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At The Edge Of The Woods by Kathryn Bromwich
RRP: $25.80$17.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953387318Author Kathryn BromwichFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Two Dollar RadioPublisher Two Dollar Radio -
Last Summer in the City by Gianfranco Calligarich 9781250849250
RRP: $21.93$14.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250849250Author Gianfranco CalligarichFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 193mm *... -
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
RRP: $12.89$7.26A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to the shop and get a... -
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
RRP: $12.89$9.17Fifty-five fictional cities, each described in beautiful detail - each with a woman's name... In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is... -
The Leopard: Revised and with new material by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
RRP: $12.89$9.17The Leopard is a modern classic which tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.'There is a great feeling of opulence, decay, love and death about it' Rick... -
Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
RRP: $12.89$10.00Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics,... -
Island Of The Day Before by Umberto Eco
RRP: $16.76$11.73The year is 1643. Roberto, a young nobleman, survives war, the Bastille, exile and shipwreck as he voyages to a Pacific island straddling the date meridian. There he waits now, alone on the mysteriously deserted Daphne, separated by treacherous reefs... -
A Love Affair by Dino Buzzati
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377124Author Dino BuzzatiFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Mr Palomar by Italo Calvino
RRP: $12.89$5.50Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge; 'it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek what is underneath'. Whether contemplating a fine cheese,... -
Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi
RRP: $12.89$9.17'Subtle, skillful, and clear. It's so clear, in fact, that you can see a very long way down, into the heart of a flawed but valiant human being, into the sickness of a nation, into the depths of political evil. It's the most impressive novel I've read... -
In the Sea There Are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda
RRP: $12.89$9.17I read somewhere that the decision to emigrate comes from a need to breathe. The hope of a better life is stronger than any other feeling. My mother decided it was better to know I was in danger far from her; but on the way to a different future, than to... -
The House on Via Gemito: Winner of the Strega Prize by Domenico Starnone
RRP: $20.63$14.98LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024 "Starnone uses languages the way a great painter works with colour, conjuring the illusion of three dimensions from a blank flat surface." -Jhumpa Lahiri "One of Italy's most accomplished novelists."... -
P.S. Come to Italy: The perfect uplifting and gorgeously romantic holiday read for summer 2023! by Nicky Pellegrino 9781398701052
RRP: $12.89$8.77'The ultimate escapist read!' VERONICA HENRY on To Italy, with Love'Deliciously romantic' ERICA JAMES on P.S. Come to ItalyWish you were here?When Belle's quiet, idyllic life on the coast starts to crumble, it's a stranger - thousands of miles away in... -
The Unforgivable: And Other Writings by Cristina Campo 9781681378022
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681378022Author Cristina CampoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Loyalty : 2023 bestseller, an action-packed epic of love and justice during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily. by Lisa Scottoline 9781915798183
RRP: $12.89$11.30Loyalty can save a soul - or destroy one.Franco Fiorvante is a handsome lemon-grower who has toiled for years on the estate of boss Baron Zito. Franco dreams of owning his own lemon grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambitions... -
Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino
RRP: $12.89$9.17Marcovaldo is an enchanting collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. Calvino charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with urban life, combining comical disasters with a... -
Baudolino by Umberto Eco
RRP: $16.76$11.73An extraordinary epic, brilliantly-imagined, new novel from a world-class writer and author of The Name of the Rose. Discover the Middle Ages with Baudolino - a wondrous, dazzling, beguiling tale of history, myth and invention. It is 1204, and... -
The Italian Matchmaker by Santa Montefiore 9781471133688
RRP: $11.60$7.51FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHORLose yourself in the sun-drenched hills of the Amalfi coast with bestselling author of Songs of Love and War, Santa Montefiore...Gianluca has to admit his life is empty so, in search of serenity and a deeper purpose... -
Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino
RRP: $14.18$10.87Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of twelve, retires to the trees for the rest of his days; Charlemagne's knight, Agiluf, is an empty suit of armour. These three vivid images are the... -
Boys Alive by Pier Paolo Pasolini 9781681377629
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377629Author Pier Paolo PasoliniFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante 9781681376844
RRP: $29.67$19.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376844Author Elsa MoranteFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Everything Calls for Salvation by Daniele Mencarelli
