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Foucault’s Pendulum

Foucault’s Pendulum
  • Author(s): Umberto Eco
  • Location(s): Milan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Gods of Rome (Rise of Emperors #3)

Gods of Rome (Rise of Emperors #3)
  • Author(s): Gordon Doherty, Simon Turney
  • Location(s): Rome, Italy, Milan, Ravenna, Turin (Torino)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late Antiquity, Late Roman Empire

For one to rule, the other must die. 312 AD is a year of horrific and brutal warfare. Constantine’s northern army is a small force, plagued by religious rivalries, but seemingly unstoppable as they invade Maxentius’ Italian heartlands. These...

Model Under Cover: Dressed to Kill

Model Under Cover: Dressed to Kill
  • Author(s): Carina Axelsson
  • Location(s): Milan
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The last thing hot new model Axelle expects to find at a photo shoot is a top stylist dead on set. But as a high-heeled, runway-ready secret sleuth, she’s just the girl to solve the mystery of who poisoned...

Silk for the Feed Dogs

Silk for the Feed Dogs
  • Author(s): Jackie Mallon
  • Location(s): Milan, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Silk for the Feed Dogs illuminates a world the author knows intimately in a way it hadn’t been described before: with thoughtfulness, profundity and humor. Kat Connelly, innovative designer and introspective daughter of an Irish farmer, is disappointed with...

The Betrothed

The Betrothed
  • Author(s): Alessandro Manzoni, Michael F Moore (Translator)
  • Location(s): Bergamo, Lecco, Milan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th Century

The Betrothed is a cornerstone of Italian culture, language, and literature. Published in its final form in 1842, the novel has inspired generations of Italian readers and writers. Giuseppe Verdi composed his majestic Requiem Mass in honor of Manzoni....

The House on Moon Lake

The House on Moon Lake
  • Author(s): Francesca Duranti
  • Location(s): Vienna, Milan
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Fabrizio Garrone is an impoverished but aristocratic translator who has been living a life of quiet desperation in Milan. He feels underappreciated and tormented by a persistent sense of having been cheated by life. But when he reads about...

The Night Portrait

The Night Portrait
  • Author(s): Laura Morelli
  • Location(s): Milan, Munich
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1492/ WW2

Between 1939 and 1943, the Nazis stole every known painting by Leonardo Da Vinci, imprisoning the original owners or worse. This is the story of the most infamous of these thefts… Munich, 1939 In fear of the brutal Nazi...

The Second Life of Inspector Canessa

The Second Life of Inspector Canessa
  • Author(s): Roberto Perrone
  • Location(s): Milan
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The second book in the Walter Presents library: a ferociously paced noir thriller of family secrets and terrorist plots from one of Italy’s top crime writers Annibale Canessa was a legend: the most notorious cop during Italy’s brutal Years...

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