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FROM: "Melhem, Rania" <[removed]@mail.jefferson.lib.la.us>
REC'D: 1/23/03, 1:16 PM

I am planning a book display as well as bookmarks with bibliographies
featuring fiction set in Ireland and Italy. And my brain has gone completely
dead and I can't remember a single title. Can you guys maybe suggest some?
The only two that come readily to mind are "Lion of Ireland" by Morgan
Llywelyn and "Scarlet City"
Rania

FROM: "Dillie, Thomas" <[removed]@mailserv.gcpl.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 1/23/03, 1:26 PM

Here's a list of fiction set in Ireland. It's a couple of years old now but still may be helpful.

The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by Sebastian Barry
A Circle of Friends; Dublin 4; Echoes; and other books
by Maeve Binchy
Finbar's Hotel devised & edited by Dermot Bolger
11 St. Edward Street by Clare Boylan
Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin by Maeve Brennan
The Mermaids Singing by Lisa Carey
The Blackwater Lightship by Toibin Colm
Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
The Barrytown Trilogy; Paddy Clarke, ha, ha, ha; A Star Called Henry; The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle
The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan
The Other Side by Mary Gordon
Dubliners; Finnegans Wake; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses by James Joyce
The Ram of God; An Irish Christmas by John B. Keane
The State of Ireland by Benedict Kiely
Finn MacCool; Pride of Lions; 1916; 1921 and other books
by Morgan Llywelyn
Lamb by Bernard MacLaverty
Carn; The Dead School; and Emerald Germs of Ireland
by Patrick McCabe
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
Orange Rhymes With Everything by Adrian McKinty
The Last of Deeds & Love in History by Eoin McNamee
Water, Carry Me by Thomas Moran
The Banyan Tree by Christopher Nolan
Down by the River; The High Road; Lantern Slides
and other books by Edna O'Brien
The Mammy; The Granny; The Chisellers by Brendan O'Carroll
The Black Soul and Famine by Liam O'Flaherty
In the Season of the Daisies by Tom Phelan
The Houseguest by Anges Rossi
The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by Barry Sebastian
Waiting for the Healer by Eamonn Sweeney
The Woman of the House by Alice Taylor
Only the River Runs Free; Of Men and Angels; Ashes of Remembrance; All Rivers to the Sea
by Brock and Bodie Thoene
After Rain; Fools of Fortune; Juliets Story; Nights at the Alexandra and other books by William Trevor
Trinity; Redemption by Leon Uris
The Promise of Light by Paul Watkins
As It Is in Heaven; Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams

Tom Dillie
Head Librarian
Cedarville Community Library
Greene County Public Library
P.O. Box 26
74 N. Main St.
Cedarville, OH 45314

"'Under consideration' means we've lost the file. 'Under active consideration' means we're trying to find it."
The Complete "Yes, Minister" by Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay.

-----Original Message-----
From: Melhem, Rania [[removed]@mail.jefferson.lib.la.us]
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 2:05 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Italy and Ireland

I am planning a book display as well as bookmarks with bibliographies
featuring fiction set in Ireland and Italy. And my brain has gone completely
dead and I can't remember a single title. Can you guys maybe suggest some?
The only two that come readily to mind are "Lion of Ireland" by Morgan
Llywelyn and "Scarlet City"
Rania

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FROM: "C. L. Quillen" <[removed]@mtlaurel.lib.nj.us>
REC'D: 1/23/03, 1:26 PM

Most if not all of Maeve Binchy's books are set in Ireland and
"Evening Class" starts in Ireland and goes to Italy.

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C. L. Quillen, Reference Librarian, Mount Laurel Library
100 Walt Whitman Avenue, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054
Phone: 856-234-7319, ext. 313, Email: [removed]@mtlaurel.lib.nj.us
http://www.mtlaurel.lib.nj.us

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns
on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx
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[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]On Behalf Of Melhem, Rania
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 2:05 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Italy and Ireland

I am planning a book display as well as bookmarks with
bibliographies
featuring fiction set in Ireland and Italy. And my brain has gone
completely
dead and I can't remember a single title. Can you guys maybe
suggest some?
The only two that come readily to mind are "Lion of Ireland" by
Morgan
Llywelyn and "Scarlet City"
Rania

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FROM: Lorie O'Donnell <[removed]@midyork.org>
REC'D: 1/23/03, 1:37 PM

Some Ireland Fiction:

Fields of Fire - Carol Caldwell
The Promise of Your Touch - Annie Carter
Wildsong - Catherine Creel
Irish series by Andrew Greeley
Isolde by Rosamund Miles
The feast by Randy Eickhoff
Nora Roberts did the Jewels series
The irish Princess, The Irish Knight, The Irish Enchantress by Amy Fetzer
The Unwinding Corner - A. Dwyer-Joyce
Emerald Ballad - B.J. Hoff
The deposition of Father McGreevy by O'Doherty, Brian.
Many titles by Maeve Binchy
Fables of the Irish intelligentsia by Fitzpatrick, Nina.
Cashelmara by Howatch, Susan.
Irish magic : four tales of romance and enchantment from four acclaimed
authors
Bartholomew Gill wrote the Peter McGarr mysteries
My dream of you by O'Faolain, Nuala.

