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A Time of Mourning

A Time of Mourning
  • Author(s): Christobel Kent
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1966

November in Florence. If you have read`A Florentine Revenge’ find out what happened to the policeman – Sandro Cellini in this novel. He has left the police and is working as a P.I. His first client Is Lucia –...

Daughter of Siena

Daughter of Siena
  • Author(s): Marina Fiorato
  • Location(s): Siena
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1600s

The Palio: Siena’s famously dangerous and hard-fought horse race. A year of planning, ten riders, three circuits of the piazza – and all over in a single moment. But this year, for two of the women watching, far more...

Death in August

Death in August
  • Author(s): Marco Vichi
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1963

Florence, summer 1963. Inspector Bordelli is one of the few policemen left in the deserted city. He spends his days on routine work, and his nights tormented by the heat and mosquitoes. Suddenly one night, a telephone call gives...

Foul Deeds and Fine Dying

Foul Deeds and Fine Dying
  • Author(s): Marco Malvaldi, Howard Curtis (Translator)
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1900

Pellegrino Artusi, the great gastronome and amateur detective, is back. It is 1900 and Pellegrino’s famed cookbook is in its fifth edition. Flushed from his fortune and success, our hero joins a weekend party at the Tuscan castle of...

Galileo’s Daughter

Galileo’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Dava Sobel
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Biography
  • Era(s): 17th Century

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was the foremost scientist of his day, ‘the father of modern physics – indeed of modern science altogether’ in the words of Albert Einstein. Though he never left the Italy of his birth, his inventions and...

Inferno

Inferno
  • Author(s): Dan Brown
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Seek and ye shall find.’ With these words echoing in his head, eminent Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon awakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he is or how he got there. Nor can he explain the...

Juliet

Juliet
  • Author(s): Anne Fortier
  • Location(s): Siena
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern looking back

A beautifully crafted novel, following a young woman who discovers that her family’s origins reach all the way back to literature’s greatest star-crossed lovers – Romeo and Juliet. ‘Of all the great love stories ever told, hers is perhaps...

Save the Date

Save the Date
  • Author(s): Allie Spencer
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Family weddings can be hell. …and, marooned in Italy for her cousin’s nuptials, Ailsa can be forgiven for thinking that this one is worse than most. With the bride and groom at loggerheads and the guests in uproar, it...

Summer in Tuscany

Summer in Tuscany
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Adler
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

The Sixteen Pleasures

The Sixteen Pleasures
  • Author(s): Robert Hellenga
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

In 1966 the Arno River in Florence floods its banks causing hug devastation to stored artworks, and antique books. As a book conservator Margot Harrington flie in – along with many other volunteers – to add expert help in...

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