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- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
Pilgrims: A Novel of Lake Wobegon
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Margie Krebsbach dreams up the idea of a trip to Rome, hoping to get her husband Carl to make love to her – he’s been sleeping across the hall and she has no idea why. She finds a patriotic...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 1400s
1492 – Poison is told from the point of view of Francesca Giordano, who is the professional poisoner to the Borgia family and to Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, who later becomes Pope. Cardinal Borgia is a dangerous man, who is...
- Location(s): Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): BC to 1950s
In his early 20s Hughes first came to Rome in the late 50s. He takes us back from that point, two thousand years into the heyday of the Roma at the heart of the Roman Empire. Moving through from...
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