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The Lover of No Fixed Abode

by Franco Lucentini ...

Translated by Gregory Dowling ...

Series Book 1 - Italian Mysteries by Fruttero and Lucentini
The setting is Venice. The month November. Glittering worldliness and dubious shabbiness overlap, and passion and suspicion intertwine in a three-day Venetian adventure, bookended by a train's arrival and a ship's departure. She is an elegant Roman princess who scouts for one of the large English auction houses. He is a fascinating, mysterious man of indeterminate age, the leader of a tour group. ... Read more

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The setting is Venice. The month November. Glittering worldliness and dubious shabbiness overlap, and passion and suspicion intertwine in a three-day Venetian adventure, bookended by a train's arrival and a ship's departure. She is an elegant Roman princess who scouts for one of the large English auction houses. He is a fascinating, mysterious man of indeterminate age, the leader of a tour group.
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The Sunday Woman

by Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini ...

Translated by William Weaver ...

Part whodunit, part satire of Turin’s ruling class, this lively and incisive detective novel by a beloved Italian literary duo navigates through the many layers of Turinese society, from the high to the low to the dubious.Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini were a pair of legendary Italian writers widely celebrated as pioneers of modern crime fiction. The Sunday Woman was the first detective novel ... Read more

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Part whodunit, part satire of Turin’s ruling class, this lively and incisive detective novel by a beloved Italian literary duo navigates through the many layers of Turinese society, from the high to the low to the dubious.Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini were a pair of legendary Italian writers widely celebrated as pioneers of modern crime fiction. The Sunday Woman was the first detective novel
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An Enigma by the Sea

by Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini ...

Translated by Gregory Dowling ...

Series Book 3 - Italian Mysteries by Fruttero & Lucentini
“Doyens of the Italian detective story, Fruttero and Lucentini, offer a perfect blend of the comedy of manners and the macabre; in short, very Mediterranean mysteries.” Tim Parks, author of Hotel Milano and Italian LifeIn an exclusive resort on the Tuscan coast, the wealthy elite gather at their luxurious second homes for Christmas. Amid this frosty holiday idyll, a husband and wife vanish from ... Read more

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“Doyens of the Italian detective story, Fruttero and Lucentini, offer a perfect blend of the comedy of manners and the macabre; in short, very Mediterranean mysteries.” Tim Parks, author of Hotel Milano and Italian LifeIn an exclusive resort on the Tuscan coast, the wealthy elite gather at their luxurious second homes for Christmas. Amid this frosty holiday idyll, a husband and wife vanish from
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Runaway Horses

by Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini ...

Series Book 2 - Italian Mysteries by Fruttero and Lucentini
Siena, one of Italy’s most beautiful cities, visited by all discerning travellers to Tuscany, is feverishly preparing for the Palio, a horse race dating back to the Middle Ages held every summer in the centre of the town, famously described by Rick Steves as "The World's Most Insane Horse Race". Milanese lawyer Enzo Maggione and his wife Valeria are unwittingly caught up in the maelstrom of plots, ... Read more

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Siena, one of Italy’s most beautiful cities, visited by all discerning travellers to Tuscany, is feverishly preparing for the Palio, a horse race dating back to the Middle Ages held every summer in the centre of the town, famously described by Rick Steves as "The World's Most Insane Horse Race". Milanese lawyer Enzo Maggione and his wife Valeria are unwittingly caught up in the maelstrom of plots,
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My Father's House

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by Joseph O'Connor ...

Series Book 1 - The Rome Escape Line Trilogy
Based on the true WWII story of a daring attempt to smuggle thousands through the Vatican and out of occupied Rome right under the noses of Nazi occupiers.A Washington Post and Irish Times Best Book of the YearFinalist for the 2024 Walter Scott PrizeSeptember 1943: German forces have Rome under their control. Gestapo boss Paul Hauptmann rules over the Eternal City with vicious efficiency. Hun... ... Read more

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Based on the true WWII story of a daring attempt to smuggle thousands through the Vatican and out of occupied Rome right under the noses of Nazi occupiers.A Washington Post and Irish Times Best Book of the YearFinalist for the 2024 Walter Scott PrizeSeptember 1943: German forces have Rome under their control. Gestapo boss Paul Hauptmann rules over the Eternal City with vicious efficiency. Hun...
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The American

by Martin Booth ...

The basis for the action-packed George Clooney film: "A psychological suspense thriller invested with life-and-death gravitas" ( The Seattle Times ).The locals in the southern Italian town where he lives call him Signor Farfalla—Mr. Butterfly: for he is a discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies. His life is inconspicuous—mornings spent brushing at a canvas, afternoons idling in the cafes, ... Read more

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The basis for the action-packed George Clooney film: "A psychological suspense thriller invested with life-and-death gravitas" ( The Seattle Times ).The locals in the southern Italian town where he lives call him Signor Farfalla—Mr. Butterfly: for he is a discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies. His life is inconspicuous—mornings spent brushing at a canvas, afternoons idling in the cafes,
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Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions

A charming detective takes on Sicily's underworld in the perfect summer read

by Mario Giordano ...

