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"After Ferrante" with Rebecca Servadio, Christopher MacLehose, Eva Ferri. "Suburra. When in Rome, do as Netflix does" with Giancarlo De Cataldo.
Saleem Haddad
The Polari Prize
Guapa by Saleem Haddad has been included in the Polari First Book Prize shortlist. The winner will be revealed on 13th October.
The Story of the Lost Child on BBC Radio 4
Elena Ferrante
The dramatization of The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante will be broadcasted on BBC Radio 4 on 1st October and the two following Sundays.
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The Neapolitan Novels
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Elena Ferrante
My Brilliant Friend
2012, pp. 336, £ 11.99A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about... -
Elena Ferrante
The Story of a New Name
2013, pp. 480, £ 11.99The Story of a New Name is a sweeping, generous-hearted, and brilliantly realized masterpiece by one of Italy's most important contemporary... -
Elena Ferrante
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
2014, pp. 400, £ 11.99In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women -
Elena Ferrante
The Story of the Lost Child
2015, pp. 464, £ 11.99This fourth and final of Elena Ferrante's renowned Neapolitan Novels follows the concluding chapter in the moving and turbulent friendship of Elena...
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"After Ferrante" with Rebecca Servadio, Christopher MacLehose, Eva Ferri. "Suburra. When in Rome, do as Netflix does" with Giancarlo De Cataldo. -
Saleem Haddad's Guapa Shortlisted for Polari Prize
Guapa by Saleem Haddad has been included in the Polari First Book Prize shortlist. -
Read It & Eat: A Neapolitan feast in aid of Worldreader
Please join us on Monday 19 June for an evening of southern Italian food inspired by Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels in aid of Worldreader.
Recent reviews
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The book I wish I’d written I aborted a third novel, and it’s interesting (for about five seconds) to imagine what I would have produced had I soldiered on through to the end of it. I might have liked to do groundbreaking work such as Haruki Murakami’s Wind-Up Bird...— The Guardian, Sep 26 2017![]()
Carlo Bonini and Giancarlo De Cataldo have written a blistering, grimly absorbing satire.— New Statesman, Sep 24 2017![]()
A splendid portrait of the corruption that took hold of the Roman region during the Berlusconi years as mafia, politicians and local hoods all dipped their fingers into the kitty…— Crime Time, Sep 20 2017![]()
Berlusconi Babylon might be an alternative title for Carlo Bonini and Giancarlo De Cataldo’s Suburra, translated by Antony Shugaar (Europa £13.99), which has already been turned into an Italian Netflix series. Set in Rome in 2011, the bunga-bunga premier’s last year in power,...— The Times, Sep 17 2017![]()
Caustic and blunt, Suburra is a reminder that crime fiction can say as much about a society as other genres.— The Guardian, Sep 17 2017![]()
This debut novel by young Mexican author Aura Xilonen is written from the perspective of an illegal immigrant lives in a border town straddling the US and Mexico who becomes a champion boxer. Written in “Spanglish”, the sucker-punch filled story offers a torn reflection...— iNews, Sep 13 2017![]()
The wonderful thing about being a reader is that even when you’re familiar with the classics of English literature, there are still bookshelves all over the world to explore. These writers, featured in Radio 4’s Reading Europe series, are some of the most famous novelists...— BBC Radio 4, Sep 11 2017![]()
Italy has become stiff competition for Mexico these days in matters of film, and TV series about organized crime. Books, of course, have been the catalyst for nearly all of these recent adaptations. First, in 2005 the powerful and award-winning film Romanzo Criminale, adapted...— Bookwitty, Sep 11 2017
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Carlo Bonini, Giancarlo De Cataldo
Suburra
2017, pp. 528, £ 13.99Fast-paced crime thriller set in Rome: Gomorrah meets House of Cards -
Maurizio de Giovanni
Glass Souls. Moths for Commissario Ricciardi
2017, pp. 416, £ 12.99The eighth entry in Maurizio de Giovanni's internationally bestselling Commissario Ricciardi series. -
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Maurizio de Giovanni
Darkness for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone
2016, pp. 320, £ 10.99A child is kidnapped. A high-class apartment is burgled. The two crimes seem to have no connection at all until Inspector Lojacono, known as “the... -
Massimo Carlotto
For All the Gold in the World
2016, pp. 192, £ 9.99A brand new Carlotto, darker than ever... -
Maurizio de Giovanni
The Bastards of Pizzofalcone
2016, pp. 228, £ 12.99A new series of hardboiled crime fiction set in contemporary Naples by the author of the internationally bestselling Commissario Ricciardi series.