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A Sicilian Man: Leonardo Sciascia, the Rise of the Mafia and the Strug ...

Caroline Moorehead

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Architecture of Public Space

Labics

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How the 90% lived and how they became a political match for the elite (organising, along the way, the world's first general strike).

Plebs Romana: People, Politics and Power in Ancient Rome ...

Peter Jones

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Written in the present continuous, this is a dreamlike novel set in the Venice of Pasolini and Fellini.

The Silver Book

Olivia Laing

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It is 1899 and a hack English writer is off for a belated honeymoon with his American heiress... The great Banville follows du Maurier, Mann and Highsmith to Venice for the setting of his ee... read more

Venetian Vespers

John Banville

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Pieces together the story of a young woman who fell ill in a tower on a hill, was confined there by her father for three years and eventually died. Using fiction, fairytale and memoir, Lena... read more

The Tower

Thea Lenarduzzi

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Contemporary interiors as well as historic ones.

Inside Sicily

Christopher Garis

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From palaces to farmhouses... Lovely photographs.

Tuscan Rooms: Interiors from the Heartland of the Renaissance ...

Antonio Monfreda

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A magnificent hommage to Franco Maria Ricci, the Italian publisher who in 1981 created the world's most beautiful art magazine, which Fellini called 'the black pearl'. This gorgeous book, bo... read more

FMR Franco Maria Ricci: A Labyrinth of Beauty

Antony Shugaar

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Pucci has never been unfashionable - here's how.

Pucci: The Art of Fashion

Laudomia Pucci

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AG's third book is her best yet - full of confident, warming dishes rooted in her deep knowledge of Tuscan food.

Winter in Tuscany

Amber Guinness

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Gray goes to the heart of things - to fire before even her ideal (and simple) batterie de cuisine. Her writing is seductive for its intelligence and beauty, for her wit, wide interests and c... read more

Honey from a Weed: Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyc ...

Patience Gray

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A writer, poet, painter and doctor, Levi was banished to the remote and extremely poor region of Lucania for his opposition to Mussolini's regime. Described as a documentary novel, this is a... read more

Christ Stopped at Eboli

Carlo Levi

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Norman of Polpo fame has moved south from Venice to Tuscany, where the food is said to be good but ugly - brutto ma buono.

Brutto: A (Simple) Florentine Cookbook

Russell Norman

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The River Cafe Cookbook

Rose Gray

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The River Cafe Classic Italian Cookbook

Rose Gray

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Apparently no Italian kitchen is without this...

The Silver Spoon

Alberto Capatti

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160 of the most typical regional dishes from Piedmont to Calabria. From the Silver Spoon people.

The Regional Italian Cookbook

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Il Cucchaio d'Argento has been the most trusted tome in Italian cooking for over 50 years. This is just(!) sweets and desserts.

The Italian Bakery: Step-by-Step Recipes with the Silver Spoon ...

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Gayford's ink flows pleasurably and eloquently on the subject of Venice, its artists and admirers. Illustrated, conversational.

Venice: City of Pictures

Martin Gayford

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The 1929 surrealist novel by the Italian painter. Or should that be 'the 1929 Italian novel by the surrealist painter'?

Hebdomeros: A Novel

Giorgio de Chirico

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From the author of The Lovers and The Eight Mountains: a new novel following two brothers up a remote and secluded mountain in Northern Italy.

Down in the Valley

Paolo Cognetti

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The lives, loves and betrayals of a group of friends are revealed in their letters. Translated from the Italian.

The City and The House

Natalia Ginzburg

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Clarke's Bitter Honey - a love-letter to Sardinian food - was outstanding.

For the Love of Lemons: Italian-inspired, Sweet and Savoury Recipes ...

Letitia Clark

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Artichokes, swordfish, oranges, capers, eggplant, ricotta, pork, almonds...

Sicily: Recipes from an Italian island

Enza Genovese

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The catalogue for the spectacular exhibition at the National Gallery is in itself a gorgeous thing, with excellent reproductions of gilded and painted panels, many of them of a scale intende... read more

Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350

Joanna Cannon

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The Renaissance polymath Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, who spent his life in pursuit of a grand unified theory of the Sublime while navigating the period's political shenanigans. A new book... read more

The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Language ...

Edward Wilson-Lee

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Buzzati, a journalist for much of his life, was celebrated for turning the events of mid-century Italy and beyond into absurdist, even nightmarish stories, gathered together here into a new ... read more

The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories

Dino Buzzati

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A coming-of-age novel about eight women living in Rome both set and published in the 1930s: a fine group portrait, radical at the time and censored on first publication by the Italian author... read more

There’s No Turning Back

Alba de Cespedes

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A novel of resilience and resistance, set in a remote Tuscan village in 1943. Translated from the Italian.

The Bishop’s Villa

Sacha Naspini

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It is nearly thirty years since Aciman's superb memoir of his Alexandrian childhood, Out of Egypt. Since Call Me By Your Name, he has mutated from an academic scholar of Proust into a bestse... read more

My Roman Year

André Aciman

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Six centuries are nothing to Orsola Rosso, daughter of a C15th glassmaker in Murano, who overcomes tradition to become a glassmaker herself. Time seems to pass in a very different way in Ven... read more

The Glassmaker

Tracy Chevalier

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An academic's childhood memories of an early love: another beautifully-realised novel by this prize-winning Italian author.

The Mortal and Immortal Life of the Girl from Milan ...

Domenico Starnone

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This book is not concerned with plans, construction, technology or context. It is interested in the unique features of Venetian façades that make them relevant to contemporary urban designe... read more

The Venetian Facade

Michael Dennis

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Historic and modern, rural and metropolitan ...

Italian Interiors: Rooms with a View

Laura May Todd

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Castles, villas, forests, frescoes, abbeys and salt pans: lesser-known sites in the care of the FAI - the Fondo Ambiente Italia, Italy's equivalent to the National Trust. Handsome, with 300 ... read more

Hidden Italy: Unveiling Art, Nature and Cultural Heritage ...

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