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- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
The fourth and final book of the internationally renowned and bestselling Neapolitan novels One of the major publishing events of 2015, this dazzling saga of two women – the brilliant Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila – firmly establishes...
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Cesare is a seventy-seven-year-old widower and cynical troublemaker. He has lived his whole life by his own rules and has no intention of changing now. Aside from an intermittent fling with a nurse called Rossana, he spends his days...
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila have become women. Both have attempted pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance and submission. They are afloat on the...
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
Published to coincide with the eponymous blockbuster film, Roberto Saviano’s groundbreaking and utterly compelling book is a major international bestseller and has to date sold 750,000 copies in Italy alone. Since publishing his searing expose of their criminal activities,...
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half 20th century
The second book in Ferrante’s lauded Neapolitan novels. Elena and Lila are now in their twenties. While marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that...
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense and generous hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante’s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these...
Darkness for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
The second title in de Giovanni’s new series set in contemporary Naples. A child is kidnapped. A high-class apartment is burgled. The two crimes seem to have no connection at all until Inspector Lojacono, known as ‘the Chinaman’, starts...
- Location(s): Pompeii
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 79AD and Modern
On mountain slopes south of Pompeii a group of Roman citizens flees the doomed city, leaving their footprints in a layer of volcanic ash. Two thousand years later the footprints are rediscovered, and a joint Anglo-Italian dig is set...
- Location(s): Campania, Norfolk
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
CAN A CHANCE ENCOUNTER UNLOCK ONE WOMAN’S PAST? On holiday in Italy, Briony Wood becomes fascinated by the wartime story of a ruined villa hidden amongst the hills of Naples. Not only is it the very place where her grandfather was...
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Told with intimacy and ferocity and set in the passionate and crumbling Spanish Quarter of Naples, comes a poignant tale of first love – of a place, of a person – where languages and cultures collide while dreams soar...