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- Location(s): Lipari
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
In an attempt to resuscitate her twenty-five year-old marriage, GILLIAN DOBSON knocks down a few tranquilizers and takes the dreaded flight to the Sicilian island of Lipari to surprise her husband, away on a business trip. Big mistake- he...
The Food of Love Cookery School
- 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...
- 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 Stranger at the Palazzo d’Oro
- Location(s): Sicily, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 1960s
A young American walks into Sicily’s Palazzo d’Oro during the ’60s. Penniless, but swaggering with youth and burgeoning artistic talent, he accepts a proposition to become the companion to a beautiful and beguiling aristocrat. Their affair – formal and...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
Sicily, 1977 Ten-year-old Lily and family arrive for their annual summer holiday in Sicily. Adopted as a toddler, Lily’s childhood has been idyllic. But a chance encounter with a local woman on the beach changes everything… 10 years later…...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Historical, Travelogue
- Era(s): Various
A journey into the heart of Sicily, using art, food, history and literature to shed light on southern Italy’s legacy of political corruption and violent crime. The book takes as its starting point the ongoing trial of seven-times Prime...
- Location(s): Messina
- Genre(s): Historical, Adventure, Fiction
- Era(s): Early 1800s
September 1810. Raids across the Straits of Messina to disrupt preparations for the French invasion of the island have been repulsed with heavy casualties. George Warne, a bright young British officer, suspects treachery back in Messina, and is ordered...
- Location(s): Palermo
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Literary Travel
- Era(s): Various
The siren-like qualities of the Sicilian capital are woven layer upon layer, each one revealing a stratum of the city’s character. In Palermo, Robert Alajmo lays out a compelling series of reflections on the city’s apparently endless facets. Disguised...
- Location(s): Sicily
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
When Tess Angel receives a solicitor’s letter inviting her to claim her inheritance – the Villa Sirena, perched on a clifftop in Sicily – she is stunned. Her only link to the island is through her mother, Flavia, who...
- Location(s): Rome, Ozieri, Sardinia, Sicily
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1968
Famed for its natural beauty and rich history, Sardinia in 1968 is notorious, too, for the bandits who kidnap wealthy landowners for ransom. Eleven-year-old Alba Fresu’s brother, and her father, Bruno, are abducted by criminals who mistake Bruno for...
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