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Rome Was!

Rome Was!
  • Author(s): Randolph Langenbach
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 18th Century to present

The book will be designed so that it can be used, not only by scholars, but also by tourists and travellers in Rome Guides readers on a modern-day version of the 18th Century Grand Tour that was originally inspired...

Saving Rome

Saving Rome
  • Author(s): Megan Williams
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 2000s

Amid the bustle of Rome, the Vespas and the Fiats, the cigarettes and teetering high heals, Megan K Williams, a Rome-based writer and correspondent, captures the essence of this bustling city. This is an insider’s eye on the love,...

The Rome Plague Diaries

The Rome Plague Diaries
  • Author(s): Matthew Kneale
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Early Summer 2020

On the first morning of Rome’s Covid-19 lockdown Matthew Kneale felt an urge to connect with friends and acquaintances and began writing an email, describing where he was, what was happening and what it felt like, and sent it...

The Starling Dance

The Starling Dance
  • Author(s): Lucy Elena
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a sweltering Roman summer, Laure is trying to start a new life. But can she manage in a city where walls have ears, trees have eyes and even the birds are acting strangely? It’s been exactly one year...

Two Women in Rome

Two Women in Rome
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Buchan
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary and World War Two

A beautifully atmospheric new tale from the prize-winning, bestselling novelist Elizabeth Buchan. In the Eternal City, no secret stays hidden forever… Lottie Archer arrives in Rome excited to begin her new job as an archivist. When she discovers a...

Roman Blood (Roma Sub Rosa)

Roman Blood (Roma Sub Rosa)
  • Author(s): Steven Saylor
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1st Century BC

In Roman Blood Gordianus the Finder – the large, eccentric, philosophical investigator whose famed skills and integrity have made him much sought after in Rome – is hired by the young Cicero to acquit or convict a man accused...

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...

A Gladiator Dies Only Once

A Gladiator Dies Only Once
  • Author(s): Steven Saylor
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): BC

This is 11 in Steven Saylor’s Roma Sub Rosa series of novels, set in the later Roman Republic (BC), featuring Gordianus the Finder. High calibre writing, and wonderfully illuminating descriptions of the ancient world.

A Place in the Hills

A Place in the Hills
  • Author(s): Michelle Paver
  • Location(s): Rome, The Pyrenees
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1st Century AD, Modern

Antonia had become obsessed with a long-dead poet, Cassius. A soldier and lover, he had lived in the hills of Provence in Roman times where Antonia was now engaged in an archaeological dig. Her father was hoping to uncover...

Birthright

Birthright
  • Author(s): Charles Lambert
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

A sublime psychological thriller from Polari Prize-shortlisted Charles Lambert. Sixteen-year-old Fiona inhabits a privileged world of English affluence, though her relationship with her widowed mother is strained. When she discovers an old newspaper clipping of a woman and her daughter...

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