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FICTION FICTION
ITALY:
DeA Planeta
April 2019300 Pages
Partial English
translation
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Lorenzo BeccatiTHE RESURRECTOR
Lorenzo Beccati is a television writer
The true story behind the Frankenstein myth
An engrossing historical novel based the life of Italian physicist
Giovanni Aldini. Although few have ever heard his name, his fame
apparently reached the ears of Mary Shelley, who based her
Frankenstein on his theatrical public experiments. Tired of experimen-
ting with reanimating dead frogs, the visionary scientist from Bologna
moved to London, where criminals were sent to the gallows rather
than beheaded. London allowed him to find an abundance of full
bodied criminals through the Royal College of Surgeons. Thanks to
Aldini’s experiments, George Foster, would soon become one of
London’s most talked about corpse. Aldini performed public specta-
cles in which he attached the probes to Foster’s body and powered up
the battery so that his jaw quivered, his facial muscles contorted and
his left eye blinked. But Aldini’s mad ambitions prevented him from
seeing the moral dilemma behind his quest for immortality.
Superstition comes alive in a brilliant novel of murder, sex, and black
magic. Set in the 17th century, it took little, for a woman to be feared,
hated, branded a witch and burnt at the stake. Raised in Tunisia, if
Pietra was the most feared woman in the region...and the first person
the townspeople turn to when they need help, especially involving
death or dispute.
When Flemish painter Master Rubens goes
missing, the Genovese Patriarch hosting him
pleads Pietra to help find him. But she must
move in great secrecy, in the shadows and
against the clock. For she is not the only one
looking for Master Rubens.
Lorenzo BeccatiPIETRA’S SHADOW
ITALY:
DeA Planeta
March 2018400 Pages
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A historical novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat for400 pages. A great historical novel
FICTION FICTION
ITALY:
TEA/360
April 2019300 Pages
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Mattia BertoldiLITTLE MEMORIES
Manilio helps those with “head problems” get their memories back.
He likes to tell his elderly clients stories of Bianca, the lost love of his
life whom he almost married. They will soon forget anyway, and he
can go back to wallowing in nostalgia. Just when he has abandoned
all hope of a soul mate, he meets Camilla, a woman his age who has
lost her memory to an aneurysm. Proud and stubborn, initially she
refuses his help. But Manlio’s quiet determination wins her over. She
agrees to work with him on one condition: that he allow her to help
him forget his ex. What seems like a perfect agreement turns out to
be a double-edged sword when their friendship blossoms into some-
thing more.
A fragile, yet intense and overwhelming love is born between a man
with a broken heart and a woman with no memory. But then Bianca
reappears in Manlio’s life, forcing him to question whether or not is
is best to forget her?
ITALY:
TEA/360
April 2018300 Pages
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Sometimes music speaks where words failZoe was just a child when cancer turned her left eye into a blind pearl.
Children can be cruel about that sort of thing, but Zoe’s father Danilo
culled her pain with Chopin, Prokofiev and Debussy.
Now, she is 21 years old and her mother has passed away. Coming
home from the conservatory where she studies, she finds the towns
people unchanged, except her grieving father. To break through his
defenses Zeudi involves the neighbors in a project that involves
making a silent film with music. It works.
Danilo slowly finds himself again, together
with the courage to make a confession that
has burdoned him for decades.
Mattia BertoldiLOVELY THINGS I WISH TO REMEMBER
Puoi ancora innamorarti se non sai più riconoscere l’amore?
MATTIA BERTOLDI
ROMANZO
COME TANTI
PICCOLI RICORDI
Mattia Bertoldi works as a journalist and
press agent in Lugano.
FICTION FICTION
Dario BuzzolanTHE TRUTH
A family novel about greed and mistrust, power and prejudice;characters we love to hate.
The sudden and vertiginous decline of Stella, a privately owned
manufacturer of luxury watches, plunges its family members into a
spiral of ungovernable chaos that release a snake’s den of unresol-
ved tension and family secrets.
When Ruggero Trovato, its sole president and father of two grown
children, mysteriously disappears, his eldest son Pietro scrambles to
fill his father’s shoes... and find a solution to the two million dollars
that they owe in back taxes. On that very day, he vents his anger on
a young girl in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Meanwhile, Ruggero’s youngest son Nicola strives to be the first to
inhabit Mars, while their mother Lucia fills her vacuous days by cor-
responding with a pen pal.
A possible solution comes in the form of LiiebenKraft, a luxury multi-
national managed by professional vultures Tom and Amelia who are
also secret lovers. But their plan to acquire the company below its
value hits a roadblock when their financial analyst discovers budge-
tary flaws that threaten to embarrass them all.
The turbid family decline is complicated when they are forced to rec-
kon not only with their father’s secrets, but with a community of angry
immigrants demanding justice; did Pietro really have to break the
arm of an innocent black twelve-year-old?
How far will this horrible family go to save themselves?
Corruption, lies, greed, betrayal, violence, racism: all wrapped up in
one little family, which clearly embodies the social malaise of our
times.
ITALY:
Mondadori
March 2020444 Pages
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Born in Turin, Dario Buzzolan is a journalist
and television author (Rai 3). His previous
novels include: Non dimenticarti di respirare(2000), I nostri occhi sporchi di terra, finalist
for the Strega Prize 2009, Se trovo il corag-gio (2013), Malapianta (2016) and La vitadegna (2018).
FICTION FICTION
ITALY:
Mondadori
April 2019250 Pages
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Paola CalvettiTHE QUEEN
Queen in every ounce of her being, Elizabeth II is the most photo-
graphed woman in the world; it is no wonder that she is also a fas-
hion icon.
The image she projects through photography is the only stage on
which the Queen has truly revealed herself to us, acquiescing to the
universal laws of light and the practical needs of portrait artists. This
compelling and rigorously researched biography, based on accounts
of photographers, articles from around the world and extensive ico-
nographic research within the Getty photo library, offers an intimate
portrait of the real woman beyond the lens.
Paola CalvettiRIVALS
ITALY:
Mondadori
November 2020250 Pages
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Female rivalry has left its indelible mark ofgenius on history. The story of ten pioneers dri-ven to success by jealousy.What frightened Chanel about the Italian fashion desi-
gner Elsa Schiaparelli? How did the great entrepre-
neurial rivalry between Helena Rubinstein & Elizabeth
Arden begin? Why was the legendary grand dame Sarah Bernhardt
threatened by a demure Eleonora Duse? How did gossip columnists
Hopper & Parsons go head to toe? And what sparked the flames
between sisters Olivia de Havilland & Joan Fontaine?
Some of the most extraordinary accomplishments of the 19th century
were made by women rivals striving to outdo each other in their
fields. Struggling to establish themselves, these women reached the
pinnacle of their careers by waging war upon each other. These sto-
ries compose a fascinating new approach to women in history.
Paola Calvetti is a journalist and former P.R. for
La Scala. She is the author of numerous bestsel-
ling novels.
FICTION FICTION
ITALY:
Einaudi
February 2020300 Pages
Option:
Greece (Pedio)
Emanuela CanepaTEACH ME THE TEMPEST
Emanuela Canepa (Rome, 1967) is a
librarian at the University of Padova. She
attended the Rovigo writing school.
Emanuela CanepaTHE FEMALE BEAST
ITALY:
Einaudi
April 2018300 Pages
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Unanimously awarded the 30th Calvino Prize The Female Beast is:an accomplished, mature novel of exemplary sharpness in its struc-ture and linguistic incisiveness. It is the story of an unsettling gameof sexless seduction which, while attentive to male psychology, givesvoice, with stringent analytics to the caustic power of the femalepsyche.
How can a mother not worry when her pregnant teenage daugh-ter is about to repeat her own mistakes?Emma is devastated when her 18 year-old pregnant daughter
Mathilde takes refuge with the one person Emma swore she would
never see again: Irene who, to make matters worse, is a nun.
When Emma most needed a friend, exactly eighteen years ago,
Irene disappeared into thin air and she hasn’t heard from her since.
As Emma now stands on the threshold of the Coventry where her
old friend lives, she prepares for a showdown that is long overdue.
But at the sound of Irene’s voice, her heart breaks and it becomes
crystal clear to her that in order to help her daughter, Emma must
first make peace with her past.
Three deeply connected women who are running away from each
other and battling with the bonds of love.
EMANUELA CANEPAL’ANIMALE FEMMINA
EINAUDI
STILE LIBERO BIG
An extraordinary
literary novel by
Calvino Prize
winner of
L’animale
Femmina
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ITALY:
Neri Pozza
Ottobre 2019400 Pages
Alfio CarusoMUSSOLINI AGAINST HITLER
Alfio Caruso (1950, Catania, Sicily) is a journa-
list and historian. He has written five bestselling
nonfiction books on the Sicilian Mafia and
various books on Italian history.
The incredible untold story of how Mussolini defied Hitler in1944 to save over 700,000 prisoners of war who refused to col-laborate with the SS.
After Italy surrendered to the Allies, on September 8th, 1943, hun-
dreds of thousands of Italian soldiers were captured by the
Germans. Some managed to escape, and others were asked if they
wanted to return to Italy or join the SS. 80% chose to be taken to pri-
soner of war camps where they were an important part of Germany’s
forced labour force. In 1944, Mussolini and Hitler met for the last time
in near Salzburg. Having barely survived an assassination attempt in
his east Prussian Headquarters, just hours before, Hitler was visibly
shaken. Mussolini, on the other hand, had already made his deci-
sion.
On the train to that fateful meeting, Mussolini gave General Morera,
the commander in charge of the Italian military in Berlin, an urgent
pre-emptive order: to save the all the Italians, Fascist and non,
behind enemy lines. Amongst those diplomats assisting Morera on
this extremely delicate mission were twenty-seven-year-old embassy
advisor Giangaleazzo Bettoni and Red Cross representative
Armando Fobbiani. Representing an Italy which had long abandoned
all ideology, these courageous diplomats managed to divert over
700,000 anti-Nazi Italian prisoners of war, most of whom were put to
work as forced labour, deployed to the East, or worse, to the death
camps. Thanks to newly discovered documents and the first-hand
account of Morera, amongst others, journalist, author and historian
Alfio Caruso recounts a heroic and virtually unknown episode in
WWII history.
Alfio Caruso is an epic narrator of history.Corrado Augias
Caruso puts a million puzzle pieces back toge-ther in a successful effort to reconstruct history.A book of intrigue that reads like a spy story.
Corriere della Sera
NON FICTION
Based on historical docu-ments, this book recountsan important and little-known chapter of WorldWar II history.
FICTION FICTION
ITALY:
Garzanti
January 2020300 Pages
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Romina CasagrandeTHE LOST CHILDREN
Edna was little more than a child when she made the promise that
would haunt her for decades to come. Now, the elderly widow lives
with Emil, her blue-winged parrot, and scans the local newspapers
for news of the whereabouts of her long lost friend. When it arrives,
she will put on her walking shoes, and embark for the second time
on a journey across the Alps where she bound her fate to that of
Jacob. Like thousands of others, Edna and Jacob were amongst
the last of the Swabian children, forced to undertake a terrible trek
on foot through the Alps, where nature speaks louder than words, to
German farmlands.
Having escaped poverty with their families’ encouragement, they
thought they would find green meadows in which to play and tables
piled high with food; instead, they were sold off as labor hands at
livestock markets. During that dreary time Edna fell in love. The
memories are vivid in her heart, and the secrets still haunt her.
Now that she’s found Jacob again, Edna must make her peace with
him, hundreds of miles away. She will also have to walk there,
because no bus will allow her parrot to ride by her side. Following
the map she drew when she was a little girl in order to find her way
home, she sets off to discover if it’s still possible to forgive and start
over.
Along ancient Roman roads and pilgrim trails, between encounters
and clashes, she meets strangers who reveal themselves to be kin-
der than they look: Roland, the motorcyclist who takes her to his trai-
ler home, serves her dinner and gives her his leather jacket to pro-
tect her from the rain; Priska and Flo, vegan, Shaman bloggers who
save Emil from the crows and welcomes her into their orange van
(where they take pictures that will create a frenzy on Instagram); Fez,
the mechanic who makes a carriage out of a skateboard, for Emil;
Jeremias, the old widower who finds Edna sleeping in his barn; and
Mr. Tenzin, a Zen hiker who cares for Edna’s sore ankle and assists
her on the last leg of her journey. Each step over the Alps will take
Edna through the anguish of her past
towards a lighter future, towards Jacob.
An unforgettable novel of forgiveness and
redemption.
Romina Casagrande (Merano, 1968) is a
middle school teacher, graduate of the
Rovigo writing school.
The most contended for Italian debut of recent years.A bestseller inspired by the true story of tens of thousands ofchildren sold by their families as farm labor.
Chosen for
presentation
for the
Berlinale
Pitch
FICTION FICTION
ITALY:
la Tartaruga
October 2019270 Pages
A family saga set against a background of war and fermentation in
late 19th century Trieste. This vaguely auto-biographical novel fol-
lows the apparently enchanted lives of four privileged sisters who are
blissfully unaware of their tragic destiny. Lives that tragically coin-
cides with the violence and horrors of history.
Fausta CialenteNATALIA
Winner of the the 1976 Strega Prize, Fausta
Cialente (1989-1994) is one of Italy’s most impor-
tant women writers. She was a vocal anti-fascist
who settled in Egypt with her Jewish husband when
Mussolini came to power. From there, she made
daily broadcasts from Radio Cairo against the
Fascist regime in Italy. In 1984, she moved to
England where she is buried.
Fausta CialenteTHE FOUR WIESELBERGER GIRLS
ITALY:
la Tartaruga
May 2018270 Pages
Rights sold:
French (Payot)
An extraordinary and damning portrait of bourgeois women in pre-
war Europe.
The story opens when the young Natalia Fandel befriends Silvia,
despite her mother Luisa’s disapproval. Soon after, she finds love
letters hidden in the attic, revealing that Silvia might not be the
daughter of Luisa’s late husband. It is a secret she keeps to herself.
Twenty years later, Natalia’s father has been killed in the war.
Natalia has been writing to a soldier, as part of a campaign to raise
the morale at the front. Now that his service has come to an end, he
proposes to her. Ultimately, Natalia finds herself trapped in a love-
less marriage; Natalia is, and always has been, secretly in love with
Silvia.
What follows are a series of broken promises, disappointing marria-
ges, unwanted births and deaths that are as universal as life itself.
This highly controversial
novel was first published in
1929 and subsequently
censored in Fascist Italy
Fausta CialenteNatalia
Preface by
Melania
G. Mazzucco
It is clear that the walls of that house have seen more tragedy than
they care to reveal…and that blood runs thicker than water. If Elettra
is to solve this mystery, she must first uncover the truth.
