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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...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Neither Commissario Brunetti nor his wife Paola have ever had much sympathy for the Italian armed forces, so when a young cadet is found hanged, at Venice’s elite military academy, Brunetti’s emotions are complex: pity and sorrow at the...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Mary McCarthy’s VENICE OBSERVED is not really a history, nor is it a guidebook – it is the reflections of a young woman in 1950s Venice who enjoys the art and architecture of this wonderful city.
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