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10 best books like An Italian Affair (Laura Fraser): C'est la Vie: An American Woman Begins a New Life in Paris and--Voila!--Becomes Almost French, A Thousand Days in Tuscany: A Bittersweet Adventure, Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy, The Hills of Tuscany, From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant, Italian Neighbors, Mediterranean Summer: A Season on France's Côte d'Azur and Italy's Costa Bella, Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman, A Woman's Passion for Travel: True Stories of World Wanderlust, Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria

C'est la Vie: An American Woman Begins a New Life in Paris and--Voila!--Becomes Almost French
AuthorSuzy Gershman
ISBN0143035509
Bestselling writer Suzy Gershman (dubbed “Super Shopper Suzy” by Oprah) is our answer to Peter Mayle in this heartfelt, breezy, and funny story of starting over in Paris. Suzy had always fantasized about moving to Paris with her husband, but when he dies unexpectedly, she decides to fulfill their...
A Thousand Days in Tuscany: A Bittersweet Adventure
AuthorMarlena de Blasi
ISBN0345481097
They had met and married on perilously short acquaintance, she an American chef and food writer, he a Venetian banker. Now they were taking another audacious leap, unstitching their ties with exquisite Venice to live in a roughly renovated stable in Tuscany.

Once again, it was love at first...
Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy
AuthorMichael Tucker
ISBN0871139626
The actor Michael Tucker and his wife, the actress Jill Eikenberry, having sent their last child off to college, were vacationing in Italy when they happened upon a small cottage nestled in the Umbrian countryside. The three-hundred-fifty-year-old rustico sat perched on a hill in the verdant Spoleto...
The Hills of Tuscany
AuthorFerenc Máté
ISBN0385334419
The true-life adventure of a couple who did what most of us only dream of doing, Ferenc Mate's enticing, beautifully written memoir of their first year in this enchanted place brings to life the real Tuscany: the neighbors, the spectacular hills where The English Patient was filmed, country life, the...
From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant
AuthorMichael S. Sanders
ISBN0060959207
From Here,You Can't See Paris is a sweet, leisurely exploration of the life of Les Arques (population 159), a hilltop village in a remote corner of France, untouched by the modern era. It is a story of a dying village's struggle to survive, of a dead artist whose legacy began its rebirth, and of chef Jacques...
Italian Neighbors
AuthorTim Parks
ISBN0802140343
In this deliciously seductive account of an Italian neighborhood with a statue of the Virgin at one end of the street, a derelict bottle factory at the other, and a wealth of exotic flora and fauna in between, acclaimed novelist Tim Parks celebrates ten years of living with his wife, Rita, in Verona, Italy....
Mediterranean Summer: A Season on France's Côte d'Azur and Italy's Costa Bella
AuthorDavid Shalleck
ISBN0767920481
“Saturday was dawning warm, with only a gentle wind under a light blue sky as we got under way. . . . With the motor cut out, I could hear the whispered splash of the sea against the hull as we knifed through the Mediterranean. The calming noise, along with the gentle rocking, lulled me into a Zen calm as...
Educating Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman
AuthorAlice Steinbach
ISBN0812973607
This funny and tender book combines three of Alice Steinbach’s greatest passions: learning, traveling, and writing. After chronicling her European journey of self-discovery in Without Reservations, this Pulitzer Prize—winning columnist for the Baltimore Sun quit her job and left home again....
A Woman's Passion for Travel: True Stories of World Wanderlust
AuthorMarybeth Bond
ISBN1932361146
"Passion: any kind of feeling or emotion—hope, fear, joy, grief, anger, love, desire—when vehement, overwhelming or of compelling force."

