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Eat Pray Love

Eat Pray Love
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Location(s): Bali, India, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Liz’s memoir who- after her marriage breakdown – takes off for a year and goes to mull over her life in three destinations: Italy, India and Indonesia (Bali). Italy is about the pleasure of eating, India is about finding...

The Divorced Lady’s Companion to Living in Italy

The Divorced Lady’s Companion to Living in Italy
  • Author(s): Catherine McNamara
  • Location(s): Milan, Rome, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Marilyn Wade, half-Hungarian divorcée and mother of unflinching teens, moves to Milan to remap her womanhood. Rumour had it that Marilyn’s old icon Jean Harper met her Milanese lover on a singles trip to Macchu Pichu and went to...

Bullets of Palestine

Bullets of Palestine
  • Author(s): Howard Kaplan
  • Location(s): Vienna, Jerusalem, Lebanon, London, Rome
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

Two agents. Two opposing sides. Israeli Agent Shai is dispatched to eliminate a terrorist threat. To succeed in his mission Shai must win the trust of Palestinian Agent Ramzy who will help him gain access to the infamous and...

Early One Morning

Early One Morning
  • Author(s): Virginia Baily
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): From WW2 into second half 20th Century

A grey dawn in 1943: on a street in Rome, two young women, complete strangers to each other, lock eyes for a single moment. One of the women, Chiara Ravello, is about to flee the occupied city for the...

The Affair

The Affair
  • Author(s): Gill Paul
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

A passionate, tender and captivating story of glamour, infidelity and love, behind the scenes of the most iconic Hollywood movie ever made Rome 1961. The cameras roll on the film set of Cleopatra and the explosive Elizabeth Taylor and...

The Italian Teacher

The Italian Teacher
  • Author(s): Tom Rachman
  • Location(s): Rome, London, New York City (NYC), The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1955

Rome, 1955 The artists are gathering together for a photograph. In one of Rome’s historic villas, a party glitters with socialites and patrons. Bear Bavinsky, creator of vast, masculine, meaty canvases, is their god. He is at the centre...

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...

When in Rome

When in Rome
  • Author(s): Penelope Green
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

With her thirtieth birthday on the horizon and her safe and comfortable life in Sydney outside her front door, Penelope Green decided it was now or never. Undaunted by the fact she spoke absolutely no Italian, had no job,...

A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome

A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome
  • Author(s): Alberto Angela
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 115AD

The year is 115 AD and Imperial Rome is at the height of its power. The reader wakes in a rich patrician home and discovers frescoes, opulent furnishings and richly appointed boudoirs. Strolling through the splendours of the Roman...

Any Human Face

Any Human Face
  • Author(s): Charles Lambert
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Andrew Caruso has been a second-hand-book dealer in Rome for thirty years when a collection of old photographs changes his life forever. He finds the photos among the possessions of his ex-lover, Michel: the images – possibly from police...

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