Nicky Pellegrino

In a remote Sicilian mountain town, four women arrive at a cookery school, each at a turning point in their lives. Moll is a foodie and an exhausted working mum on the holiday of a lifetime. Tricia, a top London lawyer is taking a break from the demands of her job and her family. Valerie, consumed by grief following the death of her partner, is trying to figure out how to live a life without him. And recently divorced Poppy has come to Sicily to learn about the place that her grandfather was born before emigrating to Australia. Luca Amore runs the school, using the recipes passed down to him by generations of Amore women. He expects this course to be much like all the others - but as sparks fly, friendships are made and secrets are shared. And for each of them nothing will ever be the same.

The Food of Love Cookery School

Settled in London and with their own delicious slice of home in the form of Beppi's restaurant, 'Little Italy', the Martinelli's are a typical Italian family; fighting, eating and loving in equal measure. Now, Pieta's sister Addolorata is getting married. Since Pieta is a bridal designer it falls to her to make the wedding gown. But she is distracted by a series of family mysteries. Why is her father feuding with another Italian in the neighbourhood? Why is her mother so faded and sad? And could the man she's always held a torch for really be getting married to someone else? As Pieta stitches and beads her sister's wedding gown she uncovers the secrets that have made her family what it is and that stand between her and happiness. The Italian Wedding is a feast of food and love. It's about discovering who your family really are. And who you really want to be.

The Italian Wedding

Live your dream of Italy... Here is your chance to buy your own home in southern Italy for less than the price of a cup of coffee. The picturesque mountain town of Montenello is selling off some of its historic buildings for just ONE EURO each. The only conditions are that purchasers must renovate their new home within the next three years and that they plan to contribute in a meaningful way to this small community. To be considered as a future resident of Montenello contact the town's mayor, Augusto Rossi. Live your dream of Italy for just one euro. When the Mayor of a picturesque Italian town launches a new scheme to rejuvenate the community, his advertisement is read with interest and excitement by many. Zara is in her thirties and desperate to get on the property ladder. Tim and Lynda are retiring and need a project. Some are looking for a peaceful bolthole. Others hope to make a profit, start a business, escape a dull life or an unhappy relationship. And there is someone who just might be hiding their true motivation... Their lives are about to change forever - but can they make their dream of Italy into a reality? A deliciously escapist summer read.

An uplifting story of love, family and holidays in the sun!

A Dream of Italy

Italy, 1964. Maria Domenica is the eldest daughter of Pepina and Erminio Carrozza, a farming family from the tiny southern village of San Giulio. At sixteen, Maria's life is limited to the confines of her mother's rural kitchen - where she bakes bread every morning, the way the Carrozza women always have - and the Caffe Angeli, a place of friendship, strong espresso and famous ricotta sfolgliatelle. Her parents have high hopes for their beautiful first-born, but she has other plans. Maria runs away to Rome but, one year later, she returns to San Giulio in disgrace - eight months pregnant with the identity of the father a mystery. Hastily, shamefully, she is married off to a neighbour's son. But she soon escapes again, this time to England, where she searches once more for a new life for herself and her daughter, Chiara. Many years later, it is Chiara, not Maria, who finds herself drawn back to San Giulio - to the dusty little piazza, to the enticing aromas of the Caffe Angeli and to her long-lost family. But she soon discovers that the simple Italian life she seeks is not as simple as it seems - particularly where the past is concerned. DELICIOUS is an irresistible saga - written with all the freshness and warmth of a Carrozza family recipe - about the enduring love affair between Italy and England, about three very different generations of Italian women, and an old kitchen in Campania that binds them all together.

Delicious

Alice wants to make the most of life, Babetta has spent a lifetime tending her garden, growing food for her family. When these two woman meet in a crumbling Mediterranean villa, secrets, fears and hopes will be shared and how life never stops surprising us and how, with a little courage, its flavours can be richer than can be imagined.

Recipe for Life

Escape to the Italian sunshine with this beautiful, heart-warming summer read about finding yourself in the most unexpected place. Can you change your life by swapping your home? 'It was a curious sort of feeling, being so cherished by a stranger...' Imagine swapping your house for a stay in an Italian villa...and falling in love with the owner's life After Stella's boss dies suddenly, she's left with nothing to do apart from clear the studio. It seems as though the life she wanted has vanished. She is lost - until one day she finds a house swap website and sees a beautiful old villa in a southern Italian village. Could she really exchange her poky London flat for that? But what was just intended as a break becomes much more, as Stella finds herself trying on a stranger's life. Can Stella overcome her grief and find her way into a new future? What readers are saying about Nicky Pellegrino 'Enchanting...a delightful feel good story' Amazon reviewer 'This book will make you want to run away to Europe for a house swap of your own' Weekend Herald 'A slice of pure sunshine' Good Housekeeping 'I couldn't put it down' Amazon reviewer