Lorie

On 1/23/03 2:04 PM, "Melhem, Rania" <[removed]@mail.jefferson.lib.la.us>
wrote:

>
> I am planning a book display as well as bookmarks with bibliographies
> featuring fiction set in Ireland and Italy. And my brain has gone completely
> dead and I can't remember a single title. Can you guys maybe suggest some?
> The only two that come readily to mind are "Lion of Ireland" by Morgan
> Llywelyn and "Scarlet City"
> Rania
>
>
>
> ......................................................................
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>

Lorie J. O'Donnell
Children's Librarian
Jervis Public Library
Rome, NY 13440
[removed]@midyork.org

--
"Lead me not into temptation (I can find the way
myself)."
-- Anonymous

FROM: Michele Reinhart <[removed]@ghpl.org>
REC'D: 1/23/03, 1:37 PM

E.M. Forster's _A Room with a View_ is at least partially set in Italy, as are
Henry James's _The Portrait of a Lady_ and _Daisy Miller_.

Michele Reinhart
Grandview Heights Public Library
Columbus, Ohio

>===== Original Message From "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
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>I am planning a book display as well as bookmarks with bibliographies
>featuring fiction set in Ireland and Italy. And my brain has gone completely
>dead and I can't remember a single title. Can you guys maybe suggest some?
>The only two that come readily to mind are "Lion of Ireland" by Morgan
>Llywelyn and "Scarlet City"
>Rania
>
>
>
>......................................................................
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FROM: "Marsha Valance" <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 1/23/03, 1:47 PM

For Ireland, all of Maeve Binchey & Una Troy, to start.
Fiction-L did a list of Irish fiction 3 years ago,
and here's the list Dorothy-L did of Irish mysteries in 1996:
ADCOCK, Thomas
Title: Drown All the Dogs
NYC police detective investigates his father's death many years ago
BANVILLE, Vincent
Title: Death By Design
Publisher: Dublin, Gill & Macmillan, Wolfhound, 1993
Featuring John Blaine P.I., 15-stone ex-hurling star.
Paddy described this one as "nearly-good", and tells me
the author has another novel on the way.
BARRETT, Sheila
Title: A View to Die For
BATEMAN, Colin
Title: Divorcing Jack
Alcoholic northern Ireland reporter is caught up in a political murder.
Cycle of Violence NI Reporter
Of Wee Sweetie Mice and Men
Empire State
Maid Of The Mist (1998) NI Cop Frank Corrigan
BELLACERA. Carole
Title: Border Crossings
1999
BRADY, John
Titles: Unholy Ground (1989)
Kaddish in Dublin (London, Arrow, 1990)
A Stone of the Heart (1988)
All-Souls (London, Constable, 1993)
The Good Life (1994)
Featuring Inspector Matt Minogue of Dublin Murder Squad
BRINGLE, Mary
Titles: The Footpath Murder (1975)
The Man in the Moss-Colored Trousers (1986)
Featuring Detective Sean Lynch, Dublin Murder Squad
CAPRANI, Vincent
Title: Murder Paints a Portrait
Publisher: Glendale (Dublin)
The murder of an artist on an island off the west coast of
Ireland
CARSON. Paul
Title: Cold STEEL
1998
Set in Dublin
CUNNINGHAM, Peter
Titles: The Snow Bees
The Bear's Requiem
All Risks Mortality
International thrillers by an Irish writer
DANIEL, Mark
Titles: Bold Thing
Under Orders
Devil To Pay
Publisher: Arrow (London)
Horse-racing mysteries by an Irish writer
DAVIS, Dorothy Salisbury
Title: Habit of Fear
DILLON, Eilis
Title: Death in the Quadrangle
Death at Crane's Court
Sent to His Account
Written in the late 50's - early 60's by an Irish
author, and feature Inspector Mike Kenny
DUNCAN, Myles and Jim LUSBY
Title: Snuff
Publisher: Glendale (Dublin)
Broadcaster and scriptwriter team up to write about a
murderer stalking the Radio Telefis Eireann studios at
Donnybrook in Dublin
EASTERMAN. Danial
Title: Judas Testament
EDWARDS, Ruth Dudley
Titles: Corridors of Death
St Valentine's Day Murders
Irish-born author writing traditional whodunnits featuring
civil servant, Robert Amiss
FALLON, Anne C.
Title: Where Death Lies
Hour of His Death
Potter's Field
Novels by U.S. writer, set in Ireland, featuring James Fleming
FLYNN. Don
Titles: Murder Isn't Enough (1983)
Murder on the Hudson (1986)
Ordinary Murder (1987)
Murder in A Flat (1988)
A Suitcase In Berlin (1989)
Ed 'Fitz' Fitzgerald-Daily Tribune reporter-NY
FORREST, H. J.
Titles: Publish or Perish
Murder by The Book
Publisher: Glendale (Dublin) - see CAPRANI, Vincent above
Forrest is the pseudonym of a (female) professor at
University College, Dublin. Both books are set in Ireland,
and the second includes a competition
FRANSCOME, John
Title: Bloodstock
GASH, Jonathon
Title: The Sleepers of Erin
Lovejoy story set in Ireland
GEBLER. Carlo
Title: How To Murder a Man (1998)
19th Century Ireland
GIBSON, Maggie
Titles: Grace, the Hooker, the Hard Man and the Kid
The Longest Fraud
Featuring Grace De Rossa, former Ban Garda turned P.I.
GILL, Bartholomew

