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Loyalty : 2023 bestseller, an action-packed epic of love and justice during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily. by Lisa Scottoline 9781915798183
RRP: €11.89€8.46Loyalty 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... -
A History of Contemporary Italy: 1943-80 by Paul Ginsborg
RRP: €17.84€13.03In this long-awaited book (already a major bestseller in Italy) Ginsborg has created a fascinating, sophisticated and definitive account of how Italy has coped, or failed to cope, with the past two decades. Contemporary Italy strongly mirrors Britain -... -
The Long Range Desert Group in Action 1940-1943: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Brendan O'Carroll 9781526777416
RRP: €19.03€14.61The Long Range Desert Group has a strong claim to the first Special Forces unit in the British Army. This superb illustrated history follows the LRDG from its July 1940 formation as the Long Range Patrol in North Africa, tasked with intelligence... -
The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance by Dr Ross King
RRP: €15.46€10.82'A marvel of storytelling and a masterclass in the history of the book' WALL STREET JOURNALThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - the dazzling handiwork of the city's artists and architects. But equally... -
The Discourses by Niccolo Machiavelli
RRP: €15.46€10.82Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. But while his treatise The Prince made his name synonymous with autocratic ruthlessness and cynical manipulation, The Discourses (c.1517) shows a radically... -
Baroque Naples and the Industry of Painting: The World in the Workbench by Christopher R. Marshall
RRP: €68.43€58.67The second largest city in 17th-century Europe, Naples constituted a vital Mediterranean center in which the Spanish Habsburgs, the clergy, and Neapolitan aristocracy, together with the resident merchants, and other members of the growing professional... -
Sardinia: Island of Myth and Magic by Edward Burman
RRP: €23.80€17.48An exploration of Sardinia's incredibly rich history and culture, which stretches back to the Neolithic period. This book details everyone from the Phoenicians to the Carthaginians and Aragonese who invaded Sardinia, which is covered with some of the... -
The Poor in Western Europe in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries by Stuart Woolf
RRP: €49.97€43.73First published in 1986, this book examines poverty and changing attitudes towards the poor and charity across England, France and Italy. It discusses the causes of poverty and the distinctions between the poor and the class-conscious proletariat. Taking... -
Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well by Pellegrino Artusi 9780802086570
RRP: €53.55€51.46First published in 1891, Pellegrino Artusi's La scienza in cucina e l'arte di mangier bene has come to be recognized as the most significant Italian cookbook of modern times. It was reprinted thirteen times and had sold more than 52,000 copies in the... -
Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary D. Garrard
RRP: €21.36€21.15Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the pre-modern era. Her art addresses issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women's problematic relationship to political power. Her powerful paintings with their vigorous... -
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini 9780140447187
RRP: €17.84€13.03Benvenuto Cellini was a celebrated Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith - a passionate craftsman who was admired and resented by the most powerful political and artistic personalities in sixteenth-century Florence, Rome and Paris. He was also a murderer... -
Swordfish: The Story of the Taranto Raid by David Wragg
RRP: €11.89€7.09The daring British air raid that inspired the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.In November 1940 Britain was isolated in its stand against Nazi Germany and its ally, Italy. The country could not afford to lose control of the Mediterranean, but the Royal... -
Italian Communism in Transition: The Rise and Fall of the Historic Compromise in Turin, 1975-1980 by Stephen Hellman 9780195053357
€82.73This is a study of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) during the most critical period of its recent history. In the mid-1970s, the PCI almost succeeded in entering the national government; by the end of that decade, it had been relegated to the opposition... -
Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead 9781529112016 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€6.21A thrilling biography of Benito Mussolini's favourite daughter, and a heart-stopping account of the unravelling of the Fascist dream in Italy'Engrossing... Moorehead has a spirited turn of phrase, a keen eye for the telling detail and pungent quote, and... -
Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead 9781529112016
RRP: €15.46€10.82A thrilling biography of Benito Mussolini's favourite daughter, and a heart-stopping account of the unravelling of the Fascist dream in Italy'Engrossing... Moorehead has a spirited turn of phrase, a keen eye for the telling detail and pungent quote, and... -
Giro d'Italia: The Story of the World's Most Beautiful Bike Race by Colin O'Brien
RRP: €13.08€9.25The story of the Giro d'Italia - Italy's equivalent of the Tour de France, and its superior in the eyes of many - is as dramatic and full of extraordinary characters as the story of Italy itself. Heroism, suffering, feuds and betrayals, tradition under... -
In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Cultural History of Naples by Jordan Lancaster
RRP: €15.46€11.65The definitive companion for anyone seeking to delve beneath the surface of Naples. Naples is an Italian city like no other. Drama and darkness are often associated with the Naples, which rests beneath active Mount Vesuvius and is the home of the... -
Roman Standards & Standard-Bearers 1: 112 BC-AD 192 by Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: €17.84€13.03Roman unit standards played a important role, both ceremonially and on the battlefield. With the armies of the late Roman Republic and early Empire continually engaged on the frontiers, the soldiers selected for the dangerous honour of carrying them were... -
Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens
RRP: €14.27€10.03'When Dickens has described something you see it for the rest of your life' George OrwellIn 1844, Charles Dickens took a break from novel writing to travel through Italy for almost a year, and Pictures from Italy is an illuminating account of his... -
The Prince (Reader's Library Classics) by Niccolò Machiavelli 9781954839274
RRP: €7.13€6.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954839274Author Niccol MachiavelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Reader's Library ClassicsPublisher Reader's Library ClassicsWeight(grams)... -
La Serenissima: The Story of Venice by Jonathan Keates 9781789545067