The perfect feel-good escapist summer read

Under Italian Skies

Kat has never wanted to live a small, everyday sort of life. She's an adventurer, a food writer who travels the world visiting far-flung places and eating unusual fare. Now she is about to embark on her biggest adventure yet - a relationship. She has fallen in love with an Italian man and is moving to live with him in Venice where she will help him run his small guesthouse, Hotel Gondola. Kat has lined up a book deal and will write about the first year of her new adventure: the food she eats, the recipes she collects, the people she meets, the man she doesn't really know all that well but is going to make a life with... Still, as Kat ought to know by now, the whole point of adventures is they never go exactly the way you expect them to. Nicky Pellegrino writes gorgeous, gastronomic Italianate dramas rich with passion, sunshine, humanity and intrigue. She is adept at evoking an Italian feast as she is at describing the pain of hearbreak or the joy of falling in love. 'A novel about the joy of learning to live again. It also made me very hungry' - JOJO MOYES (for RECIPE FOR LIFE) 'I'm all for something that will take me abroad without the airport queues! Ever imagined how it would feel to try an Italian life on for size? See just how well it fits lonely-hearted Stella in Nicky's latest read.' - NZ WOMAN'S DAY on UNDER ITALIAN SKIES

A Year at Hotel Gondola

To Italy, with Love

Wanneer drie schoolvriendinnen de kans krijgen in een Italiaanse villa hun vakantie door te brengen, nemen ze uit medelijden hun klasgenootje Rosie mee, die pas haar beide ouders heeft verloren. Vanaf ca. 17 jaar.

Olijven met oregano / druk 1

Po Italijos padange

Kat é uma aventureira de alma e coração. De tal modo que ganha a vida a viajar para os lugares mais recônditos, a experimentar as iguarias mais exóticas e a escrever sobre as suas experiências. E agora está prestes a embarcar na aventura mais louca de sempre: um relacionamento amoroso. Perdidamente apaixonada, ela está disposta a ultrapassar todas as barreiras. Massimo é italiano e Kat não tem meias medidas: vai viver com ele para Veneza, ajudá-lo a gerir a sua guesthouse, o Hotel Gondola, explorar a cidade e documentar as suas vivências. Tudo é uma novidade repleta de encanto... os aromas, os sabores, as cores vibrantes dos canais, as pessoas com quem se cruza, e até o homem que a fez querer assentar.Mas Kat já devia saber que o grande problema das aventuras é que nunca correm da forma que esperamos... Romântico e delicioso, o novo livro de Nicky Pellegrino transporta-nos para as ruas e os canais de La Serenissima, onde não faltarão – é claro! – os mais ricos e saborosos petiscos venezianos.

Um Ano em Veneza

Een dochter van een Italiaanse immigrant en een Engelse moeder ontwerpt de trouwjurk voor haar zuster en probeert om te gaan met haar bazige vader en futloze moeder.

Bella Italia

Rome in the 1950s, there's nowhere quite like it. The narrow stone streets, the fountains and piazzas full of life in the heat of the day, the cafes and bars full of music and desire by night... This is where Serafina calls home. Having grown-up with her sisters in a tiny apartment tucked in the top of a tumbledown building, she has watched her mother get by on next to nothing, and turn herself beautiful with a sweep of eyeliner and a hand-sewn dress. When her mother goes out, Serafina and her sisters go singing in the nearest piazza, busking for spare change and cinema tickets. The girls long to meet their matinee idols and Serafina daydreams of Mario Lanza and his spellbinding voice. But the sisters will grow up quickly and for Serafina, a choice opens between the world she knows and the life she dreams of. A captivating tale of love and music, food and passion, let Nicky Pellegrino take you on a journey to a city of beauty and heartbreak, at one of the most glamorous points in its magical history.

When in Rome

'Recipe For Life pulls off the rare trick of being both gritty and lyrical, heartrending and compelling. A novel about how easy it is to become an observer in your own life, and the joy of learning to live again. It also made me very hungry!' JOJO MOYES on Recipe for Life A woman swaps her far-flung travels for her biggest adventure yet - a relationship. Perfect for fans of Jo Thomas. Kat has never wanted to live a small life. She's an adventurer, a food writer who travels the world visiting far-flung places and eating unusual things. Now she is about to embark on her biggest adventure yet - a relationship. She has fallen in love with an Italian man and is moving to live with him in Venice where she will help him run his small guesthouse, Hotel Gondola. Kat has lined up a book deal and will write about the first year of her new adventure, the food she eats, the recipes she collects, the people she meets, the man she doesn't really know all that well but is going to make a life with. But as Kat ought to know by now, the thing about adventures is that they never go exactly the way you expect them to... ****** 'Venice comes alive...warm, engaging and truly delicious' Rosanna Ley, author of The Little Theatre by the Sea 'A delicious and sensual adventure. I was whisked away to the sights and tastes of the most romantic - and mysterious - of cities. A story as evocative and captivating as Venice itself' Fiona Gibson, author of The Woman Who Met Her Match 'With a wonderfully evocative setting and mouth-watering descriptions of Venetian food, A Year at Hotel Gondola is a refreshingly different take on the challenges of making a relationship when you're older' Pamela Hartshorne, author of The Cursed Wife

