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- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First half of the 20th Century
The entrancing and seductive new novel from the acclaimed author of ECHOES OF WAR A British diplomat living in Venice in the aftermath of WWI, Hugh Thurne is in love with a young Venetian woman when his best friend’s...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Turn of the 18th Century
1782. The 13-year old daughter of a Venetian merchant family is lured naked from her bath by a stray cat and finds herself in the arms of Casanova – the legendary seducer of women. Twenty-five years later Cecilia is...
City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): Medieval period onwards
Medieval travelers were overwhelmed by Venice’s affluence – the sacks of spices! the bales of brocades! – and driven to distraction by its seeming paradoxes. The city was surrounded by sand and mud, yet its markets dazzled with variety....
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Various
Venice has to be the world’s most heartstoppingly beautiful and haunting city. For visitors and inhabitants over the centuries it’s always been a place rich in history, romance, mystery and intrigue. For writers, artists, filmmakers and others it has...
- Location(s): Venice, Belgrade, Paris, St Moritz
- Genre(s): Thriller, Erotica
- Era(s): Contemporary
Judith Rashleigh has made it. Living in luxury amidst the splendours of Venice, she’s finally enjoying the life she killed for. But someone knows what Judith’s done. Judith can only save herself by finding a priceless painting – unfortunately,...
- Location(s): Portofino, Verona
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): WW2
Largely set in World War II, Verona, both before and during the German Occupation. Elodie Bertolotti is a very gifted young cellist who becomes involved in the Italian Resistance movement. She plays her cello but everything changes when her...
- Location(s): Hampshire, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Flora has always adored her brother Billy. Born just eighteen months apart, their childhood was spent like two peas in a pod – no one could separate them. Now, as adults, they remain the best of friends. And as...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): 1980s looking back to 1504
16th Century/Modern Venice: Grappling her own demons and the after-effects of a disaster, Fern battles to keep hold of her sanity as she’s snatched back in time and lives the life of Cecilia, a young woman at the court...
- Location(s): London, Paris, Venice
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century to Early 20th Century
Why did John Stone die,having fallen from a window at his London home? This is a complex mystery, which starts in London in 1909 and gradually the search for the truth lies in going to Paris in 1890, and...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When Commissario Brunetti is summoned to the hospital bedside of a senior paediatrician whose skull has been brutally fractured, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men have burst into the doctor’s apartment in the middle of...
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