Best Novels About Italy - April 2024

Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

Called “tremendously entertaining” (The New York Times) Stephanie Storey’s brilliant bestselling debut, brings early 16th-century Florence, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo Buonarroti alive for art lovers and readers of historical fiction.With extraordinary empathy into the minds and souls of the two great Renaissance artists, Storey offers a stunning art history thriller. From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a temperamental sculpt... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1628729066
• ASIN: 1628729066
• ISBN: 1628729066
• Brand: Arcade
• Manufacturer: Arcade

The Tuscan Secret: An absolutely gripping, emotional, World War 2 historical novel

Il Mulino. An old crumbling mill, by a winding river, nestled in the Tuscan mountains. An empty home that holds memories of homemade pasta and Nonna’s stories by the fire, and later: the Nazi invasion, and a family torn apart by a heartbreaking betrayal.Anna is distraught when her beloved mother, Ines, passes away. She inherits a box of papers, handwritten in Italian and yellowed with age, and a tantalising promise that the truth about what happened during the war lies within.The diaries lead Anna to the small village of Rofelle, where she slowly starts to heal as she explores sun-kissed oli... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1786819597
• ASIN: 1786819597
• ISBN: 1786819597
• Manufacturer: Bookouture

A Song for Bellafortuna: An Italian Historical Fiction Novel

A GRIPPING SICILIAN SAGA. A SWEEPING EPIC TALE OF LOVE, DRAMA, SACRIFICE, AND REDEMPTION, SET AMONG THE BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE OF SICILY. *WINNER OF THE B.R.A.G. MEDALLION AWARD IN HISTORICAL FICTIONThe beautiful, yet secluded, hilltop village of Bellafortuna, Sicily, is a great producer of wine and olive oil. The entire village prospers. However, after the arrival of the Vasaio family, production dwindles and the villagers soon find themselves in crushing debt to the Vasaios. Only the Sanguinetti family remains outside the control of the Vasaios, but the reason haunts Antonio Sanguinetti every d... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00U8ZYF2Q
• ASIN: B00U8ZYF2Q
• Manufacturer: Cefalutana Press

The Tuscan Child

From New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Rhys Bowen comes a haunting novel about a woman who braves her father’s hidden past to discover his secrets… “Pass the bread, the olives, and the wine. Oh, and a copy of The Tuscan Child to savor with them.” —NPRIn 1944, British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into the verdant fields of German-occupied Tuscany. Badly wounded, he found refuge in a ruined monastery and in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. But the love that kindled between them was shaken by an irreversible betrayal.Nearly thirty years ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B074QL7WNM
• ASIN: B074QL7WNM
• Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

LAKE COMO

Hallie Elliot has a perfect life. She is an up-and-coming interior designer in one of San Francisco's most sought after firms, and has just recently become engaged to Peter, a brilliant young journalist. But when she stumbles upon Peter and her boss in what seems to be a compromising position, her trust in her perfect life is shaken. So Hallie escapes to Lake Como, Italy to spend time with her half-sister, Portia Tesoro, an Italian blueblood dealing with the scandal of a public estrangement from her cheating husband. While staying in the Tesoro villa, Hallie falls in love with the splendor and... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250017734
• ASIN: 1250017734
• ISBN: 1250017734
• Brand: Brand: St. Martin's Griffin
• Manufacturer: Griffin

Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel

Soon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland.Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the USA Today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours. Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager—obsessed with music, food, and girls—but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews esc... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1503943372
• ASIN: 1503943372
• ISBN: 1503943372
• Brand: Lake Union Publishing
• Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

Ordinary Grace: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL WINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARD A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013 From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger, a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961.“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.” New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the so... [Read More]

• ASIN: B008J2G5Y6
• ASIN: B008J2G5Y6
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

My Very Italian Holiday: The perfect feel good romantic comedy

‘I absolutely LOVED, no make that ADORED reading it… I was hooked… Stayed up reading until the early hours… Made me laugh out loud and I got some strange looks on the bus for it.’ Ginger Book Geek, 5 stars After losing the love of her life in a tragic accident, thirty-year-old Gina is struggling. Running her little guesthouse in the hills of the Lake District keeps her going, but her heart isn’t in it any more. When new guest, Fabio Garcia, arrives, Gina feels a spark that reminds her she’s alive. He’s tall, dark but with startling blue eyes, and makes her laugh, for the first ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1786816067
• ASIN: 1786816067
• ISBN: 1786816067
• Manufacturer: Bookouture

That Month in Tuscany

That Month in Tuscany . . .Ren Sawyer and Lizzy Harper live completely different lives. He’s a rock star with a secret he can no longer live with. She’s a regular person whose husband stood her up for a long planned anniversary trip. On a flight across the Atlantic headed for Italy, a drunken pity party and untimely turbulence literally drop Lizzy into Ren’s lap. It is the last thing she can imagine ever happening to someone like her. But despite their surface differences, they discover an undeniable pull between them. A pull that leads them both to remember who they had once been before... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0997341521
• ASIN: 0997341521
• ISBN: 0997341521
• Manufacturer: Fence Free Entertainment, LLC

The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo

Irving Stone’s classic biographical novel of Michelangelo—the #1 New York Times bestseller in which both the artist and the man are brought to vivid, captivating life. His time—the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring Popes, and the all-powerful de'Medici family... His loves—the frail and lovely daughter of Lorenzo de'Medici, the ardent mistress of Marco Aldovrandi, and his last love, his greatest love—the beautiful, unhappy Vittoria Colonna... His genius—a God-driven fury from which he wrested brilliant work that made a grasp for heaven unmatched in half... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0451171357
• ASIN: 0451171357
• ISBN: 9780451171351
• Brand: Signet
• Manufacturer: Berkley

