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- 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...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 20th Century
Two murders are investigated by a university lecturer for his own intellectual curiosity, yet what he discovers stirs up all kinds of corruption and malevolence in a Sicilian town.
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1930s
Naples, March 1931: a bitter wind stalks the city s streets, and murder lies at its chilled heart. As one of the world s greatest tenors, Maestro Vezzi, is found brutally murdered in his dressing room at Naples famous...
- Location(s): Aeolian Islands
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Sequel to Rarer than Rubies Precious Gems: Book Two In this exciting sequel to Rarer Than Rubies, gay romance author Trent Copeland and former FBI agent Reed Action head to Italy for a Roman holiday. What should be a...
- Location(s): Amalfi Coast, Positano
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
In this charming, deeply atmospheric novel set against the Amalfi Coast of the 1950s, two women form an intense and lasting friendship that embodies the paradoxes of Italian society. Inspired by her own adventurous, unconventional life, actress and writer...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Historical, Travelogue
- Era(s): Various
A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy’s legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime...
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