Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Newsletter Updates

Join Now

Filter:

The Food of Love Cookery School

The Food of Love Cookery School
  • Author(s): Nicky Pellegrino
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern/16th Century

In the sun-drenched Sicilian hills, four women learn the lessons of a lifetime at the Food of Love Cookery School. In a remote Sicilian mountain town, four women arrive at a cookery school, each at a turning point in...

The House at the Edge of the Night

The House at the Edge of the Night
  • Author(s): Catherine Banner
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

On a tiny island off the coast of Italy, Amedeo Esposito, a foundling from Florence, thinks he has found a place where, finally, he can belong. Intrigued by a building the locals believe to be cursed, Amedeo restores the...

The Hypocrite

The Hypocrite
  • Author(s): Jo Hamya
  • Location(s): Aeolian Islands, London, Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2010 / 2020

What happens when we stop idolising the generations above us? Stop idolising our own parents? What happens when we become frightened of the generations below us? Frightened of our own children? The Aeolian islands, 2010. Sophia, on the cusp...

The Island Hideaway

The Island Hideaway
  • Author(s): Louise Candlish
  • Location(s): Panarea
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

First published as “Prickly Heat” The island is the perfect romantic getaway. The kind of place Eleanor Blake dreamed of coming to with Will, the love of her life. Now they’re both here. Only Will is with another woman,...

The Last Letter from Sicily

The Last Letter from Sicily
  • Author(s): Lindsay Marie Morris
  • Location(s): Sicily, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Sicily, 1939. Seventeen-year-old Concetta has just received life-changing news: her family is leaving their sun-drenched Sicilian village and moving to America. Desperate to stay with her secret love Gaetano—a fisherman’s son her father would never accept—Concetta spends one last...

The Longest Exile

The Longest Exile
  • Author(s): Tana Rebellis
  • Location(s): Tremiti Islands, Calabria, Pianosa
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1st century AD

Rome, 8 CE. Julia, eldest granddaughter of Augustus, is four months pregnant, and it should be cause for celebration. The only problem is that her husband was executed a year ago for treason. The math is simple, and damning....

The Magus of Sicily

The Magus of Sicily
  • Author(s): Philip Gwynne Jones
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An island of myth, legend . . . and murder? As the summer sun beats down on the ancient town of Acitrezza, a folk festival plays out in the picturesque harbour. Music, laughter and the aroma of local delicacies...

The Other End of the Line

The Other End of the Line
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The Other End of the Line is the twenty-fourth darkly humorous Inspector Montalbano mystery from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri. In Inspector Montalbano’s coastal town of Vigàta, a surge of migrants have been coming in by boat, and...

The Overnight Kidnapper

The Overnight Kidnapper
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

The Overnight Kidnapper is the twenty-third Inspector Montalbano mystery, from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri. After a hectic morning involving two rather irritating cases of mistaken identity, Inspector Montalbano finally arrives in his office ready to find out...

The Paper Moon

The Paper Moon
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Paper Moon is the thrilling ninth instalment in the warm and witty Inspector Montalbano series, by Italian author Andrea Camilleri. As he gets older, Inspector Montalbano is plagued by existential questions. But he doesn’t have much time to wax...

Would you like to add a book or a review or create a reading list? Join Today – It's FREE

Register Now