RRP: $18.05$13.56NETFLIX SERIES TO BE RELEASED OCTOBER 2022 WINNER OF THE 2020 YOUTH STREGA PRIZE "Mencarelli writes with the grace and power of a poet. His words illuminate truth like a flash of lightning."-Il Sole 24 Ore "Moving and engaging. This novel will stay... -
Hotel Portofino by John O'Connell
RRP: $11.60$7.51Romance, intrigue, and dangerous ambitions combine to create the perfect escape: welcome back to the beautiful Hotel Portofino on the magical Italian Riviera. HOTEL PORTOFINO: LOVERS AND LIARS IS OUT NOW! ***NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA*** A heady historical... -
Requiem: A Hallucination by Antonio Tabucchi
RRP: $10.31$7.47'A funny, sad novella about how we got here from there, and how, in our youth, "our eyes saw things differently"' The TimesA private meeting, chance encounters and a mysterious tour of Lisbon haunt this moving homage to Tabucchi's adopted cityIn the city... -
A Silence Shared by Lalla Romano
RRP: $14.18$9.18Forced back to her remote hometown by the war, Giulia is immediately drawn to a couple in a similar situation: graceful, spontaneous Ada and her husband Paolo, a sickly teacher and partisan in hiding. Joined from Turin by Giulia's husband Stefano, the... -
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
RRP: $14.18$10.87A fresh new translation of Collodi's cherished classic of childhood adventureCarved from a piece of magical wood by the old carpenter Geppetto, the puppet Pinocchio comes to life and is almost immediately cast into a series of extraordinary... -
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim 9781529072594
RRP: $14.18$9.69Originally published in 1922, Elizabeth Von Arnim's The Enchanted April is a charming and light-hearted novel about unlikely female friendships and the power of a blissful escape.Complete & Unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series... -
Theorem by Pier Paolo Pasolini 9781681377643
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377643Author Pier Paolo PasoliniFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Blue Hunger by Viola Di Grado
RRP: $19.34$12.64An Irish Times Book of the Year An electrifying descent from loneliness and grief into obsessive, all-consuming love, by an Italian literary star. 'When Xu bites me, when she has me in her teeth, naked and bad on top of me, everything is good.' In a... -
Never the Wind by Francesco Dimitri
RRP: $11.60$9.12A bittersweet gothic fantasy of family, friendship, memory, and the uncanny told from the perspective of a blind teenager in Puglia, Southern Italy, set in the same world as The Book of Hidden Things, perfect for readers of Neil Gaiman, Donna Tartt and... -
You, Bleeding Childhood by Michele Mari
RRP: $15.47$10.69Italy's great chronicler of the macabre and of growing up geeky. Long before the latest vogue for autofiction, Michele Mari, one of Italy's most beloved authors, cast his mind back to the days of his own childhood, and found it crawling with monsters... -
The Medici Murders by David Hewson 9781448306565
RRP: $27.08$22.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781448306565Author David HewsonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Severn HousePublisher Canongate BooksWeight(grams) 455gDimensions(mm) 223mm * 142mm *... -
Little Misunderstandings of No Importance by Antonio Tabucchi
RRP: $12.89$9.17The short story collection that launched Tabucchi to fame, reflecting on the uncertainties, memories, mistakes and mysteries of life Eleven short stories pivoting on life's ambiguities and the central question they pose in Tabucchi's fiction: is it... -
The Lovers by Paolo Cognetti
RRP: $19.34$14.13From the author of international bestseller The Eight Mountains comes a story of love and community in the wild beauty of the Italian AlpsThe remote alpine village of Fontana Fredda lives by the seasons. These quiet, complex rhythms appeal to Fausto, who... -
The Seamstress Of Sardinia by Bianca Pitzorno 9781922330536
RRP: $14.18$9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922330536Author Bianca PitzornoFormat PaperbackPage Count 289Imprint The Text Publishing CompanyPublisher Text Publishing -
Impossible by Erri De Luca 9781914495663
RRP: $14.18$9.55One morning, high in the Dolomite mountains, two hikers are some distance apart. The path in places is narrow and perilous. One man falls to his death. The other sounds the alarm. But these men are not strangers. Members of the same revolutionary group... -
P.S. Come to Italy by Nicky Pellegrino
RRP: $19.34$14.13'The ultimate escapist read!' VERONICA HENRY on To Italy, with Love'Deliciously romantic' ERICA JAMES on P.S. Come to Italy 'Knowing, compassionate and moving' CATHERINE ROBERTSON The scenery is swoonsome' STEVE BRAUNIAS on P.S. Come to Italy Wish you... -
Impossible by Erri De Luca
RRP: $19.34$12.64***Longlisted for the CWA Crime in Translation Dagger 2023***"If there's an entry point into the work of the enduring, award-winning Italian writer Erri De Luca, then N.S. Thompson's excellent translation is surely it ... Thoughtful and wise about life... -
The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy 9781913505448
RRP: $14.18$9.86Family, obsession, and privilege boiled down by the icy-hot Swiss-Italian master stylist Fleur Jaeggy. Even among Jaeggy's singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth's odd emotional... -
Stories of Southern Italy by Various
RRP: $16.76$11.73Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil and Ovid evoke a Sicily populated by Cyclopes and sea...