Hit me with your favourite Italian set novel

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Love a good location read whilst I'm on holiday. Currently in the Italian mountains.

Bonus points for a historical novel.

I last read Sharon penmans "here be dragons" whilst in wales which blew me away.

Thank you!!

Please?!

I really liked The Birth of Venus and Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant. I love Italy, enjoy!

Honestly don't know if this fits the bill because it's a thriller set in the gay community in Rome in the 80s, but it was what came to mind when I saw your post. I loved it because it's both a great story and very well written. He's written other stuff set in Italy too. I'll post this and then maybe another of his I've read. www.amazon.co.uk/Any-Human-Face-Charles-Lambert-ebook/dp/B004CJ8X40/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid&sr

Oh and the Elena Ferrante Neapolitan novels!

Ah, this one - but it's not as available as the other one ow it seems. www.amazon.co.uk/author-Charles-Lambert-published-December/dp/B01BOE0D8Y/ref=la_B0034OGLKC_1_16?s=books&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1554051190&sr=1-16

The Leopard, set in Sicily.

Yes and Elena Ferrante! Also Natalia Ginzberg.

Going back a bit - look at Alberto Moravia.

The Leopard by Lampedusa. A must-read imo. Also I'm not Scared.

Definitely Sarah Dunant's novels.

The food of love by Anthony Capella is exactly what you are looking for I think

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

Susanna Kearsley’s Season of Storms.

Dorothy Dunnett’s House of Niccolo series (you might have to move to Italy, they’re long).

David Hewson’s Costa and Peroni crime novels (highly recommended).

The Name of the Rose which is lots of intellectual fun if you like puzzles - Umberto Eco.

The Talented Mr Ripley - Patricia Highsmith.

Michael Dibdin’s Aurelio Zen crime novels, also Donna Leon’s mystery series.

Brilliant stuff thank you everyone. Lots to get my teeth into here!

Oh blimey, where to start. So, to fit your brief, try this novel that has recently been published:

An Italian Affair www.tripfiction.com/an-italian-affair-novel-set-in-ww2-tuscany/

The Madonna of the Mountains was on the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards (Fiction with a Sense of Place) Longlist www.tripfiction.com/novel-set-in-the-veneto-the-maddona-of-the-mountains/

The Girl from Venice www.tripfiction.com/mystery-set-in-northern-italy/

Oh, and a novel set in Dolomites - village life and ice cream, what's not to like? The Ice Cream Makers www.tripfiction.com/novel-set-in-the-dolomites/

Have fun choosing!

The Name of the Rose seconded. Also The Enchanted April, which is very English but Italy set.

Big stone Gap, set in USA and Italy.

I loved 'Miss Garnet's Angel' by Salley Vickers - set in Venice.

I love Capri by Belinda Jones, anything by Nicky Pellegrino

Ditto to "Miss Garnet's Angel"! Also "Early One Morning" by Virginia Baily
Enjoy!

Marco Vichi's inspector Bordelli novels, especially the first couple

Deirdre Madden's Remembering Light and Stone, about an Irishwoman living in an Umbrian village. Seconding or thirding di Lampedusa's The Leopard. I'm not keen on Elena Ferrante's novels, but other people adore them.

A Room With A View

For a lighter read - Evening Class by Maeve Binchy or one of the Nicky Pellegrino novels.

EM Forster's A Room With a View