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Venice Noir is coming… save the dates
It’s time to start shouting… after months of preparatory work, we can finally reveal Venice Noir 2025 – three days featuring stars from the world of Italian and international crime fiction, in some of the most stunning locations ever to house a book festival…. and all the main events are free! Venice Noir 2025 will run…
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Gregory Dowling on the Lover of No Fixed Abode
In Venice I’ve been lucky enough to spend time with Gregory Dowling, author of the Alvise Marangon novels and translator of a Venetian classic, The Lover of No Fixed Abode, now available for the first time in English from Bitter Lemon Press. Gregory is a fascinating chap, Professor of American Literature at Ca’ Foscari, a long-term resident…
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A Chat with Robin Saikia
Long-term resident Robin Saikia is the author of Drink and Think Venice, a unique insight into the city he’s made his home. I was lucky to stop by at his home in San Marco today for a chat about many things Venetian… including his preferred kind of spritz. Which also happens to be the name of Robin’s…
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Back in print and e-book… the entire Pieter Vos series
I spent the best part of five years hopping to and from Amsterdam from 2012 onwards writing a series of books featuring Pieter Vos, a rather eccentric detective living a bohemian life in a canalboat on the Prinsengracht. Read more… The series was my follow-on to The Killing books but came up against another Amsterdam…