Leonardo da Vinci

• ASIN: B071Y385Q1
• ASIN: B071Y385Q1
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Sempre Avanti ALWAYS FORWARD: A Novel About the Tenth Mountain Division in WWII (The Camp Hale Series) (Volume 1)

Skiing was Jack Franklin’s passion, so when the Army came recruiting for the newly formed Ski Troopers he was all in. Training at high altitudes in the Rocky Mountains’ Army camp at Camp Hale in Colorado was brutal, but the twelve thousand soldiers who trained there evolved into an elite corps, the Tenth Mountain Division, ready and eager to take on Hitler’s best in the Italian Alps.Along the way, Jack formed a long-distance relationship with the woman who recruited him ~ but her East Coast socialite background was as opposite his West Coast blue-collar life as it could possibly be. With... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1977956068
• ASIN: 1977956068
• ISBN: 1977956068
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The House at the Edge of Night: A Novel

“A perfect summer read [that] brims with heart . . . Don’t be surprised if you keep turning the pages long into the night, spellbound by its magic.”—The Denver PostA sweeping saga about four generations of a family who live and love on an enchanting island off the coast of Italy—combining the romance of Beautiful Ruins with the magical tapestry of works by Isabel Allende.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Los Angeles Public Library • Kirkus Reviews“Captivating . . . [Catherine] Banner’s four-generation saga is set on an island near Sicily, where myths of saints... [Read More]

• ASIN: B016GRO8P8
• ASIN: B016GRO8P8
• Manufacturer: Random House

My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One

Now an HBO series, book one in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends growing up in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted family epic by Italy’s most beloved and acclaimed writer, Elena Ferrante, “one of the great novelists of our time.” (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times)   Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Ferrante’s four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its protagonists, the fiery and unforgettable Lila, and the bookish narrator, Elena, become women, wives, mothers, and lea... [Read More]

• ASIN: B079MGWXK6
• ASIN: B079MGWXK6
• Manufacturer: Europa Editions

Call Me by Your Name: A Novel

Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by Three-Time Oscar™ Nominee James IvoryThe Basis of the Oscar-Winning Best Adapted ScreenplayA New York Times BestsellerA USA Today Bestseller A Los Angeles Times BestsellerA Vulture Book Club Pick An Instant Classic and One of the Great Love Stories of Our TimeAndre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250169445
• ASIN: 1250169445
• ISBN: 9781250169440
• Brand: Picador
• Manufacturer: Holtzbrinck Publishers

I'm So Happy for You : A novel about best friends

Wendy's best friend, Daphne, has always been dependably prone to catastrophe. And Wendy has always been there to help. But when Daphne suddenly starts to surpass her in every way, Wendy is not so happy

• UPC: 10762203
• Rating: 3.857

Best S/M Erotica, Volume 2 : More Extreme Stories About, Extreme Sex

Following up on the overwhelming success of the first volume comes this second, containing more tales of extreme sex. Sex on the edge is the theme of this unique collection that goes way beyond silk

• UPC: 4325270

The International: ‘The best book about the Troubles ever written’ - eBook

Saturday, 28 January 1967. It is a day like any other for eighteen-year-old Danny, pulling pints behind the bar of the International Hotel in Belfast, watching the comings and goings of the eccentric clientele. But

• UPC: 372386609
• Rating: 4.0

I Hate Everyone But You : A Novel About Best Friends

The instant New York Times bestseller and an Autumn 2017 Indie Next Pick, now in trade paperback.The instant New York Times bestseller from Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin that POPSUGAR named one of the Best

• UPC: 496672448
• Rating: 4.167

W. Somerset Maugham - The Magician : "it's a Very Funny Thing about Life; If You Refuse to Accept Anything But the Best, You Very Often Get It."

"W. Somerset Maugham - The Magician : ""It's a Very Funny Thing about Life; If You Refuse to Accept Anything But the Best, You Very Often Get

• UPC: 53605147
• Rating: 3.167

A Dish Best Served Cold - eBook

The national bestselling author of The Wedding Soup Murder returns to the Jersey Shore where a killer is stirring up trouble during a hurricane…At the Casa Lido, the end of summer means a party, and

• UPC: 705447543
• Rating: 4.0

Ask Me About Polyamory : The Best of Kimchi Cuddles

A hilarious and touching comic about polyamory, queer, and genderqueer

• UPC: 53961233
• Rating: 4.0

Best Day Ever : A Riveting Psychological Thriller about the Perfect Marriage

"Paul Strom has the perfect life: a glittering career as an advertising executive, a beautiful wife, two healthy boys, and a big house in a wealthy suburb. And he's the perfect husband: breadwinner, protector, provider.

• UPC: 55859791
• Rating: 3.786

Best Jokes Ever About Aliens - eBook

Read the most ridiculous jokes about aliens. We have collected all jokes about aliens who only are in network. Jokes about aliens, Martians, little green men and the UFO: the best. For example, UFOs to

• UPC: 658251726

Fingerless Gloves: A Story About Best Friends And Mistakes - eBook

Tonight will be the most difficult night in 25-year-old Anton Duchamp’s life.When his best friend James Squire is mysteriously rushed to hospital, Anton begins a night-long journey that takes him from shady, marijuana-smoke-filled apartments to

• UPC: 787013239