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Gennaro's Italian Family Favourites: Authentic recipes from an Italian kitchen
Author: Gennaro Contaldo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 100 simple yet authentic Italian recipes to suit every occasion, from a week-day supper to a Sunday lunch, from...
Food of Naples
Author: Johnny Di Francesco Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 146 Focusing on the cuisine of Naples, the book contains a variety of dishes for lovers of food, especially Italian food....
Pidapipo: Gelato Eight Days a Week
Author: Lisa Valmorbida Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Pidapipo is a celebration of authentic gelato, alongside classic Italian and contemporary seasonal desserts, cakes, and drinks. All the recipes in...
Moroseta Kitchen: Recipes and Stories from a Modern Puglian Farmhouse
The debut cookbook from Giorgia Eugenia Goggi, resident chef of a design-led restaurant, hotel and cookery school, Moroseta Kitchen is a true expression of modern Italy and what it is...
The Italian Holiday: an irresistible summer romance set on the
Escape to Italy and fall in love with this perfect summer read...Floundering junior travel writer Katie has just been given the opportunity of her career. Her boss can't make her...
Anatomy of a Massacre: How the SS Got Away with War Crimes in Italy
The first account in English of the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre and the last hunt for Nazi war criminals. On 12 August 1944, a unit of the 16th SS Panzergrenadier...
Glorious Vegetables of Italy
Author: Domenica Marchetti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 This book is a tribute to Italy's many glorious vegetables, from the bright, orange-fleshed pumpkins of autumn to the tender green...
The Count of Monte Cristo
'Dumas is a master of ripping yarns full of fearless heroes, poisonous ladies and swashbuckling adventurers.' The Guardian **AS SEEN ON WRITE AROUND THE WORLD WITH RICHARD E GRANT** A...
Life: My Story Through History
Author: Pope Francis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events...
The Florence Sisters
' Beautiful ...Tessa Harris has made me appreciate historical novels in a way that I haven't in quite some time' 'Oh my goodness...this book was so unputdownable ...will never be...
Two Women in Rome: 'Beautifully atmospheric' Adele Parks
Author: Elizabeth Buchan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 In the Eternal City, no secret stays hidden forever... Lottie Archer arrives in Rome excited newly married and ready for change...
Taste: My Life Through Food
From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and irresistible memoir of life in and out of the kitchen Before Stanley Tucci became a household name with...
Marry Me in Italy: The perfect escapist holiday read from the number
'Nicky Pellegrino never fails to lift the spirit and the heart' SANTA MONTEFIORE 'A lovely slice of Italian life... like a good coffee and pastry in a cafe in the...
Short Stories in Italian for Beginners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Italian the fun way!
Author: Olly Richards Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners. "I love Olly's work - and...
The Leopard: Vintage Quarterbound Classics
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of the great Italian classic. 'Historical fiction at its best' The Week It is the spring of 1869 and...
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
An eclectic, eccentiric and altogether brain-bending collection of short stories *PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI'S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW* An eclectic, eccentric and altogether brain-bending collection of...
The Talented Mr Ripley
Reissued to mark the centenary of Patricia Highsmith and the upcoming BBC adaption, Ripley, these beautiful new editions mark Highsmith's entry into Vintage Classics **AS SEEN ON WRITE AROUND THE...
The Last Letters from Villa Clara: A moving and sweeping story of
'A well-written and fascinating narrative about love and loss, courage and betrayal, the past and secrets, art and reproductions' Reader review, 'This is certainly a wow of a read ....
When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy
'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began speaking of the earth beneath our feet as la...
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
A fascinating description of the beginning of the modern world For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world -...
The Italian Wedding
Pieta Martinelli 's sister is getting married. Since she is a bridal designer it falls to her to make the wedding gown. But Pieta is distracted by a series of...
Gino's Islands in the Sun: 100 recipes from Sardinia and Sicily to
Join Gino on his trip to the islands of Sicily and Sardinia on a journey of discovery of authentic and delicious Italian food. Delving into the gastronomic history of these...
A Taste of the Sun: Gino's Italian Escape (Book 2)
The follow-up to the bestselling Gino's Italian Escape . Let Gino be your guide to the very best of Italian food as he travels through the beautiful north of his...
Short Stories in Italian for Beginners - Volume 2: Read for pleasure
Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively. I love his work -...
The Italian Holiday: an irresistible summer romance set on the
Escape to Italy and fall in love with this perfect summer read... Floundering junior travel writer Katie has just been given the opportunity of her career. Her boss can't make...