FICTION FICTION
Roberta De FalcoBLOOD OF MY BLOOD
ITALY:
Piemme
May 2019285 Pages
A body burnt beyond recognition in a car hides a heinous crime and
a family secret in a small city in Northern Italy. The burnt car is
undistinguishable, a carcass in the night. The driver would be invisi-
ble as well, were it not for a tiny bright diamond in the ear of the
corpse behind the wheel.
With the diamond being her only clue to the victim’s identity,
Commissioner Elettra Morin, new leader of the Monfalcone Mobile,
is determined to crack this case. When a few hundred meters away
a naked wounded man is found running away from the car-wreck,
the team is sure they have found the culprit; but Elettra knows from
experience that looks can be deceiving. The car license plates lead
her to a patrician villa surrounded by a suggestive garden full of
brambles. The owner, an elderly art collector, and his son are pro-
foundly disturbed by the girl’s death. But why?
Best selling cozycrime series set
Roberta De Falco (1951) is a retired screen-
writer whose Triestine series featuring
Detective Benussi and his assistents Elettra
Morin and Valerio Gargiulo has won various
awards.
La bora cancella ogni colpa.Ma nessuno è innocente per sempre.
ROBERTA DE FALCO
THRILLER
NON È COLPA MIAQuanto a lungo può durare l’odio?
«Una voce che promette di diventare sempre più importante nel polifonico coro
del romanzo nero italiano contemporaneo.»
MAURIZIO DE GIOVANNI
ROBERTA DE FALCO
IL TEMPONON CANCELLA
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ITALY:
Cairo Editore
July 2018215 Pages
Partial English
translation
available
Daniela Fedi & Lucia Serlenga6.0 WOMEN
A guide for women of all generations who want to embrace the
inevitable aging process.From a physical point of view, today's 60 year old woman is younger
than ever. The fearful turning point is no longer the beginning of the
end; indeed, for many, it is the golden age when children have grown
up and careers have stabilized. In the years before retirement,
"everything is possible", a time of freedom and joy marking the
beginning of a new life. Just flip through the pages of any maga-
zine, and you will find divas like Sharon Stone, Madonna, Andie
MacDowell, Michelle Pfeiffer, all born in 1958, the year the contra-
ceptive pill was marketed in the United States, while the 65 year old
Brigitte Macron, an icon of style, boasts a handsome husband years
younger.
Sixty is an age of laughter, independence and self-confidence. There
is no reason why a woman can’t enjoy herself at sixty as much if not
more than she did a decade earlier. After all, she is (hopefully) finan-
cially independent, full of friends
However, age comes with its issues too, and there are guidelines to
embracing them which involve lifestyle changes (sleep, excersize,
meditation) and sacrifice (diet) that best eliminate evil toxins and
nuture health.
6.0 Women reveals the secrets of those who have successfully flou-
rished during the much-feared decade. Daniela Fedi and Lucia
Serlenga, two formidable sixty year olds, offer pages of entertaining
information and expert advice to preserve the vitality, beauty and
health of youth. This book is an inspiring testimony, a manual, and a
veritable manifesto of female redemption.
Daniela Fedi and Lucia Serlenga are
fashion journalists and authors of the
book Curvy.
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NON FICTION
ITALY:
Rizzoli Libri
October 2018287 Pages
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translation
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Franca FendiSTAY WITH ME
1925: Adele and Edoardo Fendi opened a small fur and leather
goods shop in Rome. Decades later, the Fendi fashion house had
become an internationally acclaimed luxury brand and an icon of
Italian style. Over time their five daughters, Paola, Anna, Franca,
Carla and Alda, became actively involved in the family business, and
as famous as the celebrities clamoring for their products.
But what was this legendary family like outside the glare of the spot-
lights and away from the public eye? Franca Fendi, the third of the
five daughters, offers us an intimate glimpse of it through her eyes.
Giving form to the abstract, she talks about being raised by a gifted,
caring father who remained in the shadows, and a hardworking,
authoritative matriarch who was feared by her children and
respected by all.
We learn of Franca and her sisters’ childhood during World War
Two, under Mussolini’s Fascism. We watch the rising success of the
family business, the children helping out at their parents’ shop at a
tender age, folding tissue paper and arranging merchandise. As they
grew older, the Fendi daughters become female entrepreneurs in
their own right under the supervision of their omnipresent mother.
That they were able to achieve such success in a country with such
extremely chauvinist roots is nothing short of a miracle.
Stay With Me is a collection of childhood tales, anecdotes, revela-
tions and confessions, a lifetime of change and progress, tragedy
and hope, loss and love, set against the historical backdrop of Italy
in the twentieth century and beyond. The heart of the book though,
recounts Franca’s own evolving home life,
inspired by the idea of a family, gathered
around a dinner table. Even more than a
memoir, this is a tender tribute, a love let-
ter to Franca’s beloved late husband Luigi,
the man whose care and support allowed
her to continue the Fendi legacy, not only
by contributing to the business but also
through their children and their children’s
children.
My grandchildrenare always asking
me to tell them thestory of my life.
Well here it is, alove story.
Franca Fendi (1935) began her career working alongside her four
sisters in the family shop in Rome and contributed to its international
success. The company was sold to LMVH in 2001. She has three
children and lives in Rome.
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FICTION
Chiara FranciniA HAPPY YEAR
ITALY:
Rizzoli Libri
April 2019288 Pages
This romantic comedy series is set into motion when a heartbroken
Chiara shows up on her parents’ doorstep. Finding a partner isn’t
easy when your role models are still madly in love after thirty years
together. Then again, not everyone is lucky enough to have two
fabulous fathers, like Angelo and Giancarlo.
As an incurable romantic, Chiara knows that her Prince Charming is
somewhere out there with her name tattooed all over his heart.
Meanwhile, tragedy lies just around the corner to remind her of how
brief and precious life is. She is about to learn that once the fireworks
have stopped, sometimes true love looks like your best friend.
Chiara Francini (1979) was born in
Florence. She is an actress for television,
film, and theater.
Bestseller
reprinted five
times
FICTION
Melania viveva in una felice, perpetua
coltellata.
R O M A N Z O
C H I A R AF R A N C I N I
U N A N N O F E L I C E
C H I AF R A N
A R AN C I N IF R A NN C I N I
Chiara FranciniDON’T TALK WITH YOUR MOUTH FULL
ITALY:
Rizzoli Libri
April 2017/2018
Reprinted 7 times
50,000 copies sold
Most girls spend their lives looking for love, the kind that dazzles and
makes your heads spin, turning your life upside down. But often it
comes at a price. Melania, with her long wavy hair and manicured
eyebrows, makes heads turn wherever she goes. She lives with her
friend Franca in the center of Florence where they search for Prince
Charming. Everything changes one day when she sees Axel, a
strong and silent Swedish man. Under the brazen beauty of
Tuscany, Melania falls in love, like she has always dreamed about.
She decides to follow him home, to Sweden, where she soon finds
herself living in a very cold country she knows nothing about. And
with a man she knows even less.
Blinded by emotion, Melania must find the strength to ask herself if
she was ever really in love. And if so, why does it hurt so much?
A formidable novelset between Italy
and Sweden
Film rights:
optioned by
Effe TV srl
Pedro Chagas FreitasI PROMISE TO LOVE
PORTUGAL:
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April 2018300 Pages
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Pedro Chagas Freitas has invented a new genre that unites poetry
with epistolary in these chapters that accompany us on an intimate
voyage of raw emotion.
Promise to make mistakes. Promise to fail. Promise that you will
never be the same, exactly the same, every time life presents itself.
Promise you will risk, promise you will feel. Promise that you will
chase what you want, every day, and like a madman. Chase what
makes you dance, laugh at what what makes you cry. The important
thing is to remain alive.
I did the math yesterday and we’ve been falling asleep and wakingup together for over thirty thousand days now, in this same bedwhere I am now writing to you.Thirty thousand days watching you while you sleep, knowing thecold or the heat of your body, understanding what hurts inside,loving each new wrinkle on your skin.Thirty thousand days of you and me, of this house we once saidwould be ours (what will be of a house that knows us so well oncewe’re gone?), of struggles and yearnings, of the sensation that we’realways on the path to becoming just us.Thirty thousand days when everything changed but nothing changedus, and life once forced us to be apart.Thirty thousand days, my old, grumpy and adorable girl. Me, youand the world; everyone we know is now elderly. But we’re stillhere, even after thirty thousand days- together and for eternity.
Thirty thousand days, and I unlearned so many things. Except howto love you.
FICTION FICTION
Pedro Chagas Freitas (1979) teaches
creative writing in Porto and is the
author of numerous bestsellers.
#1 Bestselling author from Portugal, who
has fundamentally changed the way we
think about love.
FICTION
Diego GaldinoTHE LAST COFFEE OF THE DAY
ITALY:
Sperling &
Kupfer
April 2018300 Pages
Diego Galdino (1971) runs a coffee bar in Rome.
A hopelesslyromantic love story
set in Rome, themost romantic
cities in the world
FICTION
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Diego GaldinoTHE FIRST COFFEE OF THE MORNING
ITALY:
Sperling &
Kupfer
April 2013300 Pages
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It is easy to fall inlove over a cup of
espresso...
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optioned
Massimo is a waiter at a coffee bar in the center of
Rome. His life suddenly changes one rainy day
when a mysterious, green-eyed woman enters his
coffee bar. Geneviève is the distant relative and
sole heir of a much loved client of Massimo’s shop.
She has comes from France to claim the inheritance
of her estranged aunt, and speaks not a single word
of Italian.
Love-stricken, Massimo tries to win her over by sho-
wing her Rome and his magical selection of coffee.
But she speaks only French, and drinks tea...
Will love overcome all these obstacles before
Geneviève must return home to her fianceé?
DIEGO GALDINO
Il primo caffè del mattinoromanzo
“Dolce come un caffè bevuto insiemealle prime luci dell’alba, magico come una passeggiata
per le vie di Roma quando tutti dormono.”Catena Fiorello
Two years have passed since Massimo, the owner of a small but
legendary coffee shop in Rome, last fell in love. Much has changed
in his life, but not the delicious coffee he serves, nor the good cheer
his clients find when they stop in for company. Then one day, the
chiming bells of his shop announce the arrival of a blue-eyed girl
named Mina, looking to try his famous Nutella espresso. Mina is
from Verona, so she is delighted when Massimo offers to show her
the charms of Rome.
Just when their relationship is about to blossom into
something more than just friendship, Massimo’s
French ex-girlfriend arrives, forcing him to make the
most difficult choice of his life.
FICTION
Andrea GalliHITMAN: the true story of Europe’s
most dangerous killer
ITALY:
Rizzoli
April 2020300 Pages
Andrea Galli writes for the crime section of Italy’s
daily Corriere Della Sera.
An incredible storyspanning Europeand the Balcans
for readers of TrueCrime
FICTION
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Poland (Foksal)Serbia (Laguna)
Julian Sinanaj is part of a long tradition of brutal hired assassins. He
was ultimately charged with 34 murders and 3 dynamite attacks, but
police suspect his victims range in the double digits.
This narrative covers the story behind his ruthless trail of blood,
beginning with a violent and impoverished childhood and taking the
reader through his most formative years as a genius criminal.
His nemesis, a
police officer
m i r a c u l o u s l y
above suspicion,
ultimately turned
out to be his
greatest ally in
an extremely
corrupt country
where no one
can be trusted,
including the
j u d g e . T o d a y ,
Sinanaj is in an
u n k n o w n
Albanian prison.
His only compa-
nions are
Russian clas-
sics.
No one embodies this new era of crime like Julius Sinanaj. He was
so extraordinarily adept at losing his trace, that the authorities didn’t
even know they were looking for the deadliest assassin in Europe,
according to Interpol, until he confessed.
Captured in Albania at the end of a manhunt in 2018, Sinanaj led a
hermit’s existence, far from prying eyes. Not a single traffic ticket or
arrest. And yet, the 36 year old Albanian who grew up in the slums
of Elbasan and later immigrated illegally with his family to Greece
where he learned the trade of explosive making from local anar-
chists, was a professional. Upon his return to Albania, he continued
to kill, hired by criminals, politicians, common citizens, and the
Russian Secret Services who not only paid him to execute but most
likely taught him the trade and inspired his love of Dostoevskij, which
he avidly reads in his isolation cell.
Il killer ambidestro ha ucciso spa-rando invariabilmente con entram-be le mani. Ha modificato pistole,costruito silenziatori, fabbricatoesplosivi. Durante la lunga ma inde-
terminata sequenza temporale degliomicidi è rimasto un cittadino modello.Non un reato e nemmeno una multa inmacchina (si spostava unicamente conbus, treni e traghetti). Il trentacinquenneJulian Sinanaj, albanese di Elbasan, cen-tomila abitanti nel centro del Paese, è co-me se non avesse vissuto per oltre metàdella sua esistenza. Accertate le origini el’infanzia entrambe anonime, accertato un trasferimento da ragazzino in Grecia insieme ai genitori (dai quali più avanti siè allontanato) lungo tradizionali canalimigratori del popolo albanese, accertatoinfine l’arresto della polizia nel 2014.Nient’altro. Gli investigatori non sanno perché, come e quando Sinanaj sia diven-tato un sicario. Il sicario più letale d’Euro-pa: i magistrati di Tirana ipotizzano tren-taquattro delitti.
Il «dovere» della vendettaDa quand’è in cella, Sinanaj ha ammes-
so una piccolissima parte delle esecuzio-ni che gli attribuiscono in Albania e s’è ri-fiutato di rispondere agli inquirenti greci
tracce provvisorie non sono mai statefondamentali: ha agito anche alla luce, digiorno, all’improvviso, non curandosi dipassanti eventuali testimoni, indifferentenel camuffare gli orari dei decessi, abilecom’era a dileguarsi. Il modus operandi del sicario si è mantenuto «estraneo» ri-spetto alle tracce-oggetti e a quelle occu-pazionali: Sinanaj non ha perso pezzi deivestiti (bottoni, fibre) e nelle fasi di preli-minare monitoraggio delle vittime nonha commesso l’errore di lasciare variazio-ni di assetti (segni di effrazioni sulle por-te e le finestre) non direttamente collega-ti per contemporaneità ai delitti. Allo stesso tempo ha potuto «giocare» con letracce morfologiche date dalle forme de-gli aloni del fumo degli spari e dalle tra-iettorie dei proiettili. Julian aveva modifi-cato pistole e pallottole e quindi alteratole condizioni di partenza.
