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A Farmhouse in Tuscany

A Farmhouse in Tuscany
  • Author(s): Victoria Springfield
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Under the Tuscan sun, the lives of three women are about to change forever… Donna has been running the Bella Vista riding centre from her rambling farmhouse in Tuscany, taking in guests who enjoy the rolling Tuscan hills, home-grown...

A Head Over Heels Christmas

A Head Over Heels Christmas
  • Author(s): Sara Downing
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Present Day

A standalone Christmas story from Sara Downing, author of Kindle Top 100 Head Over Heels and Hand On Heart. Best friends Evie, Grace and Alex – plus their husbands and many offspring – descend on the beautiful Italian city...

A Month in Siena

A Month in Siena
  • Author(s): Hisham Matar
  • Location(s): Siena
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Hisham Matar was nineteen years old he came across the Sienese School of painting for the first time. In the year in which Matar’s life was shattered by the disappearance of his father the work of the great...

A Room with a View

A Room with a View
  • Author(s): E M Forster
  • Location(s): Florence, Surrey
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th century

An Edwardian social comedy, set in Florence and Surrey, UK. Lucy Honeychurch, a charming young Englishwoman, faints into the arms of fellow British traveller as she witnesses a murder in a Florentine Piazza. Her attraction to this man leads...

A Secret of Birds & Bones

A Secret of Birds & Bones
  • Author(s): Kiran Millwood Hargrave
  • Location(s): Siena
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Middle Ages

In an Italian city ravaged by plague, Sofia’s mother carves beautiful mementoes from the bones of loved ones. But one day, she doesn’t return home. Did her work lead her into danger? Sofia and her little brother Ermin are...

A Small Place in Italy

A Small Place in Italy
  • Author(s): Eric Newby
  • Location(s): Liguria, Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1960s onwards

This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb recreation of a bygone era. In 1967, veteran travel writer Eric Newby and his heroic wife Wanda fulfiled their dream of a return...

A Tuscan Childhood

A Tuscan Childhood
  • Author(s): Kinta Beevor
  • Location(s): Tuscany, Carrara
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

Kinta Beevor was five years old when she fell in love with her parents’ castle facing the Carrara mountains. She and her brother ran barefoot, exploring an enchanted world. They searched for wild mushrooms in the hills with Fiore...

A Very Good Chance

A Very Good Chance
  • Author(s): Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
  • Location(s): Dublin, Siena
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Set in Dublin and Siena, with its dizzying, dare-devil Palio horse race, this is a story about taking chances, being brave and learning the best way to see the world.  Some people step through a wardrobe to find adventure, but...

A Vineyard in Tuscany: A Wine Lover’s Dream

A Vineyard in Tuscany: A Wine Lover’s Dream
  • Author(s): Ferenc Máté
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Finding your dream house with a vineyard in Tuscany is like searching the woods for porcini mushrooms: a labor of love. Such feats require patience, discernment, resolve, and an indestructible sense of humor. The Mátés’ future home and wine...

A Zany Slice of Italy

A Zany Slice of Italy
  • Author(s): Ivanka Di Felice
  • Location(s): Abruzzo, Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

This light, lively book takes place in Italy, with hilarious anecdotes about the author and her husband’s trip to visit his family in Abruzzo and finally their escape to Tuscany. Her own expectations were shattered when she embarked on...

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