Mary Stewart – The Merlin trilogy
“My Lord, when you look for what I am looking for, you have to look in strange places. Men can never look at the sun, except downwards, at his reflection in things of...
Mikael Niemi – The man who died like a salmon
It is considered as a crime novel, but perhaps this is due to a habit rather than to a true adherence to this style. Well, the triggering event that starts the book’s plot is...
The Sky Is Red
1944. In the slum of a rural town, Carla and Giulia, hardly more than children, live together with their grandma. Carla is tough, determined and, despite her young age, unscrupulous; Giulia is nice and...
A.D. – The Bible Continues (aka A.D. – Kingdom and Empire)
A.D. The Bile Continues is a 2015 American TV series based on the Acts of the Apostles and Epistles of Paul and tells about the main events after the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.
Besides...
Silvio Donà – The Royalties letter
He kept it all day on his night table.
He picked it up a couple of times then he put it back down without opening it.
It’s just a letter. According to physical law, it is...
Flemming Jensen – The Bank Robber Blues
The bank robber blues is a crime novel definitely out of the ordinary: the main character Max kills the Danish prime minister. In very few pages we know both the killer and the victim,...
Post-vacation reading suggestions
After an energising summer break, usually students and workers return to work full of energy but at the same time a little bit lazy because their mind is still on holiday.
In order to start...
Road to Perdition
USA, 1930s. Michael O’Sullivan is a good family man and leads an apparently secluded and devoted life. While Michael goes to work, as every day, one of his two beloved sons decides to hide...
Karen Blixen (as Isak Dinesen) – Winter’s Tales
Winter’s Tales is a collection of eleven short stories, wrote in the ‘30ies and published in 1942.
The pieces contain several recurring themes that go through the whole narrative structure in wave motion, intertwining as...