Titles: Death of a Joyce Scholar (1989)
McGarr and the Method of Descartes
McGarr on the Cliffs of Moher (1978)
McGarr at the Dublin Horse Show
McGarr & the P.M. of Belgrave Square (1983)
McGarr & the Legacy of a Woman Scorned (1986)
McGarr and the Politician's Wife
McGarr and the Sienese Conspiracy
Death of Love (1992)
Death on a Cold Wild River (1993)
Death of an Ardent Bibliophile (1995)
Death of an Irish Tinker (1997)
Featuring Peter McGarr of the Serious Crimes Unit
HAMILTON. Lyn
Title: The Amairgen Puzzle (2000)
Lara McClintoch- archaeologist
HARRINGTON, Jonathan.
Title: My Cousin Rose [US Title: The Death of Cousin Rose](1998)
The Second Sorrowful Mystery (1999)
American Danny O'Flaherty
HEGARTY, David (born Wexford, 1943)
Titles: 3 Day Break
Short Storm (Cork, Emperor, 1991)
Latter is a thriller set on the south-east coast
HIGGINS, Jack
Writer (Henry PATTERSON) with Irish-U.S. dual nationality.
Also writes as Martin FALLON, Hugh MARLOWE, James GRAHAM
Titles: The Last Place God Made
The Savage Day
A Prayer For the Dying
The Eagle Has Landed
Storm Warning
Day Of Judgement
The Run to Morning
Dillinger
Luciano's Luck
Touch The devil
Exocet
Confessional
Night of the Fox
A Season in Hell
Memories of a Dance Hall Romeo
Cold Harbour
Eye of the Storm
Thinder Point
On Dangerous Ground
Angel Of Death
Solo
Sheba
Flight of Eagles
JOYCE, Joe
Titles: Off the Record
The Trigger Man
Publisher: Mandarin
Irish author's home-based thrillers
KENYON, Michael
Titles: May You Die in Ireland (1965)
The God Squad Bod
Very funny, very good mysteries featuring Inspector Peckover.
LUSBY, Jim
Titles: Making the Cut
Flashback
Snuff: an RTE mystery with M. Duggan
McCORMAC, Rory
Titles: Playing Dead
Outbreak
Frank Samson-Vet -Set in Ireland
McELDOWNEY, E.
Titles: A Kind of Homecoming
A Stone of the Heart
The Strange Case of Harpo Higgins
MILLS, J. Fitzmaurice
Title: Top Knocker
Intrigue in the Irish art/antiques world, written by
a former columnist with The Irish Times. NOT highly-
recommended by Paddy
MOORE, Brian (born Belfast, 1921)
Titles: The Colour of Blood (London, Paladin, 1987)
Lies of Silence (London, Vintage, 1990)
Two titles by this well-known Belfast-born writer who
emigrated to Canada in 1948; both nominated for the Booker
Prize. The former is a brilliant thriller setting the
personal crisis of one man of God against the greater
conflict of Church and State, in the vein of Graham
Greene's "The Power and The Glory". I like this one!
MOORE, Desmond
Titles: Call Me Evil
Rogan
Publisher: Glendale (Dublin) - see CAPRANI, Vincent above
Irish author's home-based thrillers
O'CONNOR, Gemma
Title: Falls the Shadow
O'NEILL, J. M.
Titles: Duffy is Dead
Canon Bang Bang
Publisher: Sceptre (London)
Limerick-born writer based in London
O'REILLEY, Victor
Titles: Rules of the Hangman
Games of the Hangman
PARSONS, Julie
Title: Mary, Mary (1st)
Set in Dublin
PETIT, Chris
Title: The Psalm Killer
Set in Belfast and Eire
SHELLEY, Mike
Title: The Last Private Eye in Belfast
SIMONSON, Sheila
Title: Malarkey
SIMPSON, Howard R.
Title: Cogan's Case
Crime in West Cork. Novel by former diplomat featuring
Inspector Cogan
TREMAYNE, Peter
Titles: Absolution By Murder (1994)
Shroud For the Archbishop (1995)
Suffer the Little Children (1995)
The Subtle Serpent (1996)
The Spider's Web (1997)
The Exile Way (1997)
Valley Of the Shadows (1998)
The Monk Who Vanished (1999)
Sister Fidelma - 7th Century Rome & Ireland
VALENTINE, Deborah
Title: A Fine Distinction
WAKEFIELD, Hannah
Title: The Woman's Own Mystery
WATERS, Terry
Title: A Drug Called Horse
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan/Wolfhound (Dublin, 1990)
Dublin writer pits hero against drug-dealers and horse-
Thieves
WEBER, Katherine
Title: The Music Lesson (1999)

