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- Location(s): Sardinia (Sardegna), Dorset
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Faye has just completed her degree in interior design when she finds herself jobless and boyfriend-less. While debating what to do next she receives a surprise phone call from her old college friend Charlotte who now lives in Sardinia...
- Location(s): Sardinia (Sardegna)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
When Maria, the fourth child of a widow, is adopted by the old and childless Bonaria Urrai, her life is instantly transformed – she finally has the love and affection she craves. But her new ‘soul mother’ is keeping...
- Location(s): Florence, Sardinia (Sardegna)
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1960s
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2013. Florence, 1965. A man is found murdered, a pair of scissors stuck through his throat. Only one thing is known about him – he was a loan shark, who ruined...
- Location(s): Cornwall, Southern Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1950s
An idyllic Cornish holiday in the summer of 1958. A happy aristocratic family blessed with wealth and promise. But unbeknown to all of them, death stalks paradise. When catastrophe strikes in the most unexpected way, the tragedy first breaks...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 2000s
Inspector Salvo Montalbano strives to do the right thing for the right reason. Food and crime mix in this inspired series. The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri’s wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 2000s
Never has Inspector Montalbano’s character – a unique blend of humor, cynicism, compassion, earthiness, and love of good food – been more compelling than in The Snack Thief. When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1860
In Sicily in 1860, as Italian unification grows inevitable, the smallest of gestures seems dense with meaning and melancholy, sensual agitation and disquiet: “Some huge irrational disaster is in the making.” All around him, the prince, Don Fabrizio, witnesses...
- Location(s): Amalfi Coast
- Genre(s): Biography, Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1900s
Set high above Ravello on the Amalfi Coast is the Villa Cimbrone, and is the unifying anchor for a cast of characters who in fact never meet. Empathic prose captures their lives, the author focusses on some of the...
- Location(s): Calabria
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern and historical
Where do you go to when you only have a pittance for a home away from home for a huge family? Ian Ross realises that his small inheritance won’t get him a place in France or even Spain, so...
- Location(s): Aliano
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): First half 20th Century
‘We’re not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.’ Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini, Carlo Levi entered a world cut off from history and the state, hedged in by...
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