Robert Gordon

Tangled Webs

A Sicilian Man: Leonardo Sciascia, the Rise of the Mafia and the Struggle for Italy’s Soul

By Caroline Moorehead

Alexander Lee

Rise of the Machinations

Lying Abroad: Henry Wotton and the Invention of Diplomacy

By Carol Chillington Rutter

Jane Stevenson

Brush with the Shelleys

Nicolas Liney

Volcanic Vocation

The Buried City: Unearthing the Real Pompeii

By Gabriel Zuchtriegel (Translated from German by Jamie Bulloch)

Robin Simon

Who Needs Florence?

Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350

By Joanna Cannon (ed), with Caroline Campbell & Stephan Wolohojian

Jonathan Beckman

Deaths of the Artists

Perspectives

By Laurent Binet (Translated from French by Sam Taylor)

Caroline Moorehead

Moments of Reprieve

A Man of Few Words: The Bricklayer of Auschwitz Who Saved Primo Levi

By Carlo Greppi (Translated from Italian by Howard Curtis)

Alexander Lee

In the Tongues of Immortals

The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Sublime Language

By Edward Wilson-Lee

Caroline Moorehead

Midnight in Sicily

John Foot

All the Pontiff’s Men

Vatican Spies, from the Second World War to Pope Francis

By Yvonnick Denoël (Translated from French by Alan McKay)

R J B Bosworth

Renegades, Rebels & Racketeers

Naples 1944 and the Making of Post-War Italy

By Keith Lowe

R J B Bosworth

Goodbye, Mussolini

Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy

By Mark Gilbert

Minoo Dinshaw

Syracuse by Shannon

Glorious Exploits

By Ferdia Lennon

Stanley Stewart

Where Family Values Are Not Encouraged

In Sicily

By Norman Lewis

Alberto Manguel

Notes on Nothing & Everything

The Written World and the Unwritten World

By Italo Calvino (Translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein)

Catherine Fletcher

In the Hills of Tuscany

Siena: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval City

By Jane Stevenson