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- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Told with intimacy and ferocity and set in the passionate and crumbling Spanish Quarter of Naples, comes a poignant tale of first love – of a place, of a person – where languages and cultures collide while dreams soar...
- Location(s): Pompeii
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Early A.D.
An engaging, female-focussed novel set in ancient Pompeii, from an exciting new voice in historical fiction. The streets of Pompeii have a life of their own: the cries of the hawkers, the beauty and dirt of the crowds, the...
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1930s
Naples, March 1931: a bitter wind stalks the city s streets, and murder lies at its chilled heart. As one of the world s greatest tenors, Maestro Vezzi, is found brutally murdered in his dressing room at Naples famous...
Naples ’44: An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
Norman Lewis is one of the least appreciated authors and travel writers fot he last century. The city is liberated in 1944 by the Allies and this book captures the bleakness and futility of war, yet the the true...
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
- Location(s): Pompeii
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 79AD and Modern
Pompeii explodes a number of myths – from the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought: the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs: and the legendary number of...
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
Penny Green returned to Italy after a holiday in Australia ready for a challenge. She was looking for a new job and romance, and found work and perhaps love in the toughest Italian city of them all Napoli. Penny...
Street Fight in Naples (A City’s Unseen History)
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Various, 17th century
Naples is always a shock, flaunting beauty and squalor like nowhere else. Naples is the only city in Europe whose ancient past still lives in its irrepressible people. Their ancestors came from all over the early Mediterranean to the...
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
First in a new noir series set in Naples They’ve made a fresh start at the Pizzofalcone precinct of Naples. In the wake of a corruption scandal every single member of the investigative force has been fired and replaced...
- Location(s): London, Naples
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Deadlier than the Mafia, the Camorra never forget, and never forgive. She is an Italian accountancy student in London, and her boyfriend Eddie teaches at a language school. But the prime reason Immacolata Borelli came to Britain was to...
- Location(s): Italy, Naples
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Travel to Hades and Purgatory, roam the ruins like the gluttonous Romans, or watch miracles happen. The Espresso Break takes you into the mythical land that is the oldest city in the Western World — Naples, Italy — and...
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