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- 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....
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
To tell the truth is a revolutionary act. Battered by floods and crushed by overtourism, the city of Venice faces an uncertain future. The election of a new Mayor, therefore, has never felt more important. As the candidates jostle...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
When the Nazis storm into Venice, Evelina receives a terrified note from her best friend, a devoted Jewish schoolteacher: Help me. Evelina rushes to the rescue, but is devastated to find that her friend has been taken. Now Evelina...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1770s
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 2020
Venice, June 2020. The city has returned to the Venetians during a merciful pause in the Covid pandemic, and few overseas visitors are to be seen. Yet Dominic Vicari, a British private investigator haunted by loss, has travelled across...
- Location(s): England, Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 2019 / 1780s
In 2019, Rachel is stuck in a rut when she discovers what appears to be a Canaletto painting in her grandmother’s loft along with a note addressed to Philippa in 1782. With help from Jake at the local art...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper…Venice. Caroline’s quest: to scatter Juliet “Lettie” Browning’s ashes...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 18th century
Like most 18th-century Venetians, Adriana d’Amato adores music—except her strict merchant father has forbidden her to cultivate her gift for the violin. But she refuses to let that stop her from living her dreams and begins sneaking out of...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
“The last task of love is to protect remembrance.” Venice 1938. Fausto’s ambition is to be a film star. Meanwhile he works for the fascist secret police. Elisabetta is being taught how to paint using the techniques of the...
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