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- Location(s): England, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
The paper is stiff and brittle with age as Kate unfolds it with trembling hands. She gasps at the pencil sketch of a rippling waterway, lined by tall buildings, curving towards the dome of a cathedral. She feels a...
- Location(s): Venice, London
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1943 /2017
Venice, 1943 The world is at war, and Stella Jilani is leading a double life. By day she works in the lion’s den as a typist for the Reich; by night, she risks her life as a messenger for...
- Location(s): Rome, Salò, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): 1970s
It is September 1974. Two men meet by chance in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema, the designer responsible for realising the spectacular...
The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany
- Location(s): Tuscany, Ravello, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Since the day Filomena Fontana cast a curse upon her sister more than two hundred years ago, not one second-born Fontana daughter has found lasting love. Some, like second-born Emilia, the happily-single baker at her grandfather’s Brooklyn deli, claim...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 2000s
Winter has come early to Venice. Two orphaned children are on the run, hiding among the crumbling canals and misty alleyways of the city. Befriended by a gang of street children and their mysterious leader, the Thief Lord, they...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
The Traitor (The Carnivia Trilogy): 3 He died in the darkness, surrounded by friends. They found him at sunrise, on Venice’s most popular beach. His throat had been cut, his tongue removed. Captain Kat Tapo suspects a Masonic ritualistic...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Children, Fantasy, Historical
- Era(s): Turn of the 20th century
Teodora has always longed to visit Venice. And at last she has her chance. But strange and sinister things are afoot in the beautiful floating city. Teo is quickly subsumed into a secret world in which salty-tongued mermaids run...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 20th century
It’s the beginning of the 20th century; the age of scientific progress. But for Venice the future looks bleak. A conference of scientists assembles to address the problems, among whose delegates are the parents of twelve-year-old Teodora. Within days...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Biography
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the fortunes of the Venier family waned and the project was abandoned with only one storey complete....
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1576
Venice, 1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man, more dead than alive, disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco....
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