For Italy, authors include Giovanni Guareschi, Giovanni di Lampedusa, Umberto Eco, Magdalen Nabb & Andrea Camilleri.

HTH,

Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
<[removed]@mpl.org>

>>> [removed]@mail.jefferson.lib.la.us 01/23/03 01:04PM >>>

I am planning a book display as well as bookmarks with bibliographies
featuring fiction set in Ireland and Italy. And my brain has gone completely
dead and I can't remember a single title. Can you guys maybe suggest some?
The only two that come readily to mind are "Lion of Ireland" by Morgan
Llywelyn and "Scarlet City"
Rania

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FROM: "Kelly Benson" <[removed]@three-rivers-library.org>
REC'D: 1/23/03, 1:47 PM

>
> I am planning a book display as well as bookmarks with bibliographies
> featuring fiction set in Ireland and Italy. And my brain has gone
completely
> dead and I can't remember a single title. Can you guys maybe suggest some?
> The only two that come readily to mind are "Lion of Ireland" by Morgan
> Llywelyn and "Scarlet City"
>

Check out the Irish Fiction List from Fiction-L
http://www.webrary.org/rs/flbklists/Irish.html

Kelly Benson
Adult Services Librarian
Three Rivers Public Library-Channahon, IL
http://www.three-rivers-library.org

FROM: "Jeanne Etling" <[removed]@nsls.info>
REC'D: 1/23/03, 1:47 PM

Rania,

For Italy,

The Passion of Artemesia by Vreeland
The Devil in Music by Ross (if I remember correctly)
mysteries by Saylor and Lindsay (last name escapes me, but Silver Pig was
the first)

Jeanne Etling
Dundee (IL) Township Public Library District

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> I am planning a book display as well as bookmarks with bibliographies
> featuring fiction set in Ireland and Italy.

FROM: "Carol Kubala" <[removed]@columbiapl.libct.org>
REC'D: 1/23/03, 1:58 PM

Irish Fiction

Blood ties Jennifer Lash
Wild Decembers 2.) Down by the river 3.) House of splendid isolation
all by
Edna O'Brien
Agnes Browne Brendan O'Carroll
Four letters of love Niall Love
Music lesson Katherine Weber
Songdogs Colum McCann

This list probably came from Fiction-L though I'm not certain

Barry, Sebastian The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty
Behan, Brendan
Binchey, Dan Brulagh trilogy Neon Madonna Last Resorts
Fireballs
Binchy, Maeve A Circle of Friends; Dublin 4; Echoes
Boylan, Clare 11 Edward Street
Brennan, Maeve Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin
Brown, Christy Down all the Days
Carey, Lisa The Mermaids Singing
Carroll, Brendan The Mammy
Clement, Mickey Irish Princess
Davis-Goff, Annabel The Dower House
Deane, Seamus Reading in the Dark
de la Mare, Walter
Doyle, Roddy The Commitments A Star Called Henry, The
Barrytown
Trilogy; Paddy Clarke, ha, ha, ha; The Woman Who Walked
Into Doors,
Lord Dunsany
Flanagan, Thomas The year of the French; The Tenants of
Time
Gill, Death of a Joyce Scholar Death of an Irish
Seawolf, Peter McGarr
mysteries
Gordon, Mary The Other Side
Haien, Jeannette The All of It
Hassler, Jon A green Journey
Healy, Dermot Goat Song
Jones, Ann T. A Country Divorce
Joyce, James Dubliners; Finnegans Wake; Ulysses
Kavanaugh, H.T. Darby O'Gill & the Little People
Keady , Walter Celibates and Other Lovers, Mary
McGreevy
Keane, John B. The Ram of God
Keane, Molly Queen Lear; Good Behavior; Time after Time

