We now feature 2,850+ locations on the website www.tripfiction.com Choose your next top read by where it's set and immerse yourself in locale #booksky #blueskybooks #travelbybook

¿Compras libros en #preventa? Eso es una campaña de #crowdfunding #Verkami o #micromecenazgo ¿Cómo funciona? Tira del hilo🧵 Y sigue los pasos aquí 👇 vkm.is/elvampiro1821

Inspired by Caspar David Friedrich, we went in search of a Sicilian landscape artist who could capture the southern light and found the 'Sun Thief'. Our piece for Times of Sicily. #FrancesoLojacono #Sicily #Palermo www.timesofsicily.com/the-sun-thie...

The Polish publishers of our Ghosts of the Belle Époque have now also produced an audiobook of the translation. Listen to the history of the #HoteldellePalme #Palermo in Polish. publio.pl/palermo-andr... Dziękuję bardzo

Visited the Ponte Gobbo in #Bobbio as part of research for updating Bradt Guide to #EmiliaRomagna. Just read about theory that the bridge features in the background of #DaVinci #MonaLisa #LaGioconda - over her right shoulder - interesting!!

You don't like crowds? Then you should consider visiting Passau in fall: www.travelworldonline.de/en/passau-im... Walk along the river promenades, enjoy good food and the rich culture of the city and its surroundings. #passau #bavaria #germany #danube #inn

'And young-eyed Lewdness walks her midnight rounds: / Girt with the silent crimes of capitals...' Lord Byron on #Seville

Sunset over #TerminiImerese #Sicily

The 1131 Ponte dell'Ammiraglio in #Palermo built by the Norman kings and George of Antioch. Now part of the Arab-Norman UNESCO World Heritage Site

Affascinante discorso dal nostro amico Alejandro Luque alla Fondazione Sciascia a Racalmuto www.youtube.com/live/V_0Nu3S...

Plaza del Cabildo, Sevilla

… siguiendo los pasos de Cervantes en #Sevilla

Fue un gran día ayer en la feria del libro de #Cádiz. Nos encanta este cartel.

Will be in #Cádiz at the weekend for the Feria del Libro #FeriadelLibroCádiz

A meerkat moment...

Día mundial de la tapa, World Tapas Day. This one's from #Cádiz. Love the faux container.

Out now #Sycylia #Sicilia #Sicily. Our #HoteldellePalme book in Polish translation. www.znak.com.pl/p/palermo-ep...

Spotted, literally, in Temple gardens, London

Just know you're going to find something in a bookshop like this #Canterbury

‘Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches…’ Lorca

Bradt’s Emilia Romagna Edition 2 now published. Fruits of a year and a half of leg-work and writing. #EmiliaRomagna #Bologna

Publication day for Edition 2 of the Bradt Guide to Emilia Romagna which we've spent the past year and a half updating. #EmiliaRomagna #Bologna www.waterstones.com/book/italy-e...

Bookshop hopping in #Lewes uk

Exploration of Italy's volcanoes with focus on #Etna and #Stromboli - remembering the awful power of Stromboli as we followed the path to the viewing point youtu.be/CsarLqoubGM?...

Thousands of writers are having their work ripped off in order to train AI. If you think this is wrong, you can help us out as follows... chng.it/LCmdGdS9xw

The Guardian piece on following La via dei frati through the #Madonie mountains in #Sicily It would be beautiful in the spring www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Fans of #LordByron and the Romantics in Italy should head for the new #MuseoByron in #Ravenna www.palazzoguiccioli.it/museobyron/

Estamos totalmente de acuerdo...

Our book, Ghosts of the Belle Époque about #Palermo and the #HoteldellePalme is going to be published in Polish translation. Nasza ksiazka zostanie wydana w polskim tlumaczeniu #Sycylia

Not sure about the headline, but it seems the story has come through intact. #TheLeopard #Ilgattopardo #Palermo Will be watching at the weekend www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

One for the Netflix list

Delighted with the cover of our forthcoming Book Lover’s Guide to Rome #Rome #literarytravel - there’ll be everyone from Virgil to Byron, Keats, Pasolini, Carrisi and much more in between… out soon.

The story of Rome’s cat sanctuary among the ruins #festadelgatto #catsofbluesky

Our piece on #LuigiPirandello and events at the Teatro Valle in 1921 #SixCharactersInSearchOfAnAuthor www.timesofsicily.com/manicomio/

Chiaroscuro in #Greenwich

Dancing with the shadows in the iconic Hotel delle Palme #Palermo #Sicily www.waterstones.com/book/ghosts-...

With the release of #Nosferatu why not discover the story of the man who really invented the aristocratic vampire genre. Our book on #JohnPolidori www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Always fun to fly over the #Alps

#Bacchus appears to have brought the poetry of Nero d’Avola to the table… 😊🍷

Byron’s Italy at the Keats-Shelley House in #Rome. Well worth a visit in this 200th anniversary year of his death. Loads of letters, first editions, art works. Even his Venetian carnival mask.

Vale la pena ver esta adaptación televisiva youtu.be/mPCN1irKfkc

Never mind the Forum, what about me? #Rome

Fascinating piece on Caspar David Friedrich - Florian Illies’ new book on the artist looks a must www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Interesting set of recommendations for those wanting to delve into Ancient Rome

‘That stones which bear his name Should mark, through Time, where two immortal Shades abide; It is an ample fame.’ #ThomasHardy on Rome’s Pyramid of Cestius, whilst thinking of the graves of Keats and Shelley nearby.

Sometimes ambling the backstreets is just the best fun #Rome

Un gatto romano… #Largoditorreargentina #Roma

The list of writers who frequented the Caffè Greco #Rome is almost endless. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was here in 1806 making friends with painter, Washington Allston

Byron’s Venetian carnevale mask in the #KeatsShelleyHouse in Rome - goodness knows what it saw!! Timed our visit with the #Byron200 exhibition 😊

Memento mori #Roma