Books and reviews of Books about Italy

Gomorrah – The Book and the Film

November 18, 2008 by Alex Roe 1 Comment

Roberto Saviano's almost surreal book about the Italian camorra mafia of Naples has been made into a film. I've seen the film, and I'm reading the book. Both are shocking, and make you wonder just how Italy's mafia problem has got so out of hand. Actually, I was interested to see … [Read more...]

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I Segreti di Londra – Corrado Augias

March 6, 2008 by Alex Roe Leave a Comment

Thanks to Man of Roma, who quoted a section from Italian journalist, writer and TV presenter Corrado Augias' book describing the English, I bought a copy of Augias' book 'I Segreti di Londra' yesterday. While I've yet to really dig in to this book; I've made it to page 26 so far; what I've read … [Read more...]

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Books on Italy

February 25, 2008 by Alex Roe 3 Comments

Rooting around on Amazon trying to find Italian things to add to mention on this site has been proving to be an interesting exercise. I've discovered that there are not that many books about the northern regions of Italy. Tuscany, as you may imagine, has had plenty of books written about it, … [Read more...]

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Il segreto dell’acqua fallata – a book

August 31, 2006 by Alex Roe 2 Comments

One of the things I did this summer was read several books, but by far the most interesting happened to be by an Italian called Guido Rosti Cesari. This writer, who has also written a number of technical publications, and works, I believe, in the water industry, could not find a publisher here in … [Read more...]

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