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An Italian Dream

An Italian Dream
  • Author(s): Kate Frost
  • Location(s): Italy, Capri, Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Follow your heart and then your dreams… Best friends since childhood, Fern Chambers and Stella Shaw have been through everything together and are at a crossroads in their lives. Carefree Stella has a monumental secret and down trodden Fern’s...

Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop

Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop
  • Author(s): Alba Donati, Elena Pala (Translator)
  • Location(s): Lucignana
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alba used to live a hectic life, working as a book publicist in Florence – a life that made her happy and led her to meet prominent international authors. And yet, she always felt like she was a woman...

Escape to Florence

Escape to Florence
  • Author(s): Kat Devereaux
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 and Present

Moving between the Second World War and the present, an exhilarating debut novel in the vein of Jennifer Robson, Kate Quinn, and Natasha Lester, about two women, decades apart, whose fates converge in Florence, Italy. Only fourteen, Stella Infuriati...

Escape to Tuscany

Escape to Tuscany
  • Author(s): Kat Devereaux
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 and 2019

Romituzzo, 1944 Just fourteen, Stella Infuriati is the youngest member of her town’s resistance network – a secret she keeps even from her parents. She works alongside her brother Achille to relay messages, supplies and weapons to partisan groups...

Five Days in Florence

Five Days in Florence
  • Author(s): Lorraine Brown
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A fiancé. An old flame. And five days in Florence… Maddie is over the moon when her boyfriend Nick proposes in Paris. And spending five days in Florence with his family sounds like the perfect way to get to...

Foul Deeds and Fine Dying

Foul Deeds and Fine Dying
  • Author(s): Marco Malvaldi, Howard Curtis (Translator)
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1900

Pellegrino Artusi, the great gastronome and amateur detective, is back. It is 1900 and Pellegrino’s famed cookbook is in its fifth edition. Flushed from his fortune and success, our hero joins a weekend party at the Tuscan castle of...

Ghost Takes A Vacation

Ghost Takes A Vacation
  • Author(s): Carmen Radtke
  • Location(s): Montepulciano, Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Cosy Mystery, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Have ghost. Will travel. When your not so very departed great-great-aunt relies on her old belongings to cling to her particular form of spectral life force, what do you do when some of them come up for auction in...

Lesser Islands

Lesser Islands
  • Author(s): Lorenza Pieri, Donatella Melucci (Translator), Peter DiGiovanni (Translator)
  • Location(s): Isola del Giglio
  • Genre(s): Historical, Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

An absorbing family saga taking place over four decades and centered on the Tuscan island of Giglio–a seemingly idyllic place where the story of two sisters and the history of Italy meet in unexpected, transformative ways.   A tiny...

Murder under the Tuscan Sun

Murder under the Tuscan Sun
  • Author(s): Rachel Rhys
  • Location(s): Tuscany
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An isolated castle, a deadly crime. Is this real or a nightmare? In a remote castle high up in the Tuscan hills secrets are simmering among its glamorous English residents: The ailing gentleman art-dealer His dazzling niece Her handsome...

The Bookseller of Florence

The Bookseller of Florence
  • Author(s): Ross King
  • Location(s): Florence
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Renaissance

The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings – the dazzling handiwork of the city’s artists and architects. But equally important were geniuses of another kind: Florence’s manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars and booksellers. At a...

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