Series Book 1 - Auntie Poldi
'Alive with a tang of lemons to set the senses zinging' The SpectatorFiction at its most charming - A Man Called Ove meets Andrea Camilleri, Auntie Poldi is this summer's most unlikely hero.Auntie Poldi can think of no finer place to wait for death than Sicily. All she asks is a sea view, fine wine (and plenty of it), and her family close around.When death instead takes her handsome young friend ... Read more

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'Alive with a tang of lemons to set the senses zinging' The SpectatorFiction at its most charming - A Man Called Ove meets Andrea Camilleri, Auntie Poldi is this summer's most unlikely hero.Auntie Poldi can think of no finer place to wait for death than Sicily. All she asks is a sea view, fine wine (and plenty of it), and her family close around.When death instead takes her handsome young friend
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Seven Seasons in Siena

My Quixotic Quest for Acceptance Among Tuscany's Proudest People

by Robert Rodi ...

Siena seems at first glance a typical Italian city: within its venerable medieval walls the citizens sport designer clothes, wield digital phones, and prize their dazzling local cuisine. But unlike neighboring Florence, Siena is still deeply rooted in ancient traditions—chiefly the spectacular Palio, in which seventeen independent societies known as contrade vie for bragging rights in an annual ... Read more

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Siena seems at first glance a typical Italian city: within its venerable medieval walls the citizens sport designer clothes, wield digital phones, and prize their dazzling local cuisine. But unlike neighboring Florence, Siena is still deeply rooted in ancient traditions—chiefly the spectacular Palio, in which seventeen independent societies known as contrade vie for bragging rights in an annual
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The Past Is a Foreign Country

A Thriller

by Gianrico Carofiglio ...

An international bestseller and winner of Italy's prestigious Premio Bancarella prize—an intense psychological thriller in the vein of The Talented Mr. RipleyAs world-weary Lieutenant Chiti spends sleepless nights hunting for the serial rapist terrorizing his city, trainee lawyer Giorgio is befriended by dangerously charismatic Francesco. Slowly the innocent Giorgio is lured into a corrupt world ... Read more

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An international bestseller and winner of Italy's prestigious Premio Bancarella prize—an intense psychological thriller in the vein of The Talented Mr. RipleyAs world-weary Lieutenant Chiti spends sleepless nights hunting for the serial rapist terrorizing his city, trainee lawyer Giorgio is befriended by dangerously charismatic Francesco. Slowly the innocent Giorgio is lured into a corrupt world
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Auntie Poldi and the Fruits of the Lord

Sicily's most charming detective is back for another adventure

by Mario Giordano ...

A Man Called Ove meets Inspector Montalbano, Auntie Poldi leaves no stone unturned in her quest for answers.Wine and murder - nothing is more likely to rouse Auntie Poldi's love of the chase.Still relishing the notoriety from her spectacular resolution of the Candela case, Poldi is alive to the faintest whiff of criminality.What to others might seem a series of misfortunes - the water supply cut ... Read more

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A Man Called Ove meets Inspector Montalbano, Auntie Poldi leaves no stone unturned in her quest for answers.Wine and murder - nothing is more likely to rouse Auntie Poldi's love of the chase.Still relishing the notoriety from her spectacular resolution of the Candela case, Poldi is alive to the faintest whiff of criminality.What to others might seem a series of misfortunes - the water supply cut
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Auntie Poldi And The Sicilian Lions

A Novel

by Mario Giordano ...

Series Book 1 - The Auntie Poldi Adventures
A Munich ex-pat retires to Sicily where she uncovers romance and murder in this humorous mystery series debut."To the ranks of amateur sleuths, from Miss Marple to Jessica Fletcher, welcome Auntie Poldi." — Newsday"Break out the prosecco! There's a new detective in town—and she's sixty, sexy, wise, and utterly adorable." — People magazineOn her si... ... Read more

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A Munich ex-pat retires to Sicily where she uncovers romance and murder in this humorous mystery series debut."To the ranks of amateur sleuths, from Miss Marple to Jessica Fletcher, welcome Auntie Poldi." — Newsday"Break out the prosecco! There's a new detective in town—and she's sixty, sexy, wise, and utterly adorable." — People magazineOn her si...
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

by Giorgio Bassani ...

Translated by Jamie McKendrick ...

Series series Penguin Modern Classics
This is a haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood and atmosphere of Italy (and in particular Ferrara) in the last summers of the thirties, focusing on an aristocratic Jewish family moving imperceptibly towards its doom. Vittorio De Sica turned the book into a film in 1970, winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974. ... Read more

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This is a haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood and atmosphere of Italy (and in particular Ferrara) in the last summers of the thirties, focusing on an aristocratic Jewish family moving imperceptibly towards its doom. Vittorio De Sica turned the book into a film in 1970, winning the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974.
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