In this followup to the award-winning A Woman's World, meet women from all stages of life—college students and grandmothers, old friends and...
Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria
AuthorMark Rotella
ISBN0865476969
Calabria is the toe of the boot that is Italy -- a rugged peninsula where grapevines and fig and olive trees cling to the mountainsides during scorching summers. Calabria is also a seedbed of Italian-American culture; in North America, more people of Italian heritage trace their roots to Calabria...
The Olive Farm: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Olive Oil in the South of France
AuthorCarol Drinkwater
ISBN0142001309
When Carol Drinkwater and her fiancé, cute Michel, are given the opportunity to purchase ten acres of an abandoned olive farm in the South of France, they find the region's splendor impossible to resist. Using their entire savings as a down payment, the couple embark on an adventure that brings them...
I'll Never Be French (no matter what I do): Living in a Small Village in Brittany
AuthorMark Greenside
ISBN1416586873
Tired of Provence in books, cuisine, and tablecloths? Exhausted from your armchair travels to Paris? Despairing of ever finding a place that speaks to you beyond reason? You are ripe for a journey to Brittany, where author Mark Greenside reluctantly travels, eats of the crêpes, and finds a second...
Too Much Tuscan Sun: Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide
AuthorDario Castagno
ISBN0762736704
Over the past several years, "the American in Tuscany" has become a literary subgenre. Launched by the phenomenal success of Frances Mayes's Under the Tuscan Sun, bookstores now burgeon with nimble, witty accounts of this clash in cultures-Americans trying to do American things in Italy and bumping...
In Tuscany
AuthorFrances Mayes
ISBN0767905350
From the bestselling author whose memoirs Under the Sun and Bella Tuscany have captured the voluptuousness of Italian life comes a lavishly illustrated ode to the joys of Tuscany's people, food, landscapes, and art. In Tuscany celebrates the abundant pleasures of life in Italy as it is lived at home,...
Extra Virgin (Italy series, #1)
AuthorAnnie Hawes
ISBN0140294236
A small stone house deep among the olive groves of Liguria, going for the price of a dodgy second-hand car. Annie Hawes and her sister, on the spot by chance, have no plans whatsoever to move to the Italian Riviera but find naturally that it's an offer they can't refuse. The laugh is on the Foreign Females...
On Rue Tatin: Living and Cooking in a French Town
AuthorSusan Herrmann Loomis
ISBN0767904559
Susan Loomis arrived in Paris twenty years ago with little more than a student loan and the contents of a suitcase to sustain her. But what
began then as an apprenticeship at La Varenne École de Cuisine evolved into a lifelong immersion in French cuisine and culture, culminating in permanent residency...
The Reluctant Tuscan: How I Discovered My Inner Italian
AuthorPhil Doran
ISBN1592401899
After years of working on a string of sitcoms, Phil Doran found himself on the outside looking in. Just as he and his peers had replaced the older guys when he was coming up the ranks, it was now happening to him. And it was freaking him out. He came home every night angry, burned- out, and exhausted. After...
The Stone Boudoir: Travels Through the Hidden Villages of Sicily
AuthorTheresa Maggio
ISBN0738208000
In this sparkling book, Theresa Maggio takes us on a journey in search of Sicily's most remote and least explored mountain towns. Using her grandparents' ancestral village of Santa Margherita Belice as her base camp, she pores over old maps to plot her adventure, selecting as her targets the smallest...
Vanilla Beans & Brodo: Real Life in the Hills of Tuscany
AuthorIsabella Dusi
ISBN0743404114
Isabella Dusi, a native Australian, settled in Montalcino, a beautiful mountain eyrie famous for its wine and the proud nature of its inhabitants. Her acceptance into this close-knit community was a hard-won thing and has inspired Isabella to capture the true spirit of Montalcino. Vanilla Beans...
A Valley in Italy
AuthorLisa St. Aubin de Terán
ISBN0060926198
Of all the romantic obsessions in novelist Lisa St Aubin de Teran's life, the search for a castle occupied her the longest--until she saw the magnificent Villa Orsola deep in the Umbrian hills. Only after eagerly signing the ownership papers did she and her husband, painter Robbie Duff-Scott, discover...
The Five-Forty-Five to Cannes
AuthorTess Uriza Holthe
ISBN0307351858
The 5: 45 to Cannes. It links northern Italy with the French Riviera while running like a thread through lives that touch one another in unexpected and often secret ways: Chazz, the heir to a great fortune, suffers debilitating mood swings that threaten his once-perfect marriage. GianCarlo, a kindhearted...
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