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Domenico Starnone
Ties
"Absolutely gripping from start to finish… a really stunning book."—Victoria Hislop
Saleem Haddad
The Polari Prize
Guapa by Saleem Haddad has been included in the Polari First Book Prize longlist. Shortlist announced on 31st July 2017.
Elena Ferrante
HBO joins Rai to coproduce the tv series based on Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet
HBO and Italian state broadcaster Rai have teamed up on “My Brilliant Friend,” the hotly anticipated drama series based on the first of four “Neapolitan Novels” written by Italian author Elena Ferrante, whose books have legions of fervent fans around the world.
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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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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. -
Saleem Haddad's Guapa Longlisted for Polari Prize
Guapa by Saleem Haddad has been included in the Polari First Book Prize longlist. -
Crime Writers' Association International Dagger Award
The Bastards of Pizzofalcone has been longlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association International Dagger Award.
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50 years ago in July 1967, the Sexual Offences Act decriminalised homosexual behaviour between men over the age of 21 in England and Wales. To commemorate this landmark Act, we’ve put together a list of important gay literature from the past 100 years, including classics, debuts,...— VHSmith, Jun 23 2017![]()
Elena Ferrante’s novels evoke the Neapolitan city in all its drama, including the food, and inspire a charity cucina povera feast of succulent greens and juicy sausages typical of the region— The Guardian, Jun 22 2017![]()
"Pomoc!" ("Aid!") the convoy declares at every checkpoint along their way across Bosnia to their humanitarian aid destination. But it becomes increasingly unclear what kind of aid they can provide as the group of five splinters apart, each with a different agenda. Already at...— Midwest Book Review, Jun 17 2017![]()
Reza’s novel is not only a political and historical one. It is filled with love stories, humanity and universal trials and tribulations.— Bookwitty, Jun 14 2017![]()
Sansal is our guide into absurdity and out of it, the perfect guide through the fear and laughter we expend reading 2084.— Rain Taxi Summer, Jun 13 2017![]()
“The unacknowledged legislators of the world”, remarked W.H. Auden, in a rebuke to Percy Bysshe Shelley’s romanticism, “describes the secret police, not the poets.” Auden was humble about the power of art to solve the world’s problems; he was also lucky, and aware...— Glasgow Review of Books, Jun 12 2017![]()
A pale three-quarter moon lit up the state highway at two in the morning. The road connected the province of Taranto to Bari, and at that time of night it was usually deserted. As it ran north, the road oscillated, aligning with and diverging from an imaginary axis, leaving behind...— The White Review, Jun 12 2017
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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, £ 10.99A new series of hardboiled crime fiction set in contemporary Naples by the author of the internationally bestselling Commissario Ricciardi series. -
Joe Flanagan
Lesser Evils
2016, pp. 416, £ 11.99An exciting entry into the noir canon, Joe Flanagan’s Lesser Evils expertly reimagines 1957 Cape Cod, where the mystifying murder of a local...