Venice
Venice in January
Just spend a delightful week in Venice talking about this year's Venice Noir festival for one thing. And yes it will be big, so look out for some news and dates for events next November, with some familiar international names and panels in both English and Italian. January
The Borgia Portrait
Book Two in the Venice Mysteries series A noble family, a legendary painting, a cursed palazzo. When Arnold Clover is recruited by Lizzie Hawker to help her look into her family inheritance, he cannot begin to guess the journey he is about to embark on. Lizzie's mother, an
The Medici Murders
Book One in the Venice Mysteries series Venice is a city full of secrets. For hundreds of years it has been the scene of scandal, intrigue and murderous rivalries. And it remains so today. 1548, Lorenzino de Medici, himself a murderer and a man few will miss, is assassinated by
The Garden of Angels
A TIMES BEST THRILLER OF THE YEAR 2022 When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, fifteen-year-old Nico just watches - earning him a week's suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his grandfather says, and a secret he must keep
Carnival for the Dead
In Venice the past was more reticent. Beyond the tourist sights, San Marco and the Rialto, it lurked in the shadows, seeping out of the cracked stones like blood from ancient wounds, as if death itself was one more sly performance captured beneath the bright, all-seeing light of the lagoon.
Lucifer's Shadow
Complex, beautiful, suspenseful, Lucifer’s Shadow was David Hewson’s tantalising and rewarding novel first novel set in Italy, now republished with a new introduction by the author. Previously republished in some markets as The Cemetery of Secrets. When Daniel Forster, a young Englishman, arrives in Venice for a summer
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
Philip Gwynne Jones, the accidental novelist
In the space of a few short years, Philip Gwynne Jones has become the most prolific British writer based in Venice, writing about the city. Apologies for calling him English in this interview… he is, of course, Welsh! I had the chance to talk to him one sunny, chilly February
Robin Saikia's Drink and Think Venice
There are lots of conventional tourist guides to Venice. Robin Saikia’s Drink & Think Venice, just out from Blue Guide, is not one of them. Let’s be honest. Whatever particular flavour of conventional guidebook you choose, what you get is pretty much the same info regurgitated in different
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
