Trick is a stylish drama about ambition, family and old age that goes beyond the ordinary and predictable. Daniele Mallarico is a successful ilustrator who, in the twilight of his years, feels that his reputation and his artistic prowess are fading. Mario is Daniele's...
The first in the famous Neapolitan quartet of novels, in My Brilliant Friend we meet Elena and Lila for the first time as they navigate the beginning of their lifelong friendship, the poverty of 1950s Naples, and the inexplicable behaviour of adults. A literary...
Together with her partner, the Hungarian Endre Friedmann, Gerda Taro was one half of the alias Robert Capa, widely considered to be the twentieth century's greatest war and political photographer. Taro was killed while documenting the Spanish Civil War and tragically...
Ferocity, winner of the Strega prize in 2015, is an exhilirating, ambitious, and vivid work of fiction by Nicola LaGioia, one of Italy's foremost literary novelists. The story is set in the ’80s in southern Italy, mainly in the cities of Taranto and the author's home...
Italian seaside resorts are perhaps not so different from towns like Blackpool or Skegness, except for more reliable sunshine. Set in his home town of Forte dei Marmi on the Tuscan coast, Fabio Genovesi's Strega Prize-winning novel strips away the veneer and follows...
Mahir Guven’s prizewinning first novel is a blistering account of two French-Syrian brothers, growing into adulthood in a hostile Paris that offers them little in the way of opportunity. The story draws on the War in Syria as well as the repercussions from the Charlie...
Tuscan author and chemist Marco Malvaldi began writing in 2007 and is probably best known for his quirky detective series featuring barman Massimo and his elderly clientele-cum-sleuths at the Bar Lume.