Keyes, Marian Watermelon and Lucy Sullivan is Getting
Married
Kiely, Benedict The State of Ireland
Lash, Jennifer Blood Ties
Lavin, Mary
LeFanu, J. Sheridan
Llywelyn, Morgan Finn MacCool; Pride of Lions,Bard;
Brian Boru; Finn
MacCool; Last Prince of Ireland; Red Branch, Grania
McCabe, Patrick The Butcher Boy
Maas, Peter Father and Son

--
Carol Kubala
Adult Services Librarian
Columbia/Saxton B. Little Free
Voice 860-228-0350 Fax 860-228-1569

FROM: "Carol Kubala" <[removed]@columbiapl.libct.org>
REC'D: 1/23/03, 1:58 PM

Vendetta Michael Dibdin
Follow your heart Susana Tamaro
Comfort of strangers Ian McEwan

--
Carol Kubala
Adult Services Librarian
Columbia/Saxton B. Little Free
Voice 860-228-0350 Fax 860-228-1569

FROM: "Melissa Norton" <[removed]@bridgton.lib.me.us>
REC'D: 1/23/03, 1:58 PM

ITALIAN FEVER by Valerie Martin

Melissa
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From: Melhem, Rania <[removed]@mail.jefferson.lib.la.us>
To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Date: Thursday, January 23, 2003 2:06 PM
Subject: Italy and Ireland

>
>I am planning a book display as well as bookmarks with bibliographies
>featuring fiction set in Ireland and Italy. And my brain has gone
completely
>dead and I can't remember a single title. Can you guys maybe suggest some?
>The only two that come readily to mind are "Lion of Ireland" by Morgan
>Llywelyn and "Scarlet City"
>Rania
>
>
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://fictionl.webrary.org

FROM: "Carol Kubala" <[removed]@columbiapl.libct.org>
REC'D: 1/23/03, 2:08 PM

My apologies for sending non-fiction Irish stories as well as ficiton in
my recent reply to the list.

--
Carol Kubala
Adult Services Librarian
Columbia/Saxton B. Little Free
Voice 860-228-0350 Fax 860-228-1569

FROM: "Dehoff, Christine" <[removed]@ecc.edu>
REC'D: 1/23/03, 2:08 PM

Sixteen Pleasures
Fall of the Sparrow

Both by Robert Hellenga and highly recommended!

Christine Dehoff, Dept. Chair
Erie Community College
Buffalo, NY
[removed]@ecc.edu

FROM: Alisa A Alering <[removed]@indiana.edu>
REC'D: 1/23/03, 3:23 PM

The English Patient takes place in Italy.
The Passion- Jeanette Winterson
Death in Venice -Thomas Mann
Wings of the Dove-Henry James
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice-Wilkie Collins
Death is a Lonely Business-Ray Bradbury
A Room with A View-E.M. Forster
The Sixteen Pleasures-Robert Hellenga
Romola-George Eliot
The Passion Dream Book-Whitney Otto
Innocence-Penelope Fitzgerald
The Name of the Rose & Foucault's Pendulum-Umberto Eco
Passion of Artemesia-Susan Vreeland
Miracle at St. Anna-James McBride
A Secret Affair-Barbara Taylor Bradford

Mystery/Thriller
Death at la Fenice (A Guido Brunetti Mystery)-Donna Leon
Dead Lagoon (An Aurelio Zen Mystery)-Michael Dibdin
Robert Ludlum's: The Cassandra Compact
Thief of Venice-Jane Langton
The Dream of Scipio & Titian Committee& many others-Iain Pears
Magdalen Nabb's mystery series, set in Florence

YA
For the Love of Venice & Daughter of Venice-Donna Jo Napoli
Thief Lord-Cornelia Funke
The Second Mrs. Giaconda-E.L. Konigsburg

FROM: Airdrie Public Library <[removed]@shaw.ca>
REC'D: 1/23/03, 3:45 PM

Re: Irish Fiction

'The Riders' is written by Australian Tim Winton but set mostly in
Ireland. A haunting and mesmerizing book.

Shelley Sweet
Airdrie Public Library

"Melhem, Rania" wrote:
>
> I am planning a book display as well as bookmarks with bibliographies
> featuring fiction set in Ireland and Italy. And my brain has gone completely
> dead and I can't remember a single title. Can you guys maybe suggest some?
> The only two that come readily to mind are "Lion of Ireland" by Morgan
> Llywelyn and "Scarlet City"
> Rania
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://fictionl.webrary.org

FROM: "Siewert, Karl" <[removed]@tulsalibrary.org>
REC'D: 1/23/03, 3:56 PM

A few months ago, I read _The Shadow of the Lion_ by Mercedes Lackey, Eric
Flint & Dave Freer. It's an alternate history set in Venice, and I enjoyed
it very much. Lots of intrigue, action, and romance.