Sembra il ritratto di una macchina daguerra creata in laboratorio, «esempla-re» nello stare lontano anche dalle traccedi situazione, le conseguenze dell’omici-dio sul suo ambiente (cassetti spostati,mobili rovistati). Possibile questa man-canza assoluta di sbagli? Nessuno è infal-libile, alla lunga. E infatti sulle scene delcrimine Sinanaj ha dimenticato dei resi-dui. Appartengono alla categoria delle
Vita (e morti) di Julianil killer più letale d’Europa
Biografie criminali Albanese, 35 anni, è accusato di 34 delitti. La storia sembra un film: per arruolamento, capacità esecutive e inquinamento delle prove. I prezzi? Tra i 10 mila e i 40 mila euro per un omicidio
simo diventato semplicemente una metaperfino routinaria, l’assenza di sentimen-ti, l’espletamento di un lavoro, il massi-mo e puntuale soddisfacimento delle esi-genze del cliente-committente che via viaè stato un familiare ossessionato da dissi-di «interni», un imprenditore esasperatodai guadagni di un concorrente, un mala-vitoso inchiodato da un giudice. E poi spaventano, come riferisce nei dettagli a«la Lettura» una qualificata fonte, la pre-parazione e la conoscenza dei mezzi (ar-mi e ordigni), delle tecniche di pedina-mento (mai nessuna vittima s’era accortad’essere seguita), delle capacità di analisisull’«obiettivo» e soprattutto della ge-stione della scena del crimine. Se fosse stato uno sbirro della Scientifica, Sinanajavrebbe sempre fiutato l’errore dell’as-sassino. Sempre.
Le tracce e il trucco dei capelliSulla scena del crimine ci sono cinque
tipologie di tracce cercate dagli investiga-tori e una sesta tipologia traditrice. Letracce dette temporanee sono appunto provvisorie, hanno una scadenza: la tem-peratura corporea del cadavere che variacon il progredire delle ore e il grado difluidità del sangue fuoriuscito dal corpo.Nelle vittime di Julian Sinanaj queste
che indagano su dieci delitti tra Atene eSalonicco, compresi attacchi con bombeartigianali. La geografia di sangue di Ju-lian lo collegherebbe anche a omicidi av-venuti in Italia a danno di connazionaliscappati dopo faide e attentati falliti, e in-seguiti dalla promessa di morte sicura. Sipossono cambiare città e nascondigli, ot-tenere false identità e ricevere protezioni:ma la malavita albanese non dimentica enon soltanto perché spinta dalle regoledel Kanun, l’ancestrale codice di compor-tamento che prevede il «dovere» dellavendetta di sangue, ammazzando dopol’uccisione di un proprio consanguineol’assassino oppure i suoi parenti maschifino al terzo grado di parentela.
Dei delitti, Sinanaj dice e non dice. Dauna parte è attratto dal profondo interes-se suscitato oltre che negli investigatoriin psicologi, criminologi e antropologi che vogliono studiarlo, mossi dalla curio-sità per un caso forse unico; dall’altra par-te Julian ha vissuto così tanto solo con sestesso che l’isolamento in carcere, dovestarà per sempre salvo agguati commis-sionati ai detenuti per eliminarlo oppureil suo stesso suicidio, non lo spaventa. Semmai è lui che spaventa. Ancora ades-so. La quantità impressionante di cadave-ri, l’estrema disumanizzazione del pros-
di ANDREA GALLI
FICTION FICTION
Rossana Balduzzi GastiniTHE MAN WHO CONQUERED THE
WORLD WITH A HAT
ITALY:
Sperling &
Kupfer
June 2018390 Pages
The iconic Borsalino hat became a distinctive characteristic of gang-
sters, policemen and private investigators, starting with Humprey
Bogart in Casablanca. Marcello Mastroianni wore one in 81/2,
Robert Redford in The Great Gatsby, Harrison Ford in IndianaJones, Leonardo Di Caprio in Shutter Island... and of course Al
Pacino in The Godfather. While most people recognize the hat, they know little of its history
and even less of Giuseppe Borsalino, who created an empire
around his hat making.
Born in 1834 to a humble family in the province of the northern Italian
city of Alessandria, Giuseppe Borsalino escaped a life of poverty by
learning the craft of a hatter from a local artisan. Hungry, ambitious
and curious, he ventured across the border to France, where he
redefined his hat-making technique before returning home to open a
principle-led business, one of a kind. Early in his career, he decided
to put workers’ rights at the forefront of what became an empire.
Little did he know, Borsalino would revolutionize hat-making forever,
associating his name with the style and elegance of his hat.
In nineteenth century Italy, which was struggling with unification and
on the cusp of the modern era, Borsalino was both the first to export
“Made in Italy” and the only entrepreneur, for decades to come, to
support the syndicate.
This documented historical novel is an intense and engaging journey
that follows the illustrious and illuminating life of an extraordinary
man who followed his dream with tenacity and passion.
Rossana Balduzzi Gastini (1963) was born
in Alessandria, where she currently lives and
works as an architect.
Evita Greco lives in Ancona Italy. She has two
children.
FICTION FICTION
ITALY:
Garzanti
September 2018287 Pages
Evita Greco A RAY OF LIGHT
Every morning, Filomena takes the regional train to the middle ofnowhere. In the short time between one stop and another, she reli-ves the memory that is dearest to her: a motorcycle trip with the loveof her life, the man who would become her husband and the fatherof Carlo, her only child. Carlo is on that train too, with her; but shenever sees him, or if she does, she doesn’t acknowledge it. He isthere to protect her. Filomena has been this way for as long as Carlo can remember.Carlo’s love for his mother is a full time job, preventing him fromliving… until he meets Cara. She and her baby share a unique lan-guage made up of simple gesture. Just watching them awakenssomething in Carlo: the desire to be part of that love, to receive evena small piece of it. As Carlo uncovers his parents’ secrets, long-forgotten memoriesreemerge and his soul cracks like a faulty diamond. He must disco-ver what really happened to Filomena before she precipitates defini-tively.
Evita Greco THE SOUND OF THINGS BEGINNING
ITALY:
Rizzoli Libri
April 2016250 Pages
Rights sold:
Brazil (Novo Conceito)China (Citic Press)France (Albin Michel)Germany (Thiele)Israel (Keter)Portugal (Presenca)Serbia (Vulkan)Partial English
translation available
A love storyof deafening
silence
The only parent Ada has ever known is her elegant Grandma
Teresa, who taught her everything she needs to know, like how to
observe olive trees grow always the same, but just a little taller, and
to recognize the sound of things beginning.
As her grandmother’s illness precipitates, Ada finds herself tottering.
Thanks to a new friend, she will ultimately learn that even when it
seems like things are ending, somewhere in the
world they are also beginning.
A novel about being a
mother and a child,
about responsibilities
and dreams, taking
care of those you
love and tolerating
their weaknesses-
about loving, for
better or for worse
Antoine Griezmann GOAL!
Make a dreamout of your life, and a reality of
your dream
FRENCH BESTSELLER
FRANCE:
Michel Lafon
160 pagesIllustrations:Isabel Escalante
Ages 8-12Format: 14x21
The French 26 year old Antoine Griezmann, a favourite athlete forthe 9+ age group of both girls and boys, is one of the most popularand talented football players in the world. As father, he understandsthe need to nurture young readers, and provide fans with a positiverole model. Griezmann himself was rejected for being too small, sohe knows what means to struggle with rejection. Inspired by events in his own life, the plot of these novels follows thelife and adventures of Tony Grizi, a puny boy whose ascent as afootball player is full of pitfalls and disappointments. Through youngTony, this series highlights team spirit, tolerance, mutual aid anddetermination.
Antoine Griezmann (1991) is a professional footballer who plays for
the Spanish Club Barcelona and for the French national team.
Griezmann won the 2016 UEFA European Championship Golden
Boot award and took third place for the Ballon d’Or 2016 award, after
Ronaldo and Messi. He has been featured in advertisements for
Beats by Dr. Dre.
OVER 250,000 COPIES SOLD A middle-grade series by the real
life of European football superstar
FICTION CHILDREN FICTION CHILDREN
Rights sold:Albania (Shtepia)Portugal (Cultura Editora)Denmark (Klim) Israel (Yedioth Books)Spain (PRH)
The lovers grow weaker by the day and fight to survive amongst the
ruins of apartment buildings and abandoned warehouses. They ques-
tion whether it is even worth it, until a prodigious event changes
everything for them.
One day, as they scrounge for food among the garbage, they find a
living being, a child who so deformed, he is hardly recognizable as
such. And yet in the vulnerability of that monstrous newborn, victim of
an environmental disaster, Tamara finds a reason to survive.
Trapped and forbidden to communicate outside the boundaries of this
sinister city, they consume the crumbs that remain of their lives, seek-
ing contact with a world beyond that might care.
Viola di Grado is an incredibly powerful novelist.-Michael Cunningham
FICTION FICTION
ITALY:
La Nave di Teseo
March 2019250 Pages
A raging love story set in the most radioactive place on thisplanet. Inspired by a true story that shocked the world.
Tamara and Vladimir live in the Muslyumovo, a remote Siberian vil-
lage which has produced the plutonium responsible for three nuclear
disasters in the 1950’s and 1960’s. The most radioactive place on the
planet has ceased to exist on any map.
There are no visitors, and the few remaining inhabitants are prohibit-
ed from leaving, which means they are trapped in a place resembling
hell.
Viola Di GradoFIRE THE SKIES
Viola Di Grado the youngest winner of
the Premio Campiello for first novels
and the youngest finalist for the Strega
Prize, is the author of three novels:
70% Acrylic 30% Wool (finalist for the
IMPAC) e Hollow Heart (Europa edi-
tions, E/O). Her previous novel, Iron
Children (Bambini di Ferro) was pub-
lished by La Nave di Teseo. She was
chosen as the only Italian to attend the
Sydney Writer’s Festival and the
Auckland Festival. She speaks Italian,
English and Japanese.
FICTION FICTION
Marina Mander INTIMATE STRANGERS
ITALY:
Marsilio Editore
March 2019200 Pages
ITALY:
Marsilio Editore
April 2018150 Pages
I know you shouldn’t tell lies, but without lies I’’d already be inan orphanage. This, in any case, is my first true lie.
Luca and his mum are like two peas in a pod in their special, fragile
world. Then, one winter morning, his mother doesn’t wake up and
Luca suddenly finds himself alone. Terrified of what telling the truth
might bring, he decides to keep the biggest secret of his life, even if
it means returning home from school every night to a cold, dark
house, and the truth on the other side of the bedroom door.
Leo doesn’t study much, but he's good at school. He does smoke
much either, unless marijuana counts. His mother, Margherita, works
as a social worker and his father a mathematician who Leo last saw
walking into the sea, wearing pajamas and bedroom slippers. That
was just before the waves gobbled him up and now he is trapped
within an imaginary courtroom that holds him responsible for his
father’s death. Now Leo hates everyone and everything, including
pajamas; and he avoids the sea like the plague.
His outlook changes when he meets Florin, a Romanian boy who
never studies, has no mother or father, and doesn’t know where his
next meal is coming from. Florin is a prostitute and Leo's mother has
taken him into their small apartment because “maybe you can help
each other”. Both boys are fragile and navigating an awkward age;
and they soon discover that they have more in common than they
think.
Strega Prize
Finalist
Two boys at the
mercy of a violent,
adult world.
Marina Mander THE FIRST TRUE LIE
FICTION FICTION
ITALY:
DeaPlaneta
March 2019300 Pages
Rights sold:
Japan (Harpercollins)
Film Option by:
The Argo Brothers
Love comes around once and once only; and however brief, it takes
a lifetime to forget. Orso knows from experience. Before love, vio-
lence was not just a way to make a living but a way of life. When his
daughter was born, he tried to leave his past behind and start over in
a small town and under a different name. But it didn’t take long for
them to catch up with him and when they did, he was given a choice:
return to the fold and continue to kill as he was told, or he, his wife
and his daughter would live in perpetual fear for their lives. The one
binding condition is that he never again contact them.
Forty years have gone by and Orso has made good on his promise.
His loyalty has taken more lives than he cares to remember, and his
eyes have seen more violence than the angel of death. Now, with a
weakened heart, the sixty-year-old Orso has one last dying wish: to
see them again, and not just in a photograph.
Marco MartaniLIKE A FATHER
Marco Martani (1968) is one of Italy’s most
talented screenwriters whose successes include
The Mafia Kills Only in Summer, winner of the
David di Donatello Award and the European
Film Academy for Best Comedy. He is the co-
founder of Wildside, the producer of Sorrentino’s
The Young Pope, Ammaniti’s The Miracle and
Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend.
Forty years isn’t nearly enough to forget...or forgive
Although Orso knows that that Red will never let him go, he leaves
anyway for a brief trip south, along the Riviera to Italy, where he last
left his family four decades ago. But as the train nears Genova, some-
one tries to kill him. It could be Red, but it could also be any of his
many enemies looking for revenge. One thing is sure: it won’t end
without bloodshed.
Like a Father is a tense thriller about coming to terms with the
choices we make over the course of a lifetime, and their subsequent
consequences. A compelling story of violence and loyalties, dedica-
tion and love.
DeA Planeta Libri srlufficio stampa e-mail: [email protected]
Tel. 02-38086630 - Cell. 327-6385311www.deaplanetalibri.it
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Come un padre
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ITALY:
Giunti
February 2018300 Pages
Partial English
translation
available
Anna MartellatoTHE EARLY HOUR OF THE MORNING
Anna Martellato (1981) lives in Verona,
where she works as a “Project Generator
Journalist”.
This first novel is based on her family’s true
story.
Zoe has just been appointed to her dream job in an important adver-
tising agency. She has sacrificed everything for her career. Now,
when timing could not be worse, life throws her a curve ball: an
unwanted pregnancy. The only person Zoe can turn to for advice is
her bedridden grandmother Anna whose days are numbered.
Zoe’s dilemma gives her widowed grandmother a perfect reason to
share a family secret she has suppressed for far too long.
Born the daughter of an Italian high commander on the Greek island
of Rhodes, with its hidden courtyards filled with hibiscus flowers, its
paved medieval alleys and Ottoman walls, Anna’s life changed the
day the Italian-occupied island suddenly became German and the
Racial Laws came into effect. Anna and her twin sister were young
at the time, but not too young to remember their mother, the smell of
her skin and the color of her hair...and to know that they were being
lied to: the woman raising them is someone else.
The story of what happened to their true mother and how history
changed this beautiful, occupied Greek island will take the reader on
an emotionally charged journey through the Dodecanese islands and
back to Italy where a young woman and her grandmother face a dif-
ficult decision.
