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The Espresso Break

The Espresso Break
  • Author(s): Barbara Zaragoza
  • Location(s): Italy, Naples
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Travel to Hades and Purgatory, roam the ruins like the gluttonous Romans, or watch miracles happen. The Espresso Break takes you into the mythical land that is the oldest city in the Western World — Naples, Italy — and...

The Golden Tide

The Golden Tide
  • Author(s): John Guy
  • Location(s): Noto, Ortigia (Isola)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Food and Drink, Thriller

Green activist Simone struggles with her beliefs when she meets journalist Michiel, who shows her how an oil spill threatening Sicily is a bonanza for many locals. Compensation and clean-up money floods into the community, creating conflicts between politicians,...

The Invitation

The Invitation
  • Author(s): Lucy Foley
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Rome, 1950s. One fateful night, Hal Jacobs meets Stella, a beautiful society darling from New York. To Hal, flailing in the post-war darkness, she’s a point of light. They’re from different worlds, but both trying and failing to carve...

The Island Escape

The Island Escape
  • Author(s): Kerry Fisher
  • Location(s): Corsica, Sardinia
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Can one woman’s marriage survive her best friend’s divorce? Fans of Veronica Henry and Erica James, this is the next book to add to your reading list. It’s time to get back to where it all began… Octavia Sheldon...

The Italian Matchmaker

The Italian Matchmaker
  • Author(s): Santa Montefiore
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Do you believe in love after death? Gianluca has to admit his life is empty. His high-pressure City job, his seven-figure income, his glossy girlfriends – all have long ceased to satisfy him. His marriage is over and he...

The Night Villa

The Night Villa
  • Author(s): Carol Goodman
  • Location(s): Pompeii, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to AD 79

The eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 buried a city and its people, their treasures and secrets. Centuries later, echoes of this disaster resonate with profound consequences in the life of classics professor Sophie Chase. Beneath layers...

The Out of Office Girl

The Out of Office Girl
  • Author(s): Nicola Doherty
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

When her boss Olivia is taken ill, Alice is sent on the work trip of a lifetime: to a villa in Sicily, to edit the autobiography of Hollywood bad boy Luther Carson. But it’s not all yachts, nightclubs and...

The Patience of the Spider

The Patience of the Spider
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Montalbano is recovering from injuries sustained in his previous adventure, in the Rounding of the Mark… However a local girl is kidnapped and Montalbano is called on to the case,

The Scent of the Night

The Scent of the Night
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

This is no. 6 in the Inspector Montalbano series and it might be worth reading them in order to get the full benefit. The owner and manager of a financial enterprise disappears, and thousands of people in the Vigatá...

The Treasure Hunt

The Treasure Hunt
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Montalbano opened the door to step out. But Gallo held him back, putting one hand on his arm. ‘What’s in there, Chief?’ ‘If it’s what I think, it’s something so horrific that it’ll haunt your dreams for the rest...

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