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One Summer in Sicily

One Summer in Sicily
  • Author(s): Nancy Barone
  • Location(s): Lipari
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A new fun and fresh rom-com set in Sicily by Canadian-Italian author Nancy Barone. In an attempt to resuscitate her twenty-five-year-old marriage, aerophobic Gillian Dobson knocks down a few tranquilisers and takes a dreaded flight to the Sicilian Island...

Secrets in Sicily

Secrets in Sicily
  • Author(s): Penny Feeny
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

Sicily, 1977 Ten-year-old Lily and family arrive for their annual summer holiday in Sicily. Adopted as a toddler, Lily’s childhood has been idyllic. But a chance encounter with a local woman on the beach changes everything… 10 years later…...

The Last Concerto

The Last Concerto
  • Author(s): Sara Alexander
  • Location(s): Rome, Ozieri, Sardinia (Sardegna), Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1968

Famed for its natural beauty and rich history, Sardinia in 1968 is notorious, too, for the bandits who kidnap wealthy landowners for ransom. Eleven-year-old Alba Fresu’s brother, and her father, Bruno, are abducted by criminals who mistake Bruno for...

The Sicilian Inheritance

The Sicilian Inheritance
  • Author(s): Jo Piazza
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

When Sara Marsala’s beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, she leaves Sara a valuable piece of land in Sicily, but there’s a catch: the locals refuse to acknowledge the rightful owner of the deed, and if Sara wants the land...

The Shape of Water

The Shape of Water
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 2000s

Inspector Salvo Montalbano strives to do the right thing for the right reason. Food and crime mix in this inspired series. The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri’s wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector...

The Snack Thief

The Snack Thief
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 2000s

Never has Inspector Montalbano’s character – a unique blend of humor, cynicism, compassion, earthiness, and love of good food – been more compelling than in The Snack Thief. When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator...

The Leopard

The Leopard
  • Author(s): Giuseppe di Lampedusa
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1860

In Sicily in 1860, as Italian unification grows inevitable, the smallest of gestures seems dense with meaning and melancholy, sensual agitation and disquiet: “Some huge irrational disaster is in the making.” All around him, the prince, Don Fabrizio, witnesses...

Each to his Own

Each to his Own
  • Author(s): Leonardo Sciascia
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Two murders are investigated by a university lecturer for his own intellectual curiosity, yet what he discovers stirs up all kinds of corruption and malevolence in a Sicilian town.

Italian Ice

Italian Ice
  • Author(s): E M Lynley
  • Location(s): Aeolian Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Sequel to Rarer than Rubies Precious Gems: Book Two In this exciting sequel to Rarer Than Rubies, gay romance author Trent Copeland and former FBI agent Reed Action head to Italy for a Roman holiday. What should be a...

Midnight in Sicily

Midnight in Sicily
  • Author(s): Peter Robb
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Historical, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Various

A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy’s legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime...

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