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The Carrier

The Carrier
  • Author(s): Mattias Berg
  • Location(s): Sweden, Belgium, Sicily, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 2013

Erasmus Levine has a job like no other He travels with the President of the United States at all times, and holds in his hands the power to obliterate life as we know it. He is the man with...

The Optician of Lampedusa

The Optician of Lampedusa
  • Author(s): Emma Jane Kirby
  • Location(s): Lampedusa
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From an award-winning BBC journalist, this moving book turns the testimony of an accidental hero into a timeless story about human fellowship and the awakening of courage and conscience. ‘I can hardly begin to describe to you what I...

The Potter’s Field

The Potter’s Field
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

While Vigàta is wracked by storms, Inspector Salvo Montalbano is called to attend the discovery of a dismembered body in a field of clay. Bearing all the marks of an execution style killing, it seems clear that this is,...

The Wings of the Sphinx

The Wings of the Sphinx
  • Author(s): Andrea Camilleri
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Detective Montalbano is going through a distinctly rocky patch with his long-distance lover, Livia, and he has other concerns: he is uneasily conscious of anno domini and the dispiriting effect of the violence that is such an omnipresent part...

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.

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...

Secrets in Sicily

Secrets in Sicily
  • Author(s): Penny Feeny
  • Location(s): Sicily
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

Sicily, 1977 Ten-year-old Lily and family arrive for their annual summer holiday in Sicily. Adopted as a toddler, Lily’s childhood has been idyllic. But a chance encounter with a local woman on the beach changes everything… 10 years later…...

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