The deportation of the Jews of Rhodes is one of the least explored
events in history. At the end of her grandmother’s confession, Zoe
will mourn her grandmother as her grandmother mourns her own
mother. And they will both understand more about the complications
of motherhood. An emotionally-charged novel based on true events surrounding
the deportation of Jews from the Italian-occupied Greek Island of
Rhodes during the end of WW2. For readers of Sarah’s Key.
FICTION
ITALY:
La Nave di Teseo
March 2020400 Pages
English
translation
available
Heroin, Rock n Roll, philosophy, Gourdjieff &
Jung, meditation and sex. The 80’s: a decade of
vision tottering on damnation, and Californian
cults are springing up like psychedelic mush-
rooms. Gordon, a charismatic idealist is attract-
ing a bizarre group of wierdos. to a plot of land.
It takes little time for The Viners Brotherhood to
evolve into a wealthy non-profit religion. Gordon
leads his followers through an unusual path of
mysticism to redemption, preaching self-remem-bering and divided attention: the System
Giovanni Mastrangelo THE VANQUISHED
Giovanni Mastrangelo worked in Africa as a
photographer before he began writing novels,
essays, and screenplays.
Giovanni Mastrangelo THE SYSTEM
I love it! Pure passion - David Gilmour
Epic and emotionally satisfying. The System hasbewitched me - Bernardo Bertolucci
A family divided by ideology during the Second World War is
later reunited by love, death and forgiveness, only to be rip-
ped apart by an unfathomable secret.
The Cristaldi family is Fascist, or so Alberto has ruled, never ima-
gining that his daughter Vera would join the resistance. When bro-
ther and sister find themselves on separate sides of the war, it
looks as though their irreconcilable differences might tear the world
apart. After an unexpected accident leaving him paralyzed, their
fraternal bond reveals itself stronger than history. Brother and
sister are reunited, but his eventual suicide leaves Vera the sole
testimony to their secret. In a post-war craving normality, Vera
remains vehemently Communist. She gives birth as a single
mother to a son whom she names for her brother, Antonio. She
makes peace with her father who helps her raise the child. After
her father’s death, she marries Hans, a man who offers the child
unconditioned love and stability.
Antonio joins many of his generation in the student protests of the
1970’s. He is attracted to a lifestyle that is closer to his mother’s than
he can imagine. When a second family secret involving his grandfa-
ther and a Jewish neighbor threatens to blow his world apart, he
finds solace in a mysterious man called Gordon who has come from
California to Italy to claim the fortune that is rightly his. But Gordon,
it turns out, is not the man he claims to be.
FICTION
NON FICTION NON FICTION
ITALY:
Mondadori
January 2020221 Pages
Full English
translation
available
Climate change, the reduction of biodiversity, the massive problems
caused by pollution: Paola Maugeri was one of the first to raise these
issues and publicly insist that the planet’s health become the center
our political, cultural and economic lives.
Ten years ago, the author, together with her infant child and her aging
father, spent an entire year "treading lightly" on the environment.
They lived with no gas or electricity in the center of Milan. Dining by
candle light, on produce from the nearest organic farm, and moving
by bicycle, she realized the quantity of her consumption, how much
waste she had been producing, and just how little it takes to be
happy.
An inspirational book that will change the way you live forever.
Paola Maugeri TREADING SOFTLY: my impact zero life
Conscious of the diminishing resources on our suffering planet,Paola Maugeri embarked on an exceptional adventure with asingle intention: to lighten her ecological footprint.
One of the original MTV presenters, Sicilian born
Paola Maugeri is the most prominent TV music jour-
nalist in Italy. “The Lady of Rock” (as referred to by
fan) has interviewed over 1,300 of the world’s great-
est musicians. She has also served as Italian
ambassador at the Copenhagen summit for protocol
on climate.
Salute!AllaPaola
Maugeri
109 SUCCHI,SMOOTHIES e SFIZI
made inLAS VEGANS
ROCK & RESILIENCE: rock musicians who have
resisted the test of time, thanks to their capacity to
withstand life’s violent blows and shocks, transform-
ing that pain into positive energy. Through their sto-
ries, d.j. and author Paola Maugeri reflects upon the
source of resilience.
This is what I wanted to gain from my experiment: a revolutionin my life and in my heart. Slowing down to live in sync with therhythm of nature, using my bicycle to get around, growing myown food and buying only what was truly necessary, and spen-ding months and months without electricity. Living by the threeR’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle was a huge challenge in a citylike Milan. There were difficult months, seriously difficult�butin that solitude, in that darkness and in those months all I coulddo was think, and finally I had loads of time to do it. And so onemorning, I wrote this down in my diary:
If you are not part of the solution, you arepart of the problem.
FICTION FICTION
ITALY:
La Nave di Teseo
March 2018254 Pages
Film rights sold to
Jean Vigo
Partial English
translation
available
As everyone knows, strength lies in numbers, especially during ado-
lescence, when the last thing you want to be is different. Every high
school has its cool kids, its bullies, its freaks and its outcasts. Alex,
Rodolfo, Eva, Torquemada and Melzi were the losers. To their class-
mates, they were “aliens”, but to one another, they were beautiful.
Their friendship was that fragile, safe space, in which they could
shine, each in a unique way. But as everyone knows, life has a way
of separating even the best of friends and lovers. That day arrived at
the end of high school, when Alex abruptly disappeared.
After fifteen years of silence, Alex invites his old gang to a weekend
reunion in the Umbrian countryside. A sort of Big Chill.
Silvio MuccinoTHE LAST BEAUTIFUL LOSER
Silvio Muccino (1982) is a writer, an
actor, and film director who made his
acting debut at 17 yeras of age, in 1999.
His first novel, PARLAMI D’AMORE,
written with Carla Vangelista and adap-
ted into a film, was an international best-
seller.
I love you so much that having you is not enough. I want to be you.
In his cryptic letter, he writes that “Life”, as he knows it, will soon
cease to exist. Then again, Alex has always been particularly odd. He
is, they all agree, the last beautiful loser.
For Eva, he was her great love; for Rodolfo, the rival who stole his girl-
friend and then gave her back, damaged, an ever-present shadow in
their marriage. For Melzi, Alex was everything, his idol. Torquemada
was too rational to ever truly understand Alex, but loved him all the
same with a mixture of admiration and cynicism.
None of them were ever able to successfully move on after their
friendship quietly dissolved, like salt in water. So the highly charged
weekend together is fifteen years overdue.
The five beautiful losers are about to discover the shocking truth
about Alex and each other during a weekend of revelation and con-
fession, laughter and tears. By Monday morning, nothing will ever be
the same.
BESTSELLER
FICTION FICTION
ITALY:
Feltrinelli
February 2020200 Pages
Partial English
translation
available
Carlo never leaves his house alone or speaks to strangers; his atten-
tion is focused on counting: crumbs on the table, drops of rain on the
windowpane, stars in the sky. Years ago, in middle school, his
teacher told him that “a straight line is an infinite series of dots”. She
failed to add that some lines end abruptly and can’t be fixed- like him.
The day his life fell apart, he was just a child, an underdog, in the
school courtyard. Now, at 33 years old, Carlo has built a wall
between himself and the outside world. The only people he trusts are
his parents and his sister Jade who know why he refuses to leave the
house alone. Just when Carlo’s parents have given up hope, he
meets Leda at the coffee bar where he and his father always have
breakfast. New in town, Leda likes his peculiar ways. And because
she too is damaged, they make a tacit alliance. Together, they seek
to make peace with the past and find a pathway towards the future.
Of their mutual pain a ray of hope is born. Ultimately, Carlo will learn
to leave the house alone in order not to be alone.
Enzo Gianmaria NapolilloCARLO WENT OUT BY HIMSELF
Sometimes theroad to adult-
hood throws youa curve ball
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A coming of age love story set on the Italian island of Lampedusa,
just miles from Africa. Salvatore is shy and intense, the son of a fish-
erman and his wife who live all year round on the island. Giulia is the
daughter of a wealthy businessman who has moved to Milan.
Salvatore and Giulia have spent every summer together since they
were children, first as best friends, then as a couple. But one day,
while they are on the beach, the corpse of a black boy washes
ashore, followed by others: men, women and children who died dur-
ing the long journey to Europe.
The memory of tragedy remains indelibly connected to their time
together. Love and destiny take them
around the world before they can meet
again.
Enzo Gianmaria NapolilloTURTLES ALWAYS COME HOME
Finalist of:-Premio Fiesole -Premio Brianza
Prix -Mediterraneeetranger
Enzo Gianmaria Napolillo (1977) lives
between Como and Milan). He is married
with a child.
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ITALY:
Garzanti
August 2019165 Pages
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translation
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Valentina OrengoHIGHER THAN THE DAY
But then she meets Alfred, the barefoot boy who changes her life,
introducing her to his friends: Nero, Scatto and Scintilla. The four of
them, children on the cusp of adulthood, show Mimmi the beauty of
the Ligurian hills, its fields of dried tomatoes and flowering jasmine.
They spend their carefree days in pure freedom where time stands
still, and she can’t help thinking that the future is one of infinite pos-
sibility.
Just when everything seems too perfect to be true, Mimi and Alfred
find a treacherous trail along the coast. Those vertiginous cliffs hide
a horrific secret that is bigger than anything they have or will ever
know.
The children must decide whether to keep a secret for themselves or
to share it with their distracted parents and neighbors who watch on
without ever truly seeing. The courage of their choices marks the
end of childhood, and the start of a future that will take them higher
than the day.
HIGHER THAN THE DAY, a novel for both adults and “young
adults”, reminds us that we were all once children tottering on the
brink of adulthood.
Valentina Orengo (Rome, 1968) writes for
television. This is her first novel.
An extraordinary Italian debut for fans of Stand by Meand Stranger Things.
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Chiara Parenti (1980) was originally a self publishedauthor. She lives in Lucca
Sole is afraid of everything: new cities, new people, anything foreign.Her phobias prevent her from living the life of her dreams. Her bestfriend, who is the opposite, is constantly telling her to face her worstfears, one magnificent, fearless moment every day.When her best friend suddenly and unexpectedly dies, Sole is haun-ted by their arguments. So after the funeral, Sole decides to honorher dear friend’s memory by doing one hundred things that she ismost terrified of; she conquers one fear at a time, from jumping outof a roller coaster with a parachute, to crossing the forest on a starrynight. Day after day, she discovers the pleasures of the unexpectedand begins to feel truly alive. She discovers herself. Together with anew friend, she finds a new way to live and love. A “bucket-list book” that teaches us to savor each precious momentof infinite possibilities in the short time we have on this earth.
Chiara Parenti JUMPING FROM HIGH PLACES
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Luna is a little girl when her grandfather teaches her the power of the
stones he collects in his little shop.
Agate lends courage; Aquamarine grants joy, and Jade spreads
peace and wisdom. Luna, like her grandfather, knows that a single
stone can create magic and change your destiny. Her best friend
Leonardo knows it too. As they grow up together hearing stories of
stones, their friendship blooms into love and passion. And then tra-
gedy strikes.
A decade later, a chance meeting between Luna and Leonardo for-
ces them to reckon with the elderly man’s dying
wish. Are they prepared to risk it all for love?
Chiara ParentiTO THE MOON AND BACK
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Agate lends courage. Zircon resolves pro-blems. Aquamarine offershappiness.
But Moonstones aresublime...becausethey remind me ofyou.
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On January 18, 2017, Adriana and Giampiero Parete were on vaca-
tion with their two children when they found themselves trapped,
along with twenty-nine others, under the ruins of the Rigopiano
hotel. During a brief earthquake in the heart of Abruzzo, an avalan-
che broke off from Mount Siella and buried the small hotel resort at
the bottom of the valley. In less than a second, 120,000 tons of sto-
nes, ice and snow swept away everything in its tracks. Some were
instantly killed, but many died in slow agony. Because of the storm
and miscommunication, aid was delayed, emergency workers could
not reach the valley. The rubble of the Rigopiano hotel turned into a
death trap.
The story of what really happened during the dramatic fifty hours that
followed the avalanche is told by the Parete family, the four prota-
gonists of what the newspapers called the "Rigopiano miracle".
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January 2018300 Pages
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Adriana and Giampiero Parete THE WEIGHT OF SNOW
The darkness in which we were immersed became black. The final
voices were those of two gentlemen whose cry for help came from
somewhere left of the sofa. They shouted in vain; a beam creaked
and another pile of snow fell to the ground.
"Mommy, why isn’t any one coming to save us?"
"I don’t know."
"Have they found us ..."
"I don’t know."
"You mean they can’t hear us?"
"Of course they hear us. Maybe they are tired, Gianfi. They must
have been digging for ages. Let’s let them rest for a moment, maybe
sleep a couple of hours. Then they’ll find us. We fine, right?"
"Actually I'm dying of cold, mom."
"Well, it's normal ... We're in the mountains."
"Ludovica? "
"She is certainly fine too, Gianfilippo.”
“Yeah ... Mom?"
"Yes?"
"Would you like to say a prayer with me?"
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Giampiero Parete, his wife Adriana
and their two children are the only
family to have survived the Rigopiano
avalanche alive. They live near
Pescara, Italy.
FICTION
ITALY:
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March 2015159 Pages
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This extraordinary literary debut explores the thin line between death
and imagination, past and present, madness and sanity. The
author’s expertise in uninhabited villages has earned her the name
of “abandonologist”.
The last inhabitant of Alento, an imaginary village in Italy is threat-
ened by an impending landslide that caused everyone but one
woman to flee. On a chilly evening, years later, she throws a dinner
party for the old villagers who return: steaming ravioli, mountains of
hot boiled chestnuts, chocolate covered figs: a surreal dinner with
ghosts, granting a voice to those in exile.
Carmen Pellegrino THE EARTH IS FALLING
Carmen PellegrinoCade la terra
ROMANZO
Carmen Pellegrino (1977) is a journalist from a
small village in Southern Italy, “where past and pres-
ent are one”. She currently lives in Naples.
Winner of the
Premio Rapallo
Carige
Finalist of the
Campiello Prize &
Premio Elba
The most talked-about literary
debut of the year
This poetic and lyrical novel tells the story of how an abysmaldistance between two people can be bridged in the presence oflove. Giosué Pindari doesn’t easily open up. He is a stoic man, fiercely
connected to his land, his family, and his political ideas. But as his
wife’s health rapidly degenerates, Giosué turns not to God, but to
Lulù, their estranged daughter. Letters in a bottle entrusted to the
current, because the river, with its sudden floods, somehow always
reaches its destination.
