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The Summer Villa

The Summer Villa
  • Author(s): Melissa Hill
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Three women. One summer reunion. Secrets will be revealed… Villa Dolce Vita, a rambling stone house on the Amalfi Coast, sits high above the Gulf of Naples amidst dappled lemon groves and the fragrant, tumbling bougainvillea. Kim, Colette and...

The Track of Sand

The Track of Sand
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The Track of Sand is Andrea Camilleri’s twelfth outing in the wryly humorous Inspector Montalbano series. Inspector Montalbano rises one morning to find the carcass of a horse on the beach in front of his seaside home. But no...

The Triumph of the Lions

The Triumph of the Lions
  • Author(s): Howard Curtis (Translator), Katherine Gregor (translator), Stefania Auci
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of 20th Century

(A Lions of Sicily Book Book 2) Known as the Lions of Sicily, the Florios have officially arrived. Once rich only in ambition, the family has amassed a fortune that includes palaces, factories, ships, silks, and jewels. The city...

The Unwilding

The Unwilding
  • Author(s): Marina Kemp
  • Location(s): Appalachians, Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

When fledgling writer Zoe arrives at the Sicilian holiday home of famed novelist Don Travers, she feels that she has made it. And yet as the week unfolds it is not Don but his children and unknowable wife, Lydia,...

The Vipers

The Vipers
  • Author(s): Katy Hays
  • Location(s): Capri
  • Genre(s): Horror, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

On glittering Capri, anything can be a mirage. And one thing is true: no one holds a grudge like family. The world was shocked by playwright Sarah Lingate’s death thirty years ago at an opulent, white-washed villa on the...

The Vulcan and the Straits

The Vulcan and the Straits
  • Author(s): Patrick Larsimont
  • Location(s): Algeria, Malta, Sicily, Tunisia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): WW2

Can Jox lead his squadron to victory…? Autumn, 1942 Fighter pilot, Jox McNabb has survived the desert and the second battle of El Alamein, but now No. 111 Squadron is heading into a fresh new storm. They embark on...

Things We Choose To Hide

Things We Choose To Hide
  • Author(s): Jane Riddell
  • Location(s): Florence, Delhi, Kashmir, Positano
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After ending a long-term relationship, Rachel Grosvenor goes to stay with friends in Florence, where she meets the attractive Sicilian businessman, Tommaso. Despite her friends’ concerns, she marries him weeks later, only to learn at the end of their...

Time On My Hands

Time On My Hands
  • Author(s): Giorgio Vasta
  • Location(s): Palermo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Palermo, Sicily, 1978. The Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro has just been kidnapped in Rome by members of the notorious Red Brigades. Two months after his disappearance on 9th May, Moro is found dead in the boot of a...

Torn

Torn
  • Author(s): Karen Moore
  • Location(s): Sicily, North Wales
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A young English woman is forced to face the dark world of Sicilian organised crime in a desperate race against time in this gritty contemporary thriller, a story of intrigue and betrayal. Like any mother, Hanna would do anything...

Under a Sardinian Sky

Under a Sardinian Sky
  • Author(s): Sara Alexander
  • Location(s): Ozieri
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present looking back to 1950s

For Mina, a London-based travel writer, the enigmatic silence surrounding her aunt Carmela has become a personal obsession. Carmela disappeared from her Italian hometown long ago and is mentioned only in fragments and whispers. Mina has resisted prying, respectful...

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