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FROM: Sarah Nagle <[removed]@co.carver.mn.us>
REC'D: 1/23/03, 6:46 PM

MEETING LILY by Sarah Woodhouse (was republished in paperback as part of
"Rosamund Pilcher's Bookshelf" series).

FROM: "BookBitch" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 1/23/03, 9:25 PM

Italy:

Summer in Tuscany by Elizabeth Adler
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri, Translated by Stephen Sartarelli
(this is the first of a mystery series set in Sicily, but only a couple of
them have been translated so far)
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
The Last Cannoli by Camille Cusumano
And Then You Die by Michael Dibdin (and the entire Aurelio Zen mystery
series)
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Casata by Rosemary Kingsland
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Casa Rossa by Francesca Marciano
Quattrocento by James N. McKean
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Secret Book of Grazia Dei Rossi by Jacqueline Park
La Cucina: A Novel of Rapture by Lily Prior
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Tourmaline by Joanna Scott
Bread and Wine by Ignazio Silone
The Miracles of Santo Fico by D. L. Smith
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
Black Market by Robert Tine
The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland

and don't forget Shakespeare :)

And one nonfiction book that reads like fiction:
A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance by Marlena De Blasi

What are you calling this display?

Stacy Alesi
Southwest County Regional Library
Palm Beach County Library System
www.pbclibrary.org

I am the BookBitch
www.bookbitch.com <http://www.bookbitch.com/>

Win a signed copy of THE SEDUCTION OF WATER
A new thriller by Carol Goodman, Jan. 1-31, 2003

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/24/03, 8:34 AM

>From: "Melhem, Rania" <[removed]@mail.jefferson.lib.la.us>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Italy and Ireland
>Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:04:37 -0600
>
>
>I am planning a book display as well as bookmarks with bibliographies
>featuring fiction set in Ireland and Italy. And my brain has gone
>completely
>dead and I can't remember a single title. Can you guys maybe suggest some?
>The only two that come readily to mind are "Lion of Ireland" by Morgan
>Llywelyn and "Scarlet City"
>Rania
>

A classic that come to mind set in Italy is Giuseppe diLampedusa's "The
Leopard." F. Marion Crawford also wrote numerous Italian volumes.

As for Ireland, I've noted that many RA websites have pages for the Emerald
Isle. Try a search on your favorite engine: "If You Like" + Ireland.

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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/24/03, 8:45 AM

>From: "Jeanne Etling" <[removed]@nsls.info>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: Italy and Ireland
>Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:34:20 -0600
>
>mysteries by Saylor and Lindsay (last name escapes me, but Silver Pig was
>the first)
>

Just FYI, that's *Steven* Saylor and *Lindsey Davis*.

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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/24/03, 8:55 AM

>From: Alisa A Alering <[removed]@indiana.edu>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Fiction in Italy
>Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:10:48 -0500 (EST)
>
>
>Mystery/Thriller
>

Don't forget the series by Woodhouse & co-author--three volumes featuring
Leonardo daVinci as the detective. Titles all begin with "The
Medici"--Hawks, Guns, Emeralds. I forget in which order they go (the
bibliography's on a CD-RW that isn't in the computer just now).

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FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 1/24/03, 9:17 AM

At 02:32 PM 1/24/03 +0000, you wrote:
>
>
>>From: "Jeanne Etling" <[removed]@nsls.info>
>>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>>Subject: Re: Italy and Ireland
>>Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:34:20 -0600
>>
>>mysteries by Saylor and Lindsay (last name escapes me, but Silver Pig was
>>the first)
>>
>
>Just FYI, that's *Steven* Saylor and *Lindsey Davis*.

As has been noted here before, there are a lot of mysteries sent
in Classical-era Roman Empire and environs, beyond the best-known
ones of Saylor and Davis; best list I know is the "Detective and
the Toga" site now at

http://spotlightongames.com/roman/

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

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FROM: "Mary Garland" <[removed]@linc.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/24/03, 10:50 AM

