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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.

A Year at Hotel Gondola

A Year at Hotel Gondola
  • Author(s): Nicky Pellegrino
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kat has never wanted to live a small life. She’s an adventurer, a food writer who travels the world visiting far-flung places and eating unusual things. Now she is about to embark on her biggest adventure yet – a...

Acqua Alta

Acqua Alta
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 2000s

Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice Questura is shocked to hear that his friend Brett Lynch, lover of La Scala diva Flavia Petrelli, has been savagely beaten. Then a man’s body is found and a terrible confrontation awaits Brett...

Blood from a Stone

Blood from a Stone
  • Author(s): Donna Leon
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

On a cold night shortly before Christmas, an immigrant street vendor is killed in Venice’s Campo Santo Stefano. The nearest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man’s wares before his death – fake...

Bridges of Venice Walking Tours

Bridges of Venice Walking Tours
  • Author(s): James Broos
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

This book provides a way to explore Venice, Italy in a manner never before available. The book divides the bridges of Venice into 27 tours. Each tour provides detailed, step-by-step instructions of how to walk from one bridge to...

Brunetti’s Venice

Brunetti’s Venice
  • Author(s): Toni Sepeda
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

Visitors to Venice might hope to find a Venetian friend who will guide them through the narrow streets, explaining a bit of history here, a story from his youth there, perhaps grumbling about the tourists, occasionally stopping for a...

By the Grand Canal

By the Grand Canal
  • Author(s): William Riviere
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): First half of the 20th Century

The entrancing and seductive new novel from the acclaimed author of ECHOES OF WAR A British diplomat living in Venice in the aftermath of WWI, Hugh Thurne is in love with a young Venetian woman when his best friend’s...

Carnevale

Carnevale
  • Author(s): M R Lovric
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Turn of the 18th Century

1782. The 13-year old daughter of a Venetian merchant family is lured naked from her bath by a stray cat and finds herself in the arms of Casanova – the legendary seducer of women. Twenty-five years later Cecilia is...

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