In the faraway city where Lulù lives, in some inexplicable way, the
waters deliver the answers she seeks. Andreone, a man who lives in
a river house and knows what it means to love and lose, will ultima-
tely lead her to a form of reconciliation, not just with her father but
with the most important woman in her life: her mother.
CARMEN PELLEGRINO
ROMANZO
Se mi tornassi questa sera accanto
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Carmen Pellegrino IF YOU WERE BY MY SIDE TONIGHT
ITALY:
Giunti Editore
March 2017250 Pages
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Marta Perego (1984) is a tv journalist covering cul-tural events.
The journey is a metaphor for life, but we never think about it, becau-
se we are too busy folding shirts and squeezing shoes into the side
pockets of a tattered bag. Why do we care so much about putting
our best self forward when we step out of our comfort zone?
The truth is that each suitcase we pack marks our existence, a
memory, and a projection. We have a vague idea when the trip
starts of who we are and where we are going, but we don’t know
how we will return, nor what will happen along the way. Will we meet
someone special, a lover or future spouse? See a work of art that
will forever change the way we think? Or will we lose something and
veer from the path? Between daily habit and a trip there is a
Suitcase, representing much more than its contents. It is the inter-
section between who I am and who I want to be. Close your eyes
and ask yourself what is in your bag. Do you need it all? Or does it
contain old and useless objects that are holding you back.
Marta PeregoLIFE IN A SUITCASE
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June 2017200 Pages
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Marta PeregoGREAT WOMEN OF CINEMA
Iconic female “stars” have much more in common with each other
than anyone would imagine, and it is neither stardom nor fame, love
nor wealth. It is something deeper and far more interesting. Women
like Audrey Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Vivien Leigh, not to mention
Kate Winslet, Emma Watson, Jennifer Lawrence and Valeria Golino,
share an almost extreme commitment to their objectives, and a rare
single-minded determination. They sacrifice for their careers, strug-
gle with compromise and feel personal heart-
break like everyone. And yet they have interpre-
ted roles that paved the way for new models of
femininity. The lesser-known story of thirty unfor-
gettable actresses, by a cinephile journalist.
All children are afraid of the dark, saysnine-year-old Mafalda, but she isn’t.That’s because she’s going blind andthe darkness is inside her eyes.With her parents awkwardly avoiding tal-
king about her affliction, Mafalda has few
comforts. First among them are stories,
especially the one about Cosimo, the
young baron who went to live in a tree fore-
ver. Naturally, there’s her cat, Ottimo
Turcaret, who’s always there for her to
cuddle. Then there’s the school cherry
tree, her friend, home away from home. In
her mind it’s also home to her beloved
grandmother, who recently passed away.
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Paola PerettiTHE DISTANCE BETWEEN ME
AND THE CHERRY TREE
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Mafalda has been climbing the tree for years. One day, in first grade,
she was climbing the branches but her glasses fell off and she found
herself as trapped. Fortunately Estella, the school’s new custodian,
came to encourage her with a story of the Amazons, women so
strong and brave they cut off a piece of their breast to carry their
spear. Mafalda could only then admit the truth: she didn’t want to
come down because she was afraid of going blind; there were so
many things she wouldn’t be able to do anymore. Estella suggests
she make a list of them. She had written a similar list herself and
would show it to the girl if she came down from the tree. That was
the start of a close friendship and a list entitled Things that are really,really important to me (that I won’t be able to do anymore). Now, every morning, Mafalda reaches the school entrance by follo-
wing the sound of Estella’s whistles, stopping by
to greet the cherry tree on her way. She decides
to count her footsteps between where she first
sees the tree in the distance and where she
finally reaches its trunk. But every week the dis-
tance grows shorter and shorter. Soon her world
will be dark.
Ultimately, the tree will teach Mafalda what’s
truly essential to her: to never ever give up, even
though sometimes it means letting go. And
so she does. But instead of falling she flies.
Paola Peretti teaches immigrant children to
read and write Italian in the province of
Verona. She is afflicted by a rare, degenera-
tive eye disease.
Vladimiro PolchiTHE COMMUNISTS WHO WON THE
LOTTERY
ITALY:
Rizzoli Libri
February 2018 300 Pages
Ilario Morale, a model employee of the local office of the Ministry of
Private affairs and Public Finances, is given a task, one that he has
no choice but to accept, even if it means taking the 9:00 A.M. bus for
a hundred nauseating curves that separate him from a half abando-
ned town in the Umbrian mountains.
Ilario is eager to give them the news and return home:
Congratulations! You won 56 million in the lottery. How wouldyou like to collect it? But it isn’t as easy as he thinks. The
Communists of Pietra Rosata are suspicious mountain folk, allergic
to good news. Ilario has yet to meet Ninito, the diffident hermit and
his aging revolutionary buddies.
Inspired by thetrue story of a
group of elderlyMarxists whowon 56million
Euro in theChristmas lottery
and decided toshare their good
fortune
Commander Alvaro Castello, Ilario’s boss, and a man of the world,
had warned him: “The record Jackpot, 56 million for those old fools!
You tell them because I already know what will happen: they will
celebrate for a day, singing, dancing and drinking wine, followed by
a promise to share the prize with everyone in the village. Then, they
will change their minds. Have you ever seen a Communist with 5 mil-
lion euro in his wallet?”
But the men and women of Pietra Rosata have an important lesson
in store for them: never underestimate a Communist in love.
Life in that small village in the mountains will never be the same, nor
will Ilario... and not just because they will all be 56 million Euro richer.
Nino will fulfill his life-long dream and Ilario will finally start living
again. Readers will never forget Pietra Rosata and the revolutionary
madness of its Communist citizens.
Vladimiro Polchi (1973) writes for television.
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Le assaggiatriciRosella Postorino
Rosella PostorinoTHE WOMEN AT HITLER’S TABLE
FICTION FICTION
ITALY:
Feltrinelli
January 2018 250 Pages
Based on a haunting true story,
this international bestseller raises
provocative questions about com-
plicity, guilt and survival.
Germany 1943: Twenty six year old
Rosa Sauer has left war-torn Berlin
to live with her in-laws in the country-
side, thinking she’ll find refuge there.
But the morning the SS recruit her to
be one of Hitler’s tasters, she feels
she has no choice but to accept.
Three times a day, Rosa and nine other
women are taken to Hitler’s secret head-
quarters, the Wolf’s Lair, to taste his
meals in advance.
Forced to eat what might kill them, the
tasters align and divide, amongst them-
selves. As secrets and resentments
grow, this unlikely sisterhood reaches its
own dramatic climax. And they begin to
wonder if they are on
the wrong side of
history.
Postorino’s ability to beautifully convey feelings of guilt, shame, love and remorsein a single gesture is a sign that we will behearing more from her.
The New York Times
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Rosella Postorino (1978) is the prize-winning
author of three novels. She lives in Rome and
works as an editor for Einaudi.
Winner of the 2018
Campiello Prize
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October 2019150 Pages
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Rosella PostorinoFALLING UPSIDE DOWN
The adventures of Tina in the wonderful world of imperfection
For the first time, being funny, rather than perfect, didn’t make her
hands sweat. On the contrary: it made her happy. Never before, had
she made anyone laugh. Or maybe she had never learned to laugh
together with others, and above all, at herself. Tina is a perfectionist
who will only do what she already does well, because she is terrified
of making mistakes. Her schoolmates call her Perfectina, and they
don’t find her much fun to be around.
Then again, perfection doesn’t make anyone laugh.
One afternoon, chasing a ball in the river, Tina falls from a waterfall,
which is when her adventure begins. She is saved by an enormously
obese woman who is actually a hot air balloon, and brought to an
outlandish land in the midst of celebrating its Waste Festival.
Amongst hairdressers practicing trimtherapy, politicians too shy to
speak in public, women muttering the language of stars, homeless
yoga instructors, nursery rhymes and a whirlwind of inventions, Tina
agrees to participate in the annual Treasure Hunt where she disco-
vers that abandoning her fears and accepting herself is biggest prize
of all.
“A story that whispers be yourself in the voice of a faraway star”
Chiara Gambarale
In the Land of Waste, no one is ashamed of who they are,because their weaknesses make them special and help others.Their defects are their proudest assets.
A children’s book by the author of the international bestseller,
Hitler’s Tasters.
At the center of this clash of cultures are the unbearable contradic-
tions of love, in a culture that denies homosexuality.
In a slow but inexorable crescendo of tension, the contradictions
between cultures and sensibilities, unacceptable and indispensable
hypocrisies, culminate in the mad, lucid organization of a bloody
attack in the name of G-d.
Take your stuff, and leave.What? After six years, you are throwing me out?I am not throwing you out. I am just telling you that this situation isunbearable, at least for me. I can’t live with a man I love, who lovesme, who I cannot touch or who cannot touch me, who sleeps in mybed. I so want to touch you that I would be happy just punching youin the stomach. How long can I resist? A week, a month, two years?Can’t we still be friends? No, Mustafa. You are to be married. And I am in love with you.You are gay.Doesn’t that make you gay too?...Ali felt no anger, nor resentment towards them, but he did believe heshould because G-d did. He was furious with Mustafa Kamal, andsure that if he had become an accomplice of his betrayal, he wouldpass as half the man he was.
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ITALY:
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March 2018300 Pages
In a multiethnic neighborhood of Milan, the lives of vastly different
inhabitants of a banister building intertwine: Mustafa Kamal, there to
earn money that will allow him to begin a life with his promised bride
Aida, in Egypt; Jasmine, a brilliant first generation Moroccan woman;
and Stefano, an Italian who has fallen in love with her.
They spend their days in sexual ambiguity, looking for work and figh-
ting a bureaucracy that requires them to constantly renew documents.
Europeans and “outsiders” living in an apparently quiet and ordinary
street of an ordinary city, which is actually on the razor’s edge.
Ghirghis Ramal THE HIT
Ghirghis Ramal is a pseudonym.
Politically Correct and Populism: words directly connected toHypocrisy and Terrorism. An extraordinary novel that speaksfor itself.
FICTION FICTION
ITALY:
Nord
October 2019336 Pages
Giulia RossiTHIS IS HOW TO DO IT
Leonard Cohen writes that “There are cracks in everything, that’s
how the light gets in.” But what happens when that crack is as long
and wide as the Po River, and a young Professor puts his entire life
at risk for a simple kiss from his 18-year-old student on the day his
pregnant wife miscarries their child? To compound his sense of guilt,
he discovers that his father is burried in debt and going bankrupt,
and that the young student he kissed is threatening to go public if he
doesn’t leave his wife for her.
Like the protagonist of Pirandello’s Pensaci Giacomino!, Federico is
stuck between a rock and a hard place. He puts his darkest thoughts
to paper as he contemplates suicide on the roof of his apartment buil-
ding. But tomorrow is another day, he figures, as the letter slips out
of his pocket and drifts to the sidewalk where it is almost immedia-
tely found by a student of his.
If only he hadn’t turned off his phone that day; if only his father had
spared him the truth about their family finances. If only the unsigned
note had dropped into the river rather than on the sidewalk below
where another student found it, creating a social media frenzy of his
desperation the next day.
In the media chaos that follows, teachers and students go on the
witch hunt to discover who the author of the note might be. Federico
will discover that sometimes it takes a crack-up to become a man.
Giulia Rossi (1982) has a degree in
Philosophy and works in the field of digital
communication. In 1987, she underwent a
heart transplant. Six years later, her body
rejected the organ and she is alive by a
miracle. That experience changed her way
of seeing the world forever.
We all make mistakes. The important thing is to find the courage to correct them.
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ITALY:
Feltrinelli
April 2020336 Pages
Sarah Savioli THE UNSUSPECTABLE
After suffering a minor cerebral hematoma, Anna finds herself com-
municating not only with her husband, her newborn baby and her
cat, but with all sorts of plants and animals she has never even met
before. This extraordinary gift grants her a new way of seeing the
world and an unexpected job offer at a private investigative agency.
She and Harlequin, her Great Dane prone to flatulence, join investi-
gators Cantoni and Torino in resolving the case of a thirty-four-year
old former drug addict who presumably precipitated from the fourth
floor of her apartment building.
A unique and entertaining approach to crime by an investiga-tor who finds that plants and animals make the best witnesses
While Cantoni and Torino are out interrogating relatives and neigh-
bors, Anna stealthily consults with the Dane in front of her, with the
plants in the garden next door, with a suicidal pigeon, two elderly turt-
le siblings who are a bit sclerotic and a host of other living creatures.
The drug filled neighborhood is just the starting point for a compel-
ling investigation that leads nowhere through diverse points of view.
But Anna is not to be sidetracked or underestimated. Her perseve-
rance, instinct and particular set of skills will lead the team in the right
direction.
Thanks to her long experience as a scientific forensic expert in the
police force, Sarah Savioli offers a fresh and amusing approach to
the mystery genre.
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An entertainingmystery solved by
an unforgettablefemale investigatorand her Great Dane
assistant
Sarah Savioli (1974) worked in the police force
as a forensic before becoming a stay home
mother and full time writer.She is passionate
about her plants and animals.
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English
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Roberta Schira LA DOLCE KITCHEN:
The Italian way of celebrating life
ITALY:
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An invitation toput our differen-
ces aside andreturn to the
table as a placeof joy
Roberta Schira (1960) is a writer, publicist and
food critic for the Italian daily paper Corriere dellaSera and www.finedininglovers.com.
We live in an era of food obsession, bombarded by contradictory
messages and food phobias: cruel farming techniques, evil gluten,
cancerous pesticides and fatal mad cows. We are told that dieting
means you will live longer, that eating meat is cruel and harmful.
Why is it virtually impossible to sort through the calculated prejudi-
ces that condition what and how we eat? Because much of it is crea-
ted by those with an economic interest. After all, eating is big busi-
ness.
This discursive and practical guide offers new solutions to navigate
a world of Carnivores who lack respect for the future of this planet,
and Vegans who demonize animal products: an inclusive, ethical
and tolerant diet that reconciles sustainable farming with profit, and
encourages us to return to a table of quality food, cultural exchange
and joyful conviviality.
ITALY:
Vallardi Editore
May 2019200 Pages
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The Danes brought us the concept of Hygge; Marie Kondo inspired
us to find joy in tidying; but no-one knows the kitchen like the Italians.
In this groundbreaking book, Italian writer and food critic Roberta
Schira brings fresh thinking to the room that is at the heart of every
home: the Kitchen.
With intelligence and humour, Schira shows how, by taking control
of our kitchen, we enhance our relationship with food, increase self
esteem, and consequently create positive relationships with those
we love. Starting with ourselves. La Dolce Kitchen
is a much needed book about the most important
room in the house. It will bring us back to the kit-
chen as a place of joy and nourishment.
