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In 1742, when the legendary dome atop St. Peter's Basilica-designed by Michelangelo-cracks and threatens to collapse, Pope Benedict XIV summons three mathematicians whose groundbreaking ideas spark a revolution in the...

DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide Rome will lead you straight to the very best of this historic city. Whether you're looking for the most beautiful churches, the greatest walks...

Your Guide to the 10 Best of Everything in Venice. Discover the best of everything the city has to offer with this essential, pocketsized DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide-...

Reimagine family-friendly comfort food: this comprehensive cookbook makes daily home cooking a nourishing, easy, and anticipated part of the day. At Home Favorites provides cozy home cooks with flavorful and...

Discover the world of Skulduggery Pleasant in this prequel to the bestselling series. So many enemies, so little time . . . Italy, 1703. As the war with Mevolent rages...

In the early hours of Monday 28th December 1908, a girl steals through the garden of Villa Mazzini. Lilla is on her way to meet Enzo and together they intend...

FROM INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR ANIKA SCOTT Madame Mystique is a performer extraordinaire, come to work her scandalous magic at the glittering 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Of African American and Sicilian...

"A superior police procedural" Mark Sanderson, The Times Crime Club "Northern Italy's answer to Inspector Montalbano" Alessandro Baricco September 2008. Commissario Arcadipane arrives at the scene of a macabre discovery:...

Escape to Rome with this sparkling summer romance! 'Art, history, intrigue, travel and romance - this book has it all . . . an immersive and intriguing romance - utterly...

The home of trusted Italian dictionaries for everyday language learning. Comprehensive and authoritative, this dictionary is the ideal Italian to English and English to Italian bilingual dictionary for advanced students...

From the bestselling author of the Brunetti crime series comes The Jewels of Paradise, a gripping tale of intrigue, music, history and greed and Donna Leon's first stand-alone novel. From...

Don't miss the third adrenaline-filled, action-adventure in the Joe Mason series! When Joe Mason agrees to transport a priceless gold basin to its new owner, the ex-MI5 operative arrives only...

This brand new and fully updated edition provides a comprehensive and highly visual introduction to Sardinia. Superb new photography captures the rich history, rugged landscape, local people and variety of...

Now more than ever, you can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Rome. Explore ancient ruins and view Renaissance masterpieces...

Savour the art of slow cooking the Italian way, where flavours deepen and texture is softened to create comforting, inexpensive meals with little fuss whilst you enjoy the convenience of...

In an Italian city ravaged by plague, Sofia's mother carves beautiful mementoes from bones. But one day, she doesn't return home. Did her work lead her into danger? Sofia and...

A BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR: Wired , Food & Wine , Epicurious , & Esquire Winner, 2025 Libby Award for Best Cookbook of the Year The innovative James Beard...

Jewish people have lived in Italy for thousands of years, yet their contributions to Italian cuisine have been largely untold. Cooking alla Giudia shares the recipes, but also the connections...

A coming-of-age novel about love and obsession, set in a silent convent in 1950s Italy Isabella is worldly, alluring and brazen. Everything that Bridget is not. So when they both...

Penguin Classics relaunch Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo....

From Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, a memoir about the accident that left him paralysed 'A few days ago, a bomb went off in my life, but...

The groundbreaking, intimate and inspiring memoir from Pope Francis. The wish of Pope Francis was for HOPE, on which he has been working for six years, to be published posthumously....

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...

Part of a series of new editions of DH Lawrence's most famous novels, stories and poems In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of...

Renowned historian John Julius Norwich's classic history of Venice - with a fresh new cover look Intricate, captivating, beautiful, romantic, unique, unforgettable . . . A History of Venice tells...

A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with...

A brilliant reinvention of the detective novel, set in Renaissance Florence and packed with art, scandal, murder and scheming - from the author of the international bestseller HHhH. Florence, New...

FROM THE WORLD OF PERCY JACKSON The fourth novel in Rick Riordan's best-selling Heroes of Olympus series - now as a graphic novel! FROM THE WORLD OF PERCY JACKSON The...

'Brilliant-a feast' Guardian 'This brilliant collection of essays should be a feast for his admirers, as well as for those who approach his dazzling oeuvre for the first time-Calvino is...

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...

Goethe's famous account of his time and travels in Italy In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe set out on...

Jhumpa Lahiri's rich and varied selection of the greatest Italian writing of the twentieth century, now a Penguin Classics paperback This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over...

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 -...

A thrilling travelogue of the year Dickens spent in Italy in the mid 1840s, published at a time when interest in his more marginal work is constantly increasing. In 1844,...

A deeply knowledgeable and enjoyable account of what makes the Italians tick Sublime and maddening, fascinating yet baffling, Italy is a country of endless paradox and seemingly unanswerable riddles. John...

A delightful book about Italy's unexpected history, told through its citrus fruits The story of citrus runs through the history of Italy like a golden thread, and by combining travel...

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...

Secrets, lies and murder in the heart of the Vatican. The thrilling new instalment in the Private series. A priest is murdered and a Private agent is the number one...

A new look for the landmark thirtieth instalment of the global bestselling Commissario Brunetti series Chosen as Star Pick in the Sunday Times Crime Club Chosen as a 'Best New...

Tonks on holiday - a charming, funny and sun-soaked novel by the author of The Bloater. Fun, witty and sun-soaked - literary cartwheels and seaside capers from the astoundingly brilliant...

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...

Funny, irreverent and full of joy, this is the perfect book to accompany you on holiday - a celebration of escaping the everyday WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BRENDA BOWEN Mrs...

From the bestselling author of Normandy '44, containing new and unpublished research, this is the largely untold story of the critical campaign that became a vital precursor to D-Day. 'James...

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...

A rich historical novel about the aftermath of betrayal, from the Booker prize-winner 'What was freedom, she thought, other than the right to exercise one's choices?' Isabel Osmond, a spirited,...

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...

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...

Pavese's seductive masterpiece of memory and betrayal in the Italian countryside, in a vivid new translation by Tim Parks Having made his fortune in America, Eel is magnetically drawn back...