The No. 1 bestselling author makes southern Italy come alive in her most captivating, delicious drama yetHere is your chance to buy your own home in southern Italy for less than the price of a cup of coffee. The picturesque mountain town of Montenello is selling off some of its historic buildings for just ONE EURO each.To be considered as a future resident of Montenello contact the town's mayor, Salvio Valentini.Many people read Salvio's advertisement with excitement. Elise is in her twenties and desperate to get on the property ladder. Edward wants to escape a life he finds stifling. Mimi is divorced and starting afresh. And there is one person whose true motivation won't be clear for some time.These four people all have a dream of Italy. And it's going to change their lives.The passionate and gorgeous new novel by Nicky Pellegrino, the bestselling author of A Year at Hotel Gondola.PRAISE FOR NICKY PELLEGRINO'Venice comes alive...warm, engaging and truly delicious' ROSANNA LEY'A novel about how easy it is to become an observer in your own life, and the joy of learning to live again. It also made me very hungry!' JOJO MOYES'Written with intelligence, insight and warmth. Highly recommended' CATHERINE ROBERTSON, NZ Listener

'This isn't a mid-life crisis OK? For a start I'm not old enough yet to have one of those. I'm calling it a happiness project. I've stolen an entire summer from my life and by the time it's over I plan to leave this place with a list in my hand. The ten things that make me happy, that's all I want to know. How difficult can it be? They may be small things - a perfect cup of coffee, a day without rain - or bigger ones. It's still the beginning so how can I know?' Addolorata Martinelli knows she should be happy. She has everything she thought she wanted - her own business, a husband, a child. So why does she feel as if something is missing? Then when her restaurant, Little Italy, is slated by a reviewer, she realizes that she's lost the one thing she thought she could always count on, her love of food. So Addolorata heads to Venice for a summer alone, aiming to find the ten things that make her happy. Once she's found them, she'll construct a new life around her ten things, but will they include her life in London?

One Summer in Venice

Addolorata - mais conhecida como Dolly - sabe que devia sentir-se feliz. Vive em Londres, e apaixonada pelo seu restaurante Little Italy, pelo marido e pela filha pequena. Mas algo n?o esta bem. Dolly parece ter perdido a alegria. A vida familiar caiu na rotina e o restaurante sofre com os sitios da moda. A gota que faz transbordar o copo chega sob a forma de Guy Rochester - um critico gastronomico influente que arrasa o Little Italy na sua cronica semanal. Desejosa de aventura e com as duras palavras de Guy na cabeca, Dolly faz o impensavel. Deixa Londres, o marido e a filha e parte sozinha para umas ferias em que planeia reencontrar a alegria que era t?o sua ate ha pouco... antes de a responsabilidade da vida adulta a sufocar e transformar numa mulher quase irreconhecivel. E em Veneza que conhece a excentrica Coco, que lhe vai abrir as portas para o modo de vida veneziano. Enfeiticada pela cidade, pelos seus labirintos de canais, pontes e piazzas, e arrebatada pelas iguarias de fazer crescer agua na boca, Dolly decide ficar ate ao final do ver?o. Na sua busca pelos prazeres mais simples da vida, elabora uma lista das dez coisas que a deixam mais feliz. Mas havera algum lugar nessa lista para aquilo que deixou para tras? Uma exuberante fus?o de cores e sabores pela m?o eximia de Nicky Pellegrino, uma das escritoras mais queridas das leitoras portuguesas.

Um Verão em Veneza

A city of love, food, music and passion - this is a novel for anyone who fell in love with LA DOLCE VITA. Rome in the 1950s, there's nowhere quite like it. The narrow stone streets, the fountains and piazzas full of life in the heat of the day, the cafes and bars full of music and desire by night... This is where Serafina calls home. Having grown up with her sisters in a tiny apartment tucked in the top of a tumbledown building, she has watched her mother get by on next to nothing, and turn herself beautiful with a sweep of eyeliner and a hand-sewn dress. When her mother goes out, Serafina and her sisters go singing in the nearest piazza, busking for spare change and cinema tickets. The girls long to meet their matinee idols and Serafina daydreams of Mario Lanza and his spellbinding voice. But the sisters will grow up quickly and for Serafina, a choice opens between the world she knows and the life she dreams of.

Love happens when you least expect it... Assunta has given up on love. She might run her little trattoria in the most romantic mountain town in Italy, but love just seems to have passed her by. Sarah-Jane is finished with love. She's buying an old convertible and driving around Italy this summer - it's the perfect way to forget all about her hot celebrity ex-boyfriend! But when Sarah-Jane's car breaks down in Montenello, she has to stay longer than she intended! And the trouble is, love is everywhere...

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