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Make travel easy with Top 10's simple lists of ten The world's favourite pocket travel guides Make the most of your trip to Rome with this Top 10 guide. Planning...

'As close to perfect as romantic comedies get' Jenny Colgan 'A joyful, hilarious and heart-warming tale of the challenges we face when we sign up to be part of someone...

p>The only compendium of Italian dishes you'll ever need!/p>p>This Italian collection contains 500 mouth watering recipes for every meal, simple gatherings and special occasions. From a simple minestrone to a...

This 'dream-laden and spooked' (Marina Warner, London Review of Books) story is to many one of the best-loved books of the twentieth century. Munthe spent many years working as a...

One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy. Shortly before her disappearance, Elisa had met Danilo...

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, and...

'Compelling and fine and rich, I devoured it' TESSA HADLEY 'Powerfully compelling' GUARDIAN 'Unbelievably good' ELIZABETH DAY 'Complex and nuanced... the perfect definition of summer reading' LUCY CALDWELL 'Subtle, complex,...

Featuring an array of beautiful homes, Hidden Homes of Tuscany and Umbria is a spectacular celebration of one the best-loved and most alluring regions of Italy. Steeped in history, Tuscany...

The incomparable region of Tuscany and beyond, where the beauty of nature rivals the wealth of art, by the photographers of the much heralded Provence. For three decades these photographers...

' I thought I had made myself clear. I want something that conveys her majesty, her bloodline. Do you understand? She is no ordinary mortal. Treat her thus.' Florence, the...

Interior designer Nicolo Castellini Baldissera and fashion and interiors photographer Guido Taroni offer a privileged glimpse into the homes of Milan's foremost creative residents. 'Go Inside Milan with Nicolo Castellini...

With a new afterword from the Bard of Tuscany herself, this 20th anniversary edition of Frances Mayes' timeless travel classic, Under the Tuscan Sun, brings readers up-to-date with the book's...

A fresh approach to Italian cuisine through its most iconic ingredients, presented by Italian-born cooking instructor Viola Buitoni. From glossy drops of balsamic vinegar to flakes of parmigiano reggiano and...

Looking for Alibrandi meets Arrested Development in this YA screwball comedy about a student exchange gone hilariously, criminally wrong. NOTABLE BOOK in the Children's Book Council of Australia Awards LONGLISTED...

Bologna Portraits is the portrait of one of the most charming and least well-known Italian cities portrayed through the faces of the people who live there today. It started during...

The internationally bestselling author tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her ninth decade 'A delightful companion in life and on the page' The Times 'Donna Leon has...

Looking at the "old religion" of Italy, this text presents overview of the history and lore of the "hereditary craft", showing how the Italian witches viewed nature, magick, and the...

Enjoy all the traditional, rustic flavours of Italian cooking through contemporary recipe ideas and variations that allow you to experience the taste of Italy without the high fat, salt and...

Henry James was a renowned observer of European culture, both in his fiction and in his life. In particular, he loved Italy, visiting it 14 times and setting several of...

Anna Del Conte brought Italian cooking to Britain at a time when the nearest most of us came to pasta was a tinned spaghetti hoop. Sharply observant, evocative, full of...

Heliopolis 21 projects and researches in fact aims at a radical change of architecture, starting from the convincement that the global crisis are due to the way we have built...

The dominant role of female beauty in sixteenth-century Venice is unique both in the history of the Republic and other parts of the world. One reason for this is the...

A captivating fantasy for middle grade readers - power, corruption and friendship collide in this enthralling adventure! 'a captivating fantasy ... This enthralling adventure will make readers yearn for their...

'It is far better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both.' - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) The Prince is one of the most influential books ever written. Published...

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...

Andrea Bocelli is currently the world's most successful male singer. He has sold an astonishing 60 million albums worldwide and has sung for the Pope and Bill Clinton. His concerts...

First published in 1953, this book remains a classic piece of literature on the work and life of Michelangelo (1475-1564). It continues to be the only volume to contain illustrations...

In 1999 Tobias Jones emigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he discovered a very different country, besieged by unfathomable terrorism...

Pope John Paul II declared the year 2000 a Jubilee year. This book looks at the first holy year in 1300, and the route of a prospective pilgrim, guiding the...

The first major biography of the Borgias in thirty years, Christopher Hibbert's latest history brings the family and the world they lived in--the glittering Rome of the Italian Renaissance--to life....

The gripping new action thriller novel from the million-copy bestselling author of the Matt Drake series Ex-MI5 operative Joe Mason is on a mission to stop a ruthless satanic group...

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...

FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR THE POWER OF GOD. THE AMBITION OF MEN. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel,...

Number One bestselling author Sophie Kinsella returns with the perfect summer read- an irresistible new standalone about falling in love with someone - but not necessarily with their life... I...

A gripping thriller based on true story of an Irish priest in the Vatican who smuggled victims of the Nazis out of Italy under the nose of his SS officer...

A bitingly honest, darkly funny debut novel about a toxic relationship and secret female desire, from an emerging star of Irish literature SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF...

From the beloved, bestselling, Oscar-nominated author of Taste- a funny, poignant, heartfelt and deeply satisfying serving of memories and meals and an irresistible celebration of the profound role that food...

From Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, a memoir about the accident that left him paralysed On Boxing Day 2022, in Rome, Hanif Kureishi had a fall. When...

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...

'One of the most original and brilliant debuts in years' Irish Times An exhilarating and fiercely original story of brotherhood, war and art, set in ancient Sicily Ancient Sicily. Enter...

Discover Dante's original Inferno - the inspiration for Dan Brown's new novel - in this modern and acclaimed Penguin translation Describing Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide,...

' 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...

The gripping new action thriller novel from the million-copy bestselling author of the Matt Drake series Ex-MI5 operative Joe Mason is on a mission to stop a ruthless satanic group...