A slim, virtuoso novel about age and imagination, by one of Italy's greatest contemporary writers82-year-old Nicola has spent his entire life telling stories, and becoming very, very good at it. In words, with his pen, in the notebook he carries with him everywhere, he records life's minutiae, its ephemera, those almost imperceptible atoms of existence that most of us barely notice. Recording the universe in each grain of sand has become second nature to N...

'This is Christian hope: the certainty of walking towards something that exists, not something I hope might be there.'In response to the devastating loss the world faced during the pandemic, Pope Francis was inspired to write a book to help people find hope and meaning. God is joyful, he writes. And God's compassion is no less than the deepest expression of God's joy, and the heart of all Christian preaching. The liberating revolution of the Gospel is enca...

Pope Francis' manifesto for the happiness of every man and woman.God planted happiness in the souls of each of us. God wants us to be happy. But so many of us have misunderstood what this means, and we search for fulfilment in the wrong places. In I Want You To Be Happy, Pope Francis explained the characteristics of true, lasting happiness, no matter your circumstances or situation.In this new book, which quickly became his biggest bestseller in ma...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR —the Washington Post & Kirkus ReviewsA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEThis extraordinary Strega Prize-winning novel confirms Domenico Starnone's reputation as one of Italy's greatest living writers. Told against the backdrop of Naples in the 1960s, a city that itself becomes a vivid character in this lush, atmospheric...

This is Pope Francis' story for you today: the departure point for your birth or rebirth, whatever form that may take. It is the glowing centre that sustains life, whatever your age. You are a wonder of creation.Even when your face is lined with worries or fatigue, remember that you are always a light that shines through the night. This is the greatest gift you've ever received, and no one can take it away from you. Dream on! Never stop dreaming. Believe! Believe in even greater an...

Pope Francis's third official book - already an international bestseller - on how to find joy in challenging circumstances.'This is Christian hope: the certainty of walking towards something that exists, not something I hope might be there.'In response to the devastating loss the world faced during the pandemic, Pope Francis was inspired to write a book to help people find hope and meaning. God is joyful, he writes. And God's compassion is no less ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024"Starnone uses languages the way a great painter works with colour, conjuring the illusion of three dimensions from a blank flat surface." —Jhumpa Lahiri"One of Italy's most accomplished novelists." — The Guardian"Masterly." — Times Literary SupplementThe modest apartment on Via Gemito smells of paint and white spirit. The f...

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEA powerful, unflinching portrait of a generation fighting for change in Iran, Afghanistan, and Ukraine"Sala's dispatches are as immersive and original as they are anthropologically probing... [They] come alive in ways that ordinary newspaper journalism rarely does."— The New York Times Book ReviewIn The Fire, acclaimed journalist Cecilia Sala takes readers on a gripp...

"Starnone uses languages the way a great painter works with colour." —Jhumpa Lahiri"One of Italy's most accomplished novelists." — The Guardian******Imagine a child, a daydreamer, always gazing out of the window. His grandmother, busy in the kitchen, keeps an eye on him. The child stares at a balcony on the opposite building, watching the black-haired girl as she dances her reckless dance. For a love like this, a child can push hi...

Pope Francis' manifesto for the happiness of every man and woman.God planted happiness in the souls of each of us. God wants us to be happy. But so many of us have misunderstood what this means, and we search for fulfilment in the wrong places. In I Want You To Be Happy, Pope Francis explains the characteristics of true, lasting happiness, no matter your circumstances or situation.In this new book, which quickly became his biggest...

October 1502. As Cesare Borgia sets out to invade the Florentine Republic, Niccolò Machiavelli is sent to spy on him and to glean details of his nefarious plan. But when Borgia asks Machiavelli to write his life story, their bond gains complexity and nuance: ultimately, they both aspire to everlasting fame and to achieve it, they need each other, for the one's sword can only rule in eternity via the pen of the other.Set against the backdrop of the Renaissance, rife with political i...

Fifty autobiographical short stories about childhood, life in Italy before and after World War II, and growing old in Milan by the winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the most celebrated Italian poets of the twentieth century.The great poet Eugenio Montale was also a remarkable writer of prose whose stories appeared regularly in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. Butterfly of Dinard is a collection of fifty of those st...