>
>most books by William Trevor
>
>---- Original Message ----
>From: [removed]@mailserv.gcpl.lib.oh.us
>To: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
>Subject: RE: Italy and Ireland
>Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:10:46 -0500
>
>>
>> Here's a list of fiction set in Ireland. It's a couple of years
>old now but still may be helpful.
>>
>>The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by Sebastian Barry
>>A Circle of Friends; Dublin 4; Echoes; and other books
>> by Maeve Binchy
>>Finbar's Hotel devised & edited by Dermot Bolger
>>11 St. Edward Street by Clare Boylan
>>Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin by Maeve Brennan
>>The Mermaids Singing by Lisa Carey
>>The Blackwater Lightship by Toibin Colm
>>Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
>>The Barrytown Trilogy; Paddy Clarke, ha, ha, ha; A Star Called
>Henry; The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle
>>The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan
>>The Other Side by Mary Gordon
>>Dubliners; Finnegans Wake; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man;
>Ulysses by James Joyce
>>The Ram of God; An Irish Christmas by John B. Keane
>>The State of Ireland by Benedict Kiely
>>Finn MacCool; Pride of Lions; 1916; 1921 and other books
>> by Morgan Llywelyn
>>Lamb by Bernard MacLaverty
>>Carn; The Dead School; and Emerald Germs of Ireland
>> by Patrick McCabe
>>Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
>>Orange Rhymes With Everything by Adrian McKinty
>>The Last of Deeds & Love in History by Eoin McNamee
>>Water, Carry Me by Thomas Moran
>>The Banyan Tree by Christopher Nolan
>>Down by the River; The High Road; Lantern Slides
>> and other books by Edna O'Brien
>>The Mammy; The Granny; The Chisellers by Brendan O'Carroll
>>The Black Soul and Famine by Liam O'Flaherty
>>In the Season of the Daisies by Tom Phelan
>>The Houseguest by Anges Rossi
>>The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by Barry Sebastian
>>Waiting for the Healer by Eamonn Sweeney
>>The Woman of the House by Alice Taylor
>>Only the River Runs Free; Of Men and Angels; Ashes of Remembrance;
>All Rivers to the Sea
>>by Brock and Bodie Thoene
>>After Rain; Fools of Fortune; Juliets Story; Nights at the
> Alexandra and other books by William Trevor
>>Trinity; Redemption by Leon Uris
>>The Promise of Light by Paul Watkins
>>As It Is in Heaven; Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Tom Dillie
>>Head Librarian
>>Cedarville Community Library
>>Greene County Public Library
>>P.O. Box 26
>>74 N. Main St.
>>Cedarville, OH 45314
>>
>>"'Under consideration' means we've lost the file. 'Under active
>consideration' means we're trying to find it."
>>The Complete "Yes, Minister" by Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay.
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Melhem, Rania [[removed]@mail.jefferson.lib.la.us]
>>Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 2:05 PM
>>To: Fiction_L
>>Subject: Italy and Ireland
>>
>>
>>
>>I am planning a book display as well as bookmarks with
>bibliographies
>>featuring fiction set in Ireland and Italy. And my brain has gone
>completely
>>dead and I can't remember a single title. Can you guys maybe suggest
>some?
>>The only two that come readily to mind are "Lion of Ireland" by
>Morgan
>>Llywelyn and "Scarlet City"
>>Rania
>>
>>
>>
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FROM: "Warner, Deb" <[removed]@co.durham.nc.us>
REC'D: 1/24/03, 12:47 PM

Pears, Iain The mystery series featuring Flavia di Stafano and her
English lover: The Titian Committee, The Bernini Bust, The Giotto Hand, etc

Caudwell, Sarah Thus was Adonis Murdered set mostly in Venice and
partly back in England,. Once again the lusty and
reckless tax lawyer Julia gets into a fix...

Hellenga, Robert The Sixteen Pleasures set in Florence right after
the flood , featuring book reclamation, a love affair and some
VERY naughty etchings. I love this book

Vickers, Salley Miss Garnet's Angel Florence, mysterious twins,
Raphael's angel and the Book Of Tobias ...not your usual
"spinster in Italy" story

Peters, Elizabeth The Grey Beginning, The Street of the 5 Moons

LeBarre, Harriet The Florentine Win this involves a
mysterious death and a lottery ticket, as I remember

Hamilton, Lyn The Etruscan Chimera part of an excellent series
featuring a dealer in antiquities..

