Extra Virgin (Italy series, #1)
10 best books like Extra Virgin (Italy series, #1) (Annie Hawes): C'est la Vie: An American Woman Begins a New Life in Paris and--Voila!--Becomes Almost French, As the Romans Do: An American Family's Italian Odyssey, A Parrot in the Pepper Tree, At Least You're in Tuscany: A Somewhat Disastrous Quest for the Sweet Life, The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria, 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, On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal, Italian Neighbors
C'est la Vie: An American Woman Begins a New Life in Paris and--Voila!--Becomes Almost French
| Author | Suzy Gershman |
| ISBN | 0143035509 |
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 celebration of the character and style of one of the world's most spectacular cities! This vibrant insider's view of the most mature city on earth is the perfect companion for anyone who loves anything Italian. In 1995, after a twenty-year love affair with Italy, Alan Epstein fulfilled his dream to...
A Parrot in the Pepper Tree
Chris Stewart's "Driving Over Lemons" told the story of his move to a remote mountain farm in Las Alpujarras, an oddball region of Spain, south of Granada. Funny, insightful and real, the book became an international bestseller.
This sequel follows the lives of Chris, Ana and their daughter,...
At Least You're in Tuscany: A Somewhat Disastrous Quest for the Sweet Life
At Least You’re in Tuscany: A Somewhat Diastrous Quest for the Sweet Life is Jennifer Criswell’s memoir about her first year in Montepulciano during which her dream of expat life meets the reality of everyday challenges and results in sometimes funny, often frustrating, always lesson-filled...
The Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria
| Author | Marlena de Blasi |
| ISBN | 1565124731 |
With the breathless anticipation that seduced her readers to fall in love with Venice and then Tuscany, Marlena de Blasi now takes us on a new journey as she moves with her husband, Fernando, to Orvieto, a large and ancient city in Italy's Umbria. Having neither an edge to a sea nor a face to a foreign land,...
| Author | Michael Tucker |
| ISBN | 0871139626 |
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...
| Author | Ferenc Máté |
| ISBN | 0385334419 |
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...
| Author | Michael S. Sanders |
| ISBN | 0060959207 |
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...
On Persephone's Island: A Sicilian Journal
| Author | Mary Taylor Simeti |
| ISBN | 0679764143 |
My family spent a month in Sicily this past April. It was a much-needed vacation to one of my childhood homes, and it was a vacation full of good times, great food, and wonderful wine. While we there, my husband and I read several books concerning Sicily, and On Persephone's Island was my favorite. Simeti...
| Author | Tim Parks |
| ISBN | 0802140343 |
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....
| Author | David Shalleck |
| ISBN | 0767920481 |
“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...
| Author | Mark Rotella |
| ISBN | 0865476969 |
Calabria is the toe of the boot that is Italy
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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...
| Author | Carol Drinkwater |
| ISBN | 0142001309 |
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...
| Author | Laura Fraser |
| ISBN | 0375724850 |
When Laura Fraser's husband leaves her for his high school sweetheart, she takes off, on impulse, for Italy, hoping to leave some of her sadness behind. There, on the island of Ischia, she meets M., an aesthetics professor from Paris with an oversized love of life. What they both assume will be a casual...
| Author | Mark Greenside |
| ISBN | 1416586873 |
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...
| Author | Dario Castagno |
| ISBN | 0762736704 |
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...
| Author | Susan Herrmann Loomis |
| ISBN | 0767904559 |
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...
| Author | Phil Doran |
| ISBN | 1592401899 |
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
| Author | Theresa Maggio |
| ISBN | 0738208000 |
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
| Author | Isabella Dusi |
| ISBN | 0743404114 |
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...
| Author | Barbara Grizzuti Harrison |
| ISBN | 0871137275 |
This book would not be the average reader's cup of tea to a 4 star level, IMHO. But it's almost a 5 star to me, despite it being dated. 4.5 star
She's not a writer with succinct word skill. She wanders all over the place with interface, comparisons or neither at all. But as much as she has an opinion,...
| Author | Daphne Phelps |
| ISBN | 0786707941 |
The captivating memoir of a resourceful woman who started life anew in the "most beautiful house in Sicily"
For fifty years, at Casa Cuseni in the small Sicilian town of Taormina, Daphne Phelps has extended her English charm and warm hospitality to seasoned travelers and professional escapists...
| Author | Patricia Atkinson |
| ISBN | 0099443163 |
For most people giving up the day job and moving to a beautiful area of France and living off the vines is an impossible but delicious dream. In 1990, Patricia Atkinson and her husband decided to sell up in Britain and emigrate to the Dordogne. Their idea was to buy a house with a few vines attached and employ...