RRP: €17.84€11.66'Everything about Venice,' observed Lord Byron, 'is, or was, extraordinary - her aspect is like a dream, and her history is like a romance.' Dream and romance have conditioned myriad encounters with Venice across the centuries, but the city's story... -
The Godmother: Murder, Vengeance, and the Women Who Took Over the Mafia by Barbie Latza Nadeau
RRP: €10.70€7.68The killing took place outside a busy coffee bar in Naples in broad daylight. Pupetta was eighteen years old and six months pregnant when she pulled the gun from her bag.The victim?A man known as Big Tony who had ordered the hit on her husband just... -
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style by Michael Baxandall 9780192821447
RRP: €20.22€14.61This book is both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting, and a primer in how to read social history out of the style of pictures. It examines the commercial practice of the early Renaissance picture, trade in contracts, letters, and... -
What A Bloody Awful Country: Northern Ireland's century of division by Kevin Meagher 9781785906664
RRP: €23.80€17.23'For God's sake, bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country!' HOME SECRETARY REGINALD MAUDLING, RETURNING FROM HIS FIRST VISIT TO NORTHERN IRELAND IN 1970 In the early years of the twentieth century, simmering discontent began to boil over... -
In Sicily by Norman Lewis
RRP: €15.46€10.23In Sicily is a loving take on an extraordinary island, based on Norman Lewis's sixty-yearlong fascination with all things Sicilian! Few places on earth have escaped the singular eye of Norman Lewis, but always, in the course of his long career, he has... -
Rome: Eternal City by Ferdinand Addis 9781781853047
RRP: €15.46€10.82The sweeping story of the city of Rome, told through twenty-two moments that shaped its history. ***A Times History Book of the Year*** 'Vivid, pacey... Superb' The Times. 'Grand narrative underpinned by serious reading' Guardian. 'Confident,... -
Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, The Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 by Robert C. Davis 9781403945518
RRP: €33.31€30.52This is a study that digs deeply into this 'other' slavery, the bondage of Europeans by North-African Muslims that flourished during the same centuries as the heyday of the trans-Atlantic trade from sub-Saharan Africa to the Americas. Here are explored... -
The Day Of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy 1943-44 by Rick Atkinson
RRP: €20.22€14.21In An Army at Dawn - winner of the Pulitzer Prize - Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of the Battle, he follows the strengthening American and British armies as they invade... -
The Light of Italy: The Life and Times of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino by Jane Stevenson 9781800241978
RRP: €35.70€24.93The story of the Renaissance city and palace of Urbino, and the life of the extraordinary man who created it: Federico da Montefeltro. 'Painstakingly researched and yet unfailingly readable' Ross King 'An insight into one of Renaissance Italy's... -
The Honoured Society: The Sicilian Mafia Observed by Norman Lewis 9780907871484
RRP: €17.84€11.66the best book on the Mafia in Sicily - its origins, its code of honour, its secrecy and its brutality. A chilling insight. - reveals how Mafia violence and corruption crept even into every aspect of Sicilian society, including the police and the church -... -
Father and Son: A memoir about family, the past and mortality by Jonathan Raban 9780330418409
RRP: €26.18€17.97A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023'A beautiful, compelling memoir . . . Father and Son is an exquisite, sometimes lunatic tension between powerful emotions and carnage on one side, and on the other, the conventional codes of what must remain unsaid. This,... -
A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini by Caroline Moorehead 9780099590156 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€2.73SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDMussolini was not only ruthless: he was subtle and manipulative. Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work for him: arson, murder, destruction of homes and offices, bribes and intimidation. His opponents - including... -
A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: €11.89€8.46SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDMussolini was not only ruthless: he was subtle and manipulative. Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work for him: arson, murder, destruction of homes and offices, bribes and intimidation. His opponents - including... -
Pompeii by Dr Alison E. Cooley 9781350125216
RRP: €23.79€20.03This second edition of Alison E. Cooley's accessible introduction to Pompeii takes into account the major new theories and discoveries that have emerged since the first edition was published 20 years ago. Italy's third most popular tourist... -
Lev's Violin: An Italian Adventure by Helena Attlee 9780141991078
RRP: €13.08€9.25*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*'Utterly enthralling - a beautifully-written voyage of discovery that takes us deep into the heart of music-making' Deborah MoggachFrom the moment she hears Lev's violin for the first time, Helena Attlee is captivated. She is... -
Calcio: A History of Italian Football by John Foot
RRP: €17.84€11.54The first history of Italian football to be written in English, 'Calcio' is a mix of serious analysis and comic storytelling, with vivid descriptions of games, goals, dives, missed penalties, riots and scandals in the richest and toughest league in the... -
The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on The World's Most Powerful Mafia by Alex Perry
RRP: €13.08€8.63You are born into it or marry in. Loyalty is absolute, bloodshed revered and you kill or go to your grave before betraying The Family. This code of omerta is how the 'Ndrangheta became the world's most powerful mafia. The Good Mothers is... -
A Brief History of Italy by Jeremy Black 9781472140890 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€5.37'Jeremy Black skilfully sketches social, cultural and political trends' - Christina Hardyment, Times audiobook of the week'A remarkable mixture of cold history, wide culture and personal experience'Ciro Paoletti, Secretary General of the Italian... -
A Brief History of Italy by Jeremy Black
RRP: €13.08€8.81'Jeremy Black skilfully sketches social, cultural and political trends' - Christina Hardyment, Times audiobook of the week'A remarkable mixture of cold history, wide culture and personal experience'Ciro Paoletti, Secretary General of the Italian... -
Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: €23.80€17.48'Vividly told, engrossing history' CLARE MULLEY, author of The Women Who Flew for Hitler'Precise, empathic . . . a profoundly satisfying, albeit wistful, read and . . . a worryingly relevant one' GUARDIANA thrilling biography of Benito Mussolini's...