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Caesar (Masters of Rome – 5)

Caesar (Masters of Rome – 5)
  • Author(s): Colleen McCullough
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 54-48BC

Gaius Julius Caesar, feared and adored,invincible on the field of battle, and garnering the loyalty of his supporters at every turn. But enemies are conspiring against him to bring about his downfall. Cato and Bibulus would sacrifice Rome, just...

Death and the Dolce Vita

Death and the Dolce Vita
  • Author(s): Stephen Gundle
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s

On 9 April 1953 an attractive twenty-one-year-old woman went missing from her family home in Rome. Thirty-six hours later her body was found washed up on a neglected beach at Torvaianica, forty kilometres from the Italian capital. Some said...

Divorce Islamic Style

Divorce Islamic Style
  • Author(s): Amara Lakhous
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 2000s

It’s 2005. The Italian secret service has received news that a group of Muslim immigrants based in the Viale Marconi neighbourhood of Rome is planning a terrorist attack. Christian Mazzari, a young Sicilian who speaks perfect Arabic, goes undercover...

Eat Pray Love

Eat Pray Love
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Location(s): Bali, India, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Liz’s memoir who- after her marriage breakdown – takes off for a year and goes to mull over her life in three destinations: Italy, India and Indonesia (Bali). Italy is about the pleasure of eating, India is about finding...

Four Seasons in Rome

Four Seasons in Rome
  • Author(s): Anthony Doerr
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

On the same day that his wife gave birth to twins, Anthony Doerr received the Rome Prize, an award that gave him a year-long stipend and studio in Rome… ‘Four Seasons in Rome’ charts the repercussions of that day,...

If You Could Go Anywhere

If You Could Go Anywhere
  • Author(s): Paige Toon
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Present-day

Angie has always wanted to travel. But at twenty-seven, she has barely stepped outside the small mining town where she was born. Instead, she discovers the world through stories told to her by passing travellers, dreaming that one day...

Jack of Hearts

Jack of Hearts
  • Author(s): Robin F Gainey
  • Location(s): Italy, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Jack of Hearts is a novel of literary fiction told from the point of view of a small, aristocratic dog named Shimoni. This imaginative first novel explores themes of fidelity and honor and offers a fresh perspective of Italian...

Last Summer in the City

Last Summer in the City
  • Author(s): Gianfranco Calligarich, Howard Curtis (Translator)
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 1960s

A cult classic of Italian literature published in English for the first time, with a foreword by André Acimen, author of Call Me By Your Name In the late 1960s, Leo Gazzara left his family in Milan and moved...

Mind the Gap

Mind the Gap
  • Author(s): Tim Richards
  • Location(s): London, Melbourne, Prague, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Darius Ibrahim is not having a good week. He’s been threatened by a knife-wielding maniac on a London train, interrogated by a mysterious warrior woman beneath the city’s streets, pursued by a military death squad in Melbourne, had his...

Only You

Only You
  • Author(s): Kate Eberlen
  • Location(s): Rome, England
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): 2018/2016

Present Letty and Alf are the only English speakers at an Italian class in Rome, where they discover the language that really connects them is dance: Letty’s first love was ballet, while Alf was a junior ballroom champion. They...

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