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- 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...
- Location(s): Campania, Norfolk
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
CAN A CHANCE ENCOUNTER UNLOCK ONE WOMAN’S PAST? On holiday in Italy, Briony Wood becomes fascinated by the wartime story of a ruined villa hidden amongst the hills of Naples. Not only is it the very place where her grandfather was...
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Told with intimacy and ferocity and set in the passionate and crumbling Spanish Quarter of Naples, comes a poignant tale of first love – of a place, of a person – where languages and cultures collide while dreams soar...
- Location(s): Abruzzo
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): From 1940 to present day
The sensitive and powerful story of the love between a mother and her daughter, a love “gone wrong from the start”. When Esperia exhibits the symptoms of a disease that robs her of her memory and the very sense...
- Location(s): Lipari
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
A new fun and fresh rom-com set in Sicily by Canadian-Italian author Nancy Barone. In an attempt to resuscitate her twenty-five-year-old marriage, aerophobic Gillian Dobson knocks down a few tranquilisers and takes a dreaded flight to the Sicilian Island...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
Sicily, 1977 Ten-year-old Lily and family arrive for their annual summer holiday in Sicily. Adopted as a toddler, Lily’s childhood has been idyllic. But a chance encounter with a local woman on the beach changes everything… 10 years later…...
- Location(s): Rome, Ozieri, Sardinia (Sardegna), Sicily
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1968
Famed for its natural beauty and rich history, Sardinia in 1968 is notorious, too, for the bandits who kidnap wealthy landowners for ransom. Eleven-year-old Alba Fresu’s brother, and her father, Bruno, are abducted by criminals who mistake Bruno for...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Contemporary looking back
When Sara Marsala’s beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, she leaves Sara a valuable piece of land in Sicily, but there’s a catch: the locals refuse to acknowledge the rightful owner of the deed, and if Sara wants the land...
- Location(s): Nuoro, Sardinia (Sardegna)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1943 - 1978
Vincenzo Chironi sets foot for the first time on the island of Sardinia – ‘a raft in the middle of the Mediterranean’ – in 1943, a year of famine and malaria. All he has with him is an old...
- Location(s): Pompeii
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Early A.D.
An engaging, female-focussed novel set in ancient Pompeii, from an exciting new voice in historical fiction. The streets of Pompeii have a life of their own: the cries of the hawkers, the beauty and dirt of the crowds, the...
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