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Tom Horton-The Invisible Spy

Tom Horton-The Invisible Spy
  • Author(s): Ian Davies
  • Location(s): Sussex, Venice
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1980s

Tom Horton is The Invisible Spy in this fantasy adventure set in the 1980s. Tom is a man with a secret. Not being restricted by the constraints of gravity is just one of the secrets he has to keep....

Transient Desires

Transient Desires
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • Location(s): Veneto
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In his many years as a Commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in his native Venice to discover the person responsible. Now, in the thirtieth novel in...

Under the Light of the Italian Moon

Under the Light of the Italian Moon
  • Author(s): Jennifer Anton
  • Location(s): Fonzaso
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

A promise keeps them apart until WWII threatens to destroy their love forever Fonzaso Italy, between two wars  Nina Argenta doesn’t want the traditional life of a rural Italian woman. The daughter of a strong-willed midwife, she is determined...

Unto Us a Son Is Given

Unto Us a Son Is Given
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As a favour to his wealthy father-in-law, the Count Falier, Commissario Guido Brunetti agrees to investigate the seemingly innocent wish of the Count’s best friend, the elderly and childless Gonzalo, to adopt a younger man as his son. Under...

Unveiling Venus

Unveiling Venus
  • Author(s): Sophia Bennett
  • Location(s): London, Venice
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Victorian Era

In the gossip-fuelled world of Victorian London, Persephone Lavelle is the name on everyone’s lips. As Mary’s secret identity is exposed and rumours fly, she flees the scandal by escaping to Venice. Lost among the twisting alleyways and shadowy...

Valpolicella Violet (Franki Amato Mysteries #7)

Valpolicella Violet (Franki Amato Mysteries #7)
  • Author(s): Traci Andrighetti
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Franki Amato is in Venice to celebrate her best friend’s Christmas Eve nuptials. She’s looking forward to a relaxing break from the PI grind and a romantic gondola ride with her Casanova. But when a chef goes belly up...

Venetian Angel

Venetian Angel
  • Author(s): Ferenc Molnár, Annabel Barber (Translator)
  • 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....

Venetian Interlude

Venetian Interlude
  • Author(s): Rosemary Gemmell
  • 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...

Venetian Vespers

Venetian Vespers
  • Author(s): John Banville
  • 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...

Venice is a Fish

Venice is a Fish
  • Author(s): Tiziano Scarpa
  • 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...

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