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Made in collaboration with the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, this special issue of Epoch magazine runs to almost 500 pages, exploring the ancient site in new ways, through fashion photogra... read more

Epoch: Ricordo di Pompeii

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A story of family tyranny and a son's escape from a dictatorial yet dull father and a bullied, submissive mother. Can a person ever be free of their past, of their upbringing? This gripping ... read more

The Anniversary

Andrea Bajani

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A man looks back to a formative summer in Tuscany, 1972, to his discovery of music, books, anxiety, love and the moment his childhood came to ended.

Black September

Sandro Veronesi

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The Monocle Book of Italy

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The Mermaids of Venice

Alison Luchs

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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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Shades of Fellini haunt this comic novel, set in one Roman night, when a young journalist attempts to interview an elusive film director. Paradise or purgatory?

Paradiso

Michele Masneri

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A superb account of mongibello, the 'mountain of mountains', with its slopes covered in prickly pears and pistachios, citrus groves and vineyards, a mosaic amongst the lava fields. By the au... read more

The Fire in the Mountain: Sicily, Etna and Her People ...

Helena Attlee

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An excellent and seasoned commentator on Italy, Parks looks at Garibaldi's arrival in Sicily with 1,000 volunteers from Genoa. The pivotal moment in The Leopard, it was also a defining momen... read more

Across Sicily with the Thousand

Tim Parks

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Lucia Di Luciano & Giovanni Pizzo: Selected Works ...

Luciano, Lucia Di
Luciano, Lucia Di

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Last Comes the Raven

Italo Calvino

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After outstanding books on France and Italy during WW2, and biographies of Iris Origo, Martha Gellhorn and others, Moorehead has turned to the Italian novelist, playwright and politician who... read more

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

Caroline Moorehead

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The 'Duke' is in fact a count, living in a sprawling, isolated pile in the Dolomites, fixing his roofs and sifting the family archives. But modernity and the outside world converge upon him ... read more

The Duke

Matteo Melchiorre

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A feast of new scholarship on the work of Fra Filippo Lippi's illegitimate son. Many illustrations.

Filippino Lippi and Rome

Alexander J Noelle

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The catalogue for the forthcoming big exhibition at the Met in New York.

Raphael: Sublime Poetry

Carmen C. Bambach

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The all-seeing author holds up a highly polished mirror to the lives of a young couple living an expat, digital life in Berlin. Their days are carefully lit, their interiors punctuated with ... read more

Perfection

Vincenzo Latronico

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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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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

No author

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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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