Rome and Emilia Romagna
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The covers are from Bradt’s Emilia-Romagna, edition 1, and the Book Lover’s Guide to Paris. Our two latest projects have been keeping us...
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- Jan 23
Fuel for the Mind
We were delighted to have an article in hidden europe's final and 70th edition. We tour Bologna in the footsteps of the Romantics,...
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- Jun 12, 2023
Book Release: The Modern Sinner
Andy's translation of Carolina Invernizio's Peccatrice moderna has recently been released by Italica Press - details here Invernizio was...
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- Jan 10, 2023
Cádiz
Our trip to Cádiz in the summer of 2022 was a great inspiration, coinciding, as it did, with the city's literary festival. A panoply of...
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- Sep 29, 2022
Book Release: Down to the Sunless Sea
Our new book, Down to the Sunless Sea: A Troubled Samuel Taylor Coleridge in the Mediterranean, is out now. Coleridge's Mediterranean...
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- Jan 21, 2022
Piana degli Albanesi
We have written a piece for hidden europe magazine about Sicily's towns of Albanian origin, specifically with reference to Piana degli...
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- Jan 11, 2021
Book Release: Agony
Andy's translation of Federico De Roberto's Agony (Spasimo) has just been released in hardback, paperback and ebook by Italica Press. He...
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- Apr 20, 2020
Book Release: Ghosts of the Belle Époque
Our new book, 'Ghosts of the Belle Époque: The History of the Grand Hôtel et des Palmes, Palermo', has just been released by Bloomsbury...
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- Dec 20, 2019
The Ghosts who Haunt the Halls
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...
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- Jun 12, 2019
Borges in Sicily Paperback
Andy's translation of Alejandro Luque's Borges in Sicily: Journey with a Blind Guide is now available in paperback. Here are the details...
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- Aug 28, 2018
Ghosts of the Belle Epoque
We have spent the summer researching and writing for our new project, Grand Hotel Palermo: Ghosts of the Belle Epoque. The book will...
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- Aug 28, 2018
His Master's Reflection
This autumn our new book, His Master's Reflection: Travels with John Polidori, Lord Byron’s Doctor and Author of The Vampyre, will be...
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- Oct 18, 2017
Borges in Sicily - Book Release
Andy's translation of Borges in Sicily by Alejandro Luque released 16th October by Haus Publishing. In 1984, an aging Jorge Luis Borges,...
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- Sep 7, 2017
Almería: The Forgotten City
Andy recently penned an article for weather2travel. Here's the intro. Click the link to read more. Photo by David Caparrós Lorenzo...
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- Aug 25, 2017
We have recently set up an Instagram account and will be posting the quirky, note-worthy, esoteric and literary from our travels. Here is...
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- Aug 24, 2017
The Vampire Life of John William Polidori
We are currently writing about the intertwined lives of poet, Lord Byron, and his young Anglo-Italian doctor, John Polidori. They shared...
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- Dec 22, 2016
The New Times of Sicily Magazine
We have been writing for the Times of Sicily website since its inception. After 5 years of an increasing and continuing online presence,...
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- Sep 30, 2016
Book Release: Andalucia: A Literary Guide for Travellers
As of 30th September, 2016, our new literary guide published by I B Tauris will be available. Taking the eight provinces of Andalucía, a...
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- Oct 16, 2015
Writing Update
As the nights drawn in towards the autumn of 2015, we are happy to say that we're approaching the conclusion of our first draft of...
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- Jun 17, 2015
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's Book, The Leopard - A Sicilian Itinerary in Pictures
Via Butera seen from the Chain Wall. The left-hand end of this row of stately houses contains Lampedusa's former residence, the Palazzo...
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