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A Spy Like Me

A Spy Like Me
  • Author(s): Kim Sherwood
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Spy, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An elite team of MI6 agents must go undercover to unravel a smuggling network funding violent terror in the second thrilling adventure in the acclaimed Double O series by Kim Sherwood. James Bond is alive. Or at least, he...

Drink & Think Venice

Drink & Think Venice
  • Author(s): Robin Saikia
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Present

Venice’s historic bars and cafés offer a window on the city’s past and present. And there is a dazzling array of drinks to choose from―cocktails, aperitivos, wines from the Venice hinterland and around the Adriatic, spirits from the foothills...

In Italy: Venice, Rome and Beyond

In Italy: Venice, Rome and Beyond
  • Author(s): Cynthia Zarin
  • Location(s): Assisi, Rome, Venice
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From acclaimed poet and New Yorker writer Cynthia Zarin comes a deeply personal meditation on how love and loss shape places and spaces, all through the lens of four Italian spaces. Here we encounter a writer deeply engaged with...

Lies and Weddings

Lies and Weddings
  • Author(s): Kevin Chen
  • Location(s): Hawai'i, England, Los Angeles, Marrakech, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Satire
  • Era(s): Contemporary

THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Rufus Leung Gresham, future Duke of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel, is drowning in debt. The only solution, according to his scheming mother, is for him to attend his sister’s...

Lucifer’s Shadow

Lucifer’s Shadow
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 18th century and late 20th century

Complex, beautiful, suspenseful, Lucifer’s Shadow was David Hewson’s tantalising and rewarding novel first novel set in Italy, now republished with a new introduction by the author. Previously republished in some markets as The Cemetery of Secrets. When Daniel Forster,...

Maddalena and the Dark

Maddalena and the Dark
  • Author(s): Julia Fine
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Gothic, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th Century

For fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and Mexican Gothic, a novel set in 18th-century Venice at a prestigious music school, about two girls drawn together by a dangerous wager. Venice, 1717. Fifteen-year-old Luisa has only wanted...

My Heart is in Venice

My Heart is in Venice
  • Author(s): Helga Jensen
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back 25 years

Venice was where it all began… Libby and Will spent a glorious honeymoon in this magical city. They didn’t have much money, but they had a whole lot of love and a bright future ahead of them. And Venice...

Palazzo

Palazzo
  • Author(s): Danielle Steel
  • Location(s): Italy, Rome, Venice
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After her parents perish in a tragic accident, Cosima Saverio assumes leadership of her family’s haute couture Italian leather brand. While navigating the challenges of running a company at twenty-three, Cosima must also maintain the elegant four-hundred-year-old family palazzo...

Postcards from San Michele

Postcards from San Michele
  • Author(s): Alan Gorevan
  • Location(s): Dublin, Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jennie Walsh has done her best to ignore her husband’s criminal activities. But when he murders two men, she can no longer turn a blind eye. She’s on holiday in Venice when a gangland war erupts back home –...

The Borgia Portrait

The Borgia Portrait
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Venice
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A noble family, a legendary painting, a cursed palazzo. The new Venetian mystery from master storyteller David Hewson. When Arnold Clover is recruited by Lizzie Hawker to help her look into her family inheritance, he cannot begin to guess...

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