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Story of the Lost Child

Story of the Lost Child
  • Author(s): Elena Ferrante
  • 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...

The Temptation to Be Happy

The Temptation to Be Happy
  • Author(s): Lorenzo Marone
  • 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

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
  • Author(s): Elena Ferrante
  • 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...

Gomorrah

Gomorrah
  • Author(s): Roberto Saviano, Virginia Jewiss (translator)
  • 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,...

The Story of a New Name

The Story of a New Name
  • Author(s): Elena Ferrante
  • 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...

My Brilliant Friend

My Brilliant Friend
  • Author(s): Elena Ferrante
  • 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

Darkness for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone
  • Author(s): Maurizio de Giovanni
  • 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...

Footprints in the Ash

Footprints in the Ash
  • Author(s): Stanley Salmons
  • 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...

Last Letter Home

Last Letter Home
  • Author(s): Rachel Hore
  • 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...

Lost in the Spanish Quarter

Lost in the Spanish Quarter
  • Author(s): Heddi Goodrich
  • 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...

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