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- 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.
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When Commissario Brunetti receives a visit from one of his wife’s students with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, he thinks little of...
The Divorced Lady’s Companion to Living in Italy
- Location(s): Milan, Rome, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Marilyn Wade, half-Hungarian divorcée and mother of unflinching teens, moves to Milan to remap her womanhood. Rumour had it that Marilyn’s old icon Jean Harper met her Milanese lover on a singles trip to Macchu Pichu and went to...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
One rainy morning Commissario Brunetti and Ispettore Vianello respond to an emergency call reporting a body floating near some steps on the Grand Canal. Reaching down to pull it out, Brunetti’s wrist is caught by the silkiness of golden...
- Location(s): Falmouth, London, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A girl flees to Venice to escape her dangerous past in this electrifying novel of intrigue, psychological tension and suspense… For Lucy Riddick, Venice has always been the dream destination. A dream inspired by the pretty picture pinned to...
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