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The Temple of Fortuna

The Temple of Fortuna
  • Author(s): Elodie Harper
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): AD79

The final instalment in Elodie Harper’s Sunday Times bestselling Wolf Den Trilogy A courtesan in Rome. Playing for power. Haunted by her past. Her name is Amara. How will her fortunes fall? Amara’s journey has taken her far, from...

The Temptation to Be Happy

The Temptation to Be Happy
  • Author(s): Lorenzo Marone
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Cesare is a seventy-seven-year-old widower and cynical troublemaker. He has lived his whole life by his own rules and has no intention of changing now. Aside from an intermittent fling with a nurse called Rossana, he spends his days...

The Wings of the Sphinx

The Wings of the Sphinx
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Detective Montalbano is going through a distinctly rocky patch with his long-distance lover, Livia, and he has other concerns: he is uneasily conscious of anno domini and the dispiriting effect of the violence that is such an omnipresent part...

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
  • Author(s): Elena Ferrante
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila have become women. Both have attempted pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance and submission. They are afloat on the...

Blindsided

Blindsided
  • Author(s): Julian Edge
  • Location(s): Sardinia (Sardegna)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

Sardinia: Beautiful landscapes, fascinating history and a unique blend of cultures. For Ralph and Clare, a working holiday also offers an opportunity to get their marriage back on track. Then a chance meeting with Tex and Cass provides new...

The Whispering Wind

The Whispering Wind
  • Author(s): Lexa Dudley
  • Location(s): Italy, Sardinia (Sardegna)
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The Whispering Wind is a moving story of two lovers, set on the beautiful island of Sardinia, where Elise goes on holiday to escape a loveless and violent marriage. Whilst there, she meets and falls in love with Beppe,...

Gomorrah

Gomorrah
  • Author(s): Roberto Saviano, Virginia Jewiss (translator)
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Published to coincide with the eponymous blockbuster film, Roberto Saviano’s groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller and has to date sold 750,000 copies in Italy alone. Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities,...

My Lemon Grove Summer

My Lemon Grove Summer
  • Author(s): Jo Thomas
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Could the lemon groves of Sicily be the perfect place to start over? The irresistible new novel from Jo Thomas, the author of Sunset Over the Cherry Orchard, will transport you to the island of mountains and sparkling blue...

Siracusa

Siracusa
  • Author(s): Delia Ephron
  • Location(s): Rome, Syracuse
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An electrifying novel about marriage and deceit from bestselling author Delia Ephron that follows two couples on vacation in Siracusa, a town on the coast of Sicily, where the secrets they have hidden from one another are exposed and...

Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons

Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons
  • Author(s): Matthew Fort
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Esteemed food critic and writer Matthew Fort takes to his Vespa in search of Sicily’s culinary delights.

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