father, the local butcher. Football is molto grande amongst the inhabitants, but it...
- Location(s): Liguria
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1990s onwards
The writer went to live in a small village in Liguria and this is the tail of her experiences amongst ‘mezzadri’ – ‘half people’. She writes about her walks around the villages whose inhabitants left long ago and only...
- Location(s): Portofino, San Francisco, Seattle, Zurich
- Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Present Day
Eight years after her fiancé was murdered, attorney Megan Kole has fully reconciled two areas of her life: her intelligent son, who never knew his father, and the thriving law practice that is her late father’s legacy. The remainder...
- Location(s): Liguria, Tuscany
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb recreation of a bygone era. In 1967, veteran travel writer Eric Newby and his heroic wife Wanda fulfiled their dream of a return...
Please wait...
