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Fire in The Mountain

Fire in The Mountain
  • Author(s): A J Aberford
  • Location(s): Malta, Sicily, Southern Italy
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Inspector George Zammit Series, Book 4 Detective George Zammit of the Maltese Police is sent to Sicily to investigate the disappearance of his superiors niece. There, George discovers a city overshadowed by the mighty Mount Etna, a huge volcano...

From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
  • Author(s): Tembi Locke
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern Day

A poignant and transporting cross-cultural love story set against the lush backdrop of the Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food, family, and unexpected grace in her darkest hour. It was love at first sight...

Game of Mirrors

Game of Mirrors
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Set in Sicily, Game of Mirrors is the eighteenth exciting instalment in the humorous Inspector Montalbano mysteries by Andrea Camilleri. When Montalbano comes to the aid of his new neighbour, Liliana Lombardo, after the engine of her car is...

Going Big or Small

Going Big or Small
  • Author(s): David Canford
  • Location(s): Berlin, Naples, Sicily, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Twentieth century

“Happy, sad and all emotions!” A Man Called Ove meets Thelma and Louise. Dull and predictable English retiree, Frank, gets more adventure than he bargained for when he sets off on a road trip across 1980s Europe hoping to...

Her Sister’s Secret

Her Sister’s Secret
  • Author(s): Jan Baynham
  • Location(s): Wales, Sicily
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1946, 1966

In 1966, Jennifer Howells discovers that she has been living a lie and her parents are not who she thinks they were. She rebels and her family, already fractured from a deeply held secret, is further split. She puts...

Hunting the Sun

Hunting the Sun
  • Author(s): Jean Gill
  • Location(s): Sicily, Orkney Islands, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Medieval, Viking

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “A yarn fit for a Norse saga. Full of action, poetry and heart; a thrilling voyage through the vibrant world of the twelfth century.” Matthew Harffy 1151: The Whale Road. Doomed to exile in Sicily, warrior poet Skarfr...

La Cucina

La Cucina
  • Author(s): Lily Prior
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

La Cucina combines the sensuous pleasures of love and food, simmering in the heat of a Sicilian kitchen. Rose Fiore is a solitary middle-aged librarian who has resigned herself to a loveless life, and expresses her passionate nature through...

Lampedusa

Lampedusa
  • Author(s): Steven Price
  • Location(s): Italy, Lampedusa, Sicily
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

In 1943, an Allied bomb destroyed the Lampedusa palace in Palermo; in 1955, Giuseppe Tomasi is diagnosed with advanced emphysema. Shortly after, profoundly aware of his mortality, he begins work on a novel, imagining the life of his great-grandfather...

Loyalty

Loyalty
  • Author(s): Lisa Scottoline
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

Loyalty can save a soul — or destroy one. Franco Fiorvante is a handsome lemon-grower who has toiled for years on the estate of boss Baron Zito. Franco dreams of owning his own lemon grove, but the rigid class...

Mussolini’s Island

Mussolini’s Island
  • Author(s): Sarah Day
  • Location(s): San Domino, Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Leading up to WW2

Francesco has a memory of his father from early childhood, a night when life for his family changed: their name, their story, their living place. From that night, he has vowed to protect his mother and to follow the...

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