Blogs in January 2023

P.S. Come to Italy 9th January 2023

Wish you were here? When Belle’s quiet, idyllic life on the coast starts to crumble, it’s a stranger – thousands of miles away in Italy – who provides a shoulder to cry on. And so, when Enrico sends her...

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The Measure of Time 28th July 2021

The latest in the Guido Guerrieri series and shortlisted for the 2020 STREGA prize, Italy’s most prestigious literary award. It is a tense courtroom drama set in Southern Italy, but also a tale about passion and the passage of...

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A Decent Family 6th May 2020

For fans of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series comes a captivating family saga focused on a willful young woman’s struggles against her oppressive small town by acclaimed Italian author Rosa Ventrella. In old Bari, everyone knows Maria De Santis as...

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Finding Myself in Puglia: A Journey of Self-Discovery Under the Warm Southern Italian Sun 28th April 2020

An Italian memoir.Laine gave up her job as a nurse, sold her home and gave away most of her belongings. She has three desires bubbling at the heart of her choice: to write a book, paint a picture and...

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The Cold Summer 26th September 2018

On May 23, 1992, a roadside explosion killed the Palermo judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife and three police officers. A few weeks later judge Paolo Borsellino and five police officers were killed in the center of Palermo. These anti-mafia...

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