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  • The Book of Venice

    A City in Short Fiction

    Series series Reading the City
    Edited by Orsola Casagrande.Translated by Orsola Casagrande and Caterina Dell'Olivo.An inspector rages against the announcement that police HQ is to relocate – the way so many of the city’s residents already have – to the mainland...An aspiring author struggles with the inexorable creep of rentalisation that has forced him to share his apartment, and life, with ‘global pilgrims’...An ageing ... Read more

    $8.18 USD

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  • Brunetti's Venice

    Walks with the City's Best-Loved Detective

    by Toni Sepeda ...
    An armchair traveler's companion to Donna Leon's Brunetti mysteries: "a splendid present for mystery-fiction fans [or] travel-lit buffs" (Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal).Follow Commissario Guido Brunetti, star of Donna Leon's international bestselling mystery series, on over a dozen walks that highlight Venice's churches, markets, bars, cafes, and palazzos.In Brunetti's Venice, tourists and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ciao Bella

    In Search of New Relatives and Dante in Italy

    'You really must read… Ciao Bella.' Sunday Times 'Fascinating… comic… delightful' Sunday Times 'Humorous… rich and satisfying.' Daily Telegraph 'Beautifully written, it made me laugh and I wanted to follow in Helena's footsteps round Italy.' Kate Figes 'A travel book with a difference.' Coventry Evening Telegraph 'An ideal stocking filler.' Evening Standard (Glasgow) 'Brilliant.' BBC Radio Oxford ... Read more

    $6.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Italian Village: a perspective on life beside Lake Como (Italian Trilogy Series Volume Two)

    by Paul Wright ...
    "An insightful and often funny depiction of Italian Life" Hannah McIntyre, The Italian Insider MagazineIn this, the follow up to his successful debut book, 'An Italian Home', artist Paul Wright describes Italian village life and his regular dialogue with a group of retired men who are mostly from the catering trade. Punctuated with work adventures beyond the village boundaries for all manner of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When the Dead Awaken

    Sabrina D'Avalos's father was murdered by the mafia. Now a district attorney, she wants justice, or revenge. Whichever comes first.The Camorra, one of the oldest criminal organisations in Italy, runs Naples. More powerful, more violent and richer than the Sicilian mafia, its hold is unshakable.When Sabrina investigates a family found dead in a shipping container, she quickly uncovers links to the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Head Over Heel

    Seduced by Southern Italy

    "Gets right under Italy's skin. Few books about living in foreign climes are written as entertainingly, beautifully or romantically." -- Sydney Morning HeraldWINNER OF THE GROLLO RUZZENE FOUNDATION PRIZEWhen Chris travelled from Sydney to Dublin, he never dreamed his life was about to change forever. There he meets Daniela - one L, smile as you say it to pronounce it correctly - and it's amore at ... Read more

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  • See Naples and Die

    The second book in a much loved Italian travel memoir trilogy which also includes the delightful When in Rome and Girl by Sea.After three years living and working in Italy, Australian journalist Penelope Green needs a reason to stick around - true love or gainful employment.When a job comes up in Naples - crime capital of Italy, home of pizza and the Camorra, and crouched at the foot of a volcano ... Read more

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  • Sorrento, Italy Travel Guide - What To See & Do

    by Donald Cooke ...
    Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Sorrento, Italy on the Amalfi Coast.Sorrento in Campania features beautiful architecture, many cafes and restaurants, and shops catering to tourists. As it is on the Circumvesuviana rail system it is easily reached from Naples and is an ideal base for visiting Pompeii and Ercolano. Ferries regularly commute between Sorrento to Capri, making Sorrento an ... Read more

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  • Sicily, It's Not Quite Tuscany

    by Shamus Sillar ...
    'Gill and I had dreamt of living in Italy for as long as we'd been together.'This is the story of an Aussie couple who sought a Mediterranean sea change only to find themselves in the sprawling Sicilian city of Catania - the 'anti-Tuscany' of Italy. There, any romantic visions they'd had of restoring a villa or stamping their entwined feet in vats of Chianti grapes disappeared faster than the ... Read more

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  • An Italian Education

    The Further Adventures of an Expatriate in Verona

    by Tim Parks ...
    A "marvelous" Mediterranean memoir of an expatriate father raising his children in Italy—from the author of Italian Neighbors ( The Washington Post).Tim Parks offers another lively firsthand account of Italian society and culture—this time focusing on all the little things that turn an ordinary newborn infant into a true Italian.When British-born Tim Parks heard a mother at the beach in Pescara ... Read more

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  • Rosina, the Midwife

    Between 1870 and 1970, 26 million Italians left their homeland and travelled to places like Canada, Australia and the United States, in search of work. Many of them never returned to Italy. Against this historic backdrop comes the story of Rosina, a Calabrian matriarch, who worked as a midwife in an area where only one doctor served three villages. She was also the only member of the Russo family ... Read more

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  • Amalfi, Italy Travel Guide - What To See & Do

    Our illustrated travel guide will take you to the Amalfi on the famed Amalfi coast in Italy.Amalfi is a town in the region of Campania, Italy, on the Gulf of Salerno, 35 km southeast of Naples. It lies at the mouth of a deep ravine, at the foot of Monte Cerreto (1,315 meters, 4,314 feet), surrounded by dramatic cliffs and coastal scenery. The town of Amalfi was the capital of the maritime republic ... Read more

    $2.99 USD