Calling the United States of America! At long last the paperback of #TheCraft is landing on 23 September. Www.johndickie.net

2023. The most recent year for which stats are available. *Zero* mafia murders reported again in Sicily.

Two events linked to my book on the Red Brigades - published on 19 June 9 June Bookhaus - Bristol - booking required hdfst.uk/e125273 - 18.00 pm 10 June - Italian cultural institute London with John Dickie - 18.30 - booking required iiclondra.esteri.it/.../the-red-...

🚨OUT NOW🚨 Trump behaves like a mob boss, complete with extortion and protection scams against universities, businesses, and governments. But is he a real Godfather or just cosplaying as one? @johndickie.bsky.social joins us to get into it! 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

I’m backing Peter Turkson from among the papabili. But only so I can say I’ve interviewed the Pope. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Modern Italy turns 30—see the editorial written by the general editors Gianluca Fantoni and @milenasabato.bsky.social at the link. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

search.app/bKELJeACEQP3... I had lunch with Bruno Pizzul in Genoa once. Lovely man

A raid and a secret tape exposed a Sicilian mafia that is shrunken, whiny and clinging on for survival | John Dickie

The new, updated edition of Delizia! Out in paperback very soon.

Freshly baked first copies of the paperback! Yum! Available for pre-order now

There’s not been an antimafia operation this big in Palermo for more than 15years. Mafia, maxi operazione a Palermo: oltre 180 arresti. In azione oltre 2 mila carabinieri

Good piece on the Med diet and gastronationalism www.politico.eu/article/medi...

How I became a historian of Freemasonry johndickie.net/books/the-cr...

Crumbs! It’s SAS vs the mafia in #SASRogueHeroes I can feel a long pedantic historical thread coming on about the mafia, Fascism and the Allies. Not

A couple of thoughts in this piece. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

He is Scotland’s bard and renowned the world over the rustic man of letters whose verses would go on to inspire a nation in the centuries after…

Calling all fans of Coldplay and ending homelessness www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/evening-wi...

Gillian Riley obit in the Guardian. With a nod to, ahem, me. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...

Great coverage of one of the biggest stories in Italy: www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Do let me know who else should go on this list. go.bsky.app/9qxFuoJ

For 1,000 years, Italy’s cities have attracted everything that makes for great eating: ingredients, talent, money and power. Italian food is city food, a story of Italians as city dwellers. w/John Dickie, author of Delizia! The Epic History of Italians & their Food shows.acast.com/gone-medieva...

My second outing on TRIH… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g... Italian food is city food

Out today!!! 🍝🍾

OUT TOMORROW! #bugle #drumroll #trumpet

Out the day after tomorrow! #skystorian #authors

#authors In all good bookshops, and some bad ones, 2 November 2023