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Malacqua

Malacqua
  • Author(s): Nicola Pugliese
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

After a four-day deluge, Naples is flooded. Buildings collapse, sinkholes appear. Strange events spread across the city: ghostly voices emanate from a medieval castle and five-lire coins begin to play music, but only to ten-year-old children. A melancholy journalist...

Only in Naples

Only in Naples
  • Author(s): Katherine Wilson
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Katherine is fresh out of college when she arrives in Naples to intern at the US Consulate. There she meets handsome, studious Salvatore, and finds herself enveloped by his family – in particular by his elegant mother, Raffaella, who...

Secret of the Song

Secret of the Song
  • Author(s): Cathie Hartigan
  • Location(s): Naples, Exeter
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary / Renaissance

When a song by the mad composer, Carlo Gesualdo, is discovered in Exeter Museum, trouble descends on the group asked to sing it. Lisa is full of enthusiasm at first, but she soon becomes convinced the song is cursed....

Shadows in the Ashes

Shadows in the Ashes
  • Author(s): Christina Courtenay
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary / AD 79

The sunlight caught her gold bracelet, sending a flash that almost blinded her. She closed her eyes, but jumped when the earth started shaking and there was an almighty boom behind her. Present Day Finally escaping an abusive marriage,...

Street Boys

Street Boys
  • Author(s): Lorenzo Carcaterra
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1940s

The Children’s Train

The Children’s Train
  • Author(s): Viola Ardone, Clarissa Botsford (Translator)
  • Location(s): Italy, Naples
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Post WW2

Based on true events, a heartbreaking story of love, family, hope, and survival set in post-World War II Italy—written with the heart of Orphan Train and Before We Were Yours—about poor children from the south sent to live with...

The Final Party

The Final Party
  • Author(s): A A Chaudhuri
  • Location(s): Sorrento
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

SIX FRIENDS. In a luxury villa set high in the hills above the glamorous town of Sorrento, southern Italy, three couples gather for the perfect 40th birthday celebration. ONE BODY. Before the week is out, one of them is...

The House with the Golden Door

The House with the Golden Door
  • Author(s): Elodie Harper
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Pre 79AD

Wolf Den Trilogy, Book 2 Amara has escaped her life as a slave in the town’s most notorious brothel, but now her existence depends on the affections of her patron: a man she might not know as well as...

The Last Days of Pompeii

The Last Days of Pompeii
  • Author(s): Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): AD 79

The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by the baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in...

The Liberation

The Liberation
  • Author(s): Kate Furnivall
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1945

The Liberation is set in Italy in 1945 as British and American troops attempt to bring order to the devastated country and Italy’s population fights to survive. Caterina Lombardi is desperate – her father is dead, her mother has...

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