- Location(s): Sardinia (Sardegna), Rome
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
Inspector Aurelio Zen has a problem: the impossible murder of an eccentric billionaire, recorded on the closed-circuit video of Oscar Burolo’s top-security Sardinian fortress. Officials in a high government ministry want someone – anyone – to blame, and they...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Novella
- Era(s): 1933
It is the summer of 1933. Set against a backdrop of the sparkling Venetian lagoon, young and naïve Irma Lietzen, the pretty and indulged daughter of a Budapest businessman, is being taken to see the world by her parents....
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Novella, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Scottish art historian Livy arrives in Venice for a short break before picking up a cruise. The last person she expects to meet is Sebastian, the handsome half Italian, half Scottish guy she first met and fell for at...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
Venice Tales is the first comprehensive collection of short-stories on Venice by Italian authors. The book encompasses a broad chronological span, beginning from the Middle Ages (Boccaccio), through to the early modern period (Sansovino), the Enlightenment (Casanova, Goldoni), to...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1899
Everything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me. . . 1899. As the new century approaches, English hack-writer Evelyn Dolman marries Laura Rensselaer, the daughter of a wealthy American plutocrat. But in the midst...
- Location(s): Bordeaux
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Gilles Principaux walks into Maître Susane’s law office seeking representation for his wife, his presence triggers memories from her childhood she had long buried. Gilles’s wife is charged with drowning their three children and the media are circling...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Various
Built on an inverted forest, paved with a tortoiseshell of boulders, Venice is a maze of tiny alleys, bridges and squares. Tiziano Scarpa wanders through the city, recounting the customs and secrets that only Venetians know. With everything from...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Travelogue
- Era(s): from 4th Century
- Location(s): Thailand
- Genre(s): Novella
- Era(s): Contemporary
The village of Praeknamdang, nestled in the Thai jungle, has fallen under the spell of Song Waad, the self-proclaimed medium of The Sacred Mother. Living in fear of his connection to the Patron goddess, the villagers offer up land...
- Location(s): Malawi
- Genre(s): Poetry
- Era(s): 1949
Summoned to Whitehall in 1949, Laurens van der Post was told that in old British Central Africa there were two large tracts of country that London didn’t really know anything about, and could he go in there on foot...
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