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- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Murder is the deadliest art . . . An invitation to an exclusive event during the Venetian Biennale gives Honorary Consul Nathan Sutherland the perfect chance to drink prosecco in the sunshine and meet some of the greats of...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Literary Travel
- Era(s): From 1960s onwards
With this treasury of his time spent in Venice over a period of fifty-five years, Nooteboom makes himself the indispensable companion for all lovers of “the sailing, amphibious city”, and for every new visitor. Because he is a master...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Photography
- Era(s): Spring 2020
Venice Deserted is an exceptional photographic report of the most beautiful city in the world under the exceptional circumstances of the Coronavirus lockdown in Spring 2020. During the Coronavirus lockdown in March, April and May 2020, Venice appeared completely...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
None of Venice’s innumerable chroniclers have portrayed the Serenissima’s character with quite such a combination of the scholarly, the informal and the intimate…Over the years thousands of readers, starting this book, have been relieved to encounter its famously undemanding...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Taking the fire that destroyed the Fenice theatre in 1996 as his starting point, John Berendt creates a unique and unforgettable portrait of Venice and its extraordinary inhabitants. Beneath the exquisite facade of the world’s most beautiful historic city,...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Even the most beautiful city on earth has a dark side . . . It is November 2nd, 2017. All Souls Day. On the Day of the Dead, the citizens of Venice make their way to the cemetery island...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
There is something very old-fashioned and reassuring about Salley Vickers’ novel Miss Garnet’s Angel. The themes, self-discovery and redemption have the air of a bygone age, despite the novel being set in contemporary Venice in a world of holiday...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 18th Century
It’s hard to imagine a more romantic real-life story than the long and forbidden love affair of the 18th-century Venetian nobleman Andrea Memmo and a half-English beauty named Giustiniana Wynne. Andrea Di Robilant’s A Venetian Affair is drawn in...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1400s to Victorian
Emily is called upon, along with her husband Colin to help solve the murder. This leads her into the depths of a centuries old feud between warring families, and a star-crossed love story worthy of Romeo and Juliet.
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
The author spent a Summer with the gondoliers to find out what they are really about. She looks behind the mystery of the gondoliere and brings them to life.