Tiepolo Pink
New to Penguin Modern Classics- a captivating exploration of the work of one of Italy's most influential - and least understood - painters Throughout his masterpiece, In Search of Lost...
Gino's Hidden Italy: How to cook like a true Italian
Join the nation's favourite Italian chef, on his journey of discovery through Northern Italy, to reveal the secrets of real Italian food. From peach picking in Turin to truffle hunting...
The Voynich Manuscript
The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle "For the first time, a complete reproduction [of] The Voynich Manuscript , has been published, featuring essays exploring what...
Italy Cocktails: An Elegant Collection of Over 100 Recipes Inspired by
An elegant collection of over 100 recipes inspired by Italia.These signature drink recipes from Italy hotspots pay homage to this vibrant country. With over 100 recipes and dozens of bartender...
A Month in Siena
A moving reflection on the intersection of life and art, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return. Shortly after completing his searing work of non-fiction, The Return, Hisham Matar...
The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City
Iris Origo's most famous book, her classic study of the life and times of a medieval Italian merchant In 1870 an astonishing cache, containing some 150,000 letters and great numbers...
Seneca: A Life
The definitive biography of ancient Rome's most powerful and colourful philosopher-politician This book traces the eventful life of Seneca, the Roman philosopher, dramatist, essayist and rhetorician of the first century...
Disobedient: The gripping feminist retelling of a seventeenth century
A young woman is put on trial. She has accused her painting teacher of the darkest betrayal - he accuses her of being a immoral liar. What really happened? Rome...
Exploding Tomatoes and Other Stories: The Food and Flavours of
Praise for Sophie Grigson's A Curious Absence of Chickens: 'A delicious treat' Xanthe Clay 'Stuffed full of recipes you want to cook' Prue Leith 'Delicious' Daily Mail Once settled into...
The Party Guest
'At the end of chapters, I was either "Wow" or "Oh my God!"' Reader Review 'Robson does it again. The end will leave you flabbergasted!' Reader Review 'The intense suspense...
Vegan Italian Food: Over 100 Recipes for a Plant-based Feast
In Vegan Italian Food: Over 100 Recipes for a Plant-based Feast , Australia's number one vegan chef Shannon Martinez celebrates the joys of Italian food in signature riotous style. Following...
Violets
An astonishing debut novel of motherhood and loss in the dying days of the Second World War 'Moving, graceful... Violets has a compelling, quiet power all the way to its...
Sicily, My Sweet: Love Notes to an Island, with Recipes for Cakes,
A love letter to the iconic and often over-the-top desserts of Sicily, gorgeously styled and endearingly written by Victoria Granof, one of the great tastemakers in the food world. Sicilian...
The Normans in the South, 1016-1130: The Normans in Sicily Volume I
Chronicling the 'other Norman invasion', The Normans in the South is the epic story of the House of Hauteville, and in particular Robert Guiscard, perhaps the most extraordinary European adventurer...
So Shall You Reap
The latest instalment from Donna Leon sees Brunetti engaged in a case that forces him to confront his past 'Donna Leon provides another delectable slice of the thoughtful policeman's life...
Mafiopoli: Living Among the 'Ndrangheta - Italy's Most Powerful Crime
'Part memoir, part shoe leather investigative journalism, Mafiopoli is a vital exploration of how organised crime takes hold of a society from the bottom up and spreads around the world.'...
The House on the Hill
A devastating novel set in wartime Italy from the great twentieth-century writer, in a new translation by Tim Parks Shortlisted for The Society of Authors Translation Award 2022 June, 1943....
The Babylon Plot (Joe Mason, Book 4)
'Five-star turbo-charged, non-stop action thriller... It reads like a movie reel... Needs to be on every thrill seeker's reading list' NetGalley review Don't miss the next instalment of the Joe...
A Sicilian Man: Leonardo Sciascia, the Rise of the Mafia and the
The rise of the Mafia and the story of its most vocal opponent, renowned Italian writer Leonardo Sciascia, expertly woven together by celebrated chronicler of European history Caroline Moorehead Corruption,...
The Medici
'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy - and brutality' Telegraph 'Likely to become the standard work of reference on the...
Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes, 1250-1743
Every painted work that is on display in the Uffizi Gallery, The Pitti Palace, the Accademia, and the Duomo is included in the book, plus many or most of the...
Blessed and Beautiful: Picturing the Saints
A profound, witty, and informative account of the lives of the saints depicted in the devotional art of the Renaissance This book offers a powerful and searching meditation on the...
The Borgias
The glorious and infamous history of the Borgia family-a world of saints, corrupt popes, and depraved princes and poisoners-set against the golden age of the Italian Renaissance. The Borgia family...