This will be the cover of our new book (released in April 2020), Ghosts of the Belle Époque: The History of the Grand Hôtel et des Palmes, Palermo. Here is some detail from our publisher's website (Bloomsbury) and a link:

The Grand Hôtel et des Palmes is an icon of Pale...

Andy's translation of Alejandro Luque's Borges in Sicily: Journey with a Blind Guide is now available in paperback. 

Here are the details from the publisher's website:

When Alejandro Luque receives a book of photographs of the Argentinian writer, essayist, and poet Jorge...

We have spent the summer researching and writing for our new project, Grand Hotel Palermo: Ghosts of the Belle Epoque. The book will focus on the history of the Grand Hotel et des Palmes, commonly known in Palermo as the Hotel delle Palme.  

Through the hotel's ill...

This autumn our new book, His Master's Reflection: Travels with John Polidori, Lord Byron’s Doctor and Author of The Vampyre, will be released by SAP (Sussex Academic Press).  

Book details:

Qualifying as a doctor in 1815 at the tender age of nineteen, John Polidori...

Andy's translation of Borges in Sicily by Alejandro Luque released 16th October by  Haus Publishing.

In 1984, an aging Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentinean writer famed for his stories laden with intertextuality, philosophy, mirrors and labyrinths, visited Sicily. The eld...

Andy recently penned an article for weather2travel. Here's the intro. Click the link to read more.

Photo by David Caparrós Lorenzo

Almería is a city whose history has been dictated by the sun. Tucked into the south eastern corner of Andalucía, it faces the African coast...

We have recently set up an Instagram account and will be posting the quirky, note-worthy, esoteric and literary from our travels.

Here is our Instagram page: 

www.instagram.com/edscriptor/ 

We are currently writing about the intertwined lives of poet, Lord Byron, and his young Anglo-Italian doctor, John Polidori. They shared the famous summer of 1816 on the shores of Lake Geneva at the Villa Diodati (shown in our photo below).

We have outlined Polidori's l...

We have been writing for the Times of Sicily website since its inception. After 5 years of an increasing and continuing online presence, the Times of Sicily is now proud to say that it is launching its first paper magazine. It is hoped that Edition 0 2016/17 will be th...

As of 30th September, 2016, our new literary guide published by I B Tauris will be available.  Taking the eight provinces of Andalucía, a chapter at a time, we tour the region in search of authors who have written about its landscapes, people and culture.  We have incl...