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Italian books in translation

From short stories and detective dramas to historical novels and contemporary classics: enjoy works by some of the greatest Italian writers - past and present - with these English translations of some of our bestselling books!

Bookseller: Ornella

This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, from the birth of the modern nation to the end of the twentieth century.

The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories. Edited by Jhumpa Lahiri

By Jhumpa Lahiri

£12.99

The twenty-eighth and final novel in the thrilling, wickedly funny Inspector Montalbano Mysteries series by bestselling author Andrea Camilleri.

Riccardino

By Andrea Camilleri

£16.99

A deep sense of timelessness, of separate destinies entwined across a gulf of centuries, is the cumulative effect of this vivid mosaic of dramatic, comic, and tragic stories set in the Eternal City.

Rome Tales

By VV AA, Helen Constantine, Shankland

£9.99

Caught on the wrong side of history, how far is Rosa willing to go to survive?

The Women at Hitler's table

By Rosella Postorino

£12.99

One spring afternoon, defence attorney Guerrieri is confronted with an unexpected spectre from his past. In her youth, Lorenza had been a beautiful and unpredictable girl with dazzling charm. A changed woman faces him in his office that day.

The Measure of Time

By Gianrico Carofiglio

£8.99

The international sensation that spent a year on the Italian bestseller list about two young boys who meet in the mountains every summer, and the men they grow up to become.

The eight mountains

By Paolo Cognetti

£8.99

Kinetic, formally daring, and strikingly original, Strangers I Know is a funny and profound portrait of an unconventional family

Strangers I Know

By Claudia Durastanti

£12.99

Donatella Di Pietrantonio, revisits the places and characters of A Girl Returned with a novel focussed on the ambivalent relationship between sisters.

A sister's story

By Donatella Di Pietrantonio

£12.99

A feminist classic that exposes the dark side of marriage in clean, captivating prose

The Dry Heart

By Natalia Ginzburg

£8.99

Roberto Saviano returns to the streets of Naples...

Savage Kiss

By Roberto Saviano

£14.99

Lorenzo Cuni is a fourteen-year-old loner...

Me and You - Paperback ed.

By Niccolò Ammaniti

£8.99

A "miraculous" Italian comedy that will delight readers, Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles marks Fabio Bartolomei's vivid debut.

Alfa Romeo 1300 and other miracles

By Fabio Bartolomei, Antony Shugaar

£9.99

The breack-out novel by Elena Ferrante

The days of abandonment

By Elena Ferrante

£9.99

What Hell Is Not is the Italian bestseller about a man who brought light to one of the darkest corners of Sicily, and who refused to give up...

What Hell Is Not

By Alessandro D'Avenia

£8.99

England and the English deserve to be examine in depth and Mr Servegnini goes on to explore this mysterious island...

An Italian in Britain

By Beppe Severgnini

£13.75

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