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Hermit in Paris

Hermit in Paris
  • Author(s): Italo Calvino
  • Location(s): San Remo, Turin (Torino), United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards

The posthumously published collection Hermit IN Paris offers a unique, puzzle-lie portrait of one of the postwar era’s most inventive and mercurial writers. In letters and journals, occasional pieces and interviews, Calvino recalls growing up in seaside inlay and...

I’ll Look for You, Everywhere

I’ll Look for You, Everywhere
  • Author(s): Cameron Capello
  • Location(s): Chivasso, North Italy, Savona, Turin (Torino)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE UNMISSABLE DEBUT ROMANCE NOVEL FROM CAMERON CAPELLO, TIKTOK AND INSTAGRAM’S @CHAMBEROFSECRETBOOKS, COMING SUMMER 2024. For fans who loved all the angst and tension of Magnolia Parks with the sun-kissed vibes of The Summer I Turned Pretty. I’ll Look...

Juliet’s Journey

Juliet’s Journey
  • Author(s): Kathy Gates
  • Location(s): Baiardo
  • Genre(s): Novella, Romance

Juliet Carlsen is taking some much needed time out in the tiny northern Italian village of Baiardo, home to an arts school. Sunshine, serenity and general sense of ‘dolce vita’ weave their magic. The attentions of a local architect...

Last Train from Liguria

Last Train from Liguria
  • Author(s): Christine Dwyer Hickey
  • Location(s): Dublin, Liguria, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s and 1990s

From the bestselling Irish novelist, here comes a sweeping tale of consequences that spans from the 1930s to the 1990s. “Last Train from Liguria” takes us on a journey from claustrophobic Dublin and the tense formality of London, to...

Leonardo and the Last Supper

Leonardo and the Last Supper
  • Author(s): Ross King
  • Location(s): Milan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1490s

Milan, 1496 and forty-four-year-old Leonardo da Vinci has a reputation for taking on commissions and failing to complete them. He is in a state of professional uncertainty and financial difficulty. For eighteen months he has been painting murals in...

The Enchanted April

The Enchanted April
  • Author(s): Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Location(s): Italian Riviera
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

A notice in The Times addressed to ‘Those Who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine’ advertises a ‘small medieval Italian Castle to be let for the month of April’. Four very different women take up the offer: Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, both...

The Ice-Cream Makers

The Ice-Cream Makers
  • Author(s): Ernest Van der Kwast
  • Location(s): The Dolomites
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A dazzling novel about an Italian ice-cream dynasty, tradition, ambition, and the sensation of lemon sorbet melting on your tongue. In the far north of Italy lies the valley of the ice-cream makers: about a dozen villages where, for...

The Madonna of the Almonds

The Madonna of the Almonds
  • Author(s): Marina Fiorato
  • Location(s): Saronno
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 16th Century

Young widow Simonetta tries to rebuild her family in 16th century Saronno, tuscany, following the death of her husband in one of the battles ravaging the land. In pursuit of a means to keep her estate together, she stumbles...

The Mannequin Man

The Mannequin Man
  • Author(s): Luca di Fulvio
  • Location(s): Genoa
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Chief Inspector Giacomo Amaldi knows he is dealing with a serial killer, a taxidermist who stalks his victims: amidst a garbage strike, the detective has to find his clues in this unnamed Italian city.

The Occasional Virgin

The Occasional Virgin
  • Author(s): Hanan al-Shaykh
  • Location(s): Italian Riviera, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Huda and Yvonne are on holiday in the Italian Riviera, enjoying the sun and the sparkling Mediterranean, reminiscent of their childhoods in Lebanon. Yvonne doesn’t know what she’s doing wrong, either there or back in London where she runs...

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