The Shape of Water is the first in Andrea Camilleri's wry, brilliantly compelling Sicilian crime series, featuring Inspector Montalbano. 

 Sellerio di Giorgianni.  ISBN: 9788838910173 - £9.10

  Picador ISBN: 9781509850372 - £8.99

 Lawyer Guerrieri is approached by a young woman who claims her  ex-boyfriend of assault and battery.  However, as the ex-boyfriend is the son of a powerful local judge, taking the case could be career suicide of  Guerrieri.

    Sellerio di Giorgianni.  ISBN:  9788838919053 - £13.75

   Bitter Lemon Press ISBN:  9781904738534 - £7.99

 Set in Mussolini’s Naples of the 1930s,  . Commissario Ricciardi investigates the murder of the world’s greatest tenor at the  Royal Theatre of San Carlo .

    Einaudi.  ISBN:  9788806213916 - £10.95

   World Noir  ISBN:  9781609454395 - £12.99

 1943 a woman and her teenage daughter travel form war torn Rome to her native  village of Ciociaria.  When the allies arrive they travel back to Rome and experience the horrors of war that they had hoped to escape. 

     Oscar winning film about a charming but  bumbling  Jewish waiter who must rely on his strengths to protect his family during the Second World War. 

 Haunting, elegiac novel which captures the mood and atmosphere of Italy in the last summers of the thirties, focusing on an aristocratic Jewish family moving imperceptibly towards its doom.

    Gruppo Editoriale Mursia  ISBN:  9788842517726 - £10.95

   Penguin  ISBN:   9780141188362 - £9.99

 “When the war broke out, we were all happy." 13 year old  Jole, say in the summer of 1914. However it will not take long for her  to understand the consequences and suffering the conflict will bring. 

  Bompiani   ISBN:   9788845272592 - £12.50

  Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner.

     Einaudi  ISBN:   9788806131722 - £11.95

   Abacus  ISBN:    9780349100135 - £9.99

   Wartime and Agnes and Palita live a quiet routine life, but soon the conflict breaks into their lives. 

     Einaudi  ISBN:   9788806222178 - £10.95

     The story of a reporter’s encounter with the ‘sweet life’ and the  unhappy people  who lead   it.  

    Accomplished journalist learns of the death of a former lover and is  confronted with the fragility of life.

     Autobiographical look at Rome.

   A series of brief monologues with Biblical themes

     Guanda ISBN:   9788823520202 - £18.95

   Abacus  ISBN:     9780413154200 - £17.99

  A sharp and hilarious satire on police corruption, it concerns the case of an anarchist railway worker who, in 1969, 'fell' to his death from a police headquarters window.

     Einaudi  ISBN: 9788823521049 - £10.99

   Abacus  ISBN: 9780413154200 - £17.99

   Methuen Drama ISBN: 9780413156105 - £10.99

(Introduction, Day 1 i, Day 2 ix, Day 3 i,

Day 4 i, Day 4 v, Day 5 iv, Day 5 x, Day 6 iv, Day 6 x, Day 8 vii, Day 10 x,

Conclusion)

Note: The Roman numerals denote the number of the story on a

respective day.

   BUR Biblioteca Univerzale Rizzoli ISBN:  9788817018562 - £12.50

   Penguin  ISBN: 9780140449303 - £11.99

   Wordsworth  ISBN: 9781840221336- £3.99

IL DECAMERON (18) 1970 ITALY  PASOLINI, PIER PAOLO DVD -  £19.99  BLU RAY - £24.99          

 A collection of facts and anecdotes about Naples

     Mondadori  ISBN:  9788804683476 - £12.75

  The play examines the plight of the poor and the moral corruption of the wartime black market of Naples.

     Einaudi  ISBN:  9788806065850 - £10.50

  Set in the barren lands of Sardinia, the novel involves the themes of poverty, honor and superstition. 

     Mondadori ISBN:    9788804487722  - £9.25

   Italica Press   ISBN:    9780934977630 - £14.99

  Set in an impoverished Naples of the 1950s, two young girls, Elena and Lila, form a life long friendship.  Years later, Elena, now in her 60s, receives a phone call informing her of Lila's disappearance and begins to reflect on their friendship.

     E/O  ISBN: 9788866320326 - £19.95

    Europa Editions ISBN: 9781609450786  - £12.99

L'AMICA GENIALE /MY BRILLIANT FRIEND (12) 2018 ITALY     DVD - £20.99   BLU RAY - £24.99

 All eight episodes of the Italian miniseries based on Elena Ferrante's novel.

(All’Italia (i), Il passero solitario (xi), L’infinito

(xii), La sera del dì di festa (xiii), Alla luna (xiv), Alla sua donna (xviii),

A Silvia (xxi), La quiete dopo la tempesta (xxiv), A se stesso (xxviii),

Il tramonto della luna (xxxiii), La ginestra / Il fiore del deserto (xxxiv))

Note: The Roman numerals in brackets refer to the definitive order as

given in editions rather than chronological order.

     Feltrinelli  ISBN:  9788807902093 - £13.50

   Penguin  ISBN:  9780141193878 - £14.99

  Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini, Carlo Levi entered a world cut off from history and the state, hedged in by custom and sorrow.

    Einaudi  ISBN:  9788806219345 - £10.95

   Penguin  ISBN: 9780141183213 - £9.99

  In the sweltering summer of 1938, with Lisbon in the grip of Portugal's fascist dictatorship, out of nowhere a young man arrives on an elderly widower's doorstep. Lonely and overweight, Dr Pereira lives a quiet, monotonous existence. But when the charismatic Monteiro Rossi bursts into his life, everything changes.

     Feltrinelli Traveller  ISBN: 9788807883040 - £10.50

    Canongate Books  ISBN:  9781782116318 - £8.99