Roberta Schira THE OMNIVORE SOLUTION
The Joy of Eating Everything
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ISRAEL:
Kinerret Zmora
2018200 pages
In this book, best-selling author and mathematician Haim Shapira
offers a wonderfully engaging introduction to one of the most power-
ful and mysterious of mathematical concepts ever invented by
humankind: Infinity. An engrossing account to mathematical theories
offer a stepping stone to the deeply counter-intuitive concept of
Infinity, an idea which has inspired many great thinkers over the cen-
turies. In this book we will meet sages who are both familiar and unfa-
miliar. Written with humor and wit, Haim Shapira offers readers an
opportunity to enjoy deep thinking on a truly intellectual journey, so
fasten your seatbelt and enjoy the trip to Infinity and beyond!
Haim Shapira, PhDEIGHT LESSONS ON INFINITY
Happiness and
Other Smal l Things
of Absolute
Impor tance
H a i m S h a p i r a , P h D
‘A seriously playful book that will inform, transform, delight as well as enlighten you’TAL BEN-SHAHAR, AUTHOR AND HARVARD UNIVERSITY LECTURER
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Haim Shapira (1962) is a Russian born professorwho teaches mathematics, psychology, philoso-phy, and literature. He also gives popular lectureson Eastern and Western philosophies, oftenaccompanied by his world class piano playing. All four of Shapira’s books: Ecclesias: The BiblicalPhilosopher, What Really Matters, Conversationson Game Theory, and Infinity, the Never EndingJourney- were long running #1 bestsellers. He is Israel’s number one lecturer.
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Mattia Signorini SILENT STARS
ITALY:
Feltrinelli
May, 2019 300 Pages
In a multiple star system, the primary star appears to shinebrighter than all others, overshadowing the secondary starswhich become virtually invisible, even through a telescope.That is what we were back then, silent stars whose light wasinferior. And yet we wanted to shine at all costs.
The day the Professor Nicola Sceriman, died in a tragic accident
Zeno’s life changed like Frost’s Two roads in a Yellow Wood. Only
one other person besides Zeno knows what really happened that
night: Agata, the only woman he has ever loved. Nine years later,
the truth is about to unravel. Despite the risk involved, Zeno and
Agata meet in the countryside to trade secrets.
They break their pact of silence and revisit a time that revolved
around the charismatic professor, author of a single cult book. The
night promises to be a long unraveling of secrets and half truths, a
nostalgic game of mirrors which must be resolved before dawn.
Either way, the truth will change their future.
A mesmerizing game of mirrors that compels the reader to sort
through secrets, revelations,and contorted memories to seek the
truth.
Mattia Signorini (1980) is the author of
three previous novels. Lontano da Ogni
Cosa, La Sinfonia del Tempo Breve, and
Ora. He created and directs a literary
festival called Rovigo Racconta.
FICTION FICTION
A novel about secrets:those we tell others andmost importantly thosewe tell ourselves.
The most intensememory of anylove affair is its
end
ITALY:
DeaPlaneta
May 2019250 Pages
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FICTION FICTION
Simona Sparaco (1978) lives in Rome, whereshe writes for television. Her novels include:Equazione di un Amore, Nessuno sa di noi andSe chiudo gli occhi.
Simona Sparaco IN SILENCE WE LOVE
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Simona SparacoTHE EQUATION OF LOVE
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Quantum physics dictates
that if two particles interact
for a certain length of time
and then become separa-
ted, they are no longer distinct entities. Can
the same be true of people? The unreasona-
ble powers of love and reason are at the cen-
ter of this dramatic love story about a woman
torn between two men.
ITALY:
Giunti Editore
March 2016352 Pages
This suspenseful novel follows that fateful and
tragic day in the lives of five very different families living in a single
building. Its residents are blissfully unaware that a malfunctioning
refrigerator in an empty apartment is gathering momentum to burst
into flames.
Polina, a single mother haunted by the torments of her ancestors;
Naima, mother of a troubled young man; Alice, a student from Italy
who writes in a diary which will miraculously survive the flames; and
Hulya, who is secretly in love with Polina. It will take the firefighters
till dawn to put out the blaze, but the stars will go out as soon as
the smoke starts rising in the sky. An electrifying drama of all cha-
racters like us, fighting intimate battles their
neighbors know nothing about.
Bestseller withover 50,000copies sold
Full English
translation
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SIMONA SPARACO
romanzo
SE CHIUDO GLI OCCHISIMONA SPARACO
Dall’autrice-rivelazione di Nessuno sa di noi, una grande storia che incanta e rapisce.
UN ROMANZO CHE SCUOTE L’ANIMA. Simona Sparaco: un segno indelebile
nella narrativa italiana.
Simona Sparaco
Nessunosa di noi
A story of hope and redemption that reminds us that everyone is
born with a purpose in life
Sentaro, an ex-convict, runs a lackluster shop that sells dorayaki, aJapanese pastry filled with sweet bean paste. He took the job inorder to pay some old debts, but he remains unmotivated, doing thebare minimum in order to take his salary home.
FICTION
Durian SukegawaSWEET BEAN PASTE
FICTION
JAPAN:
Poplar Publishing
2013239 Pages
One day, Tokue, an edlerly woman with visible physical scars,
comes to the shop and asks Sentaro for a part time job preparing
sweet bean paste, which is a crucial ingredient for dorayaki.
Sentaro shoos her away, but his initial doubts disappear as he tastes
Tokue’s otherworldly paste. For Tokue, a former patient who has
spent most of her life secluded in a leprosaria, this is the fist time she
has had contact with people from outside the institution.
Tokue’s delicious paste quickly becomes popular and the shop’s
sales soar. Clients start to chat with her, and she is befriended by a
teenage girl, who talks to her about her uneasiness at school.
However, rumors of Tokue’s past as a leprosy patient spread like
wildfire, and Sentaro is forced to fire her and to leave the shop.
Months later, Sentaro decides to visit Tokue at the leprosaria, which
turns out to be a soul changing experience.
With deceptively simple prose, Durian Sukegawa explores complex
aspects of human happiness and the struggle to make life meaning-
ful. This poignant tale of friendship is also a gently and optimistic
story of hope and renewal.
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Durian Sukegawa (1962) alias Tetsuya Akikawa is a
writer, a poet, and musician.
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ITALY:
La Nave di Teseo
September 2018287 Pages
Svevo EstateRECIPES IN CASA SVEVO
Between the 19th and 20th century, Villa Veneziani in Trieste-
frequented by Italo Svevo and other writers and intellectuals- was
one of Europe’s artistic, economic and social hubs, a symbol of the
bourgeois cultural scene under the Austrian empire, alimented by
mitteleuropean artistic movements which provided a fundamental
contribution to the city’s identity.
This book, edited by journalist and author Alessandro Marzo Magno,
sheds light on Italo Svevo, the classic Italian writer, author of Zeno’s
Conscience, in an unusual and intimate approach: through the family
recipes of Dora Veneziani which were recently found in the family
archives. These jealously guarded recipes are counterbalanced with
epochal tidbits of history, relating to Svevo and his entourage, the
likes of art critic Gillo Dorfles, the poet Saba, Moravia...
As though that was not enough, Dora’s recipes are present in ano-
ther book of Italian literature, her great granddaughter Susanna
Tamaro’s Follow Your Heart.
Today, the public would be horrified by Nonna Dora’s caloric and
hyperglycemic meals, but thanks to her recipe book which survived
the Villa Veneziani, we are able to replicate her fried cream and
ricotta cheesecake that Italo Svevo enjoyed.
A cultural and lite-
rary portrait of
Italo Svevo’s 19th
century Trieste
told through a
long lost recipe
book for literature
lovers worldwide.
NON FICTION
What if the writing genes were transmitted through the same foods we
were served, like the chocolate cake in Follow Your Heart?
Susanna Tamaro, great niece of Italo Svevo
Alessandro Marzo Magno is a
Venetian-born journalist and author
of several bestselling books of
narrative non fiction.
FICTION FICTION
Susanna Tamaro
AN INTERNATIONALBESTSELLER
25 MILLION COPIESSOLD IN 46 COUNTRIES
We are oak trees, but tolerance and love have the power totransform us into willows.
Ascolta la mia voceSusanna Tamaro
BOMPIANI
Per sempreSusanna Tamaro
BOMPIANI
Susanna Tamaro
BOMPIANI
Anima mundi Più fuoco, più ventoSusanna Tamaro
BOMPIANI
Susanna Tamaro
BOMPIANI
Per voce sola
RispondimiSusanna Tamaro
BOMPIANI
Susanna Tamaro (1957) studied film
direction at the Centro Sperimentale di
Cinematografia before writing her first
novel, La testa fra le nuvole (1989)
which Federico Fellini publically prai-
sed. Since then, she has written nume-
rous books, essays and fiction, inclu-
ding the extraordinary bestselling novel
Follow Your Heart (1994) that sold mil-
lions of copies all over the world.
Susanna is a regular contributor of the
Italian daily newspaper Corriere dellaSera. Tamaro supports various humani-
tarian causes, including a nonprofit
foundation that she created to assist
women and children. She lives on a
self-sufficient farm in the Umbrian
countryside.
English
translation
available
FICTIONFICTION
Susanna Tamaro THE TIGER AND THE ACROBAT
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Little Tiger tried hard to understand the nature of humans, and so she asked why man was so dangerous. A mushroom lives a mushroom’s life; a bee lives the life of a bee; and a tree a tree, the man replied.
The same goes for stones, water and clouds.Even lightning lives its own life, and so does hail.But not man. Man lives by his own rules. He makes them and breaksthem...for better and for worse.”
Little Tiger is not like other tigers. She is curious about the world and
always questions everything, not content to simply follow in her
mother's footsteps and spend her days hunting around their home in
the snow forests of Siberia. Instead, she embarks on a remarkable
journey, intent on discovering the secrets of the Earth and eventually
finding the creature she has heard most about: man.
This captivating story of a brave young tiger who refuses to give up
on her dreams is a celebration of the power of nature and the beauty
of innocence that attests to the courage it takes to be authentic.
Francesca TassiniLIKE FLIES tO HONEY
ITALY:
Solferini
January 2019 300 Pages
This fictionalized memoir follows the lives of Francesca and her
friends, teenagers in the early nineties, before cell phones and inter-
net: squatters, drug addicts, mentally unhinged, running away from
home, or simply from themselves, young adults looking in all the
wrong places to expand their horizons on the streets of a Milan that
had not yet been gentrified.
Francesca found a sense of belonging on the streets, “a sort of
adoptive mother embracing all sorts of strays”. She knew this new
phase of her life would change her forever, but she had no idea just
how much. During the day, she skipped school to smoke n the park
parks. At night she snuck onto trains and went to raves, which soon
led to popping pills and lines of cocaine. Before long, she was injec-
ting heroine and pushing drugs herself.
Over the course of the year, it all stopped being an adventure, and
she found herself in a nightmare where her “friends” were dropping
like flies, dying of overdose, or on the streets. And then the crude
and painful reality of detox led her to a mental hospital.
An authentic and poetic journey into the dark soul of a generation.
There is something visceral about Tassini’s writing, somethingmuddy that perfumes of urine, blood and vodka set against a child-hood ashamed of itself, under the facade of precocious drinking.Vital energy is palpable in the slumbering faces of teenagers in asquat, where they amass to protect themselves from the cold, is theenergy of life. All of this comes through in Tassini’s own personalTrainspotting.
Francesca Tassini (1973) writes for
television.
FICTION FICTION
FICTIONFICTION
Simone TempiaLIFE WITH LLOYD
My Days in the Company of an Imaginary Butler
ITALY:
Rizzoli Libri Lizard
Illustrations:Tuono PettinatoApril 2017200 Pages
Television rights
optioned
English
translation
available
The perfect friend: wise, unconditionally loyal, and full of good
advice, are far and few between. That is why an imaginary butler is
the perfect man to have around the house.
Lloyd is the perfect imaginary companion: discretely present, always
ready to dispense comforting words of wisdom, for everyday dilem-
mas. The elegant and respectful Sir and Loyd are lovingly anachro-
nistic. With class and irony, they exchange thoughts on a variety of
themes, like: love, aging, fear and the search for happiness.
Lloyd, I am unable to find peace...
That is because you are confusing it
with happiness, Sir.
Are they not the same ?
Quite the contrary. Happiness lies in
obtaining what you desire; peace in
knowing how to renounce it.
I suppose everything flows, Lloyd.
�ot everything, Sir; only that which is
invisible to the eye.
You are very right, Loyd.
You’re welcome Sir.
Lloyd, I have withdrawn into myself.
Yes, I am afraid you have, Sir.
What do I do now? It’s awfully stifling
to be trapped in my own company.
Do not worry, Sir. One day, the right
person will comes along.
So the right person will let me out?
Quite the opposite; The right person
won’t be afraid to venture in.
Thank you Lloyd.
At your service, Sir.
Simone Tempia (1983) is a journalist for Vogue. He
lives with his wife and his imaginary butler.
ITALY:
Harpercollins
October 2017300 Pages
English
translation
available
Carla Vangelista THE GAME OF LOVE
FICTION FICTION
A love story that explores how we navigate the dangerous and
powerful nature of love. When used improperly, it can make you its
slave, or worst; but when harnessed, it can set you free.
Elodie is no ordinary taxi driver. Brought up in a circus of ice-skaters,
her mother taught her that love is freedom and freedom is loving
without strings attached. But her real initiation began with Alain, an
older man who taught her everything in the game of love but how to
really love. His initiation set the benchmark for all her other expe-
riences. Elodie keeps a little red book, containing the rules of The
Game. Every now and then, she lets someone find it, and waits to
see what happens.
Guy is the most conventional man Elodie has ever met. He lives in
the suburbs of Paris with his wife and children. Every day, he com-
mutes to the office, and strives to be the obedient, dependable man
others expect of him. Guy is dying of asphyxia, but he doesn’t yet
c a r l a v a n g e l i s t a
ROMANZO
L’USO IMPROPRIO DELL’AMORE
know it... until he meets Elodie, who introduces him to her game.
What begins in the spirit of fun soon turns into something much more
important, where the words love, freedom, honesty take on a whole
new purpose. Both Guy and Elodie ultimately pay a price for their
choices. And for carelessly playing with the cards life has dealt them.
As Guy musters the courage to strive for his dreams, Elodie is about
to lose one of the few people she truly loves. Camille, her best friend,
is dying. And when she does, a fragile Elodie will be alone in the
world.
The time has come for Elodie to admit that freedom comes at a cost.
