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The Leopard

The Leopard
  • Author(s): Giuseppe di Lampedusa
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1860

In Sicily in 1860, as Italian unification grows inevitable, the smallest of gestures seems dense with meaning and melancholy, sensual agitation and disquiet: “Some huge irrational disaster is in the making.” All around him, the prince, Don Fabrizio, witnesses...

My Lemon Grove Summer

My Lemon Grove Summer
  • Author(s): Jo Thomas
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Could the lemon groves of Sicily be the perfect place to start over? The irresistible new novel from Jo Thomas, the author of Sunset Over the Cherry Orchard, will transport you to the island of mountains and sparkling blue...

Siracusa

Siracusa
  • Author(s): Delia Ephron
  • Location(s): Rome, Syracuse
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An electrifying novel about marriage and deceit from bestselling author Delia Ephron that follows two couples on vacation in Siracusa, a town on the coast of Sicily, where the secrets they have hidden from one another are exposed and...

Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons

Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons
  • Author(s): Matthew Fort
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

Esteemed food critic and writer Matthew Fort takes to his Vespa in search of Sicily’s culinary delights.

The Shape of Water

The Shape of Water
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 2000s

Inspector Salvo Montalbano strives to do the right thing for the right reason. Food and crime mix in this inspired series. The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri’s wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector...

The Snack Thief

The Snack Thief
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 2000s

Never has Inspector Montalbano’s character – a unique blend of humor, cynicism, compassion, earthiness, and love of good food – been more compelling than in The Snack Thief. When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator...

A Ruby in her Navel

A Ruby in her Navel
  • Author(s): Barry Unsworth
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 12th Century

The Court of King Roger in Twelfth century Sicily simmers with the volatile passions of Christians, Muslims, Jews, Latins and Greeks. Among them, a young Norman called Thurstan Beauchamp finds employment under Yusuf, a Muslim who holds the Christian...

August Heat

August Heat
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

The setting, as usual, is the picturesque, non-metropolitan region of Vigata in Sicily. And it’s hot –stiflingly hot. In August Heat, we are never allowed to forget the all-enveloping sultriness (the inspector — possessor of miniature fan, the only...

Each to his Own

Each to his Own
  • Author(s): Leonardo Sciascia
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Two murders are investigated by a university lecturer for his own intellectual curiosity, yet what he discovers stirs up all kinds of corruption and malevolence in a Sicilian town.

Italian Ice

Italian Ice
  • Author(s): E M Lynley
  • Location(s): Aeolian Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Sequel to Rarer than Rubies Precious Gems: Book Two In this exciting sequel to Rarer Than Rubies, gay romance author Trent Copeland and former FBI agent Reed Action head to Italy for a Roman holiday. What should be a...

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