Featuring recipes, this book explores the nuances of the Italian landscape, history and cuisine. It about the tastes and pleasures of Tuscany.

Presents the author truly at home in Italy, meeting the challenges of learning a new language and touring regions outside Tuscany, including castle towns, fishing villages, and islands. This work also explores different themes in this wondrous corner of the world, delving into gardening, wine-making, and the experience of primavera.

A haunting tale of murder, love and innocence lost set in post-war Tuscany from the award winning author of 'The Whaleboat House'.

A lush evocation of Tuscan life and food by the author of 'A THOUSAND DAYS IN VENICE'.

A mouth-wateringly evocative memoir of a new life in Tuscany.

Ranging from the monuments of Florence, Siena and Assisi to ancient Etruscan ruins, this guide to Tuscany and Umbria highlights the region's best hotels and restaurants. Helping you to make the most of the beautiful outdoors, it includes practical tips on almost everything, from attending the Spoleto Festival to walking in the Monti Sibillini.

In her inimitable warm and evocative tone, Frances Mayes helps readers develop an eye for authentic Tuscan style, with advice on how to: Choose a Tuscan colour palette for the home, from earthy apricot tones to invigorating shades of antique blue; Cultivate a Tuscan garden, adding fountains, vine-covered pergolas, and terracotta urns among the herbs and flowers.. Make prime finds at their local ..

A book focusing on 37 villages and small towns all over Tuscany. The descriptions are accompanied by colour photographs of the architecture, landscape and people of Tuscany. It includes a visitor's guide to restaurants, hotels and places of interest.

A beautifully written book, part travel-writing, part cookery book

The author, an Anglo-American married to an Italian landowner, found herself raising a family during the civil war and foreign invasion in the remote Tuscan countryside. This diary records her concerns to keep her household and sixty orphans together and save a rural community from annihilation.

Bill Buford worked his way up to being a 'line cook' and then left New York to apprentice himself under the very teachers who had taught his teacher: preparing game with Marco Pierre White, making pasta in a hillside trattoria, and finally, in a town in Northern Italy, becoming an Italian butcher. This is a memoir of Buford's kitchen adventure.

Doran finds himself navigating througth the maddening labyrinth of Italian bureaucracy just to get a road paved to their house; dealing with the foibles of their neighbors and the tangled drama of the family who sold them the home; coming to accept that the Italians live with a million laws and nor rules.

First published in 1899, this title aims to bring the delights of Italian home cooking. Featuring recipes for risottos, pasta, and soups, it contains vegetable recipes that run in alphabetical order and each is given a brief descriptive paragraph.

Sixteen-year-old Vittorio, sole survivor of a violent massacre at his father's Tuscan hilltop palazzo, escapes to the Florence of Cosimo de Medici seeking vengeance. He has been saved from death by a mysterious woman, only to find himself at the mercy of demonic and bloody nightmares.

Isabella Dusi came from Australia to settle in Montalcino, a Tuscan mountain eyrie famous for its wine. This text is her account of life there, offering a rare insight into the anxiety, joy, fun and pressure of inhabiting this medieval village.

An account of growing up in the Tuscan seaside town of Livorno, after World War II. Patrizia Chen recounts how Emilia, the cook, shared her craft with her young charge, while Patrizia's grandmother managed a household still containing chamber pots, sacks of chestnut flour and coal-burning stoves.

Isabella Dusi came from Australia to settle in Montalcino, a Tuscan mountain eyrie famous for its wine. This text is her account of life there, offering a rare insight into the anxiety, joy, fun and pressure of inhabiting this medieval village.

Personal clashes with professional for Michele Ferrara in his second case...

A Wonderfully Evocative Literary Thriller

On a holiday with her father, Lara meets the Willoughby family, rife with illicit alliances and vendettas. The more embroiled Lara becomes with them, and with the beautiful Kip, the more consumed she is with doubt, curiosity and dread. And so begins her journey into self discovery and across the fine line between childhood and what lies beyond.