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The Silver Book

The Silver Book
  • Author(s): Olivia Laing
  • 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 Summer I Met Jack

The Summer I Met Jack
  • Author(s): Michelle Gable
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Hyannis Port, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

New York Times bestselling author imagines the affair between John F. Kennedy and Alicia Corning Clark – and the child they may have had. Based on a real story – in 1950, a young, beautiful Polish refugee arrives in...

The Thieves of Ostia

The Thieves of Ostia
  • Author(s): Caroline Lawrence
  • Location(s): Ostia
  • Genre(s): Adventure, Children
  • Era(s): 79AD

The first in Caroline Lawrence’s internationally bestselling Roman Mysteries series, re-issued with a fantastic new cover look. Flavia Gemina is a natural at solving mysteries. The daughter of a ship’s captain living in Ostia, the port of Rome, in...

The Treasure Seeker

The Treasure Seeker
  • Author(s): Suzanne Hope
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Melody Meeks is a struggling freelance writer at Zenith magazine when a chance encounter on Facebook brings her back in touch with her first love, the love she never really got over: Spencer Channing. But little does she know...

The Vatican Conspiracy

The Vatican Conspiracy
  • Author(s): Peter Hogenkamp
  • Location(s): Italy, Vatican City
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

A Marco Venetti Thriller Book 1 It is an ordinary day in Marco Venetti’s quiet coastal parish—but the woman who’s come to confess is not ordinary. Marco has always been drawn to beautiful Elena, and she brings news that...

The Vietri Project

The Vietri Project
  • Author(s): Nicola Derobertis-Theye
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st century

The Vietri Project is a riveting, shifting quest, an evocative trip to Rome, and a beautiful portrayal of the ways you need to return to the past in order to move forward. A great delight from start to finish.”–Lily...

The Woman of Rome

The Woman of Rome
  • Author(s): Alberto Moravia
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s/40s

Rome under Mussolini is the setting for this, probably Moravia’s best known novel: Adriana, a simple and poor girl who models naked for an artist and gradually moves into a more shadowy world.Giacomo, a failed revolutionary cannot admit his...

The Worst Kind of Want

The Worst Kind of Want
  • Author(s): Liska Jacobs
  • Location(s): Rome, Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A trip to Italy reignites a woman’s desires to disastrous effect in this dark ode to womanhood, death, and sex To cool-headed, fastidious Pricilla Messing, Italy will be an escape, a brief glimpse of freedom from a life that’s...

These Wicked Devices

These Wicked Devices
  • Author(s): Matthew Plampin
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 17th Century

Rome, 1650. The streets are teeming as thousands of pilgrims flood in for the Holy Jubilee, but behind the gilded façade of the Vatican, power is unravelling. Donna Olimpia Maidalchini has long kept Pope Innocent X under her thumb,...

Three Coins

Three Coins
  • Author(s): Kimberly Sullivan
  • Location(s): Rome, Sperlonga, Umbria
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

One Eternal City. Three women. Three wishes. Three coins. Emma, an American expat living in Rome for twenty years, can’t count on her ex-husband to help out with the kids when things get tough. Dario Rinaldi, famed plastic surgeon...

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