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The View from the Tower

The View from the Tower
  • Author(s): Charles Lambert
  • Location(s): Rome, Turin (Torino)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2004 and 1978

“Can she trust them? Can you?” A psychological thriller about love and betrayal, and the damage done when ideals and human lives come into conflict. Helen is in a hotel room with her lover when a gunman murders 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...

Artifacts

Artifacts
  • Author(s): Natalie Lemle
  • Location(s): Italy, Turin (Torino)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For readers of The Cloisters and Counterfeit, Natalie Lemle’s debut novel offers an insider’s view into the world of stolen artifacts and the hidden networks that link museums to organized crime, when a woman is forced to remember the...

Born to Lose: Tales of Gigi

Born to Lose: Tales of Gigi
  • Author(s): Marek Z Turner
  • Location(s): Turin (Torino)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Some people make crime pay, Gigi barely makes enough to cover the rent. Through a series of vignettes, flash fiction and short stories, Born to Lose: Tales of Gigi charts the adventures of Gianluigi ‘Gigi’ Moretti, a talented criminal...

Down in the Valley

Down in the Valley
  • Author(s): Paolo Cognetti, Stash Luczkiw (translator)
  • Location(s): Piedmont (Piemonte), Valsesia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Two brothers are reunited high in the Italian Alps, surrounded by the peaks, valleys and nature of a wild, secluded world The heart-stopping new novel from Italy’s million-copy bestselling author of The Eight Mountains ‘A writer of rare wisdom...

Gods of Rome (Rise of Emperors #3)

Gods of Rome (Rise of Emperors #3)
  • Author(s): Gordon Doherty, Simon Turney
  • Location(s): Rome, Italy, Milan, Ravenna, Turin (Torino)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late Antiquity, Late Roman Empire

For one to rule, the other must die. 312 AD is a year of horrific and brutal warfare. Constantine’s northern army is a small force, plagued by religious rivalries, but seemingly unstoppable as they invade Maxentius’ Italian heartlands. These...

Pinch Me: Waking Up in a 300-Year-Old Italian Farmhouse

Pinch Me: Waking Up in a 300-Year-Old Italian Farmhouse
  • Author(s): Barbara Boyle
  • Location(s): Piedmont (Piemonte)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

For fans of Stanley Tucci and Frances Mayes, Barbara Boyle’s story of leaving her California home to restore an old stone farmhouse in Italy’s Piedmont—only to fall in love with the food and people of her enchanting new town—will...

Shroud

Shroud
  • Author(s): John Banville
  • Location(s): Turin (Torino)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dark secrets and reality unravel in Shroud, the second of John Banville’s three novels to feature Cass Cleave, alongside Eclipse and Ancient Light. Axel Vander, distinguished intellectual and elderly academic, is not the man he seems. When a letter...

The Days of Abandonment

The Days of Abandonment
  • Author(s): Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (translator)
  • Location(s): Turin (Torino)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Rarely have the foundations upon which our ideas of motherhood and womanhood rest been so candidly questioned. This compelling novel tells the story of one woman’s headlong descent into what she calls an “absence of sense” after being abandoned...

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