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A Jersey Affair (The Jersey Scene Book 2)

A Jersey Affair (The Jersey Scene Book 2)
  • Author(s): Georgina Troy
  • Location(s): Jersey, Sorrento
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When shoe designer Paige Bingham is jilted she decides to enjoy her honeymoon-for-one in Sorrento. What she doesn’t expect is to meet a mysterious entrepreneur, Sebastian Fielding, when she gets there. He helps ease the sting of rejection as...

A Letter from Italy

A Letter from Italy
  • Author(s): Rose Alexander
  • Location(s): England, Naples, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 / Contemporary

A heartbreaking wartime promise. A family torn apart. A letter that could change everything. 1945. The tiny bundle in her arms barely stirs as she hurries out into the dark street. Remembering Villa Teresa, a thousand miles away in...

An Italian Summer

An Italian Summer
  • Author(s): Fanny Blake
  • Location(s): Naples, Amalfi Coast
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sandy is in her fifties, and at a crossroads in her life: she’s a teacher and respected by her pupils, but she feels she is being sidelined in favour of younger colleagues. So when her mother dies, leaving her...

Arturo’s Island

Arturo’s Island
  • Author(s): Elsa Morante
  • Location(s): Procida
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

On a remote island in the Bay of Naples, a young boy roams the shore with only his dog for company. Arturo’s mother died in childbirth and his wayward father Wilhelm rarely returns to the island. Left in isolation,...

Being Simon Haines

Being Simon Haines
  • Author(s): Tom Vaughan MacAulay
  • Location(s): Cuba (Republic of), London, Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

For a decade he’s been chasing his dream: partnership at the legendary, family-run law firm of Fiennes & Plunkett. The gruelling hours and manic intensity of his job have come close to breaking him, but he has made it...

Cosi fan tutti

Cosi fan tutti
  • Author(s): Michael Dibdin
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Going Big or Small

Going Big or Small
  • Author(s): David Canford
  • Location(s): Berlin, Naples, Sicily, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Twentieth century

“Happy, sad and all emotions!” A Man Called Ove meets Thelma and Louise. Dull and predictable English retiree, Frank, gets more adventure than he bargained for when he sets off on a road trip across 1980s Europe hoping to...

In the Garden of the Fugitives

In the Garden of the Fugitives
  • Author(s): Ceridwen Dovey
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘It has been almost fifteen years. I’ve thought about you often, mostly unkindly. But there: I have thought about you.’ Nearly twenty years after Vita broke off contact with Royce, he writes to her, determined to excavate the past....

Into The Burning Dawn

Into The Burning Dawn
  • Author(s): Natalie Meg Evans
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1940 - 1943

Twenty-one-year-old Imogen Fitzgerald was raised in an English orphanage and never knew her parents. So when World War Two breaks out, she refuses to leave the life she’s worked so hard to build for herself, teaching English to young...

Invitation to Italy

Invitation to Italy
  • Author(s): Victoria Springfield
  • Location(s): Procida
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Abi is distraught when her ex-husband Alex takes their twelve-year-old daughter, Chloe to spend the summer with his glamorous fiancée Marisa and her parents at their home on the beautiful Italian island of Procida. Persuaded by her best friend...

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