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- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): The second half of the 15th Century
Venice, 1468. Sosia Simeon, a free spirit with a strange predilection for books and Venetians is making her particular mark on the fabled city. On the other side of the Grand Canal, Wendelin von Speyer from Germany is setting...
- Location(s): Salò, Pellestrina
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): WW2
A World War II love story set against the romance and danger of occupied Venice. Cenzo is a world-weary fisherman, determined to sit out the rest of the war. He’s happy to stay out of the way of the...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Twenty-one years ago, when a conductor was poisoned and the Questura sent a man to investigate, readers first met Commissario Guido Brunetti. Since 1992’s Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon and her shrewd, sophisticated, and compassionate investigator have been...
The Good Thief’s Guide to Venice
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
Charlie Howard – struggling crime-writer by day, talented thief by night – has gone straight. But holing himself up in a crumbling palazzo in Venice to concentrate on his next novel hasn’t got rid of the itch in his...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Caterina Pellegrini is a young Venetian musicologist hired to find the rightful heir to an alleged treasure concealed by a once-famous, but now almost forgotten, baroque composer. Sworn to secrecy, Caterina can solve the mystery only by searching through...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 19th Century
this is the fantastical tale of Henri–Napoleon’s cook–and Villanelle, a Venetian gondolier’s daughter who has webbed feet (previously an all-male attribute), works as a croupier, picks pockets, cross-dresses and literally loses her heart to a beautiful woman.
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 16th Century
In a small town on the Italian coast, a mysterious woman washes ashore. She is crippled, mute, and clutches a bundle to her chest – a baby the townspeople insist is a real-life mermaid. It can only bring bad...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
This is the story of ordinary life in an extraordinary place. The beautiful city of Venice has been a fantasy land for people from around the globe for centuries, but what is it like to live there? To move...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1500s
By about the 80th page, you begin to wonder whether this isn’t the biographical equivalent of Where’s Wally? For amid the cast of characters fleshing out the first four chapters of Sheila Hale’s weighty, reverential account of the life...
- Location(s): London, Los Angeles, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
‘Move over Jackie Collins, there’s a new blockbuster star in town.’ New! Magazine ‘An addictive plot that is packed with twists and turns. Prepare for larger than life characters, fabulous locations and plenty of humour.’ The Sun When friends...
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