FROM: "BookBitch" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 1/24/03, 2:03 PM

This list was put out by "Context," a quarterly magazine that defines itself
as "a forum for literary arts and culture" and is under the umbrella of the
Center for Book Culture (www.centerforbookculture.org). They do lots of
interesting lists - last issue was best war novels since 1945, but this one
was on topic -

Best 20th Century Italian Novels Translated into English:

Catastrophe, Dino Buzzati
Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino
If on a winter's night a traveler, Italo Calvino
The Path to the Nest of Spiders, Italo Calvino
t zero, Italo Calvino
Hebdomeros, Giorgio de Chirico
The House on Moon Lake, Francesca Duranti
That Awful Mess on Via Merulana, Carlo Emilio Gadda
The Leopard, Guiseppe di Lampedusa
Gogol's Wife, Tommaso
Landolfi Kaputt, Curzio Malaparte
What Is This Buzzing? Do You Hear It Too?, Luigi Malerba
The Betrothed, Alessandro Manzoni
History, Elsa Morante
The Woman of Rome, Alberto Moravia
The Iguana, Anna Maria Ortese
Solitudes, Goffredo Parise
The Selected Works of Cesare Pavese Candido, Leonardo Sciascia
The Seed Beneath the Snow, Ignazio Silone
Confessions of Zeno, Italo Svevo
As A Man Grows Older, Italo Svevo
Pereira Declares, Antonio Tabucchi
Women of Messina, Elio Vittorini
A Vittorini Omnibus

Stacy Alesi
Southwest County Regional Library
Palm Beach County Library System
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FROM: "Laura Adler" <[removed]@dppl.org>
REC'D: 1/24/03, 2:55 PM

In addition to A Room with a View, E. M. Forster also wrote the excellent Where Angels Fear to Tread, much of which is set in Italy, a country that transforms some of his characters Forster's while revealing the limitations of others.

Laura Adler
Readers' Services
Des Plaines Public Library
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FROM: Vicki Novak - LIBRARYX <[removed]@MAIL.MARICOPA.GOV>
REC'D: 1/24/03, 3:16 PM

I didn't notice if anyone mentioned this one for Italy yet - "Portofino" by Frank Schaeffer. I really enjoyed it.

Vicki Novak
Adult Services Librarian
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North Central Regional Library
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FROM: Aaron Smith <[removed]@epicurus.oplin.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 1/25/03, 1:36 PM

Hello, everyone,

A couple of fairly recent offerings set in part in Italy are Sarah
Dunant's _Mapping the edge_ (New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1999) and the
two-part set by Mary Doria Russell, _Sparrow_ and _Children of God_ (New
York, N.Y.: Villard, 1996-1998).

Regards,
Aaron
Clermont County Public Library, Ohio
[removed]@oplin.lib.oh.us

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Melhem, Rania wrote:
>
> I am planning a book display as well as bookmarks with bibliographies
> featuring fiction set in Ireland and Italy.

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/25/03, 7:56 AM

Italy:
Don't forget Dorothy Dunnett's "House of Niccolo" historicals!

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FROM: [removed]@juno.com
REC'D: 1/25/03, 3:44 PM

I recently enjoyed reading some of Fred Johnston's short stories from "Keeping the Night Watch" (1999, DuFour Editions). They're set in northern Ireland, against a background of political, social and religious turmoil. Lord Dunsany's "My Ireland" also comes to mind, but it's nonfiction rather than fiction. Everything else I could think of has already been mentioned, either in this thread or in one of the archives threads that have been suggested.

I don't wish to sound curmudgeonly, but my recollection of Mary Doria Russell's "The Sparrow" is that the bulk of the story takes place on a spacecraft and on a distant planet. Have I misremembered something?

Bradley A. Scott
Northern Michigan University

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FROM: Aaron Smith <[removed]@epicurus.oplin.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 1/25/03, 4:27 PM

Bradley, et al. -

Perhaps I stretched a bit to include the Russell pair; but most of the
scenes set on Earth, which occur throughout the two books, take place in
Italy, involving the papacy in the Vatican and family relationships with
the principals.

I didn't find it curmedgeonly, at all ... thanks for calling me on it!

Aaron

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 [removed]@juno.com wrote:

> I don't wish to sound curmudgeonly, but my recollection of Mary Doria
> Russell's "The Sparrow" is that the bulk of the story takes place on a
> spacecraft and on a distant planet. Have I misremembered something?

FROM: Karla Bowman <[removed]@euclidlibrary.org>
REC'D: 1/26/03, 3:27 PM

Basilica by William Montalbano is a thriller set in Rome and Italian
countryside.

Karla Bowman
Euclid Public Library
Euclid, OH

FROM: Gloria Goverman <[removed]@juno.com>
REC'D: 1/28/03, 10:04 AM

I just got in from a long weekend....hope I'm not too late to join in the
thread.

For fantasy in a historical setting, Midori Snyder's book, The Innamorati

For short story, Daphne Du Mauier - Don't Look Now (later made into a
movie with Donald Sutherland)

For historical mystery, a series by Elizabeth Eyre - Dirge for a Doge
1997, Axe for an abbot 1996, Bravo for the bride 1995, Poison for the
prince 1994, Curtains for the cardinal 1993, Death of the duchess 1992.

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Town of Pelham Public Library, Pelham, NY
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And gave them to the wind that shakes the barley.
Harvest of the Moon, trad.

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