And to make her choice
Carla Vangelista (1954) is an author, translator
and screenwriter. She lives in Rome.
ITALY:
Mondadori
January 2020300 Pages
When celebrated television presenter Andrea Vianello went to sleep
on February 1, 2019, he was a man of success who could count on
one thing: his extraordinary talent with words. He was used to the
16-18 hour work days, during which he motivated and directed a
highly trained group of television journalists and often appeared him-
self on screen. His highly honed verbal skills paved the way for his
success and opened doors to Rome’s elite intellectual circles, not to
mention restaurants and parties. But on the morning of February 2nd
all that vanished when he woke up naked and motionless, unable to
speak.
A stroke that threatened his life, took his words instead, and with it
his entire identity. What followed was a painful and meticulous
reconstruction of not only his linguistic ability, but the basis upon
which he had built his entire life. In the two years of darkness that
followed, Vianello had the time to reflect on the price he paid for the
frenetic life he lived.
Why do we sacrifice what is most important for what we understand
only later, on death’s doorsteps, to be insignificant?
This memoir is a personal and collective reflection by a man who
almost lost everything and now has found the courage to speak
openly about his stroke. Envied and respected, famous for his loqua-
cious abilities Vianello intimately confesses how it felt to be helpless.
And how that misfortune was also a magnificent opportunity to
reconsider his values and redesign his life.
Stroke is globally the second cause of death after heart disease.
Every year, over 15 million people suffer strokes worldwide. Of
these, 5 million die and another 5 million are permanently disabled.
Over the last four decades, incidents have doubled and the probabi-
lity increasing steadily with age. Socioeconomic factors – meaning
the stress of middle and high income lifestyles, contribute enor-
mously.
Andrea Vianello (1961) is an author, a televi-
sion director and a television conductor.
NON FICTION NON FICTION
Andrea VianelloALL THE WORDS I KNEW
ITALY:
Rizzoli
February 2020200 Pages
Questa mattina ci siamo svegliati
presto e all’alba siamo usciti in giardino.
Si diceva da tempo che dovesse
succedere qualcosa di lacerante.
Che fosse proprio oggi però, questo
non lo sapevamo. Ma C’era
un presentimento nell’aria-quasi
un fremito animale a preannunciare l’evento.
Cosi, senza una parola, abbiamo preso
Il corpo, lo abbiamo lavato con cura,
vestito come per affrontare un lungo
viaggio. Cullato alla luce piana del giorno.
Avevamo convissuto per venti anni
eppure già non ci apparteneva più.
Avevamo capito che era arrivato il momento.
Lo abbiamo seppellito nell’erba alta,
senza indugiare, con il capo rivolto
verso le nostre finestre e gli occhi
ben visibili, due punti di luce
tra le sterpaglie. Non capivamo
cosa fosse accaduto il giorno in cui
lo abbiamo perduto-percià volevamo
mantenere un contatto, un ponte
tra noi per rimediare. Per farci
perdonare, un giorno per questa morte
inutile eppure inevitabile.
Giovanna Cristina Vivinetto (Sicily, 1994)
graduated with a degree in modern
Philology. Her first book of poetry, Dolore
Minimo, won the Premio Viareggio-Repaci
for debuts. She is a transexual.
FICTION FICTION
Giovanna Cristina VivinettoWHERE WE HAVE NEVER BEEN
A book of poetry narrated with the understanding that bodily meta-
morphosis as a universal experience.
Claudia Zanella VEGAN FOR A DAY
NON FICTION NON FICTION
Not everyone is vegan, but most of us are willing to make small
changes in order to improve the quality of our health, live a happier
life and contribute to a greener planet. Just one day a week is all it
takes to make a world of difference. This account of being “Green“
shows how easy it is to take responsibility for personal and global
change. Anyone who has seen the documentary “What the Health”
or read Foer’s “Eating Animals” is already aware of the health risks
of eating animals that are kept in squalid living conditions and fed
antibiotics and hormones. What they often don’t realize however is
that the path to natural living, including the much debated vegan diet,
is more about self love and less about renunciation.
In this narrated guide, Naturopath Claudia Zanella takes us through
her own “conversion” with irony, wit and knowledge, suggesting that
veganism is a life-affirming philosophy rather than a diet.
ITALY:
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November 2017300 Pages
Choose one day of the week, any day, and make it Green Day, a day
in which you will eat better foods, be more physically active, nurture
your relationships and live consciously. Break habits and make choi-
ces as you think they should be made in an ideal world.
Green Day should be different, special, a bit like the ancient concept
of Shabbat. It is a day in which you consecrate life itself by choosing
not to pollute the air with your car, waste water and energy and gene-
rally contribute to the degeneration of this planet. I suggest Monday.
After a weekend of excess, the first day of the week is perfect for de-
toxing and setting the mood for a new week.
You can choose to be more positive on Green Day more conscious
of how you treat your sacred body. You can act in a way that is
respectful of nature and its living creatures. In just one day, which
may become two or three in time, you are making a huge contribu-
tion to what I call the Green Revolution.
“Do not trust that woman; she is from Vega Planet”Fausto Brizzi: husband, film director and author of
I MARRIED A VEGAN.
Claudia Zanella (1979) has a degree in naturo-
pathic medicine and writes about healthy eating
for “Io Donna”.
Kojo’s stories help her bear the shock of her father’s leaving and thefamily’s move to England, where she must build her own story in aland that does not understand where she comes from.
Just as she is finding her way, Kojo calls her back to Ghana, to helpto rebuild the place to which he has returned as a leader. But whentragedy strikes, Maya must decide where she truly belongs.
Lyrical, poignant and written with sly humour, The God Child looks atwhat it is like to live “in between”, to be from everywhere andnowhere, as so many are in today’s fluid world. Mixing the personaland the political with ease, this first novel looks at the story of onefamily and through it, the trials of a whole continent.
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Nana Oforiatta Ayim THE GOD CHILD
Magical storyelling about
the complexity of intergenerational African identity.
Once the Royal family of a fabled kingdom in Ghana, the Mensahs
are seen very differently in the little German town to which they
have been exiled. Regal and aloof, Maya’s mother isn’t used to her
low status, and she makes sure that everyone knows who she is,
from the girl in the local department store who thinks she can’t
afford to shop there, to Maya’s own father, whose background is
much more humble.
Then her mother’s godchild, Kojo, is dispatched to join them.Mischievous and brave, Kojo is bolder than Maya and afraid of noth-ing. He tells her stories of their home, Ghana, and make her feel thatshe is more than just a lonely little girl, but part of a rich web of royalhistory.
Nana Oforiatta Ayim is an African trail-blazer. Writer, filmmaker and art histo-rian, whose documentary-drama shortfilms have been shown at The NewMuseum, Tate Modern and LACMA.The founder of ANO , she has spokenwidely on cultural narratives and institu-tion-building in Africa in the BritishMuseum and Cambridge University.Recipient of many awards, includingthe 2018 Soros Arts Fellowship. Shewill be a Global South Visiting Fellow atOxford University in 2019.
UK
Bloomsbury
2019288 Pages
An extraordinary newfiction voice fromGhana
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Claudia CarrollOUR LITTLE SECRET
A sparkling story about what happens when you let someone into
your life… but the turn out to want more than you’d bargained for!
Sarah Dee has the perfect life. A high-flying job in a law firm, a beau-
tiful daughter, and a house to die for. So how does she find herself
looking in through the kitchen while another woman enjoys it all?
When Sarah takes pity on a struggling young graduate who can’t get
a job, she thinks she’s doing the right thing. She’s being kind, gene-
rous and helpful to others, as she always is. But as Sarah allows the
younger woman into her home, her law firm and even her family; is
there more to this there more to this pretty youngster than meets the
eye? And how can Sarah reclaim the life she has built?
Claudia Carroll does it again with this sparking new novel about what
happens when your life becomes up for grabs.
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Bubbles and sparkles like pink champagne... hugely entertaining.Patricia Scanlan
Claudia Carroll (1969) was born in Dublin,
where she still lives. A former actress, she
is now a full time writer.She is the author of
over ten novels.
Claudia Carroll is amaster of creating a
great story
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Louise Douglas THE HOUSE BY THE SEA
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February 2020416 Pages
Hannah's newly found stability is
rocked when she finds herself
staring into the face of Ellen, her
dead best friend from child-
hood. Questioning whether
Ellen might still be alive, she
returns to Cornwell only to dis-
cover an unspeakable secret
that ultimately tore three lives
apart.
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A chilling, unforgettable read from bestseller Louise Douglas.
When Edie’s mother–in-law, Anna DeLuca, dies, she is relieved.
Edie blames Anna for the accident that destroyed her family. So,
when her will lures Edie to Sicily and the long-abandoned Villa della
Madonna del Mare, she sees through Anna’s games.
Suspecting Anna is meddling from beyond the grave to try to
reunite her and her ex-husband Joe, Edie is determined to leave
Italy as soon as possible. But before she can, the villa starts to shed
its mysterious secrets. Who are the girls besides Anna in her child-
hood photos and why has one of them been scratched out? Who
wants them to leave the past untouched?
A captivating, chilling and unforgettable tale of betrayal, jealousy
and the mysteries hidden in every family history.
The perfect com-bination of page-
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Annie Howarth lives in a mining
community in South Yorkshire
where tensions run high when a
murdered girl is found on the
moors, bringing past secrets to
the forefront.
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There’s something strange about
the cottage by the lake where
Julia spent her childhood, with an
older sister, Caroline, whom she
rarely speaks about. Why does
her babysitter feel there is a
secret the whole village wants
kept hidden.
Brendan GrahamTHE WHITEST FLOWER TRILOGY
Brendan Graham is an Irish songwriter, author of
the international hit You Raise me up.
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There is a high price for this act of rebellion: Ellen will find her three
children taken away from her as she is banished to Australia with litt-
le Annie. Determined, Ellen will find a new vocation for herself in that
country, before she allies herself with the native people against the
cruelty of their landlord. Facing, once again, heartbreaking loss,
Ellen escapes to America, where she finds sudden fortune, braving
a return to Mayo to reclaim her children. Horrified by the devastation
that awaits her, Ellen is desperate to take them away, but tragedy
awaits before she can take her remaining family to safety in America.
There, on the teeming streets of Boston, she will meet her old adver-
sary, Stephen Joyce, and an unlikely affair blossoms, before Ellen
finds herself at the mercy of fortune once more. With the stormclouds
of the American Civil War gathering, Ellen, along with her daughters,
finds herself swept up in the conflict, before she discovers that her
estranged son and her lover are on opposing sides of this bitter war.
In the tumult of Gettysburg, Ellen thinks that she will be forced to
choose between love and loyalty, but destiny has one further surpri-
se in store for her...
Complex, dramatic and passionate, Brendan Graham’s trilogy tells
the story of one woman's struggle for survival in the turbulent 19th
century, but it is more than just Ellen's story - it is the story of a nation
and its nationhood; how the tragedy of one
country, Ireland, helped build another, the United
States of America.
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The grand sweep of history comes alive in an extraordinary trilogy,
published to rave reviews - The Whitest Flower, The Element of
Fire and The Brightest Day, The Darkest Night.
Ireland, 1845: Ellen Rua O'Malley feels herself blessed with her
husband, Michael, and her three children, Patrick and twins Katie
and Mary. In their little home in the west of Ireland, the only thing that
troubles them is their landlord, Pakenham, a man who puts his own
prosperity before the comfort and safety of his tenants, who must
scratch a living from the unforgiving land of County Mayo. Then,
having just given birth to her fourth child, the potato crop, on which
they depend for their survival, fails, and the dreaded shadow of the
Famine stalks Ellen and her family. Michael, swept up in the rebel-
lion against Packenham fomented by Stephen Joyce, is killed and it
is all Ellen can do to save her dead husband from the communal
grave of the workhouse, taking him home to bury him.
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Michael Harding CHEST PAIN
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
A MAN, A STENT AND A
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Ireland’s Number
One bestselling
memoirist
Michael Harding (1953) is an Irish author and a
playwright who contributes regularly to the Irish
Times. He is also a practicing Buddhist. He is the
author of Staring at Lakes (winner of the 2013
Irish Book Awards),Hanging with Elephants, and
Talking to Strangers.
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What happens between one story and the next?
That is the really interesting part. That is the space wherewe find bliss; where we float sometimes, suspended, andonly for a brief moment.
Perhaps only for a few scarce moments in an entire life.
MICHAEL
HARDING
AN ADVENTURE
THROUGH FAITH, LOVE AND
In late 2018, Michael Harding was in a hotel room in Blanchardstown
experiencing severe pains in his chest. He eventually phoned an
ambulance and was admitted to hospital, suffering from an acute
heart attack. Here, in Chest Pain, he looks at the months before the
heart attack when he kept the signs of failing health from his belo-
ved and instead retreated into solitude — and with his own inimita-
ble style and humour takes us with him through the months after a
stent had been inserted in his heart, where he travels the roads of
Donegal in a camper van in a journey back to the beloved, and to
himself.
Chest Pain is a thought-provoking, spell-binding memoir about toge-
therness and what it means to be alive.
Shane Hegarty DARKMOUTH
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When we first meet him, Finn is chasing a creature through a lane-way, using specially fashioned weapons. He fails and his father mustonce again rescue him.
Leaving the scene, Finn picks up a strange crystal left behind by thecreature, and puts it in his pocket. Those crystals are used by theLegends to create the gateways, but they can also power a deviceFinn's father is building that will close the gateways for good.
Regardless of this adventure, Finn must still go to school, whereamong the distrustful classmates sits a new girl, Emmie. A friends-hip is forged but Finn soon discovers that Emmie's father is aLegend Hunter, sent to report back on the troubles in Darkmouth.Emmie is an apprentice, like Finn.
While Finn and Emmie's bickering fathers hunt for another Legend -and a third crystal is found - the two young Legends learn that a pro-phecy dictates that the child of the last Legend Hunter will end thewar between the two worlds.
A war does break out when gateways open across the town. SmallLegends begin to pour through, and Finn’s parents are pushed intoit, to the Other Side. Alone in the end, a final gateway opens. Finn
ultimately steps through in search of hisparents.
A four book middle grade series, forreaders of Artemis Fowl and Harry Potter.
In the seaside village of Darkmouth, a placethat appears on no map, and which has amysteriously diminishing population, Finn isa 12-year-old with the weight of two worldson his shoulders. The only child of the finalactive "Legend Hunter", he lives in the townthat is the last invasion point for creaturesfrom the Other Side. Myths to the rest of theworld, they are real here, strange creaturesarriving through gateways from anotherworld.
Shane Hegarty is a writer for the Irish Times.
