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If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
RRP: $20.98$12.22A 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... -
The Leopard: Revised and with new material by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
RRP: $20.98$12.56The 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... -
Last Summer in the City by Gianfranco Calligarich 9781250849250
RRP: $35.70$21.11Apologies 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 *... -
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
RRP: $20.98$14.93Fifty-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... -
A Love Affair Dino Buzzati 9781681377124
RRP: $35.68$24.23Apologies 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 -
Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi
RRP: $20.98$14.93'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: $20.98$14.93I 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... -
Island Of The Day Before by Umberto Eco
RRP: $27.28$19.09The 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... -
The House on Via Gemito: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024 Domenico Starnone 9781787704534
RRP: $33.58$24.38LONGLISTED 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."... -
Mr Palomar by Italo Calvino
RRP: $20.98$9.28Mr 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,... -
P.S. Come to Italy: The perfect uplifting and gorgeously romantic holiday read for summer 2023! by Nicky Pellegrino 9781398701052
RRP: $20.98$12.52'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 Cristina Campo 9781681378022
RRP: $35.68$24.23Apologies 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 -
The Italian Matchmaker by Santa Montefiore 9781471133688
RRP: $18.88$12.22FROM 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... -
Loyalty : 2023 bestseller, an action-packed epic of love and justice during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily. by Lisa Scottoline 9781915798183
RRP: $20.98$14.93Loyalty 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: $20.98$14.93Marcovaldo 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: $27.28$19.09An 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... -
Boys Alive Pier Paolo Pasolini 9781681377629
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies 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: $48.30$32.70Apologies 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 -
Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
RRP: $20.98$16.28Introducing 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,... -
Everything Calls for Salvation by Daniele Mencarelli
RRP: $29.38$19.45NETFLIX 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... -
Requiem: A Hallucination by Antonio Tabucchi
RRP: $16.78$12.16'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... -
Hotel Portofino by John O'Connell
RRP: $18.88$12.22Romance, 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... -
A Silence Shared by Lalla Romano
RRP: $23.08$14.95Forced 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... -
Theorem Pier Paolo Pasolini 9781681377643
RRP: $33.58$22.95Apologies 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)... -
At The Edge Of The Woods by Kathryn Bromwich
RRP: $42.00$28.04Apologies 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 -
Blue Hunger by Viola Di Grado
RRP: $31.48$20.58An 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... -
Our Ancestors by Italo Calvino
RRP: $23.08$17.70Viscount 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... -
You, Bleeding Childhood by Michele Mari
RRP: $25.18$17.41Italy'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 David Hewson 9781448306565
RRP: $44.08$36.10Apologies 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: $20.98$14.93The 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 Seamstress Of Sardinia Bianca Pitzorno 9781922330536
RRP: $23.08$15.54Apologies 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 Erri De Luca 9781914495663
RRP: $23.08$15.54One 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: $31.48$23.00'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 Erri De Luca 9781914495373
RRP: $31.48$20.58***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: $23.08$16.04Family, 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: $27.28$19.09Woven 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... -
The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy
RRP: $23.08$17.01Even among Fleur Jaeggy's singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth's odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part structured as a play: the dramatis personae include the... -
Distant Light by Antonio Moresco
RRP: $31.48$20.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914671428Author Antonio MorescoFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Archipelago BooksPublisher Archipelago BooksWeight(grams) 195g -
The Celestial City by Diego Marani 9781915568229
RRP: $20.98$17.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915568229Author Diego MaraniFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd -
Difficult Loves and Other Stories by Italo Calvino
RRP: $23.08$16.32A spectacular display of this key European writer's early workThis dazzling collection of stories follows the individual adventures of a varied cast of characters and masterfully illustrates Calvino's unique perspective and narrative gifts. As well as...