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The Italian Escape

The Italian Escape
  • Author(s): Catherine Mangan
  • Location(s): Camogli
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sparkling sea, sun, delicious food and Aperol Spritz – escape to Italy with the perfect summer romance . . . Niamh Kelly’s life hasn’t turned out quite as she’d expected. She’s thirty-three, still living at home and was recently...

The Main Character

The Main Character
  • Author(s): Jaclyn Goldis
  • Location(s): Amalfi Coast, Italian Riviera, Rome
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A bestselling thriller author arranges a luxury train trip that is not what it appears to be in this electrifying modern homage to Agatha Christie that is filled with “rich, complex characters, taut prose, and twists and turns that...

The Man in the Woods

The Man in the Woods
  • Author(s): Ilaria Tuti
  • Location(s): Italian Alps
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH ONE OF M. W. CRAVEN’S BOOKS OF 2019 A ruthless killer is spreading panic in a quiet village in the Italian Alps. Police Inspector Teresa Battaglia is the only one who can...

The Marchesa

The Marchesa
  • Author(s): Sarah Dunant
  • Location(s): Mantua
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Biography, Historical
  • Era(s): 15th/16thCentury

From the acclaimed author of The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesancomes a vibrant exploration of the Italian Renaissance through the character of Isabella d’Este, the first female art collector and patron of her time....

The Mountain

The Mountain
  • Author(s): Luca D'Andrea
  • Location(s): The Dolomites
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Jeremiah Salinger blames himself. The crash was his fault. He was the only survivor. Now the depression and the nightmares are closing in. Only his daughter Clara can put a smile on his face. But when he takes Clara...

The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose
  • Author(s): Umberto Eco
  • Location(s): Piedmont (Piemonte)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 14th Century

The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate.When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective. He collects evidence,...

The Night Portrait

The Night Portrait
  • Author(s): Laura Morelli
  • Location(s): Milan, Munich
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1492/ WW2

Between 1939 and 1943, the Nazis stole every known painting by Leonardo Da Vinci, imprisoning the original owners or worse. This is the story of the most infamous of these thefts… Munich, 1939 In fear of the brutal Nazi...

The Palazzo

The Palazzo
  • Author(s): Kayte Nunn
  • Location(s): Italian Alps
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Successful beauty entrepreneur Vivi Savidge is about to celebrate her fortieth birthday at the Palazzo Stellina, a historic former convent in the foothills of the Italian Alps. Vivi’s little sister is flying in from Brisbane with her sixteen-year-old twins...

The Po

The Po
  • Author(s): Tobias Jones
  • Location(s): North Italy
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

The Po is the longest river in Italy, travelling for 652 kilometres from one end of the country to the other. It rises by the French border in the Alps and meanders the width of the entire peninsula to...

The Prague Cemetery

The Prague Cemetery
  • Author(s): Umberto Eco
  • Location(s): Paris, Prague, Turin (Torino)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1890s

An epicurean book with a vile protagonist, Simonini interwoven with historical threads right up to the beginnings of the Third Reich.

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