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“Terrifying and heart-stopping. Everything a great fantasy seriesshould be. The next best thing is here.” Eoin Colfer
James JoyceTHE CATS OF COPENHAGEN
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Scribner
October 2012
Original publisher:
Ithys Press, Ireland
45 Pages
Illustrated by:
Casey Sorrow
A “younger twin sister” to The Cat and theDevil, The Cats of Copenhagen is thename given to a short, entertaining andquirky story that Joyce sent to his four yearold grandson, Stephen, in 1936. The publisher of Ithys Press, a Joycescholar who runs the Bloomsday festival,was the first to envision a book in the text,and made it available to the public in theform of a stunning, limited edition volumewith illustrations, in January 2012. A care-fully crafted tribute, designed to reflectJoyce’s spirit and eclectic humour.
The Cats of Copenhagen is Joyce at his most Swiftian. Read in thislight, we can imagine Joyce in Copenhagen as akin to the voyager,Gulliver in the land of the (rational, intelligent) Houyhnhnms and the(slothful) Yahoos. In this tiny text written in 1936, we see Joyce com-menting on fascism, even in its guise as communism, with the redboys carrying out the orders of the Politburo. Against the tyranny ofself-seeking bureaucracy, Joyce counterpoints natural simplicity,openness and rationality a contemporary lesson appreciable toreaders of all ages.
For an adult reader (and no doubt for a very clever child), The Catsof Copenhagen reads as an anti-establishment text, critical of fat catsand some authority figures, and it champions the exercise ofcommon sense and free will.
An adult will perceive the anti-fascist message; a child willappreciate a story about self-reliance and individuality.
Casey Sorrow - Illustrator,cartoonist, printmaker. Sorrowwas classically trained andraised on a steady diet of theMuppets, Peanuts, and Kungfu movies.
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Kate KerriganTHAT GIRL
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Head of Zeus448 Pages
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March 2016384 Pages
Kate Kerrigan (1964) is an author, columnist and
screenwriter living in County Mayo, Ireland.
A huge pleasure toread; glamorous and
moving
Marian Keyes
You can escape a place. But you can’t escape yourself.
Hanna flees the scene of a terrible crime in her native Sligo. If she
can just vanish, re-invent herself under a new name, perhaps the
police won’t catch up with her. London seems the perfect place to
disappear.
Lara has always loved Matthew and imagined happy married life in
Dublin.Then comes the bombshell - Matthew says he wants to join
the priesthood. Humiliated and broken-hearted, Lara heads to the
most godless place she can find, the King’s Road, Chelsea.
Matthew’s twin sister, Noreen, could not be more different from her
brother. She does love fiance John, but she also craves sex, parties
and fun. Swinging London has it all, but without John, Noreen is
about to get way out of her depth.
All three girls find themselves working for Bobby Chevron - one of
London’s most feared gangland bosses - and it’s not long before their
new lives start to unravel.
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Christy LefteriTHE BEEKEEPER OF ALEPPO
In the scorching fields of Eastern Aleppo, where the city meets thedesert, Nuri and his cousin Mustafa tend to their beehives.
But after five years of horrific conflict, the beehives have beendestroyed and the streets of their city have been flattened to rubble.Nuri and his wife Afra cling on in Aleppo. Their son, Sami, has beenkilled and Afra is now blind. They could leave – they should leave –but Afra will not abandon Sami, even if he is no longer alive. Until,one night, the fighters come for them...
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Meanwhile, in a small town in the north of England, Mustafa, is wait-ing for Nuri, sending emails in a desperate attempt to reach him,telling him stories about the lavender and heather fields and the bee-hives he is building.
On a journey across Turkey and Greece, together, Nuri and Aframust face the darkest parts of their own hearts, unraveling the dis-tortions the mind is capable of creating, when the pain of reality is toomuch to bear. They know each other’s truths but not their own. Whathappened on the day that Sami died? And who is the elusive littleboy that Nuri meets on the journey. Did he open the little envelope ofmoney left under a jar of the Nutella he so desired?
Can the bees, and the promise of English lavender and heatherfields lead Afra and Nuri out of the darkness?
The Beekeeper of Aleppo is, at its heart, a love story of two ordinarypeople who somehow manage to hold on to each other and a dreamwhen all else is lost.
Sometimes we create illusions so that wedo not get lost in the darkness.
Christy Lefteri was born
in London in 1980 to
Greek Cypriot parents
who moved there during
the Turkish invasion. She
completed a Masters in
creative writing at Brunel University and
most recently volunteered in a refugee cen-
ter in Athens. She is the author of AWatermelon, a Fish and a Bible.
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Bestseller
Kathleen MacMahon NOTHING BUT BLUE SKY
Kathleen Macmahon, author of This isHow it Ends, The Long Hot Summer, and
Nothing but Blue Skies, is a former radio
and television journalist with Ireland’s
national broadcaster, RTE. She lives in
Dublin with her family.
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320 Pages
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The novel follows a widower who returns to the Spanish town of
Aiguaclara, where he and his recently deceased wife of twenty years
were at their happiest: During his time there with friends, he wonders
if he ever really knew Mary Rose, or understood their relationship. In
his search for meaning in loss he faces some surprising truths - par-
ticularly about the great sorrow that was at the heart of their rela-
tionship..
A tender and subtly addictive story about marriage and a wonderfully
wise depiction of grief.
Kathleen MacMahon THIS IS HOW IT ENDS
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Bruno, an American, has come to Ireland to search for his roots.
Addie, an out of work architect, is recovering from heartbreak while
taking care of her infirm father.
When their worlds collide, they experience a connection unlike any
they’ve previously felt; but soon a tragedy will test them- and their
newfound love- in ways they never imagined possible.
An unforgettablelove story
What a beautifyl novel...elegant,understated, subtly powerful.- Donald Ryan
When he was a child, Marcus Conway saw the world dismantled onthe floor of a hayshed. The incident has stayed with him into middleage when he is now an engineer, but it has done little to safeguardhim against the chaos which has lately come to overwhelm hislife…Down the hall, his wife lies sick from an intestinal parasitepicked up from a municipal water contamination. As he tends to her,Marcus has to fend off politicians and developers who are trying tosqueeze him from both sides - he has a bridge stalled in mid-con-struction and a school that will surely collapse come winter. To top itall, his daughter, a newly-fledged artist, is exhibiting her first piece:an accusatory screed penned in two pints of her own blood acrossthe walls of a gallery….But in one lucid, torrential hour, stretchedbetween the Angelus bell and the One O’clock news, Marcus thinkshe might have caught a glimpse of the rhyme-and-rea-son behind all this mayhem. But this sort of wisdom onlycomes at a price.
Solar Bones is a tragi-comic account of a modern fam-ily, shot through with political consideration and a skeinof that post-apocalypse aesthetic which enables usmake sense of the consequences of the economic melt-down. It is a realist novel charged with sudden, electricsurges of metaphysical fantasy. A hauntingly beautifulmeditation on love and duty.
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Mike McCormackSOLAR BONES
Over the course of one intoxicating, book-length sentence, Conway analyses howthings come to be and how they end. Such
experimentation may make some people hesitant; don’t be, theprose flows more like poetry, and is a sombre joy to read.- TheFinancial Times
With stylistic gusto, and in rare, spare, precise and poeticprose, Mike McCormack gets to the music of what is happeningall around us. One of the best novels of the year. - ColumMcCann
The latest from McCormack is a beautifully constructed novelthat blends Beckett’s torrential monologues with a realist por-trait of small-town Ireland. This is an intelligent, striking work.- Publisher’s Weekly
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May 2016250 Pages
- Winner of the 2018International Dublin
Literary Award- Winner of the 2016
Goldsmiths Prize- Long-listed for The
Man Booker - Irish Book AwardNovel of the Year.
Mike McCormack (1965) is an Irish novelist
and short story writer. He won the Rooney
prize for Irish literature and his novel NotesFrom a Coma was shortlisted for the Irish
Book of the Year Award.
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Sinéad Moriarty SEVEN LETTERS
A mother's promise to her little girl that when the new baby arrives,life will not change, only get better. The mother - Sarah - pours herheart into seven letters, one for every word.
Five months into her pregnancy Sarah collapses and the beautifullife she dreamt of turns into a nightmare. With Sarah's future, and thefuture of her pregnancy, in their hands, her husband and sister fier-cely disagree about what the doctors should do. And the crisisreveals devastating fault-lines in the lives of the entire family.
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February 2020 448 Pages
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Sinead Moriarty (1971) has made a name for her-self as a bestselling author by writing aboutserious women’s themes with irony, humour andsimplicity. Winner of the 2015 Irish Book Awardsfor Popular Fiction.
Sinéad Moriarty
Might be her finest novel yet - Irish TimesIntriguing and thought provoking... a great read. - Katie FfordeGripping and thought-provoking - Paige ToonWe ate this fabulous story up - Heat magazine
It’s GREAT! Though
provoking, gripping
and moving
- Marian Keyes
It will crawl under
your skin, refusing to
let go. A heart-brea-
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Liz NugentOUR LITTLE CRUELTIES
Liz Nugent (Dublin,1967) has written extensively
for radio and tv drama.
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If you love the sheer intensity of Tana French, the despicablecharacters in Succession, the icepick-sharp insight of MeganAbbott, then meet your new obsession.
All three of the Drumm brothers were at the funeral. Only one of uswas in the coffin. William, Brian, and Luke: three boys bound by blood but split by
fate, trained from birth by their wily mother to compete for her atten-
tion. They play games, as brothers do… yet even after the Drumms
escape into the world beyond their windows, those games—those
little cruelties—grow more sinister, more merciless, more dange-
rous. And with their lives entwined like the strands of a noose, only
two of the brothers will survive.
Crisply written and quickly paced, perfect for readers of both sophi-
sticated literary fiction and breathtaking suspense, Our Little
Cruelties gazes unflinchingly into the darkness collecting in the cor-
ners of childhood homes, hiding beneath marriage beds, clasped in
the palms of two brothers shaking hands.
What an extraor-dinary novel andwhat an extraordinarybook - A.J. Finn, #1 NYT best-
selling author of TheWoman in the Window
If Patricia Highsmithwere Irish she mightwell have come up withthis tale of a scarredwoman who taints allshe touches whileremaining charismaticas she is enigmatic-
-Ian Rankin
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Kevin PowerTHE CONFESSIONS
Kevin Power (1981) is an Irish writer and academic.
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On a late August night, a young man is kicked to death outside a
Dublin On a late August night, a young man is kicked to death out-
side a Dublin nightclub and celebrations turn to devastation. The
reverberations of that event, its genesis and aftermath are the sub-
ject of this extraordinary story, stripping away the veneer of a gene-
ration of Celtic cubs, whose social and sexual mores are chronicled
and dissected in this tract of our times.
The victim, Conor Harris, his three killers, and the trial judge share
common childhoods and schooling in the privileged echelons of
south Dublin suburbia. The intertwining of these lives
leaves their afflicted families in moral free fall as
public exposure merges with private anguish and
imploded futures.
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Simon & Schuster
2020300 Pages
When Ben’s rich dad is arrested and forced to declare bankruptcy,
Ben is out on his own: no money, no job, no hope. He drifts
haplessly into a telemarketing job and hooks up with Clio, an
actress, who introduces him to the miracle of self-medicating
through drugs. Things look bleak – until one day Ben runs into an old
school friend, James Mullens. James has a plan: he’s going to
defraud some Serbian investors. It’s a get-rich-quick scheme. Can
Ben resist? Of course he can’t. And he finds himself in bed with
some sinister Serbian businessmen who might not be businessmen
at all, while his life falls apart around him…
In the vein of Martin Amis’s Money and Edward St Aubyn’s Patrick
Melrose novels, The Confessions is a darkly comic thriller about
family, money, and the agonies of figuring out who you are.
Kevin PowerBAD DAY IN BLACKROCK
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Karl RybergLIVING LIGHT
A Guide to Using Light for Health and Happiness
As humans, we have a fascinating relationship with light, and oftenshape our lives around it. We revere it, and celebrate it with wonder.Light unites us and inspires us. The light that surrounds us on a dailybasis has a huge impact on our brains, our mood, and our mentalhealth.
In this brilliant book, Karl Ryberg explains how light affects our eyes,our health and our well-being and inspires us to bring more qualitylight into our daily lives. He gives us the scientific information weneed to understand the subject, combined with practical advice onmaximizing our exposure to natural light, selecting the best lightingto use at home, along with advice on minimizing the effects of lightpollution and blue light from screens and smartphones.
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This definitive wordon optimizing lightfor health and well-being explains howour lighting envi-ronment can makeus healthier andhappier.
Ryberg shows us how to work with, and not against, our body clocks(including light rituals for better sleep) and gives us advice on the useof light therapy and practicing eye yoga to encourage your eye mus-cles to work effectively.
This illuminating book highlights the importance of bringing
quality light into your life to help your brain function better, your
moods stabilize and your health improve. When you understand
the importance of good light, you have the potential to enhance
your life every time you flip the light switch.
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Karl Ryberg (Sweden) is a founding
member of the International Light
Association and runs the Monocrom insti-
tute in Stockholm for research and treat-
ments. He has been practicing light the-
rapy for 30 years. Trained as an architect
and psychologist, he has studied laser bio-
logy with Professor Karu in Moscow, with a
specialty in therapeutic photobiology and
colour ergonomomics. He lectures interna-
tionally, and speaks fluent English,
German, Russian and Swedish.
Alison Walsh THE START OF SUMMER
Alison Walsh is an Irish-based author and free-
lance book editor.
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One day, another new mum, looking lonely and a bit lost, asks to join
them – and the circle opens to let her in. But Elise's arrival provokes
mixed emotions amongst the women, as each is forced to confront
her true self, and to learn painful lessons about the way the world is
now that they are mothers. Life, it seems, will never be the same
again. And where the newcomer, Elise, fits in, is anyone's guess.
Funny, honest and perceptive, The Start of Summer takes a sharp
look at the complexities of motherhood, of sisterhood and the reali-
ties of modern women's lives.
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January 2018352 Pages
A long, hot summer has just begun, and three women gather toge-
ther in the park, in the shade of the trees, forming a tight circle. New
mothers, they are bound together by their experiences, keeping
each other close, sharing gossip, parenting wisdom and deep
secrets.
Uptight, super-organised Gracie seems to have adapted to mother-
hood with ease, but secretly she wonders if the cost– to her job and
her relationship – is too high. Free-spirited Lina is a single parent by
choice, but finds that her decisions are not without consequences,
for her daughter and for herself. And shy Jane is facing the battle of
her life, against the man who should be her rock, and with the con-
sequences of a painful decision she made years before.
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