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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 Italian Secret

The Italian Secret
  • Author(s): Tara Moss
  • Location(s): Naples, Pacific Ocean, Sydney
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): First half 20th Century

Naples, 1943. Deep within a secret network of underground tunnels, a woman takes shelter from a wartime air raid and prays her husband will return home safe. Pacific Ocean, 1907. A girl embarks on a lonely journey to begin...

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...

The Lost Voices of Pompeii

The Lost Voices of Pompeii
  • Author(s): Dr Jess Venner
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 70 AD

In 24 hours, Pompeii will vanish. The morning of the eruption was a day like any other. Julia Felix opens her tavern for another day of business, defying every convention that says a woman can’t succeed alone. Petrinus, newly...

The Lying Life of Adults

The Lying Life of Adults
  • Author(s): Elena Ferrante
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend. Giovanna’s pretty face has changed: it’s turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing...

The Paninis of Pompeii

The Paninis of Pompeii
  • Author(s): Andy Stanton
  • Location(s): Pompeii
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

The first in a brand new series from the fevered imagination of the award-winning, bestselling author of MR GUM. Welcome to the last days of Pompeii as you’ve NEVER imagined them before! Join fart-trader Caecilius, his wife, Vesuvius, and...

The Piranhas

The Piranhas
  • Author(s): Roberto Saviano
  • Location(s): Naples
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

In Naples, a new kind of gang rules the streets: the ‘Paranze’, the ‘Children’s Gangs’, groups of teenage boys who divide their time between Facebook or playing Call of Duty on their PlayStations and patrolling the streets armed with...

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