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- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2000s
There is something very old-fashioned and reassuring about Salley Vickers’ novel Miss Garnet’s Angel. The themes, self-discovery and redemption have the air of a bygone age, despite the novel being set in contemporary Venice in a world of holiday...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 18th Century
It’s hard to imagine a more romantic real-life story than the long and forbidden love affair of the 18th-century Venetian nobleman Andrea Memmo and a half-English beauty named Giustiniana Wynne. Andrea Di Robilant’s A Venetian Affair is drawn in...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1400s to Victorian
Emily is called upon, along with her husband Colin to help solve the murder. This leads her into the depths of a centuries old feud between warring families, and a star-crossed love story worthy of Romeo and Juliet.
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
The author spent a Summer with the gondoliers to find out what they are really about. She looks behind the mystery of the gondoliere and brings them to life.
- Location(s): Amalfi Coast, Capri, Verona
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Kim Rees became a translator for the glamorous jet-set lifestyle. So, five years later, how come she’s ended up in a basement flat in Cardiff translating German computer games in her dressing gown? Fortunately her mother has a plan...
In Italy: Venice, Rome and Beyond
- Location(s): Assisi, Rome, Venice
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
From acclaimed poet and New Yorker writer Cynthia Zarin comes a deeply personal meditation on how love and loss shape places and spaces, all through the lens of four Italian spaces. Here we encounter a writer deeply engaged with...
In the Company of the Courtesan
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
1527. While the Papal city of Rome burns – brutally sacked by an invading army including Protestant heretics – two of her most interesting and wily citizens slip away, their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed as...
- Location(s): Amsterdam, Dublin, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
He cheated, but only once! Evie Dexter has promised to forgive and forget her fiancé Rob – and her efforts to absolve his sins are paying off: in the past ten days she’s only called him a two-timing love...
- Location(s): Venice, London
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
A Journalist…A Jewel Thief…And A Russian Spy… When Their Paths Cross, It’s Murder. Journalist Emmeline Kirby hasn’t laid eyes on her former lover Gregory Longdon, a jewel thief, in two years. But she literally tumbles into his arms, after...
- Location(s): Venice, Hydra, Prague
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Surrounded by beauty, can you learn to live beautifully? Travel marketing executive Mark Vandermar leads an itinerant life. Elsewhere is where he calls home, so it’s no surprise when he’s called to Venice to help craft the Venice Tourism...
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