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A Postcard from Italy

A Postcard from Italy
  • Author(s): Alex Brown
  • Location(s): Italian Riviera
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

Grace Quinn loves her job at Cohen’s Convenient Storage Company, finding occasional treasure in the forgotten units that customers have abandoned. Her inquisitive nature is piqued when a valuable art collection and a bundle of letters and diaries are...

The Italian Flame

The Italian Flame
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Dorset, Italian Riviera
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s / contemporary

Dorset, 1965: twenty-five-year-old aspiring artist Marilyn longs to escape to London, but her family relies on her wages from the hotel on the cliff. Then one day Marilyn meets Bruno, an intriguing Italian, and the two fall madly in...

The Lemon Tree Hotel

The Lemon Tree Hotel
  • Author(s): Rosanna Ley
  • Location(s): Vernazza, Cinque Terre
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 2011

In the beautiful village of Vernazza, the Mazzone family have transformed an old convent overlooking the glamorous Italian Riviera into the elegant Lemon Tree Hotel. For Chiara, her daughter Elene and her granddaughter Isabella, the running of their hotel...

The Vernazza Effect

The Vernazza Effect
  • Author(s): Roberta R Carr
  • Location(s): San Francisco, Cinque Terre
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern day

Twenty-nine-year-old Ella Walker strives to live her best life. When tragedy strikes at both work and home, her world spirals out of control. She confides in her best friend, Tara Collins, who helps her confront her fears. With Tara...

A House near Luccoli

A House near Luccoli
  • Author(s): D M Denton
  • Location(s): Genoa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 17th Century

Over three years since the charismatic composer, violinist, and singer Alessandro Stradella sought refuge in the palaces and twisted alleys of Genoa, royally welcomed despite the alleged scandals and even crimes that forced him to flee from Rome, Venice,...

Acqua Morta

Acqua Morta
  • Author(s): Adam Bane
  • Location(s): Liguria
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

An electrifying thriller for fans of Harlan Coben and Michael Connelly. Forced into retirement because of ill-health, Commissario Domenico Martelli is hired to investigate a grotesque and disturbing murder. The case brings him into conflict with his former colleagues...

Extra Virgin: amongst the Olive Groves of Liguria

Extra Virgin: amongst the Olive Groves of Liguria
  • Author(s): Annie Hawes
  • Location(s): Liguria
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

A small stone house deep among the olive groves of Liguria, going for the price of a dodgy second-hand car. Annie Hawes and her sister, on the spot by chance, have no plans whatsoever to move to the Italian...

Garden of Letters

Garden of Letters
  • Author(s): Alyson Richman
  • Location(s): Portofino, Verona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2

Largely set in World War II, Verona, both before and during the German Occupation.  Elodie Bertolotti is a very gifted young cellist who becomes involved in the Italian Resistance movement. She plays her cello but everything changes when her...

Hermit in Paris

Hermit in Paris
  • Author(s): Italo Calvino
  • Location(s): San Remo, Turin (Torino), United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards

The posthumously published collection Hermit IN Paris offers a unique, puzzle-lie portrait of one of the postwar era’s most inventive and mercurial writers. In letters and journals, occasional pieces and interviews, Calvino recalls growing up in seaside inlay and...

I’ll Look for You, Everywhere

I’ll Look for You, Everywhere
  • Author(s): Cameron Capello
  • Location(s): Chivasso, North Italy, Savona, Turin (Torino)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE UNMISSABLE DEBUT ROMANCE NOVEL FROM CAMERON CAPELLO, TIKTOK AND INSTAGRAM’S @CHAMBEROFSECRETBOOKS, COMING SUMMER 2024. For fans who loved all the angst and tension of Magnolia Parks with the sun-kissed vibes of The Summer I Turned Pretty. I’ll Look...

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