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The Lover of No Fixed Abode

The Lover of No Fixed Abode
  • Author(s): Carlo Frutterro, Franco Lucentini, Gregory Dowling (translator)
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): 1980s

It begins with a troubling encounter on a flight to Venice. She is a Roman aristocrat and art dealer on the search for undervalued paintings and he a mysterious tour guide. She is invited to cosmopolitan parties by Venetian...

The Measure

The Measure
  • Author(s): Nikki Erlick
  • Location(s): United States (USA), Venice, Verona
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern day

‘COMPELLING AND HEART-BREAKING’ Bridget Collins, bestselling author of The Binding ‘ONE OF THE MOST LIFE-AFFIRMING NOVELS I’VE READ IN A LONG WHILE’ CHRISTINA DALCHER, bestselling author of Vox Your fate arrives in a box on your doorstep. Do you...

The Venetian Game

The Venetian Game
  • Author(s): Philip Gwynne Jones
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From his office on the Street of the Assassins, Nathan Sutherland, English Honorary Consul to Venice, assists unfortunate tourists as best he can. A steady but unexciting life that dramatically changes when he is offered a large sum of...

The Venetian Masquerade

The Venetian Masquerade
  • Author(s): Philip Gwynne Jones
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Carnevale is in full swing, the streets and waterways of Venice are crowded with masked revellers and Nathan Sutherland’s birthday is about to be ruined. A night at the opera at La Fenice is always a memorable experience –...

Vaporetto 13

Vaporetto 13
  • Author(s): Robert Girardi
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 20th Century

Jack Squire is a successful currency trader on business in Venice. Haunted by recent events in his life, he takes to walking the streets at midnight. He meets the ethereal Caterina, a woman who seems to bear the sadness...

Venetian Blood: Murder in a Sensuous City

Venetian Blood: Murder in a Sensuous City
  • Author(s): Christine Evelyn Volker
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 1992

Struggling to forget a crumbling marriage, Anna Lucia Lottol comes to Venice to visit an old friend, but instead of finding solace, she is dragged into a police station and accused of murdering a money-laundering count with whom she...

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
  • Author(s): Geoff Dyer
  • Location(s): Varanasi, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

This book is in 2 parts – the first part is set during the Biennale, journalist Jeff drinks and snorts his way in and out of social events, and has a short affair with Laura, an American gallery director....

The Glassblower of Murano

The Glassblower of Murano
  • Author(s): Marina Fiorato
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern, 1600s

Wonderful combination of mystery, historical intrigue and love, written by an English/Venetian author, which tells a story of passion, genius and betrayal linking the present and the past. Nora Manin decides to leave her fractured life in London to...

The Venetian Contract

The Venetian Contract
  • Author(s): Marina Fiorato
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople), Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Late 1500s

1576. Five years after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto, a ship steals unnoticed into Venice bearing a deadly cargo. A man more dead than alive, disembarks and staggers into Piazza San Marco. He...

A Thousand Days in Venice

A Thousand Days in Venice
  • Author(s): Marlena de Blasi
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

A love story centred around an older couple (the author’s story), and lots of food and recipes throughout the book, as she searches for the best ingredients along the atmospheric canals and byways and piazze.

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