Topic: Venice (Italy)

Broadening the mind without moving

TASTE OF A CITY by Marie Fadel and Rafik Schami Haus Armchair Traveller, VENICE FOR LOVERS by Louis Begley and Anka Muhlstein Haus Armchair Traveller, 12.99, pp. Rafik Schami grew up in Damascus but he has not lived there for 25 years. ...

Death in Venice

I was idling in the bookshop at Rome's Ciampino airport waiting for a cheap flight to Stansted, when I noticed a paperback novel by Donna Leon about a Venetian detective called Commissario Guido Brunetti. I bought another and 14 novels later I ...